Poison Plot Unfolds As Ruric Is Trapped In Moscow
Ruric Nevel learns a priest Savotano may be involved in a deadly arsenic scheme to poison Count Conrad. After awakening to danger, Ruric foils an attempt but is seized by a gang and locked in a stone-walled cell, awaiting a grim fate as the tale continues.
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Savotano
Ruric
Priest
Damonoff
Moscow
Kopani
Conrad
Rure
Ruric Nevel
Orsa
Alaric Orsa
The
Kremlin
Beheading of Two Chinese Officials in Pekin
London reporting notes the July beheadings of Yuen Chang and Shiu Cheng Yi in Pekin as part of a harsh display amid foreign powers. The piece describes the execution scene, public mood, and questions whether the deaths will aid China’s peace.
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Yuen Chang
Tsung-li-Yamen
Shiu Cheng Yi
Board of Punishments
China
Pekin
Chi Shiu
England
France
Germany
America
Austria
Italy
Japan
Russia
Shiba
Legation Siege
Kodak
Chi Chiy
Shin Cheng Yi
Chinese Labor Debate Spurs Southern immigration question
The Mobile Register calls for repeal of the Chinese exclusion act to let Chinamen into the South to compete with Black labor. The New York Sun notes the possible social and political upheaval, recounting past riots and the Pacific coast immigration drive, and ends with a long fable about Esau Buck to illustrate the old labor tensions.
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Mobile Register
New York Sun
Register
the Sun
Alabama
The
Daily Register
Mobile
Congress
South
Pacific Coast
Union
Oregon
Rocky Mountains
Not Jerseys: Alabama Cow Deaths by Locomotive
A Birmingham Age-Herald humorous note recounts two ordinary cows killed by a Mary Lee Coal and Railroad locomotive in Alabama, debunking the assumption they were pure Jersey cattle valued at 125 dollars each. The owner, Mr. Glass, valued the two at 50 dollars total, and the railroad agreed to compensate accordingly.
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Alabama
Jersey
Harry Jenkins
Mary Lee Coal and Railroad Company
Court House
Mary Lee
Glass
Birmingham
Mr. Glass
Ala
Age-Herald
Labor and race sparks in southern economic debates
The piece cites Mr. A J Clarke of Washington arguing that southern objections to Negro labor reflect wider global labor issues. It notes the south' s reliance on cheap Black labor as an industrial edge and warns that importing Chinese labor could worsen outcomes, likening it to jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
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A. J. Clarke
Washington
Sun
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Rurie
Pekin Cor
London Express
Esau Buck
Arkansas
Esau
Hsan Buck
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Alabama Dairyman
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