War News From Africa Shows Peace Dawn and Key Battles
London reports peace appears near in South Africa as Lord Roberts seizes Johannesburg and Pretoria. Annexation of the Free State proclaimed, Cape Town wires victory at Senekal, Warren’s force repels Boer attack near Faberspur, with 15 killed and 30 wounded.
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London
South Africa
Kruger
Lydenburg
Holland
Lord Roberts
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Transvaal
The
Free State
Bloemfontein
God
Orange River
Market Square
S Knox
War Office
Cape Town
Rundle Thas
Senekal
Warren
Faberspur
Col. Spence
Citizen Posse on Guard in St Louis Strikers
The citizen posse comitatus begins active service guarding Transit company powerhouses and car sheds at Park Avenue Easton Avenue and Southern facilities. About 900 deputies are on duty with Winchester shotguns and buckshot shells to quell disturbances while following strict discipline and arresting ringleaders.
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St. Louis
Posse Comitatus
Park Avenue
Easton Avenue
Southern Electric
Transit Company
St. Louis Transit Company
Pohlman
Sheriff’s Posse
Sheriff's Posse
Campbell
J. H. Cavender
Explosion Kills Six at Forest Junction Wisconsin Home
A Sentinel dispatch from Brillion Wisconsin reports six members of the Broehm family and a brother in law killed by a dynamite blast at Forest Junction near Brillion. The blast is believed caused by about 22 pounds overheating near a stove. no survivors can recount the event. Separately in Whipple near Marietta Ohio four men die and others injured in a nitroglycerin blast while shooting a well on a farm.
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Milwaukee
A _ Sentinel
Brillion
Wis
William Broehm
Forest Junction
Ohio
Laurelville
John Shank
Buena Vista
Jacob Stump
Stump
Manila dispatch reports Luzon surrenders and captures
MacArthur reports small surrenders in northern Luzon and the capture of Corino the fugitive Benguet governor allied with Aguinaldo near Cahayan. In scouts near San Miguel de Mayumo on May 29, two privates were captured, several men killed or wounded, and Company J of the Thirty-fifth Regiment, U S V, suffered losses including Sergt John Gallen.
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Washington
War ‘Department
MacArthur
Manila
Luzon
Corino
Benguet
Rich
Aguinaldo
Cahayan
San Miguel de Mayumo
Charles D. Roberts
John A. McIntyre
Lyel W. Akens
John ‘Gallen
Joseph McCourt
John A. Green
George Klinger
Thirty-fifth Regiment
U. S.V
Senate Reaches Agreement on Clark Case and Trust Amendment Vote
The Senate committee on privileges and elections agrees to let Senator Clark of Montana rest his case with no further action on Clark or Maginnis credentials or the committee’s original election resolution. In Washington a House vote defeats a joint resolution for a constitutional anti trust amendment requiring a two thirds majority. The tally 154 to 131 leaves 38 votes short of the needed two thirds.
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Washington
Senate ‘Committee On Privileges and Elections
Friends of
Clark
Montana
Maginnis
House of Representatives
Congress
American Bullets Dispatch From Manila Tells Of Insurgent Officer Death
A Manila dispatch reports Major March and his Thirty third regiment engaging Aguinaldo's party near La Gaz and La Gat in Luzon. They killed or wounded an officer believed to be Aguinaldo, who fled with his followers, leaving diaries and proclamations behind.
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Vigan
Luzon
Manila
Thirty-third
Aguinaldo
la Gaz
Laboagan
la Gat
Philippines
Senator Beveridge
Trade Turbulence and Market Shifts Across Nations
R G Dun reports May failures show large liabilities from a cotton brokerage collapse and rising brokerage losses. Domestic prices ease as pig iron and finished goods drift lower. May shipments lag since 1892 while boots and shoes orders fall faster than shipments amid weaker manufacturing activity.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Africa
South Africa
Gray Forge
Pittsburgh
Notl
Chicago
Bessemer
Philadelphia
Lehigh
United States
Canada
Oregon election results show Republican gains statewide
Oregon returns indicate Republicans lead by 5 000 to 8 000 overall with maintained legislative control. C I Wolverton appears to win supreme court justice by about 8 000 and J W Bailey is elected as food and dairy commissioner by around 6 000. Moody in the Second district projected 5 000 to 7 000 ahead. Tongue in the First district leading in one county. McBride's Senate seat to be contested next year.
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Portland
Org
Oregon
C. I. Wolverton
Justice of the Supreme Court
J. W. Bailey
Food and Dairy
Moody
Tongue
United States
McBride
Mrs. John Sherman Dead in Mansfield
Mrs. Cecelia Sherman wife of former Secretary of State John Sherman died just after midnight following a stroke of paralysis on Sunday. Born in Mansfield in 1829 she married John Sherman in 1848 and the couple adopted several daughters.
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Mansfield
Sherman
Drowned after baptism on steamer Wichita
In Memphis Tennessee on June 5 James Phillips drowned less than three minutes after baptism while aboard the steamer Wichita. He fell overboard as he prepared to change into dry clothing and was swept away by a rapid current witnessed by his congregation.
