Presidents Answer Hie Will Not Cease For China Talks
U S government replies to Wu’s note on Li Hung Chang’s plenipotentiary appointment. It says negotiations with the powers depend on safe delivery of foreign ministers and residents from Pekin, while troops enter Pekin to escort them to Tien Tsin. Allies rest before further advance. Chinese diplomacy seeks to halt the relief march but fails. Reports also note casualties from Russian shelling near Yang Tsun and transport movements to Nagasaki.
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Washington
Department of the State
United States
Department
Earl Li
Li Hung Chang
China
Adee
Earl Li Hung Chang
Pekin
Tien Tsin
London
Yang Tsun
Tokio
Pei Tsang
Tsi Nan
Great Northern Telegraph Company
New York
Evening World
Che Foo
Shanghai
After Two Years Work in Puerto Rico
Major George J. Graff, acting education commissioner for Puerto Rico, argues in The Independent that sanitation gains ended smallpox and notes improvements in schools. He warns of ongoing starvation, with Ponce hardest hit, a death rate of about 1000 per 1000, and widespread poverty from hurricane damage and poor laws. He cites a largely uncultivated land base and a sugar export economy unable to feed the population.
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New York
George J. Graff
Porto Rico
Independent
Puerto Rico
Major Graff
Ponce
Superior Board of Health
Missionaries Murdered in Southwest China Area
Berlin reports The Germania states ten of fifty missionaries in the vicarated southwest Pe Che Li have been murdered and 3000 converts are said to have perished as well. The note mentions Maxim field guns requested by Gen Ducaffee and sent by Gen MacArthur from Manila and an Indiana convoy to reach Taku in about three days.
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Georgetown
Powers
Frankfort
Capitol
B. Bradburn
Reward Commission
Bradburn
Wharton Golden
Robert Noakes
W. H. Culton
Cantrill
Henry E. Youtsey
Youtsey
Maxim
Ducaffee
MacArthur
Manila
Indiana
Taku
Berlin
the Germania
Southwest
Spy at Kelly plant prompts mass quits in Beaver Falls
The plant lured 18 top finishers from Alexandria to Beaver Falls Pa with bonuses for leaving Kelly ax. President Kelly summoned workers to expose a spy, who fled with his life intact. The Forty sixth International Typographical Union opened in Milwaukee with 550 delegates. In Chicago many deaths followed Saturday heat.
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Alexandria
Beaver Falls
Southwick
Kelly Ax
Kelly
Southwich
Milwaukee
The
International Typographical Union
Masonic Temple
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Ben S. Read
Aeen
White Swan
Houston
Dozier’s Bakery
Ralston’s
Pettyjohn
John Wittman
Bryan, Texas
Burt Norwood
Sumner
Nagasaki
War Department
Barry
Fifteenth Infantry
Indianapolis
National Party
Robert Wideman
Antiimperialist League
Wideman
Bryan
McKinley
Anderson
Ind
James Southwick
Ax Trust
Liza
Dray Line
F. A. Lee
Purcell Mills Elevator CO
Purcell
Breakfast Bell
Bryan Grocery CO
Tom A. Searcy
Mery Company
Nity
Harper
Uly
Chicago
Paul M. Baylor
James Drug Store
Reedence Phouse
Brogdon’s
Trant’s
R. L. Brogdon
the Press Publishing Association
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