Boer commandos cut the Delagoa Bay Railroad thirty miles from the Portuguese West Africa capital, Lourenço Marques (Maputo, Angola).
The Eight-Nation Alliance demand that nine Chinese officials be executed for crimes committed during the Boxer Rebellion.
Three were already dead.
Joe Boot, likely a false name, became one of the few prisoners to escape the Yuma Territorial Prison. At the time the prison trustee had served only two years of a thirty year sentence for robbing a stage with female robber Pearl Heart.
He was never found.
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