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Memphis
Tenn
James Phillips
Phillips
Wichit
Emperor William Receives New York Deutsche Krieger Bund
Kaiser grants an audience at Potsdam on June 5 to a delegation from the New York Deutsche Krieger Bund, signaling high level engagement with the German veterans organization.
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Kaiser
Potsdam
Emperor William
New York
Deutsche Kriegerbund
Filipinos and MacArthur Plan Civil Government in Philippines
Hancock brings Philippine commission to Manila where Judge Taft outlines limited sovereignty and gradual reforms under Gen. MacArthur. The mission aims to establish a stable civil government with a new school system while military forces remain as auxiliary units in emergencies.
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Manila
United States
Hancock
San Francisco
Philippine Commission
MacArthur
Palace
Twenty-sixth Infantry
William H. Taft
Taft
Gen. MacArthur
Otis
McKinley
Philippines
Spooner
Judge dissolves injunction against Cigarmakers union
Justice Andrews in New York Supreme Court dissolves the sweeping injunction that barred members from paying strike benefits and hindered contributions to strikers’ families when the house is out of work. The order had provoked Samuel Gompers of the AF of L to denounce it as un-American and illegal. It previously restrained Cigarmakers' International Union No. 144 from interfering with S. Levy & Co. business and barred strike fund payments to extend the strike.
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New York
Andrews
Supreme Court
Cigarmakers’ Union
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Justice Andrews
Cigarmakers’ International Union No. 144
S. Levy & Co
Union Man Kills Officer Then Is Shot Down
On Broadway near the Southern Electric plant in St. Louis Albert Koenig fired a shotgun at Police Officer Crane after refusing to disarm. Officer Maher returned fire, killing Koenig. Crane lies dying at Alexian Brothers hospital.
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St. Louis
Albert Koenig
Crane
Maher
Broadway
Southern Electric Power House
Lally
Four Courts
Koenig
Transit Company
Alexian Brothers’ Hospital
Reverend John C. Lowrie D. D. Dies at 92
The Presbyterian missionary leader Reverend John Cameron Lowrie died at East Orange New Jersey at age 92. Born 1808 in Butler Pennsylvania he served in India 1833 36 and held key posts in the Presbyterian board of foreign missions 1838 1891 including secretary emeritus and moderator of the 1865 Pittsburgh general assembly. He authored several mission works.
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New York
John C. Lowrie
D. v
East Orange
N. J
Presbyterian Church
John Cameron Lowrie
Butter
Jefferson College
Pennsylvania
Allegheny
Princeton
India
Lowrie
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
Forty-second Street Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian General Assembly
Pittsburgh
Upper
Manual of Missions
Senate Committee Backs Otis Nomination for Major General
The senate military affairs committee reported favorably Gen Otis for major general, but during the executive session a call for immediate action was blocked and the nomination was laid over.
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Otis
Washington
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Gen
Senate
National Broom Manufacturers Meet Postponed
Mrs. B M new aldson secretary of the National Association of Broom Manufacturers announces the Chicago meet for June 7 has been indefinitely postponed. She says the postponement affects the meeting planned in Sidney Ohio and not the association itself.
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Sidney, O
B. M. Neealdson
Ntional Association of Broom Manidaturers
Chicago
Warrant Issued for Former Gov Taylor in Goebel Case
Circuit Clerk Ford received Judge Cantrill s order to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of Former Gov W Taylor. Indicted as accessory to the assassination of William Goebel. Warrant placed with Deputy Sheriff John Suter in the sheriff s absence.
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Taylor
Frankfort
Ford
Cantrill
Public debt decreases in May 1900 by bond redemption
Washington reports the public debt at May 31 1900 excluding cash in the treasury stood at 1 122 608 811 a reduction of 9 193 274 for the month due to bond redemption reducing the total indebtedness a government record of the period shows.
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Washington
Milwaukees General Federation Meeting Divides on Color Question
In Milwaukee on June 5, about 4000 club women gather with thousands of trunks for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs convention. Debates center on the color question with Mrs Rebecca Lowe seen as a possible renominee who may decline.
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General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Milwaukee
Rebecca Lowe
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Josephine Ruffin
Boston
Board of
Ruffin
New England Press Association
Massachusetts Federation
Massachusettts
Board of Directors
New Era Club
Indiana
Rose Budd Stewart
Port Wayne
Triple tragedy shocks San Augustine feud fallout
A Monday clash between fendist factions in San Augustine leaves Felix G. Roberts Galveston News correspondent, Sheriff Noel Roberts, and Sidney Roberts dead. Gov Sayres orders militia. Stone Fort Rifles from Nacogdoches to San Augustine as tension rises from an old feud.
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Austin
Tex
San Augustine
Felix G. Roberts
Galveston News
Noel Roberts
Sidney Roberts
Sayres
Stone Fort
Galveston
Nacogdoches
San Augustin
Felix Roberts
Sid Roberts
Noted Outlaw Killed in Cuban Patrol Action
Rural guards near Sagua killed Juan Gonzalez the notorious outlaw and four companions on Sunday in Santiago de Cuba. Local authorities report the incident as part of ongoing security operations in the region.
