Boxers in Pekin Crisis Deepens Amid Foreign Evacuations
Shanghai dispatch reports most legation families leaving Pekin as violence escalates. Russian engineers reportedly murdered after wives were attacked near Yu Chow Fu. Britain seeks additional marines while officials urge suppression of the Boxers. Crisis intensifies amid talks of international intervention and looming Russo-Japanese tensions.
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Boxers in China Used by Empress Dowager Says Clergyman
Rev. Mr. Lowerly, who served in China for twenty years, reports from London that the Boxers are the scum of the population lacking organization or leaders. He says they now wield modern weapons supplied by the imperial family and undergo frenzied drills before claiming invulnerability. The Empress Dowager allegedly fosters the movement to counter foreign threats, aided by General Tung and growing anti foreign sentiment intensified by German actions at Kinodefythe.
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Pekin
Claude Macdonald
Feng Tai
Pe-Chi-Li
Jung
London
China
Daily Telegraph
Great Britain
South Africa
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Russia
Japan
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Pao-Ting-Fu
Associated Press
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Kinodefythe
Americans debate policy as China crisis deepens
Washington dispatch reports growing alarm among friends of U S missionaries in the disturbed China zone. The state department defends a passive naval stance while signaling possible troop and ship reinforcements if violence escalates, with Minister Conger authorized to protect American interests. Admiral Kempff leads the China station as moves toward Tientsin and Peking are considered.
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Pekin
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China Station
Roberts Pursues Boer Forces Toward Lydenburg
London reports Roberts prepares for a long chase after the retreating Boers in South Africa with Pretoria as a base. Betha delays to clear rail lines while British forces guard the main retreat route. Lydenburg hosts a cartridge factory and reserves as the war moves on.
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Pretoria
Lord Roberts
Lydenburg
Lindley
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Thorson boy injured by fall from ladder in West Superior
West Superior reports the nine year old son of T. M. Thorson fell from a ladder while playing and struck his lower jaw on a tub rim. The lower teeth and gums were broken but doctors hope to save teeth pulled back into place. President May Visit Fort Wayne debated at White House after invitation by Senator Fairbanks for Union Veteran Legion reunion in Fort Wayne September 10 to 12. Stibte case in La Porte ends with hopeless prognosis as husband German to her placed significant strain.
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T. M. Thorson
Fort Wayne
Washington
Fairbanks
White House
Union Veteran Legion
Ind
Indiana Democrats Nominate Kern After Shively Declares
The Indiana Democratic state convention nominated John W. Kern for governor on the first ballot after B F Shively declined to run. The platform endorsed Bryan for president and omitted the 16 to 1 ratio. Delegates present numbered 1527 with 764 needed for a choice. Kern won 819 votes.
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John C. Lawler
Salem
Adam Heimberger
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John W. Minor
Jerome Herff
Peru
C. P. Drummond
Plymouth
Supreme Court
Henry G. Yergin
Newcastle
Charles A. Greathouse
Mount Vernon
Edward Horuff
Madison
George L Reinhart
Bloomington
J. M. Adair
Columbia City
Samuel E. Morss
Hugh M. Daugherty
Bluffton
Jas. Murdock
Lafayette
George B.menzies
Allen Zellers
Fort Wayne
Nichols Cornett
Versailles
Shively
B. F. Shively
Kern
Committee On Resolutions
William Jennings Bryan
Chicago
Democrats Nominate Dockery For Missouri Governor
Missouri Democrats nominate Alexander M. Dockery of Gallatin for governor with John A. Lee for lieutenant governor and other state offices. Delegates endorse 16 to 1 silver coinage and Bryan as a reform ticket while denouncing trusts and imperialism.
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Het Nominated for West Virginia Governor by Democrats
Huntington nominee John M. Het was chosen by the Democratic state convention for governor in Parkersburg West Virginia on June 7.
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Boer Envoys Address Chicago at Auditorium Meeting
Four thousand attendees hailed the Boer envoys in Chicago as chief speakers denouncing Great Britain. Wolmarans heads to Grand Haven and other Michigan cities before Columbus, Ohio. Montagu White joins the group, with Fischer and Wessels, en route to Springfield and Columbus. Wessels travels from St Paul to Omaha then Davenport before joining the team in Columbus and Baltimore.
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Great Britain
Wolmarans
Grand Haven
Mich
Holland
Muskegon
Grand Rapids
Columbus
Montagu White
Fischer and Wessels
Philip Wessels
T. M. de Bruyn
Labor Troubles Reported as Insurrection In Coeur dAlenes
The majority report of the house committee on military affairs says a labor conspiracy existed and the district was in insurrection since 1892, peaking in 1899. It commends Governor of Idaho, President for federal troops, and Brig Gen Merriam, while denying habeas corpus suspension or curbs on free speech. Also note wind storm in Winnipeg and Senate confirmations in Washington.
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Washington
House Committee On Military Affairs
Coeur d‘Alene
Idaho
Merriam
Venezuelan rebels rout government forces after thirteen days of fighting
A dispatch from Cuinta Santander reports that after thirteen days of combat Colombian revolutionists routed government troops capturing a non-prisoner and eluding General Pensasoling.
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Venezuela
Cuinta
Department of Santander
Pensasoling
Northwestern University Will Not Educate Women Doctors
Northwestern University in Chicago will not educate women to become doctors. In Philadelphia talks of a national Necro party with a national ticket in November. Secretaries and directors at a conference on Long Island New York. The Socialist Labor Party in New York convention nominated Joseph F Maloney of Lyon Massachusetts for U S president. Attendance at the Paris fair Monday was 514668. Mrs Anna Grabbert, under indictment for murdering her two stepchildren in Chicago, died at the county jail. Major Johnson and a small command captured forty insurgents on Teeblas Island in the Philippines. A Kansas City jury awarded damages against a local coal monopoly under the Sherman act. Hemlock and hardwood timber manufacture has shifted to pine in Ludington Michigan. Dr John J Gillane a Chicago dentist shot defending himself against two highwaymen. The Ste du Satue nay plumber plant in Quebec destroyed by fire causing about 400000 loss. New Zealand inhabitants send Sir George White a brick inscribed This is a brick You are another. 4Watseks Ill June 7 The bank Denovan Iroquois county was robbed Monday night $14000 in notes and $1000 in cash stolen. Rockford Ills June 7 Henry Andrus nominated for senator at Republican district convention.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Thousand Islands
N. Y
Socialist Labor Party
New York
Joseph F. Maloney
Lyon
Mass
United States
Anna Grabbert
Major Johnson
Teeblas
Philippines
Kansas City
Ludington
Mich
John J. Gillane
Ste. du Satuenay
Prince Brog & Co
Quebec
New Zealand
Sir George White
Ladysmith
Market Summary From Chicago Reports on Livestock and Grain
Estimated receipts for cattle hogs and sheep shown with varied price ranges. Hogs bring 4.20 5.20 per hundredweight on day’s sale, cattle figures include steers cows bulls and veal with mixed quotes, sheep offer westerns natives and lambs in several price bands. Milwaukee grain steady to higher with No 1 northern and No 2 white quoted.
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