06 Jul 1900
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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1900
Page
1
Cash talks as two major assembles in Butte cost over 160000 to acquire, plus spring and summer stock at triple the price. After Fourth of July business, a full clearance follows with odds and ends, remnants, and summer goods slashed. An inventory is taken mid month to start anew.
A local outlet launches an inventory sale on July 5 offering odd lots of stockings and hose from Lewis stock and last season. Deals include Black Cotton Hose with ribbed tops from Gordon-Lewis stock in sizes 8 through 9 and 9%. Three pairs for 25 cents, with other items such as Tan Colored Cotton Hose and Black Lisle Thread Hose offered at discounted prices. Various sizes across Men, Women, and Misses hosiery are listed with sale prices and multi-pair deals.
The final day of the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City opened hot and crowded. Delegates packed the hall as Vice Presidential nominations formed, Towne of Minnesota emerging as a leading candidate and Hill of New York confronting pressure to accept or refuse the nomination amid dramatic floor scenes.
Reports from Tien Tsin through Che Foo and Shanghai describe dire conditions near Pekin as Chinese forces including 10,000 disciplined troops and Mahammedans move toward the city. Boxers burn outskirts, water supplies fail, and thousands of Chinese dead are unburied. Foreign contingents led by Captain McCalla Major Wailve and the Americans halt assaults, with Russians and British backing. The situation is marked by sieges, prisoner abuse, and looming large scale conflict while diplomats watch.
New York July 6 W W Rockhill director of the Bureau of American republics spoke in Washington last night on foreigners in Pekin facing new sufferings after capture. He compared China’s civil war atrocities to modern events, noting foreigners have not been publicly executed before and warning of brutal tactics toward women and children.
London reports a mass of wild rumors about Pekin confirming massacre of whites and 500 native Catholics. Telegraphs from Shanghai recount Pekin as a blood soaked Inferno with executions and tortures of foreigners and European soldiers. Yang Lu’s moderation erased by Prince Tuan and Tung Fu Hsuan, who order harsher actions against foreigners.
Chicago officers report that seventeen or more North China Missionary Society representatives may be among the Pekin massacre victims. Names from Chicago district include Rev. William Ament and several Misses, with many from Tung Cho and Pekin. The North China convention at Tung Cho was attacked by Boxers, three days of fighting followed, and those present may have fled to Pekin with no contact since.
A decipherable telegraph from an authoritative source reports preparations and responses to inquiries about the situation. The message, dated Thursday July 5, outlines actions being readied and reactions from London and Havana. Further details remain unclear due to fragmented text.
A July 6 dispatch from Consul General Goodnow in Shanghai warns the Intercessionary movement is spreading and could trigger revolts across Central and South China. He urges strong force to check the viceroys in the north and south, noting powers have dispatched agents to the situation.
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