Li Hung Chang Visit in Shanghai Declared a Failure
Li Hung Chang arrived on the Anping from Hong Kong but was coldly received. French police escorted him after an 800 strong native escort was withdrawn over a French settlement dispute. Consuls refused official calls and British German and American representatives rejected meeting him.
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Li Tung Chang
Hong Kong
Earl Li
Li Hung Chang
London
Shanghai
Sheng
Taotai
Daily Express
Great Britain
Li Hang Chang
Russia
Message From Conger Alarms Europe In London Dispatch
A London dispatch to The Tribune says Conger's message to the state department seems to prove the ministers are alive. An expert cites the text as confirmation and suggests guards secured a position along a wall and that ministers and women may have escaped through a hidden passage into the imperial city.
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the Tribune
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Conger
State Department
Europe
Tien Tsin Quiet Status Reported By Naval Chiefs
Washington reports from Admiral Remey dated July 20 at Taku indicate Tien Tsin remains quiet with earlier Russian sources citing legations at Pekin still resisting as of July 13. Wounded include Major Regan Capt Noyes Bookmiller Lieuts Lawton Schoefful Jolly and others. About 80 wounded to be sent to Yokohama hospital. London notes evacuation of Tien Tsin and surrounding areas by Chinese per Admiral Seymour.
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Solace
Yokohama Hospital
London
Admiralty
Seymour
Eighth Regiment Arrives in New York En Route to Fort Snelling
Two companies of the Eighth United States Infantry totaling about 240 men arrived aboard the transport McClellan in New York. They will await the rest of the regiment before marching to Fort Snelling Minnesota. The force has spent 18 months in Cuba and looked in fine shape. About 2600 people greeted them as the Young Men's Christian Association supplied coffee and refreshments at the dock.
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Fort Snelling
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China
Young Men's Christian Association
Detachment of Five Hundred Marines Leave Washington
Five hundred United States marines depart Washington for China on a special train to San Francisco. General Heywood and the marine band witness the sending, with Major Dickens commanding the detachment on its voyage across the Pacific.
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Orient
Washieton
United States
China
San Francisco
Pacific
Heywood
Dickens
No Peaches or Prunes Exported From Southern California
Los Angeles July 23. Deciduous fruit growers say there will be no shipments of peaches or prunes from this part of California this year. President A Sprague of the Southern California Deciduous Fruit Exchange says little dried fruit will come from this section except from the north.
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Cal
A. Sprague
Southern California Decisions Fruit Exchange
Colon Falls to Rebels and Panama Invasion Report
Captain Moler of the German steamer Wlandria says government troops entered Colon from Panama on August 16 and Colon fell to rebels on July 16 without a fight. The report ties to Jamaica dated July 28. Also notes Chippewa Copper Mining in West Superior weighing a 400 foot shaft and current 209 foot depth work.
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Jamaica
Moler
Wlandria
Colombia
Colon
Panama
Fine Copper Mine
West Superior
Wis
Chippewa Copper Mining Company
Five Copper Veins Discovered for Stamp Mill Project
A prospecting report notes five copper veins varying from 10 to 2 feet in width with fine copper rock. A stamp mill is expected to be put in before the season closes.
Amnesty Order Prompts Banquet as Filipinos Read MacArthur Reply
Manta July 23 official statements report last week 200 insurgents killed 130 surrendered or captured. One hundred rifles seized. Twelve Americans killed, 11 wounded. Colonel William E Birkheimer led a clash with 28th volunteers near Tal killing 38 insurgents. Captain Charles D Roberts arrived on parole. Senor Buencarino sent amnesty resolutions to Aguinaldo with MacArthur’s answer. Aguinaldo expected to consult advisers. banquet planned for McKinley amnesty news.
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Manta
William £. Birkheimer
Twenty-eighth Volunteer Infantry
Tal
Signal Corps
Charles D. Roberts
Thirty-fifth Volunteer Infantry
Senor Buencarino
Aguinaldo
MacArthur
McKinley
Boers Make a Determined Attack on 4 Post Near Heidelberg
Lord Roberts reports a Boer assault near Heidelberg 13 miles east on July 22 aimed at a railroad post. The Boers attacked with three guns and a pompom but were beaten off in a sharp engagement before Heidelberg reinforcements arrived.
