Chinese Thugs Priased for Strong Rule Says Missionary
Dr A P Peck, returning missionary to Pang Chuang China, says Boxers are no army but ignorant robbers and the central government must act, or anarchy will spread in northern provinces. He doubts Russia leads the Boxer movement and warns uprisings will be quelled by government troops.
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Chicago
Russia
China
A. P. Peck
Pang Chuang
Shatung
Opinon
Berlin
Vossische Zeitung
National Zeitung
Great Brittan
Japan
Missionary recollections in China describe growing hostility
Dr. Peck, a longtime missionary in Shantung since 1880, notes rising violence against Christians in northern China linked to foreign presence. Local leaders persuade followers they hold innate powers, targeting native Christians for persecutions and displacing villagers. The unrest prompts international concerns as foreign subjects face attacks and property concerns escalate.
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China
Soety
Rials
R. Peck
Shantung
Novel Published in England Nearly a Century Ago
Auburn Indiana reports on a three volume novel titled Midnight Weddings by Mrs Meek published in 1802. The last volume shows age and wear with long sentences and semicolons and a random two page 386 word sentence. The volume once belonged to St Louis city library.
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Auburn
Ind
St. Louis
Accident near Delphi injures Miss Williams in buggy collision
On June 8 in Delphi a buggy carrying Miss Nellie Williams and John Miller of Washington Township collided with other buggies on a small bridge while en route to Camden Dunkard Meeting. Williams sustained a head injury and brain concussion, with her condition described as alarming.
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Delphi
Ind
Camden
Dunkard Meeting
Nellie Williams
John Miller
Washington Township
Independent Telephone group meets in Madison
A meeting in Madison gathered representatives of several Wisconsin independent telephone systems to perfect the organization of the In-Dependent Telephone Association of Wisconsin.
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Madison
Wis
Telephone Association of
Wisconsin
Sioux City man kills wife then shoots himself in Odebolt
Charles D Reinhart owner of Reinhart flats and a wealthy landholder in Sioux City shoots and kills his wife Wednesday in Odebolt Ta and then shoots himself He cannot live The act appears deliberate The Will Reorganize the Company Kalamazoo Mich June 8 The Henderson Ames company relocation report lacks foundation A company reorganization is planned
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Sioux City
Charles D. Reinhart
Reinhart Flats
Odebolt
Kalamazoo, Mich
Henderson-Ames Company
Market reports from Chicago and other cities on June 7
Hogs receipts forecast at 31 000 with price bands from 4.20 to 5.20 for various lots. Cattle receipts around 8 000 with steers from 4.10 to 5.80 and cows to 4.60. Sheep receipts about 10 000 with western lambs around 5.60 to 7.15 and natives near 3.75 to 5.50. East Buffalo shows cattle steady, hogs trading 5.25 to 5.35 tops, sheep and lambs soft. St. Louis grain mixed with wheat and corn firm on cash and futures. Milwaukee and Detroit grain markets list higher wheat, firm rye, and steady oats.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Northern
Detroit
Chicago Board of Trade
Illinois
Louis Man Quits Life After Le Money He Couldn't Collect
Louis, June 8. William H. Krunged, 27, who was to be husband of Miss Urania Ell, of 917 Cass Avenue, ended his acting life after failing to collect the money in question.
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Louis
William H. Krunged
Ime
Uraniaell
Cass Avenue
Closing Day Ends Congress With Naval Bill Passed
The Senate adjourned sine die after a tense session over the naval appropriation and ocean surveys. The House reversed earlier refusals to yield on the ocean survey issue and approved the Senate amendments, while Senator Lentz of Ohio blocked unanimous consent on Coeur d'Alene testimony.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Hale
House
Coast Survey Bureau
Cannon of Thinvis
S’rye
Capitol
Frye
Rye
Pettigrew
Beveridge
Sons of Veterans
Committee On
House of Representatives
Irye
Great White Throne
Jesus
Angels of Heaven
Henderson
Cannon
Lentz
Ohio
Coeur -Alene
Tragic Farm Accident Kills Child and Eight Men Near Stockbridge
A farm near Stockbridge on Oneida Reservation, Green Bay, Wis., reports a fatal accident where a child and eight men died during heavy timbering with a derrick. The child was killed during a chicken play leading to a tragic chain of events as a rope disaster caused the timber to collapse. Other items note telephone company acquisitions in Iowa and Minnesota and Purdue University’s 26th commencement with 71 graduates.
