Missions in China and the Burlingame treaty
Special correspondence reviews the Boxer uprising and U S rights under the 1868 Burlingame treaty. It highlights American mission work abroad, lists major denominational boards with stations, finances, and converts, and argues U S policy protects missionaries and converts while seeking to avoid war. It notes Baldwin’s view on true mission work versus civilizing aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
William H. Seward
Anson Burlingame
China
William
Kiao Chou
Disciples of Christ
American Bible Society
Dutch Reformed
United Presbyterian
Covenanter
Cumberland Presbyterian
German Reformed
Southern Baptists
Evangelical Lutherans
Baldwin
William Walter Wells
Troops to China debated after Tiensin losses
Washington debates the risk of war with China as Adm Remey reports allied losses at Tiensin. President McKinley and Cabinet consider reinforcing China with 4,000 to 9,000 troops while maintaining peace and avoiding a formal declaration.
Americans sweep youth exposition events with dominant finishes
In Taris on July 17 America secured 16 firsts 15 seconds and 12 thirds across twenty one championship contests at the exposition. Over Monday nine events featured American wins six firsts six seconds and seven thirds including the 200 meters hurdle standing high jump three standing jumps long jump hop step and jump hammer throwing and standing long jump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taris
America
China in Pekin Siege and Tien Tsun Casualties
Long dispatches from Washington London and New York recount the Pekin legations siege with Allied forces at Tien Tsun. Details include Opium era casualty figures, shelling of settlements, and the fate of Europeans, U S and Japanese troops. Admiral Seymour's relief effort shows heavy losses, with a brutal retreat and a moral firing squad episode among wounded soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Air. Wu
Hay
Conger
Pekin
Ciplyr
London
Lady Hart
Robert Hart
Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
Shanghai
Shun ‘Ung
Tung Fuh Siang
Shan Tung
Legations
Seymour
Tien Tsin
House of Commons
William Broderick
Foreign Office
Evening News
Tien Psin
Ninth Infantry
Emerson H Liscum
New York
Journal
Tien Tsing Tutyv S
Admiral Seymour
Prasoners
Levimott
Troops Start for China from Manila Transport Fleet
Manila dispatch says two battalions of the Fourteenth infantry and Daggett's battery of the Fifth artillery depart today aboard the Indiana, Flintshire, and Wyefield. The expedition, joining the Ninth infantry, carries 59¢ rounds per man and a 1,000,000 round ammunition reserve, plus medical subsistence, stores, and clothing for 3,000 men for three months. It includes two 2.5 inch mortars and two six inch howitzers with ammunition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Fuly Lo
Fourteenth Infantry
Daggett
Fifth Artillery
China
Indiana
Flintshire
Wyefield
Ninth Infantry
Fifteen Die In Cloudburst Flood At Coleman Texas
Fifteen lives are known lost after a July cloudburst in Coleman Texas. Ten bodies recovered, two identified as Joseph Spath and John Fuleisstine. Spath and Fuleisstine swam horses to a house rescuing four children before all perished. Water flooded Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe tracks and halted traffic. Kerrville reports a near by cloud burst with likely further fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coleman
Tex
Joseph Spath
John Fuleistine
Ford's Creek
Spath
Fuleisstine
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway
Kerrville
Seven People Injured in Building Collapse Fire
A lightning sparked blaze at a broom corn factory on Michigan Street near Dearborn Avenue in Chicago last night caused walls to collapse onto a boarding house at 212 Michigan. Seven people were injured including Fireman Robert Meany who is said to be fatally hurt, Capt Crans, Lieut Nolan, Capt Martin Lacey, Fireman Joseph Wall, Mrs Grace Gordon, and Agnes Kilgore of Detroit. Inmates of the boarding house were rescued after the roof caved in and total damage is estimated near 200000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Michigan Street
Dearborn Avenue
Robert Meany
Capt. Crans
Lieut. Nolan
Martin Lacey
Joseph Wall
Grace Gordon
Agnes Kilgore
Detroit
Mich
Tamman y s Leader Talks
New York July 17 The Tammany Hall executive committee met with Richard Croker presiding and moved to endorse the Democratic national ticket The general committee of 6000 will meet July 23 to adopt resolutions and ratify the ticket Croker urged speakers to address young voters and oppose McKinley He warned that 20 percent govern 80 percent and that Republican policy shrinks opportunities for youths in a bleak future
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Republican Party
Transit Co Refuses Arbitration After Citizen Committee Push
St Louis July 17 Attorneys for the St Louis Transit Co announced the company will not submit to arbitration as requested by the citizens arbitration committee. The firm filed its quarterly returns showing 447,049 trips and 13,733,621 passengers for the quarter ending June 30, down from 1,467,825 trips and 27,058,555 fares the previous quarter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
St Louis ‘Transit Co
Citizens’ Arbitration Committee
the Transit Co
City Register's
Wallace Declines to Head Anti Imperial League Meeting
Indianapolis July 17 Gen Lew Wallace refuses to preside at the national Anti Imperiadsar League gathering to be held in the city and declares he will not participate or support the movement. He states he disagrees with the administration on some matters but will back the Republican ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Lew Wallace
Gen Wallace
Gen. Wallace
Plotters Arrested in Johannesburg Riot Plot
Pretoria reports three hundred and eight vagrant foreigners arrested after a riot plot was uncovered in Johannesburg involving plans to join as per commando.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
Johannesburg
World Christian Endeavor Convention Draws 20000 in London
About 20,000 people joined yesterday's world Christian Endeavor gathering on Alexandra Palace grounds. Meetings ran in the theater, concert hall, and large marquees as Rev Charles M. Sheldon of Opera Kansas and Dr George C. Lorimer of Boston spoke. Sather Clark, founder and president of the Young People's Society, received an ovation on stage. Sheldon addressed Commercial Problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Christian Endeavor
Alexandra Palace
Charles M. Sheldon
Opera
Kan
George C. Lorimer
Boston
Ohio Street News on Canal Lease Bid by Electric Railway Co
The Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Traction Co filed with the state canal commission for leasing the entire Miami and Erie canal from Cincinnati to Toledo to use as right of way for electric railways. Ohio capitalists also submitted a request to lease both the Miami and Erie and the Ohio canal from Cleveland to Portsmouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Traction Co
Cincinnati
State Canal Commission
Toledo
C“Cials
Cincnnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Co
Miami and Erie
Cleveland
Portsmouth
Ohio
Raised the Tax Valuation for Horses in Cleveland
The city board of equalization raised horse tax values on Monday. Assessors had listed horses at 20 to 40 dollars, with some at 80. The board boosted good draft horses to 50 dollars, citing higher horse values over the past year and sales of 75 to 85 dollars last year now reaching 100 to 125 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
City Board of Equalization
Iorses
Mills idle as American Steel and Wire faces shutdowns in Newburg
Cleveland reports most American Steel and Wire Co mills in Newburg remain shut with many workers idle. The newly started rod mill shut again, leaving only one rod mill and one bloomer mill active. An open hearth furnace runs while Bessemer works stay closed and red pairs unfinished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
American Steel and Wire Co
Newburg
Bessemer Steel Works
Hanna Denies Plot to Assassinate McKinley
Senator Hanna in Cleveland denied a New York plot to kill President McKinley, calling the morning papers’ report false and stating there is no truth in it to the best of his knowledge.
