Chicago Waterway Plan Seeks Ten to Twenty Feet Depth
War department plans for widening and straightening the Chicago river call for depths up to ten feet and possibly seven or eight feet in the Illinois river from the drainage canal to the Mississippi. Judge Springer says Secretary Root will act quickly to allow land condemnation for river improvements while war engineers assess cost and feasibility. Industrial commission to visit Chicago again in October to hear machinists arbitration results before final report.
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Washington
War Department
Chicago River
Willard
Sanitary District
Chicago
Illinois River
Mississippi River
Springer
Wilson
Secretary of War
Board of Trustees of the
Root
United States
Lake Michigan
Sinois River
Goverment
Industrial Commission
Farquhar
Harris
Women May Be Lawyers in France and Other News
France set to admit women to the bar with Senator Tillaye’s bill favorably reported by the senatorial committee. Viviani cites France’s lag in women’s emancipation and notes a clause barring women magistrates. Also: Ismael Kemal Bey flees and may seek Rome refuge. Memorial services for Count Muravieff in Berlin. A Wisconsin storm injures and kills in Richland Center. lightning hits Gillingham Church. Crim warrant to Gurney Refrigerating and Bowen Manufacturing for child labor law violations.
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Paris
Tillaye
Dill
M. Viviani
France
Constantinople
Ismael Kemal Bey
Council of State
Rome
Janina
Berlin
Count Muravieff
Fond du Lac
Wis
Gurney Refrigerating Company
Bowen Manufacturing Company
J. J. Williams
Economy in Education. Wood Teaches Cubans in Havana
General Wood teaches in Havana focusing on economic education for Cuban students. The periodical notes postal frauds have swamped a university scandal long seen as a milking ground for certain actors.
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Havana
Floods Ravage Shawnee Creek Area South of Fort Wayne
Heavy rain south of Fort Wayne on Shawnee creek floods banks and ruins about 100 homes. Water two feet deep in many houses. Police rescue five families by boat. Pioneer Pierson Throckmorton propped upright to avoid drowning. Damages push past 20000 dollars. Simultaneous report from Menasha Wis describes Thomas Fullan’s log car canal incident.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Learly
Shawnee Creek
Pierson Throckmorton
Herbert Bond
Bridge collapse damages suit ends in $4,000 award
In Wabash Indiana Lilly OBrien sued after a temporary bridge over a creek gave way throwing her from a buggy The judge awarded her four thousand dollars in a bench trial with no jury The case was heard by Judge Chase and involved the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil company. In Auburn twelve year old Jack Peabody narrowly escaped being crushed when logs rolled off a wagon pinning his arm The Royal Oak Michigan note reports counterfeit 50 and 25 cent pieces flooding the village.
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Wabash
Ind
Lilly O’brien
Indiana Natural Gas and Ol Company
Chase
Auburn
Monon Railroad Reportedly Sold to New York Central
Chicago June 23 and officials of the New York Central were said to have inspected the Monon line yesterday. Transfer papers were reportedly prepared in the afternoon as the sale circulated in reports.
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Chicago
Monon Railroad
New York Central
New York Central Road
Monon
New York
B. B. Odell, Jr
Republican State Committee
Woodruff
Roosevelt
Odell
Cleveland
British War Office Buys Forty Batteries of Krupp Guns
London June 23. It is announced that the British war office has purchased forty batteries of Krupp field artillery. The Markets section follows.
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John Bull
London
British War Office
Chicago and East Buffalo Live Stock Prices and Grains
Market report from Chicago shows hog receipts at 21 000 and cattle at 1 200 with varied hog prices from 4.30 to 5.22 percent, cattle quotes from 2.50 to 7.25, and sheep at 3.75 to 7.25. East Buffalo notes steady cattle, dull sheep and lambs, and hogs at 5.45 with a 5-cent rise. St Louis and Milwaukee grain trade details No. 2 red corn, oats, and wheat figures for June 22. Detroit reports mixed cash and futures for wheat and corn.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
N.Y
St. Louis Grain
St. Louis
Milwaukee Grain
Chicago Board of Trace
Etxra
Illinois
Michigan
Li Hung Chang Seeks Halt as China Crises Deepens
Vienna dispatch states Li Hung Chang wired European Chinese legations to press powers for mediation and halt troop movements while Sheng reports Peking legations confirm foreign legations in Peking are safe. Four thousand allied troops fight near Tien Tsin with Americans among a larger multinational force. Boxers roam Peking amid reports of increasing chaos.