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Green Bay
Wis
Stockbridge
Oneida
House sings patriotic anthems as bills rush to the president
In a tense session the House calmed after near riots, then erupted in a patriotic chorus led by Mercer Texas Ball Fitzgerald Minnesota and Tawney Nebraska. Spectators joined as songs like Columbia Auld Lang Syne The Red White and Blue and the national anthem swept the galleries. Dixie sparked wild cheers.
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Good Fellowship
Mercer
Nebraska
Ball
Texas
Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
Tawney
Minnesota
Columbia
Dixie
Iowa Masons elect grand lodge officers at Cedar Rapids
The annual election of officers for the grand lodge of Masons of Iowa in Cedar Rapids named William L Hatton as grand master Sumner Miller as senior grand warden James E Bruce as junior grand warden T B Parvin as grand secretary and M J Miller as grand treasurer The next meeting will be held in Davenport. Michigan Grand Army holds twenty second annual encampment in Grand Rapids with General A B Shaw visiting along with the Women Relief Corps and Ladies of the G A R in attendance.
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Cedar Rapids
Grand Lodge of Masons of Iowa
William L Hatton
Osage
Sumner Miller
Guttenberg
James E. Bruce
Anita
Parvin
M. J. Miller
Washington
Davenport
Michigan Grand Army
Grand Rapids
Mich
Michigan Grand Army of the Republic
Women's Relief Corps
A. B. Shaw
Drought Devastates Wisconsin Crops Across Regions
Black River Falls Wisconsin reports severe drought harming hay and pasture lands while grain suffers from moisture shortage. The June weather is turning serious across northern areas, with crop failure looming.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Fine Pearl Found in a Clam at Prairie du Chien
A large fine lustrous pearl, said to be the largest yet found in the Mississippi, was purchased by P O Heide, a pearl buyer. It was discovered near St Paul by a clam digger harvesting fish bait. Wipr Dismissed for Cowardice in Albany: Major Clinton H Smith of the Seventy first regiment is dismissed from the National Guard by Gov Roosevelt for conduct at the San Juan battle in Cuba. The examining board calls him unfit for National Guard service.
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Prairie du Chien
Wis
Mississippi
P.O. Heide
St. Paul
Wipr
Albany
N. Y
Clinton H. Smith
Seventy-first Regiment
National Guard
Roosevelt
San Juan
Cuba
Board of Examination
Smith
Japanese Mining Experts Visit Marquette on Copper Country Tour
R Kanddo and Itu Otagawa, mining engineers for the Japanese government, were in Marquette Michigan on June 8 en route to the copper country. They had come from the copper mining region of Montana and had previously inspected the world mines of California.
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Marquette, Mich
R. Kanddo
Itu Otagawa
Coper
Montana
California
Dowager Empress Orders 4000 Men to Hold Pekin Railroad
Shanghai dispatch reports the Dowager Empress assigns General Nesh Si Chong 4000 troops to defend the Pekin railway amid Boxer fighting. 200 dead after the clash. 180 British marines with a machine gun aim to push from Tien Tain to Pekin.
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London
Shanghai
Nesh Si Chong
Pekin
Hua
Beeson
Kay
Tien Tain
Great Britain
Kruger defies odds amid war shifted to guerrilla battle
From Nadhadorp to Pretoria Kruger claims the capital is in the ear not bricks where the government remains open. He warns of prolonged guerrilla warfare as Steyn and De Wet rally Free State burghers and vows continued resistance. Mrs Kruger stays safe as lines of communication dim.
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Tranvadl
Nadhadorp
Kruger
Daily Express
Lorenzo Marques
Tie
Pretoria
Steyn
DeWet
Free State
Mrs. Kruger
Leitz
Enoyhous
Lydenburg
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Fran Owart
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