Extra Session Not Needed as China War Cools
Washington July 18 A hopeful shift in the China crisis follows victory at Tien-Tsin and reports of safe foreign ministers in Peking. The cabinet announced no extra session will be called unless future events demand rapid troop or money authorization.
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Washington
Tien-Tsin
Peking
White House
Hay
Root
Long
Gage
Smith
Congress
Secretary Long
China
Conger
Adm
Remey
Cuba
Haywood
Marine Corps
Far East
Randolph Dickens
Casualties in China List Six New Officers Identified
Washington July 18. Adm Remey's cablegram adds six officers not previously listed among casualties. Maj Jesse M Lee Capt Andre W Brewster Lieuts Lewis B Lawton Wm K Naylor Harold Hammond and Wm H Waldron are named. Details include their birthplaces service histories and wartime commissions.
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Washington
Adm
Remey
Jesse M. Lee
Andre W. Brewster
Lewis B. Lawton
Wm. K. Naylor
Harold Hammond
Wm. H. Waldron
Lee
Indiana
10Th United States Infantry
Capt
Brewster
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
30Th Infantry
Lawton
Iowa
Military Academy
New York
Lieut
Hammond
Illinois
Naylor
Ilinois
14Th
Minnesota Infantry
Spain
Regular Army
Waldron
West Virginia
West Virginia Volunteers
Eleven Die in Texas Floods Near Coleman
A Coleman Texas cloudburst left at least eleven known dead with many missing as Niard’s creek surged along with heavy rains. Campers in the valley and fishing party members on the Medina river are among the casualties, as floods swelled across the area and caused widespread property damage and suspended business.
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Coleman
Tex
M. Pate
Bertie Pate
Lizzie Pate
J. N. Cheek
Annie Brown
Ivey Brown
J. C. Stacey
Joseph
Pate
John Enlisstine
Niard
Mr. Cheek
Milan County
Texas
Medina
Guadalupe
Samuel Tell
San Antonio
Medina River
Deaths and military notes from far west and Texas
News from Williams Arizona reports J M Meneck age 50 died on the desert of Southern Utah after leaving Williams June 24 in a party seeking a famous lost copper mine. He represented the Smithsonian Institution and studied the region. Gen W P Hazen dies in Tampa at 84 after illness, long wealth and residence in Thonotosassa. Texas ready to furnish troops for a China war, Adjutant General Scurry says Texas can meet any quota.
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Williams, Ariz
J. M. Meneck
Utah
Meneck
Smithsonian Institution
W. FP. Hazen
Tampa
Fla
W. P. Hazen
Austin
Tex
Secretary of War
Washington
Adjt
Scurry
Texas
China
Relief of Coomassie Confirmed
London telegraph from Col. Stuart Cape Coast Africa confirms an apparently authentic messenger corroborating the reported relief of Coomassie on July 15.
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London
Colonial Office
Col. Stuart
Cape Coast
Africa
Coomassie
China declares war rumors and massacre reports surface
A Shanghai dispatch claims a massacre at Tai-Yuen-Fu in Shan Si with 40 foreigners and 100 native converts killed. It also cites a Daily Mail report alleging China declared war on Russia. The Russian convoy near Aigun was said to be seized with most of its escort killed.
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London
Shanghai
Daily Mail
Tai-Yuen-Fu
Shan Si
St. Petersburg
China
Russia
Aigun
Amur
Blagovechensk
Manchuria
Siberia
Michael
Russian Frontier Commission
Blagoveschensk
Peking
Li Hung Chang interview highlights pacific mission half way
London reports cite Li Hung Chang saying his Peking mission aims to avert foreign minister deaths and secure favorable peace terms with allied powers. He pledges no fighting, travels nearly unarmed with 200 guards, and asks consuls to inform admirals to respect his flag and his cautious approach amid Manchuria tensions.
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Peking
London
Daily Telegraph
Canton
Li Hung Chang
China
Earl Li
Lord Salisbury
M. Delcasse
Pacific
Peiz
Chinese retreat becomes rout as Canton falls to allies
The report says Tien Tsin was followed by 80 swift aftershocks, leaving the Chinese unable to reorganize. Li Hung Chang has left Canton, causing European fears for safety with only two gunboats, a British craft and an American one, awaiting a French gunboat’s arrival.
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Tien-Tsin
Li Hung Chang
Canton
Foreign legations attacked. Li Hung Chang denies massacres
Paris reports on July 7 troops under Gen Tuan attacking the foreign legations in Peking after a European sortie. The governor of Shan tung says foreigners' fate seemed hopeless. A July 16 telegram cites Li Hung Chang denying massacre news from Peking.
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Paris
Shanghai
Shan Tung
Peking
Tuan
Li Hung Chang
Retirements and firings mark Abbreviated Telegrams
Col Edward B Williston of the 6th artillery is placed on the retired list. Rural free delivery starts in Bloomdale Ohio on July 23. The L Glesenkamp & Son carriage factory in Pittsburgh is destroyed by fire with 60000 in insured losses. Joliet Stove Works in Joliet resumes after shutting down for weeks, bringing 200 workers back to work.
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Col
Edward B. Williston
6Th Artillery
Post Office Department
Bloomdale
L. Glesenkamp & Son
Pittsburgh
Joliet Stove Works
Joliet
Allied forces capture Tien-Tsin as Chinese defenses fall
Shanghai dispatch reports 100,000 Chinese troops near Shanghai and three pockets of resistance. Allied forces win a three day battle, taking the ancient walled city and forts on July 14 with 800 Chinese and 213 Americans dead or wounded. San Francisco merchants pledge to volunteer for China service if needed. Wu in Washington confirms ministers in Peking safe on July 9 amid the Goebel case testimony.
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Shanghai
Tien-Tsin
San Francisco
United States
China
Washington
London
Sheng
Imperial
Peking
Finley Anderson
Barboursville
Caleb Powers
Goebel
Powers
Baseball Winners From Brooklyn Pittsburgh and Boston
Baseball recap of yesterday showing Boston defeating Philadelphia 9 to 5 with late runs. Pittsburgh beats Chicago 4 to 2 after rain halted play. New York tops Brooklyn 7 to 5 with strong hitting and key innings. Batteries listed include Pratt Douglass Sullivan Chesbro O Connor and others. Umpires named Swartwood O Day and Griffith Donahue.
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Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Boston
Rae, Philad
Pratt
Douglass
Cuppy and
Sullivan
Emsiiie
Chicago
Chesbro
O’connor
Griffith
Donahue
O’day
R.H.E
New York
Doheny, Mathewson
Bowerman
McGinnity
Farrell
Swartwood
Seseenees
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Wena Enene
St. Louis
Markets report from The Cincinnati and Chicago dated July 17
The market notes wheat and flour prices in Cincinnati with various grades listed, along with grain sales for corn oats and rye. Live stock prices are given for hogs cattle sheep lambs and veal calves with categories from select to common and price ranges. Chicago and East Buffalo quotations for wheat corn oats and cattle are included with price ranges and item descriptions.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
East Buffalo
sharOs Berely
Dairying Progress In United States Through the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century drove dairying to prominence in the United States through invention, cooperative factories, and science. Jesse Williams of Oneida County pioneered the first cheese factory in 1831, spawning a nationwide cooperative system that transformed dairy into a major industry with rising cheese prices and growing exports.
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America
Jesse Williams
Oneida County
Williams
Rome
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Atlantic
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