Chinese agitation spurs letters to Washington officials
News of the week notes anonymous communications to top U S officials and to mint directors. It cites a Seattle assay office report of Alaska arrivals worth 4 000 000 in 11 days in July and mentions a large transit of goods. The fiscal year total issued postage materials reaches 5 283 557 010 items valued at 87 687 772 dollars.
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Washington
Mint
United States Assay Office
Seattle
Wash
Yveld
Alaska
Strikes Hit Mines Shutter Grassy Island and Eddy Creek
At the Grassy Island mine and Eddy Creek mines in Delaware and Hudson, a strike by runners and drivers forces a complete shutdown. In Morris County New Jersey, over 1,900 iron miners strike against wage cuts while 250 strikers at Richards mines in Mt Pleasant force timbermen to quit. Tea prices rise amid China tensions affecting wholesale markets.
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Olyphant
Grassy Island
Delaware & Hudson
Eddy Creek
China
Morris County
New Jersey
Richards
Mt. Pleasant
Arthur
Sheriff Baker
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
London
Queenswood
New York City
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Lowell
Mass
Charlestown
Mass ) Navy Yard
DeWitt Clinton Haskins
Buffalo
Hudson River
Hugh W. Adams
Hugh W. Adams & Co
United States
Canada
Presbyterian Board of Foreimmn
Nessionares
New York Electric Lease
New York Republican State Committee
Saratoga
Dalian Consolidated Street Railway strike disrupts service
Workers at the Dalian Consolidated Street Railway Co walked out on the 18th, the company hiring several new men to operate a portion of its lines. The pope confirmed Archbishop Neane of Washington as archbishop of Dubugne Ja.
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Dalian (Tex) Consolidated ‘Street Railway Co
Dubugne
Neane
Catholic University At
Washington
Crane accident claims six workers near Clifton Arizona
A hand car carrying six Mexican employees of the Arizona Copper Co derailed from a trestle on a narrow gauge line near Clifton Arizona and plunged 100 feet into a canyon. Two men were killed and the others seriously injured.
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Clifton
Arizon
Arizona Copper Co
United States
Nagasaki
Taku
China
California
Solway
Minn
Fort Morgan
Mobile
Ala
John H. Freeland
Fourth Artillery
Adjutant General of
The
Bryan
Stevenson
Military Park
Indianapolis
Camp Morton
Jasper County Gas and Oil Co
Starke
Jasper
Sulaski
Indiana
Chicago
Global labor strike and refugee movement reported
Rotterdam dock strike expands with over 12 000 workers involved. Maasi river vessels await discharge while refugees from China flood treaty ports. Nagasaki crowds, Kobe filling, European heat waves and London hospitals strained by heat. Mount Ambo eruption fatalities reported. Chinese migrants land in Mexico en route to the United States.
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Rotterdam
Holland
Maas
China
Japan
Nagasaki
Kobe
Europe
London
Mount Alamo
Mexico
United States
America
Havana Gazette reports wage cuts and outbreaks abroad
News from the Havana Gazette reaching Cambridge details a $10 monthly salary cut for Cuban teachers, university professors removed, yellow fever outbreaks in Pinar del Río barracks with nine deaths and 11 in hospital care, and violence against Chinese residents in Rock Springs. Also notes famine relief counts, Confederate figure Judge Robert P. Tripp, Saint George shipwreck off Cape Hatteras, and U.S. golf holdings record.
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Havana Gazette
Cambridge
Mass
Seventh Cavalry
First Infantry
Pinar del Rio
Cuba
Rock Springs
Wio
Casualties rise in Tien Tsin fighting amid rumors and dispatches
Reports from July 18 to 23 describe heavy allied losses around Tien Tsin, with casualties stated at over 1,090 and mentions of Russians and French on the Chinese side. Dispatches recount French troops fleeing Anam, destroyed mission stations, and claims about Pekin legations and telegraph links as forces seek to stabilize the frontier.
