Monday, September 17, 1900. Battle of Mabitac

Filipino insurrectionist under Gen. Juan Cailles defeated elements of the 15th and 37th Infantry at the Battle of Mabitac.

A massive strike of Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners began.

Queen Victoria issued the Proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia, stating "We do hereby declare that on and after the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and one the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia shall be united in a Federal Commonwealth under the name of The Commonwealth of Australia."

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Sunday, September 16, 1900. Lopsided.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Army, Boxer Rebellion, Misogyny, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines, Qing Dynasty, Weapons, Women

Sunday, September 16, 1900. Lopsided.

Ninety U.S. troops took on 1,000 Filipinos at Siniloan.

American diplomats discussed the situation in China.

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

Legation of the United States,

Pekin, China, September 16, 1900.

Sir: A whole month has elapsed since the arrival of the “relief expedition” and the flight of the Imperial court, and apparently no progress has been made toward reestablishment of Chinese authority here or negotiations for a settlement.

Princa Ching is still waiting the arrival of Li Hung Chang. Most of the foreign ministers here are without instructions. At a meeting of the diplomatic corps yesterday it was suggested that if the Emperor and Empress Dowager could be induced to return to Pekin negotiations might be greatly facilitated. All agreed that if they could be withdrawn from the influence of Prince Tuan and other pernicious advisers it would be better. Much time could also be saved, because, if acts of Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang must be presented to the Throne for approval, it would take weeks to get them to Sianfu and returned. * * *

It was agreed that each would write an informal note to Prince Ching suggesting the return of the “Emperor and Empress Dowager,” “the Court,” or the “Emperor,” as he pleased. I preferred to mention only the “Emperor,” and have written Prince Ching accordingly, inclosing a copy herewith of the note sent him.

I have the honor to be, etc.,

E.H. Conger

Um. . . .

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Saturday, September 15, 1900. Rikken Seiyūkai

Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1940, 1940s, Japan, Politics

Saturday, September 15, 1900. Rikken Seiyūkai

The Japanese political party Rikken Seiyūkai (立憲政友会; Association of Friends of Constitutional Government) was formed.

It would endure until 1940 when it was dissolved in the face of the Japanese government's effort to have a single party, rather than multiple ones, which fit with its ideology and that of its fellow travelers.

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Friday, September 14, 1900. Henry F. Schroeder.

Labels: 1890s, 1896, 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, 1930, 1930s, Army, Boer War, Disaster, Philippine Army, South African Republic (Transvaal), Texas, Weather

Friday, September 14, 1900. Henry F. Schroeder.

Twenty-two men of the 16th Infantry defeated a Filipino force of 400 insurgents at Carig.  The man in command, Sgt. Henry F. Schroeder, won the Medal of Honor.

His citation read:

With 22 men defeated 400 insurgents, killing 36 and wounding 90.

Schroeder was a career solider who had joined the Army in 1896 and retired as a Major in 1930.  He died in 1959 at age 84.

The Transvaal proclaimed Schalk Willem Burger to be acting president of the South African Republic.  Paul Kruger had fled.

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Thursday, September 13, 1900. High costs.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Cuba, Disease, Medicine, Personalities, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines

Thursday, September 13, 1900. High costs.

Philippine troops under Col. Maxio Abad defeated an American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa.  The action was so one sided that the US force surrendered.

Dr. Jesse Lazear allowed himself to be bitten by a mosquito in Cuba in order to prove that Yellow Fever was transmitted by the insect.  He became ill with the disease shortly thereafter and died on September 25.

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Wednesday, September 12, 1900. First acts of the Taft Commission.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Philippines

Wednesday, September 12, 1900. First acts of the Taft Commission.

The Taft Commission, the precursor to the Congress of the Philippines, enacted its first four laws.  They dealt with monetary appropriations for road construction, surveys, and the salaries for two new government employees.

Remnants of the Galveston Hurricane.

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Monday, September 10, 1900. Shooting looters.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Crime, Disaster, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Texas National Guard

Monday, September 10, 1900. Shooting looters.

The Galveston Sharpshooters, a unit of the Texas state militia, began patrolling Galveston and shooting looters.  About 250 such people were shot.

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Sunday, September 9, 1900. Horrors.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Weather

Sunday, September 9, 1900. Horrors.

The full devastation in Galveston started to become known, while ot the outside world they remained unkown.

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Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, 1910s, 1915, 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Disaster, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Weather

Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the "Great Galveston Hurricane" made landfall.  It killed no less than 8,000 people and maybe up to 12,000 and destroyed Galveston.

It remains the fourth deadliest storm in U.S. history.

The water rose 8'.

Notable in this, this was a slow moving hurricane.  It'd be hard to imagine this occurring today.  In Galveston, it wouldn't, as a seawall was built after the storm which was tested, and passed the test in the 1915 Galveston Hurricane.

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Friday, September 7, 1900. Austro Hungarian Mess.

Friday, September 7, 1900. Austro Hungarian Mess.

Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary ordered the dissolution of the Abgeordnetenhaus, the elected portion of the Austrian Reichsrat. rather than have to suspend constitutional rights.

The Abgeordnetenhaus was confusing and divided along ethnic lines between German and Slavic parties.

Hungary, which was separately administered, didn't participate in the whole mess, which was also part of the problem.

Austro Hungaria was a house of cards.

Even the seal was awkward.

The Galveston Hurricane was approaching landfall.

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Thursday, September 6, 1900. Emilio Aguinaldo set up his headquarters at Palanan.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Emilio Aguinaldo, Luzon, Philippine Insurrection

Thursday, September 6, 1900. Emilio Aguinaldo set up his headquarters at Palanan.

