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Newspaper
Winona Daily Republican
Location
Winona, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1900
Page
1
Admiral Kempff cables Tong Ku reporting a serious situation with Pekin communications cut and calling for a battalion of marines from Manila. Secretary Long orders Remey to send one company of marines on the Solace and return the vessel home as directed.
Shanghai departs reveal a message from Weng Tong Ho bearing Emperor Kwong Hsu’s plan to end China’s chaos. He seeks foreign powers to remove the Empress and install a protectorate with governance through the emperor, proposing a new capital under foreign oversight. President Mason condemns the Sunday shooting of strikers in St Louis, calling it an unprecedented labor outrage and praising restraint by railway workers. Police cautions on public behavior and curfews for minors remain in effect.
A Shanghai dispatch reports all naval forces under a British admiral except Russians. A foreign head reportedly seen near Tien Tsin. Chinese flee from Pekin and Tien Tsin to Shanghai as tensions rise in the Yang Tse district. Locals in the north display intense hostility toward foreigners and Chinese soldiers aim their guns at passersby.
Shanghai reports street fighting in Pekin on Sunday evening as Russians make large canned provisions purchases in Shanghai. British missionares likely to return to treaty ports. British defenses transport 213 Russians, two guns, 69 French marines toward Lang Fong near Pekin, as Dowager Empress flees to the Russian legation in Pekin.
Washington reports the armor plate site decision may favor a government plant. Duluth stakeholders push the head of the lakes as ideal near raw materials and coal rates. Minnesota previously emerged as a strong contender four years ago when the plant location was debated.
Senator Platt announced to The World that he will serve out his current term but retire from active politics after 1903. Friends had suggested he would not seek re election in 1908 and might resign earlier. he denied resigning before his term ends.
Freiherr Franz von Goetz, a Kiel hydraulic engineer who has overseen the Russian navy drydock project at Viadivostock in Siberia for a year and a half, arrived in Chicago. He asserts Russia seeks a role in North China while preserving formal order.
A fragment describes Russian designs to move 11,000 men from Port Arthur across the Gulf to Taku and to march 100,000 toward Beijing to seize the city and government. It implies annexing North China to expand the Russian Asiatic empire.
Washington observers say the Chinese crisis will likely remain confined to mob outbreaks. Officials from embassies and legations emphasize their aim is to restore order and protect citizens and property, with no stated plan for territorial dismemberment.
Laurenz Marques’s Times correspondent reports at Machadodor President Kruger has assembled 12,000 Boers and stores are being moved to Lydenburg. Portuguese authorities dispatched additional troops to the border as the day progressed. Hay’s services to British prisoners at Waterval praised by The Daily Chronicle.
Five hundred inmates mutinied in San Juan Porto Rico refusing breakfast and work. The leader struck the warden. Guards fired three volleys, injuring three prisoners by splinters. Regulars later arrived but the native company had quelled the disturbance.
A sheriff's posse reports the slaughter of Postmaster Alexander M McArthur and four family members at Welwyn along with the fatal wounding of another and serious injuries to two more by John Morrison the hired man Morrison is 27 born in Glasgow and there is no motive apparent leading to a possible temporary murderous insanity theory.
Iowa Republican committeeman A B Cummins says Dolliver is Iowa s first choice for the vice presidency and no second option will be considered as the Iowa delegation expects no need to pick one. Belle Boyd Confederate spy dies of heart disease at Kilbourn Wis age 57 while on a lecture tour. Wisconsin Democrats set August 22 for state convention in Milwaukee to nominate a ticket.
A Simla telegram reports India’s famine deepens with cholera decimating relief camps in Bombay presidency. Thousands of workers desert camps to die at home as Dohad endures its worst outbreak. An eye witness recalls deserted streets, dead bodies, and a starving girl tending two brothers beside a dying pot.
The viceroy Lord Onneen of Keddleston reports a good rain in Southern India with scattered showers elsewhere and a forecast of a late monsoon. Hot weather persists and famine relief remains unchanged with about 5,802,000 people on relief. The viceroy urges contributions to prevent deaths and help rebuild livlihoods.
Havana June 13. Governor General Wood faces calls from lawyers bankers merchants and cabinet members arguing the United States rush toward Cuban independence. Critics warn of a professional politician class taking power and abandoning the island naked to enemies. A constitutional convention is hinted for September to include all elected mayors.
Des Motes June 12. About 9 oclock a Chicago and Northwestern regular passenger train pulling out for Ames collided near the station with a coming in special train. Engineer Thomas Smith was killed. Other engine men escaped unharmed. No passengers seriously hurt. Governor Shaw on the outgoing train received a temple cut and arm bruise but could go home and resume his journey soon. Mrs B F Jones of Ames was slightly hurt.
The Court of Claims ruled the crew of the US steamship Fern is entitled to a prize money share from the destruction of Cervera's fleet. The Fern was within signalling distance and able to order aid during the battle. The case was contested by Admiral Sampson's attorneys and others.
In Frankfort Kentucky on June 12 Sheriff Satter met with Commonwealth's Attorney Franklin and stated a requisition for the extradition of W. S. Taylor will be sought but he will be too busy to travel to Indianapolis for seven days. Indiana Attorney General Taylor, visiting, says Governor Moang will not honor the requisition.
The article proclaims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the medicine with the most cures for female ailments. It cites letters from a million women helped and notes city officials certify women-only responses from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn. Women are invited to write for free advice and a book of certificates.
A local grocery note highlights perennial money savers in the produce line with spring vegetables in stock including wax beans peas spinach red lettuce onions asparagus and home grown strawberries. Butter prices rise with rain prospects eggs at 10 cents.
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