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_ The Western Negro Press association will meet at Kansas City, Kan., Mon day, Aug. 23, for a two days’ session. _ Eight thousand persons at San Fran cisco saw Geo. Dixon and Cal Hawkins fight twenty rounds to a draw last night. The body of Joe McBride, 35 years old and unmarried, was found mangled on the C. and N. W. track near Ogden, Ia. In view of the present rush of travel to the Klondyke gold fields, Secretary Gage has established a sub-port of en try at Dyea, Alaska. W. F. Crawford, an insurance agent from Des Moines, suicided at the But ter House, Boone, Ia., with chloroform. He was sick and despondent. _EK.. V. Miner, of Bloomington, Ms., is past his 75th birthday, and has just been surprised by the growth of a new set of front teeth in his lower jaw. At its meeting yesterday the cabinet decided that the special message on the currency should be sent in after the tariff report has passed the senate. ‘A cloudburst and severe electrical storm, struck Keokuk and ‘vinicity last night. A man named Boulware was ruck. by lightning at Gregory, Mo., willed
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Benton Harbor Evening News
Benton Harbor, Michigan, US
Sat, Jul 24, 1897
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