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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1901
Page
2
Varied dispatches report on Prinses Chun mission delays in Basle, China’s epidemic spread, the Delaware steamer explosion toll, labor strife in Europe and America, piracy arrests, and political shifts. Included are nautical incidents, court inquiries, and colonial tensions affecting multiple nations.
Dispatches describe a massacre of Chinese in Kwan Tien Hien, blamed on peasants mistaken for insurgents. Russians deploy forces on the Manchuria Korea frontier amid rebel activity. Boxers threaten foreigners and prepare for rising in Shantung. Floods of the Yangtse devastate villages and farmlands. An abbots affray near Kiang Stoa ends with Protestant and Catholic converts clashing and thirty Protestants killed.
Navy officials deny official knowledge of counsel for Admiral Sampson though private talk suggests he expects representation. The Judge Advocate supplied a tentative witness list headed by Sampson. Schley’s side names Brooklyn officers and seven petty officers including the wheelmen from the Santiago battle.
In a Paris note the French accuse the Porte of failure to fulfill undertakings in the Ottoman dispute. M Constans left for Istanbul aboard the Vautour after warning the Porte to comply. Munir Bey in Switzerland may not return to Paris. The Sultan offered to pay long-standing indemnities, but Constans refused and left. The dispute may trigger a suspension of diplomatic relations until promises are kept.
Special agents monitor arms movement from New York to Mexican Central and South American ports. For the week ending August 27 shipments include seven cases of firearms and 11 of cartridges to Mexico, 206 cartridge cases and a rapid-fire gun to Colombia, firecrackers and rail material to Venezuela, gunpowder to Santo Domingo, firecrackers to Uruguay, firearms and cartridges to Argentina, and weapons and cartridges to Central America and Bolivia as reported to Washington.
The westbound Rio Grande train at Purango Colo turned over a Pullman at 11 18 this morning killing Mother Batiste of Denver and injuring Sister Mary Nora Harey McCoy and Conductor Whan. The accident occurred near a side track five miles east of Chama when the cragged car fell about 75 feet.
Captain Craig reports Frank Schilz and Timothy McCarthy slipped from the Albany’s poop deck during heavy seas and vanished at Aden. George Perkins went overboard next day and drowned. his body was recovered to be buried ashore. In Chicago, Plow makers plan a near total consolidation worth about 50 million dollars, citing higher material costs and a ruinous credit system.
Reports warn of severe winter conditions across provinces with heat damage to spring and winter crops. Government relief funds and district assemblies face strain as famine risk grows.
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