United States Forces Ordered from China Shift in Peking Policy
Washington posts a War Department notice stating General Chaffee will keep a legation guard in Peking to protect American interests while the rest of his force and staff move to Manila. About 4,700 troops in China with 1,500 remaining. Marines about 1,000 to be withdrawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of War
Chaffee
Legation
Peking
General Chaffee
Legation Guard
United States
Count von Waldersee
China
Asiatic Station
Salisbury Refuses Germany Proposal Echoes U S Stand
Salisbury replies to Germany in terms nearly identical to Washington's rejection. Berlin reports Russian assent in principle and Japan's emphatic approval. Hong Kong dispatch notes 20 000 Triads massing near Chung Chumin threatening Canton.
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Salisbury
Germany
Berlin
Russia
Japan
Hongkong
Chung Chumn
Canton
Alarming China News Reaches German Government
Berlin reports alarming dispatches from China are not to be published before Pekin conference. Field Marshal Von Waldersee warns of greater danger and possible uprising as consuls in Central and Southern China anticipate unrest. Prince Tuan named Grand Secretary signals hardening stance by Beijing.
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China
Berlin
Germany
Pekin
Count von Waldersee
William
von Schwartzenstein
Prince Tuan
Foreign Office
Tuan
Missionaries Threatened as European Troops Move on Boxers
Shanghai dispatch reports Chi Li missionaries under threat as European troops move against the Boxers. Li Hung Chang has reached Peking and is negotiating the Emperor's return.
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Paris
Temps
Shanghai
Chi Li
Li Hung Chang
Peking
Dowager Empress Orders Li Hung Chang to Reclaim Peking
Shanghai reports a secret edict from the Dowager Empress commanding Li Hung Chang to raise an army to recapture Peking. The Chinese sources describe an urgent push to regain the city.
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Peking
Shanghai
Li Hung Chang
German Naval Division Heads to Taku from Shanghai
BERLIN Sept. 3 The German Naval Division departed Shanghai today en route to Taku, signaling a strategic movement by sea forces during the ongoing tensions.
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Taku
Berlin
Shanghai
Russian General Staff chief captures Chinese at Sungari River
War Office dispatch from Petersburg reports General Sarcharoff, chief of the Russian General Staff, captured Chu Lan Chen near the Sungari River on September 12 and drove back about 5,000 Chinese with no Russian casualties.
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Gt. Petersburg
War Office
May Cure Consumption by Electricity's Aid
The tenth annual conference of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association convened in New York. Papers discussed galvanization and electric therapy for tuberculosis, with doctors like M J Brooks and Charles O Files presenting on germ theory and electric light treatment. Dr Freudenthal urged chemical-ray experiments while Dr Massey described mercury electrolyte therapy. Dr Knap advocated curability and public health measures to reduce tuberculosis.
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New York
American Electro-+ Therapeutic Association
A.tripler
Paris
France
Newman Lawrence
Long Island
M. J. Brooks
Stamford
Conn
Adirondacks
Charles O. Files
Portland
Wolff Freudenthal
Massey
Philadelphia
8. Knap
War autos praised as practical in European maneuvers
Major J B Mott U G A who spoke with the Associated Press says French maneuvers showed extensive use of automobile cars as an innovation and a practical utility in European warfare. He notes they enabled generals and messengers to cover great distances in hours and calls the results instructive.
Crawfordsville Citizen Hit by Train at Station
Thomas Hall, a prominent Crawfordsville resident, was killed this afternoon at the station by a southbound Monon passenger train. The tragedy occurred while he waved to relatives and failed to notice the speeding train in the crowded crossing.
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Commercial ‘Tribune
Crawfordsville
Ind
Thomas Hall
Monon
Prince Henry Takes Command of German Squadron
Berlin Sept 2 Prince Henry of Prussia becomes Commander-in-chief of the First German Squadron succeeding Vice Admiral Hoffman who has been relieved from the post.
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Prince Henry
Berlin
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Hoffman
Sheriff seeks troops to quell Hazleton night marches
Hazleton, Pa. sheriff Harvey has telegraphed Governor Stone asking troops to guard nights as strikers march, backed by mine operators' telegrams. After a late march from Cranberry to Tomhicken, deputies met the crowd, arrests followed for breach of the peace, and talk of more marches and a possible Black Creek action persists amid a broader regional strike.
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Hazleton
Harvey
Luzerne
Stone
Cranberry
Tomhicken
Derringer
Gowen
Sheriff Harvey
Pate
Tomhjckeh
South Wilkesbarre
Say. Mitchell
Rhone Trescott
Mitchell
Jones
Black Creek
German Minister Suspends Pastor Hayn After Probe
Rev W A Hayn aged 32 is suspended as pastor of Spring Grove Avenue Church by a German M E Church committee after charges brought by Christian Genewein and John Widmer. The case, ongoing since Monday, prompts a replacement pastor assignment by Presiding Elder Horst ahead of the Central German Conference.
