Boxers Threaten Americans With Death In China Crisis
A dispatch from Hong Kong reports Boxers threaten the American mission at Lien Chau on the North River. They accuse foreigners of plundering China and vow to drive them out. The American Presbyterian mission buildings were seized but not destroyed as rebellion spreads along the East and North rivers and Kwantung provinces. Chinese officials in Canton tighten control, complicating suppression efforts.
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Hong Kong
Lien
China
East River
North River
Kwang Si
Canton
Hay to Press for Open Door China Maintains Open Door Pact
Secretary Hay is expected to urge all great powers to back a declaration upholding China's integrity and the open door as part of the Anglo-German agreement. Washington sources say France and Russia are ready to join, with Italy and Austria likely to follow Germany's lead, and Count de Quadt asserts no hidden or hostile pacts exist with Russia.
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New York
Herald
Washington
Hay
China
France
Russia
London
Berlin
Italy
Austria
Count de Quadt
England
Germany
Paris
St. Petersburg
United States
British troops occupy Pao Ting Fu after arrivals
Dispatches report Gen Gaselee stating allied forces including British, German, French and Italian guards are posted at gates of Pao Ting Fu. Generals tour the town, arrange quarters, with most Britons in camp. Inhabitants mostly stay in city and some civilians rescued. Reports from Horne Campbell note 2500 imperial troops retreated, 1000 surrendered then released after proof they were sent to suppress Boxers.
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London
Gaselee
Pao Ting Fu
India
Lord George Hamilton
Smail
Mose
Waldersee
Miss Green
Green
Horne-Campbell
Mao- Chiao
Lung Chang
Chinese Missionaries Report Reopenings Amid Turmoil
In New York Bishop Graves reports St. John's College near Shanghai reopen with more students. Protestant Episcopal missionaries return to posts. Hainan missionaries depart Hong Kong. Canton officials offer reward for four foreigners believed leading rebels. Kwangsi famine and robberies, rebellion, and a working telegraph line between Pekin and Taku noted. General Greely receives a cablegram from Major.
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New York
E. B. Rice
Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society
Frederick R. Graves
Shanghai
St. John's College
Protestant Episcopal
Presbyterian Board
Hainan
Hong Kong
Canton
Shetom
Kwang Sirovince
United States Signal Corps Maintains Secure Telegraph Line
Scriven, commanding the signal corps detachment in China, reports there is only one complete secure telegraph line between Pekin and Taku, the US Signal Corps line. It is working regularly and satisfactorily. A permanent line has been rebuilt since Pekin was occupied by the troops.
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Scriven
Signal Corps
China
Pekin
Taku
United States Signal Corps
Little Nina Leavitt Falls Into Weeks Long Sleep
New York reports 2 year old Nina Leavitt of 542 Flushing Street Williamsburg has slept since Friday. Despite examinations by Dr. Rochling and Dr. Wuest and other physicians no cause or remedy has been found. Her pulse is normal and she digestes liquids, but awakening remains unsuccessful.
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New York
Nina T Leavitt
Samuel
Sadie Leavitt
Flushing Street
Williamsburg
Nina
William Rochling
Harrison Avenue
Rochling
Charles Wuest
Trenton man and dead sister travel eight miles home
John Buttner drove from Lawrenceville to Trenton with his sister in his arms. She was dead and he refused to wake her as they reached St. Francis hospital. A physician told him she died after he left Lawrenceville, while he kept his arm under her head in quiet vigil.
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Trenton
N. J
John Buttner
Lawrenceville
St. Francis Hospital
Deserted wife dies after poisoning at supper in Indianapolis
Mrs Jenny Bridgewater, 19, of Scottsburg, staged a supper for women friends, announced her husband had deserted her after three weeks of marriage, then drank morphine from a glass. She became drowsy and died at midnight with a physician called. The motive remained unknown.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Jennie Bridgewater
Scottsburg
Requisition Refused in Bigamy Custody Case
Gov Voorhees refused Walter Winston’s request for requisition papers to recover his former wife, Mrs. Ludden, held in New Haven on a bigamy indictment. The case traces divorces and remarriages across Oklahoma New York and Hoboken, with custody awarded to Ludden’s father.
