Two cruisers to China and other 1900s notes
A roundup of brief items cites France sending two cruisers to China, deaths of Sir Thomas Farrel and Ignatius Comiskey, yellow fever tolls, train wrecks in Cincinnati and Kentucky, a fire at Scranton's Coal Exchange, and various political and railway updates across the United States.
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France
China
Thomas Farrel
Dublin
General Wood
Oregon
Port Arthur
Webster
Mass
Social Democrats
Connecticut
Nnw Haven
Christian Endeavorers
New York
General Jamont
Charles Higgins
Santa Fe
Coal Exchange
Scranton
Arions
Brooklyn
Kumassi
Burlington
Guernsey
Cincinnati
Ignatius Comiskey
Charley Comiskey
Chicago
Medicine Row
Wyo
Kid Broad
Dave Sullivan
Ireland
Seaside Athletic Club
Sullivan
Pennsylvania Railroad
Allegheny Valley
New York & Pennsylvania
Legations Safe in Pekin as Allied Forces Build Up
London reports the Shanghai conference says Pekin legations remain secure through July 4, with conditions tense in Tien Tsin and Che Foo. Estimates place allied troops ashore near 50 000 as Russians, Japanese, and British India units reinforce, while Chinese forces threaten foreign settlements and evacuations proceed.
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London
Shanghai
Pekin
Warren
Foreign Office
Express
Tao Tai Sheng
Chinen
Taku
Tien Tsin
New Chwang
Che Foo
Nashville
Kwan Shikai
Nankin
Prince Tuan
Grand Canal
Hermione
Pique I
Li Kun Yi
Federal Marshal Killed in Kentucky Pursuit
Deputy U S Marshal Howard Wilson was killed near Maribo in Menifee County while pursuing suspect Tip Day. Stamper wounded Day and Bush, while Day killed Wilson and Bush was wounded. Day and two women encountered the officers during the attempted arrest on Virginia charges related to internal revenue violations.
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Mount Sterling
Maribo
Menefee
United States
Howard Wilson
Tip Day
Joseph Bush
Wilson
William Stamper
Day
Virginia
Marbo
Menefee County
James Bush
Bush
Stamper
Train crash kills three near Columbia Illinois
ST. LOUIS July 9. George Schoening and William Grab were killed and Fred Frige was probably fatally injured when a buggy they rode was demolished by a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern train at a railway crossing near Columbia Illinois this afternoon.
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Rao
ST. Louis
George Schoening
William Grab
Fred Frige
Columbia, Ill
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Amalgamated Strikers Call Mass Meeting In St Louis
The local branch executive committee of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America plans a mass meeting to review relations with St Louis Transit Company. They allege a violation of the poststrike agreement signed by Transit President Whittaker and grievance chairman Edwards.
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ST. Louis
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway’ Employes of America
St. Louis Transit Company
Whittaker
Transit Company
Edwards
Fireman dies from injuries after Evans Building wreck
Pittsburg July 8 Stuart Burns of engine company No 4 died early this morning making five dead. Captain Dan Campbell also of No 4 is in critical condition with internal injuries. Other injured men are recovering.
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Pittsburg
Stuart Burns
Engine Company No. 4
Evans
Dan Campbell
Tina
Death Toll on Saale Reaches Twenty Nine
New York July 9 Three more bodies recovered from the Saale bringing total to 29 after the shipwreck fire with 146 bodies found overall. Victims found in the after second cabin were unidentifiable and possibly stewards. A burned man found at Rockaway Beach is believed to be a Hoboken disaster victim. No new bodies from Bremen or Main. dynamite at piers failed to surface additional remains.
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New York
Saale
Henry Schaeffer
North Geramn Lloyd
Thingvalla
Hamburg
British Victories Reported as Boers Fail Attacks in South Africa
British forces under General Buller repel Boer assaults near Standerton and Heid elburg while Ficksburg garrison repels a midnight attack. Brigadier Brabant seizes Deernberg as 3,000 Boers clash east of Brouk spruit. Strathcona Horse suffers losses but holds a kopje frontier. In Gazaland, Boers move toward Portuguese territory amid welcome by authorities.
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London
South Africa
Buller
Standerton
Heidelburg
Lord Roberts
Ficksburg
General Brabant
Deernberg
Senakay
Winburg
Mahon
Hutton
Broukerspruit
Limmer
Rustenburg
Strathcona Horse
Anderson
Times
Lourenzo Marquez
Gazaland
Still Fighting in Luzon Amid Ambushes and Casualties
Manila reports a deadly week in Luzon with eleven Americans killed and sixteen wounded while insurgents killed hundreds of Filipinos. Eight Americans held prisoner were surrendered and 100 rifles turned over to U.S. officials.
