St Louis Strike Riot Leaves Dozens Wounded in City
In St Louis on June 10 a strike riot left four dead and eleven seriously hurt with four cars derailed by dynamite. Armies of strikers fought deputies on Washington Avenue near Sixth Street while a crowd watched. Gunfire and buckshot shattered storefronts as police struggled to quell the battleground.
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St. Louis
Chelisk
Washington Avenue
Sixth Street
East St. Louis
Lindell Avenue
Webster
Jet Regiment
Missouri National Guard
Pell Mel
Foreign forces seize rail line and brace for Pekin siege
Across China foreign units move on the Tientsin Pekin railway, with 1 400 troops repairing the line and preparing for Pekin under Admiral Seymour. Six thousand Russians stand ready, while Pekin braces as missionaries flee and foreign guards are limited. Meanwhile Gen Pio Del Pilar is captured in Manila as American forces disperse Filipino troops. The piece notes rising calls for intervention and cautions about armed actions abroad and at home.
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Shanghi
United Foreign Force
Tientsin-Pekin
Pekin
Seymour
Taku
Hongkong
Tung Chow
Shanghai
Teung-H-Yamen
American State Department
Lo Fang
Lo Fa
Paoting-Fu
Teintsin
Manila
Pio del Pilar
San Pedro Mecati
Aguinaldo
Schurman
St. Louis
China
Union Business College Advertisement in Lafayette Indiana
Announcement promotes The Furnish Capital and Union Business College in Lafayette Indiana offering book keeping telegraphy typewriting actual business shorthand penmanship and English. Catalog available by call or write. S A Drake president.
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Union Business College
la Fayette
Ind
S. A. Drake
Iron market slump and political notes in Cleveland era
A drop in iron prices and layoffs in Mahoning and Shenango Valleys signals trust-driven capitulation before a renewed market uptick. Cleveland reports £9 10s price on pig iron and a local iron man cites supply demand laws. Ex President Cleveland denies focus on politics amid Bryan endorsements. notes on Lord Roberts swordsman and Suez traffic. Ships through Suez tally 2000 British and 378 German, only twenty five carried American flags. Merry’s mails robbed in Costa Rica post office.
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Mahoning
Shenango
Cleveland
Bessemer
E. C. Benedict
Ilesleo
Bryan
New York
Lord Roberts
Lance
Suez Canal
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Cash Grocery
Redmond Bros
Depot
Bloomington
J. S. Payne’s
Indiana
J. M. Freeman
Ellettsville’s Reliable
Undertaker
Main and
Gross Streets
O. E. Flether
Bank of Ellettsville
Edmond Palmer
Monroe County
Ellettsvilleo
W. J. Jackson
Ellettsville, Indiana
Yie Stel Pilar
Otis
del Pilar
John W. O'Harrow
W. Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington, Ind
Paul Hoff
Stimson's Meat Market
Ellettsville
J.S. Brown
Cal
Henry Swindler's
Stinesville
Delaware and Hudgon Company
Marvin Mine
Leggetts Creek
Dickson
von Storch
Merry
Costa Rica
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