Shanghai and Che Foo Telegrams Report Safe Foreigners
August 3 reports from Shanghai and Che Foo relay the U S State Department summaries of conditions in China. Americans left Chun-kin amid rising tensions as ministers are urged to stay safe. Tsung Li Yamen cites allied protection and temporary shelter for ministers. heat and sanitation worsen unrest.
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Weakington
State Department
Shanghai
Che Foo
Secretary of State
Washington
Chun-kin
Janent
Mocenace
Residents fault delays in Pekin relief effort
Patience wears thin among foreign residents and Pekin legationists awaiting aid as 20 000 troops linger near Tien Tsin. They accuse officers of indifference and politicized delays while women and children starve eighty miles away. Japanese forces are cited for superior organization and rapid supply movement.
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Tien Tsin
Shanghai
Associated Paesa
Mera
Atic Aira
Pekin
Tenny
Tien Tsin University
Tien Tain
Sieg Pegns
Tien Txin
Paceesenben Ss
Japan
Tea
Japan Army
Chinese officials declare foreign ministers held as hostages
Shanghai reports Liu Kun Yi viceroy of Nankin Sheng and Taotai Shanghai say the foreign ministers are held as hostages and warn that allies marching to Pekin will be killed. Russians and others, 23 000 strong, reportedly begin moving. Another exodus from Shanghai follows rumors in native and foreign papers.
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Shanghai
Liu Kun Yi
Nankin
Sheng
Taotai
Pekin
Relief of foreign legations in Pekin advances
London reports the allied expeditionary force moving up the river toward Pekin with 20 100 men, including 16 00 Americans and 2 300 British. Russians and Japanese advance, telegraph blocks delay news, and Chinese coastal defenses prepare to protect foreigners as ships are sunk or damaged.
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London
Pekin
Tien Tain
Che Foo
Shanghai
New Chiang
To Shi
Carton
Macca
Bosphorus
China
Ferocioua Li Ping Hong
Looe
Premature Move Against Pekin Sparks Debate
A dispatch from New York discusses the siege of Pekin and questions the timing of the expedition. It cites estimates of nearly four hundred thousand Chinese against about twenty thousand expeditionary forces and suggests the Chinese government may defend the legations.
Chinese ministers and Boxers in disarray amid Yuan Kai report
Che Foo dispatch notes Governor Yuan Kai saying a July note from the Tsung Li Yamen reports the minister at the German legation and others are well and in friendly relations with the government. They are conferring on measures to protect ministers in Then Tain as allied forces prepare to act.
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Pekin
Tsung Li Yamen
Li Ping Han
Che Foo
Washington
Bhan Tung
Legation
Tien Tein
Yuan
Shanghai
Yuan Bhi Kai
Then Tain
Plot of King Humbert Killing Placed in Hoboken Room
Detectives identified a second floor room in a West Hoboken New Jersey anarchist resort as the alleged meeting site for the plot to kill King Humbert. Reports say Italians from New York Brooklyn Philadelphia and Patterson attended the secret conference. Teresa Burgell and Mrs Bresci are among those linked to the case. Bresci was a member of the International Group.
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New York
King Humbert
West Hoboken
N. J
Hoboken
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Paterson
Bresci
Quinte- Valle
United States Secret Service
Beecher Atrest
Salvator Quinto
Sasel
Lenner
Lanna
Italy
Coal for England sparks Vanderbilt Cassatt coal talks
The World reports William K. Vanderbilt flew to Europe to meet George Gould and Cassatt brothers to seek influence over rail lines and coal contracts. Cassatt aims to lock in deals shipping millions of dollars of bituminous coal to Europe as English mines wane. The plan centers on the Wabash and major lines such as the Penn, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Norfolk Western.
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New York
the World
Europe
William K. Vanderbilt
London
George Goult
RO Cammatt
Vanderbilts
Goulds
Camatt
Vanderbilt
Helena Treasurer Henry Tilton Dies in Helena
Henry F. Tilton former three year city treasurer of Helena died after years of partial paralysis. A Maine native, he had been clerk at the International hotel and was active in the Knights of Pythias Elks and Woodmen. Survived by wife four children and a Montana cousin D. W. Tilton of Butte.
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Inter Mountain
Helena
Henry F. Tilton
Betena
Old International Hotel
Mmn
Frieds. He Beato the Mawone
Knights of Pyitia Fellows
Elks and Woodmen
Hy Yes & Wife
Tiwana
Maine
Montana
D. W. Tilton
Butte
Montane
Yank
Stone Reveals Culton Defalcation Ties in Powers Trial
Sam H. Stone former Kentucky state auditor testified in the Powers trial at Georgetown detailing Culton a former office clerk removed a day before Stone retired for stealing about $1000 from the state. The defense pressed for indictment timing while witnesses testified on the shooting case and related events.
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Georgetown
Sam H. Stone
Powers
Ainess W. H. Culton
Culton
Stone
George L. Danforth
Louisville
Carpenter
State Senate
Goebel
James Harkload
Barbourville
Harkload
J. L. Butler
Butler County
Burton
Breckinrite
Louieville
Frankfort
San Francisco Presidio hospital gets major upgrades
Extensively improved facilities at the Presidio general hospital will be completed soon. A new heating and power plant with ventilation steam heating electric light and a modern laundry disinfecting equipment ice machine and refrigerating system will cut costs and boost efficiency by about twenty thousand dollars annually. The medical division prepares to care for sick and wounded in China by sending ambulances and hospital tents. Acting Hospital Steward Weir has disappeared after arriving from Manila. Captain John Gibbon Jr is named quartermaster and acting commissary on the Boverians bound for China. Lieutenant Hedain takes a similar post on the transport Aztec.
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San Francisco
Presidio General Hospital
United States
Col
Girard
Department of California
China
Weir
Manila
Hancock
Angel Island
John Gibbon, Jr
Agelstant
Consul Shaw Reports Venezuelan Burunquilla and Kentucky Towns
United States Consul W. Irwin Shaw reports from Burunquilla Venezuela and Loulaville Kentucky noting population details. The telegrams convey administrative notes and local demographics affecting bilateral interests.
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United States
W. Irwin Shaw
Burunquilla
Venezuela
Capetown Front Notes and Allied Movements
Capetown reports Lieberg's forces attacked General Smith-Dorrien near Potchefstroom but retreated without gain. General Ian Hamilton travels to Rustenberg to remove Baden-Powell's garrison. Seven hundred fifty Boer surrender to General Hunter as new actions unfold. Shanghai dispatch notes Chinese troops marching north from the Yangtse valley and possible southern flank against European armies. Brig генерал Ayril departs to join American forces in Chita, with aides Reeves and Turner aboard the America Maru. General Wilson to report to Major General Chaffee at Tientsin awaiting Washington orders.
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Capetown
Lieberg
Comaando
Smith-Dorrien
Potchefstroom
Ian Hamilton
Rustenberg
Baden-Powell
Hunter
San Francisco
Charles Ayril
Chita
J. H. Reeves
G. H. Turner
General Wilson
Chaffee
Tien Tain
Waxhington
North Carolina election reshapes state government
August results show Democrats winning governor with a 60k to 65k majority and gaining strong control in both chambers. Butler loses US Senate bid as Democrats consolidate power. a mixed white supremacist and Republican bloc dissolves.
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Raleigh
N. C
Bitomens
Senaor Butler
North Carolina
Marion Butler
United States
Fanison
Livingston Colege
Salisbury
South
Butler
Pritchard
Spencer B. Adams
Charles B. Aycock
Democratic Ia
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