Worries Over General Buller.Networked War Dispatches From London
London reports on General Buller and Tugela movements with no new changes in the situation. Dispatched by telegraph from Ladysmith and Cape Town, the notes describe Boer fortifications and British advances, with forecasts of major actions and the involvement of Lord Strathcona in providing Canadian mounted troops at expense of about £200,000.
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London
Lord
War-Office
Voighter
General Warren
Tugela
Allence
Buller
Hiangwane Hill
The
Standard
Ladysmith
Heliograph
Weenen
Curround
Lourenco Marques
Sonera Amicors
Dietage Sravery-emns
Plat Rand
Cresar
Modder_ River
Babington
Byrne
Jacobsdal
Ivy
Ramdon
Libbe
Creconndissanté
Pilcher
Belmont
Niles
War Office
Roberity
Cape Town
Lord Roberts
Methuen
sWent
Free State
Modder Tiger
Erench
Attcre
Dee
Mafeking
Lansdowne
Strathcona
Manitoba
Northqwest
British Columbia
Durban
Zambrna
Zululand
St- Lucin Bay
Swaziland
Daily Mall
Pétermaritzburg
Charles Warren
Frere
Natal
Warren
Free
Great Britain
South Africa
Daily Telegraph
Frere Camp
Prominent Residents and Visitors Seen in Trenton
The Mirror notes William Hamilton of Ocean Grove is in Trenton today. Mrs. L Sedam of Cranbury visits her daughter Mary David Thurnton on Fourth Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schneider of New York were guests of Fire Chief and Mrs. John Schneider over Sunday.
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William-Hamilton
Ocean Grove
Trenton
Secret society meetings listed in a bygone notice
Behind the wicket a pressed notice lists secret societies meeting this evening at 8 o clock. Groups named include Corinthian Castle Appleby Knights of the Golden Eagle Simonides Court Tribe of Ben Hur Knights of Pything Hall Canton Atlantic and Manning building all scheduled for eight.
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Corinthian Castle
Knights of the Golden Eagle
Appleby
Simonides Court
Tribe of Ben Hur
Knights of Pything Hall
Canton Atlantic
C. F
Manning
Beath Roll and Local Obituaries Include Hurley Bowen and nk rley
Henrietta Hurley widow of Oscar Hurley of Come died Sunday at 44. Funeral at 1 p.m. Tuesday from the house with services at 1 80 p.m. at the M E Church, interment in Glendola cemetery. Mrs John Bowen, summer resident of Ocean Grove, died recently in Philadelphia. She owned a cottage at Cookman and New York avenues. The funeral of Susan nk rley of Ocean Grove was held this morning from Mt Herman Way. remains placed in a vault at Mt Prospect cemetery.
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Henrietta Hurley
Oscar Hurley
Come
Hurley
Hannah
William Stout
Hamilton
Sexton
Glendola
Jobn Bowen
Ocean
Local youth Harry Herbert Injured From Barn Accident
Harry Herbert son of Thomas Herbert of Whitesville fell from his father's barn yesterday dislocating a shoulder blade. Dr H G Klomenth provided surgical aid.
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Harry Herbert
Thomas Herbert
Whitesville
H. G. Klomenth
Missing Bonds Mystery In Brooklyn After Mrs Ackerley Vanishes
Miss Susan Ackerley’s $25 000 in bonds are missing and a tale tied to her death and a bequest to Agathélla Condell at Asbury Park unfolds. Magistrate Cross seeks Treasury records while a box believed to hold the bonds remains unfound. Household goods are stored at Wesley Hoff’s warehouse in Brooklyn as authorities weigh search options.
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Susan Ackerley
Agathélla Condell
Asbury Park
Cross
U.S. Treasury
Condells
Mies Ackerley
Wesley Hoff
Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn
Oreos Fall to Defiance Athletic Club in Central Hall
The Oreos Athletic Club basketball team loses Saturday night to the Defiance Athletic Club of New York in Central Hall with a score of 24 to 7. The Defiance players are praised as top New York basketball talents, while Oreos coach Dr. R Doran struggles as his team, only one year old, faces strong opposition.
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Oreos Athletic Club
Defiance Athletic Club
New York
Central Hall
Defiance Boys
Benjamin
New York State
Lexus Onealded
Defiancé Boys
Oreos
R.’ Doran
Mrs Bly Wins Injunction and Damages Over Edison Plant
Mrs Sarah Bly and husband Henry J Bly operate the Plaza hotel and a West Twenty sixth Street boarding house in New York adjacent to the Edison Electric Illuminating plant. Judge Truax granted an injunction to stop nuisance causing noise smoke and vibrations. Bly was awarded $4 000 damages as business suffered from the plant operations.
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Mre
Sarah
A-Bly
Cho
Henry J. Bly
Plaza
West Twenty-sixth Street
New York
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Truax
Supreme Court of
Bound for the Promised Land to Nuevitsis Cuba
About 150 passengers including Asbury Park and Ocean Grove residents left New York aboard the steamer Yarmouth for Nuevitsis Cuba to join the La Gloria colony. Delayed by late provisions, the departure ran six hours late as passengers passed time with cocktails while unsettled by unfavorable reports about La Gloria.
