Notable Excerpts From YWCA Report and China Commentary
A broad 1900 overview notes Chinese minister Wu Ting-Fang in Washington, harsh weather in the northwest, and a flood of stray commentary on Papal or Ming era topics. The bulk details the YWCA General Secretary Miss Pierson annual report for year ending June 1, 1900, highlighting attendance, lunch room use, employment referrals, religious services, and the organization’s finances and charitable activities in Northfield and Boston.
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Bureau For
Northfield
Board of Trustees
Jeremiah Clark
Lowell Lodge
Comfort Club
English Officer Wounded at Pieter's Hill Amid Cake and Cigarette
An English officer directing troops at Pieter's Hill was wounded while placing cake in his mouth and smoking a cigarette under fire. A brother officer had just given him the cake and cigarette. A national paper criticizes him for the indulgence amid battle.
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Pieter’s Hill
Harvard Baseball Team Heads to Yale Contest
Cambridge June 25 The Harvard baseball squad left for Hartford to stay overnight then travel to New Haven for a second game with Yale. The trip roster lists pitchers Coburn Sillman Kerman and McDonald catchers Reid Milne infielders Kendall Fincke Coolidge and G C Clark outfielders Wendell George and Devens subs Laughlin Story Jed Clark and William Ewer.
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Cambridge
Harvard
Hartford
Conn
New Haven
Yale
Coburn
Sillman
Kerman
McDonald
Reid
Milne
Kendall
Fincke
Coolidge
G. C. Clark
Wendell
George
Devens
Laughlin
Story
Jed Clark
William Ewer
New Five Dollar Bilas
Washington introduces a new five dollar note design replacing the old fives in treasury payments. The note features a central Indian head, a blue seal, and a curved blue “Five” with a prominent V. Officials praise its artistic quality as equal to any government issue.
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Washington
Treasury
Turret Question Reported by Naval Board for Secretary Long
Secretary Long announced the naval board found that three battleships should have superimposed eight inch turrets and one should use quadrilaterally arranged eight inch turrets. He has not yet announced approval or disapproval of the board’s finding.
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Washington
Long
General Barry Ordered to Manila as Chief of Staff
Washington June 25 Brigadier General Thomas G Barry U S W is relieved from duty in the adjutant general office to end July 5 and will proceed to Manila where he will act as chief of staff to the commanding general designating a key staff role in the Far East theater.
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Washington
Thomas G. Barry
U. 8
S. W
Manila
Weather Forecast for Massachusetts Indicates Showers and Cooling
Boston dispatch reports showers tonight and Wednesday for Massachusetts with cooler temperatures. Southwest winds are expected, bringing unsettled conditions across the region.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Mobile passes street spitting ban for peaceful Eden
Mobile Alabama adopts a municipal ordinance forbidding spitting on streets. The rule is reported to be widely observed with no kicking, portraying the city as a neat and peaceable community.
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Mobile
Ala
Massacre Report Shocks Shanghai Residents
Dispatch from refugees arriving from Tien Tsin describes a horror in Shanghai with bodies in streets. Credit banks in Hong Kong and Germany destroyed by bombardment. Americo-Russian relief force ambushed, abandoning field guns and ammunition. About 180 Russians and 11 Americans killed or wounded.
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Shanghai
Tien Tsin
Hong Kong
General Adna R. Chaffee Named Leader for China Mission
President assigns Gen. Adna R. Chaffee to command military forces in China. Chaffee to sail July 1 with the Sixth Cavalry aboard the Grant, via Nagasaki to Chefoo. MacArthur directed to report all forces to Chaffee on arrival and to dispatch Capt. Roussell with a signal corps detachment to Chefoo.
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Washington
Adna R. Chaffee
China
Chaffee
War Department
San Francisco
Sixth Cavalry
Nagasaki
Chefoo
MacArthur
Ninth Infantry
Roussell
Signal Corps
Relief forces reach Tien Tsin amid reconnaissance reports
Washington dispatches note Kempff’s June 25 report from Taku as the Pekin relief force, which left Tien Tsin on June 10, reports being ten miles out and surrounded. The relief expedition reached Tien Tsin on the 23rd with very small losses, while another force moved from Tien Tsin yesterday to aid.
