Boers Advance Toward Johannesburg In Rising Conflict
Special reports from Lourenzo Marques and Cape Town describe General De Wet leading 13 000 Burgers toward Johannesburg as British forces near the city after retaking Bloemfontein. British defeats reported at Elandsfontein and tense near Johannesburg with a potential decisive battle looming.
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Lorenzo Marques
Transvaal
Bloemfontein
Steyn
Orange Free State
Elandsfontein
Roberts
Johannesburg
Cape Town
Dewet
Representative Cochran Attacks Philippine Policy
Washington June 12 Representative Cochran of Missouri denounced those who keep the US ignorant of the Philippines true situation and urged whipping post and pillory as accountability. He predicted Congress will push for a new army of 50 000 to 75 000 to restore order and says the current force would be withdrawn once overextended, hindered by campaign politics.
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Washington, D. C
Cochran
Missouri
Philippine Islands
United States
Philippines
Missourian
McKinley
China
Far East
Long
Supreme and Superior lodges open annual A O U W and D o H session
Sioux Falls reports the Supreme and Superior lodges of the A O U W and D of H convening their annual session. Attendance exceeds any of the past ten years with large delegations from Iowa Minnesota and Nebraska present.
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Sioux Falls
S. Dak
D. of H
Supreme
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Youthful Couple Drown in River Rescue Tragedy
Louisville reports a 16 year old, Willie McAlee, and his 17 year old sweetheart Frederica Morris drowned in the Ohio River at Fern Grove while skiff riding. The boy perished attempting to save the girl who had fallen in.
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Willie McAlee
Ferdinand Morris
Journal
Louisville
Frederica Morris
Fern Grove
Filipino General Sizon Captured Near Manila
Manila reports General Sizon, an ally of MacArthur’s forces, captured by Lieut. Johnson of the forty first infantry. Sizon had been commanding about a thousand troops north of Manila after previous engagement along the railroad last fall.
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Sizon
Lieut. Johnson
Manila
MacArthur
Forty-First Infantry
Simon
British Marines Open Rail Line Toward Pekin Amid Boxer Turmoil
In Tien Tsin British marines reach Lang Fang and press toward Pekin as 400 Russians join them. Natives flee toward Shanghai while unrest grows. Empress Dowager orders resistance to Yangtze passage. U.S. and British plan to reinforce marines in China as tensions rise.
Samuel Gompers to Lead in St Louis Strike Inquest
In St Louis on June 12 the arrival of Samuel Gompers president of the AF of L was confirmed to take charge of the strike inquest. Ex Governor Stone said no hope for renewed peace talks with the Transit company. The riot left casualties and high losses in wages and city trade.
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St .Louis
Journal
St. Louis
Samuel Gomphers
American Federation of Labor
Needle Forcibly Emerges From Child's Body
Oscar Ringman a two year old of Chicago had a needle two and a half inches long work free from his chest. He had swallowed the needle months earlier and it lay hidden until it began to peirce the skin. Dr Bass treated him and expected no serious effects.
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London
War Office
Forestier
Walker
Cape Town
Kelly Kenny
Bloemfontein
Methuen
Weil Kop
Stenin
Reitz
Orange Colony
Vrede
Free State
Cane Town
Schreiner
Alfred Milner
Chicago
Illinois
Oscar Ringman
Andrew Ringman
Ewing Avenue
Bass
Health Board set to lift Chinatown quarantine on 24th
In San Francisco on June 12 the Health Board announced it will raise the Chinatown quarantine on the 24th unless new plague cases appear. A mob of Chinese damaged Quong Fook's undertaking shop after he displayed three coffins outside.
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San Francisco
Health Board
Quong Fooks
Great Northern derailed train fatally injures passengers
Spokane June 12 a Great Northern east bound passenger train derailed at Summit Montana yesterday due to a broken rail. Two engines and four coaches plunged into a cliff. a score of passengers were injured with some fatally.
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the Journal
Spokane
Wash
Great Northern
Summit
Mont
Flames threaten Tribune building in New York
Fire at the New York Tribune on Nassau Street burned through the night, forcing staff to flee as smoke and flames spread. Three alarms brought firefighters, but damage was estimated at five thousand dollars and the plant narrowly escaped total destruction.
