Stock Market Slows as Traders Eye Politics and Dividends
The Boston market opens slightly lower yet closes fractionally higher as the Wormser group lifts sugars and Southern Pacific shares. Dividend news from Chicago & Eastern Illinois and International Paper dominates while talks of rate harmonization among Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Oregon Navigation circulate, and Tow Boat Company expands capital to 1.25 million with a new stock offer.
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Wormser
Southern Pacific
London
New York
Bryan
Atchison
Kansas
J. R. Keene
Europe
Dominion Coal
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Illinois
St. Louis Southwestern
Terre Haute
Terre Haute & Chicago
St. Paul
Wall Street
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Oregon Navigation
trans-Pacific
International Paper Company
Corinth
WN. Y
Bay State Gas Company of
Delaware
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of
Real Estate Trust Company of
Philadelphia
Boston
Boston Tow Boat Company
Alfred Winsor
Boston Tow Boat Company Zar
Montana
Boston Elevated
Iowa Central
Louisville & Nashville
Manhattan
Minn
St Louis
Missouri Pacific
New Jersey Central
New York Centra Scene
Norfolk & Western
Pennsylvania
St Louis Southwestern
Senewees
St Paul * Ee Railway
Texan 'S Pacific
Union
Anaconda Mining Co
Brooklyn Ranta
Ransit
Colorado Tuel & Tron
Continental Tobacco
General Electric
International Paper
National Steel Pacific Mall
People's Gas
Pullman Palace
Republic Iron & Bteel
Il Standard Rope & Twine
Tenn Coal & Iron
United States
Western Union
Bonds Redeemed By International Paper Company Trustee
Continental Trust Company of New York trustee announces redemption by lot of bonds issued under the 1808 Deed of Trust. Bonds Nos. 22 62 53 97 103 109 156 158 175 to be redeemed August 31 1900 with accrued interest. Interest ceases on that date.
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International Paper Company
Ted
Copsinental Trust Company
New York
Trunteety
New Forts
Broad Street
N. Y
Dividend Notice from Ad Co at 7 Exchange Place
The Ad Co announces its usual monthly 1 percent dividend on the Preferred Stock dated August 26, 1900. William H. Walker serves as treasurer. Directors of the Boston-Cherokee company oversee the distribution.
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AD CO
Exchange Place
Roome In
Mass
Ug. 26
William H. Walker
Mi Bie
Market Closing Totals and Prices for Bonds and Stocks
Boston reports today’s high and low sales and closing bids and asks. Ex dividend assessment paid totals show listed bonds at 18,000, listed stocks at 6,227 shares, and unlisted stocks at 23,834 shares.
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Boston
B&q
Cc & W
Cr&m
Fre & E H
Ave KC
Stj &C
Allouez Mint Eee
Gk Am Ag
Eaee
Amel & Tel
Anaconda Mining
Eeee Sane O
Balto Reat
General Eleotr Pace
Isle Royale Mining
Mass Electric
Rae Mass Mining
Johan “Toy
Mergenthaler
I “Iy
Michigan Mini
Mohawk
Montana
E Gas & Coke
New England
Colony
Rhode Teland
Santa Fe
Tamarack Mi
Tecumseheee
Torrington
Trimountain
Union Pacific Esee
United Fruit
Eae
United Shoes
Utah Mining
Ex-dividend Hits Rail Stocks On New York Exchange
Railroad shares fall after ex-dividend dates noted on the New York Stock Exchange. Traders watch earnings, investor demand, and policy signals shaping sector outlook as rail equities react to dividend timing.
Railroad yard clerk fatally hurt near South Terminal
Malachi Hanley, 21, of 147 Boylston Avenue, a yard clerk at the South Terminal, was struck by a train yesterday in the yard with his back turned. He stepped onto the track as an engine approached and could not be seen by the engineer. His head injury left his condition dangerous at City Hospital last night.
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South Terminal
Malachi Hanley
Boylston Avenue
Hanley
City Hospital
Beaver Street
Berkshire
Illiamstown
Richards
Pittsfield
Somerville Socialist caucuses report sparse turnout
The first Socialist Labor party caucuses in Somerville saw voting in five wards with 22 ballots cast. Wards 4 and 7 had no voters, while Ward 1 produced five votes, Ward 2 six, Ward 3 four, Ward 6 six and Ward 5 one, a distribution described from last evening’s event.
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Somerville
Socialist Labor Party
Conger Describes Situation After Pekin Developments
A State Department despatch publicized late today outlines the latest conditions in Pekin and notes urgent communications with Chinese officials. Mr Conger, acting as the United States representative, reported that translation work on the Chinese reply consumed the day before dispatch.
