Pekin relief and Empress dowager details emerge in dispatches
Washington confirms fall of Pekin and relief of besieged legations with eight wounded. Adm Remey cites bombardment of inner city and Empress dowager's detention. Chaffee's message notes entry of the legations grounds on Aug 14 15 and possible rear-guard actions by Ninth Infantry and marines. Reports from Rome and London add casualty notes and related arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matow
Pekin
Navy Department
Remy
Taku
Admiral Remey
General Chaffee
Prince Yungede
Foreign Office
Tokio
Japan
Chaffee
Che Foo
Washington
Legation
Fourteenth Infantry
Riley
Ninth Infantry
Narines
Fourteenth Regiment
Klondike News on Quartz Strikes and Freight Rush
Amur arrives with news that Richard Mansfield White claims Klondike is American territory. Quartz strikes on Lake Bennett yield a seven foot ledge rich in gold and silver with another gold copper find five miles south of Caribou. Chilkat railway grading began August 15 and a canoe accident near Tagish cost two lives. Daily freight to Dawson averages 300 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
O’brien
Mounted Police
Tagish
Dawson
Kelly Ax Plant Destroyed in Alexandria Fire
The Kelly Ax Manufacturing Company plant in Alexandria Indiana valued at 800000 dollars was wiped out by a Sunday night fire. It employed about 800 to 1000 workers and was the world's largest ax factory and the only independent facility of its kind in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Ind
Kelly Ax Manufacturing Company
United States
Soft flour gold medal at Paris expo for Alliance Milling
Alliance Milling of Denton Texas won the Paris exposition gold medal for best soft flour. Also reported are discoveries of lithograph stones in New Mexico, drownings in Galveston Texas, deaths from overdoses in Fort Worth and Navajo Texas, a daytime shooting in Wagoner Oklahoma Territory, a bubonic plague case in San Francisco, the Hardeman county fair dates in Quanah Texas, Labor Day events in Oklahoma City, a bloodhound purchase in Paris Texas to curb crime, and Roswell New Mexico shipping cantaloupes to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance Milling Company
Denton
Tex
New Mexico
Peter Vasani
Galveston
Tom Sheehan
Navasota
Frank Wicks
Fort Worth
Thomas Gaylor
Humphries
Wagoner
I. T
San Francisco
Cal
Hardeman County
Quanah
Trades and Labor Assembly of
Oklahoma City
O. T
Paris
Oklahoma Populists Meet in Oklahoma City
The Oklahoma Populists will convene in Oklahoma City on September 6. Reports note a white man's primary ordered for Kaufman county on October 20 and Caleb Powers receiving a life sentence in Georgetown Kentucky for complicity in Goebel's assassination.
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Tampa
Fla
Conger
China
McKinley
Tom Hynds
McKinney
Tex
Charles Maron
Hallettsville
Ben Edding
Temple
Denton County
Texas
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Ben S. Read
John Wittman
Bryan, Texas
Reasona
Burt Norwood
Jiooe
Qld
Liza
Dray Line
F. A. Lee
Chaffee Message
Inner City
War Department
Rome
Prince Yang
London
The
Daily Mail
Maresca
Guida
New York
Bresci
Humbert
Mabor
Barbourville, Ky
Osleb Powers
Klondike
Seattle
Wash
Skaguay
Pittsburg
James H. Burnham
Lincoln, Neb
James M. Burnham
Wymeran
Wymera
Neb
Collins A. Burnham
Mahaney City
George
William Thomliss
Charles Iritis
Primrose
Portland
Maine
Old Orchard
John B. Clough
Memphis
Tenn
Evansville
Warrick County
Joseph Okrith
Booneville
Nors Kiefer
Purcell Millg Elevator CO
Purcell, LT
Choice Family Groceries
Bryan Grogery CO
Harper
J. L. Hearne
the American Laundry U
Exchange Hotel
the Press Publishing Association
Cording
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