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London
Daily ‘Express
Tien Tsin
Anam
Eén
Shanghai
Po-Yang Lake
Yu Lu
Chi-Li
Halliday MacArtney
Conger
Pekin
Sheng
Chinese Railways and Telegraphs
Tsung Li Yamen
Wen Jui
Yung Lu
Daily Mail
Shan Tung
Wekin
St. Petersburg
Serlin
Sulvi
Pekin Legations
Foreign Office
Conger Dicputch
Dr von Bereen
Legation
Robert Hart
Washington
Ceipher Key
United States
White
Othe Sumierian
Chicagoans Boycott Chinese Laundries and Farms
Chicago reports indicate a citywide boycott against Chinese laundries and truck farms due to Caucasian antipathy linked to tensions in the Celestial Empire. Wu Sung Lee, a Chinatown banker, notes four laundries suspended in the past week and widespread 50 percent drops in Chinese laundry business.
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Chicago
Celestial Empire
Wu Sung Lee
Chinatown
Monuments for Shiloh Battle Erected by Ohio Commission
The Ohio Shiloh Battlefield Commission announces state appropriation of 47 500 for monuments on the Shiloh Pittsburg Landing battlefield to mark positions of 30 commands and four infantry regiments with one cavalry battalion. It lists engaged units and costs up to 1 500 per monument, invites regimental input, and sets August 1900 and September 1910 dates for proposals and exhibition.
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Ohio Shiloh
Missouri
Ohio
First Ohio
Fifth Ohio
Fifth Ohio Cavalry
Seventy-fourth General Assembly
Hamber
State House
Columbus
Ohio Shiloh Battlefield Commission
Lauder
State of
Sixth -Bde Commission
Shiloh
Ceria
Roearnesthy
Cocmessiet
Ib Patriotic Commonwealth Fraternalls
Rob Brown
Zanesville, Ohio
OT Lindsfy
Washington C
Olio
Ice Box Care Note from Detroit Free Press
The Ice Box should be washed scalded and wiped and the waste pipe flushed with sal soda water twice each week Food must never be allow ed to spoil in it and if a fresh lump of charcoal is put in once a month it will absorb any possible odors.
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Detroit Free Press
Origin of the American Indian contact thesis
Wickersham editor of the American Antiquarian replies to Powell in Forum arguing that American Indians show evidence of external contact with Chinese and other nations. He claims such contact influenced the arts customs symbols and language of the tribes. Chicago Tribune.
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Indiana
Wickersham
The
American Antiquarian
Powell
Forum
America
Chicago Tribune
Ohio State Democratic State Central Committee Meeting Call
Columbus July 24 The official call fixes July 26 at the Great Southern hotel Columbus as the time and place of the meeting of the Democratic state central committee to select the state executive committee. W W Durbin of Kenton is a possible chairman, with antis potentially backing George Hull of Toledo. Webster P Huntington of Columbus may be secretary if Durbin wins. There is sentiment to follow New York in naming a committee of prominent men.
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Columbus
Great Southern Hotel
Democratic State,central Committee
State’ Executive Committee
W. W. Durbin
Kenton
Durbin
George Hull
Toledo
Webster P. Huntington
New York
Michigan Ohio Electric Railway Co Forms To Build Line
New electric railway company organized with Detroit and New York capital. Articles filed in Lucas County Ohio and Monroe County Michigan, offices in Detroit. Line planned to extend to Toledo with work starting immediately.
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New Electric
Toledo
Monaday
Detroit
New York
Michigan & Ohio Electric Railway Co
Lansing
Lucas County
Ohio
Monroe County
Mich
Michigan
Ex Gov Sidney Edgerton Dies in Akron
Sidney Edgerton prominent northern Ohio lawyer dies at his Akron home after a nearly two year illness. Born in 1815 in New York he helped found the Republican Party and was a Fremont convention delegate in 1856. He served in Congress from 1855 to 1860 and held territorial posts as Idaho chief justice in 1862 and Montana governor in 1863. He is survived by one son and four daughters.
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Edgerton
Akron
Sidney Edgerton
Ohio
New York
Republican Party
Congress
Idaho Territory
Territory
Montana
Benefit for Weldon Honors Dean of Sports Editors
Cincinnati honors Marry M Weldon a leading sport editor despite paralysis. John R McLean continues Weldon on the Enquirer payroll while friends raise funds at a public meeting held last night for a benefit on October 6 with several thousand dollars subscribed.