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Manila
Luzon
United States
Indang
Naic
Rio Grande
Antigua
Panay
Peculiar railroad accident kills two in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg on July 9 two churchgoers were killed as a Pan Handle freight car broke at a switch, pedestrians on South Twenty-seventh street crushed by decoupled cabooses. Thomas Edwards suffered a crushed leg to be amputated. Mrs Edwards died from severe injuries. another man, Mr Morris, died at the scene. Edwarda, a prominent contractor, was severely injured with a leg crushed.
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Indiana Supreme Court
Grant County
John Stahley
Danvers
Ill
Booker T. Washington
National League
David Bell
Canada
New York City
Sycamore
C. D. Bennett
Geneva Mills
Charles Krickaka
Philadelphia
Marietta
Col
L. N. Trammell
Georgia Railroad Commission
South
Burlington
Billings
Rutherford Morris
Clark
Europe
KE. M. Culver
New Orleans
Nicarauguan Canal
Meiklejohn
United States Senate
Hurston
Nebraska
Moses Ledford
Lone Grove
Center
Rochester and
Pillsbury Coal Corporation
Altoona
Cambria
Jefferson Fields
Charles Beckman
Joshua Nye
Franklin County
Ind
Illinois Society of Sons of the American Revolution
Chicago
Hamilton Smith
New York
Durham
N. H
New Albany
James Truesdale
Henry Wolfe
Alabama
Oklahoma
Barker
Philip
Independence
Kan
Ralph C. Harper
Harper
Daily Reporter
Plover Paper Company
Stevens’ Point
Wis
Lady Randolph Churchill
Cornwallis West
South Africa
Washington
Paris
House of Lords
Viscount Templeton
Lewis
Mr. Rumsey
Lake Minnetonka
Pittsburg
Thomas Edwards
Church
South Twenty-seventh Street
South Side
Virginia & Charleston
Edwards
Morris
Edwarda
Wheeling Lines Take Control of Coshocton Southern
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad assumes control of the Coshocton & Southern after receiver status is lifted. The combined line will operate freight and passenger service starting July 1% with the general superintendent’s office abolished. Division superintendents assume operating duties.
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Cleveland
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Coshocton & Southern Railroad
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Bowser to Run Whirlpool Rapids Despite Police Block
Chicago man Bowser aimed to launch his life boat at Niagara Falls Whirlpool Rapids. Canadian police stopped the attempt under the Sunday law. The craft will be towed to the American side tomorrow to begin the perilous voyage.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Bowser
Chicago
Japan given free hand to use force in China
London reports that Russia will allow Japan full liberty to act in China and deploy 20 000 more troops. Dispatches describe massacres of native Christians in Pekin and Shanghai sources note widely spread carnage as Chinese officials in Shanghai withhold light on the capital. Prince Tuan and Kang Yi back suppression of foreigners with the Dowager Empress and eunuchs aiding the movement.
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London
Japan
China
St. Petersburg
Pekin
Tokio
Baron Hayashi
Shanghai
Legation
Prince Tuan
Daily Mail
Grand Council of Ministers
Lung Yu
Yang Lu
Kang Yih
Farmer Near Humboldt Stops Runaway Harvesting Team
A Humboldt farmer narrowly survived a perilous incident when he tried to halt a runaway team hitched to a harvesting machine. The man wrestled with the reins and managed to bring the implement to a halt, avoiding serious injury.
Farmer’s narrow escape from running binder mishap
Humboldt Nebraska July farmer Fred Swihart living miles northeast of town narrowly escaped death while helping with a harvest team of mules attached to a binder. His right arm was ripped by the sickle, bone broken in two places above the elbow, and he was dragged about thirty feet before the team stopped. Internal injuries feared but the sickle bar broke before worse could happen.
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Humboldt
Neb
Fred Swihart
Hart Attempted Murder at West Point Livery Stables
In West Point Nebraska yesterday William Hart a young man who had been working around the livery stables shot five times at Christina Johnson a young woman he had courted but failed to wound her He was intoxicated and is believed to have acted from jealousy He was immediately arrested.
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West Point
Neb
William Hart
Christina Johnson
Burglaries Hit Hartington Stores and Home
In Hartington Nebraska last night burglars broke into Beste's drug store through a rear window. They opened the cash register and slot machine, taking about 12 dollars. They missed 50 dollars in a church snow case. Nearby, burglars entered Postmaster Watson's home and took 13 dollars from the hired girl.
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Hartington
Neb
Beste
Watson
Ex change Bank Becomes Incorporated In Ogallala
Ogallala Neb July The Exchange bank formerly run as a private bank by J W Welpton for three years is incorporated under Nebraska law. Paid up capital rises to 10000 dollars with Welpton retaining 97 percent of stock and management unchanged while H Whelpton holds the remaining share.
