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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1900
Page
1
Gathers the latest dispatches from foreign shores covering crimes, accidents, fires and casualties. A concise telegraph of notable events from around the globe, highlighting dramatic incidents and their local echoes.
The Bessemer association plans to idle all Bessemer furnaces from September 1 except Briar Hill and Hitchcock at Youngstown to prop up pig iron prices. No contracts exist for weeks despite an $8 per ton price cut. one furnace will run on contracts, the other for foundry iron, as dealers hope for price restoration.
Police halted a planned Humbert assassination celebration by smashing a riot at West Twelfth Street Turner Hall. Mrs Lacy Parsons Abraham Edelstalt Clement Trenitzner and three others were seized and taken to the station as authorities quashed revived anarchist plans tied to the Haymarket era.
Deserters from Pekin warn of mass street fighting and bloodshed as 16 000 troops and 8 000 at Tungtsan hold the legation area. Officials say ministers are hostages and swear retaliation if allies advance. Accounts describe massacres including Christians punished and foreign aid urged.
Governor McSweeney addressed a Florence mob seeking lynching of two Black men and ordered militia to guard the jail when the crowd refused to leave. The incident highlights state action to quell extrajudicial violence and protect suspects.
State Department telegram to Berlin London Paris Rome St Petersburg and Tokyo states no arrangement on legation treatment without free communication with Pekin ministers. China must protect legations and ensure open lines. no negotiations while Chinese government blocks access. Urges imperial authorities to cooperate with relief expedition and maintain free communication.
The Shah Muzaffir-ed-Din, 47, son of Nasr-ed-Din, who rose to the throne in 1898, toured Europe visiting Paris and other courts. An assassination attempt occurred during the Paris exposition as he continued travels from Irvan to Tiflis and on to St. Petersburg and Warsaw amid enthusiastic receptions.
The interviews feature R T Heintzelman of San Francisco predicting Alaska gold output will reach at least 25 million this year with prospects for much higher. L T Marigold of New Orleans discusses Mississippi River freight growth and West Indian trade expanding New Orleans as a port. William F Ansley of Florence Alabama argues the South still needs black labor, predicting gradual social change but current necessity for Negro workers in all labor sectors.
In a major clash in China, sixteen thousand Allied troops press against Chinese defenses. Reports describe heavy exchanges across a broad front with significant troop movements and artillery support shaping the ongoing engagement.
Dispatches indicate a major clash at Pettsang about eleven miles northwest of Tientsin on Sunday. Allies including Russians and Japanese suffered about 1,200 losses while Chinese forces retreated in disorder. General Chaffee’s American troops performed well in the combat, with ships Yorktown and others in Chefoo tracking the action.
Washington reports from Che Foo indicate heavy fighting along the Tientsin Pekin line as an eastern relief column advances. Imperial edicts allow safe foreign deportation from Pekin while the United States refuses ministerial withdrawal absent free communication with all powers.
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