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Journal
New York
Tribune
Nassau Street
Dark for the British as Boer advance alarms London
London reports a sudden darkening British prospects in the Boer War. Bloemfontein reportedly occupied, 13000 Dewet Burghers marching on Johannesburg, with defeats near Elandsfontein and derailed Derbyshires. News from Pott and Knox appears muddled, raising public impatience.
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London
Buller
Roodevalcome
Free State
Transvaal
Bloemfontein
Dewet
Johannesburg
Elandsfontein
Lorenzo Marques
Herr Pott
Pott
Roberts
Pretoria
Senekal
Roodeval
Deserter Wilde Captured Near Tarlac
Manila reports Private Wilde of the Twelfth Infantry captured May 4 by Ninth infantry near Tarlack. He carried a Mau ser rifle and 100 rounds. Wilde once held a lieutenant’s commission in the insurgent army and fought Americans. Insurgents’ prisoners will testify at his court martial. He is quiet and refuses to discuss his conduct.
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San Francisco
Manila
Wilde
Twelfth Infantry
Ninth Infantry
Tarlack
Famous Spy Belle Boyd Dies in Kilbourne
Belle Boyd famed Confederate spy died suddenly of heart disease in Kilbourne Wisconsin where she had come to lecture. She was fifty seven years old.
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Kilbourne
Wis
Belle Boyd
Chair Trust plans near six million capital to issue bonds
New York manufacturers of chairs meet to discuss a financial plan and possible bond issue. They reportedly aim for a six million capital including purchase of other concerns. The group has averaged about four million in annual business.
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Journal
New York
Illinois Undertakers Hold Twentieth Convention in Peoria
The Illinois State Undertakers Association opens its 20th convention in Peoria with new features. Elias P. Lyon of Bradley Institute will discuss Bacteriology and Dr. Emerson M. Sutton will present an anatomical demonstration of the thoracic and abdominal cavities. Examinations will be offered by the State Board of Health at Friday’s close, as the program doubles as a training school for both prospective and practicing undertakers.
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Peoria
Ill
Illinois State Undertakers’ Association
Elias P. Lyon
Bradley Institute
Emerson M. Sutton
State Board of Health
Cullum Memorial Hall Dedication at West Point
The Cullum Memorial Hall at the United States Military Academy in West Point was dedicated with ceremony and a dinner attended by notable figures. Gen Weile accepted the hall and presented it to the U S through President McKinley and Secretary Root. The $275000 building houses statues busts and portraits of eminent officers and contains portraits of 21 army commanders 37 corps commanders and 51 division commanders.
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West Point
N. Y
Cullum
United Stats Military Academy
George W. Cullum
Military Academy
Weile
United States
McKinley
Root
Dade
United States Military Academy
Cullum Memorial
Academy
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Mead
Thomas
Schofield
McCellan
General Staff Corps
Democratic State Convention Opens in Columbus Ohio
The Democratic State Convention met in Columbus with Webster P. Huntington elected temporary chairman and Lewis Reemelin secretary while John McCarty held sergeant-at-arms. Delegation representation based on last year’s McLean vote reduces total delegates by about 100. Cuyahoga and Lucas counties receive small delegations, Jones carried last fall. Four delegates at large plus two presidential electors and several state officers to be nominated. Indications point to Bryan instruction at the National convention.
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Columbus
Ohio
Webster P. Huntington
Press-Post
Dewey
Lewis Reemelin
Cincinnati
John McCarty
Defiance
McLean
Cuyahoga County
Lucas County
Jones
Supreme Court
Food and Dairy
Public
Board of Public Works
Bryan
Telephone convention gathering in Cleveland this week
Preparations are complete for the national convention of the independent telephone association of the United States to be held in Cleveland Ohio. Delegates will convene with sessions beginning at noon tomorrow as the gathering opens.
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Cleveland
Journal
Ohio
The
Independent Telephone Association of the United States
Terry and Tommy Set for Twenty-Five Round Showdown
In New York on June 12 Terry McGovern and Tommy White of Chicago prepare for a twenty-five round bout at the Sea Side Athletic Club. They weigh 126 pounds. McGovern is the favorite at ten to seven after White held him to six rounds in a prior match.