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W. A. Hayn
Spring Grove Avenue
M. E
Hayn
Messrs
Christian Genewein
John Widmer
Heinz
Ivorydale
Horst
Race Street
The
Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati
Annie Heinz
Covington
Toledo
Louisville
Prof Comstock Dies From Rattlesnake Bite
Special Despatch to Commercial Tribune. Prof Comstock 40, of Indianapolis, arrived in Chillicothe with a traveling snake show on Monday. He was bitten by a full grown rattlesnake, taken to the hospital, and died there in great agony late this afternoon.
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Commercial Tribune
Chillicothe
Comstock
Indianapolis
Erie Engineer A Penfield Struck by Mail Crane at Aldine
Huntington Ind Sept 25 Erie engineer A Penfield was struck by a mail crane while leaning from the cab of train No 5 west bound at Aldine at 415 pm He died fifty minutes later and was brought home on No 8 He was 51 and survived by a wife and two sons He had come from Warren Pa to help lay Erie's tracks in 1882 and was chairman of the Grievance Committee of the Chicago Erie Railroad.
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Commercial Tribune
Huntington
Ind
Erie
A. Penfield
Aldine
Chicago & Erie Railroad
Warren
Pepfield
Dayton
Chicago & Erie
Militia Presence Sparks Strikes Expansion in Shenandoah Region
In Shenandoah Pennsylvania the militia presence boosts union organizing as 250 English speaking miners join the United Mineworkers amid a broad strike. Three more collieries close for lack of workers while several others run with reduced crews. Across Kentucky Jellico Pineville and Coal Creek mines largely operate under a wage scale agreement, though Coal Creek reports 600 miners idle.
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G. B. Markle & Co
Markle
Mitchell
Schuylkill District
Mahanoy
Malanoy
Ashland
Shenandoah
Park Place
Preston
Lawrence
Cambridge
J. C. McGinnis
Cambridge Coal Company
East
Potts
Locustdale
Locust Spring
Locust Gap
Franklin
Treverton
United Mineworkers
George Harris
Harris
Schuylkill
Mahanoy Valley
Broad Mountain
Middlesboro
Trades Parade Will Bring Out Grand Floats
A late afternoon trades parade promises a showcase of grand floats and civic pride with local organizations participating and spectators lining the route to cheer the procession through downtown.
Merchants and Manufacturers Shine at Fall Festival Parade
Merchants and Manufacturers Day features a 2 30 trades parade with Cham ber of Commerce members attending in bodies. In the evening the Cambrian Club male chorus directed by David Davis performs at Music Hall followed by a band concert and plaza shows.
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Merchants’ and
Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Clubs
Cambrian Club
David Davis
Music Hall
Parade Route and Start Time for The Trades Parade
The Trades Parade forms at the Armory and starts promptly at 2 30 this afternoon. The line proceeds Everett street Central avenue Fourth Main Fifth Vine Fifteenth Elm Court Central avenue where it disbands.
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Armory
Everett Street
Central Avenue
Fourth
Main
Fifth
Vine
Fifteenth
Elm
Court
Fall Festival Trades Parade Highlights City Float Competition
The Fall Festival features a grand trades parade with twenty five trades represented by floats. A $1000 prize draws fierce competition among participants led by judges Harvey Hannaford Joseph E Durrell and H D Crane. The Cincinnati Florists Association float, decorated with forty thousand fresh flowers, dominates preparations in the Armory basement while other floats from icemen whisky men laundrymen tailors and drapers coal men shoe men and carriage men await their showcase.
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H. D. Crane
Armory
Cincinnati Florists’ Association
General Palmer Dies at 83 in Springfield
Major General John M. Palmer, veteran Illinois statesman and Civil War commander, dies of heart disease at his Springfield home at age 83. Renowned for political shifts and public service, he balanced reform efforts with party loyalties, never accused of personal gain in office.
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Marshal von Waldersee
England
Washington
War Department
Great Britain
London
Lord Salisbury
Associated Press
Britain
Cologne
Earl Li
Freudenthal
J. B. Mott
G. A
Divisien
Is Pre
Sociated Press
Markle & Co
Lehigh Valley
Eckley
Kudlick
Coxe Bros. & Co
Peter Gallagher
Freeland
Rev
Spring Grove Avenue Church
Prof
Penfield
Kentucky
Ory
Ernoon
Ers
Palmer
Illinois
Springfield
Ill
John M. Palmer
Lincoln
McPherson
Howard
Sheridan
Grant
Ernor
Greeley
Gold Democrats
John
M. Palmer
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