Robbery Ends in Shootout Over Coke Payroll
Four Italian miners tried to rob Pay Clerk William Hosler of 4000 dollars for the Alverton and Tarr works payroll. Hosler was killed, Harry Burgess wounded, two robbers died, one fatally wounded, and another wounded. Burgess escaped to Alverton with the safe as officers closed in, a posse captured two remaining suspects, and a third was mortally wounded. Kingston dispatch notes unconfirmed death of Hayti president Silou Sam. Puerto Rico franchise grants valuable post line rights to North American company.
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Connellsville
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Morewood
Alice Mines
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Coke Company
Squire Rhodes
San Juan
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No Indemnity Fixed in China Claims Dispute
New York dispatch reports authorities deny Pekin ministers have set a $200,000,000 indemnity demand. The nations discuss punishment of boxer leaders, with Conger pressing for Prince Tuan’s execution or degradation and exile. Germany favors beheading. no steps yet on indemnity. war dept gathers expedition costs and damage claims await clearance.
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Conger
Prince Tuan
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China
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War Department
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Rock4ill
State Department
Epidemics feared as smallpox hits western reservations
Western Indian reservations report smallpox outbreaks with 50 cases among Riverside Indian boarding school children on the Wichita, and cases at Cache Creek and St. Patrick missions on Apache Kiowa and Comanche lands. No deaths yet, but vaccines are being sent to agencies.
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Indian Bureau
Randlett
Kiowa Indian Agency
Oklahoma
Wichita
Riverside
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International Agreement on Chinese Open Door Maintained
The United States Great Britain and Germany publicize an agreement for preserving the integrity of the Chinese empire and open door policy. Notes from Secretary Hay underpin the pact as Lord Salisbury reduces workload and Lord Lansdowne becomes foreign secretary, with Salisbury guiding policy from the background. The McArthur steamer returns to Victoria after Alaskan chart work and two months at sea. Noted reformer Sarah Anthony Burtis dies in Rochester at age 89, after a lifetime in suffrage and abolition circles.
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Victoria
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Muir Glacier
New York
Sarah Anthony Burtis
Rochester
Saratoga
Stabbed Himself With a File in Desperation
St. Louis Oct 31 Charles R Herald a 50 year old carpenter attempted to end his life by stabbing himself over the heart with a sharpened file after days of despondency and threats. Relatives deem him demented and offer no other cause for the act.
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Charles R. Herald
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