Britain in Pekin Evacuation Negotiations Continue
London reports Britain's refusal to evacuate Pekin until China guarantees conditions are met. Russian plans stress cooperation and a government in Pekin after evacuation. Japanese authorities arrest Baron Von Ketteler's murderer, who confesses, while Boxers clash with Russian forces near Macipo with heavy casualties.
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London
Britain
Great Britain
St. Petersburg
Pekin
Cermeoy
Kusis
Koscha
Nove Vreemya
Tien Tein
Tako
Port Arthur
Te Li Han
Saratov
Iimeries
Far East
Prince Ching
Li Hang Chang
Marquis Tsiang
Baron von Ketteler
China
Cerman
Treitkoff
Macipo
Hoxera
Roving News Briefs From Across North America
Summary of scattered reports dated Sept 14 across cities. Ottawa notes the illness of a Commons member. McConnell of McTaggart Street drowns on a sand barge at Niagara Falls. Ottawa Waterworks employee Edwards Carter falls into the river while diverting debris. Warkworth reports a shooting accident among Abram Phillips’s sons. Toronto law professors reassigned to Lefroy and Young. Winnipeg mentions Scott Memorial hall work resuming. Memphis reports a minstrel troupe car wreck with nine dead and six injured. Ashcroft records a fatal crush injury from a train. Banff hosts sixty guests with climbers billeted at Lake Louise. Toronto gale causes damage but little overall harm. Vancouver tar plant blast injures James McAllister. La Jolla notes Galveston kinfolk tragedy for O. J. Sealey. Winnipeg freight on Lake Superior falls 7 percent in August. 16.4 million tons moved to date.
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Uttewsa
Albers McConmpell
McTaggart Street
Ottawa Sand and Gravel Company
Aud
Little Island Niagere Falls
Edward Carter
Jonsy
Toronto
Toronto University
David Mills
Justice Proudfoot
FP. Lefroy
Gregory Young
Winnipeg
Ald. Sharpe
Memphis
Tenn
Cairo
Ill
Duncan Clarke
Mound
Ashcroft
B.O
George Knappit
Knaappit
Kamloos
Banff
Canadian Rockies
Lake [Oaise
Ontario
Vancouver
James McAllister
Carroll and
Hastings
McAllister
la Jona
Colo
J. Sealey
Galveston
Texas
Martial law proclaimed over Transvaal renamed Vaal River Colony
In Pretoria on September 14 Lord Roberts proclaimed martial law over the Transvaal republic now renamed the Vaal River Colony. Reports from Bloemfontein and Kroonstad note some suffering due to lack of skilled orderlies but dispute Burdett Coutts claims about hospitals.
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Pretoria
Lord Roberts
Transvaal Republic
Vaal River Colony
Burdett Coutts
Bloemfontein
Kroonstad
Lisbon
Lorenzo
Marquez
Kruger
Botha
Transvaal
Viljoen
London
Machadorp
French
Barberton
Horton
Arrival of Canadian soldiers greeted along route
Landon Sept 14 reports Canadian soldiers seen from Charing Cross to Easton station greeted by cheering crowds. In Sarnia Sept 14 McMorran’s four mills at the Black River entrance Port Huron catch fire with an elevator, expected total loss.
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Landon
Charing Cross
Easton
Sarnia
Unt
Trains In Gulf Disaster Report 85 Lives Lost
News from New Orleans on September 14 recounts a Southern Pacific train wreck en route to Galveston from New Orleans with 85 fatalities. About 17 passengers found refuge in a lighthouse and were saved. A telegram adds 455 deaths on the Beaumont to Bodger Point Gulf coast service.
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New Orleans
Southern Pacific
Galveston
John Poe
State Bord of Education
Lake Charles
Beaumont
Bodger Point
New York
Obarien Tweed
Electrical speech recording device showcased at international congress
A Hungarian inventor presented a new electrical speech recording apparatus at the international Electrical congress in Paris. The delegate said the unit has been tested with satisfactory results and can reproduce spoken telephone messages in writing at the other end. The report notes the English channel’s width comparison to Lake Superior.
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Paris
International Electrical Congress
Disaster strikes Paris Ontario damaging businesses
A severe crisis report notes Paris Ontario suffered a disastrous storm hitting business districts and destroying multiple stores. It mentions estimated losses around 250000 and references other regions with shipping and weather impacts on the Great Lakes.
FIRE AND STORM HIT MULTIPLE CITIES WITH WIDE DAMAGE
Paris Ontario suffers extensive business district ruin with over forty shops wiped out and losses between 250000 and 450000. A heavy gale zapped Newport Rockingham hotel fire and beach area losses at 450000. Buffalo reports 72 mph winds and electrocution from a live wire. Widespread storm reports include Milwaukee passenger ship peril and Ontario tornado aftermath.
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Paris
Ont
Poop
Newport
Rockingham
Narragansett Pier
Milwaukee
Wis
Pere Marquette
Holland
Mich
Detroit
St. Joseph
Evening News
Lawrence
People'’s Transit Company
Rochester
Lyons
N.Y
Wayne County
Massacre Reports Sweep Chinese Provinces
London reports cite 15000 to 20000 converts killed in July in northern Chinese provinces. Women allegedly subjected to brutal killings as Boxers enact vengeance. Allied troops move on Sheng Hee Sieu and Tieo Tsin region as expulsion of Boxers looms.
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London
China
Tien Tsin
Shanghai
Sheng Hee Sieu
Tilie
Tieo Tsin
Ottawa History Comes Alive in Duncan MacDonald Death
Duncan MacDonald of Garth age 75 dies in Ottawa Protestant hospital, recalling early fur trade history and Northwest Fur Company founders as his father John MacDonald helped establish the firm. Prince Advani arrested at Niagara Falls on charges of obtaining goods in Ottawa by false pretenses after posing as an Indian prince and wealthy traveler.
