Powers Taking Hold M'Oalla Has 600 On The Line
Ten thousand troops of all nationalities will go to Pekin to back up the ministers or to suppress the Boxers. About 1500 foreign troops left for Pekin by two trains. The empress dowager denounced the Chinese general and recalled troops while Belgian engineers and a woman were abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
Tien Tsin
Hong Kong
Welsh Fusiliers
India
London
Taku
McCalla
Daily Express
Shanghai
Wll
Ah Lin
Tung- Chow
Peking
China
With Their Strong Position at Laings Nek and Roberts
Dispatch from Sir Edward Buller reports Natal operations with trains halted to ascend a steep pass. About 2,000 enemy retreated twenty-six miles northwest after a contested position. Casualties: one officer and fifteen men wounded. General Foraster-Walker notes three enemy columns near Honingspruit and railway destruction between America and Roodeval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
War Office
Edvers Buller
Natal
Frederick Forestier-Walker
Sir Forastier-Walker
Cape Town
Honingspruit
America
Roodeval
Explosion at Indiana powder plant kills worker near Tontanet
June 11 report from Brazil Indiana details a blast at the Indiana powder plant near Tontanet. Matthew Reed died while carrying a half bucket of nitroglycerine and several others were injured, with the belief that he dropped the keg accidentally. Separately, Des Moines announces a marriage incentive, and Beloit notes Professor William Porter Dean resigning after fifty years on the Beloit College faculty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Ind
Indiana
Tontanet
Matthew Reed
Reed
Beloit
Wis
William Porter
Beloit Edge
Old Guard
Czar to Take Energetic Action Amid China Tension
St. Petersburg June 11 reports the government will act decisively if the danger in China worsens. It states Russia may join a joint action with other powers but has not yet disavowed such a coalition. The anti foreign movement is cited as a key factor driving the potential steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Czar
St. Petersburg
China
Filipino Leader Pio del Pilar Captured Near Manila
Manila report states General Pio del Pilar, noted as a bold and persistent Filipino leader, was captured Friday night near Manila after a pursuit by American forces. The capture ends a rapid clash as authorities claimed victory in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Pio Delar
Capture of Pio del Pilar at Guadaloupe near Manila
According to reports, a party of Manila native police aided by a detachment of the Twenty-first Infantry surrounded a Guadaloupe house six miles east of Manila. They captured General Pio del Pilar and brought him to Manila where he was positively identified before the provost marshal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Pio del Pilar
Lara
Guadaloupe
Twenty-first Infantry
Death in a Collision Kills Four in Warwick Line
A Warwick collision on the Union Railroad suburban line left four dead and about twenty five injured, with Lieutenant Cemball among the fatally hurt. The dead include Arthur Liscomb George W. Baker Lewis C. Sanborn and motor man D B Burroughs. Injured cover a wide list including Lt Governor Kimball and many Providence residents. The crash occurred June 10 near Providence, triggering a large casualty report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. I
Warwick
Union Railroad Company
C. Kemball
Arthur Liscomb
George W. Baker
Lewis C. Sanborn
D. B. Burroughs
O. Kimball
N. Kingsley
Minneapolis firm sees peak flour export demand in May shipments
A major Minneapolis mining firm reports flour export demand at an all time high. It shipped sixty six cars to foreign countries in May 1899 and 837 cars in the same month this year, claiming the rise mirrors other milling companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis
Princess Ari Bert visits White House in informal tour
Princess Ari Bert of Anhalt, granddaughter of Queen Victoraria, visited the White House in Washington on Saturday with Lord and Lady Pauncefote. She was welcomed by President and Mrs. McKinley in the red parlor and given an informal tour at her own request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Aribert of Anhalt
Victoraria
White House
Compayn
Lord
Dry weather hurting crops in Marshalltown area
Continued dry weather in Marshalltown Iowa is hitting crops hard. Farmers report poor corn prospects and stressed pastures with meadows suffering, and only a rapid change in conditions can lift the two-thirds average crop outlook.
