Allies reach Pekin amid relieved legations and quiet Yangtse
A despatch chain reports Pekin captured on August 15 with foreign legations safe. Japanese forces led by admiralry enter without resistance. casualties cited include over 600 Chinese and 100 others. British troops to land, Yangtze valley quiet after the advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy Department
Remey
United States
Chee Poo
London
Pekin
Shanghai
Berlin
Li Ming Chang
Yang Tse Valley
Georgia Militia Sent To Quell Liberty County Riot
Governor Candler ordered out the Liberty troop to aid Sheriff Brewer at Johnston Station fifty miles from Savannah after a riot between whites and blacks. Deputy Hendry reports killings, arson, and trains torn up as mobs rise. guards expected to restore order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Curtis
Liberty City
Fred
Lambert
Savanoubh
Florida and Western
Sheriff Brewer
G.N. Hendry
Liberty County
Fire Destroys Smithfield Business District In Smithfield
A blaze destroyed about a dozen buildings in Smithfield and nearly wiped out the town amid an August night fire at Peoria 40 miles east. The loss is estimated at 50,000 to 75,000 with insurance nearly covering it. The village lacks a fire department and authorities deem the fire incendiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Smithfield
Telegraphers Swindle Bankers in Uvalde Texas Swindle
Two telegraph operators swindled the Uvalde National Bank of $4500 by tapping wires and forging confirmation from J Woods and Sons of San Antonio. The crooks fled toward Mexico after the scam was executed and the theft was discovered when the San Antonio bank received the letter. Officials including Bank President Collier and Mayor Love met with attorneys and detectives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Uvalde National Bank
Uvalde
Memco
J. Woods & Sons
Uvalde Bank
Mexico
Collier
Love
Eva Kingsbury Freed After Murder Case Tie
Mrs Eva Kingsbury widow of Myron Kingsbury who was murdered July 30 in Ware Texas was discharged by Judge 8 R Scott. The court found insufficient evidence to hold her and ruled she was exempt as accessory due to her relation to the principal, her father, with no conspiracy proven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsbury
Ware
Texas
Eva Kingsbury
Myron Kingsbury
R. Scott
Scott
Irrigating Plant Planned for Wichita Valley Panhandle
Fort Worth August 18. Final details near on building an irrigation plant in Wichita valley Panhandle. Key backers include J L Kemper of Galveston Henry Sayles of Abilene and J A Kemp of Wichita Falls M Lasker of Galveston. Project cost 150000 to irrigate 5000 acres using about thirty miles of ditches and a 1500 2000 acre reservoir on Holliday creek above Wichita Falls with Nettleton of Denver and Elwood Mead of the United States as engineers. Main promoter Kemper already a Galveston millionaire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Fort Worth
Texas
Wichita Valley
JL. K. Kemper
Galveston
Henry Sayles
Abiline
J. A. Kemp
Wichita Walls
M. Lasker
Holliday Creek
Wichita Falls
Colonel Nettleton
Denver
Elwood Mead
United States
Kemper
Hold-Up in Dallas Ends With Robbery of $180
August 18 in Dallas Texas two white highwaymen stopped Colorado City traveler I W Meisenheimer on Pacific avenue presented a pistol and robbed him of 180 dollars. He identified the suspects who previously met him at a Port Worth railroad eating house asking for supper. Dallas police search for the men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
W. I. Meisenheimer
Colorado City
New Orleans
Pacific Avenue
Meisenheimer
Port Worth
Indian Famine Contributions Reported in Sherman Texas
Sherman residents donate to famine relief listing Second Baptist Church 110 dollars Travis Street Methodist 91 dollars First Presbyterian 15 dollars unknown subscriber 25 dollars and general subscription 66.85 dollars for a total of 568.85 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Texas
India
Second Baptist Church
Travis Street Methodist
Iet Presbyterian Church
Hoer Conspirators on Trial in Pretoria Court Martial
In Pretoria on August 16 the court martial of conspirators in the plot to kidnap General Lord Roberts began. The prisoners pleaded guilty but withdrew the plea at the court's suggestion, and the trial proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
Lord Roberts
China's Plea for Peace Terms Through US Officials
Li Hung Chang forwards to the United States a request to appoint Minister Conger or another American official to negotiate peace with China. The aim is to open talks, possibly at Pekin or Tien Tsin, to cease hostilities without specifying terms or demanding troop withdrawal. A similar request goes to other powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Li Hung Chang
United States
Conger
State Department
Li Huong Chang
Pekin Tien Tsin
Arl Li
Conflicting Reports On Empress Dowager In Pekin
London dispatch says conflicting reports claim whether the empress dowager and emperor remain in Pekin or have fled. Japanese telegrams assert they stayed. the Chinese minister in London says they fled before allied forces reached Hsian Su. A Boxer march to escort them to the south is reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tribune
London
Pekin
Hsian Su
Sheng Se
Times
Shanghai
Li Hing Chang
Manchuria
Nurse Bertha Hunt Found Dead After Disappearance
