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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1902
Page
6
London reports on March 11 1950 style notes Gen Methuen and four guns captured by Boer forces under Gen Delany. Casualties include four British officers and 48 men. News sparked street chatter and stock-market volatility amid war cessation claims.
Prince Henry of Prussia closes his U.S. visit after touring principal cities and receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws from Harvard. He sails for Rome on the Dentavhltied while praising American hospitality. The exchange of telegrams between the president and the emperor marks a cordial end to the tour.
Bold gunmen struck the Exchange bank in Minooka nine miles west of Joliet on Thursday morning. They wrecked the safe with dynamite and secured between 2000 and 40000 dollars in cash. Citizen Meodore Krite, awakened by the explosions, went to inform A. K. Knapp, the bank president.
Fragmented dispatches recount British officer losses and captures with Methuen reported wounded and missing, while Gen De Wet and Gen Delarey allegedly maneuver in South African theaters. Nearby, crimes and accidents unfold, including robberies in progress, a fatal shooting amid old feuds, and a train collision killing two as a family perishes.
The Senate and House debated and passed multiple measures on naval donations, ship subsidies, postal funds, and territorial provisions. Highlights include a donation to the Minnesota Historical Society of a ship wheel, opposition to direct senatorial elections, and a broad post office appropriation discussion.
Washington March 15 the senate ratified the Hague peace treaty governing conduct of war on land and sea. It binds belligerents in wars involving five or more contracting powers and bars poison or polluted arms, treacherous acts, perfidy, and misuse of flags or insignia. It bans attacking surrendered soldiers and destruction of nonmilitary property unless needed by military necessity.
A violent morning swept through Copiah and Linen counties, killing at least seven and leveling buildings, trees, and fences. In Montgomery Copiah, four bodies were under debris from a collapsed building, with a wrecked railroad cant three miles south and further fatalities nearby.
Fragmentary note describes repair progress on an emulsion problem attributed to Scott. The text is garbled but indicates near completion and ongoing work related to a coating or photographic emulsion process.
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