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Heidelberg
London
War Office
Lord Roberts
Pretoria
Brazilian Doctor Reports Yellow Fever Serum Taking Hold
In Vera Cruz on July 23 the first patient treated with Dr. Bellinzaghi's yellow fever serum is fully convalescent. Other patients show favorable progress and intense interest surrounds the experiments. Even those severely ill with black vomit respond marvelously to the serum.
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Vera Cruz
Bellinzaghi
Phantom steamer collision sinks bark Embleton in fog
The Cunard steamer Campania struck the Liverpool bark Embleton amidships in a dense Irish Channel fog. Seven crew rescued. 11, including the captain, believed drowned. The Campania escaped with minor damage and arrived in Liverpool hours late.
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Irish Channel
Cunard Line
Campania
New York
Liverpool
Embleton
New Zealand
Queenstown
Walker
Tuskar Light
Greasqy
Steamers collide near Belfast lough kills five passengers
A collision between the steamers Dromedary and Alligator just outside Belfast lough results in five deaths and over thirty serious injuries among about 600 aboard. Amputations and terrors are reported with feared drownings as rescue scenes unfold.
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Alligator
German Missionaries Escape Reach Swatau
The German consulate at Swatau telegraphs that all German missionaries from the interior of Kwang Tung province have arrived there safely as of July 21.
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Swatau
Kwang Tung
China Announces Imminent Reopening of Pekin Communications
London report cites Sir Halliday Macartney saying messages from Sir Claude MacDonald and other ministers may reach Pekin at any minute as China seeks to calm rebel actions and restore order. Empress Dowager’s court moves toward Hsian-Fu with rice stores, while fears of viceroys turning against foreigners persist.
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Cheh le Feng
England
Foreign Office
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Legation
Halliday Macartney
Halliday
Pekin
Claude MacDonald
China
Li Hung Chang
Earl Ls
Shanghai
Hsian-Fu
Shan Si
Officials In China Move Toward Negotiations After Tien Tsin Fall
A Shanghai Daily Mail correspondent reports Chinese officials fearfully eye negotiations after Tien Tsin’s fall while secrecy under threat of executions suppresses details. Rumors touch Prince Tuan’s abduction, the imperial dowager’s return, and Kang Yei’s possible Canton viceroy appointment as allies insist they fight rebels, not China.
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Tien Tsin
Loxpon
Shanghai
Daily Mail
Pekin
Prince Tuan
Kang Yei
Board of War
Canton
Daily News
China
Boycotting Chinese Impacts Chicago Laundries
Chicago July 23 Chinese population fears Caucasian antipathy following Celestial empire troubles and reports of a boycott against Chinese laundries and truck farms. Wu Sung Lei a Chinatown banker says four laundries suspended operations this week and Chinese laundries report about a 50 percent drop in business.
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Chicago
Ohicago
Celestial Empire
Wu Sung Lei
Chinatown
General Wilson Relieved From Cuban Duty for China Assignment
Favorable action on Brigadier General James H. Wilson's request directs him to leave the Cuba based Department of Matanzas and Santa Clara and proceed to Taku China to report to Major General A. R. Chaffee for assignment to a brigade in his division.
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James 4H. Wilson
U.S. W
China
Department of Matanzas
Santa Clara
Cuba
Taku
A. R. Chaffee
Prevented A Wreck Laborer Saves Train At Stella Junction
July 23 at Turea Lakes Wisconsin a laborer Eli Swan of Stella Junction removed railroad ties and rocks from a bridge after night work five miles east of Three Lakes. His actions likely saved a passenger train and the lives of 30 Three Lakes Rod and Gun Club members aboard.
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Turea Lakes
Wis
Eli Swan
Ely & Cox’s
Stella Junction
Swan
Three Lakes
Texas wool held by growers seeks higher prices
Texas growers report 2 030 000 pounds of wool tied up in state as they refuse current prices and plan to hold the entire clip indefinitely after a Lampasas conference. They say wool is in shortage and manufacturers will concede rather than import. Judge Robert Pleasant Trippe, longtime Confederate congress member and Georgia supreme court judge, is reported dead.
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Houston
Tex
the Post
Lampassas
Robert Pleasant Trippe
Confederate Congress
Supreme Court of Georgia
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