Great Exultation In Official Girgles
British and Russian guns fire on American forces through mist, wounding ten. Dispatch from Chaffee reports arrival near Ho Si Wu, thirty three miles from Pekin, with Yang Tsun and Yang Taun battles shaping the advance. Mississippi tragedy leaves three men dead after a quarrel turns violent near Aberdeen.
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Mie Take
China
War Department
Ho-Si-Wu
Pekin
Yang Tsun
Yang Teun
Lang Fang
Seymour
Yang Taun
Chaffee
Walla
Che Foo
Washington
Hos- P-Wu
Beltish
Yang Tsung
Fourteenth Infantry
Bengal Lancers
Fourteenth United States
Chilean Congress approves funds for US car cargo
The Chilean congress voted 82500000 in Chilean currency to purchase a cargo of cars mostly in the United States. Tenders are invited for the construction of a great iron bridge over the Mason River. A deadly explosion wrecked Amos Hardy’s Saw Mill on Hardin's Creek near Clifton Tennessee killing foreman A J McMillen and injuring six others. Ex-Congressman Clark dead in Keokuk Iowa. he served in the 54th and 55th Congress and was education commissioner at the Paris exposition. Grant Bots, famed Wag ran singer, died in Berlin.
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United States
Mason
Amos Hardy
Hardin's Creek
Clifton
Tenn
A. J. McMillen
Congreteman Clark
Samuel M. Clark
Keokuk
Saturdy
Lowa
Vacancies on state ticket filled and election update
State executive committee named replacements on the state electoral ticket with Talley and Williams in key spots, across districts, and provided a summary of party strength after August 6 election returns. Populists and Republicans hold eight lower-house seats and one senate seat, with majorities in several counties shifting between parties. Also notes recruiting tallies since 1899 and a Sunday shooting near Plevna ends with suspect to surrender, plus Confederate Veterans reunion plans and East Lake camp schedule for Alabama National Guard units.
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Senate
General Assembly
Cherokee
Coosa
Chilton
Fayette
Franklin
Shelby
St. Clair
Winston
Blount
Butler
Clay
Calhoun
Choctaw
Conecuh
Etowah
Geneva
Lawrence
Marshall
Lee
Samford
Dr Harmer Appointed to War Department Post
Dr Joseph R Harmer of Opelika, a leading local physician, has been ordered to Washington by the war department and will be assigned to a significant role in the Philippines or China. He served twenty years as an army surgeon in the west and resigned about ten years ago. His recognized ability led to this appointment.
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Harmer
Joseph R. Harmer
Opelika
Washington
War Department
Philippines
China
Army of the West
Industrial growth items charted by Chattanooga Tradesman
The week’s top new industries include box factories in Florida and Texas. a brass foundry. a cannery in Virginia. a $25,000 chair and table factory in North Georgia. a $150,000 cigar plant in Tampa. coal mines in Birmingham and Fairmount. a coffin factory in Atlanta. copper and gold mines in Dahlonega. a cotton mill in South Carolina. a cotton seed oil mill in Georgia. Wrightsville municipal electric light and water works. a Savannah ferry. two fertilizer plants in Virginia. flourine mills in North Carolina, Texas, Virginia. a $25,000 evaporating fruit plant at Pensacola. harrow and spokes factories in Georgia and Alabama. an ice factory at Columbus. iron works in Southwest Virginia. machine shops in New Orleans. Armour packing plant in Louisville. a rebuilt roofing manufactory in Atlanta. a sugar refinery at Tampa. a tannery in Virginia. a telephone exchange at M Atlantic Tobacco factories in Kentucky and North Carolina in Charlotte.
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Chattanooga
Florida
Texas
Virginia
North Georgian
Tampa
Fla
Birmingham
Fairmount
Atlanta
Dahlonega
South Carolina
Georgia
Municipal Electric Light and Water Works
Wrightsville
Ferry
Savannah
North Carolina
Pensacol
Mississippi
Columbus
Iron
New Orleans
The
Armours
Louisville
Alabama
Newport News
Ma Tobacco
Kentucky
Charlotte
N. C
Alabama Florida line draws attention in Pensacola dispatch
A Pensacola dispatch reports strong interest in annexing the Florida Apalachicola region to Alabama, arguing rivers originate in Alabama and support Alabama forest products. A convention of Apalachicola county representatives may be held Sept 2 to discuss the issue.
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Pensacola
Alabama
Florida
Apalachicola River
Floridaville
Apalachicola
Apalachicals
Report on Nome Distress and Transport Authorization
General Randall reports about 15,000 people in and around Nome with an expected 1,000 more by navigation's end. He requests authorization to remove all destitute persons from the country by any available conveyance if Army transports are unavailable.
