China declares war as forts fire on world fleet at Taku
London June 19 China declared war on the world when the forts opened fire on the international fleet at Taku. Casualties included one British, three German, one Russian, one French killed and multiple wounded among British, German, Russian, and French forces. Warships and troops from Britain Germany France and Russia mobilize toward China amid reports of legation danger and heavy fort fire.
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Hostilities Renewed As Botha Declines Surrender
London reports a Boer dispatch from Machadodorp stating General Botha rejected a proposed six day armistice and hostilities resumed after five days. Boers retreating toward Lydenburg destroy bridges, burn veld, move cattle and provisions while eight carloads of bar gold valued at £5,000,000 are said to be at the Barbeton mines.
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Forest Fires Threaten Virginia City Minnesota Destruction
A telegraph from Virginia Minnesota says forest fires threaten the town and could wipe the city if wind shifts north. A fire engine and four men were sent by train, and flames near the town edge raise danger.
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Minnesota
Duluth
Second Stage Of History In Street Car Strike
President Mahon of the International Association of Street Railway Employes says the strike has moved to its second stage and the boycott must tell the story. Police and posse officials decide conditions do not yet justify dispersing the board. the coroner's inquest yields nothing of importance.
Russia seeks fifty million taels indemnity over Chinese railroads
London reports a Shanghai dispatch that Russia demands fifty million taels as compensation for damage to railways in which Russians hold an interest. This follows Russian involvement in Chinese railroad affairs and asserts a substantial claim against China.
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Roosevelt Declines Vice Presidency in Favor of New York Governor Bid
Gov Theodore Roosevelt declines the vice presidential nomination stating he can be more useful to the national ticket in New York. He prefers to remain governor of Pennsylvania and notes no definite outcome on nomination yet as delegates discuss the matter.
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Roosevelt’s Governer Nomination Stirs New York Delegation
Roosevelt’s formal statement to New York delegates expresses reluctance to seek a governors’ renomination while keeping open the possibility of aiding the national ticket. Delegates see it as a reaffirmation of his ambivalence and expect nomination if pressed, though he hopes Senator Hanna can block it.
Quarantine Recalled by California Delegates to GOP Convention
California delegates to the Philadelphia Republican Convention protested to the president against Dr. Kinyoun’s San Francisco quarantine, asserting no bubonic plague cases existed. The Treasury Department recalled the order and the Marine Hospital Service won't take further action, per assistant secretary Spaulding.
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Five Miles Parade of Political Clubs in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia last night a five mile parade of political clubs moved through Broad Street with floats, music, and a cake walk. The visiting Canton Neighbors of the President, a group of 160 plus their band, were welcomed by a local committee and serenaded at the national headquarters where they cheered Senator Hanna and other leaders as they passed.
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Remains of Man Found Along Loveland Railroad Tracks
A man’s dismembered body was found near Miamiville on the Little Miami line after an excursion train from Springfield passed through. The victim, John Workman, 35, of Miamiville, a section guard at Camp Dennison, was killed by the train overnight. His coat and a paper bearing his name were found at the scene. The discovery followed the N95.9 train’s arrival in Cincinnati and a dispatch alert along the line.
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Daytons Trolley Accident Joins Fatal and Injured Horses
John Brow, a farmer near Dayton Ohio, was crossing the Baton Pike at Union Street when a Dayton Western trolley struck his wagon. One horse died, the other injured, and Brow was thrown and injured. Motorman Funk Hauser was in charge. In Killicothe, Richard Gardiner, jailed for the Ethel Long murder, attacked two fellow prisoners and threatened more, prompting Turnkey Meredith to mace and subdue him. He is now in a dungeon cell.
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Park Policeman Fires Five Shots at Telegraph Operator
In Mansfield Ohio on June 19 Policeman Cole of Sherman Theinman Park and his assistant Tore fired five shots at Milton Mitchell a tele graph operator apparently without provocation. A large crowd gathered and Tore was thrown into the lake after the incident and a whisky bottle was taken. None of the bullets struck Mitchell.
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Trap Set For Thief Behind Canal Dover
A Dover farmer named Philip Spritzenbach set a loaded shotgun trap near his chicken coop to catch a thief who had been visiting the premises. Early yesterday, the body of Elmer Rickert, 30, was found at the coop with fatal head injuries, the result of the blast.
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Miss Katherine Gridley to Wed Lewis Buddy
In Cleveland on June 19 the engagement of Katherine Vincent Gridley of Erie to Lewis J Buddy of Chicago is announced. Katherine is the daughter of the late Captain Charles V Gridley of the Olympia and Lewis Buddy is the art editor of Chautauquan Magazine.
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Prominent Steubenville Conductor Killed by Train
Andrew W. Hogan a long time passenger conductor on the Pittsburgh and St. Wayne road was struck by a Cleveland and Pittsburgh passenger train in the upper end of Steubenville and killed instantly. He had retired from the service years ago after twenty years on the job.
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One Motorman Dead in Bowling Green Collision
Bowling Green Ohio June 19 motor man Ross Quickle died after Saturday afternoon crash between Bowling Green and Maumee Valley Electric Railway cars near Perrysboro. Carl Brown the other motorman is not expected to live.
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Knights of Columbus Holds Ohio Reunion Initiates 160 Members
In Toledo on June 19 the Knights of Columbus from major Ohio cities met for a reunion and initiated 160 new members while nearly 2,000 visiting knights attended. In Ravenna on June 19 A B Grimm aged 90, local historian and author of a half century of early town history, died.
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Knights of Columbus
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Typhoon Delays 9th Regiment and Hancock Return
Manila reports a typhoon washing out the road between Tarlac and Manila delaying the 9th regiment by about a week. The United States transport Hancock has returned to the bay awaiting improved weather as the consular corps pays respects to commissioners led by Judge William d. Fait.
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Original Canton Incorporation Records Found in Massillon
Massillon Ohio June 19 the original incorporation records of Canton were found in the late Justice R H Fober s office. They dated January 30 1822 and reveal early municipal formation details.
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R. H. Fober
Parker Brother’s mill worker struck by flying board
In Findlay Ohio Charles Parker of Parker Bros planing mill was struck by a board flying from a saw last Thursday. By Saturday peritonitis developed and he died.
Indiana Delegation Chooses Fairbanks Chairman
In Philadelphia on June 19 Senator Fairbanks presided over the Indiana delegation meeting and was chosen chairman He announced he would not accept the nomination for vice president under any circumstances After Fairbanks the delegation continued the session with further actions remaining unclear from the fragment
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Recruits for the Philippines Sail to Fort Buford Kilpatrick
Fifteen hundred recruits for the regular army in the Philippines are now being enlisted and assembled in New York harbor and Columbus Ohio to sail on the transports Buford and Kilpatrick about the first of November to take the places of enlisted men whose terms of service will expire.
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Death of Henry Walter Webb in New York
Henry Walter Webb died at his residence in a Searborough on the Hudson aged 47. He was a son of the late Gen. James Watson Webb and brother of Dr. W Seward Webb. He served as a director at Wagner Palace Car Co Buffalo Line Basing Railroad Co National City Bank Oswego Krome Railroad and trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
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Fire damages Decourcey ten story building on West Broadway
A fire last night heavily damaged the Decourcey building at 67 West Broadway New York housing multiple retail firms. The blaze caused an estimated 110000 in damages with contents harmed and the structure compromised.
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