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Conger
Pekin
State Department
Imperial Bank Looted Amid Siege Fire at Pekin
A Morning Post despatch from Pekin dated August 16 reports an attack on the imperial capital by about 1500 Americans, capturing four courts and seizing the imperial bank and granary. The siege produced heavy casualties among U S Army units including the Fourteenth Infantry and First Infantry with multiple wounded and serious injuries.
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London
Pekin
Imperial Bank
Morni Post
Tsun IA Yamen
Chaos and Allied Control in Pekin Amid Boxers and War News
Reports from Pekin dated August 17 18 describe city occupation by Allied forces except the imperial palace with police districts. Chinese army fled the imperial family gone and no government representatives visible. Casualties in a brush with Boxers near Tianjin and updates on telegraph links and Chaffee’s headquarters frame a long mission ahead.
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Pekin
Washington
Imperial Palace
Bron Yiin Si An
Dean's Ointment Ad Promises Quick Cures
An old advertisement promises relief for itching piles with Dean's Ointment as a reliable remedy. It claims success at any drug store for 50 cents and urges immediate purchase.
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Dean
Chaffee Casualties Reported From Aug. 14 15 Actions
War Department release from General Chaffee lists Aug. 14 casualties across units including Four teenth Infantry men Parle Higgin Troutman Sawyer Hopkins Whitehead Foulkes and Farrar. Nanney in Battery F serious chest wound. Smedley Butler chest wound. one noted discrepancy with William Parle possibly intended for William Earle. Aug. 15 casualties follow.
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Washington
War Department
Chaffee
Fourteenth Infantry
William Parle
Adjutant-General's Office
William W. Earle
John Hauser
Buttock
Omas H. Higgin
August B. Troutman
George P. Farrar
Frank W. Green
Fighting Down the River report from Tien Tsin area
Washington dispatches detail Allied actions near Tien Tsin on Aug 19 20 with Chinese forces repelled and British American Japanese troops advancing to the imperial city. Casualties include American and Allied losses. Chinese fatalities numbered in the hundreds as forces moved toward Pekin. Other cables note German delays due to rain and logistics reaching Pekin with troops and supplies.
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London
Tien Tsin
Bruce Wires
Berlin
German War Office
Taku
Pekin
Yang Tsun
Imperial Canal
Washington
War Department
Ray
Opten Tsin
Grant
Manila
Escape of Missionaries From Pekin Refuge Hailed
A cable from Che Foo reports Pekin and Tung Chow missionaries including Ament Ewing and their families, plus Chapins Wycoffs and Galt, saved after taking refuge with Abbie Chapin and others. Pang Chuang and Lin Ching workers also sheltered. note on Rev KE Ewing’s relation to Rev G H Ewing.
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American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Che Foo
Pekin
Tung Chow
Thung
Chapins
Smiths
Wycoffs
Fowlers
W. S. Ament
C. E. Ewing
Ada Haven
Nellie Russell
J. L. Mateer
Ma E. Andrews
Jane C. Evans
Abbie G. Chapin
Chauncey Goodrich
D. D
Lueila Miner
E. G. Tewksbury
Oward S Galt
Pang Chuang
Arthur H. Smith
E. Gertrude
H. Grace Wycoff
Lin Ching
F. M. Chapin
KE. Ewing
G. H. Ewing
Missionaries in Pekin Report Safer After Siege
The Rev. A B Leonard of the Methodist Missionary Society received a cablegram from Pekin stating Pekin relieved and all mission members safe and well. It was signed by the Rev. George Davis and the Rev. F D Gamewell. E G Tewksbury is noted as son of George H Tewksbury of 200 Summer Street Boston. The group included eighteen missionaries in Pekin during the siege.
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Danvers
E. G. Tewksbury
George H. ‘Tewksbury
200 Summer Street, Boston
New York
A. B. Leonard
Methodist Missionary Society
Question of indemnity guides U S China policy in 1900s
Washington states it will demand only enough indemnity to aid American victims with family support, likely around twenty million dollars. It favors reparations as Chinese concessions to free trade over large payments and may back an international board for Chinese finance, while reserving the right to dissent from commission conclusions.
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Washington
China
United States
America
International Board of Control
McKinley
Missionary Returns Home From China Boxer Uprising
Dr N B Hopkins missionary to China arrives at WHLLFLEET with his wife after a fourteen year absence. He describes the Boxer uprising driven by anti foreign sentiment, rail and river disruptions, looted stores, and attacks on missionaries. He recalls the last Pekin flight and escape via the final train to Tianjin.
