Legations Alive as Allied Advance Moves on Peking
reports from Chefoo and London confirm the legations at Peking remain safe as the Allied forces press toward the capital. The dispatches describe fevers and fears, with Japanese strength increasing and German commander von Lessel designated to lead the allied corps.
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Washington
Corbin
Coolidge
Tien-Tsin
Chen
Shiba
Mudattache
Peking
Tiere
Legation
Claude ‘Macdonald
Llao
War Department
Chefoo China
Conger
Daggett
Wintshire
iCertain
London
Duncan Campbell
Europe
Chinese Customs Service
Chefdo
Sir Robert Hart
Robert Bredon
Shanghai
Oo A Lok
Berlin
von Lessel
China
William
Wang ''Sun
Hosvever
Life in a Detroit Barn Ends in Child’s Death
Coroner Hoffmann investigated a death at 738 Abbott Street where a mother and two children lived in a brick barn rented due to poverty. A baby died in spasms as the sick mother, who had worked in a cigar factory, watched helplessly. The father, Sam Lerneault, left the family last March and did not return.
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Detroit
Hoffman
Abbott Street
Bache
Sam Lernesult
Sam
Lerneault
Fire Strikes Carnival Coach in Racine Parade
A decorated carnival coach caught fire during a Racine Wisconsin parade last week endangering passengers. Francis B. Johnson leading a party including Mr and Mrs George W Peck Jr Griffin McClellan Miss Linda Lee and Miss Annie Kimball freed passengers and halted the flames as the coach burned completely.
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Serses
Racine
Wis
Aug
Tiancis B. Johnson
Johnson
George W. Peck, Jr
Milwaukee
Griffith McClellan
Linda Lee
Louisvile
Annie Kimball
Kenosha
Peck
McClellan
Dixon Lost to Sullivan in Knockout After Arm Break
New York Aug 1 George Dixon fought Tommy Sullivan of Brooklyn at Coney Island. Dixon broke his left arm in two places near the end of the sixth round and the referee stopped the bout. Sullivan was declared the winner as Dixon could not continue. In a separate note Patriot Indiana Aug 1 the City of Louisville steamer sank after striking a snag near Home City tearing a hole in its bottom causing panic among a troupe and fainting among actresses and a band playing Home Sweet Home.
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Tommy Sullivan
New York
George Dixon
Brooklyn
Coney ‘Island
Sam’ O'Rourke
Dixon
Sullivan
Nixon
Patriot
Ind
Louisville
Price
Olympia
Delhi
Political Debate Set Between Dolliver and Shayson at Lithia Springs
Reports from Pana Illinois Aug 1 note Representative Dolliver of Iowa and Jerry Shayson of Kansas to clash in a political debate at Lithia Springs assembly. Local McKinley women clubs form in every township, with 150 members in the core group and drum corps activity planned for campaign involvement.
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Pana
Ills
Representative Dolliver
Lowa
Jerry Shayson
Kansas
Lithia Springs
Studi
Womans McKinley Club
Hhe
Woman’s McKinley Club
Ridpath 19 More Was A Hoosier Born And Bred
John Clark Ridpath historian and author died at Presbyterian Hospital New York at 5 30 p m after a long illness He was born in April 1841 in Putnam County Indiana and educated at Old Asbury later DePauw University He published landmark works including Academic History of the United States and Great Races of Mankind He served as professor at DePauw before turning to full time authorship and briefly ran for Congress in Indiana
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New York
Juhhn Clark Ridpath
Presbyterian Hospital
S. FE. Ridpath
John Clark Ridpath
Putnam County
Ind
Christianburg
Samuel Matthews
Virginia
Old Asbury
Asbury
Depauw) University
Thorntown
Mnclare Ridpaths
Lawrenceburg
Depauw
United States
Garfield
James G. Blaine
Glad” Stone
Webster's Dictionary
Tle
Arena Magazine
Boston
Indiana
Chicago
Phladelphia
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Pittshburg
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Buffalo
Milwaukee
Detroit
Indianapolis
Miller
Springfield
Mass
Harry Caldwell
Charles Miller
Coliseum Board
Berry Picking Boys Report Ragilor Kidnapers Camp Near Lenz Station
Three boys berry picking near Lenz Station claim they found a camp of kidnapers. A man pursued them into the woods and a man and woman stood at a central clearing with six chained children. They escaped and reported the sighting, wary that gypsies may have abducted children elsewhere.
Broom corn supply tightens as prices climb
Evansville reports broom corn half short with prices at 150 dollars a ton. Factories shift to campaign brooms while crop yields decline nationwide from Illinois to Texas, with harvest not reaching factories until November. Other items note a tragic trap accident in Ohio and mixed agricultural market data from Chicago and St Louis.
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Evansville
Ind
Central Ilinois
Kansas
Texas
McKinley
Bryan
Colorado
Middleport
Sanborn
Harley Sanborn
Career of Cuthbert Forging a Note and Nerve to Enduring Punishment
Chicago, Aug. 1. Willam C. G. Cuthbert, once worth a half million, was sentenced to life in the state penitentiary for forgery after years of evading punishment. He explained his rise from a broker handling large sums to debt and crime, admitting debts left by his father and a past bank arrest over a forged check that led to this conviction.
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Chicago
Willam CG
Cuthbert
State
Hutchinson
Relly
Rima
Brad Street
Northwestern Bank
Man Who Owed Many and Fled Chicago Detectives
The narrative recounts Cuthbert’s claim of debtors in Chicago and travel to Central and South America to avoid payment. He details tactics to elude police, his return to Chicago, and a forged $700 check case in March 1898. His bond and subsequent fugitive life are noted, with references to his father General Joseph Cuthbert.
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Chicago
Central
South America
Englewood
Illinois
Minneapolis
Avonsburg
Courship of Twenty Years Ends in Blind Couple’s Wisconsin Marriage
In Fort Atkinson Wisconsin Carrie M Anderson and John H Cummings both blind after a twenty year courtship with thrice weekly letters have wed. The ceremony at a band minister’s hands and the witnesses were sightless. Anderson from Fort Dodge Indiana, Cummings a Janesville resident and carpet weaver.
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Wisconsin
Fort Atkinson
Wis
Carrie M. Anderson
John H. Cummings
Janesville
Fort Dodge
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