General Rusdie Refuses Attack as Boer Forces Press
From Lesdie in June 38 a sharp artillery clash occurs with Boers near Pra teria. Rusdie declines to attack. Boers northeast of Pretoria busy. Telegraph lines Standerton to New Castle cut Sunday. Commandant Dewet and Botha reportedly vow not to surrender while the other remains in the field. Fourteen thousand lives surrendered to the British overall. Kruger believed at Machadodorp. Hospitals exposé sparks English sensation with calls of malfeasance in sickroom supplies. Four die from Chicago heat in 1888 city heat wave as mercury hits 100.
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Prateria
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W. A. Burdett-Covits
Westminster
Cape Town
Seymour Saved as Allies Readiness for 60,000 Troops
The June 25 dispatches describe Admiral Seymour’s perilous stand near Tien Tsin. An allied force of about 29,000, with Japan preparing 30,000 more, aims to reach 60,000 troops within a month. Chinese positions at Lutal Shang Hai Wan and Pekin hold vast forces as foreign legations face possible evacuation.
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Tien Tsin
Taku
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Canton
West River
Wo Chow
Shanghai
Roy
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Chang Chih Tung
Japan
W. FR. Carles
Chefoo
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Sir Robert Hart
Foreign Envoys Safe Amid China Crisis
Washington reports a calm relieved by the Chinese minister's official account of ministers and guards departing Pekin. Officials note Wu's dispatch omits details of their exit, but confirm safety and seek to maintain peace while monitoring the capital's stability.
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Perkin
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Pakia
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Wwe
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Teinsin
Chefoo
Tien Tsin
Leat
Semmes Stalleh Unveiled In New Orleans Ceremony
A bronze life size statue of Confederate Admiral Raphael Semmes was unveiled in Don ran place at Royal Street intersection. Electra Semmes Colston, daughter of Semmes, unveiled the monument erected by the Ann T. Hunter Auxiliary of the Semmes Camp of Confederate Veterans. William J. Samford delivered the principal address praising the Admiral and the women who funded the memorial.
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Ann
Jane
Raphael Semmes
Don Ran Place
Royal Street
Ann T. Hunter
Semmes
Vaterana
Electra Semmes Colston
William J. Samford
Georgia Bankers Tour New York With Millionaire William Witham
One hundred Georgians led by the bank's chief, William S. Witham, visit New York for a five week junket. The group includes men and women, all traveling with their spouses and partners as part of the Georgia Bankers excursion.
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Georgia
New York
Withai
Janket Akenesre
William 5. Witham
William Witham Hosts 107 Guests On South Trip
William Witham, owner of stakes in 33 banks, nine iron mills, four general stores, and director in many firms, led 107 companions on a two week outing. They traveled from Atlanta June 19 to Norfolk Point Comfort Virginia Beach Washington Philadelphia and Asbury Park before returning next Monday. The trip filled seventy five rooms and thirty dining tables at the Chesey House. Separately the Window Glass Makers Association Independents rejected the wage scale proposed by the flatteners, claiming it exceeded last year by 3 to 5 percent.
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Nins Iron Mills
Genersc
South
Ghsey House
Atlanta
Norfolk
Oh Point Comfort
Virginia Beach
Washington
Philadelphia
Asbury Park
Pitcbury
Fight with iron pipes at Hartford City glass works
A fight last evening between David Boykins and his sons Exesi Walker and David and Fred and Alonzo Sticks blowers at the Hartford City flint glass works left Boykins and Fred Sticks with skull fractures and others dangerously hurt. All were arrested except the two with fractured skulls. The clash involved iron pipes.
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Ind
David Boykins
Exesi
Walker
David
Fred
Alonzo
Baseball ties and mixed results spark quiet day
Yesterday's baseball games ended Pittsburg 2 Chicago 2 and St Louis 4 Cincinnati 4. The Louisiana legislature moved to require separate and equal streetcar accommodations for blacks and whites. Amherst College conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws on Charles H. Allen, governor of Porto Rico. William H. Biase, a ticket agent, was convicted of forging a railroad ticket and sentenced in New York to two years six months in prison.
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St. Louis
Cincinnati St Louis
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Amherst
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Charles. H. Allen
Porto Rico
William H. Biase
New York
Prohibition Party Chooses Platform At National Convention
The Prohibition Party met in Chicago naming the platform focused on suppressing liquor traffic. Delegates from 37 states debated a single issue platform while endorsing a canteen critique of President McKinley and electing Oliver W. Stewart as national chairman with a plan for a nationwide schoolhouse campaign.
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Rey So
Rightns Parson
Oliver Stewart
National Committee
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McKinley
Mqnor
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
Owen
Committee On
Prohibitionist Party
Palmer House
Oliver W. Stewart
Samuel Dickie
Michigan
William T. Wardwell
New York
5. B. Hastings
Wisconsin
Trasurer
High Treason Trial Sways Polish Poland Crown
Bern June 28. The Ivssic supreme court sentences Wishold Leitgeber editor of Gazeta Ostrowska to 12 months imprisonment. Ostrowa printer Melerowicz and tailor Ko jenda are acquitted. State witness Sniepocki is jailed for perjury amid evidence of private revenge.
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Bern
Supreme Court
Ivssic
Sonment Wishold Leitgeber
Gazeta Ostrowska
Ostrowa
Kingdom of
Poland
Melerowicz
Kojenda
Sniepocki
Lightning Claims Hartford Youth at Driving Park
A severe thunder storm in Hartford area killed 13 year old Francis F. Wall who had sought shelter under the grand stand at the Driving Park. The Berlin railroad station of the New York New Haven and Hartford line was struck and burned. Two large steamers costing 1,006,000 are planned for the Great Lakes Navigation Co with launch slated for May 1, 1901.
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Harvey Queen
Here
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New Haven
Francis F. Wall
Hartford
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
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Great Lakes Navigation Company
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