Missionaries Appeal for Navy to Evacuate Foreigners
Hong Kong dispatch reports Consul General Wildman informed that Pai Nan governor cannot protect foreigners any longer. American Presbyterian missionaries at Nodoa Hai Nan fear murders by imperial troops as three men three women and three children are reported killed. Refugees flood Hong Kong as West River unrest looms.
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New York
Journal and Advertiser
Hong Kong
Wildman
Pai Nan
Hoi
American Presbyterian Board of Missions
Nodoa Hai Nan
West River
Message from Conger fuels Pekin doubt in amid China crisis
A July 26 dispatch from Washington notes genuine Conger autographs raise new questions about Pekin relief prospects. Chinese officials may have redated the cipher message, with Tak at Canton and Li Hung Chang offering mixed assurances. State Department denies theft of the code book while warning a possible shared Pekin origin for the cables.
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Washington
Tien Tsin
Conger
Pekin
Taku
Che Foo
Mr. Conger
State Department
Tak
Canton
Li Hung Chang
Li’ Hung Chang
Cattle thieves caught as Lanam shoots victim in clash
Four suspected cattle thieves were captured after a confrontation at Meade. Jess Lanam, believed to have betrayed them, confronted the prisoners, then shot Jim Gillock twice, killing him. Lanam is under arrest as the case unfolds. In Illinois, authorities report a golden pure silica clay layer found beneath the Southern Illinois hospital grounds near Anna at 425 feet depth. trustee Samuel Hastings anticipates commercial value.
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Jess Lanam
Lanam
Jim Gillock
Gillock
Cairo
Ill
Southern Illinois Hospital For the Insane
Anna
Samuel Hastings
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