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Marshalltown
Michigan Democrats to Meet at Hotel Normandie
Detroit June 11. Chairman Campau calls a meeting of the Democratic state central committee for tomorrow at 2 PM at the Hotel Normandie to choose time and place for the state convention and to select the state officers and electors to the national convention in Kansas City. Hanna to Conduct Campaign for Republicans. Washington June 11. It is reported that Senator Hanna will again chair the Republican national committee and lead the coming campaign unless his health worsens.
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Michigan Democratic Committee
Detroit
Campau
Democratic State Central Committee
Hotel Normandie
Kansas City
Hanna
Washington
Republican National Committee
Springfield
Ill
Kdarna Ridgely
Ridgely National Bank of
Gold Democrats
Sangamon County
Democraic
President invited to Wichita Civil War veterans reunion
Representative Long of Kansas invites the president to visit Wichita on October 1 for a large Civil War veterans reunion. The president offered no promises. Gloucester Ohio reports six to eight deaths from gas explosion in mine No 2 with two more blasts overnight, leaving three to four hundred miners unemployed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Representative Long
Kansas
Wichita
Kas
Gloucester
Fire destroys Illinois campus gymnasium landmark
Fire at the University of Illinois in Champaign on June 11 destroyed the men's gymnasium and the wood working shop, the first building on campus. Origin unknown. Estimated loss is $10,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champaign, Ills
University of Illinois
Mellen
Wis
Feyette Shaw &Co
Mrs Gladstone Sinking Bulletin From Hawarden
London June 11 bulletin from Hawarden castle reports Mrs Gladstone has grown worse being now unconscious and rapidly sinking.
Rioters Shot After Streetcar Assault in St Louis
In East St Louis a clash after a labor parade left four rioters wounded and one dead. Deputies arrested twenty one. a deputy sheriff reported another shooting at Belle Fontaine sheds. Governor Stephens prepared to call Missouri National Guard to restore order.
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St. Louis
East St. Louis
Sheriff's Posse
Washington Avenue
Bronway
Sixth Streets
Posse Comitatus
Bellefontaine
Fred Boehm
Rioting mob assaults lunch vendor in St Louis
A mob of angry women and boys stripped Lena Kaenter and painted her with green as jeers and mud flew. The unrest spread along the streetcar routes while strike sympathizers recruit from eastern cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Lena Kaenter
California Avenue
Mount Pleasant
Rose Fanning
Rev Henry Moeller Named Bishop of Columbus
The Rev Dr Henry Moeller secretary and chancellor of the Cincinnati archdiocese has been appointed bishop of Columbus Ohio. Born in Cincinnati in 1840 he studied at the American College in Rome and served as pastor at Bellefontaine and professor at St Marys seminary. In 1879 he became secretary to Bishop Chatard.
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Columbus
Rome
Henry Moeller
Archdiocese of
Cincinnati
American College At
Bellefontaine, O
St. Mary’s Seminary
Chatard
Dewey Ovation in Detroit Land and Marine Parades
Admiral Dewey's Detroit visit featured water and land parades with vast crowds honoring the war hero. Canadian officials joined the salute as flags waved from Waterville to the Michigan shore. A twilight Grand Circus Park finale had children singing a Dewey tribute as the couple passed. The Deweys move on to Grand Rapids.
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Detroit
Dewey
Waterville
Ont
Canada
America
Britain
Michigan
Grand Circus Park
Gand Rapids
Mrs May Sewall Denounces Census Enumerator In Aroused Exchange
Mrs May Wright Sewall president of the International Council of Women confronted a census enumerator in Indianapolis on June 11 claiming offensive off topic questions about reading writing and race. She told him what she thought and he departed noting he had met many ladies but never anyone like her.
