White Women Chained by Oriental Captors
Shanghai dispatch reports foreign women missionaries chained two by two and driven into the mountains as massacres unfold in Kiangsi province. Soldiers lash captives to force march while tens of thousands of Chinese and mutineers reportedly slain. Foreign offices seek aid. American gunboats and British marines head to action with vessels Quoirs Monocacy Bee Foxglove and Cockchafer en route.
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Shanghai
Repee
Kianfu
Kiangsi
Foreign Office
London
Phing Lation
Kiaufu
Kinkiang
Kiengchan
Kinkang
Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson in London
London police report the murder of Sir Henry Wilson II MP, shot by two Irish Republican Army members outside his Eaton Square residence. The assailants resisted arrest, wounded a civilian, and fired a running gun battle as they fled four to five blocks. An official aid helped capture them. Witnesses describe two men, one heavyset and one smaller, both 26 or 27, speaking with a brogue. Guarded responses followed, with heightened security around Downing Street and Ulster leaders.
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London
Irish Republican Army
Sir Henry Wilson
Square
Wilson
Ster
Caan Tere Rabeokanta
Irish Republican Party
Lloyd George
Downing St
James Craig
Ulster
Sir Henry
Eaton Square
England
Mirico
Lord Carson
United Press
American Relief Administration
Gerald Road
Death of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson after assassination
A shot struck Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson in the head as he stood on steps. he collapsed dead in a pool of blood. Scotland Yard named James Obrien and James Connolly as his assassins, both 24, with one declaring he was an Irish Republican Army member. One attacker attempted suicide, another police casualty died later, and reprisals against Catholics feared in Belfast. Wilson, 58, longtime Ulster leader and chief of the imperial general staff, had shaped Britain’s war policy and Ulster defense.
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Scotland Yard
Wilson
James Obrien
James Connolly
Irish Republican Army
Ss Lowing
Eaton Square
O’brien
Connolly
House of Commons
Sir Henry
North Down
Ireland
Belfast
Sir Henry Wilson
Great Britain
Supreme Council
England
Ulster Defense
James Craig
Henry
Ulster
Neville MacReady
Lord French
Versailles
Supreme Military Council
Imperial General Staff
Lloyd George
Earl of Cavan
Bloodiest fight in history looms over Boxer uprising fears
Fear of a new Boxer style revolt grows in military circles after dispatches from Shanghai report missionary murders in Central Kiangsi. Analysts compare to 1900 uprising, noting China’s lack of central government and potential for foreign intervention led by the United States Britain and Japan.
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China
Shanghai
Kiangsi
Altho
America
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Russia
Germany
Massacre at Coal Mines Sparks Martial Law Rumor
Reports from Marion Illinois describe a mob attack on strikebreakers at a Southern Illinois Coal Company mine. Fifteen to sixteen killed in the melee near Herrin, with wrecked mine, dynamited structures, and bodies observed. authorities scramble as militia readiness escalates.
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Marion
Hunter
Southern Illinois Coal Company
Herrin
National Guard
Coil
Sam D. Hunter
Mayor Will Probe Legate Case to End
Mayor KE Brown vowed the Legate case would not be dropped by the city administration until the Seattle patrolman's death mystery is solved. The mayor said the probe would continue regardless of the grand jury action, as Inspector Hang Damm and others testified before the grand jury Thursday.
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Seattle
KE. J. Brown
Hang Damm
Lieut. J. J. Haag
Seret
Homer Unland
Elizabeth Harrie
Women's Protective Bureau
Nellie Hartford
Grand Jury
Banker Faces Jail for Misappropriating Bannock Funds
Pocatello Idaho June 22 4 Stephen L Reece former president of Bannock National Bank was found guilty last night of misappropriating funds and faces three years in federal prison and a $5000 fine at McNeill Island penitentiary Defense teams filed for a new trial after verdict and sentence recommendations were returned.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Stephen L. Reece
McNeill's Island Federal Penitentiary
Bannock National Bank of
Romance SLAIN BY CO-EDS verdict at UW alumni court
Coeducation was found guilty of the murder of Romance at the University of Washington alumni court held Wednesday noon in the L. C. Smith Building restaurant. Sentence suspended. Louis Schwellenbach led the State of Matrimony against Ruth Carr with Franklin as judge. witnesses were served with subpoenas.
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University of Washington
L. C. Smith
Louis Schwellenbach
Ruth Carr
Ad Franklin
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Gould
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