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Santiago de Cuba
Juan Gonzalez
Sagua
Town Hall Fire Kills One and Injures Three in Foxboro
Town officials say the Foxboro town hall covering town offices and the high grammar and three intermediate schools burned early today. One man died, three others were injured, with a severely hurt man feared dead.
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Foxboro
Mass
Train Collision Claims Two Lives at Garysburg
Two men were killed and three injured when the Atlantic Coast Line fast mail collided with freight cars at an open switch in Garysburg near Weldon on Monday. The crash disrupted service and leaves investigators to determine cause.
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Weldon
N. C
Atlantic Toast Lines
Garysburg
Pretorian capitulation rumors and Boer defenses update
An undated Pretoria report claims British forces have invested the city and expect surrender after a demand. Other dispatches note the War council asserting power, Kruger directing signals eastward, and Boer efforts to defend Pretoria with six British columns converging. Controversy grows over Kruger’s leadership as communications falter.
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London
Pretoria
Lourenzo Marques
Kruger
War Council
Great’ Britain
Republica
Delarey
Lord Roberts
Lord Rohberts
Johannesburg
Ficksburg
Senekal
Heilbron
Lindley
Rundle
Redulphberg
Brabant
New Mexico Capitol Dedication in Santa Fe Celebration
The new capitol of New Mexico was dedicated with a grand pageant and decorations. Gov. Oteria reviewed the military and civic procession, a lantern cupola flag-raising followed the three o'clock salute, and ceremonies included addresses by Chief Justice Mills and Ex-Gov. Bradford Prince. Archishop Bourgade gave the dedicatory prayer.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Capitol
New Mexico
Oteria
House of Representatives
W. J. Mills
Martin to Establish Democratic HQ in Kansas City
Col. John I. Martin, sergeant at arms of the Democratic National Convention, arrives in Kansas City and will set up permanent headquarters within two weeks. He defends hotel rates as reasonable, saying five dollars a day is fair and cites no ex orbitant charges. A subcommittee of the national committee meets Thursday June 14 to discuss hotel pricing.
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Kansas City
John I. Martin
Martin
Tommy Rot
National Committee
General Gomez Arrives in Havana and Salutes Governor
Gen. Maximo Gomez reached Havana on Monday morning to a crowd of supporters and representatives of political societies. He rode to his house after the palace salute as Gov. Gen. Wood stood on the balcony and acknowledged the crowd.
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Havana
Maximo, Gomez
Gomez
Wood
Population of England and Wales tops twelve million
The thirty three largest towns in England and Wales sum to about 12 million residents. Belgium requires ear rings for all bulls and cows after three months. In Damascus a surviving library from Tamerlane’s era was found. Teutonic peasants supposedly created blonde hair for Roman princesses. A Livingstone grave relic segment was sent to the Royal Geographical Society. The decayed tree and a telegraph pole mark the explorer’s death site. The artifact was carried from Chitambo near Lake Bangweolo to Africa’s coast.
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England
Wales
Belgium
Damascus
Tamerlane
David Livingstone
Royal Geographical Society
London
Chitambo
Lake Bangweolo
Africa
Otis Lands With Full Military Honors After Quarantine
Maj. Gen. Elwell Otis lands in San Francisco after five days at Angel Island quarantine following arrival from Manila. On board Meade smallpox cases prompted vaccination. Otis discusses Aguinaldo, U S control of the Philippines, and the islands' rich hemp sugar and tobacco while awaiting orders to report to the president. He departs for Washington that night.
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San Francisco
Angel Island
Otis
Manila
Meade
Gen
Angel Ise
Shafter
Aguinaldo
United States
Gem
Washington
Imam
Secretary Root Receives MacArthur Census Of Filipino Losses
Washington reports Secretary Root asked for Filipino casualties and prisoners since the insurrection began. General MacArthur at Manila provides figures: 10780 killed, 2710 wounded, 10424 captured and surrendered, about 2000 prisoners in possession. No systematic record. estimates may shift as reports arrive. many wounded moved. many prisoners to be released.
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Washington
Root
Senate
MacArthur
Manila
Whittr
Congress
Cerer
Tilipinos
Om Field
Boer Women Denied Trenches Fight Claim
In Cleveland the Boer en Voys hosted a large reception at Hollenden House after confirming Boer women did not fight in trenches. Abraham Fischer said women volunteered for hospital work and would not be permitted to join men in combat. He affirmed no rifles were used by women.
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Cleveland
Hollenden
Abraham Fischer
Drowned man in wager at Evansville river
In Evansville Indiana on June 5 Ross Fulk of Washington drowned while attempting a barge to wharfboat jump for a small wager. A crowd watched as the bet ended fatally. Republican candidate J P Hand won Illinois supreme bench district five in Galesburg over independent A A Craig.
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Evansville
Ind
Ross Fulk
Washington
Fulk
Galesburg
Ill
J. P. Hand
Illinois Supreme Bench
Fifth Judicial
A. A. Craig
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