Chinese Troops Near Pekin Reach 860000 With Armament Data
London dispatches report massive Chinese forces around Pekin totaling about 860000. They claim 227 Creusot guns, Krupp artillery and 150 Maxims, with ire supply deemed practically inexhaustible, aided by a German firm. Disorder and undisciplined troops threaten Allied plans at Tien Tsin and Nan king amid unsettled capital news.
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London
Shan Hai Twan
Pekin
Sung Ching
Carlowitz
Shanghai
Li Ping Heng
Shun Tung
Kiang Yin
Yang Tse
Hong Kong
Wlan
Kow Loon
West Fort
Ning Hai Chou
British India
Calcutta
Rctory
Sun
Inquest Verdicts Cite Homicide in Riot at Barracks
Reports from June 24 coroners inquests list Thomas Rine and two others among riot victims at barracks on Sixth Street in WashTown. The jury finds homicide established but holds no named party responsible, while the crowd and unknown passerby are cited as contributors to the disturbance.
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Coronner’s
Homas
George Rine
Eckhardt
Stus Sixth
Wash
Waa
Chippewa Falls Youth Seventeen in Landmark Entry
A fragment from a Chippewa Falls notice mentions a seventeen year old person involved in an event on June 26. The brief hints at family, residence, and age without full details.
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Falls
Mily and I
Fifteen Children Drown While Bathing In Longlake
The report states fifteen children of A B McDonnell, president of the Lumberman's National Bank, drowned while bathing in Longlake yesterday. A sweeping bull movement in cotton followed with prices dropping up to 31 points on bad crop news and bear pressure.
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A. B. McDonnell
Lumberman's National Bank
Longlake
New York
New York Cotton Exchange
Dennis Perkins & Co
Liverpool
Foreign troops seize Tiensin as nations mass
Rear Admiral Kempff reports a Japanese torpedo boat-led advance into Tiensin with light losses. Reports say Admiral Seymour was captured and ministers left Pekin guarded by Chinese soldiers. Eight thousand allied troops, including 1,200 Germans, have landed at Taku with Russians suffering 150 killed and 300 wounded. U.S. and other forces plan relief and road opening to Pekin amid calls for coordinated action.
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Che Foo
Kempff
Tiensin
Tien Tsin
Pekin
Seymour
Tsing Tau
Taku
Iltis
Tong Ku
Chefoo
United States
Fowler
Lang Fang
McKinley
Washington
Wu Ting Fang
Li Hung Chang
Yang Tse Klang Valley
Hay
Long
Navy Department
Kempft
Kempf
Taku Forts
State Department
Conger
John Goodnow
Shanghai
Telegraphic Ticks of Global Affairs
A collage of brief items notes China market effects in Berlin, prohibition delegates arriving in Chicago, a Cologne cyclone injuring many, and the Australian bill moving to third reading in Ottawa. Other reports cover shootings in Bedford Indiana, a boy's fatal shootout in Missouri, Wheeler arriving in Chicago, St Louis rail traffic resuming, and Mayor Harrison chairing a Democratic delegation in Springfield.
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China
Berlin
Chicago
Cologne
House of Commons
Bedford
Ind
Acorn Ridge
Joseph Wheeler
Department of the Lakes
St. Louis
Harrison
Springfield
Denver
Paterson
N. J
William
Dowie
City of
Zion
Wisconsin
Havana Electric Company
Schaefer
Emai
New Prague
Minn
Martin J. Russell
Chicago Chronicle
Mackinac Island
United States
Bombay
Quito
Heatwave Strikes Minneapolis and North Dakota
Torrid conditions blanketed Minneapolis and northern Dakota as thermometers hit 100 degrees or more. Devil's Lake reported 100 and Grafton 107 in the shade with brief, windless heat across the region.
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North Dakota
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Devil's Lake
Grafton
Bryan denies preconvention campaign plans
Lincoln June 26 W J Bryan returned from a Wisconsin fishing trip and will stay in Lincoln until after the democratic national convention. He stated that someone had wrongly outlined his campaign plans and that no statements or plans have been made by him or anyone else and none will be made until after the convention.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Bryan
Lincoln
W. J. Bryan
Wisconsin
British Troops Converge as Boers Hold North Front
London reports Roberts tightens cordon around Free Staters while decisive results lag. Boers break from Rundle lines at Ficksburg Senekal, Canadians clash at Honing Spruit, and Dewet’s men menace the Orange River Colony. Dispatches note Boer commissariat strain and widespread horse losses. Local unrest and prisoner concerns surround the British advance.