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Ogalalla
Neb
Exchange Bank
J. W. Welpton
Nebraska
H. Whelpton
First Prisoner in Three Years in Osceola Jail
Frank Frude of Stromsburg faced Judge Coleman on a liquor selling charge and was bound over to the district court. He is held in the Osceola city jail under Sheriff Nuquist, the first prisoner in three years since the sheriff took office.
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Osceola
Neb
Frank Frude
Stromsburg
Coleman
District Court
Nuquist
Loss in Gold Coast Column Faces Hunger and Death
A dispatch from the Gold Coast reports Governor Hodgson pushing through rebels due to relief delays and dwindling food. Six soldiers killed and several wounded as Kumassi suffers extreme starvation with about thirty deaths daily. the governor's relief column of 400 including Basel mission members aims to reach the coast within ten days.
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London
Colonial Office
Gold Coast
Frederick Mitchell Hodgson
Atekewautek
Hodgson
Kumassi
Basel Mission
Sheriff’s sale seals Cuming County fair grounds
West Point Nebraska fair grounds of the Cuming County Agricultural Society were sold at sheriff’s foreclosure sale this week. The 28 acre property with exhibition buildings brought $1,775 to a neighboring farmer.
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West Point
Neb
Cuming County Agricultural Society
Elm Creek lad injures side after picket fall
Ben Karas, an Elm Creek boy, fell from a picket fence in Tecumseh on Wednesday. He suffered a deep wound in his side that required about six stitches. The injury did not involve any vital organs.
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Tecumseh, Neb
Ben Karas
Elm Creek
Reed Seeks Mead Saloon License in Nebraska
At Mead Nebraska a remonstrance was filed against H H Reed's second saloon license application after a district court decision blocked the first. The board scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to consider the remonstrance.
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Mead, Neb
H. H. Reed
District Court
More Cuban Teachers Arrive for Harvard Summer Study
The US transport Sedgwick arrived in Boston with over 40 Cuban women teachers enrolling for a Harvard University summer school program. Two additional transports are expected to arrive, completing part of the fleet bringing instructors to the United States for study this season.
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Boston
Mass
United States
Sedgwick
Cuba
Harvard University
Balloonist Winteringer Walks After Lyons Fall
Hartington Nebraska July 7 Prof Winteringer the balloonist who fell one hundred feet from his balloon at Lyons on the Fourth was brought here today and is able to walk.
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Hartington
Neb
Prof. Winteringer
Lyons
School census shows 766 children in city
The city reports a total of 766 school age children from a recent census. Of these 381 are males and 385 females, reflecting a balanced gender distribution in the pupil population.
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West Point
Neb
Verdict on Sipido trial draws editorials in London papers
Morning papers react to the Sipido trial verdict with strong language. The Daily Telegraph calls the result monstrous, the Daily Chronicle says it is an outrage on humanity, and the Daily Mail labels it a reproach on Belgium.
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London
Sipido
Prince of Wales
Daily Telegraph
Daily Chronicle
The
Daily Mail
Belgium
Northwestern Scandinavian Sangers hold annual festival in St Paul
The Northwestern Scandinavian Sangers association opened its annual festival in St Paul with a grand concert. Delegates arrived from North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota for the event.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Northwestern Scandinavian Sangers’ Association
North
South Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Hamilton Sentenced Five Years in Penitentiary
WAHOO Neb July 4 Judge Good yesterday sentenced Hamilton the man found guilty of complicity in rob bing Joseph Grafe's store to five years in the penitentiary. Court adjourned until July 12 when Harris the other arrest will be tried.
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Hamilton
Wahoo
Neb
Three Die In Lake Charles Skiff Disaster
Three people drowned when a skiff sank in a July rainstorm at Lake Charles Louisiana. Victims identified as Mrs. C. J. Phelps, her mother Mrs. Amanda Johnson, and her brother Albert Johnson age 11.
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Lake Charles
C. J. Phelps
Amanda Johnson
Albert Johnson
Death in Fearful Flight From Crime
Mrs Martha Heising a Chicago midwife of 4759 Halstead Street drank carbolic acid in front of husband and children to avoid grand jury punishment for a crime. She died immediately after returning home to say goodbye, despite officers allowing a final farewell.
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Chicago
Ill
Martha Heising
Halstead Street
Klondikers Return Home to Humboldt
Humboldt Nebraska July 7 Henry Bracelen and Rollin Wright return from the Klondike after a year away and plan to stay with relatives. They report Humboldt parties operating an extensive claim in that country are doing well and harvesting. William O Keefe leaves to resume gold field operations.
