Battle at Tien-Tsin forces and Chinese hostility escalate
A dispatch from Taku reports Chinese regulars attack Tien-Tsin and destroy the American consulate. Rear Admiral Kempf calls for reinforcements from Remey in Manila and MacArthur to move troops and batteries toward Pekin, signaling a prepared response to widespread foreign threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kempf
Taku
MacArthur
Manila
Navy Department
China
Lie
Remey
Department
Pekin
Empire
Shanghai
Tien-Tsin
Washington
United States
Kempff
Foreign Concessions Under Bombardment Reported At Tien Tsin
The scramble for troops continues as Washington seeks Manila reinforcements to China amid reports of Chinese bombardment of Tien Tsin and destruction at foreign concessions. Allied naval forces and diplomats assess the peril to Europeans while consulates, including the United States building on Meadows road, face attack and evacuation debates intensify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waku
Tien-Tsin
Admiral Seemour
Yien-Tsin
Qliens
Taku
Pei-Ho
Manila
Russia
Japan
Germany
France
Great Britain
England
Port Arthur
Vlndivoxtok
Saigon
Kiao- Chou
United States
Tien- Tsin
Meadows Road
Pei-Host
Wreck kills and injures Oshkosh singing party
An excursion train carrying 600 members of Oshkosh Fond du Lac Neenah Menasha singing societies collided with a freight near De Pere Wisconsin at Donald’s curve. Six killed five fatally wounded forty injured. The train caught fire. many burned. Rescue crews worked as the survivors helped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fond du Lac
Neepah
Menaxha
Green Bay
Wis
Depere
Donald's Curve
Freman
Caboose
Hames
General
St. Vincent
Green-Bay
Thirty-Five Plunge to Death on Southern Railway Wreck
A Southern Railway wreck near McDonough Georgia killed 35 people when a train plunged into Camp Creek after a 12 foot trestle collapse in a rainstorm. Victims burned or drowned as cars exploded and wreckage blocked the riverbank, with Quintan, a survivor, helping summon help. Only three women were aboard. two survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway
McDonough
Atlanta
Camp Creek
Quintan
Tie
Long Humble Circle of Centenarians and Notable Elders
Reston resident William Parant marks sixty years as a newspaper agent. Middleboro Kentucky mourns Acman age 40. Mrs Anson Sones turns 80 in Houston and leads Texas Daughters of the Republic. Ruggles W Clapp, 62, recalls 1849 California voyage amid drink trouble. Sliram Hedges of Anderson Indiana, 70, claims Indiana rail debut. Crete Peter Stansley and Aunt Susant celebrate 81 years of marriage. Uncle Peter now 102. Abraham Stingley of Missouri Journey dies age unknown after eccentric life. claims never paid interest and wore teeth to gums. John MacGowan of Clay Florida asserts 121 years and Ireland birth. served in 7th Connecticut at 61. Mme Ristori, 79, rival of Sarah, spoke in Rome congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Parant
Reston
Acman
Middleboro
Gee
Anson Sones
Houston
Texas
Texas Republic
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Ruggles W. Clapp
California
Sliram Hedges
Anderson
Ind
Susant
Peter
Abraham Stingley
Northwest
Missuourii
Karenswood
Jackson
Bryan
John MacGowan
Clay County
Fla
Washington
Ireland
Serventventh Connecticut Regiment
Mme. Ristori
Sachel
Rome
Consumptive Competition Drives Labor Issues on the Pacific Coast
A New Orleans Times-Democrat dispatch cites California visitors complaining of “consumptive competition” as emigrants from the East fill high paying jobs for low wages. Hotel staff, bookkeepers, and clerks are said to be replacing natives, with salaries quoted as low as fifteen dollars a month plus board. The piece links the issue to efforts to restrict tuberculosis entry and to cheap labor dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theac
Teseutainz
California
Lowe
Cat
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Frisco
Steenth Avenue Street Railroad
New York
United States
Victoria
London
New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Rear Admiral Kemoff a key China envoy and naval hero
Rear Admiral Kemoff, supreme American agent in China with power to act, native of Illinois, studied at the Naval Academy since 1857. He served aboard the Wabash in 1861, fought at Port Royal, aided in Fernandina and Jacksonville, earned lieutenant rank, led Mare Island yard, commanded the Adama, and now heads the Pekin station amid Boxer turmoil. Dr. Oscar Chrisman, Kansas State Normal instructor, caused a Mothers' Congress uproar in Des Moines by disputing male love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kemoff
Uncle Sam
China
Niinais
Naval Academy
Wabash
Atlantic
Port Royal
Guam
Orient
Pekin
Oscar Chrisman
Kansas State Normal School
Mothers’ Congress
Des Moines
Notable Figures and Royal Signatures Highlight Curious Claims
An assortment of brief notes highlights Oscar Chairman a strong athletics supporter and baseball faculty director, Gen Marquis de Gallifet’s health related resignation, and newly minted signatures of Queen Victoria and Marquis of Salisbury for Emmanuel Ohlen’s consul exequia. Also pictured Abbas Hilmi the Khedive of Egypt travels to the U.S. to gather a “harem” of American girls, described as a dissolute 26 year old, eldest son of the late Tewfik Pasha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbas Hilmi
Egypt
United States
Tewfik Pasha
Abbas
Vienna
Profitable Gardening on Bow Hills Farm Appeal
The Concord Patriot profiles Joseph Dow ten years after buying thirty acres on Bow Hills. He cleared land, built a two story house, barn, and outbuildings. This year he grows strawberries and berries across multiple acres, plus tomatoes squashes melons onions turnips potatoes and corn. He raises hay for four horses and market, plus sale of plant starts. Hard work yields a cool living in New Hampshire.
