Missionaries Reported Dead in China Crisis
U S state department notes cable from Shanghai listing missionaries killed around July 31 at Fan Cha and Taku. Names include Rev. O W Price, Mrs Price, Florence, Rev E R Alateer family, Rev D H Clapp, Rev G L Williams, Rev T W Davis, Miss Owena Bird, Miss Mary L Partridge. No further developments. Japanese minister Takahira discusses with Acting Secretary Hill. Li Hsiao Chang remains in Shanghai.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Goodnow
Shanghai
Fan Cha and
Taku
O. W. Price
Florence
E. R. Alateer
D. H. Clapp
George L. Williams
T. W. Davis
Owena Bird
Hill
Commission
Li Ifang Chang
Pekin
Rockhill
Northwest
Marines Withdrawn from Amoy and Kulang Fu
A dispatch from Amoy dated September 6 reports all foreign marines landed there and at Kulang Fu have been withdrawn.
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Berlin
Amoy
Kulang Fu
British naval brigade returns to ships after Pekin relief
The British admiralty reports that the naval brigade members who helped relieve Pekin have rejoined their ships.
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Naval Brigade
Pekin
London
British Admiralty
Contempt Sentence for Pratt City Justice in Alabama
In Birmingham a U S district court sentenced Judge William Grady to 10 days in jail and a $25 fine for contempt of court linked to a bankruptcy garnishment case. An attachment followed his failure to respond to orders to dismiss the garnishment.
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Birmingham
Ala
United States District Court
William Grady
Pratt City
Trimble
Grady
District Federal Court
Swain
Nongovernmental Citizenship Sparks Choctaw Ruling
Tobuckay county Choctaw Nation court rules United States court admitted citizens are not Choctaw citizens. About 4000 people enrolled by the U.S. court face loss of Choctaw privileges as the final enrollment is reviewed by the Dawes commission and interior department.
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South MadAlester
I. T
Tobuckay County
United States Court
Dawes Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Counterfeiting Ring Hit by U S Secret Service in Chicago
In Chicago officers found John William Keyes and wife at 237 Illinois Street with a hot counterfeiting setup. A dozen plaster molds for dollars halves and quarters, files, coins in stages, and solder and brass for making coins were seized. The fakes used 1894 New Orleans dollars and 1899 half dollars and quarters. Archie Kinsaulus, condemned for murder, attempted self harm in his Clinton cell and received a one week reprieve from the governor.
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Chicago
United States Secret Service
Illinois Street
John William Keyes
New Orleans
Wilmington
N. C
Archie Kinsaulus
Clinton
Kinsaulus
Holmes Castle Sold to McGahey for Manhattan Flats
Fort Worth Texas reports the Holmes Castle, linked to the Holmes murder notoriety, sold to T H McGahey who plans to remodel it and rename as The Manhattan Flats after a lengthy litigation following Holmes execution. In Giddings a German farmer Angus Schneider was found dead near the railroad after attending a Sons of Hermann celebration. In Hackett Fort Smith a safe blower was shot in the leg when resisting capture by a posse at the Johnson Pace store.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Holmes
T. H. McGahey
Manhattan
Giddings
Angus Schneider
Houston and
Texas Central
Hermann
Fort Smith
Ark
Hackett
Johnson & Pace
Census shows 54 cities gain 27.9 percent since 1890
Census data through Sept 8 lists 54 cities with a combined population of 14,644,711, up 3,494,666 from 1890 and an average 27.90 percent per city. Portland Maine rises to 50,425 from 36,425, Racine Wisconsin to 29,102 from 21,014.
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Washington
Portland
Racine
Wis
Transport Warren Reaches Nagasaki With Ninth Cavalry
The transport Warren arrived at Nagasaki Friday carrying two battalions of the Ninth cavalry and recruits. Health of the troops is reported excellent. The vessel will move on to Manila. Also arrived at Kobe the animal transport Azeteo with horses for the Third cavalry aboard.
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Washington
Warren
Nagasaki
Ninth Cavalry
Manila
Azeteo
Kobe
Third Cavalry
Jury fixes railroad responsibility for Hatfield wreck
Lansdale Pa Sept 8 The coroner s jury investigating the Hatfield Pennsylvan ia Reading railroad collision that killed 13 and injured over 60 held the railroad company responsible. St Louis Sept 8 The man known as Charles Russ at a St Louis hotel is identified as Charles Russell famed acrobat and P T Barnum clown. New York Sept 8 John Rieder 69 killed his wife 20 years younger then shot himself in Brooklyn jealousy cited. Williams Cal Sept 8 Rev Lorenzo Waugh oldest Methodist minister in world died suddenly at the railroad depot.
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Lansdale
Pennsylvania and Reading
Hatfield
St. Louis
Charles Russ
Charles Russell
P.T. Barnum
Ate
New York
John Rieder
Brooklyn
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