Cabinet debates China reinforcement needs in July
Washington reports a cabinet consultation outlining rapid reinforcements for China. Navy plans five hundred marines from U S yards, while Gen MacArthur may dispatch two regiments from the Philippines to join the effort at Taku. Russian French and Chinese ministers visited Secretary Hay amid talks suggesting Japan may gain freer hand to quell the Boxer disturbance in China. A hidden condition linked to territorial gains remains undisclosed.
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Washington
China
Kempff
United States
San Francisco
MacArthur
Philippines
Ninth Infantry
Taku
Nagasaki
Department
Hay
Russia
France
Japan
Prince Ching Aids Foreigners in Pekin Turmoil
Foreigners in Pekin appear safer with Prince Ching rallying 10 000 troops and aiding the foreigners as powers unite. Shanghai reports say Yang Lu backs Ching against Prince Tuans ambitions. The Empress Dowager resists factional danger while Boxer fears grow. allied forces press at Tien Tsin amid vicious fighting and uncertain intelligence.
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London
Pekin
Prince Ching
China
Tao Tai Sheng
Shanghai
Sheng
Yang Lu
Prince Tuang
Pekin News
Daily Mail
Tien Tsin
Sir Claude MacDonald
Robert Hart
Baron von Ketteler
Claude MacDonald
Prince Tuan
Ching
Terrible
Tien ‘Sin
Powers weigh Chinese crisis amid floods and war talk
Reports from Shanghai and Pekin describe floods hindering inland movement as foreign powers consider further action. Officials note heavy war materiel in Chinese hands, a mined Yangtze, and reinforced Shanghai arsenal garrisons while Japan contemplates sending up to 22,000 troops.
Kaiser Determined in Asia Conflict Reports
Berlin reports no new authentic Pekin news on whites fate. Powers back harmony while Japan sends another division to Tianjin. Chinese loyalists under Li Hung Chang clash with Boxers, 3,000 rebels slain near Pekin. Germany readies ships and torpedo boats for China amid war-talk with Russia. Yuan Shi Kai blamed for mission destruction risk.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Pekin
China
Tien Tsin
Lord Gough
Associated Press
Japan
Lu Hai Houan
Germany
Li Hung Chang
Chin Hon
William
Niobe
Sperber
Chwalbe
Bussard
Seeadler
Count Osier-Sacken
St. Petersburg
Prince Radolin
Far Asia
Tageblatt and
Lokal Anzeiger
Ito
Shan Tung
Yuan Shi Kai
Lu Huan
Shang Tung
Bestiified and Best Armed in China Report
A fragment notes a claim of readiness against a German expedition from Tien Tsin. The wording suggests a historical wartime posture with emphasis on arms and preparedness, reflecting a tense Sino European encounter.
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China
Tien Tsin
Boxers Loot American Mission in Tung Lu and Ching Chu Fu
German consul at Che Foo reports looting of the American mission at Tung Lu and the Catholic mission at Ching Chu Fu as Boxers press for revolt. Li Ping Hong, former Shang Tung governor, with 8000 men, moves north from Nankin after a request to withdraw.
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Berlin
Che-Foo
Tung Lu
Ching Chu Fu
Che- Foo
Li Ping Hong
Shang Tung
Nankin
Oregon At Chefoo Aboard En Route To Kure Japan
The Oregon arrived at Chefoo and will dock at Kure, Japan, likely around July 10 to 13. Captain Rodgers, from Nashville, reports smooth sailing and that Chefoo wire service is resumed, with Oregon awaiting dry dock after grounding delays.
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Washington
Navy Department
Oregon
Chefoo
Kure
Japan
Rodgers
Nashville
Che-Foo
Kuro Dock
Russia and Japan agree on China pacification cooperation
St Petersburg reports authoritative information that Russia has consented to Japan joining in pacifying China. Russia imposes no troop limit and insists the accord not create a mandate for privileged status. Japan must cooperate under the same conditions as other powers.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Japan
China
Missionaries in Far East Receives Safe Notice
In New York on July 9 the Rev Joseph Kimber of the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society received a cable from Bishop Frederick R Graves of Shanghai stating all safe with a note to notify friends. Messages also arrived from Reformed church and Methodist leaders expressing safety and hope missionaries may escape.
