New Government Aims to Replace Empress Dowager in China
Washington reports well informed circles say three major issues shape China's future. Remove the empress dowager and her advisors from power, create an indemnity fund via customs revenue changes, and establish a minister of foreign affairs to replace the tsung liuamen system. The move aims to prevent personal punishment while forming a reconstructed government.
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Storm injures Mrs. J. H. Crews in Ennis Texas
In Ennis Texas Mrs J H Crews is reported seriously injured after her home was destroyed by a storm Tuesday night at Crisp The condition may be fatal The University of Texas football team planned a southern trip but the Athletic council canceled it at the last moment on November 2 in Austin Texas
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French and allied forces purge Chinese villages in Boxer War
Paris dispatch reports ministers negotiating peace terms with the Chinese amid delays for full cabinet accord. General Voyron leads French troops in re asserting control near Tien Tsin and Pekin, destroying Boxers infested villages and punishing inhabitants. Columns reach Siet Chung and Li Ling as imperial tombs draw attention. Laureates condemn treasurers and officials in death sentences tied to missionary killings. Alvord jailed but freed, then rearrested on bail. Arson verdict in Dallas lands five years for Hiram Erwin. he admits burning for insured payoff and later killed I G Randle. Ex councilman Red vanishes amid a scheme exposing forged death certificates in Shamokin lodge swindle.
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Prominent New York Ex-Mayor William L Strong Dies
William L Strong, last mayor of the old New York, died suddenly at his New York residence on Thursday night. He led reforms that were sidetracked by the creation of Greater New York, yet he remained a leading city figure and helped found early enterprises shaping a large city.
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Bank Safe Blown At Springfield Neb Robbers Miss Loot
Spearman and Co. bank in Springfield Nebraska was robbed Thursday night as three burglars blew open a safe containing postal and revenue stamps. They mistakened the safe with books, not money, saving a potential thirty to eighty thousand dollars in stamps if they had chosen the other safe. A. Bates, waking to the blast, saw the thieves exit via the rear window and alerted a search party that recovered paper fragments and wrappers from the stamp shipments.
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Death of Dr. Davis in Manila and Ossified Bodies found
Chicago reports the death of Dr John G Davis a United States volunteer from Brights disease in Manila after service in New Orleans Havana and the Philippines He was born in Lexington Kentucky 52 years ago and served through the Civil War He was known as a railway surgeon in Chicago for the Monon and Chicago and Eastern The Ossified bodies case in New York describes a coroner finding petrified remains including a boy a girl and newborns in a cellar once used by Dr Thomas Holmes The British steamer German reports rescuing the Italian bark Fiducia near Gibraltar she has suffered damage and shortage of provisions with cargo loss
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