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Hanna
Cleveland
Senator Hanna
McKinley
New York
Will Not Oppose McKinley League Aims at Senate Fight
Columbus July 12 Dr J C Jackson editor of the American Issue official organ of the Anti Snalom eague said the league will not oppose President McKinley or take part in the presidential campaign. The group will reserve its ammunition for the senatorial contest to defeat Senator Foraher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Columbus
J. C. Jackson
American Issue
Anti-Snaloomeague
League
Foraher
Arrests Made After Williamsburg Explosion Death
Williams burg news reports coroner’s inquiry into the death of William Wilson. Arnold Tucker is arrested on murder charges after a dynamite blast killed Wilson. Mrs Tucker had been living in the house and is separated from her husband. The claim is that the dynamite was directed at her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsburg
William Wilson
Arnold Tucker
Tucker
Fifteen Injured In Streetcar Collision At Hill
Springfield July 12 an empty car on the Dayton Springfield and Union line collided with a car carrying Sunday school excursionists at the hill bottom. Fifteen persons were badly injured. Frank Rolfe may be fatally hurt. Motorman Armstrong sustained a broken leg.
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Springfield
Dayton
The Eighth's Reunion in Ohio and Gettysburg Losses
The Eighth O. V. T. plans a reunion at Bowling Green on September 13 and 14. Of 1,000 men in the regiment, under 150 were mustered out, and 105 of 210 died at Gettysburg. Company A was the first company recruited in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiffin
Eighth O. V. T
Bowling Green
Gettysburg
Eighth
Conductor Killed at Lake Shore Crossing in Detroit
At the Detroit street crossing of the Lake Shore Railway, yard conductor M J Naughton was fatally injured after losing balance and falling from a car. His neck was broken and his body mangled. He was 33 years old and unmarried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Detroit Street
Lake Shore Railway
M J Naughton
Naughton
Will Build a Fuge Wry in Youngstown Plant
Youngstown Ohio July 16 The Republic Steel and Tron Co which has just completed a large Bessemer steel plant here is preparing plans for a billet mill with capacity 1200 to 1500 tons per day to be built before year end. The improvements will cost about 1.5 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown, O
Republic Steel and Tron Co
Bessemer Steel
Woman Run Down by Train Near Gallipolis
Mrs Louis Harrison, 60, was killed while crossing the tracks near a switch just above Gallipolis on a return from picking berries. The K and M passenger train whistled as it approached and struck her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Louis Harrison
Gardner Convicted of First Degree Murder in Athens Incident
Gardner Richard, a colored man, was found guilty by a jury of murder in the first degree for the assault on Ethyl Long, white. He is linked to a prior escape in the Athens mob incident where the sheriff outwitted bystanders. In Rockport, a 12 year old unknown boy drowned at Lake Erie Ice Co. pond near Mulberry park while picking berries. he waded in and could not swim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chillleathe
Richard Gardner
Fthel Long
Gardner
Athens
Rockport
Lake Erie Ice Co
Mulberry Park
Rocky River
Blast Furnaces Close at Lorain Plant
The Federal Steel Co shut down its Lorain blast furnaces on Monday leaving 4,090 workers idle as the entire plant halted operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Jods
Federal Steel Co
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Peking
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
France
Japan
Churches of Our Land
S. L. Baldwin
Eaton & Mains
Great Ecumenical Council
American Board
Congregational Missionary Organization
Williams
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Presbyterian Board
Southern Presbyterian Board
American Baptist Missionary Union
The
Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society
Missionary Society
Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church
American Board Mission
Tientsin
Far East
Tiensin
Tien: Tsin
Pexing
Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Santiago
Admiral Remey
Liscum
Davis
Marine Corps
Lemly
Butler
Leonard
White House
Canton
Cuba
Adjt
Corbin
Nagasaki
Woods
War Department
Lhe
Kana
Charles E. Wshridige
Kansas
Charles Cross
Cross
Eshendlee
Eshridges
Emporia Printing Co
Chhina
Texas
Tammany
Wallace
Ohio State News
Pointe
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