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New York
Joseph Kimber
Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society
Frederick R. Graves
Graves
Shanghai
Yang Tse Valley
Japan
Protestant Episcopal Church
China
Great Yang Tse River
Ninth U S Infantry Arrives at Taku
Daily Mail report from Che Foo dated July 7 states the Ninth U S infantry has arrived at Taku, marking a military movement in the region.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Chee Foo
U. S
Taku
Times Sceptical On Pekin Legations Still Protected
The Times notes some Chinese officials push the belief that Pekin legations remain protected by a Chinese army faction. It argues this claim lacks direct ministerial communication with the outside world and calls the circumstantial rumors unconfirmed without such contact.
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London
Times
Europe
Pekin
Blignaut and council surrender as British report gains
London July 9 Lord Roberts to war office Pretoria reports State Secretary Blignaut State Attorney Dickson and council members surrendered at Heilbron. Captain Currie and Lieutenant Kirk killed. One squadron of Imperial Light Horse fought a large Boer force to recover a wounded comrade with heavy losses. Lieut Young of First Canadian mounted troops wounded. Several Boers wounded and a flag of truce sent for field hospital. A sergeant major, three sergeants and seven troopers wounded. one squadron pressed a superior enemy force. British casualties include a slight scalp wound to Lieut Young.
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London
Lord Roberts
War Office
Pretoria
Heilbron
Blignaut
Dickson
Vantander
Kuppervergen
Currie
Kirk
Imperial Light Horse
A. Farrar
Afrikander Women Condemn Annexation Policy
Cape Town July 9 at a protest meeting of Afrikander women Mrs Olive Schreiner Cronweight denounced British policy. She said she was ashamed of English descent and warned that annexation would dishonor England and that every Boer death wounds the empire.
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Cape Town
Olive Schreiner Cronweight
England
Great Chinese Wall In China War Forecast
Dr J Sanegoshi of Tokio, medical director general of the imperial Japanese navy, arrives from Vancouver en route to Paris for the medical congress. He believes the China uprising may be suppressed without empire breakup but predicts renewed conflict with worse consequences and a likely major war. He also says Russia must be kept outside the great wall.
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Halifax
J. Saneyoshi
Tokio
Imperial Japanese Navy
Vancouver
Paris
China
Sanegoshi
Russia
Programme For the World's Convention In London
The world convention of Christian Endeavor in London July 13 to 18 features U.S. speakers. Rev. Francis E Clark of Boston is world president. Noted leaders include Bishop B W Arnett of Wilberforce University. The event opens with prayers at Alexandra Palace with various addresses by clergymen and educators through July 18.
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Miles T. Shand
Washington, D. C
Joseph Parker
D. D
Reuben Thomas
M. A
B. D
Brookline
Mass
C. E. Eberman
George W. Coleman
Quiet House
Amos Wells
Boston
T. B. Eddy
Mizpah
Francis Clark
John Willis Baer
James L. Hill
Salem
Henry Somerset
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Western Picture Gallery
London
Christian Endeavor
United States
Francis E. Clark
The
B. W. Arnett
Wilberforce (Ohio) University
Alexandra Palace
H. N. Lathrop
Elsie Travis
Brighton
Martble D. Babcock
New York
Clarence Eberman
Charles M. Sheldon
Topeka
Kansas
Maltbie Babcock
G. C. Lorimer
Arnett
Wilberforce
Ohio
Robert Nourse
Auburn
N. Y
W. Y. McElveen
Alexander Walters
KD. D
New Jersey
Tenth Legion
W. Shaw
Bogton
Pentecostal
Floyd W. Tomkins
Philadelphia
T. van Patten
Vermont
T. K Fddy
Diaz Wins Re election in Mexico as Electoral Colleges Vote
City of Mexico July 9 electoral colleges in chief towns cast votes for President. Re turns come in slowly from outlying states. A great majority voted for Gen Diaz, ensuring his re election for four years starting December 1 next.
