Boer Army Disbanded and Flee to Portuguese Territory
Special dispatch from Taku China reports allied gunboats bombarding the Pei-tang forts as resistance remains stubborn. Pei-tang lies on the San-ho river ten miles north of Taku with strong forts commanding the position. London reports Lord Roberts stating the Boer army is broken up and many men have entered Portuguese territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taku
China
Pei-tang
San-ho
Evening Journal
London
Lord Roberts
Hold-Up and Stabbing in Iron Mountain Saloon
In Iron Mountain Michigan two unknown men ordered out of Martin Peterson's saloon on Monday night then attacked a Dane named James Johnson and a Finn named Alexgg. Johnson died and the Finn was not expected to survive. The assailants fled and remained at large. One is said to have been released from the county jail that day for beating his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron Mountain
Mich
Martin Peterson
James Johnnson
Alex
Finn
Dane
P. Tremontin
St. George Hospital
Woman in Wisconsin Eats Snakes at Pearl Street Hotel
In LaCrosse a Abyssinian woman named Bosco eats snakes, using protruding teeth to impale reptiles. Born deformed, locals believe Abyssinians consider infants given to snakes. She now survives on snakes, barely eating other food as the habit grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaCrosse
Wis
Pearl Street
Bosco
Mill Fire Destroys Joliet Lakeside Oatmeal Mill
Explosion in four story bin structure at 4 10 a m yesterday gutted Lakeside Oatmeal mills in Joliet causing about six thousand nine hundred dollars in David Oliver company losses and forty three thousand dollars insured. Seven workers were inside and escaped unharmed as Joliet fire crews fought to prevent spread to nearby buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joliet
Lls
David Oliver Company
Legacy farm bequest enriches Wisconsin Veterans Home
Walter Houston an aged Civil War veteran left a 200 acre farm to the Wisconsin Veterans Home at Waupaca. The gift, valued around 1400 dollars, was given in gratitude for the care he received while living in Utica Winnebago county. Possession passes after his wife dies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oshkosh
Wis
Wisconsin Veterans’ Home
Waupaca
Walter Houston
Utica
Winnebago County
Houston
London welcomes 80000 Americans this year
More than 80,000 Americans have arrived in London this year. Lieutenant Hobson, the Santiago hero, has arrived at Victoria from the Orient. Census Director Merriam estimates the population of the country at about 76,000,000. French troops were defeated by Berbers in the Sahara, losing two officers and twenty men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hobson
Santiago
Victoria
Orient
Merriam
Sahara
Hubbard Holds the Fort in Remarkable Court Case
Belleville court papers reveal Thomas Hubbard, an employee, defied Illinois Cotton Compress Co in East St. Louis by retaining control of a warehouse and blocking $50,000 of goods. He claims the company could not discharge him and threatens violence to prevent deliveries. The case seeks ejectment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville, Lils
Belleville
Thomas Hubbard
Hlinois Cotton Compress Company
East St. Louis
Chicago market cattle hogs and grains mixed on Sept 19
Hogs receipts 27 000 with pork quotes mainly 5.15 to 5.40 for most lots. Cattle receipts 17 000 with steers 5.80 to 6.00 for choice to extra and other cuts listed. Sheep receipts 22 000 with westerns lambs and natives lambs quoted. East Buffalo NY reports hogs 5.60 to 5.95 and cattle and sheep varied. St Louis and Milwaukee grain markets show mixed wheat corn oats and rye prices with No 2 and No 1 northern values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Canadas
St. Louis
Milwaukee Grain
Chicago Board of Trade
Eight Thousand Join 80 President Mitchell Figures
Hazelton Pa September 20 report on the coal strike shows about 70 percent of regional miners idle, with stonings reported and fear among workers. President Mitchell indicates over 126000 idle in the anthracite district though no settlement talks are underway. A union push seeks nationwide work stoppage while owners complain of intimidation. A Jeddo meeting with John Markle and Mitchell deteriorated into a heated exchange. Miners from Natalie colliery travel to Shamokin to seek a settlement with operators willing to address core grievances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazelton
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Hazleton
Jeddo
G. B. Markle & Co
Ebervale
Highland
Oakdale
John Markle
Markle
Father Philips
Benjamin James
Natalie
Mount Carmel
New York
Shamokin
Concrete plan to seal dam hole eyed in Joliet report
Sanitary district engineers lower the water at the Jackson street dam and locate a ten foot deep clay pocket and a twelve inch clay seam under the dam. They plan to force concrete into the seam and fill the big pocket within a couple of days. R. H. Weller to be presented with Episcopal bishop ring by Oneida Indians at Fond du Lac consecration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joliet
Ills
Sanitary District
Jackson Street
Hull
Green Bay
Wis
R. H. Weller
Fond du Lac
Oneida
Weller
F. W. Merrill
Hobart Episcopal Mission
City Council Votes to Revoke Street Railway Franchise
The Superior City council unanimously annuls the street railway franchise citing failure to improve service. The line, recently merged with the Duluth system, was bought by an eastern company led by Thomas Lowry of Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Superior City Council
Eastern
Thomas Lowry
Minneapolis
Milwaukee Engraver Slain Near Gimbels Store
Lewis Miller, an engraver for Bond & Upmeyer, was murdered late Tuesday night. He lay unconscious with a fractured skull on the Grand Avenue sidewalk before Gimbel's, dying at the Emergency hotel. No suspect is known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Lewis Miller
Bond & Upmeyer
Gimbel
Grand Avenue
Three Men Rob Bank in Five Minutes at Winnemucca
Three armed men robbed the First National Bank of about $15,000 at noon in Winnemucca Nevada. They forced the five bank staff to surrender, opened the safe for three sacks of gold coin, loaded the loot into an ore sack, and escaped on three waiting horses after brief gunfire that wounded no one. The escape occurred within five minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnemucca
Nev
First National Bank
Nia%a
McBride
Hill
Calhoun
Johnson
Nixon
Court case over a chicken valued at 25 cents
Evansville Indiana reports a circuit court trial over a chicken valued at 25 cents. The case began with Lulu James accusing Charles Walters of malicious trespass for wounding the bird. After a justice court found guilt and ordered payment, Walters appealed and won, with the lengthy session drawing many spectators and local business leaders to the jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Lulu James
Howell
Charles Walters
Actresses Die From Gas At New Jersey Theater
Lizzie Hamilton and Grace Hughes of the Victoria Burlesquers, a New York company, were asphyxiated by escaping gas in a theater room in Paterson New Jersey. Minnie Desmond found their bodies at 11 a.m. after the party had lunch following a performance.
