Washington Puts Forward US Response To China Intercession Plan
The state department released the text of its reply to China's intercession proposal. Messages from Li Hung Chang dated August 19 21 urged cessation of hostilities and negotiations with a plenipotentiary. A memorandum signaled willingness to join a truce once security and Chinese governance prove capable.
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Washington
State Department
China
Adee
Li Hun Chang
Pekin
United States
Pekio
Secretary of State
Department of State
Li Hung Chang
Pexin
Ali
Governor in Hunan Calls Extermination of Northern Foreigners
Reports state the Hunan governor issued placards urging locals to exterminate foreigners in North China. It is said several Pekin legation ladies have died from hardships endured.
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Hunan
China
Pekin Legations
McKinley Cancels Chicago Trip Over Washington Duties
President McKinley abandons plans to travel to Chicago for the G A R encampment due to important business in Washington. A possible, unlikely later trip is mentioned. A reported international complication may keep him in the capital, with hints of Pekin troops and a $200,000,000 indemnity demand.
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Shanghai
Pekin
Tuan
Yang Lu
Washington
McKinley
Chicago
It Iis
United States
Populists Nominate W. J. Bryan at Topeka
Nomination by the Populist party was announced in Topeka Kansas today naming William Jennings Bryan as their candidate. Party leaders proclaimed Bryan’s appeal to progressives and agrarian interests as a national campaign move.
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Topeka
Kansas
Children fatally harmed in mob lynching incident
A mob violence case resulted in the death of Black children amid tensions over alleged crime. Authorities investigate the mob’s motive and the circumstances surrounding the killings.
Bryan Notification in Topeka Parade and Speech
In Topeka Bryan arrived at 10:05 escorted from Atchison by local reception committees. About 15,000 attended the notification ceremonies at the state house grounds with Bryan accepting the populist nomination for president.
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Topeka
Kas
Bryan
Atchison
Santa Fe
National Hotel
State House
Kansas
Kansas Avenue
Ridgely
Edmiston
Lincoln
National
Drew
Doster
Thomas M. Patterson
Denver
State Honse
Indianapolia
Indianapolis
Balloonist Dies After Parachute Fails At Delphos Fair
At Delphos Ohio during a street fair a balloon ascent ended in tragedy when aeronaut Harry Davis cut loose his parachute at 800 feet its failure caused a fall into telegraph wires and street. He survived the impact but doctors found fatal internal injuries. eight thousand spectators witnessed the incident.
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Delphos
Ohio
Harry Davis
Gasoline stove blast kills two women in Denver
In Denver on August 23 a gasoline stove exploded while Mrs. Frank A. Frisbie tried to light a fire. The blaze burned her and her mother, Mrs. Curry of Connecticut, who rushed to help. The grocer had sold coal oil instead of gasoline.
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Denver
Colo
Frank A. Frisbie
Population Decline Shocks Omaha Census Figures
Washington dispatch reports Omaha Nebraska counts from the twelfth census show a population of 102 555 a decline from 1890 of 37 897 or 26 98 percent. The 1880 figure stood at 30 518 representing a 360 23 percent rise to 1890.
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Washington
Omaha
Nebraska
Women to March in Chicago Labor Day Parade
Five thousand wives daughters and mothers of locked out building trades workers may march in the Labor day parade if arrangements are completed. Transparencies will display wages paid by contractors before and after the union formed.
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Chicago
Building Contractors’ Council
Prohibition Leader Seeks Debates After Louisville Convention
Chairman Stewart of the prohibition national committee returns from Louisville. Gubernatorial nominee ex-Congressman White plans a joint debate with Beckham and Yerkes. Stewart says the party aims to double Kentucky votes from four years ago for Levering.
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Chicago
Stewart
Prohibition National Committee
Louisville
White
Beckham
Yerkes
Trath
Kentucky
Levering
Sockalexis jailed as vagrant in Holyoke
Louis Sockalexis once great Indian ball player was sent to county jail for a month as a vagrant. He has been sleeping in barns in Holyoke Massachusetts.
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Holyoke
Masa
Louis Sockalexis
Deputies nab two Mexicans in murder case near Montoya
Sheriff Boone and Deputy Sheriff Ed Bryant arrested Antonio Bccantrias and Marcos Medina near Montoya about twelve miles from town. They are linked to Jose Alvarez's shooting at T. White's ranch Tuesday evening, dying early today. Medina had been turned over to a New Mexico agent on a cattle theft charge and is out on bond.
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Cleveland
Stone
Young
Columbia Ball
Struc
Boone
Ed. Bryant
Montoya
Jose Alvarez
T. White
Alvarez
Antonio Bccantrias
Marcos Medina
Medina
Sperlf
New Mexico
Bend
Woman Operators Replaced by Men in Pennsy System
In CuHicnco on August 23 officers of the Pennsylvania railway announce that women telegraph operators will no longer be employed in the system offices. They are deemed too nice for some posts though capable of duties, yet less available for all classes of work than men.
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Cuhicnco
Womean
Pennsylvania Railway System
Road
Electric Railway Prospects Rise In El Paso Juarez Link
El Paso and Juarez Traction gains Mexico concession to operate Juarez line with the system on this side. Chicago group plans a Texas street main line with extensions to Franklin Heights and outlying subdivisions. Both projects aim to expand street railways within the next year.
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el Paso and Juarez Traction Company
Mexico
Juarez
Ae Herald
Chicago
Committee of Citizens
Traction Company
Plains
Santa Fe Street
St. Louis Street
Stanton
San Antonio
el Paso
Stanton Streets
Lower Bridge
Magostic
Stanton Street
Chicago Syndicate
Texas Street
Franklin Heights
Smetter
Hills
Paso
Telegrams from Governor Gage on California quarantine
Governor Gage states there is no quarantine against San Francisco or California and calls the Texas quarantine unwarranted. Dohrmann waves doubt of plague cases and urges not to maintain the quarantine. Messages dated August 2 from Downey California and San Francisco reach Secretary Russell of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce.
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Sacramento
Texas
San Francisco
Caifornia
Ernest E. Russell
Chamber of Commerce
el Paso
F. W. Dohrmann
Merchants’ Associative
Sheriff Captures Burglary Suspect in Alamogordo Case
Sheriff Baker of Oisro county arrived from Arizona with suspect F. Roberts charged with burglary at Alamogordo. The capture followed a two day chase in Arizona. He was accompanied by Capt. Wilkinson, a former Texas Ranger.
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Baker
Oisro County
Arizona
F. Roberts
Alamogordo
Arz Ra
Wilkinson
Texas
Local Baseball Boom in El Paso Colts Draw Crowd
A longtime local player praises El Paso Colts for fast clean baseball while recalling strong 1893 and 189 other teams. He urges further attendance to prove this amateur squad can rival professional teams and notes growing city support.
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Southwest
el Paso
el Paso Colts
Hi Paso
Obituary of Wao M Jones Aged 73 Dies In City
Wao M Jones aged 73 died this morning at 315 o clock at 413 Mesa Avenue from stomach cancer. A cabinet maker by trade he worked with Hoyt and Bass for years. He leaves a wife and three children Orville Alma and a Chicago married daughter. Funeral tomorrow at 9 from the Baptist church with Rev H W Moore officiating. Interment at Coscordia.
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Wao. M. Jones
Mesa Avenue
Hoyt and Bass
Orville
Buchacsa and
Powers
Alma
Stats University
Chicago
Baptist Church
H. W. Moore
Coscordia
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