Safe Conduct for Foreign Ministers From Pekin to Tien Tsin
The Chinese government reports that foreign ministers will be escorted from Pekin to Tien Tsin and supplied with provisions. Sheng at Shanghai notes imperial protection and transport details, as Wu of the State Department confirms.
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Washington
Sheng
Shanghai
Pekin
Tien Tsin
State Department
London
Wen Jui
Tsung Li Yamen
Jung Lu
Hostage Possibility Weighs Over Pekin Crisis
London reports suggest Chinese officials may be holding foreign ministers as guarantors in stalled Pekin negotiations. Li Hung Chang warns powers to stay away as British and American ships clash over gun salutes at Taku with Kempff and others entangled in a powder dispute.
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London
Robert Hart
Chinese Maritime Customs
Pekin
Europe
Tsung Lu Yamen
Li Hung Chang
Endymion
Yokohama
United States
Kempff
Orlando
Taku
Admiral Kempf
Newark
British Legation Reports Relief Plea From Pekin
A British consul at Tien Tsin dated July 21 reports Sir Claude MacDonald in Pekin on July 4 appeals for relief. The legation has provisions for two weeks, but the garrison cannot hold against a determined attack for many days. Forty four dead and about double that wounded. The dispatch does not alter the massacre question at Pekin.
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London
Foreign Office
Tien Tsin
Claude MacDonald
Pekin
Famine and Pestilence Threaten Tien Tsin District
AP dispatch from Tien Tsin reports famine and pestilence likely to strike the region as hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians flee fighting zones. Lieutenant Colonel John S. Mallory of the Forty first Infantry arrives as military observer. American and British commanders impose censorship on foreign correspondence to curb anti Russian sentiment among some English reporters.
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Associated P’ress
Shanghia
Associated Press
Tien Tsin
Ant
John S. Mallory
Forty-first
United States Infantry
Suffering in Pekin Reported by Foreign Observers
The Shanghai and Yokohama press via the America Maru describe Pekin under siege with a thousand foreigners in the British legation enduring rifle fire. The Japan Mail notes thick walls and improvised inner stagings for riflemen as Chinese forces threaten with artillery. The piece highlights grave hardship and defensive limits for occupants.
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San Francisco
Shanghai
Yokohama
America-Maru
China
Japan
Japan Mail
Pekin
Legation
Distress in Peking Jurisdiction and Japanese Trade Edges
The article notes no ice plants in foreign legations and reliance on Chinese markets for beef and mutton. It describes a Japanese minister in Pekin disguising a Chinese speaker for escape, the boxers beating the disguise, and the minister fleeing to Tien-Tsin. It warns of a potential Japanese financial panic as China’s market closes and presses firms to retreat from Tien-Tsin and beyond.
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Hotel de Pekin
Pekin
Tien- Tsin
China
Japan
Tien-Tsin
Yellow Fever in Regiment at Pinar del Rio
A Havana dispatch to the War Department confirms yellow fever in the First Infantry at Pinar del Rio. Nine deaths last month, previously labeled pernicious malaria, are now thought to be yellow fever. Dr. Reed and a specialist report the disease among troops with five suspected cases at Guanajay.
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Washington
War Department
Havana
Lee
Pinar del Rio
Reed
Guanajay
Important Meeting Urges Attendance of Union Veteran Legion Committee
An urgent notice calls the general committee of the Union Veteran Legion national encampment to meet tomorrow evening at headquarters room 17 Arcade. Officers emphasize extreme importance of business to be discussed and urge all committee members to attend if possible given the short time before the encampment.
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Union Veteran Legion National
Deutchland Sets Eastward Maiden Crossing Record
The Hamburg Atlantic liner Deutchland, captained by Albers, arrived Plymouth from New York on its maiden eastward voyage in five days, fourteen hours, six minutes despite two foggy days. Its best daily run was 586 miles on July 19, surpassing the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse’s prior Plymouth eastward record from October 1897.
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London
Deutchland
Albers
New York
Plymouth
Liberal triumph in Panama report in Panama City capture
A cable dispatched to Dr. F Lopez confirms a liberal victory claim in Panama City. President Eloy Alfaro allegedly received news the capture occurred as battles near Corazal, thirty miles from Panama, were fought.
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New York
F. Lopez
Ecquador
Eloy Alfaro
Panama City
Guayaquill
Panama
Alfaro
Lopez
Panama Railroad Company
Corazal
Kenton Guest Miss Hila Schrader Vial Misread
Miss Hila Schrader of Kenton is listed as a guest of the family in a fragmented item noting a vial and family association.