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Nome
Acre
Died on a Train in Transit to Mexico
Mrs. Elsie L. Carmacho wife of the Mexican minister of railroads died Sunday aboard a Pennsylvania railroad train leaving Newark bound for Jerry City She had traveled north to escape Mexico's heat and had suffered during recent days.
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Elsie L. Carmacho
Tragedy on a Train: Messenger slain in Columbus robbery
Charles Lane Adams Express messenger was killed on Pennsylvania train No. 8 near Columbus Ohio with eight bullet wounds. Charles R H Ferrell arrested and confessed to the murder and robbery of the Adams Express way safe. He planned to fund his upcoming marriage by theft and recovered about $1000.
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Pennsylvania
Columbus
Ohio
St. Louis
Charles Lane
Adams Express
St Louis
Union Station
Charles R. H. Ferrell
Adams Express Company
Charles Lang
Way Safe
Ferrall
Lillian Coction
Battleship Collision Off Cape Vincent Sinks Destroyer Framee
French fleet maneuvers near Cape Vincent end in disaster as the torpedo boat destroyer Framee sinks after turning opposite orders. Only four officers and fifty‑eight men are saved, with at least fifty presumed lost. The battleship Brennus remains afloat under Vice Admiral Fournier's flag. The Framee’s loss highlights the peril of rapid maneuvers in newly added French naval forces.
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Cape Vincent
France
Brennus
Fournier
Framee
Mission property looted and chapels demolished in Kwang Tong
In Hong Kong United States Consul General R Wildman reports three chapels demolished in Swatow province Kwang Tong with extensive mission property looting An attempted assassination of the Swatow preacher is noted and officials are said to take no action The unrest is linked by some to the Vegetarian Society an offshoot of triads or possibly connected to the Boxers Also in Kentucky Constable John Wilson fatally shoots Alex White after White and his father Dick White attack at a Hopkinsville picnic The elder White and five sons were involved in a quarrel as police tried to break up the gathering The shooting leaves two men dead and the officer wounded.
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Aberdeen
Misa
Monroe Prairie
Lanier
George
Jot
William
Walter Bittle
Bittle
Laniers
Homer
Will Lanier
Kwang Tong
Hong Kong
United States
R. Wildman
American Baptist Mission
Swatow
Vegetarian Society
John Wilson
Alex White
Dick White
Hopkinsville
North Christian
Elder White
Constable Wilson
Alex
Aod
Plague Diminishing Report From Manila
Marine Hospital Service dispatches indicate plague cases in Manila are diminishing no new fever cases reported in Florida and no official word on Singapore’s quarantine actions.
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Manila
Florida
Marine Hospital Service
Washington
Singapore
Appointment of Field Marshal Von Waldersee as Allied China commander
Great Britain the United States and Japan approve the appointment unconditionally on each other and conditionally on other powers agreeing. The move names Couat von Waldersee as commander in chief of allied forces in China with allied backing from the three powers and conditional on consent from remaining powers.
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Great Britain
United States
Japan
Field
Couat von Waldersee
China
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Ho Si Wu
Grant Bots
Berlin
State Executive Committee
John V. Smith
State Campaign Committee
John B. Talley
Jackson
John McKinley
Greene
William Kirkland
Dale
John C. Williams
Talladega
W. A. Carter
Clarke
W. Frank Forter
John D. Burnett
Sith County
Robert =. Steiner
Montgomery
M. Sollie
E. L. Edmondson
Barbour
Tipton Mullins
Chi
A. H. Carmichael
Colbert
Robert T. Robinett
S. D. Logan
Bibb
United States Recruiting Office
United States Army
Will Hall
Oliver Walker
Plevna
Hall
Walker
Blount County
Bangor Park
East Lake
Alabama National Guard
Beautiful East Lake
Southern Progress
AMA
Houston
Colorado
Prof. Venable
Charles Venable
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
South
R. E. Lee
Randall
Department of Alaska
Express
Ensley
Thomas
East Thomas
Wylam
Pratt Land and Improvement Go
Jos. Martin
Vann Bros
First Avenue
Pratt City, Ala
Sti. Ave. P
Ensley, Ala
Star
Avondale
Iola
Daniel
T.C
T. J. Lacroix
Lemediog
Etic “James
FE Ballard, Bt. Louis
R. F. Lovelady
Pratt City
W. B. Shedd
Mex
Post Office
Theo
Cody
C. W. Cody
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