The body of Miss Bertha M. Hunt, a nurse at a city hospital on Blackwell's Island, was found in New York. She had lived with other nurses in the training school and had recently tended a patient who died of epilepsy, after which she vanished while saying she would fetch salt water to bathe her head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bertha M. Hunt
Blackwells’ Island
Miss Hunt
Chatham
N. Y
Tragic Well Deaths Hover Over Hot Springs Worksite
In Hot Springs Arkansas Geo Hudgins and Ike Chandler two well drillers died after gas suffocation trapped them in a central avenue well. Chandler attempted a rescue but succumbed to gas and fell breaking his neck as bystanders pulled both bodies from the pit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Ark
Geo. Hudgins
Ike Chandler
Central Avenue
Hudgins
Chandler
IH Ludgins
Work of a Fiend: Road Obstruction Found Near Lehigh Valley Line
A Wilkesbarre dispatch reports police officer Jacob Phillips spotted a thirty foot steel obstruction stretched from a rock embankment on the Lehigh Valley line just before a Buffalo express. Road workers removed the danger after it was exposed on the northern part of the city bridge over the rails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wilkesbarre
Buffalo Express
Jacob Phillips
Lehigh Valley Road
Immigration Association Report Highlights Coastal Prosperity
Hon M G Ranney secretary of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Immigration association returns from Corpus Christi Beeville and nearby locales noting widespread occupancy and prosperity along the coast. He reports truck garden potential drawing northern and western prospectors and announces fall and winter meetings at multiple locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yoakum
Texas
M. G. Ranney
San Antonio and
Aransas Pass
Corpus Christi
Beeville
Immigration Association
Farmer slaughters wife and children then flees toward Glencoe
Theodore Wallart, a Minnesota farmer eight miles from Arlington, killed his wife and four stepchildren with a butcher knife between 1 and 2 am. A fifth child was badly wounded. He set fire to barns and hid his bloody clothing as neighbors and Sheriff Gaffke organize a search toward Glencoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Minn
Theodore Wallart
Glencoe
Gaffke
Man Falls From Moving Train Near Dickinson
Ed Bartlett of Bartlett Texas fell from a northbound Missouri Kansas and Texas train just after crossing the Dickinson bayou bridge about 10:30 P M He sustained bruises but is not seriously hurt He was treated by Dr C B Garner and expects to return home with his brother tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickison
Texas
Ed Bartlett
Bartlett
Dickinson Bayou Bridge
C. B. Garner
Fatal shooting in Livingston leaves three dead and two wounded
In Livingston Texas on August 21 a clash involving Gabe and Cicero Capelana and John and Charles Balezy resulted in Gabe dead and Cicero fatally wounded. Charles Baker and John Baker were wounded with shots from a pistol and shotgun. An examining trial was waived and ball set at 1250 dollars for each defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livingston
Texas
Gabe
Cicero Capelana
John
Charles Balez
Cicero
Charles Baker
John Baker
Bob Hines Recaptured After 12 Years at Large
Bob Hines, colored, who was tried for murder in Jefferson Texas and sentenced to be hanged, broke jail before execution and fled. He has been recaptured and jailed at Clarkesville, awaiting return to the county. Convicted in 1888 for killing a prominent local Black man named Bailey, Hines was at large for twelve years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hines
Jefferson
Texas
Clarkesville
Bob
Bailey
Train wreck plot thwarted in Durant and Denison raid
Special agents from Missouri Kansas and Texas pursue suspects in the Durant Oklahoma incident. A second attempt to wreck a Katy passenger train was tipped off and prevented. Authorities in Denison Texas coordinate the investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denison
Texas
Missouri, Kansas
Durant
L. T
Katy
Sheriff Sho Dead In Oklahoma House Shooting
Wichita Kansas August 21 Mr Huff a cattleman and farmer was shot dead in his own house in Caster county Oklahoma by a shot fired through an open window. The herd law is blamed and more trouble is feared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sho
Wichita
Kan
Huff
Caster County
Oklahoma
Two Would-Be Kidnaper in Fort Brown Shooting
Brownsville Texas August 21 John Moore stationed at Fort Brown shot his wife a Mexican woman then shot himself Both believed to die jealousy cited as motive
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownasville
Texas
John Moore Colored
Fort Brown
Fire and siege engulf Pekin as empress blocked
Dispatches from Che Foo report street fighting and fires in Pekin with the empress Dowager blocked from leaving. Allied bombardment surrounds the inner city while Chinese viceroys threaten to withdraw if the empress is harmed. news notes lionized Russian actions and a captured Chin gan pass amid pursuit of Chinese forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bruce
Admiralty
Chee Foo
Pekin
Yang Sa
Bruces
Shanghai
Chang Chi Lung
Hankow
Liu Kun Yi
Nankin
Li Ping Hong
Cheng
Chang Lui Lin
Daily Express
Hong Kong
Nicholas
Linovitch
Pe Chi Li
St. George
Alexieff
Grodokoff
Amur
Chingan Pass
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Chicago
Burlington
Iowa
Commercial National Bank
City
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Adams Express Company
Buck’’ Taylor
King of
Rough Riders
Providence Hospital
Roosevelt
Taylor
Berry F. Tatum
Montgomery
Ala
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