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Tien Tsin
Washington
WU'S EFFORTS RENEWED
June 26 Washington reports renewed effort by six great viceroys led by Li Hung Chang to keep foreign troops out of China until Pekin arrival. The United States response echoed prior informal refusals. MacArthur's Ninth Infantry sails on the 27th, thoroughly equipped and supplied.
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Washington
MacArthur
China
Li Hung Chang
Pekin
United States
Navy orders Brooklyn voyage with Admiral Remey aboard
The Navy Department announced that the armored cruiser Brooklyn with Admiral Remey aboard will transport 300 marines from Manila to Taku, stopping at Nagasaki. The gunboat Princeton is ordered to Swatow Amoy and Foo Chow, then to Shanghai to install an electric plant and remain ready for immediate service.
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Washington
Navy Department
Brooklyn
Admiral Remey
Manila
Taku
Nagasaki
Princeton
Swatow
Amoy
Foo Chow
Shanghai
Lady Curzon Reports Record India Famine Relief Cash
Lady Curzon writes to the Chicago Indian Famine Relief Committee stating famine intensity is higher than ever. Government has cut mortality and spent 26,090,000 direct relief plus 10,000,000 on land revenue suspension and remissions, plus funds for seeds and cattle, and 5,000,000 in loans. Relief Committee distributed 2,590,000 through various channels.
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Hicago
Lady Curzon
India
Chicago Indian Famine Relief Committee
Boston & Albany Bill Moves to House After Senate Passage
The Senate passed the Boston and Albany bill to be engrossed by a 25 to 5 vote with three pairs, and it was immediately sent to the House on a suspension of rules.
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Boston
Buildings and Trestles Destroyed in New York Fire
Fire this morning destroyed the Consumers' Coal and Ice Co. structures occupying a full city block in New York. Loss estimated at $100,000 with extensive damage to buildings and trestles.
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New York
Consumers’ Coal & Ice Co
Boatswain Hickey Dies by His Own Hand in Boston
Boatswain John Edleworth Hickey of Admiral Parra gate off flagship Hartford died by self inflicted gunshot at his father's house in Boston on a June day. Official report notes suicide as cause. investigation pending.
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Boston
John Edleworth Hickey
Parragate
Hartford
Navy veteran Hickey dies by self harm after long service
Street, South end, at 5.30 o'clock last evening by shooting in the head, Hickey was but 29 years old, but had seen 15 years of continuous service in the navy. He served on Admiral Sampson's fleet during the Spanish American War and helped cut the cable off Cienfuegos, Cuba. The family offers no explanation beyond possible mental strain from his arduous duty.
Going Home to Canton President McKinley to Rest
Washington June 25 arrangements are made for President McKinley to travel with Mrs McKinley and Secretary Cortelyou to Canton for a month. He will receive formal renomination notification from the Philadelphia convention around July 12. He aims to rest and plans limited public duties and may not return until after a Chicago visit in late August.
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Washington, D. C
Canton
McKinley
Cortelyou
Washington
Philadelphia
Washingtton
Chicago
McKinley House Prepares for Summer Visit
Canton Ohio June 25 The McKinley home is being prepared for occupancy by the President and Mrs McKinley for part of their summer vacation. Waite House steward William Sinclair has returned to oversee furnishings and measurements. He brings several servants to Market Street Hill cottage. Three Washington stables horses, a sorrel coach team and a black single driver, have arrived as two carriages are en route.
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Canton
McKinley
William Sinclair
Market Street Hill
Washington
Rathbone Out As Cuban Post Director General
Washington June 25 The postmaster general removes Estes G Rathbone from the post of director general of posts in Cuba and detains Martin C Fosnes to perform the duties until further orders Fourth Assistant Bristow is relieved from work in Cuba and sails home Bristow left guiding Fosnes as acting director unless ordered President Emery Smith says no new Cuban fraud developments prompted the move Governor Wood will decide on Rathbone arrest while Rathbone remains on the island as a witness in related cases
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Washingiton
Estes G. Rathbone
Posts
Cuba
Martin C.fosnes
Postal Service
Bristow
Culbba
Rathbone
Emery Smith
Fosnes
Smith
Island Postal Department
Wood
St Louis strike prompts judge to halt mail interference
In St Louis Missouri Judge Adams issued a temporary injunction preventing W D Mahon and all of division 131 of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employers of America from interfering with mail delivery on St Louis Transit lines. The coroner's jury returned three verdicts on recent killings by a city posse. one man died of a gunshot by a posse member on duty, others by unknown shooters, with deputies Gardner McKnight and Cox exonerated.
