Boxers Warlike Surge Threatens Native Christians Near Pao-Ting-Fu
Dispatch from Pekin reports a band of Boxers about 1000 strong operating 20 miles south of Pao-Ting-Fu. They raided three villages in a week and threaten massacre of Christians. A second group near Man-Cheng also depredates, with 20 German soldiers posted there. Local unrest grows as foreign troops are withdrawn. The Boxers are described as the worst province elements, driven by dispossession and witness to killings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pao-Ting-Fu
Man-Cheng
great wall
Confederate Memorial Day Celebrations Across the South
News briefs note Confederate Memorial Day observed in southern cities. Other items mention the czar and czarina planning a private visit to England, a poacher killed by game wardens near Akron Colorado, Turkish army desertions, Brigand bands, Galena Illinois marking Gen Grant’s birth anniversary, Crispi escaping injury from a lamp break, and oil discovery near Guadalajara with a new oil company formed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
England
Longlake
Akron
Ed Frye
Galena
U.S Grant
Signor Crispi
Italy
Guadalajara
Mexico
Quay Testimonial Dinner Set by State League in Philadelphia
Philadelphia hosts a May 14 dinner and reception for Senator Matthew Stanley Quay hosted by the Pennsylvania State League of Republican clubs. Mayor Ashbridge and Governor Stone to speak, with seats at $15. events include a 1 PM arrival welcome, a 4 PM dinner at Horticultural Hall, and an 8 PM reception at the Academy of Music, followed by a 10:30 serenade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania State League of Republicans
Cleba
Asdbridge
Stone
Philadelphia
Matthew Stanley Quay
Pennsylvania State League of Republican clubs
United States senate
Pennsylvania
Senator Quay
Harrisburg
Martin Rommel Betz
Broad street
Walton
Academy of Music
Ashhige
Penrose
J Hampton Moore
State League of Republican clubs
Death of Black Jack Ketchum in New Mexico Gallows
The notorious outlaw Black Jack Ketchum was hanged in Clayton New Mexico after a train robbery. The execution occurred in a stockade with 150 witnesses. his head was severed at the drop and the body bled, while Ketchum cursed his enemies and claimed new names for accomplices. He said the real Black Jack was alive and vowed to kill those involved within a year. He also sent a letter to President McKinley urging clemency for three innocent men and naming others connected to the Stein's Pass robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresidest McKink
Clayton
N. M
Thomas EB. Ketchum
Black Jack
southwest
Ketchum
A. B. Powers
Tom Green county
Tex
Bob Upshaw
outlaw
Frank Herington
L. C. Fort
Wells-Fargo
W. H. Reno
Colorado and Southern railway
Santa Fe
Santa Fe penitentiary
United States mail
Stein's Pass
Ariz
Leonard Albertson
Walter Huffman
Bill Waterman
Dave Atkins
Ed Bullin
Will Carver
Sam Ketchum
Broncho
Bill
gang
Thomas Keitham
Grand Duchess Marie of Russia Marital Secret Revealed
The article notes Grand Duchess Marie, highly influential in Russia, as the wife of Grand Duke Viedinir and aunt to the czar. It reports the secret marriage of her youngest daughter to Prince Louis Savoieon has just been announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Marie
Maine
Chicago
Newton F. Chamberlain
Havana
Cuba
Ohio River Floods Threaten City and Valley
Cincinnati reports the Ohio river held at 59.65 feet since yesterday morning, with the danger crest not expected to fall before Monday. Many homes and stores flooded, thousands made unemployed, relief committees formed, and aid extended as conditions worsen upriver toward Covington Newport and Dayton. Washington relics restoration and New York Stock Exchange move add national notes.
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Thoaganidsa
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bagsler
Ohio valley
Ludlow
Newport race track
Kentucky
Mill Creek valley
Ohio river
Covington
Newport
Bellevue
Dayton
New York Stock Exchange
New York
the
Stock Exchange
exchange
Produce Exchange
Baseball Scores and Tragic Pier Shooting in New York
American League results list Baltimore 10 Boston 6 and Detroit 6 Milwaukee 5 while Philadelphia beat Washington 5 1 and Chicago fared 8 7 in an extra inning. A six year old named John Gunn was fatally shot on a New York pier by Evan Remardi with Aaron Olsen charged. police say the shooting stemmed from boys who teased him.