Costly Fight With Tagals In Philippine Skirmish
About 1,000 Filipino fighters clashed with detachments of the Fifteenth and Thirty-seventh U S infantry. American casualties numbered 12 dead 26 wounded and 5 missing. Other items report a Texas man killed after an arrest dispute and various national news briefs from Chicago Lincoln Galveston and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Thieves take silks and furs in Traverse City burglary
Thieves broke into Wilhelm Bros dry goods, lifting $1,000 in silks and $400 in fur and goods. Tracks show a vehicle used to remove the loot. In Bessemer, Jack Sale was killed in a mine cave-in with another man trapped nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traverse City
Wilhelm Bros
Bessemer, Mich
Jack Sale
Tilden Mine
Pooling of grain traffic by railways shifts vast New York bound share
The Journal of Commerce reports a new non official pool among Erie Vanderbilts Lehigh Valley Lackawanna and New York Central to control lake and rail grain traffic into New York. Frank Harriot appointed manager, full authority to fix and alter rates east of Buffalo. The plan aims to divert 55 percent to Vanderbilts 25 percent to Erie and 20 percent split 16 4 between Lehigh Valley and Lackawanna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
The
Journal of Commerce
New York Central
West Shore
Buffalo
Erie
Lehigh Valley
Lackawanna
Frank Harriot
Erie Road
Mr. Harriot
Harriot
Tarreil
Lataet
Vlan
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Edward Annan
Willam H. Smith
McCoy refutes wife claims of faked fight telegrams
New York Sept 20 Kid McCoy rejects his wife's charges of a cipher plot to signal a fixed fight. He offers $1000 for every telegram she allegedly sent, except the one to Harry Hynds stating he would win in ten rounds. He invites telegraph proof and accuses her of fabrication after seeing Corbett publicity. Also notes frost harms none and stock firm Match Foote failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kid McCoy
Harry Hynds
Cheyenne
Wyo
Hynds
Jake
Corbett
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Dispatch
Portugeuse
Ritory
Lakeside
Hubbard
Greencastle
John Saddler
True Thomas
Saddler
Josephine Siewert
William Deutschman
Cincinnati
Philadelhia
Sargent
Des Moines
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
New Jersey
Tagals
Knoemiller
Lloyd
Enda
Lincoln, Neb
Supreme Court
Standard Oil Company
Galveston
Kruger
Lorenzo Marques
South African Republic
Europe
Herzog
Neitherlands
Viljoen
Spitzkop
Louis Botha
Transvaal
Hectorspruit
P. C. Chicago
Indianapolis
Detroit
Kansas City
Cleveland
Ener
Vanderbilts
Kid M'Coy
Grand Rapids
Brieres Marsh
Match & Foote
New York Stock Exchange
Earl of Dysart
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Optoerrs
Josefh KeeKk
Chas
H. Keer
CARI
Frank Syewart
I. M. Soroursy
Asst
W. Krer
E.R. Powers
Bega
Epodtal
Opera House
Tan
Harwood
South Side
Pratt
Optician
Johnson's Bakery
Baird & Bailey
A. S. Hays
Madelia
Ashby
Nicola
Casis
Temple Building
Miksch
Sonovan
Washington
E.G Mason
H. Knecht
Journal
T. M. Reynolds
M. L. Logan
J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Qopfior
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Washington, Iowa
W. H. Butterfield
Orall'satore
Iowa
W. E. Anderson
Klein's
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
Kirst
Joseph Pollard, Jr
Marsh W. Bailey
P. J. Hanley
Washington County Savings Bank
W. RK. Jeffrey
A. Anderson
I. T. Anderson
Jos. Krok
A. Waits
Krok
G. M. Ksow
Pimagross
Blair
A. H. Wallace
Josepe K H. Keck
L. ‘Js ‘Robinson, Frania
Henderser
T. J. Dempsey
Nortomb
Allen
Luic Pou
E. Dayton, Prop
Hotel Allen
Burlington
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