Emilio Aguinaldo set up his headquarters at Palanan, on the eastern side of Luzon.

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Monday, September 3, 1900. Labor Day, 1900.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Ethnicities, Hague Convention, Labor Day, Missouri (St. Louis), Racism, South Carolina, South Carolina (Charleston), South Carolina National Guard

Monday, September 3, 1900. Labor Day, 1900.

It was American Labor Day.

The 1899 Hague Convention went into effect, binding those nations which had entered into it, which the US had not.

The South Carolina African American Capital City Guards, while giving an exhibition drill in Charleston, reacted to the watching crowed being stormed by white horsemen, with a few members even fixing bayonets. The incident would lead to their disbandment.

Numerous policemen were injured, and three killed, when a power line fell onto the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's call box circuit.

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Sunday, September 2, 1900. Sunday.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Art

Sunday, September 2, 1900. Sunday.

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Saturday, September 1, 1900. Britain annexes the South African Republic.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boer War, British Empire, South African Republic (Transvaal), The Boer Republics

Saturday, September 1, 1900. Britain annexes the South African Republic.

The United Kingdom annexed the South African Republic.

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Friday, August 31, 1900. A campaign against the Yaqui ends.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Mexico, Native Americans, Yaqui people, Yaqui Wars

Friday, August 31, 1900. A campaign against the Yaqui ends.

Mexico called a halt to an eight month campaign against the Yaqui.

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Wednesday, August 29, 1900. The Wild Bunch robs the Union Pacific No. 3.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Crime, The Wild Bunch, Union Pacific Railroad, Wyoming, Wyoming (Tipton)

Wednesday, August 29, 1900. The Wild Bunch robs the Union Pacific No. 3.

The Wild Bunch robbed the Union Pacific No. 3 at Tipton, Wyoming, taking $45,000.

Charles E. Woodcock, express messenger for the Union Pacific, had the misfortune of being on a train robbed by the gang for the second time.

This would be their last train robbery.

This is famously depicted in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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Tuesday, April 28, 1900. Societal convention tyranny.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Clothing, Cuba, Standards, Women

Tuesday, April 28, 1900. Societal convention tyranny.

The wife of Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson, Military Governor of the Matanzas-Santa Clara Department of Cuba, was killed when she stepped from a carriage and stepped on a match that had been burning in the street, catching her dress on fire.

I note this due to the absolute tyranny of women's clothing, much reduced in our present era, and due to the bizarre fact that women were so identified with their husbands in an earlier era, I could not learn her name.

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Monday, August 27, 1900. A hurricane forms.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Boer War, Weather

Monday, August 27, 1900. A hurricane forms.

Lord Robert's British troops defeated Gen. Botha's South Africans in the Battle of Dalmanutha.  South African Republic President Paul Kruger was forced to flee the country.

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane began to form.

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Sunday, August 26, 1900. Unidentified Olympian.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Olympics, 1900s

Sunday, August 26, 1900. Unidentified Olympian.

An "unidentified French coxswain" became the youngest Olympic medalist in history, helping the team of François Brandt and Roelof Klein win the first gold medal ever for the Netherlands in rowing.

The original coxswain was too heavy. The replacement was as young as ten years old.

Last addition.  

Friday, August 24, 1900. The execution of Hans Cordua.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boer War, British Empire, Crime, South Africa

Friday, August 24, 1900. The execution of Hans Cordua.

Lt. Hans Cordua of the Transvaal Army was executed after having been found guilty of a conspiracy to kidnap the British commander, Lord Roberts.

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Monday, August 20, 1900. Cixi says its her fault.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boxer Rebellion, Qing Dynasty

Monday, August 20, 1900. Cixi says its her fault.

Empress Dowager Cixi issued a decree blaming herself for the Boxer Rebellion.

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Tuesday, August 17, 1915. The hurricane hits Galveston.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, 1910s, 1915, 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Automobiles, Battle of the Gulf of Riga, Crime, Georgia, Texas, Transportation, World War One

Tuesday, August 17, 1915. The hurricane hits Galveston.

Waves hitting the seawall.

The 1915 Galveston Hurricane made landfall.  Atmospheric pressure was recorded at 27.76 inHg (940 mb) with wind speeds of 135 mph (217 km/h) leading to $921 million in damage, but the construction of the seawall in the city following the 1900 Hurricane prevented large scale loss of life. 

The German battleships SMS Nassau and Posen dueled with the Russian battleship Slava at Riga.

Jewish American Leo Frank was abducted from his prison cell in Milledgeville, Georgia and lynched for the alleged murder of former employee of the plant he supervised, the impoverished 13-year-old Mary Phagan in Atlanta.  The mob included a former Governor.

While Frank was convicted of the crime of rape and murder, there are significant doubts about his guilt, which is why the original sentence of death was commented to life in prison.

Charles Kettering patented the electric starter for automobiles.

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Monday, August 16, 1915. Entering Texas.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Battle of the Gulf of Riga, German Kriegsmarine, Imperial Russian Navy, Mexican Border War, Texas, Weather, World War One

Friday, August 17, 1900. The Forbidden City.

The Eight National Alliance's troops entered the Forbidden City.

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Wednesday, August 15, 1900. The murder of the Pearl Consort.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boxer Rebellion, China, Qing Dynasty

Wednesday, August 15, 1900. The murder of the Pearl Consort.

Empress Dowager Cixi fled Beijing.

Prior to her departure, she ordered that Zhen Fei, known to foreigners as the Pearl Consort the favorite wife of her predecessor the Guangxu Emperor, be thrown down into a well.

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Tuesday, August 14, 1900. Lifting the siege of the legations.

Tuesday, August 14, 1900. Lifting the siege of the legations.