Allies In Battle Reach Pekin Front With 20000 Force
Shanghai reports Allied advance toward Pekin with about 20000 troops and heavy artillery. Chinese garrisons fled from forts near Tien Tsin as Japanese vanguard is said repulsed. Brusssels notes legations near imperial city. British officers push for immediate action despite mixed readiness.
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Shanghai
Pekin
I¢ia
Tien-Tsin
Rossians
Brussels
M. de Cartier de Marchienne
Imperial
More Elders Taken In War Frontier Clash
Dispatches from London August 2 report Lord Roberts stating up to 4,000 prisoners may fall to British arms as operations around Pretoria yield dozens of surrendering commandants, rifle and gun captures, and rail sabotage incidents. A Danish officer also surrendered, while Boer forces retreat from Machadodoro toward Lydenburg raising telegraph lines and transport losses. An accident near Frederikstadt on a railway caused 13 deaths and 89 injuries.
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London
Lord Roberte
War Office
Pretoria
Hunter
Ronse
Fontanel
Delpoy
Potgieter
Joubert
Bruce Hamilton
Anderson
Staats Artillery
Olivier
Harrismith
Frederikstadt
Krueradorp- Porchgesestroom
Shropshires
Lorenzo Marquez
Machadodoro
Lydenburg
Nicaragua Seizure Ends Canal Arbitration Effort
The Nicaragua government seized the Maritime Canal company property after arbitration failed. The dispute arose over a 10 year limit to complete canal construction and a proposed extension, with U.S. mediation by Minister Merry but all-arbitrator rule blocked.
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Managus
Nicaragua
Maritime Canal Company
Greytown
Washington
Nicaragua Canal Company
Cragin-Eyr
Nicaragaa Canal Company
Canal Company
United States
Thieves Fail to Finish Moon After Smothering Fire
Aug. 2 Toledo reports John Moon, near Elmore, robbed of $400 from mortgage funds, bound, scratched, and set ablaze with a feather tick and paper. The damp paper failed to burn. Moon freed himself, identified masked assailants, and warned neighbors. Other items cover Playwright Hoyt’s release, a deer feeding with cattle, a Missouri octogenarian acquittal, and a Bridgeport barn fire with seven horses killed.
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Blixd
Reb
John Atoon
Toledo
Ohio
John Moon
Elmore
Moore’s Cornere
Moon
Moore
Feud Flares in Texas Over Reese Townsend Clash
August report from Rosenberg Texas details the Reese Townsend feud escalating with a shooting that wounded James Coleman and Walter Reese, both Reese faction members. Colorado County braces for more bloodshed as rangers may guard Columbus while indictments linger and rival factions, among Colorado County's leading Democrats, face trials.
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Austin
Tax
Reese-Townsend
Rosenberg
Tex
James Coleman
Walter Reese
Reese
Colorado County
Columbus
Toomorrow
Bastrop
Rang. Org
Sexatan
Rathbone in Charge as Prosecution Seeks More Charges
In Havana on August 2 the Rathbone case judge ordered the prosecution to disclose further charges. About $20,000 is involved including over $7,000 drawn from post office funds in July to cover salaries. Rathbone signed warrants to restore funds but did not credit the post office as Neely cashed the drafts. The court assigns Rathbone as general disbursing officer to account for all disbursements. 30 days are set to gather evidence, then a summary and transfer to Andersona.
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Neely
Havana
Rathbone
Post Office
Post Office Fund
Lawsho
Andeiancia
King Victor Emmanuel II and Helena arrive Rome
Rome reports King Victor Emmanuel II and Queen Helena arriving at 6:30 am. They proceed to Monza after brief minister meetings. Ex-Queen Margherita may join the family in Rome on Aug 5. Burial arrangements for the king to Pantheon are set. A sorrowful crowd greets them. the queen dowager sobs as the king kneels at his father’s death room. In Washington the Surgeon General notes Ninth Infantry sickness likely from service and climate, not an epidemic.
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Tien-Tsin
Chefoo
Shangahi
Ganelee
Pekin
Daggett
Fourteenth United States Infantry
Waller
Ninth Infantry
London
Times
G. i. Morrison
Morrison
Binghamton
Harpersfield
Henry Titus
Catherine Clegg
Titus
Sahe
Stamford
Monza
Washington
Sternberg
Wall Street Report by Howard Crosby & Co Suffers NArrow
Furnished by John B. Doherty of Howard Crosby and Company with offices at 24 Congress Street Boston and 62 Wall Street New York, Culver Block in Nantucket.
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John B. Doherty
Howard, Crosby & Co
Congress Sc
Boston
Wall St
New York
Culver Block
Naugatuck
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Eee
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Conn
R. C. Jones
Valerina’y Surgeon
Waterbury, Conn
Lloyd’s
Williams
Atock
Linskey’s Pharmacy Union City
Peter Paul’s, Water St
American Journal of Health
Waterbury
Peter Paul
Odd Fellows’ Block
Dresa Ginghams
Luts Seer
Ver
Gee Lee
Lord Roberts Saya
Tly Hsed
Interpal Ravonne
Kaiser
Berlin
William
Margherita
Umberto
Italy
Mim
Paterson
N. J
Charles H. Petry
Ashley & Bailey
Petry
Poetry
Mauser
Winchester
Springfield
Meriden
Henry F. Brgen
Crown Street
Oscar L. Bradley
Hoyt
Globe
Charlestown
N. H
Charles H. Hoyt
Hartford
George H. Dickinson
Middletown
Frank S. Crowell
Hubbard District
White Rock
New London
Alex Jeater
Gilbert Gates
J. W. Gates
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Traction Company
Brainard Avenue
Pauline Street
Townend
Hing Victor Emmanuel
AL Monsa
Wall Street Reports
Catton
Ohare al
Sugar St. Co
Wah
Atel Prangue
Ik Wi
Tobacco
Col Furl and Jr Why Ve Cin
CI Uhl & Delaware and
Jindson
Federal Steel
Lou
Nashville
Manhattan
Hot
Wats
Metropolitan
Ke & Texan
National L. National Ste
New York Centre
OL & West
Northern Pacific
Fit
Biorthern Pacific
Prah Pa
Norfolk & Western
Pacttic Mall
Peoples Tian & Coke
Reading
Southern HR
Pace
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Union Pacific
U. Leather
Western Union
Moriarty’ S
Waterbury Furniture Company
Bell
Rtv’s
Roria Waterbury Furniture Co
Gately & Brennan
Credit Clothiers
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Greenburg
P. K
Hopson
SHO
E. P. Noonan
FISH
Taylor’s Market Water Street
Beacon Falls Hotel
Gustav Shippers
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