Great Boer envoy welcomed by Omaha in pro liberty rally
Envoy C W Wessels and secretary Philip Bouter Wessels received warm civic honors in Omaha with a mass meeting at Creighton theater and a city hall reception that affirmed American sympathy for the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Bryan and Mahoney spoke as Wessels urged US aid for liberty, highlighting Kruger and Steyn.
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Omaha
Neb
C. W. Wessels
United States
Uberty
Envoy Wessels
Philip Bouter Wessels
Creighton Theater
Rock Island
Davenport
Enjoy Wessels
Transvaal
Bir. Bryan
Euvoy Wessels
Europe
England
America
Wessels
Lot Committee
John Rush
India
Tiber
Danube
Thames
Cronje
Joubert
Kruger
David
E. F. Trefz
Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church
W. A. Poynter
H. FE. Palmer
Palmer
John G. Maher
Chadran
Elon
Samuel Maxwell
Premont
Fingland
Steyn
Jameson
Mr. Bryan
Peddler Once Rich Man Says He Was Robbed
C H North formerly head of the North Packing company once earning eight million a year now peddles vegetables in Somerville. He speaks of losing six million dollars and bitterness toward the Swifts and Siktitun. He lives in Prospect Hill big house with little income and still holds large property interests but does nothing with them.
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Dexay
Washington
America
Oupee
Transvaal
Johannesburg
Wessels
Mahoney
William J. Bryan
Hon
T. J. Mahoney
Mr.Bryan
H. North
Boston
Mass
C. H. North
North Packing Company
Prospect Hill
Somerville
Tft
Nebraska Stock Yards Company
Americans in Danger Belt Ministers in China
New York June 12 The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions lists missionaries in China’s danger belt along with their home addresses The list includes Rev Whorryh Shippensburg Pa Rev Whiting Miami Fla Rev Killien Marshall Ill Rev Inglis Chicago Miss Leonard Ta Koysuth Ia Miss Newton South Orange N J Miss Bessie Guy Ont Miss Lowrie New York City Rev Miller Evanston Ill Rev Silmcox Venango County Pa Dr Taylor Tharlington N J Dr Van Hodge Philadelphia Mrs Maud Muckey Los Angeles
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China
New York
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Misions
Peking
Whorryh
Shippensburg
Whiting
Mia
New York City
Fenn
Clyde
Miller
Vanstan, Ill
KL Silmcox
Slucox
Venango County
C. Y. Taylor
Taylor
Tharlington
N. J
CG. N. van Hodge
Tadge
Philadelphia
Maud Muckey
Los Angeles
Farmers see homes sold in Kansas and Nebraska
In Atchison on June 12 the reorganized Central Branch Railway Company bought 18 000 acres across Kansas counties including Atchison Brown Marshall Jackson Nemaha and Pawnee Nebraska. Farmers protested at the courthouse as no record existed of earlier sales. The company said titles would be quieted at nominal cost. A separate dispatch from Diamond Springs California reports Auchariah Zumwait shot and killed his son George and fatally wounded his wife after a domestic dispute. Zumwait refused surrender and a sheriff's posse was requested.
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Canada
India
Australia
Pretoria
Brey
Anther Dumong
Joe Chamberlain
America
Eugland
Joe Chamberhiay
Atchison, Kan
Central Branch
Missouri Pacific
Atchison, Brown, Marshall, Jackson and Nematha
Kansas
Pawnee County
Nebraska
Union Pacific
A .G. Cochran
Central Branch Railway Company
Diamond Springs
Cal
Auchariah Zumwait
George
Zumwait
Empress Upholds Boxers as Russia Signals Military Action
St Petersburg reports resolute government plans to repress anti foreign movement in China if danger persists while remaining aligned with joint power actions. London notes grave China situation with Russian chapel destruction used as pretext to deploy more troops. Boxer movement spreading across southwestern China provokes French response. British minister in Pekin confirms outrages and suspected empresses sympathy with Boxer, urging energetic measures.
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St. Petersburg
China
London
Tung Tingau
Russia
Bowers
Hongse
Yun-Nan-F U
France
Claude MacDonald
Pekin
Shanghai
Tien Tsin
Sayng
Wei Hai Wei
Hong Song
Tsung It Yamen
Poi Tang Thow
Tzis
Li-Li
Li Hung Shang
Kanh Yi
Li Ping Heng
Shan Tung
Pan Ting Fu
Wife of Omaha Mayor Killed in Runaway Crash
Mrs. Kate K Moores wife of Frank BE Moores mayor of Omaha died at her home after a runaway accident near St Joseph hospital on South Tenth Street. The carriage collided with Dr Porters team, she fell struck head on curb base of brain. She was taken to Conte drug store aided by Dr Hanchett and Dr Coffman.
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Omaha
Kate K. Moores
Frank BE. Moores
John B. Conte
Tenth
Hickory Streets
Hanchett
Coffman
Desperate Siege at Catubig Garrison Holds Four Days
In Catubig, Samar, a party of 31 from Company K, Forty third Infantry, withstood a force of 600 insurgents for four days. Fire and flames trapped troops in a burning barracks, a bank race to the river followed by a bayonet trench. Corporal Carson steadied his men as First Lieutenant J. T. Sweeney and a rescue party arrived to evacuate 13 besieged soldiers.
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Catubig
Washington, D. C
Samar
Forty Third Infantry
War Department
H. M. Day
Forty-Third Volunteer Infantry
J. T. Sweeney
Aprilia
Corporal Carson
Lieutenant Sweeney
Catablg
Refuses to Call Out Troops in Missouri Strike Crisis
In St Louis on June 12 Governor Stephens did not move to deploy state militia during the railway strike. He debated the issue with officials, offered tempered suggestions, and advised increasing night transit service. Cars operated on three additional divisions at night with police and militia patrols along main thoroughfares, and no outbreaks were reported.
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St. Louis
Stephens
Jefferson City
Pot
Lindell
Ille Posse Comitatus
WHY THE HOSTAGES ARE HELD
London June 2 The South African Review argues for lenient handling of Kruger Steyn and other presidents, suggesting they might be spared harsh justice as age and decline approach while implying Boer praise for keeping British prisoners as leverage.
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London
South Afrigan Review
Transvaal
Kruger API
Steyn
Mmeterial
S Gai Cnet
Banle
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Astudy Buice
Gans
Lobengula
Missouri
Pacific
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