Horrible Rumors From China Stir London Despatches
London reports from July 7 describe chaotic scenes in Pekin with claims of massacres of native Christians and a Chinese crackdown. British and American forces are portrayed as delaying an advance while troops gather and rivers provide water supply, with extensive casualty figures and warnings from Li Hung Chang.
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Japan
Pekin
London
China
Shanghai
Canton
Robert Hart
Imperial Custome
Li Hung Chang
Quang-Tung
Quang-Ta
Nieh
Tien Tsin
Tien-Tsin
Taku
James Watts
Tako
Boers Driven Back Fifteen Miles From Hiehem
General Paget advances toward the Dewet held country as Lord Roberts reports a July 3 engagement at Pleisinfontein driving the enemy across Leeuwkop to Hronckfontein. Paget’s forces push toward Bethlehem where government officials shelter. Steyn allegedly fled to the mountains. Meanwhile railroad links between Pretoria and Natal are restored.
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London
Paget
Dewet
Lord Roberts
War Office
Pretoria
Papat
Pleisinfontein
Leeuwkop
Hronckfontein
Blaavaukoop
Bethlehem
Vrede
Steyn
Buller
Heidelberg
Fretoria
Natal
Disgraceful Scene in French Chamber of Deputies
In Paris July 7 a violent altercation interrupted the chamber as M Lassies attacked the government accusing it of pressuring the judiciary. Fights and exchanges of insults followed, with M Waldeck Rousseau labeled a Judas. A motion to hear Lassies was rejected, provoking a suspension and further turmoil among deputies.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Lasses
Major Fritsch
M. Urbain Gothier
Aurore
Fritsch
M. Deschanel
M. Lames
Tribune
M. Waldeck Rousseau
Onrda
M.lasses
NM. Odison- Barrot
M. Lagies
AM. Deschanel
COL PETTIT NOT GUILTY ACQUITTED BY COURTMARTIAL IN MANILA
Col James Pettit once Yale military tactics instructor is acquitted by a Manila courtmartial on charges alleging articles of war violations and handing a brigand case to native officials who killed him after Pettit left. The case drew attention from Pettit's regiment commander whose shifting stance sparked public debate.
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Dr. Clark
Hartford
Olin H. Clark
Linden Place
Clark
Woodmont
Washington
James Is. Pettit
Yale University
Manila
Pettit
Thirty-first
U.S. VW
Groot
United States
Failures and downturns in six months of 1900 trade
R G Dun & Co reports 1900 first half failures total 5 362 liabilities 100 570 139. Banks and financial firms fail 30 for 25 822 682 leaving 5 332 commercial failures liabilities 74 747 457. Iron and steel sector shows drastic decline with six quarter failures 25 935 and prices for Bessemer pig and plates plunging. wages protests underway. Fall River cotton mills close temporarily as woolen mills shrink. boot and shoe sector inactive.
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R. G. Dun and Company
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Whonce
Bessemer
Fall River Committee
New Britain Man Questions Death of Wife in Suspected Poisoning
Anton Mutakeles of New Britain questions his wife's death, suspected poison. Along with brother-in-law and a friend, he has retained attorneys and consulted doctors who treated her showing poison symptoms. The death certificate lists unknown cause, while Mutakeles asserts foul play and notes a first tablet left by attending physicians.
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New Britain
Anton Mutakeles
Mutakeles
Saping Pevonkitis
William Jarvis
Kirkhim and Cooper
Cye
Cooper
Maloney
Mutskeles
Coholan
Anton Mutekeloss
Lapius Devonkitis
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Mmugatck Grocery
Caers
T. F. Baxter
Hopson
R. C. Jones
Velening Sivgeon
Waterbury
Conan
Webb
Lloyd's
Linskey’s Pharmacy Union City
Peter Paul
Odd Fellows’ Block
Emperor William
Molinsey
Rendaburg
Waillinua McKinley
Thorein
William
New Haven
Henry Buckingham
Springside
Buckingham
Harkford
The
Consolidated Railroad Company 1S
Wincon
Asylum Street
Honeshold
Spier
Samuel T. Paisley
Pittsburg
Prisly
Newport Nowa
New Hampshire
Dover
N. H
John Williamey
John Farren
William Scott
Frank Gould
John McNally
Thomas Dobbins
Wilkingon
Waverly House
Granite State Trotting Park
Willams
Dobbins
Farren
Gould
E. R. Winan of
Winsted
Alexander Troup, Jr
Frank A. Southworth
Luasies
M. Waldeck- Rousseau
Cowanrds
Treftors
New Rochelle
Morris Kane
Cedar Road
Agnes Kane
Francis Murphy
Joseph Jantz
Jantz
Ernest
Col. Pettit
Connecticut State League Baseball Directors
Connor
Fagan
Thomas Connolly
Tobie Lyons
New England League
Morrissey and
Best
Dave Hill
Malone
Guilford
Iowa
Standard Oi Company
Constable Hook
Standard Oi
Insarca Iteels
Bayonne
Derby
Conn
Driggs- Seabury Gun and Ammunition Company
Frankfort Arsenal
Philadelphia
Provider
Providence
Fitzgerald
FE. L. Lougee
Catlow Brothers
J. R.barker
George H. Holmes
Moriarty’s
Waterbury Furniture Company
Moriarty
Waterbury Furniture Co
Greenburg’s
Barnum’s Block
Gately & Brennan
Credit Clothiers
Center Street
E. P. Noonan
W. K. Birdsall’s
Narce Wren
Taylor’s Market
Merwin
Water Street
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