Police take over case against missing teller Alvord
New York reports Alvord the missing bank teller is believed hidden in his Mount Vernon home as detectives monitor closely. Captain McClusky Attorney Fisher and Vice President Hine held a lengthy bank conference. a federal warrant was said to have been granted while no restitution had yet been posted.
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New York
Alvord
Mount Vernon
McClusky
Fisher
First National Bank
Hine
Home of Bayard Taylor sold in multi bidder bidding war
West Chester Pa October 25 the Cedar Croft estate last home of the late Bayard Taylor was sold to satisfy a trust company claim. Bl weood Greene of Kearet Square Pa bought the property for 0376 after seven bidders and spirited bidding.
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West Chester
Bayard Taylor
John Sherman Laid To Rest In Mansfield Cemetery
Ohio statesman John Sherman was buried in Mansfield after a dignified ceremony attended by President McKinley and national figures. The service at Grace Episcopal Church featured Psalm readings, hymns, and a simple procession to the cemetery where Sherman was laid beside his wife amid floral tributes from across the nation.
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Mansfield
John Sherman
Ohio
McKinley
Elihu Root
Washington
Grace Episcopal Church
Eighth Ohio Volunteers
White House
Richland Bar Association
Corporation of Mansfield
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Cincinnati
Brown
JcKinley
Hanna
Henry C. Hedges
Chicago
President McKinley
Congressman Kerr
Nelson A. Miles
Colgate Hoyt
P. T. Sherman
Frank B. Wilvorg
John Sherman Hoyt
William McCord
Alfred W. Hoy
Charles A. Sherman
Gen. Milles
Senator Hanna
Judge Day
Senator Foraker
A. B. Putnam
Central Park
Ohio Volunteers
Congress
M. L. Miller
Nelson Ozler
Jacob Hade
Mr. Sherman
Countess Michoney Fights Escape Aboard Ship
Passengers aboard the Hamburg-American Kaiser Friedrich witnessed a dramatic escape attempt as Countess Michoney and a maid boarded a tug to flee from her French Italian husband Count Michoney who pursued by signaling from the pier. The count threatened the captain with a revolver before police compelled his departure and the voyage resumed to Hoboken.
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New York
Hamburg-American Line
Kaiser Friedrich
Cherbourg
Hamburg
Count Michoney
Count
Countess Michoney
Hackensack
Hoboken
Chicago’s last census as city calamity punchline
A Puck caption riffs on Chicago’s past as a great city that once faced a “terrible calamity” when its most famous disaster is boiled down to the census in a classroom joke.
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Chicago
Puck
End of AM Associations Convention Closes Sessions
Springfield Oct 25 The American Missionary Association convention concludes after morning devotional and business sessions. Amendments to the constitution are tabled for next year. Reports cover finances and mission work. A revolutionary union proposal among six Congregational societies is referred to a five member committee. Officers elected include Noble, McKenzie, Gladden, Stinson, Cooper, Strong and White as secretary.
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Springfield
American Missionary Association
M. C. B. Mason
Breedmen’s Aid Society
Dutton
W. M. Wellman
Oklahoma
Highlanders
H. L. Hoyt
Tennessee
Nettie Crump
Alabama
M. J. Terrell
District of Columbia
Committee of Nine
Congregational Churches
Committee of Five
United Missionary Conference
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Congregational Church Building Society
Congregational Educational Society
Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society
F. A. Noble
Illinois
Alexander McKenzie
Massachusetts
Washington Gladden
Ohio
A. Stinson
New York
James W. Cooper
Connecticut
Wm. H. Strong
Michigan
Eugene C. White Webster
A. F. Beard
J. P. Woodbury
C. J. Ryder
H. W. Hubbard
Edwin H. Baker
John BE. Leech
Henry R. Wilson
New Jersey
Wm. Hayes Ward
Lucien C. Warner
Liewllyn Pratt
W. W. McLean
Philip S. Moxom
Court Square Theatre
Enlarged Mission Work Address Speakers at First Church
Rev. A. R. Thain of Illinois spoke on Enlarged Work in Our Mission Fields Rev. Dr. C. W. Hiatt of Ohio spoke on Enlarged Fields for Our Mission Work and President F. A. Noble delivered the closing address for the association.