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Concord
Nr Hi
Joseph Dow
Bow Hills
New Hampshire
How Emery is Quarried From Naxos Island
Emery comes from the island of Naxos in the Eastern Mediterranean where beds lie in the northeast. About 300 men work in the trade and all must be married before joining the fraternity. The stone is too hard to cut or blast, so fires heat natural cracks, levers pry them apart, and blocks are broken to under 2 1/2 cubic feet for shipment. Estimates claim twenty million tons remain at Serges, with a year’s export of 3950 tons.
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Naxos
Mediterranean
Serges
A Lively Imagination About Corn Towns and Cars
A Pennsylvanian narrator humorously describes corn based towns with cobblestone streets and hollowed corn cobs as sewer pipes. He notes husks used as tents for children and jokes about feed wagons and Jackson's stables. He imagines stalks reaching church steeples while cars press them down to be chopped off with an ax.
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Jackson
Czar’s Imperial Train Fitted With Palatial Cow Car
During the Czar’s visit to Germany a palatial cow car with two Holstein cows accompanied the imperial train. Experts advise using milk from the same cow, so the little daughters of the Czar travel with their cows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Inventor unveils pipe with dual whistle to hail cabs
An inventive genius introduces a tobacco pipe whose stem contains two whistles. The device lets a smoker summon a cab without removing the pipe from the mouth.
Notable deaths and disasters across early American scene
Joseph H. Chassaing, 64, a famed steamboat and hotel man, dies in St. Louis. In Kentucky, Japan horsemen inspect breeding farms. Plainfield, N. J., sees Charles Cranston ground to pieces after a freight train accident while rushing to celebrate his 20th birthday. US Department of Agriculture puts cotton plantings at 25,558,000 acres, up 8.7 percent. Pierre Lorillard’s $100,000 houseboat Caiman destroyed by fire near New Smyrna, Florida.
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Charles Cranston
New York
Plainfield
N. J
Department of Agriculture
Pierre Lorillard
New Smyra
Fla
Wheat Market Surge Amid Drought Reports
New York stock and grain summaries note continued railway traffic gains and soft market sentiment. Chicago wheat prices climbed ten cents on drought damage reports, with widespread concern over winter wheat Hessian fly impact fading from traders. Corn followed the rising trend, reflecting broader optimism yet cautioned by mixed forecasts.
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New York
Bears
Chicago
Americans killed at Tientsin and relief efforts
Rear Admiral Remey ordered the Brooklyn from Manila to Taku after news that four Americans died in the Waller relief attempt at Tien-Tsin. An armored reconnaissance train was derailed near Tien-Tsin Fire French concession. Admiral Seymour and the international guard reached Pekin safely. Oregon sails from Hong Kong with 164 sailors and Marines, due near Taku as Brooklyn nears.
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Remey
Brooklyn
Manila
Maj
Waller
Tien-Txin
Taku
Tien-Psin
Tien- Tsin
Shantung Province
Seymour
Pekin
Washington
Asiatic
Tuku
White House
Kenney
China
Kempffs
Oregon
Hong Kong
Zafira
Lrooklyn
Boers Slay British in Honingspruit Raid
Reports from London detail the latest Orange River Colony raid by Boer forces at Honingspruit on Saturday. Thirty-one British soldiers and civilians were killed or wounded as Cape forces resist Steyn's and colonial guerrilla actions amid ongoing war coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honingspruit
Orange River Colony
London
Lord Methven
Geo Warren
Cape Colony
New York Plans Municipal War Ship
A brief item notes New York will have a municipal war ship. The report mentions Jessie Bartlett of New York died from opium poisoning, Homer Dickinson a printer killed himself in Bowling Green Missouri, and several Chinese nationals ill at Guayamas, Mexico. It also cites Santa Fe Railroad defying a California quarantine and other varied notes from the era.
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New York
Jessie Bartlett
Homer Dickinson
Bowling Green
Guayamas
Mexico
Prague
Santa Fe Railroad
California
Joan R. McLean
Europe
Bryan Fund
Merry
San Jose
Costa Rica
Brooklyn Bridge
Kansas
Smith G. Wilcox
Middletown
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Pebia
Tien“Tsin
Pei-He
Taka
Ranniers
McCalla
United States Navy
Carr
M’calla
Life Consulate
Che Ford
Admiral Kemps
Londen
War Department
Philippines
Secretary of War
Ninth Regular
Geo. MacArthur
Spain
Naval Arch
Methodist Mission
University
Chins
COL. FM
Liscost
Wieconsin
Thers
Admiral Kempff
Marquis de Gallifet
Gallifer
Legion of Honor
Queen Victoria
Marquis of
Salisbury
Emmanuel Ohlen
Oblen
Republic of Peru
Montreal
DE Gallifet
Joseph H. Chassaing
St. Louis
Seaster
Tientsin
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