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the Journal
New York
Terry McGovern
Tommy White
Chicago
Sea Side Athletic Club
White
McGovern
Partial lunar eclipse visible across the United States
A partial lunar eclipse will occur this evening with a duration of seven minutes and eight seconds. In Washington, D C it begins at 10 16 2 p m New York 10 28 4 p m Chicago 9 34 0 p m Cincinnati 9 46 4 p m and San Francisco 7 14 7 p m The event is barely visible without a telescope.
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Washington
D. C
United States
New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
San Francisco
Ice Plant Burns At Coney Island
The Hygienic Ice Co plant on Twenty first Street at Coney Island burned down this morning. Loss on ice machinery amounts to one hundred thousand dollars.
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The
Journal
New York
Hygienic Ice Co
Twenty-first Street
Coney Island
Sub-Committee Advances GOP Convention Plans
An adjourned meeting of the Republican national committee sub-committee in Philadelphia outlines convention arrangements. It recommends Senator Walcott of Colorado as temporary chairman with G. W. Johnson as temporary secretary, to be made permanent.
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National Republican Committee
Philadelphia
Republican National Committee
Walcott
Colorado
G. W. Johnson
Missouri State Music Teachers Association Opens Convention
In Columbia on June 12 the Missouri State Music Teachers Association began its fifth annual convention at the State University, running until Friday evening with unusually large attendance. The group backs a music chair at the university and a law requiring towns over two thousand to teach music in schools. They will also consider a state wide music teacher examination before accepting pupils, and promote musical composition with several prizes to be awarded.
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Columbia
Missouri State Music Teachers’ Association
State University
Local Freight Agents Meet in Boston Convention
The National Association of Local Freight Agents held its annual convention at Faneuil Hall with business sessions and planned festivities. A moonlight excursion is scheduled for tomorrow and a Nantasket Beach banquet will follow, aimed at harmonizing transportation methods and elevating the local freight agent's standing.
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Boston
National Association of Local Freight Agents
Faneuil Hall
Nantasket Beach
Monument Dedication Honors General Putnam at Putnam Hill
Greenwich, June 12. A grand celebration today marks the dedication of a monument to General Putnam in a small park on Putnam Hill. The bronze tablet recounts his famed ride down a hundred stone steps under fire, a historic moment commemorated by the monument.
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Greenwich
Conn
General Putnam
Putnam Hill
Putnam
Re-Election of Senator Wetmore
Newport R I June 12 The adjourned session of the Legislature was called to order today to reject a United States Senator George P Wetmore will succeed himself in the post indicating the ongoing renewal of political leadership.
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Newport
R. L
United States
George P. Wetmore Withl
Rhode Island Episcopal Convention Opens in Bristol
The 110th annual Rhode Island Episcopal convention opened at Trinity Church in Bristol with about 250 clergy and delegates present. A missionary concert is scheduled for this evening.
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Rhode Island Episcopal Convention
Bristol
R. IL
The
Episcopal Church of
Rhode Island
Trinity Church
Educate for Bowels With Cascarets
Ad promotes Cascarets candy cathartic as a cure for constipation with a guaranteed refund offer if it fails. Mentions price 25c and 0c. Envisions druggists refunding money if not effective.
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C.C.C
Boer Envoys Rebuff Sulzer as U.S. Government
The envoys insist they will not treat Mr. Sulzer as representing the United States government. They respond to his claims with emphasis that he does not speak for the country or its official policy.
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Mr. Sulzer
United States
Summer Street Car Schedule for South Muscatine and Cemetery
The schedule lists summer streetcar departures from the company office at 5:50 and 6:00 a.m., then every 10 minutes to 9:00 p.m., with variations to 11:10 p.m. from multiple origins. South Muscatine trips begin 6:05 a.m., every 20 minutes to 12:15 p.m.. Cemetery line starts at 6:16 p.m., to 11:10 p.m. No passenger deliveries after 11:10 p.m. First car Sundays leaves 8:00 a.m., then every 30 minutes to 10:00 a.m., then every 20 minutes to 9:00 p.m., then half-hour to 10:00, and 10:10 from line end.
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South Muscotine
Park Place
Fair Grounds
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