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Hila - Schrader
Kenton, Vial
Taonily
Neely case hearings detail lax Cuban post office cash controls
The Neely embezzlement case hearing continued with testimony on neglected safeguards in the Cuba post office finance department. Witnesses described an always open outer safe door and broad access by clerks, with funds stored in three open drawers. The court emphasized competent local evidence over Cuban affidavits and the government rested its case.
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New York
Charles W. F. Neely
George Marshall
Finance Department
Cuba
United States District Attorney
Burnett
John D. Lindsay
William Hoffman
North American Trust Company
Neely
Eugene F. Ladd
Island of
George H. Burton
Post Office Finance Department
Burton
Lacom
John C. Mason
Detective Bureau of
Rochester
Lloyd Garrison
United States
Garrison
Lindsay
Death Follows Speech Recovery for Miss Landis
Lancaster PA July 24 Miss Susan H Landis of Ephrata who regained speech after nearly six years of silence is dead Her case was noted as one of the remarkable medical annals She became speechless after spinal trouble eight years ago and again uttered a single word ten days before dying
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Lancaster
Susan H. Landis
Ephrata
Globe Girdlers Start Trip Around World From City Hall Park
Surrounded by a sweltering crowd in City Hall park Mr and Mrs Alexander E Spiro of New York and Claude A Bigelow and his bride of Flushing L I started at 10 o clock on their wheels for a trip around the world The Bigelows rode a tandem
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New York
City Hall Park
Claude A. Bigelow
Flushing
L. 1
Bigelows
Four Century Road Club Riders Pursue Transcontinental Wager
Four riders set out on a 5000 dollar wager traveling from unspecified start toward Philadelphia tonight and then Chicago in about two weeks. Bigelow, a printer, notes Spiro a medical student joins with two others. none of the Century Road club officials accompanied them. The riders plan newspaper work and photography to fund the journey. The men appear unlikely to win the bet based on their physique.
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Bigelow
Century Road Club
Spiro
Philadelphia
Chicago
Burned Barn Deaths in Pittsburg Area
A barn fire in Barnesville, Colorado claimed the life of a y year old son of farmer William Smith and fatally burned Mrs. Smith and another son aged five. The two boys were playing with matches in the hay loft when the blaze started. Mrs. Smith died trying to save them as the father suffers profound grief.
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Pittsburg
Barnesville
William Smith
Warrant Issued for Ellert in Forgery Case Across Cities
A warrant for B J Ellert's arrest has been issued after Martin Schramm and Albert Gessler filed affidavits alleging forgery and fraudulent notes. Fort Wayne authorities sent the warrant to Chicago and Indianapolis officers to detain him if found. Ellert allegedly gambled away $2,000 to $3,000, naming gambling rooms and players, and hinted at further sensational details tied to his money raising scheme.
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Martin Schramm
B. J. Ellert
Gorsline
Chicago
Indianapolis
Ellert
Fort Wayne
Messrs. Schramm
Noll
Albert Gessler
Schramm
John H. Wort
Wort
Prince of Wales Becomes Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons
The Prince of Wales was made a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Sir William MacCormac led a deputation to Marlborough House to present the diploma this morning.
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London
Prince of Wales
Royal College of Surgeons
William MacCormac
Royal
Marlborough House
Campbell and Comparet Families Visit Local Meeting
Mrs Lydia Campbell and Mr and Mrs George E Campbell attended a gathering this morning. Also present were Mr and Mrs Thomas I Comparet from Liberty Street.
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Lydia Campbell
East Washington Street
George E. Campbell
East Fifth Street
Thomas I. Comparet
Liberty Street
McKinley to Mediate China Overture In Foreign Affairs
President McKinley signals willingness to mediate with China while conditioning acceptance on consent of the great powers. Secretary Wu indicates China will safeguard foreign ministers in Pekin, and W. W. Rockhill returns as special commissioner to prepare for a long mission to China aboard the America Maru with plans to reach Shanghai and Yokohama.
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Washington
Department of State
Sheng
Rockhill
China
Europe
State Department
Department
United States
Pekin
Conger
W. W. Rockhill
Rock Island
Mrs. Rockhill
San Francisco
Mr. Rockhill
China’s Request and McKinley’s Reply Cable Exchange
Washington publishes a full exchange between China’s emperor and the U S president dated July 1900. The Chinese letter asks for U S help to restore order after attacks on Taku forts and imprisonment of foreign diplomats. the U S reply affirms aims to protect nationals and calls for assurances on foreign ministers.
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Kwang Hsu
Shanghai
Canton
United States
China
Legation
Germany
Pekin
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