Marines From Manila to China Amid Crisis
Washington cable alerts that a battalion of marines from Manila is urgently requested as Pekin faces potential foreign intervention. Admiral Kempff reports possible need for relief coordination if Pekin communication fails and nations act together. Secretary Long orders Remey to dispatch one hundred marines aboard the Solace and proceed homeward.
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Washington
Navy Department
Admiral Kempff
Tung Ku
Navy
Manila
Kempff
Long
Remey
Solace
China’s Emperor Asserts Himself in Proclamation
Shanghai report details Weng Tung Ho’s message claiming broad Chinese support for ending the empress's rule. The proposal asks foreign powers to remove the captive emperor, depose Empress Hsi Tsi, and install a new capital under a foreign protectorate with reforms to government, finance, and religion.
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London
Shanghai
Daily Express
China
Hsi Tsi
Kwang Hsu
Nanking
Wuchang
Pekin
Midair fight between two workmen ends in fatal plunge
Two men fought on the fourteenth floor of the North American building at Broad and Sansom. James McKnight fell to his death after a struggle with Hugo Fingerhut who was arrested nearby. McKnight was hospitalized in critical condition.
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Broad
Sansom
James McKnight
Fifteenth
Callowhill
Hugo Fingerhut
Latona
McKnight
Jefferson Hospital
Fingerhut
Robinson
Confessed Before Lynching in Thomasville Case
In Thomasville Georgia on June 11 Lenny Jefferson a 22 year old Black man confessed an intent to assault two young daughters of farmer Stringer and kill them if silenced. He was killed by unknown assailants and a coroner's jury ruled death by unknown hands.
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Thomasville
Lenny Jefferson
Prominent Man Begs Ill With Heart Disease
Special telegram reports Wilmington Park Commissioner George W. Bush of George W. Bush & Sons Company seriously ill at his home 705 West Street with heart disease. London dispatch notes Mrs Gladstone suffered a relapse and is unconscious.
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Timms
Wilmington
George W. Bush
George W. Bush & Sons Company
Quiehy Ill
West Street
Heart Sease
Mrs. Gladstone
London
National Sub Committee wraps convention plans in Philadelphia
The National Sub Committee completed details as crowds arrive from across the country. 1,200 aides under Sergeant-at-Arms Wiswell prepared the auditorium while national figures including Joseph Manley and Henry C. Payne met at the Hotel Walton to chart strategy for the convention.
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Wiswell
Adelphia
National Committee
Walton
Ntil
Whitters
Ssenesee
Long
Joseph Manley
Edward Williama
Boston
Department of Justice
Washington
Fairbanks
Indiana
Auditoriuum
Maine
Henry C. Payne
Wisconsin
Nathan B. Scott
West Virginia
John Kean
New Jersey
Charles Dick
Ohio
National Republican Committee
Movements of Steamers Headed for New York Ports
Shipping lines report various passengers and cargo sailings including Assyria Hamburg from Batcore and Peonland Ph from Liverpool, City of Rome and Oufic from New York, Cestriga from Boston, Werrs to Gibraltar for New York, and Servia to Queenstown for New York. Continued on Fifth Page.
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Assyria
Hamburg
Batcore
Peonland
Liverpool
City of Rome
New York
Oufic
Cestriga
Boston
Werrs
Gibraltar
Servia
Queenstown
Weather Outlook for Mid-Atlantic Tuesday to Wednesday
Forecast covers Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware and Maryland. Tuesday will be fair and warm with light winds turning locally breezy. Wednesday brings fair skies and warmer temperatures with light to fresh northerly winds. Temperature trend shows a rise from today’s highs to next day.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Boers Capture Over Five Hundred British Troops
London reports a defeat at Roodeval on June 7 where the South African Boers cut Lord Roberts line of communications. The Derbyshire Regiment suffered mass casualties with 15 officers and 59 enlisted dead or wounded, while others were captured or severely injured.
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London
Frederick Forestier-Walker
South Africa
Roodeval
Lord Roberts
Derbyshire Regiment
Baird Douglas
Hawsey
Wilkinson
Liieutenant Blanchard
Canadian Infantry
Stonham
Imperial Yeom
Manry Hospital
Rhenoster River
Sherwood Foresters
Tieutenant
Baird-Douglas
Hawley
Bailey
Hall
Lawder
Blanchard
Shropshire Light Infantry
Cape Pioneer Railway Regiment
Ammunition Park, Royal Marines and
Imperial Telegraphs
Post Office Corps
Stoinham
Quay Campaign Tactics Hint at Dummy Candidacy
Insurance Commissioner Durham tells allies Quay may not run seriously for the United States Senatorship, signaling to insiders a plan to keep Quay on the ballot as a dummy candidate until a coalition forms a new campaign, with Stone and Bikin among those pressing the shift.
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Durham
Quay
United States
Stone
Bikin
Quay-Durham-Stone
Forth Quay
Fire erupts at Tribune building on Perk Row in New York
A nighttime fire on June 11 at the Tribune building in New York spread quickly from the fifth floor, engulfing the Frankfort street side and forcing Tribune compositors to flee to safer doorways as engines struggled to access the narrow streets. The blaze sent smoke and flames across the east side and toward adjacent structures, prompting frantic scenes as emergency crews aimed to contain the fire.
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Sun Establishment
Tribune
Pulitzer
Journal
City Hall
Park Row
Timms
New York
Frankfort Street
Tribune Building
Perk Row
Rush on new stylish vests at bargain prices
Customer chatter about rare rush for new vests priced at 1.50 while usual cost ranges 2 to 3.50. The item’s popularity suggests high demand and limited stock as shoppers seek fashion value.
Poem Adage Promotes Perry & Co Men’s Suits
Wm H Wanamaker quotes on artist touch contrasts artists and tailors. Perry & Co at 1530 Chestnut Street advertise Berge and Pa ney and Mines suits priced from eighty to thirty dollars, claiming best results and cheapness.
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Berge
Paney and Mines Suits
Perry & CO
Chestnut Street
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Hai Tsi
Weng Tung Ho
Megro
Jonathan Dolliver
Jaws
Ker
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David B. Henderson
McKinley
Nathan B.scott
Cassius
Oberts
General Walker
General Forestier-Walker
Cape Town
Charles Knox
Kroonstad
Serge Coats
Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker
N. Y. Tribune
Blaze
Wm. H. Wanamaker
Raphael
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