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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
6
Experience shows most diseases originate in stomach and digestive organs. The stomach nourishes brain nerves and muscles. when 'out of order' nourishment is incomplete, causing pain as a warning. Golden Medical Discovery purportedly cures head heart liver lungs by correcting stomach function and blood purification without alcohol or narcotics.
Theodore Wallert a Minnesota farmer killed his wife and two stepchildren then set fire to his barn destroying nine horses a corn crib and a hay barn damaging the property and injuring a 19 year old stepson The wife had sought divorce and barricaded access before Wallert entered by a window and carried out the killings The baby and a girl died and a second boy was seriously wounded hospitalized and feared to die
In Gretna, a prairie village 45 miles southwest of Omana, citizens patrol the Figg residence to shield Louis Figg and his wife from mob violence feared after a March incident where a masked mob tarred and feathered them. Residents fear a repeat or possible lynching as tensions rise.
Telegraph reports from Aug 20 say allied forces continue bombardment of Beijing fortifications as the dowager empress and emperor reportedly left Peking days earlier. Japanese cavalry pursue the empress and her train said to have reached Wa Tai San in Shan Si. British troops land at Shanghai with a detachment of French marines. Casualties among Americans in Peking listed, with several wounded or killed, as dispatches note escape toward Sian Fu and ongoing mobility of imperial family.
A Mrs. Charles Denby Jr letter from Tien Tain details June 15 fires and Boxer attacks. 1,700 Russian troops arrived two days before alarm and, after fierce fighting with 5,000 Chinese forces, saved the residents. Reinforcements later arrived from Takah and the town hall housed survivors in Gordon Hall for ten days.
The Tradesman reports new industries across multiple states including fire brick plants in Tennessee and Maine, car and foundry shops at Pensacola, several cotton mills in the South, oil mills and fertilizer works, flouring and furniture plants, and a $250,000 mining venture in Macon. Lord Roberts dispatch notes Hamilton capturing Krupp guns and Boer surrenders. Gerald found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years. Shekib Bey named Turkish minister to the United States.
Washington and Peking both seek a negotiated end to the Chinese conflict. Li Hung Chang asks the United States to appoint a peace commissioner to open talks for an international congress to settle terms, with similar appeals from Earl Li to other powers. President McKinley considers proposing a congress seated in China to recommend solutions to all governments.
Wo Ting Fang asserts China recognizes the emperor and empress dowager as rulers with the gatekeeping power in Peking. He sees no internal revolt and expects no removal of the current ruler by foreign powers, while not knowing terms or proposals from Li Hung Chang or the allies.
Lonpoy Aug 00 Military men here are impressed by accounts of Japanese bravery and efficiency in the recent war with China. A British naval officer attached to the Japanese HQ said their steadiness and clash rival European regiments. In brief operations they have covered themselves with honor, notably at the battle of Ploteang where Japanese cavalry charged a Chinese battery. They are praised for valor though their impetuosity costs men.
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