Johannesburg Quiet After Arms Surrender and Occupation
London reports Lord Roberts says Johannesburg is calm as locals surrender arms and ponies amid the peaceful occupation. Three Boer guns remain, with Queenslanders capturing a Creusot and stores. Botha prisoners taken. proclamation of Orange River Colony welcomed. scenes of relief and royal salutes noted.
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London
Lord Lansdowne
Lord Roberta
Orange Grove
Johannesburg
Forte
Botha
Zoutpansburg
Orange Free State
Bloemfontein
Prettyman
Kelly Kenny
Orange River Colony
Reports from Lourenzo Marques on Pretoria and Johannesburg
Despatches from Lourenzo Marques dated June 4 summarize limited news from Pretoria and Johannesburg. British forces under Lord Roberts push operations east of the capital while refugees describe chaos and impending surrender, with significant Boer convoys and ongoing clashes around Senekal and Lindley.
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London
Pretoria
Lord Roberts
Johannesburg
Lourenzo Marques
Soorenzo Marques
Komati Poort
Middleburg
Macadasar
Lydenburg
Transvaal
Rundie
Senekal
Lindley
Committee To Probe Exorbitant Hotel Rates
Kansas City June 4 A national Democratic subcommittee will meet soon to review hotel rate claims. J J Swofford says compiled facts will be presented to show rates are not excessive. He notes a local hotel offers headquarter rooms at $1.25 daily European plan while first class hotels charge about $5 daily American plan for four per room.
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Kansas City
National Democratic Committee
J. J. Swofford
Virginia
Women mobbed as strike crowd attacks transit rider
Christine Thier an 18 year old servant is assaulted by about 2000 men after riding a St. Louis Transit car. She is struck bruised and robbed as she fights to reach a nearby house during the June 4 incident on Ninth street and Geyer avenue.
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Tug Anualley
Delmar Boulevard
Twelfth Street
Stella Roderick
Louis
St. Louis
Christine Thier
St. Louis Transit Company
Ninth Street
Geyer Avenue
Herg
Streeter Arrested on Conspiracy to Commit Murder Charge
Captain George Wellington Streeter of the District of Lake Michigan fame was arrested at the Tremont House lobby and taken to the East Chicago Avenue station on a warrant for conspiracy to commit murder. He offered no opposition and claimed no involvement in the Niles lake front land descent, alleging any conspiracy lies between property owners and Lincoln Park officials.
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Curiaco
George Wellington Streeter
Lake Michigan
East Chicago Avenue
Tremont House
Streeter
Niles
Lake Front
Lincoln Park
Major Marsh Fights Aguinaldo Force North of Manila
Major Marsh and 150 men clash with Aguinaldo party 100 miles north of Manila near Lagat on May 19. An officer is killed or wounded and a body removed. Marsh pursues traces along rivers to Aparri, with no conclusive sighting of Aguinaldo or his adjutant.
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Manila
Major Marsh
Thirty-third Regiment
Aguinaldo
Lagat
Labuso
Philippines
Beveridge
Marsh
Tiso
Marsly
Aparri
COMMISSION AT MANILA ARRIVES FOR MACARTHUR CEREMONY
The Philippine commission arrives aboard the Hancock from San Francisco on April 17. General MacArthur and staff greet the commissioners at the palace with a band and two infantry companies. Judge William H Taft presides as the group proceeds to select land dwellings for residence.
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Malta
United States
Hancock
San Francisco
Philippine Commission
General MacArthur
Palace
Twenty-sixth Infantry
MacArthur
William H. Taft
Louis Klopsch Reports From Famine Districts in Bombay Presidency
Louis Klopsch of New York publisher of The Christian Herald returns from May 14 to a famine tour across Gujarat Barolda and Bombay presidency. He cites cholera smallpox and mass deaths with up to 10 000 daily road station deaths and 99 percent hospital death rates in Godhera and Dorhad describing desperate beggars and corpses as ordinary scenes while accusing native officials of inefficiency and predicting worse when the monsoon comes.
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Bombay
Jane
Louis K Klopsch
New York
The
Christian Herald
Bombay Presidency
Gujerat
Barolda
Godhera
Dorhad
Ahmedabad
Visgarama
Farmers Expect Record Kansas Wheat Harvest This Year
Topeka reports Kansas farmers will start harvest next week with a forecast of the state’s largest wheat crop. Secretary Coburn cites 4,685,819 winter wheat acres and an expected yield higher than 18 bushels per acre, potentially totaling about 85,000,000 bushels if yields match 1892. The crop is in excellent condition.
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Topeka
Kan
Farmers of
Kansas
Coburn
State Board of Agriculture
New Cavalry Plan Aims at Philippine Rebellion
Washington reports a revised war department tactic to quell the uprising in the Philippines. Several cavalry regiments will be sent to Manila this summer and, after the rainy season ends, mounted operations will strike insurgents. Major General MacArthur endorses the approach, noting good subsistence and supplies for troops in the field.
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Washington
War Department
Philippines
Manila
MacArthur
Department
Roosevelt signs Neeley extradition papers
Governor Roosevelt has signed the Neeley extradition papers and they have been forwarded to Washington.
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Neeley
Washington
New Yorke
Jane 4
Roosevelt
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