Discordant Concert Assertion On Chinese Road Wagon
News notes the Qing empire crisis and European power split with Prince Ching as regent rumor and U S troops to stay all winter. Li Hung Chang meets French envoy. Americans split forces for Peking Tien-Tsin and Taku. tensions rise as de Giers reports uncertain regency and a potential diplomatic solution.
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England
Russia
Great Britain
Japan
Peking
Prince Ching
St. Petersburg
M. de Giers
Shanghai
Associated Press
Li Hung Chang
Tien-Tsin
Taku
Washington
United States
Conger
Boers Near End as Baden-Powell Attacks Grobler
From Pretoria dated Aug 30 General Baden-Powell crossed Grobler near Warm Baths at dawn and moved 16 miles into his rear. He attempted to waylay a Pietersburg train but the Boers learned of the plan. Grobler asked two days to answer the surrender offer while Botha and De Wet move toward Machadodorp and Winburg road.
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London
Pretoria
Baden-Powell
Grobler
Baden- Powell
Pietersburg
Isinger
Steyn
Barberton
Buller
Lydenburg Road
Crocodile River
Badfontein
Crocodile Mountains
Theron
Kilp River
Brabant
Vlackfontein
Botha
Machadodorp
Lord Roberts
Asvaal
Christian de Wet
Daily Mail
Cape Town
Winburg Road
Robbers batter door. Mary Lehigh and daughter bound
In Ashland Ohio two masked men forced entry to Mrs. Mary Lehigh home six miles north of town, bound her and daughter Arvilla, and robbed the residence as they resisted and Lehigh was knocked down. A separate incident in Lima Ohio reports the South Lima Whitecaps flogging William Stell in his bed at 2 AM, leaving extensive wounds after accusations of cruel treatment to his wife.
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Strong
Hale
Miss Strong
Allen
Dreamland
Mr. Strong
Phorch
Hall
Ashland
Mary Lehigh
Arvilla
Here
Stell
Vermont Campaign Ends With Broad County Rallies
Montpelier Vermont September 3 The campaign closes with political gatherings in nearly all towns as voters prepare to cast ballots tomorrow. Party directors await the size of the vote amid anxious expectations.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Fusion plans persist as Idaho party talks stall
Last week ended with no fusion between the elemocrats and Populists in Boise Idaho. Managers have not given up the effort and continue planning despite delays. A separate note hints at a sensational street encounter with a knife during a tense moment on a dark porch.
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Boise
Ida
Fisuit
Murder Mystery Solved in Sioux City Burglar Confesses
Frank Peyton alias Hammond alias Howard, held at the Four Courts, confessed to Sioux City police chief Neeking in Illinois of a December 1899 murder of contractor John Robson. Peyton implicated partner Jack Mason and led to the discovery of a hatchet at the crime scene.
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St. Louis
Frank Peyton
Hammond
Howard
Robson
Neelting
Mason
Peyton
Chief Neelting
Sioux City
Detroit Alderman Opposes Deep Channel Past City
Alderman Moeller says a deeper river route harms Detroit and benefits large ships from Rockefeller and Carnegie. He explains his city council action to reconsider the vote authorizing a $230.85 contingency payment for entertaining Washington visitors.
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Detroit
Alderman Moeller
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Washington
Bullet-Proof Bill the elk king dies in Colorado
Denver reports Bullet-Proof Bill, the famed elk of White river country, is dead after Governor Tanner of Illinois fired the fatal shot. The scarred head with sixteen-pronged antlers was delivered to a taxidermist in Manitou and identified at Glenwood Springs amid tall tales of his escapes, as half of Colorado’s hunters claimed shots at him.
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Denver
Colo
Elk King
White River Country
John R. Tanner
Illinois
Manitou
Tanner
Glenwood Springs
Colorado
Heaviest Woman in Indiana Sought in Marriage Bond
Miss Lucy Havens, an inmate of the La Porte county asylum weighing 350 pounds, is the subject of a marriage proposal by Dr. O J Detter of Union City who offers to post bond ensuring she will not return to county charges if wed and exhibited.
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la Porte
Ind
Lucy Havens
Five Passengers Hurt As Wabash Collision Wrecks Freight Cars
Five people were seriously injured when the incoming Wa bash passenger train to Des Moines Iowa failed to stop on the Chicago Great Western track and collided with freight cars left on the east end of the city. Injured are Lulu Graham of Kirkville Missouri J C Vonarx of Columbia Missouri Lindsay Thomas Andrew Thom and Vernon Kelly of Bunker Hill Indiana. Damage is estimated at about 5000 dollars. Harrison to serve as arbiter in Hague treaty commission.
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Des Moines
Chicago Great Western
Lulu Graham
Kirkville
J. C. Vonarx
Columbia
Lindsay Thomas
Andrew Thom
Vernon Kelly
Bunker Hill
Ind
Wad dell Returns to Pittsburg after AFL move
Milwaukee manager Mack reports Rube Wad dell has been sent back to Pittsburg and will join the Pittsburgh club in Boston. In Glasgow another plague death brings total cases under observation to ninety three.
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Waddell
Pittsburg
Milwaukee
Mack
Indianapolis
Rube Waddell
Boston
Glasgow
Paris Fair a Failure and Sideshows in Dumps
Paris officials report the international exposition underperforming its forecasts with attendance dropping to about 100,000 daily. Sideshows and private ventures face bankruptcy risks unless government aid materializes, while tax demands threaten further financial strain on operators.