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Cincinnati
M Weldon
Weldon
John R. McLean
The
Enquirer
Steinfeld Found Dead at Home on Woodland Avenue
Cleveland July 24 A domestic in the employ of A J Steinfeld proprietor of the Co Operative clothing store found him dead in the library on the first floor of his home at 744 Woodland avenue He was 49 and left a wife and four children The death shocked friends who noted his progressive business career and pleasant family relations.
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Cleveland
A. J. Steinfeld
Steinfeld
Woodland Avenue
Co-Operative Clothing
Cleveland Iron Trust to Double Pittsburgh Area Capacity
Cleveland July 21. The wire trust American Steel and Wire Co plans to greatly expand production. The project will more than double capacity in Newburg, making the plant the largest in the world.
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Cleveland
Wire Trust
American Steel and Wire Co
Newburg
Trust
Napoleon Woman in Pekin Missionary Feared Massacre
Anxiety grows for Miss Mars Kettering a Napoleon missionary reported missing in Pekin since April 22 with fears she and other foreigners were massacred by the Boxers now believed to be in danger amid delay in communications and confirmation of her fate.
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Napoleon
Pekin
Miss Mars Kettering
Doubled the Appraisement In Cleveland Ward
Cleveland July 24 J P Urban appraiser of the Fourth ward turned in his backs to County Auditor Craig Mondas His total valuation is one thousand dollars Ten years ago it was four thousand dollars but there has been much building in the Whalesate section of the city Bid accordingly
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Cleveland
J P Urban
Fourth Ward
Craig Mondas
Whalesate
Died From Injuries After Funeral Incident
Mrs Simon Shade of Chatfield aged TD died from injuries suffered at the Reformed church in Carruthers during a funeral procession. She did not regain consciousness after the crash yesterday.
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Tiffin
Simon Shade
Chatfield
Reformed
Carruthers
Safe at Hunan Venedocia July 20
Word has reached Revo and Mrs RF Ful wirds of this place who were at first reported murdered by the Boxers in Ctauia Thesace at Hruiman but now expected to reach the coast in safety.
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Venedocia
Revo
RF Fulwirds
Ctauia Thesace
Hruiman
Train wreck disrupts Soledo Cleveland express near Bowerston
A Wheeling and Take Fre railroad passenger train, the Soledo and Cleveland express, derailed near Bowerston yesterday after the locomotive jumped the track. Five cars left the rails, causing a lengthy delay and initial reports of damage.
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Steubensille
Soledo & Cleveland Express
Wheeling
Bowerston
Barpage
Plum for Wallace Washington Postmaster Appointment
President appoints William H Wallace to be postmaster at Oxford, as reported from Washington on July 21. The action confirms Wallace filling a key local federal role.
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Washington
William H Wallace
Oxford
Jones Plans Run for Congress in Toledo
Mayor Jones announces his candidacy for congress with petitions circulating. He says he will run if the people want him and that he will not force party discipline, though his views align more with the Democratic Party than the Republicans.
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Toledo
Jones
Congress
Min Conger Report Brings Relief Word From Pekin
Washington reports that United States Minister Conger conveyed that foreigners in Pekin faced siege and fire from Chinese forces three days earlier. Officials hailed the news as proof he was alive and urged international aid and cooperation for immediate relief.
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Washington
United States
Comger
Pekin
State Department
Wu Ting Fang
Conger
Hay
Canger
Conyer
Secretary Long
Admiral Remey
Root
Col. Coolidge
Tien Tsin
China
Foreign Office
Hav
Bryan on China policy urges justice and protection
W J Bryan in Lincoln Nebraska July 21 discussed the China situation. He urged the U S government to protect American lives and property, punish the guilty, seek indemnity if the Chinese government acts in bad faith, and avoid land grabs. He said adherence to fair dealing will aid merchants and missionaries, showing they seek mutual trade and spread love.
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Lincoln
Neb
W. J. Bryan
China
Congress
Woolley Receives Prohibition Nomination Notification
John G. Woolley was formally notified of his presidential nomination at a crowded Central Music Hall meeting in Chicago on July 21. Samuel Inckie of Albion Michigan and Woolley spoke to an enthusiastic audience as prohibitionists argued the evils of rum outweigh all other issues.
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Woolley
Chicago
John G. Woolley
United States
Central Music Hall
Samuel Inckie
Albion
Mich
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