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London
Roberts
Rundle
Dewet
Mounted Rifles
Shropshire’s
Capetown
Europe
United States
Hay
Pretoria
Machadodorp
Kruger
Branderton
Standerton
Brabant
Ficksburg
Lourenzo Marques
The
Times
South Africa
Warren Wiies
Cape Colony
Orange River Colony
Grasshoppers Ravage Wheat in Floyd River Valley
In Northwestern Iowa, swarms of grasshoppers devastate wheat and grains in the Floyd River valley. Crops brown across five miles with poor prospects for replanting after the pests ruin the harvest.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Floyd River
La Follette Delegates Win Big in Waupaca Caucus
Republican caucuses in Waupaca county yielded an overwhelming La Follette victory. Twenty one delegates will go to the state convention, doubling past support. La Follette arrived in Milwaukee from northern points and officially launched his campaign at the Plankinton hotel.
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Waupaca
Waupaca County
la Follette
la Follette Ia
Milwaukee
Wateau
Plankinton Hotel
Elevator Fall Injures Five at Hotel Walton
A seven story elevator in the Hotel Walton collapsed at midnight in Philadelphia injuring five passengers. The most seriously hurt were J. G. Pringey the Oklahoma delegate and Brenton F. Hall the Michigan delegate. Others injured include Dr. Burton Walter Hunter Marcellus West and Dr. Camden. The incident caused great excitement.
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Philadelphia
Walton
J. G. Pringey
Oklahoma Territory
Brenton F. Hall
Michigan
Burton
Walter Hunter
Delaware
Marcellus West
Washington
Camden
Texas
Tragedy at De Pere Saengerfest Train Crash
A head on collision near De Pere Wisconsin killed seven excursionists and injured about forty as a Green Bay freight failed to yield to a Fond du Lac Saengerfest train. Investigators fault the freight crew for not giving right of way and signaling properly.
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Saengerfest
Fond du Lac
Oshkosh
Neenah
Appleton
Green Bay
de Pere
George Lloyd
du Lac
Tts
T. A. Lawson
Chicago
Koske
Edward
Drugelat
Plank
Lawrence
Mierswa
Charles
Dshkovic
Korscher
Max
Oshkesh
Lloyd
George
Weber
Adam
Keeber
Ashland
Bechaud
August
Cooper
W. J
Ecke
Laura Mra
Iicke
Lida
Misa
Fitzsimmons
Michael
Froebling
John
Ick
Mitler
Frazier
Hankwitz
Otto
Hansen
Louis
Heiden
Ella
Ives
Burt
Heider
Kaufman
William
Kraemer
Oscar
Kobes
Albert
Klinke
Kliser
Mrs. L
Thompson
J. H
Lamb
Thomas
Carr
Eugene
Williard
Doerst
Bert
van Dyne
Donovan
Gaffney
James
Giesen
Lyner
John R
Raddalle
A. H
Schaufft Henry
Eden
Flood
Mathias
Mahoney
Stephen
M'Carthy
Terrace
Finney
C. H
Davenport
Kraus
Menasha
Koenags
Peter Taycheedah
Rabbedean
Razernoski
F. J
Berlin
Schmitz
J. J
Grielis
W. EF
New York
B. Vroehling
I. Harper
M. Heider
Otto Laudritz
H. Lloyd
Louis Lusk
Reinz
Charles Reaping
Robert Well
B. H. Severn
Pond du Lac
John Barton
Ernest Gardner
Edward Koske
Rush Medical College
Wis
Marshfield
Europe medical course and Paris exposition trip for Dr H Gasser
Dr H Gasser of Platteville sails on the City of Rome to Europe for a short medical course in Vienna hospitals and to view the Paris exposition. The ship is chartered for physicians attending the international congress of physicians in Paris.
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H. Gasser
Platteville
Europe
Vienna
Rome
Paris
Baseball Scores Snapshot From A Busy Card
Scores span many cities with Chicago edging Minneapolis 4 3 and Detroit defeating Indianapolis 8 7. Brooklyn routed New York 15 2 while Boston crushed Philadelphia 20 4 and Milwaukee won 17 4 over Kansas City. St Louis 2 Cincinnati 0 and Cleveland 7 Buffalo 3. Omaha 5 over St Joe 25 18 over Denver 18 and Des Moines 3.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Detroit
Indianapolis
Brooklyn
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Milweskee
Kansas City
St. Luis
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Buffalo
Omaha
St. Joe
Denver
Des Moines
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Nanking
Tien Tsin Lay
Tekin
Admiral i
Liu Kin Yih
Chippewa Falls
MacKinley
Nebraska
Charles Milford
Cedar Rapids
James Fitzsimmons
Peace Commission
Root
Cuba
Wood
Ruel
Martin M. Gridley
Evanston
Northwestern University
Union College of Law
Simeon Farwell
John V. Farwell Company
Albert G. Spalding
San Francisco
Elizabeth Mayer
Mr. Spalding
Mrs. Mayer
Rockford
Myre
Fanny Moffat
Aalteer
Spalding
Jovers
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