Medals for the Heroes King Edward honors South Africa leaders
King Edward and the queen distributed South African medals at Horse Guards amid military displays. Winston Roberts Milner and other generals received honors while foreign attaches and numerous officers, including Lady Sarah Wilson, were acknowledged in a grand ceremony. A clerical murder and church shooting in Mexico are briefly noted, with further crime details following.
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Africa
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Horse Guards
King Edward
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Lord Milner
Buller
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Gatacre
Cul- Ville
Pole-Carew
South Africa
Stephen Slocum
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Sarah Wilson
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Dr Unger and Brown Convicted in $25,000 Life Insurance Plot
Chicago jurors found Dr August Unger and E Wayland Brown guilty of conspiring to defraud insurers in the death of Marie Defenbach. Frank Smiley pleaded guilty and turned state's evidence. The plot planned Smiley as a fake fiancé to trigger life policies totaling 25000 and an alleged cremation of Marie.
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Maurie Defenbach
Chicago
August M. Unser
E. Wayland Brown
Marie Defenbach
Frank H. Smiley
Unger
Brown
gmilty
John B. Weckler
Weeckler
Fugitive Forger Captured in Chicago Chase
Melville Chester son of a Boston banker is under arrest in Chicago on forgery charges. Police say he fled from Kansas City after a shootout, wounded a officer, and escaped in Oklahoma. He forged checks on more than a dozen merchants in Chicago arriving from Memphis. He admitted his guilt and said he was glad to be arrested. He claimed good family back home and blamed himself for his erratic life.
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Jauicago
Melville Chester
Boston
Chester
Kansas City
Gertrude
Oklahoma
Chicago
Memphis
tham
Baseball results from yesterday in AL and NL
American League scores include Philadelphia 4 Detroit 5 in 10 innings and Chicago 18 Washington 10 in 19 innings. Also Cleveland 13 Baltimore 4 at Baltimore, Boston 7 at Boston win, Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 3. National League games Brooklyn 9 Chicago 1, St Louis 8 Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati 5 Boston 1, New York 3 Pittsburgh 1.
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Detroit
Philadelphia
Washington
Chicago
Ba’ ore
Cleveland
Baltimore
Boston
T. Milwaukee
Pittsburg
Pittsbore
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Entombed in a mine as fires and explosions trap workers
Port Royal Pa June 11. Pittsburg Coal and Coke shaft No 2 catches fire after seven years of steady operation. Over 30 men are believed trapped with several named workers listed including Jock Peoples Tony Stickles Frank Davenport John Daly and supervisor William McCune. Rescue efforts face afterdamp gas and multiple explosions as families gather and authorities consider water flooding but many details remain uncertain.
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Port Royal
Pittsburg Coal and Coke company
Jock Peoples
Tony Stickles
Frank Davenport
John Daly
William McCune
John Daily
Lawrence Setler
John Stakes
Stakes
Setler
West Newton
Daly
Sir Walter Besant Dead Poet of English Novel Fame
London June 11 Sir Walter Besant the noted English novelist died Sunday at his Hempstead residence after a fortnights illness from influenza aged 63 Besant born Portsmouth educated at King’s College Cambridge he abandoned a Mauritius professorship to pursue literature He was to propose a toast at the Atlantic Union dinner last night and his latest work The Lady Barrington has been widely read in America.
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Jne
Sir Walter Desant
Hempstead
Besant
Atlantic Union
Sir Walte
larest
WALTER BELANT
lynn
Portsmouth
King's college
Cambridge
Royal College of
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England
Robert Buchanan
Robert Williams Buchanan
Escaped Mob Vengeance Surrenders to Officers in Maryland
Hunted by armed men for an assault on Miss Linzie Gossard a young white woman Powell a colored man surrendered to officers in Hagerstown Maryland. He was hurried to Chambersburg placed in jail with guards. He fled but returned and gave himself up to avoid lynching. In Boston the Lawson Cup races were abandoned due to Shamrock I II accident and late scheduling in the fall.
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Hagerstown
as asult
Linzie Gossard
Franklin county
Joseph Powell
Chambersburg
Seeter
Powell
Boston
North Shore
Independence
Lawson
Hull, Massachusetts
Newport
Plans for 21 large plow factories in Chicago district
Fragmented notes describe a contemplated union of the 21 biggest plow factories in a Chicago District, with references to Santa Martine and Lauderdale County Alabama. Mentions New York fires, Ohio issues, and capitalist schemes alongside a DC proclamation declaring a holiday observance next Friday lag day.
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Santa Martine
New York
Thurston
Pennsylvania
new wells
Lauderdale county
Ala
District of Columbia
Machinists Strike Aid Discussed as Funds Support Gloom
International Machinists Association funded over 40000 in relief for strikers since May 20 and kept a 150000 strike fund intact. The group seeks AFL levy to back dues, weighs moving headquarters from Washington, and notes California firms cutting hours with higher pay. Milwaukee favored for next meeting site.
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Oat
dune
International Machinists’ association
O'Connell
American Federation of Labor
Great Verltain
committee on laws
Washington
Chicago
Cleveland
California
Milwaukee
Woman charged with murder after contradictory statements
In St. Louis Michigan Mrs. Charlies Yates was arrested on a murder charge after giving varying accounts about the death of Jasper Wright found in a thicket near the Yates home. Her husband acknowledged rumors of intimacy but denied acquaintance with Wright. The case follows coroner proceedings as authorities pursue the truth.
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Kansas City
Lulu Price Kennedy
Lulu Prince
Will Prince
St. Louis
Mich
Charlies Yates
Kirby
Jasper Wright
Wright
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