Beauty Swindler Strikes Boston Hotels
A stylish woman swindler, dubbed Mrs Charles Longworth of Cincinnati, fleeces hotel guests in Boston after robbing Kenny & Clark stables of a bay mare, harness, and Stanhope. Police trace keys to a South End hotel but she escapes. Chapter Two opens with her disappearance and another potential mark.
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Boston
Charles Longworth
Cincinnati
Newport
Kenny & Clark
Spider Stanhope
Essex
South End
the Essex
The
Massachusetts Avenue
Stanhope
Flood Opens Tremont Street Main Geyser Floods City Streets
A broken water main near Tremont and Boylston sent a giant geyser and flood through Washington Eliot Lagrange Kneeland and Beach streets. Cellars of Cobb Aldrich Browning King Co. flooded as the subway suffered damage. Responders arrived late as streets filled and a lake formed along Tremont.
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Tremont
Boylston
Eliot
Tremont Street
Touraine
Eliot Street
Washington Street
Lagrange Street
Kneeland Street
Harrison Avenue
Washington
Lagrange
Remont
Kneeland
Beach Streets
Water Department
Lagrange and
Eiot Streets
Elliot Street
Eliot and
Lagrange Streets
Cobb, Aldrich & Co
Browning, King & Co
Beach Street
Cobb
Clearing forecast for Wednesday to Thursday
Local forecast notes clearing weather Wednesday morning followed by fair skies Thursday with warmer temperatures. Easterly winds shift to variable by Thursday night.
Provisions Short as Pekin Crisis Deepens
Cable from Minister Conger reports Chinese government demands for foreign departure from Pekin. He notes daily rifle fire, scarce ammunition and provisions, and execution of two Yamen ministers. U S legation members remain safe as siege pressure grows.
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United States
Message to Japanese Consul Reports Pekin Ministers Safe
Shanghai dispatch says Pekin foreign ministers were safe Aug. 1 but faced renewed attack imminently. Reported supplies were dwindling with twenty five cartridges each and six days of provisions. Japanese secretary died of wounds.
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Shanghai
Pekin
Li Hung Chang Says The Chinese Must Fight
Li Hung Chang declares Chinese must resist any advance by allied troops and rejects entering Pekin to escort ministers to Tien Tsin. Washington reports a direct Conger cable from Pekin and a White House conference with President to discuss the despatches.
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Li Hung Chang
Pei Tsang
Chaffee
London
Pekin
Tien Tsin
Washington
State Department
Conger
Fpekin
White House
Atlee
Root
Corbin
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Imperial
Dq diUdtlon
Ftecarious
Lin Chia Fui
Hong Kong
Boxer Society
Vorenberg
Washington, Hanover and
Elmets
Waitt & Bond’s
Blackstone Cigar
Siren
Broken Main
Tremont and
Boylston Streets
Fellner’s Restaurant
Water St
Canton
Department
Telegraph Company
Tesi Nan
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