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Whllfleet
Hopkins
China
Pekin
Pao Ting Fu
Feng Tai
Tien Tsin
Fae
Miranda
Shanghai crisis prompts Asia association alert
Cable from Shanghai reports Yangtze valley danger escalating with an estimated 15 000 troops needed to defend Shanghai. U S responses move through secretary of state. Also a Che Foo letter praises Consul Fowler amid refugee turmoil and calls him the only effective consul.
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Shanghai
Che Foo Saga
New York
American Asiatic Association
American Association of China
Yang Tse Valley
Sey
Leonard
Frederick Brown
Che Foo
Fowler
United States
Cable lines open from Che Foo to Taku to Pekin
Wires now run to Pekin as the Northern Company reports the Che Foo to Taku cable is open for business and messages may be sent to Tien Tsun. A military line to Pekin is in operation but likely to suffer interruptions due to pole shortages and other conditions. The War Department signals office has been notified and expects improved news access.
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Atlantic
Boston Consolidated
J. P. Morgan & Co
Boston & Maine
Boston
the Herald
New York Stock Exchange
Trimountain
Centennial Mine
Elm River Mining Company
Washington
War Department
General Chaffee
Pekin
War Dene
Real Northern Company
Che Foo
Taku
Tien ‘Tsin
Scriven
Department
Chaffee Thanks War Department for China Victory
The War Department quotes Major General Chaffee in Pekin via Taku praising the American forces in China. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, congratulates Chaffee and his officers and men while mourning fallen comrades and expresses national pride and gratitude.
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Washington
War Department
Chaffee
Pek‘n
Taku
China
Elihu Root
Troop Movements to China Reported from San Francisco
Aug 22. In China theater now operate the Ninth Infantry with eight companies of the Fourteenth Infantry Battery F Fifth Artillery eight troops of the Sixth Cavalry and four companies of the Fifteenth Infantry recently arrived. Also at sea bound for China are four batteries of the Third Artillery Company E of the engineers four troops of the Third Cavalry eight troops of the First Cavalry and eight troops of the Ninth Cavalry.
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San Francisco
China
Ninth Infantry
Fourteenth Infantry
Fifth Artillery
Sixth Cavalry
Fifteenth Infantry
Third Artillery
Engineers
Third Cavalry
First Cavalry
Ninth Cavalry
Fayerweather will case reopened after eight years of dispute
Judge Liscombe signs orders reopening the Fayerweather will case and allows examination of the validity of releases by the widow and next of kin. Daniel B. Fayerweather died in 1890 with a 6 million dollar fortune, about 3 million of which went to specific bequests including 2.2 million to twenty colleges and five hospitals. The Thorp & Martin Co offers unmounted photo albums at unusually low prices in a clearance sale, advertised in a separate column.
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New York
Fayerweather
Liscombe
Daniel B. Fayerweather
Thorp & Martin Company
Trail of Fosburgh murder suspects widens With new clues
Pittsfield reporters report two fresh clues in the Fosburgh murder case. A black mask and a broken fish line with a cork were found near Newell street suggesting the killers fled toward Berkshire Hills. Police released 27 prisoners but kept six, while searches span Adams Lenox and Williamstown with Pinkertons aiding.
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Post
John Touse
Newell Street
Beaver Street
Touse
Housatonic River
House Place
King Oscar Acts as Arbiter in Samoa Compensation
King Oscar has formally agreed to arbitrate the claims for compensation filed by British and German subjects and American citizens over losses in Samoa. The arrangement was announced in Stockholm on August 22.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Oscar
Samoa
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Wilson W. Fay & CO
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George O. Fox
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George C. Kauffman
Henry J. Kysela
Charles Morgan
Ora F. Tyler
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Remey
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Tien T’sin
Signal Office
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Ence
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Pemce
Count
Vong Walderses
Daily Mail
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Daily Graphic
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Russia
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Li Hyng Chang
George King
John L. Lynch
Carey L. Durbin
Thomas A. Lanker
Thomas King
Liam B. Hoffman
Cook
Henry G. Davies
Lee Doyle
Edward B. Mitchell
Worcester
Martin A. Silk
Norton
Silkin Spencer
Elwood G. Tewksbury
Chaffee’s
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Wellfleet
Miss Fosburgh
Price
Slayers
May L. Fosburgh
Fosburgh
Church Street
Robert 8. Fosburgh
Morningside
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John Fleming
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