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London
Vienna
Li Hung Chang
Peking
China
Sheng
Shanghai
Europe
Tien Tsin
Daily Xpress
Blood of 1 500 Foreigners Shed at Tien Tsin Battle
A Shanghai report cites Japanese sources claiming 1 500 foreigners killed at Tien Tsin. Chee Foo advices say the American consulate at Tien Tien was destroyed June 18 and foreign concessions heavily damaged after a thirty hour bombardment. European powers marshal relief from Taku as Boxers and Chinese troops fight amid fires, with heavy guns from ships to be moved to Tien Tsin.
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Tien Tsin
Thai City
London
Shanghai
Chee Foo
Tien
Berlin
Admiral Kempf
Navy Department
Washington
New York
Taku
Tien T’sin
Peking
Burghers surrender as Buller presses advance in Boer War scene
Reports from Shanghai and London through June describe heavy fighting and morale shifts in the Transvaal. About 300 Boers surrendered near Par de Kop as General Buller pursued along the Johannesburg railway. Bridges and rail lines suffered damage while press reports claim large numbers of British forces and locals were affected.
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Paarde Kop
Transvaal
Landspruit
London
Buller
Johannesburg
Parde Kop
St. Anderton
Lourenzo Marques
Machadodorp
Rance
England
Russian Statesman Muravief Dies at 55 in St. Petersburg
Count Michael Muravieff long serving foreign minister of Russia died of apoplexy at breakfast in St. Petersburg. A leading figure in European diplomacy he supported universal peace by dismantling forts and armies. He was 55. Separately, Roy Solway's body arrived in Oconto from St. Paul. he had been missing since Friday and his wife had just given birth to a child after his departure.
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St. Petersburg
Michael Muravieff
Count Muravief
Europe
Muravief
Oconto
Wis
Roy Solway
St. Paul
Fire wipes out Pittsburg block causing $250000 loss
A downtown blaze yesterday in Pittsburg destroyed eight buildings including the Richbaum printing shop and Duff's Business College. damages reach about $250000 with insurers likely to cover. Key losses listed: Eichbaum $75000, Mussy $80000, Kurtz Langbein Swartz $8000, Duff's College $15000, Pittsburg Coal $7500, Pratt's Saloon $5000, Paulson Hats $5000, American Express $5000, Holmes Electric $3000. other rents limited.
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Pittsburg
agere= eate insurance
Richbawm Company
Duff's Business College
Eichbaum
Nlussey
Kurtz
Langbein & Swartz
Artists’ Supply Company
Duff's College
Pittsburg Coal Company
Pratt’s Saloon
Paulson Bros
Hatters
American Express Company
Holmes’ Electric Company
Roberts Drives Net Around Steyns Forces In South Africa
London June 28 General Roberts concentrates on General Steyn’s Orange River Colony as Transvaal links close with the colony. Dundonald arrives Standerton sealing severance between regions. Kruger's sons return to farms. Baden-Powell advances from Mafeking with 800 men. De Wet’s homesteads burned. Kruger seeks peace with stay in country.
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London
Steyn
Orange River Colony
Lord Roberts
Louis Botha
Kruger
Transvaal
Dundonald
Standerton
Vaal
Baden-Powell
Mafek Ing
Pretorsia
de Wet
Lourenzo Marques
Countr
Wisconsin G A R Parade Ends State Encampment Celebration
West Superior Wisconsin June 23 hundreds of uniformed men and school children marched in a grand parade to close the state encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. D G James of Richland Center was named commander and James H Agen of West Superior senior vice commander. Mrs Myra Grinnell Beloit was chosen department president. The day was declared a holiday and the city joined in the celebration. Des Moines convention sessions closed with a Cincinnati orchestra concert and a Richard Burmeister piano recital in Richmond Virginia next year’s convention location undecided with officers listed.
