Stillwell Promotes Kansas City to Mexico Rail Link Project
President Arthur J Stillwell leads the Kansas City to Mexico and Orient Railway effort with $9 040 000 raised and 60 of the $65 mile roadbed cost secured in securities. The venture traces back to the Mexican Pacific and Chihualing and Pacific lines, with early backers including General Grant and Senator Windom, and notes orchards near Point Stillwell and year round crops in the region. New London Mo Aug 8 Alex Jester acquitted in murder trial after four weeks of testimony. he was linked to a case in Sedgwick county Kas and later Oklahoma before being moved to New London for trial.
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Kansasity, Auge
Arthur J. Stillwell
Kinsis City
Mexico and Orient Railway
Mexico
Kansas City
Fort Stillwell
Stillwell
Ulysses S. Grant
Tventy
Grant
William Winton
Treasury
Windoman
Me Mexican Pacific
Chihualing & Vacific
Chihuahua
Minica
Stillwell Interests
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Project
Poct Stillwell
Socoa
New Lonion
Alexander Jester
Missouri
New London
Chicago
Gates
Indiana
Sedgwick County
London Opposes China Partition Amid Global Tensions
London reports Parliament opposes any partition of China, backing a Chinese administration under foreign influence. The Times notes China’s government bears responsibility for current unrest, while other dispatches cover U.S. bank reserves in Kansas, England’s war loan plans, Victoria’s second son death, storms in Germany, and Canadian net losses on the Vermeer river.
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London
Feets Te Traderich
House
China
Sva
Merc Brdderick
Victoria
Dowd
Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha
Queen Victoria
Prince of Wiles
Neodwood
Lucknow
Iduke
Duke of Albany
Washington Struggles Over Shanghai Messages and Foreign Taverns
Washington receives dispatches from Shanghai as ministers seek shelter amid foreign pressure near Peking. Cable link to Che Foo is developing while landline operations falter under congestion. Also reports tax ruling on commercial brokers and a drowning elopement tragedy in Missouri.
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Washington, Ang
State Department
Shanghai
Riots Hit Magog Mills Prompt Troop Deployment
Montreal August 4 two companies of the Eighty fifth regiment from Sherbrooke were ordered to Magog to quell rioting by mill workers locked out seeking higher wages. The strikers numbered about 1000. Dallas Aug 4 an explosion damaged a street car on Harwood Street. Passengers fled in fear as union drivers on strike for six weeks are blamed. General Chaffee reaches China with dual aims to advance immediately and act as if in command unless other generals join him. Dayton Aug 6 Socialist congressional candidate Charles Specht was arrested for loitering amid negotiations between employers and cigarmakers supporters.
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Montreal
Eighty-fifth Regiment
Sherbrooke
Dallas
Tex
Danny Consolidated Electric Street Railway Company
South Harwood Street
Chatter
Washington
Chaffee
China
Tien Tein
Dayton
Aug. C
Charles Specht
Torouth
Missouri
St. Lewis
Specht
Tns
Isthmus Canal Planned by Private Syndicate in Nicaragua
A New Jersey incorporated company, backed by a Nicaraguan concession, plans a private interoceanic canal through Nicaragua. The capital needs are secured, with an estimated cost around 810,000,000. The route remains undecided but likely follows the traditional Nicaragua path, and the government may defer to private construction while retaining some oversight.
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New York
Doha
Gronits
Nicaragua
Crimitins Saii
Crimmins
Maratine Company
New Judge Sworn In At Arkansas Little Rock
Judge Jacob Trieber was sworn in as judge of the United States district court of eastern Arkansas to succeed the late Judge John A. William. The president announced the appointment the previous day and W. G. Whipple was named to succeed Judge Trieber as federal judge.
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Arkansas
Little Rock, Ang
Jacob Trieber
United Mates Eart
John A. Williama
Trieber
Witthe Rock
W. G. Whipple
Tripber
Demand Right Not Favor in Pekin Dispatches
Washington reports reveal a diplomatic exchange on Pekin relief efforts. Li Hung Chang pressed for safe ministerial access with powers not to press on Pekin, while Secretary of State urged direct Chinese consent and free communication with foreign ministers.
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Washington
Li Hung Chang
Department
Perkin
United States
Berlin
London
Maris
Nome
St. Petersburg
Tokio
Department of State
Li Hang Chang
Ten ‘Tsin
Maress
Wein
Pik
Conger
Vien
Ioodnow
Viewray 1
Mekin
Shanghai
Karl Lita
Pekin
Earl Li
China
Hay
Privo i Bayern
New York
Aug
Bradstreet's
Chicago
Legations
Ing
Wecklam Haw
Kentucky
Varied Global News In Brief From 1900s Era Dispatches
A collage of brief notes reports political tensions and health scares. Smallpox seen contained at Cape Nome while yellow fever prompts a Tampa alarm and Alabama quarantine. Trade and war news include Mexican Indians routing near Yucatan and missionaries accounted for amid Pelepin uncertainty. Fire devastates Grass Valley, steamship cargo shifts, and Paris fire crew returns.
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Aigg
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Laltor
Germany
Stettin
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Elbing
Schneidemal
Brunswick
Posen
Breslau
Weatherford
Untm
War Department
Cuba
Havana
London Times
Aponar
Morrison
Times
Tellin
Vancouver
Vermeer
White Union
Steveston
Goodnow
Chinese Foreign Office
Sable
Che Foo
Taku
Internal Revenue Department of the
Kellogg
Board of Trade
Poplar Wulf
Martha Wendricks
Paul Warner
Yellowstone Park
Helena
Mont
K. Piper
First National Bank
St. Marys
National Yellowstone Park
Fountainer Hotel
New Jersey
Fava
Lilian
Jay
Humbert
Felina
Paris
Li Wong Chang
Velen
Russia
Nowe Vremya
Topeka
Aris
Congress
Charles Curtis
Shawnee
Inston
George W. Glick
Atchison
J. J. Bowersock
Douglas
Masson
M.S
Petery Wyandotte
Geo. W. Wheatley
Fusion
A. M
Jackson
Cowley
Sovialint
Campbell Sedgivick
Cloud Doyal Reno
Charles F. Wit. Allen
J. D. Hotlein Whey
AL Carnahan
Cloud
Chination
Omaha
Waller
Nori Dakota
Miamarek
N. D
Emmons County
Durance
United Wingom
Fearne
Japan
Tien ‘Tein
House of Commons
Foreign Office
William St. John Broderick
Alfred Carselee
Aiabusis Magus
Marine Hospital Service
Mhomene
Lepon
Surgeon General Marine Hospital
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Notton
Kanaas City
Maney
Jimeves
Amunsi
Cape Nome
Augusta
Vin
New England
France
St Joseph
Mich
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Australia
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Grass Valley
Mao Ting Wn
Rere Wold
Hawkins County
Tennessee
Tampa
World
Alabama
Yucatan
Presbyterian Board
Pelein
Lilet Joseph
Nez Perces
Oregon
Kansas City Fire Department
Maine
EB L. Savery
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