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St. . Louis
Adams
United States District Court
W. D. Mahon
Division 131
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employer of America
St. Louis
Thomas
Aine
Burckhardt
Gardner, McKnight
George W. Cox
Gunfight Near Cloud Chief Ends in Sheriff Wounding
Sheriff Meal Morrigan was wounded and two deputies killed Sunday night near Cloud Chief Oklahoma while pursuing Geo Casey and William McKee who had broken jail at Arapahoe. In Granite a cattle inspector and companions clashed over a card game, leading to Gilmore shooting and killing three assailants.
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Wichita
Kas
Meal Morrigan
Cloud Chief
Okla
Geo, Casey
Wm. McKee
Arapahoe
Granite
Gilmore
Wm. Anderson
President commutes life sentence of train robber Jennings
Washington June 25 The President commutes to five years the life term of Alphonse J Jennings convicted in Chickasha Indian Territory in February 1889 of train robbery The attorney general deemed the sentence just as others convicted with him then received lighter sentences
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Washington
Alphonse J. Jennings
Chickasha
I. T
Jennings
School Committee Debates Cuban Visitors and Teacher Pay
The June school committee session approved teacher elections and raises, advanced salaries for high school staff, and discussed training school funding. A proposal to invite Cuban teachers visiting Harvard was deferred to the city council for possible funding.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promise of Purified Blood
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a guardian against impurity and disease. It claims bad blood causes scrofula salt rheum and fatigue and asserts the tonic can transform bad blood into good, curing various troubles. It urges taking Hood's Sarsaparilla at the first sign of impurities.
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Hood
School committee rejects math textbooks plan
A recommendation of the committee on textbooks regarding arithmetic was turned down. Superintendent Whitcomb read a letter from Mrs. Mary Cushing Hall, chair of the Middlesex Women's club sociology department, requesting Franklin schoolhouse and grounds for a six week summer playground starting July 5, granted on the same terms as Mann school last year.
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Willard Everett
Frank K. Stearns
WM. J. Johnson
Capt. Greig’stleave
Philippines
Wm. Fairweather
Edward 5S. Colton
Adelaide Estelle Sweetsh
Mt. Holyoke College
Ethel W. Whitcomb
Smith College
Sarah E. Thurlow
Cornell University
Thompson
Supt. Whitcomb
Mary Cushing Hall
Middlesex Women’s Club
Franklin
Mann
Saloons closed prompt sober July fourth court notes
Judge Hadley in the police court set July 6 for the Tyngsboro liquor case against Fred Glines. Edward F. Connelly faced a state farm sentence, then withdrew appeal to help on the farm. Simon Morrisette, accused of failing to support his wife, saw the case continued for settlement. Michael J. Gray pled guilty to embezzling 79 dollars, given probation after refund. Eugene Parreault and Daniel Lane placed on probation for drunkenness. Patrick Sullivan fined two dollars and Annie Connelly sent to the work house for four months.
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Hadley
W. A. Hogan
Larkin T. Trull
Fred Glines
Tyngsboro
Mr. Trull
Hogan
Lowell
Edward F. Connelly
State Farm
Connelly
New Bedford
Simon Morrisette
Rivet
Michael J. Gray
G. N Baker
Eugene Parreault
Daniel F. Lane
Patrick Sullivan
Annie Connelly
Danforth hopes Shanghai spared in Chinese disturbance
Albert W. Danforth of Lowell long connected to a Newburyport cotton plant near Shanghai reports in letters dated four weeks old that disturbance threats near Shanghai were distant. His wife, a Kentucky native, and their baby photo were sent to Lowell. Mrs Danforth recalls refugees during the war with Japan.