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Idianapolis
May Wright Sewall
Internatornal Council of Women
Sewall
Eldora
J. P. Suttman
Grundy County
Grundy Center
Anoka
Minn
Merrill
Ben Johnson
Constance
Here
Wise
Johnson
Strikes Endorsement Changes Miners’ Stand in Spring Valley
In Spring Valley 2000 coal miners will end their April 25 strike after National President Mack Taylor arrived from Danville, saying engineers had been ordered to join the union. Wages were above scale. failure to join carried a 24 hour ultimatum and threat of blacklisting. The strike reportedly cost the company about 2000 dollars daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Valley
Spring Valley Coal Company
National
Mack Taylor
Aguinaldo Tries Gomez Tactics In Philippine Situation
In Manila June 1 the Philippine civil commission led by Judge Taft met a flood of international callers. They seek peaceful, honest governance while facing insurrection across Luzon Visayas and Negros. The native administration is tainted by suspicions of bribery and misaccounting as plans for a civilian force ahead of military control unfold.
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Manila
William TH. Taft
The
Philippines Civil Commission
Paettying
Philippines
Antonny
Taft
Luzon
Visayas
Negros
Spain
Mantla
Philippine resistance grows as municipal elections face delays
Across central Luzon and parts of the Visayas Filipino forces resist United States rule with a clandestine government network led from Manila. Insurgent attacks disrupt garrisons while American casualties mount as observers note a strategic aim to stall conquest by prolonging war.
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OuUs
Central Luzon
Litadiy
Luzon
Visayas
United States
Philippines
Iilpinos
MacArthur
Luxeon
Manila
Dagupan
Camarinez
Nueva Carceres
Albany
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Marines
M’oalla
Buller
Laing
Nek
Roberts
Des Moines
Enowment League of
Sigourney, Ia
Organizaon
del Pilar
Pio Pilar
Pittsburg
International Typographical Union
Donnelly
Grand Hotel
Princess
Iowa
POSSE
Jefferson City
Stephens
National Guard of
Missouri
Cold Springs
N. Y
Stephen W. Romaine
Steve
Romaine
Elm Street
Yonkers
Park Row
New York
Royal Ore iNs Post
Mrs. Sewall
St. Paul
Bernardine
St. Joseph's Hospital
Northern Pacific
Marion
John Renkhard
Renkhard
Joliet Mills
Joliet, Is
Nmnois Steel Company
Omaha
Frank RE. Moores
Philippine
Aguinaldo
Gomez
Uncle Sam
Hades
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Joseph Keck
Chas. H. Keck
Oasurm
Frank Stewart
C. M. Keck
I. M. Sproull
Jon. G. Fanimen
QAP& Tabor&n Ry
Cedar Rapids
Allen
E. C. Keck
Florist
Greenhouse
Wall Up
Hotel Allen
Frank Bowers
Fa Hotel Allen
Ame
W. E. Anderson, M. D
Klein's Clothing
Washington, Towa
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of 7
Speee
First National Bank
Robert Lock
San Francisco
Robert Locke
Locke
Chiago
Occidental Hotel
Young Locke
Marsh W. Bailey
FEICR
C.J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
OfFicr
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Temple Building
W. H. Butterfield
Crall
P.J. Hanley
Washington County Savings Bank
Isnoh Vhado
Leim Syood
Is Oimebios
B.ooum
Pey Nos
Yaaym Bang
Puagry
Warfel
East Side Restaurant
Stewart's
T. J. Dempsey
Beer Coffier
National Bank
Oes & Fenera
W. RK. Jaffrey
A. Anderson
J.T. Anderson
Aga't Cash
Joa. Keo
Pres
A. Wraters
O. WH. Knox
P. O
M. Knox
Ass't
Wm. Rbiatt
A. H W. Wallace
Gps Keck
D H. Keck
L. D. Robinson
Fran Stewart
Df. Henderson
Moothart
S. E. Washington
Kemble
Kennie Flower Co
Lowa
R. F. Riley
Smouse
Il. Knecht
Leo
Rocky Mountain
Burlington
Chicago
Philadelphia
East
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