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Paris
Ministry of Commerce
Concession failures and a tragic fatality in Baraboo
The article surveys failed concession ventures in Paris with massive outlays including 3 million francs for the Bonshommes Guillaume show and a telescope scheme at the Palais de l Optique, ending with reports of a murder in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Adam Rote was found dead in a mill race with a bullet hole, a crushed temple, and no money on the body amid a tramp infested region.
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Palais de la Femme
le Grand Guigno
Bonshommes Guillaume
Rue de Paris
Georges Picard
Albert Guillaume
Palais de ’Optique
Baraboo
Wis
Adam Rote
Rote
Grand political openings sweep Illinois Indiana campaigns
Chicago reports a grand opening day for politics with Republicans in Illinois and Democrats in Indiana launching campaign activity on a Saturday. The Indiana campaign opened across congressional districts as leaders push mobilization and fundraising efforts.
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Illinois
Indiana
Chicago
Great Business Transfer From Northwestern Life to Mutual Reserve
In Chicago on September 3 policy holders of Northwestern Life Assurance voted to transfer all business to the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York. The move involves 28 000 policy holders and 65 million dollars in force. The transfer is attributed to recent high mortality and aims to pair with a larger firm. Northwestern Life, born from the Masonic Mutual Aid Society, had previously absorbed Covenant Mutual Life and two other small concerns.
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Chicago
Northwestern Life Assurance Company
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association
New York
Iinois
Indiana
Iowa
Wisconsin
Cisneros Named Cuba Constitutional Convention Delegate
Senor Salvador Cisneros y Betancourt former Cuban president received word from Puerto Principe that he will be sent as a delegate to Cuba's constitutional convention. He preferred Puerto Principe as his home district and returns to present a petition to President McKinley for full independence.
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New York
Senor
Salvador Cisneros Y Betancourt
Cuba
Puerto Principe
McKinley
Senor Cisneros
New gold field opened on Sturgeon river near Nahma
Marinette Wisconsin reports a rich gold find on the Sturgeon river near Nahma in Delta county Michigan. Prospectors have worked there for some time and have taken gold in paying quantities. James Hutton, a Klondike veteran, resigned as steward on the steam yacht Bonita and heads to Nahma to join large scale mining efforts.
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Marinette
Wis
Sturgeon River
Nahma
Delta County
Mich
Upper Peninsula
James Hutton
Klondiker
O Day divorce suit follows high profile mis conduct claim
In Springfield Mrs Alice O Day sues Col John O Day a wealthy railroad man for divorce citing neglect and ill treatment. The case follows a reported prior suicide attempt by Mrs O Day in St Louis on July 30 while her husband and his attorney were nearby. In Cleveland six hundred Erie dock longshoremen end a wildcat strike over extra pay for unloading wet ore cargo and return to work pending arbitration.
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Alice O'Day
John O'Day
Cleveland, O
Erie Railway
Simon J. Murphy
Thirteen Die As Train Collision Strikes Hatfield
A rear end collision on the Bethlehem branch of the Philadelphia and Reading railway near Hatfield Pa killed thirteen and seriously injured over thirty others from a Bethlehem Allentown area excursion. The crash involved a milk train and a ten-car excursion train, leaving Bethlehem at 6 05 am and colliding at 6 54 am.
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Annie Sherry
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Robert Miller
Richard Bachman
Iva Bhdet
Willam Bhret
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Suth Bethlembem
Charles MacFonigle
Thomas Day
Aleentown
Mamie Kaelin
Telford
Godfray Kaelin
Mamie
Willam Blackburn
Ambler
Harold Landis
Ackermann
John David
Albert J. Wagner
Wilson Crosland
South Bethlehem
Michael J. Tighe
Allentown
John Meltough
Abraham Transue, Jr
William Burkehardt
Gertrude Burkhardt
John Rejehley
Mary Newhard
Carrie Bachman
8. Haber
Miss Schaeffer
Allenown
Mary Koch
Annie Miller
Wilmeyer
Bethlemhem
Attantic City
Union Station
League Scores and Miscellaneous World News Summary
Saturday baseball results across the major leagues include Pittsburg 2 over St. Louis and Brooklyn 5 over Philadelphia in the National League. Chicago beat Cincinnati 2 to 1, with Cincinnati 4 to 6 in the second game. American League scores feature Buffalo 8 over Chicago 1 and Buffalo 9 over Minneapolis, Detroit 6 over Minneapolis, and Indianapolis 15 over Milwaukee in the opener. Separate items note Dowieite arrests in Toledo, Cripple Creek gold output and August dividends, and political campaigning in Bowling Green.
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Brooklyn
Pittsburg
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Cincinnati
Be Lanhs Sr Csas
New York
St. Louis
Buffalo
Cleveland
Kansas City
Detroit
Minneapolis
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
August Passes as Hottest Month on Record Near Minneapolis
Minneapolis reports August was the hottest month on record in the area per Weather Observer Outram figures. The record heat emphasizes unusually high temperatures for the month in the metro region.
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Minneapolis
Weather Observer
Destructive Fire Devastates Palestine Village
Sullivan Indiana September 3 The village of Palestine fifteen miles west of town was struck by a disastrous fire. Loss estimated at ten thousand dollars with extensive property damage reported.
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Palestine
Sullivan
Ind
Population of Two Iowa Towns Reported by Census
Washington census bureau lists Davenport Iowa population at 35 254 up from 26 872 in 1890 and Sioux City La population at 83 111 up from 37 806 in 1890 Platteville Wis deputy game warden Roberts arrested six prominent business men for shooting birds out of season sparking fines and court fights
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Census Bureau
Davenport
Sioux City
Platteville, Wis
Roberts
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