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Baltimore
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Brooklyn
Chicago
John Gunn
Evan Remardi
Aaron Olsen
Olsen
Presbyterian Revision Report Emerges For General Assembly
Unanimous report on revising the Presbyterian creed is presented at the Monongahela House in Pittsburgh with nine signatures. The action addresses foreordination and predestination, and a joint committee will revise those chapters before the Philadelphia assembly opens May 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Monongahela House
general assembly
Philadelphia
Henry Van Dyke
Princeton
United States
William TE. Crafte
Benjamin Harrison
Samuel J. Niccols
St. Louis
John H. Harlan
United States supreme court
John TE. Parsons
Daniel R. Noyes
St. Paul
Labor Council aim to unite U S unions nationwide
Knights of Labor leaders plus officers from the Pattern Makers and other unions plan a central labor council to amalgamate all U S labor groups with headquarters and a national convention to coordinate disputes and oppose trusts. The May 6 meeting will invite heads of the AFL and other major bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburs
Central Labor Council of the
United States
Smithfield Street
Knights of Labor
T. J. Shaffer
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
L. R. Thomas
the
Pattern Makers’ League
John Kuntzler
American Filat Glass Workers’ union
William Bennett
patten makers
J. W. Pryle
Structural Iron Workers
W. A. Shaw
International Association of Machinists
John Fernan
American Federation of Labor
Messrs Thomas and
Pryle
labor
J. J. Shaffer
Amalgamated Association
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VITAE yonlT
California Pia Sugar Co
Cafirouxia Fie &vror Co
EBERT & SONS
SARGENT GEM FOOD CHOPPERS
Quaker City
WILLIAMSON’S
JOHN N. CLARY
Eaat Second
Paoisssille
Patrick Street
West Third
Petersville
Utica
F. G. Thomas & Son
alsa
West
Frederick
SANEST HELFENSTEIN
Patrick St,. Frederick, Mid
Georgia
Elberton
Savannah
here
Rhoda Alexander
William Goldsby
Alexander
Goldsby
Savannah river
Germany
Frankfort
Griesheim
New York City
Dr. Pierce
Tarme Aten
Baldmount
Lackawanna Co. Pa
pasmagurine
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association of
Buffalo
NSW
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Quay
Edwin
Stuart
John B Robinson
Everett H. Warren Scranton
Isador Sobel
Erie
Arch. Mackrell
J. Martin Rommel
Milton W. Shreve
Eric
William J. Diehl
John C. Henry
William J. Mustin
Howard Lyon
Williamsport
John Stephens Durham
John Kelley
George J. Llewellyn
Wilkes Karre
Jere H. Shaw
John R. Wiggins
William T. Bauerle
Thomas W. Cunningham
William T Milligan
George W. Sunderland
Horace D. Gaw
Joseph M. Huston
James Host, Jr
L. Hall
Sunday Dispatch
Thomas McGeehan
of Borte & McGlynn
Geyer and Cramford
Belishaw
Albany
state board of tax commissioners
Biherte
Carlon
Shamokin
United Mine Workers district
Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Tron
ode
United Mine Workers organization
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Peter
sabe
John W. Daniel
Virginia
McKinley
George Washington Custis Lee
Mary Custis Lee
George Washington
Gen. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Daniel
Smithsonian Institution
YISTERDAY
Meee PRESBYTERIAN REVISION
Swensec
Musham
Swenie
SS 24
Marshal Swenie
Paul Kreuger
Illinois Medical college
B. R. Ends
Kreuger
Kreugr
Mise Uloers
Smsvasheld
Rosebud
Amore
ain
Grant
William Shane
Elmer Rigler
John Gilland
George Feester
DENIS JOSEPH SWENIE
Frank L Van Ness
Varlogs
Southern
Central of Georgia
Atlanta
Gordon
Messenger White
Little Falls
saia
Hadley Jones
Jones
National Herkimer County bank
William G.Milheen
John Armstrong Ralph
Hightieth company of
Post artillery
Fort Schuyler
Peter Haley
Ralph
Philip Lewinsky
Hay Resizna
Adelbert Hay
Pretoria
ling
Tretoria
congress
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