Butte Detective Drama Ends With Dishwashers Motive
In Butte the second chapter of a Florence hotel plot ends as dishwasher John Traynor confessing to selling Anna Smith's gold swatch. Traynor fled to Helena seeking money to tide him over, claiming deception about his detective role and planning to redeem the watch. Anna Smith assisted by reporting the theft to police.
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The Capture of Pekin Continues Across Nations
Representatives of various nations pledge to adopt a common course as tensions rise over Pekin. The British object and threaten to withdraw troops already prepared to land, signaling possible escalation.
Japanese Advices on Allied Movements at Yangtsun
A Japanese telegram from Tokio reports that at a conference on July 7 forces led by Japan would push toward Pekin aiming to reach Tungchow. Russians, British and Americans follow. French stay at Tungtsan due to commissary shortages. Austrians, Italians and Germans retreat from Tientsin. Russian engineers and troops prepare rail repairs toward Yangtsun and Shanhaikwan. Li Ping Heng arrives in Pekin with ten thousand men and departs with them. empress dowager may seek refuge at Tatuentu in Shansi.
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Missionaries Murdered Abroad Shock Toronto
A cablegram reports two American missionary women killed by fusors in Shanghai. Miss H. J. Rice, from Lichen, and Miss M. E. Huston, from Lachen, are named in the message sent to the Chinese Inland Mission. The report adds few details and awaits confirmation.
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Missionary deaths cited in Inland Mission report
The article notes Mrs E J Cooper of Luchen and three Saunders children died from injuries while traveling. Other missionaries Misa Rive Haydenville Mage and Miss Huston Mobile Ala went to China in 1894. It lists several dispatches from Shanghai and global reactions to the Chinese campaign with Allied troop movements and naval actions.
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Population of Greater New York rises to 2 million
The census office announced at Washington that Greater New York comprising Manhattan and the Bronx has a population of 2,050,500. Manhattan accounts for 1,890,008 people and the Bronx for 209,507.
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Harber Acquitted in Sunday Barber Law Case
Willam Heller was tried today before a jury in Twin Bridges for violating the Sunday barber law and was acquitted. Special Dispatch to the Standard reports the verdict.
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Hoaxed geology tales spur fossil toad myths in press
Ossian Guthrie reflects on bogus stories of buried animals like a live toad found in a road cut near West Roxbury and other relics such as trilobites and a flintlock pistol. He notes many readers believe such yarns, while experts debunk them as misinterpretations of natural processes and pranks.
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Chinese Cruel by Nature Massacre of Foreigners Cited
The Chicago Chronicle recalls Taiping era stratagems to illustrate a view of Chinese brutality. It cites 1862 desertion ruse by Chung Wang’s forces causing mass slaughter of imperial troops, with thousands killed in Henan and Shanghai.
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Place feigns surrender amid imperialist ambush
The article recounts feigned surrender by a leader to lure imperialists into a trap. Rebels sweep in with overwhelming force and slaughter 1500 loyal troops. It notes internal Chinese warfare with vast captives butchered after strongholds fell.
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Foolhardy Lion Hunt in Central Africa Chronicle
An account from the Chicago Chronicle recalls a hunter’s perilous encounter with lions near a central African settlement. Amid chaos and wounded huts, the beasts roamed the area while hunters and Black porters fled or hid.
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All Driven Out By Smoke from New Orleans Fire Patrol
A New Orleans fire patrol member recalls how even small smoke can render a room uninhabitable. He describes experiences with pepper smoke in a spice factory and strong odors in a grocery fire, noting different smoke quality and the dangers they pose to outsiders and firemen.
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Deliverance Island a Storied Ocean Refuge
An old seaman describes Deliverance Island in Torres Strait as a barren refuge like a mound 30 feet high. A cave on one side held tins of preserved meat, biscuits, tobacco and a wooden box marked post office used by ships in distress and shipwrecked crews.
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Flag and Stripes Haul Past French Tides at Strategic Stronghold
The last ship through the straits raised the American flag over the greet storehouse and post office, signaling a symbolic shift from French influence to United States presence in a historic maritime moment. The act underscored a transition of control as ships pass through a vital chokepoint.
Glass eyes as collateral in a drunken stake seizure
In a St Louis summer garden anecdote, J J Jaxon recalls a night when Lou Raymond George Denham Jack Cheviot Phil Branson and others used bodily prosthetics as security for drinks. They laid eyes teeth a wooden hand on the table to obtain credit from a surprised waiter.
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Jack Cheviot
Phil Branson
Chemical foods in Germany and nitrogen sources
Consul Hughes reports from Coburg on chem ical foods in Germany notes that vegetarian critics blame meat abstention for feebleness and that physiologists seek new nitrogen sources. The artificial food industry grows in dye works with albumen as a key material and secret mixtures. tropes of Professor are mentioned.
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Food Chemistry Terms From German Research Notes
Finkler of Bonn discusses albumen rich foods with one third animal and two thirds vegetable albumen. Somatose and tannin milk somatose from Elberfeld Farbenwerks are praised for solubility and cost. Hochst and Sal Kow sky niters claim casein compounds with sodium or ammonium in their products.
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Foreseen Chinese Uprising Warned by Gordon
Sir William Howard Russell recounts Gordon’s warning that a vast Chinese rebellion could arise as millions resist European pressure. He cautions that China will arm and train with European aid, ending British and French military marches through the countryside.
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France
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Wit Him on the Nose Tit Bita item
A brief Tit-Bita item describes Willie Tommy James striking with an apple on the nose in a playful dispute. The note hints at a parental question and confirms the nose crack as unintentional.
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