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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
1
RICE FIVE CENTS plc and about a dozen proprietors debated whether to close the long Champ de Mare restaurant. Leases set at 200 francs per square metre led to losses as two months of idle exposition hurt business. Of 200 visitors today, 180 were foreigners and many exhibitors plan to close after medals are awarded. They seek release from further payments beyond current season.
An advertisement extols White Mountain Ice Cream Freezers as superior machines with a triple motion feature. The copy claims quick operation, strong build, and reliability, asserting they congeal cleanly in a tub and cannot easily break down.
Washington released correspondence between Li Hung Chang and U S ministers regarding relief for legations in Pekin. The state department urged China to establish free communication with foreign representatives before any Pekin advance, and suggested leveraging Chinese Americans abroad to support a reform government, with potential positions for volunteers.
New York dated Aug 2 reports proposals to form a corps of intelligent Americanized Chinese to serve with U S forces in China as scouts interpreters and boatmen. Chung Wah leaders back it and would offer services to General Chaffee, seeing the time ripe for action and support from McKinley England and Russia in policy toward China.
A Hong Kong letter dated July 2 reports Li Hung Chang restraining Canton with a brutal rule. He banned public meetings to thwart uprisings, allegedly ordering executions by strangling or beheading. In one week seventy people died and up to two thousand were executed during his vice-royalty, with suspects sent to prison or death perilously.
The Chinese Inland Mission received a cable from Rev. F. W. Stevenson reporting murders at Ho Shan in Shan Si province. A local rebellion is reported in Ning Po district with two married couples and four single women among those at risk.
Lake Park Minnesota August 3 Rev H As Guardamoe secretary of the American Norwegian China Mission reports via cablegram from Hankow dated July 31 that guardsmoe is all here and going Sterzhal. Relatives and friends are assured of the missionaries safety thus far.
San Francisco August 2 William W Rockhill appointed by President McKinney as special commissioner to visit China and report on the Boxer movement and the conditions it has provoked has arrived here accompanied by many officials and aides.
The article discusses how the United States and Russia view Eastern Asia amid a tense global landscape. It notes mutual strategic concerns, the shifting balance of power, and the danger of race-focused rivalry shaping decisions and alliances.
The speaker states plans to accompany his wife on a journey to Asia, reporting on conditions and facts as discovered. He notes uncertain scope of work, will proceed to Pekin if possible, and intends to confer with the ambassador if alive, asserting no war exists with China. He emphasizes travel from an American base.
Brigadier General A. W. Greeley, chief of the U S army signal service, sails from Chicago to Alaska to oversee a military telegraph and cable project from St Michaels to Nome and Unalaska, linking with Canadian lines to Dawson and Valdez. The route spans 1400 miles up the Yukon and across the peninsula. Mrs Greeley accompanies him.
Chicago's Lucy Parsons says an international congress of anarchists will convene in Paris next month to map action for a world anarchist network. She notes America's single representative and distinguishes militant and philosophical strands amid talk of upheaval and global coordination.
Lucy Parsons relict of the anarchist faced heckling and was driven from the rostrum during a socialist gathering. The disruption sparked a riot as red lights were doused and about 600 people dispersed under police, with threats and brick-throwing reported near Belmont and North Albany avenues.
In Nome Territory a tense standoff unfolds as about a hundred miners, drawn by a rich pay streak, refuse to halt work despite military orders. Soldiers guard topkuk and Wexch beach operations after arrests in July, while two factions dispute the legality of a claim named Tundsan. The dispute raises questions of feeding and housing detainees as authorities seek resolution.
An Italian‑speaking man, about 26, assaulted the shah Muzaffer-ud-Din as he left his apartments. Police disarmed him, and the grand vizier toppled the revolver. The assailant claimed a conscience dispute and sought the royal carriage steps. Police say accomplices may be at large. the shah continued to Versailles.
New York dispatch reports widespread discontent among restaurant owners near the Champ de Mars exposition. Rents are stated as too high and attendance is distressingly small, prompting a meeting called by proprietors to seek remedies.
Tien Tsin reports Sir Alfred Gaselee assumes command of British offices. The U S post office will begin rural free delivery August 16 at El Monte and Santa Barbara, California. A Herald dispatch says a Japanese vanguard was repulsed with 150 killed or wounded. English Church Missionary reports stations in Shanghai Che Kiang and Fuhkien tranquil. Southern Pacific reports 3006 carloads of green deciduous fruits shipped, up 255 from last year, with much sent to Atlantic markets and the Midwest. League of American Mothers meets in Longwood with Mrs Hard y, Broadfoot and Sigmans speaking. Julian Ar agid in custody in London for extradition talks. bail set at 19,000, no hard stance if not extradited.
Telegrams report Humbert’s burial at Rome, flood of refugees in Nagasaki, anarchists in Pittsburgh, a near Spokane wreck, a royal assassination bid in Serbia, a New York raid on a dance hall, Duke of Sax-Coburg’s funeral, and various political and legal notes including Miss Eveleen Kennedy’s inquiry and naval armament plans.
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