Battle of Ping Yang crushes Chinese defenses in Korea
A Central News despatch from Seoul reports a large Japanese victory at Ping Yang. Japanese columns surround and rout Chinese forces, capturing stores and hundreds of colors. About 230 Chinese killed. many captured or surrendered. Japanese praise from Marshal Yamagata and Emperor.
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London
Seoul
Ping Yang
Pong-San
Taitong River
Li Hung Chang
Hiroshima
Count Yamagata
Yamagata
Tokio
Shanghai Mercury
Ping-Yang
Yokohama
Tien-Tsin
Orders to China for Machias and Detroit
Secretary Herbert after a brief talk with Secretary Gresham issued preliminary orders for the steamships Machias and Detroit to prepare for China. Machias to be commissioned in New York and sail in about three weeks once joined by Detroit, with Vatican and Columbian relics aboard, reaching China early December. Concord, Petrel, and Monocacy whereabouts noted in Asia.
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Washington
Herbert
Gresham
United States
Machias
Detroit
China
New York
Norfolk
Chicago
Spain
Cadiz
Vatican
Rome
State Department
Asia
Navy Department
Nagasaki
Concord
Yokohama
Chemulpo
Tien-Tsin
Man fatally struck by ricochet during army drill
Lynn Sept 17 James Madden was killed when a rifle discharged by Private Loraine J Harvey struck the wall and fragments pierced Madden’s brain. Spectator Michael McIntee and janitor Carr were slightly injured. Private Harney was arrested as crowds watched drill of Companies P and I at the Eighth Regiment armory.
Positively the Last Newport Excursion From Boston
The Newport excursion on Thursday Sept 20 will be the season finale from Boston to Newport by New York New Haven Hartford rail road. Depart Park square at 9 30 a m 1 round trip fare 1. The special will call at Fall River wharf for viewing the steamboat Pris cilla of the Fall River line. Tickets are strictly limited and should be secured early.
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Newport
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Boston
Park Square
Fall River
Garment Strike Threat Looms Over City Workforce
About 4000 garment workers in the city brace for a strike within 24 hours after a mass meeting at Wells Memorial Hall. Delegates plan to push a price list demanding higher weekly wages and structured pay scales across jobs, with 3000 plus workers ready to walk out if contractors do not sign.
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Wells Memorial Hall
Isaac Hann
Isaac Goldberg
New York Garment Workers
Boston Garment Workers
United Garment Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
Eliot Street
Flags of Five Massachusetts Regiments Returned From Civil War
Mass veterans at the State House view the returned regimental flags from the Fifteenth Nineteenth Twenty-third and Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Regiments lost at Petersburg in 1864. They recall the battles linking Petersburg to Antietam and Gettysburg as they study the relics bore by old comrades.
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Antietam
Massachusetts
State House
Petersburg
Washington
Adams
Dorie Hall
Congress
Secretary of War
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Grant
Lee
Butler
Burnside
Richmond
Fort Darling
Drury’s Bluff
Twenty-third Massachusetts
Tain Adams
Libby
Fifty-eighth
James
Cemetery Hill
Fifty-eighth Massachusetts
Gettysburg
United States
Maryland
Abraham Lincoln
Commonwealth
Greenhalge
Boston
Shoreham Hotel
Samuel Dalton
Charles B. Davis, Jr
Dalton
Heth
National
Antietam Board
National Board
Arlington
Keedus Ville
New York
Andrews
Bloody Seventeenth Reunion Reflects on Antietam Valor
Massachusetts Thirty-fifth veterans gather at the American House in Boston for their 29th annual reunion. They recount Antietam 1862 losses and list major Civil War engagements, while speakers urge national unity and reconciliation between blue and gray. Brig. Gen. Nat Wales leads the business meeting after dinner.
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Antietam
Thirty-fifth
Massachusetts
American House
Boston
Fredericksburg
Jackson
Campbell Station
Knoxville
Spottsylvania
North Anna
Cold Harbor
Weldon Railroad
South Mountain
Vicksburg
Poplar Spring
Church
Hatcher’s Run
Fort Sedgwick
Fort Mahone
Petersburg
Phisterer
Sherman D. Richardson
Blue
Gray
John
Nat Wales
Association
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U. S
Lynn Armory
MUN Tees
Albany
Thomas E. Cutter
Joseph C. Hardy
James Anderson
Charles Sandford
Edwin Ll. Snow
Charles H. Cheney
Charles H. Campbell
George H. Pickering
Christopher Ward
Laurence White
Andrew F. Shaw
Henry Fisher
George W. Dean
D. B. Murray
Chaplin
Company H
Weymouth
Nathaniel Wales
Jarvis W. Dean
George W. Creasey
Henry B. George
Thomas FE. Cutter
David B. Murray
Waldo Turner
Thomas B. Lowd
Charles Hawes
George P. Lyon
Charles G. Morrill
Alfred Blanchard
Frank Kienan
Charles E. Davis, Jr
George L. Andrews
John W. Kimball
Augustus P. Martin
Dennis Linehan
Albert A. Pope
Pope
New England
Hetherston Importing Co
Broad St
Bosto
Gomer
Washington Bt
Corner Beach St
35Th Massachusetts
Rueter & CO
Florence Elene
H. B. Stevens Company
Boylston Street
Fxnheir
Wat’s Life Ins. CO. Jy
Te Phelps
Bostone
Nature
Src
B. F. Larrabee & 60
Washington St
Temple Pl
West St
Riod
Cemple
Bugs
Barxano & Co
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