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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1900
Page
2
Telegraphs from Lady Hart and Sheng in Shanghai recount a widening crisis in Pekin with legation bombardment and a possible breach, while officials in Washington receive corroborating reports warning of a perilous endgame for European ministers and foreign legations amid the Boxers uprising.
A St. Petersburg dispatch reports the massacre of M. de Giers and his legation in Pekin. The Czar read the brutal details as Admiral Alexieff described the envoy dragged through streets, boiled in a kettle, and the wife and officials tortured before death. Counts Lamsdorff and officials faced grieving relatives as Petersburg mourns.
Brussels reports a despatch from Shanghai dated July 14 noting the governor of Shantung says European troops defending the legations killed 200 soldiers of General Tung Fuh Siang. Boxers failed to take the legations and Sheng Tao Tai calls the situation critical and dangerous.
Italian consul in Shanghai reports mission Huan Wan destroyed and Bishop Fantosati with two missionaries killed. He notes assaults on Italian missions in Ho Nan and Hu Poh.
A Philadelphia North American item records Croker sending a cable to Wales addressing a clash in which Hill fell. The message says I have taken another kopje, conveying a quip amid the scuffle and wartime slang. The note reflects naval or colonial theater language and a telegram style communication.
Washington dispatch reports Honan governor Eshanfi issues a proclamation favorable to the Boxers. The Chinese minister says the U S government is anxious about the legation guards. U S officials note delayed messages from Pekin and Sheng, while Admiral Remey’s fleet advances toward Tianjin and Che Foo. The Chinese in the United States are said to be southern in origin and not aiding the Boxers, and authorities promise firm measures against anti-Chinese outbreaks if needed.
In Wheeling West Virginia on July 15 detective George C McCoy, in disguise as a tramp, traced and joined a roaming gang built for robbery. He arrested Barney Devine of Zanesville Ohio and John Stevens on Ohio soil for the murder of 18 year old Clarence Warrick during a home invasion at Somerton Ohio on April 8. McCoy says the case may unlock other recent crimes nationwide.
Gustav H. Schwab reports that directors will grant widows and orphans of Hoboken dock fire victims an extra pension. The amount is undecided, but the action may cost at least five million dollars. The company also faces dock rebuilding costs of about one and a half million and Saale and Bremen reconstruction near one million, with the Main wreck likely costing about one and a half million, totaling roughly four million in direct losses plus ongoing pension expenses.
The national executive committee met in Springfield and elected William Butscher of New York City as secretary and Samuel Jones of Springfield as treasurer. Debs and Hariman were unanimously endorsed as the party’s national ticket nominees, with plans for a vigorous fall campaign. Springfield was chosen as the future headquarters.
In New York on July 15 Mrs Mary Carew was shot by Jeremiah Cronin on the roof of her home as he chased her and her 17 year old son John. Carew was wounded in the back and rushed to Presby Hospital likely to die. Cronin had formerly lived with Carew and was evicted after rent nonpayment. Several others from Providence were also injured in related incidents and taken to Rhode Island hospital.
An accident on the Russian toboggan slide at Mount Hope park in Providence occurred at 11 45 this morning injuring eight people. The injured include Thomas Dwyer and wife of 26 French street Pawtucket Christiana BE Beck and daughter Hisle of Central Falls and others.
In Laconia New Hampshire on July 15 Charles Baker of Gilmanton, recently employed in Meredith, drowned while demonstrating swimming to companion Lyman Batchelder in Lake Winnesquam. He jumped from a boat near Cool Island and sank in sixty feet of water. body not recovered.
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