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Ottawa
Duncan McDonald
MacDonald
John MacDonald
Garth
Northwest Fur Company
Hudsons
Prince Advari
Niagara Falls
Advani
Chicago
Powell
Pacific Coast
Rumors of Refugees and Canadian Cavalry Dispatches
Reports from Sept 13 to 15 recount urgent dispatches. British Cape Town officials address refugee welfare amid dire conditions on Table Mountain. In Ottawa, Gen Hutton praises the 1st Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles for a June engagement near Pretoria.
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Ottawa
Canadian Medical Association
Convocation Hall
Ottawa University
Powell
Ryerson
Loreces Marques
Kruger
Washington
War Department
United States
Cape Town
Cape
London
Daily Mail
House of Assembly
John Sprigge
Eaye
Distres
Table Mountain
Hutton
Governor General
Lord Roretta
Pretoria
Canadian Mounted Rifles
Bame
Roberto
F. W. Young
Souris
Manitoba Dragoons
R. H Ryan
King’s Canadian Hussars
Purdon
Duke of York's Own Hussars
Plague Rising and Calamities Reported Across North America
Condensed notes from Simla to Winnipeg record a surge in plague deaths in Iodi, a fatal asphalt boiler explosion in Vancouver, a large Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen convention in Des Moines, stock broker H A King’s death in Toronto, a suicide near Balfour North Dakota, Galveston mortuary concerns, a suicide attempt in Neepawa, Calgary exhibition opens with Gov Forget present, drunken unrest near Huron Indiana, and Winnipeg’s Mrs Hutton found dead under unclear circumstances.
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Simla
Vancouver
James McAllister
Toronto
Civic Street
Des Moines
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Canada
H. A. King
Harry
Greenwood
B.C. Balfour
N.D
Leonshing
Neepawa
Man
Paul W. Lipke
Calgary
Forget
A. G. Wooleyard
Bedford
Ind
Huron
Winnipeg
Hutton
Mine workers set to strike in Pennsylvania anthracite
President Mitchell and Secretary Wilson of the United Mine Workers sign a document endorsing a strike by 142,000 miners in the Pennsylvania anthracite districts, calling them out Monday morning. Also notes Bow resigning to join Anglo Canadian Gold Estates and anarchist threats near Hatfield House.
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Indianapolis
Mitchell
Wilson
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Bribe Used to Prompt Manchuria In China Crisis
London reporting a Morning Post view says Li Hung Chang bribed Russia and Germany to evacuate Pekin with Manchuria terms unclear. Paris and St Petersburg instruct withdrawal to Tien Tsin. Li Hung Chang warns Boxers in Pe Chi Li to return home and threaten punishments for disobedience. Washington says Fowler seeks a vessel to rescue missionaries and families fleeing inland China.
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London
Shanghai
Morning Post
Chang
Russia
Germany
Pekin
Mancheria
France
Tien Tsin
Paris
St. Petersburg
Pichon
de Giers
Frey
Linawitch
Li Hung Chang
Pe Chi Li
Shen Si
Washington
State Department
Fowler
China
Theota Chester Rives A Hidden Motive At Marshes
Frank Hawthorne rescues Theora Chester from the river and schemes to claim a fortune with Aunt Dorcas Lane's aid. Meanwhile Harry Strathmore confronts Violet Kensington over Theo and a betrayed love as secrets from Strathmore Hall surface.
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Harry Strathmore
Violet
Strathmore Hall
Frank Hawthorne
Frome
Freak Hawthorne
Pomber
Frank Hewthorne
Dorcas
Dorcas Lane
Theo Chester
Erfleal
Theora Chester
Draw Bridge
Coulter
Quartet of Invalids Returns to Front in Transvaal Pursuit
A London report lists four Canadian soldiers invalided from South Africa who regained enough health to rejoin their regiments in the Transvaal. The group, from the 2nd Middlesex, Carleton and Ottawa Rifles, Highlanders, and Canadian Mounted Rifles, were greeted with cheers as they left Strand for Mr. Bartlett Coutts’s residence.
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London
England
South Africa
War Office
Transvaal
Pte
P. Delmer
Middlesex Light Infantry
S. H. Eagleson
Carleton and
Ottawa Rifles
W. H. Grant
45Th Highlanders
Toronto
C Company
Wm. H. Snider
Canadian Mounted Rifles
Berwick
N.S
Strand
Bartlett Coutts
M.P
Otawa
Thos. Duxbury
Pinsher Creek
B. W. Clendinpen
N.W.M.P
A. Shane
Harold Strong
Ottawa
the Patriotic Fund
Canada
Soldiers Wives Leagues
Secretary of the Patriotic Land
Fatal Ashanti clash at Ojesu cited in Kumassi dispatch
Reports from Kumassi Sept 12 state 8 000 native levies under Capt Benson attacked Ojesu ten miles east of Kumassi Aug 29. They fled under fire rather than cooperate with Lieut Col Brake's Central African regiment arriving Aug 31. Benson, with one white man, reportedly shot himself to avoid capture by Ashanti forces.
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Kumassi
Benson
Ojesu
Brake
Central African Regiment
Dr Chase's Ointment Fights Itching Skin This Summer
Weary summer sufferers find relief from chafing and itching with Dr Chase's Ointment. The ad touts instant relief and thorough cures for eczema salt rheum hives and pimples, with testimonials from John Broderick and M A Smith praising its effectiveness for years of skin trouble. It claims the preparation is standard and best selling, priced 60 cents a box, available through dealers.
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Chaev
John Broderick
Newmarket, Ont
Dr. Chase
M. A. Smith
Brockville
Ont
Edmaneen, Bates and Co
Toronto
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