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City of
Mexico
Republic
Diaz
Lord Seymour Leaves Canada for England to End Command
Lord William Seymour, general commanding the imperial forces in British North America, departed Halifax for England via Yarmouth Boston and New York after completing his term. His successor has not yet been appointed.
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Halifax
N.S& TH
Lord William Seymour
British North America
England
Yarmouth
Boston
New York
Rotterdam Strike Wounds Ten Soldiers as Dock Laborers Fire
The Rotterdam dock strike turns violent as laborers shoot at soldiers, wounding ten. Garrisons are reinforced and warships guard the waterfront amid rising tensions.
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Rotterdam
Carmen
Cholera in Bombay and rainfall reports from India
The viceroy of India reports fair to good rainfall in several regions but below average overall. Cholera mortality remains high in Bombay with May deaths described as appalling. Relief efforts show 6,013,000 people under relief and weekly famine deaths rising in June.
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London
India
Lord George Hamilton
Lord Curzon of
Kedleston
Bombay
Deccan
Baarar
Khandeish
Central Provinces
Gangetic Plain
Punjab
Rajpootana
Guzarat
Central India
Foreign Office
Educational Papers Read by American Institute in Halifax
Visiting members of the American Institute of Instruction read three papers at Halifax Nova Scotia on July 9. Chas B Gilbert Newark N J presented The Educational Needs of the Democracy. O A Lane New York spoke on Common School as a Social Science. A W Edson New York read The Personal Equalation.
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Halifax
American Institute
N. S
American Institute of Instruction
Chas. B. Gilbert
Newark
N. J
Gilbert
O. A. Lane
School Journal
New York
A. W. Edson
Manhattan
The
Bronx
Palm Oil Fire Threatens Elder Dempster Vessels
Fire broke out in Elder Dempster docks sheds in Liverpool on July 9. Large quantities of palm oil burned while the flames spread to steamers Benguela Benny and Oron, which were towed to safety.
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Liverpool
Senor de Vigo Honored By Berlin Foremost Decoration
Berlin July 9 Spanish ambassador Senor Mendez de Vigo departed after receiving the highest decoration at the foreign office. Ambassadors and nearly all the diplomatic corps saw him off at the depot with Ambassador White and Secretary of Embassy Jackson among those present.
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Berlin
Senor Mendez de Vigo
Foreign Office
Ambassdor White
Jackson
Bolivian Minister to Visit United States and Acre Action
A La Paz dispatch states Bolivian plenipotentiary Senor Guadalla will depart for the United States soon. A Bolivian military division under the war minister will leave La Paz on July 10 to reach the Acre disputed territory.
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Lima
Peru
Galveston
Texas
la Paz
Bolivia
Senor Guadalla
United States
Acre
Gower Sentenced for Manslaughter in Vermont Case
Nelson W. Gower of Hoosick Falls New York was found guilty of manslaughter for running over and killing Mrs Florence T Hall of Bennington on January 23 as she boarded an electric car. Judge Watson sentenced him today in Manchester Vermont to seven to eight years in Windsor State Prison.
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Manchester
Nelson W. Gower
Hoosick Falls
N. Y
Florence T. Hall
Bennington
Watson
Windsor
Hackett to Visit Home for Short Vacation
Washington July 9 Assistant Secretary of the Navy Hackett plans a brief trip to his former home in New Hampshire for a vacation.
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Washington
Hackett
New Hampshire
Views of Paris and the Exposition 1900 advertised
ARIS promotes Views of Paris and the Exposition 1900 a 320 view series with 20 weekly parts. The New Century Company of New York offers ten cent weekly issues and a two dollar full set postpaid, with sample parts available at the paper’s office.
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Paris
NEW Century Company
Fifth Avenue
New York
Blues Treasures Fresh Picked From Green Hills
Indigo blues from New Hampshire clime and blue berries from the Green Hills side arrive in town. Choic est of blues in full boxes for locals seeking fresh harvests.
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Green Hills
New Hampshire
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