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First Church
A. R. Thain
Illinois
C. W. Hiatt
Ohio
F. A. Noble
The
Association
Daring Pole Climb Ends in Tragic Death at Leominster
In Leominster on October 25 Johnny M. Austin aged 12 died after touching a live electric wire while he and Cassius Cook aged 14 were playing football on an electric light pole. Cook received a shock while trying to save him but survived. Austin was pronounced dead after being lowered from the pole.
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Leominster
Johnny M. Austin
Wm. Austin
Cassius Cook
Austin
Cook
Mary Leyden Pleads Guilty in Brookline Grand Larceny
Boston October 25 Mary Leyden a self confessed servant girl thief appeared in Brookline municipal court answering grand larceny charges. She pled guilty and Judge Drew ordered $1000 sureties for the Dedham superior court. Unable to post bond she remained jailed as a steady stream of visitors sought to identify stolen items from seized goods.
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Boston
Mary Leyden
Brookline
Drew
Dedham
Brookline Police
Man Plummets 30 Feet In Factory Tower Accident
Norton report details Charles Card of West Mansfield badly injured after a boatswain chair rope snagged on a shafting, winding him up the tower, snapping the rope, and dumping him into a mill pond. He is believed dying tonight with serious internal injuries likely from the fall into water.
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Norton
Charles Card
West Mansfield
A. H. Sweet Company
Card
Weymouth D A R Chapter Receives State Charter
Susana Tufts Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was granted a state charter at Union Congregational church Weymouth today. Hon. Geo A Marden of Lowell U S sub treasurer at Boston gave the address with John P Loud Weymouth Historical Society president also speaking. The new chapter began with fifty members in Weymouth.
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Weymouth
Susana Tufts
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Union Congregational Church
Geo. A. Marden
Lowell
U. S
Boston
John P. Loud
Prices Current Lowell Market Groceries and Provisions
Prices from Lowell market dated October 25 1900 list groceries and provisions with entities Buttrick Co J B Cover Co flour grain coal D W Horne Co Killpartrick Bros F E Putnam 15 Prescott St and items across butter tea cheese kerosene oil eggs vinegar molasses coffee syrup cocoa sugar raisins prunes currants soap matches beef veal mutton fowl and coal and flour varieties. Market figures cover grocers, fish, vegetables and fruit with numerous prices per unit.
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Lowell
Buttrick & Co
J. B. Cover & Co
D. W. Horne & Co
Killpartrick Bros
F. E. Putnam
Prescott Street
Japan
Tub
Java
Rio
Turkey
Reed
Rene
Gues
Lehigh
Franklin
Cumberland
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U. S. Signal Corps
Gen. Greely
Agiste
WrixtaMs’ Mev. Co
Schenectady
Cena Clares
Omar Lore
Sherman
Wood’s
Dresden
Rogers
Geo. H. Wood
TNT Ral S’r
Boy
Jalil
Borden
EAGLE
Borden's Condensed Milk CO
Rozelle
D. D
American School of Oateopathy
Kirksville
Taylor
Humphrey Street
Opera House
Frankie
Carpenter Concert and Orchestra and Excellent Company
Prince of Comedians
Jerh Grady
Sunshine of Dover Locke
Maid of the Mill
Girl Detective
Wm. Bonnell
Iiss Rose Stahl
Rices
Savoy Theatre
Fred Co. Bowers
Walt
Charles Kenna
Hanson and
Norman
the Frog Man
Emerson and Omega
Leslie and
Audley
Priges Ue
W. H. Emery
Blondell & Fennessy
Old Ladies’ Home
Huntington and Jackson Halls
Ada Bell Crockett Company
First Spiritualist Society
Old Odd Fellows
Merrimack Street
Fisk
Becky Sharp
Thackeray
Langdon Mitchell
C. B. Coburn & Co
Market Stre
F. G. Gulliland
Wyman’s Exchange
Cor
Mererimack
Central Streets
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