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West Superior
Wis
Grand Army of the Republic
D. G. James
Richland Center
James H. Agen
Woman's Relief Corps
Myra Grinnell
Beloit
Des Moines
Iowa
Music Teachers’ National Association
Cincinnatti Orchestra
Richard Burmeister
New York
Richmond
A. L. Manchester
Camden
N.J
Thomas A. Beckett
Philadelphia
Bryan letter argues independence for Philippines and Cuba
Ex Governor Taylor Palka of Knoxville reports Col W J Bryan calls for equal rights for Filipinos and Cubans, urging immediate independence for both to avert further bloodshed and avoid war, praising the Bacon Resolution and Democratic support that favored timing it earlier to end conflict.
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Knoxville
Tenn
the Sentinel
W. J. Bryan
McKinley and Roosevelt Backers Rally Across States
Kentucky leaders brim with optimism after the Philadelphia convention and pledge to back McKinley and Roosevelt in November. Odell dismisses Roosevelt resignation rumors, while Hanna and committee members discuss campaign finance and planning. McKinley clubs form in Eldora as Port Huron reports population growth to 19,250.
Match stem patent spurs prairie grass extraction in Quincy
Quincy inventor Charles Fultz wins a patent for a match using prairie grass stems instead of wood. In Des Moines, Representative Hall is renominated by Republicans in the Seventh district with no opposition. In Venezuela, Colombian revolutionaries seize Bucaramanga near the frontier, Cucuta remains under rebel control.
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Quincy, Ills
Charles Fultz
Des Moines
Hall
Caracas
Venezuela
Bucaramanga
Cucuta
Santander
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Cuba
Wood
Wther
General Foreign News
Muravieff
United Brethren Church
Gillingham
Lewis Peckham
Julian Hart
Foley
Economy IN Education
Omething Gen. Wood
Menasha
Thomas Fullan
Fallan
Boy
Royal Oak
Mich
Chicago Grain and Produce
Milaukee
Northern
Detroit
LI Hung
Tien-Tsin
Nashville
Cheeoo
Kiao Chou
Tlong Kong
Rowa, Caking Rowder CO
Roberts
Wisconsin
G. A. R. Parade
Philippines
Bryan
Taylor ‘Palka
House
THE
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Joseph Keck
Chas, H. Keck
Castrer
Frank Stewart
M. Keck
I. M. Sproull
I. Hl. Pratt
Optician
Pome
Reavy
Guipe
Taylor
Kentucky
McKinley
W. S. Taylor
McWinley
National Committee
McAkinley
Tle
Frankfort
Lovernor Taylor
Hanna
Joseph H. Manley
Henry C. Payne
Scott
Richard ¢. Kerens
General Grosvenor
Utah
Heber M. Wells
Thomas Kearns
Charles I. Loose
Eldora
Port Huron
Ladies
Oxfords
Oxford
Harwood
South Side
Lonovan
Johnson
Haird & ‘Bailey
T. M. Reynolds
J. Albert
Nalewis
Doalars Dn
Sherman
Williams
Madelra
Ashby
Nicola
Cass
Miksch
Hanan
E. G Mason
Nelson
Jowler
H. Knecht
JH. Stewart
Tondre
Benz
Offich
Klein's Clothing ‘Store
M. L. Logan
Joseph Pollard
the Reynolds Gallery
T. J. Dempsey
Caseys
Representative Hall
Hotel Allen
I. R. Powers
Opera House
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
First National Bank
Marsh W. Bailey
C. J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Temple Building
W. H. Butterfield
Crail's
Iawa
P. J. Hanley
Washington County Savings Bank
Ranteines
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