Russia Yields Free Hand to Japan in China Crisis
London reports the Russian government will allow Japan to act freely in China. Tokyo seeks 20 000 more troops, and Bar on Hayashi says ten days to move them. Dispatches describe massacres near Pekin and widespread executions as Li Hung Chang disperses orders to crush uprisings.
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China
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Pekin
Tokio
Baron Hayashi
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Legation
Che Foo
The
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Taku
Daily Telegraph
United States
McWade
Li Hung Chang
Cox's Mineral Water Claimed Cure All Diseases Ad
An advertisement from Cox & Franz in Calvert Texas promotes Cox’s Mineral Water as a universal cure for liver stomach bowel skin blood and female diseases with a no cure no pay guarantee. Directions instruct a large glass hourly until organs are aroused and special orders offered by Zuber & McDougald.
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C.M. W
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Massacre at Pekin: 5000 Catholics among native victims
London reports a Shanghai dispatch describing Pekin as an inferno with streets running with blood. European soldiers were captured and officials including Yung Lu were killed. The dispatch cites executions and torture of isolated foreigners amid merciless foreigner killings across the empire.
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Pekin
Shanghai
Legations
Legation
Far East
Chiam Fu Ald
Yung Lu
Tuan Tang Yi
Lang Fuh Sian
Col Conger Fears for Pekin Mission Party Missing
Col. Harvey E. Conger seeks news of his nephew Edwin H. Conger his wife daughter and niece stationed in Pekin China fearing they may have fallen victims to boxers after their disappearance.
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Harvey E. Conger
Edwin H. Conger
Pekin
China
Conger
Intercounty oratorical contest medal awarded in Fordyce
Roy Cason of Pine Bluff won the inter county oratorical contest medal in Fordyce Arkansas on July 7. Fifteen counties send contestants each year and Pine Bluff has held the prize for five consecutive years. Previous winners include Robert York Alexander Rowell and Daniel Taylor.
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Ark
Roy Cason
Pine Bluff
Robert York
Alexander Rowell
Daniel Taylor
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