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Humboldt
Neb
Henry Bracelen
Rollin Wright
Klondike
William O’keefe
Shaffroth Sentenced at North Platte
Chief H T Rice recovered a wanted man in South Omaha named Charles Shaffroth who was accused of stealing a vest and gold watch. Shaffroth was arrested by Chief Mitchell there while attempting to sell the watch and was brought to North Platte where he was placed in custody.
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Shaffroth
North Platte
Neb
H. T. Rice
South Omaha
Charles Shaffroth
Mitchell
Young Ketcham killed at Union Pacific yard frog
George Ketcham, about twenty, was fatally injured at the Union Pacific yards in Grand Island Nebraska when a coupling occurred near a frog in the tracks. He died minutes after the accident while being taken to the yard master's office. His family includes a widowed mother and four brothers. His father also died in a railroad accident.
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Grand Island
Neb
Union Pacific
George Ketcham
Ketcham
Shelton
Omaha
Young Ketcham
Floater Found in River Near Burlington Bridge
Plattsmouth Nebraska July 4 Jack Elliott saw a floater travel down the river and towed it ashore below the Burlington bridge. The man, about 40, of average height, wore checkered overalls, a striped shirt, and No 7 shoes with a sandy mustache and black hair. In pockets were a blue handkerchief a silver dollar a nickel a safety pin two padlocks a heelplate and a collar button. He appeared to be a laboring man and the body showed little decay.
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Plattsmouth
Neb
Jack Elliott
Burlington
Fifteen-year-old Charley Frish Sent to Reform School
In Plattsmouth Nebraska on July 4 Charley Frish a boy of fifteen faced County Judge J E Douglas for incorrigibility. His mother sought reform school placement after failed home efforts and his habit of placing obstructions on railroad tracks led the court to sentence him to the state reformatory for proper supervision and to keep him out of mischief.
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Plattsmouth
Neb
Charley Frish
J. E. Douglas
Reform School
State Reformatory
Old Soldier Injured In Fireworks Blast At July Fourth
In David City Nebraska Conrad Lauaskie an elderly veteran was teaching children about fireworks when a large cannon cracker exploded in his hands. His right hand was nearly torn away and his right leg badly bruised leaving him in critical condition with fears of blood poisoning among his fellow celebrants.
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David City
Neb
Conrad Lauaskie
Carpenter falls from scaffold at church construction site
Sterling Nebraska July 3 Eugene Schneider a carpenter with the contract to build the German Lutheran church three miles west of town fell from scaffolding this morning striking his head on a rock. His skull was crushed and his body badly bruised though it is feared not fatal.
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Sterling
Neb
Eugene Schneider
Bridge Collapse Slows Nebraska City Workmen
In Nebraska City two men, a team and an ice wagon fell twenty feet into Table Creek when a bridge collapsed yesterday. The workers suffered severe bruises and probable internal injuries, with rescuers scrambling to provide aid.
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Nebraska City
Neb
Table Creek
Geneva to Welcome Salutes from Captured Philippine Cannon
Today at 4 0p m salutes will be fired from the old Philippine cannon captured by Company GQ and brought home. Officials expect the largest crowds ever seen in Geneva for the event.
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Geneva
Neb
Company GQ
Scarlet Fever Case Reported in David City Home
A well developed scarlet fever case at the residence of J. F. Albin in David City Nebraska was reported yesterday evening by the attending physician.
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David City
Neb
J. F. Albin
Beatrice Reports School Census Increase in City
Beatrice Nebraska reports a completed school census showing 2972 school age residents in the city, an increase of 105 over last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Beatrice
Neb
Beatrice
Fire destroys chicken house and barn at Westerhoff farm
In Seward Nebraska yesterday morning Jacob Westerhoff started a fire to smoke lice from his chicken house. The blaze spread to the barn, burning both structures to ashes before the fire department arrived. A Westerhoff daughter suffered severe burns while moving a horse to safety.
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Kids Farm
Seward
Neb
Jacob Westerhoff
Westerhof
Bank Burglar Alarm Alerts Guards At Corner
A fragment describes two men near a bank corner where an alarm sounds inside the building. One man stood guard while another remained awake, with several other citizens presence noted as the scene unfolds.
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Ces
Bryan and Bryan Democrats Face Feat at Convention
A muddled report from Kansas describes a Democratic gathering where Adolph Steventoy mentions Bryan’s name amid a tense convention. The event includes delays and speeches as delegates debate the candidacy and platform amid excitement for the potential nomination.
Kansas City Democrats Hold Nominating Ballot After Turbulent Day
In a chaotic afternoon a Kansas City Democratic nominating ballot concluded with confusion over rules and delegates. Reports indicate tensions among candidates and officials as the stage shifted from early results to a contested process.
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