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Albert W. Danforth
Lowell
Newburyport
Shanghai
China
Danforth
Japan
Kentucky
High School Picnic Unites Classes 1900 and 1901
The Willow Dale event featured a baseball game between picked nines, running races with prizes won by Merrison and Cherch, a broad jump won by Banks, girls nail driving by Miss Elvin, hop skip and jump by Merrison, girls running by Miss Sullivan, and a tug of war with class 1901 prevailing, ending in dancing as attendees departed.
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Willow Dale
Merrison
Cherch
Clase
Banks
Jackson
Miss Elvin
McCavnt
Sullivan
Boy Drowns at Hale's Brook In Ayer City
John Jamieson son of Andrew and Janet Jamieson of 112 Shaw Street drowned at Hale's Brook near the pumping station while bathing with friends. He may have suffered cramp and his body was recovered soon after. undertaker Young Songs was contacted.
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Hale's Brook
Ayer City
John Jamieson
Andrew
Janet Jamieson
Shaw Street
Crampa
Young Songs
New Hampshire Road Petition Granted by Three Towns
Salem Pelham and Hudson selectmen granted petitions of the Salem Pelham and Hudson Electric Railway Co to construct a road in their towns. Hearings held Monday. no serious objections were raised. Road will connect Nashua and Haverhill. work begun and rails arriving.
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Salem
Pelham & Hudson Electric
Salen, Pelham and Hudson
Salem, Pelham & Hudson Electric Railway Co
Nashua
Haverhill
Harvard Graduates Seek Local Harvard Men Group
A Lowell gathering of Harvard College graduates convened at the high school building by invitation of Principal Trish. Rev. George H. Johnson and James M. Abbott were named temporary chairman and secretary to plan a fall meeting for a permanent organization. Over forty graduates named. may send addresses to Abbott at 24 Fairmount Street.
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Harvard College
Lowell
Trish
Harvard
George H. Johnson
James M. Abbott
Fairmount Street
Class day exercises at state normal school observed
Monday events at the state normal school included a 10 30 to 1 oclock program with salutatory by Annie Foster Dodge of Illerica class prophecies by Helen Damon Swain of Nashua history by Lottie May Rollins of Woburn and valedictory by Weather Downing of this city toastmistress Jameson and the faculty training school basketball club and juniors were among the toasts. After breakfast served by D L Page company officers installed in the social club for the coming year were President Gertrude Wilcox Vice President Catherine O Sullivan Secretary Libbee Treasurer Turner.
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State Normal School
Annie Foster Dodge
Illerica
Helen Damon Swain
Nashua
Lottie May Rollins
Woburn
Wsther Downing
Jameison
D. L. Page Company
Gertrude Wilcox
Catherine O'Sullivan
Libbee
Miss Turner
Lowell man decorates town hall for centennial celebration
C F Young of Lowell designed and mounted interior and exterior decorations for the semi annual centennial event in Clinton town hall. The display was praised as the most elaborate and beautiful in the old hall, with many compliments directed at Mr Young for his method and success.
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Lowell
Town Hall
C. F. Young
Old Hall
Young
Clinton
Mass
Daily Item
Mrs Noel Not Confirmed Small Pox Case at Contagious Hospital
Mrs Alphonse Noel moved to the contagious hospital Saturday morning after doctors described her illness as suspicious but not definitively small pox. No eruption appeared at the time of transfer or since, though doctors warned that an eruption would likely develop in a natural course if the disease were small pox.
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Alphonse Noel
Tilden Street
Runaway crash in Schenectady claims two women
In Schenectady New York Mrs Jacob W Clute wife of the former mayor and Mrs F T Rogers wife of a Providence physician were killed in a runaway carriage. Mrs Robert J Landon daughter in law of Justice Judson Landon stopped the team. The parish drama phrase mentions the choir and a wife joining.
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Schnectady
N. Y
Jacob W. Chute
Clute
Mra. F. T. Rogers
Providence, R. L
Robert J. Landon
Judson
Landon
Appellate Division
The
Supreme Court
Ayer's Pills Promote Liver Health For Headache Relief
The ad claims sick headache stems from a sluggish liver and promises cure by restoring liver function. It asserts Ayer's Pills act directly on the liver to relieve the misery of headaches.
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Ayer
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