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New York
Yarmouth
Association Offers Ground Plot for Fire Engine House
The Ocean Grove Camp Association offered a plot at Cla Street and Central Avenue to Washington and Stokes fire companies for a new engine house. The Maine and New York avenues lot was leased for 2500. The fre commissioner's meeting will decide on the offer tonight.
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Ocean Grove
Dairy Kitchen Rent Opportunity in Keator Block
Rare business opportunity advertised for rent in Keator Block naming a Dairy Kitchen above Without hotel with possession April 1. The notice mentions current tenants and their move to a new hotel on Brad Avenue. Enquiries directed to agents via the local paper.
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Keator Block
Brad Avenue
U S Farm Exports Reach Europe Tops in 1894 98
Washington reports a Foreign Market summary by Frank Hitchcock showing U S agricultural exports from 1804 to 1898 averaged 663.53 million dollars annually. About 60 percent went to the United Kingdom and dependencies, 18 percent to Germany, and 6 percent to France, with Britain alone taking over half of total exports.
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Washington
Frank Hi Hitchcock
Foreign Mar
Agricultural Department
Europe
United States
United Kingdom
Menreed
Great Britain
Germany
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Canada
Italy
Spanin
Spain
Brazil
Cuba
Denmark
Indies
Atheny
Russia
United
Kingdom
Japan
British Africa
Lone masked robber robs two Kansas City restaurants
A lone armed bandit, masked, robs Lewis at 1210 Walnut and Robert McClintock’s across the street in central Kansas City. He takes $146 from the registers while threatening cashiers and diners, then vanishes.
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Kansas City
Lewis
Walnut Street
Robert McClintock
Harrison Refuses Democratic Governor Nomination
Chicago January 15 Mayor Carter Harrison formally declined the Democratic nomination for governor. Chairman Watson of the state committee, with ex-Congressman Hinrichsen and M. I. Dunlays, urged him to run, but Harrison said others would be acceptable and he must decline.
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Harrison
Chicago
Carter Harrison
Watson
Democratic State Committee
Hinrichsen
M. I. Dunlays
Jacksonville
Letter Carrier a Thief in Chicago
CHICAGO January 15 The thefts of thousands of letters sent out for city delivery from the Chicago post office in the last three months are traced to a mail carrier named Buck of 2255 Wilcox avenue. Inspectors watched him for hours and found stolen letters money orders checks and cash in his high pockets. He confessed to pilfering for more than three months.
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Chicago
Red Lawreate Buck
Wilcox Avenue
Wreck Recoveries Placed Amid Turbulent Sea
Reports from January 15 describe a gale delaying rescue as ten bodies are found among rocks and more may be recovered. The unidentified steamer remains unnamed while crews work in sleet and rough seas to salvage those lost.
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John
Sydney clergyman speaks on Methodism at New Brunswick meeting
Rev J H Cowles of Sydney read paper on Methodism in Australia before the New Brunswick Methodist Preachers Meeting at St Pauls Church Ocean Grove. A resolution upholding Rev H J Hayter's claim that he has made no derogatory remarks against Bishop Fitzgerald was adopted. Hayter sought to bar newspaper men from meetings after remarks appeared in the Journal. effort failed.
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J. H. Cowles
Sydney
Australia
New Brunswick
St. Paul's Church
Ocean Grove
H.J. Hayter
Fitzgerald
Hayter
Jounsa
Local events fill Ocean Grove and Asbury Park area
Community notices report the Common Council and Tren ton legislature meeting tonight, basketball games by the Star and Olympia clubs, N G N Company H officers examination, Ocean Grove chorus rehearsal, Memorial hospital fundraiser weekly whist at Grand Avenue hotel, and school offerings. An in-family notice cites Magistrate Wyckoff’s son-in-law Milan Ross. Dr Kinmont attends. Donations from Presbyterian Sunday School drive progress. Oreos and Asbury Park Athletic Clubs to play twice this week. Neptune Engine Poamary invites Asbury Park Wheelmen for a painting series. Prof Van Sant sang at St Pauls Church Ocean Grove after European trip.
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Ocean Grove
Asbury Park
Memorial Hospital
Long Branch
Grand Avenue
Benefit of the School Library Fund Entertainment
The Ocean Grove High School plans a Thursday evening moving picture show to aid the library fund. The battle of San Juan and Philippine war scenes will be screened with Peyton Woolston of Ocean Grove presenting on behalf of the Monmouth Amusement Company.
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Ocean Grove
San Juan
Peyton Woolston
Monmouth Amusement Company
Township Committee Appoints Auditing Trio
At a Saturday meeting the Township Committee named William E. Berry and E N Woolston to audit township officers books. The New York and Long Branch Telephone Company proposal to provide free official telephone service countywide was accepted.
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William E. Berry
E N. Woolston
New York’ and
Long’ Branch Telehone Company
Prison Sentence for Highway Robbery in New Jersey
William Tyler a coloret was sentenced by Judge Conover at Freehold to fifteen years in the state prison for highway robbery and assault on two girls named Presley and Troutman at Long Branch. He was taken to Trenton immediately.
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William Tyler
Coloret
Presley
Troutman
Long Branch
Conover
Freehold
Trenton
Struck by a Trolley Car in Front of A M E Church
Lizzie Huntley a colored domestic employed by N. E. Bichanon was struck by a trolley car on Main Street in front of the A. M. E. church. She suffered bad bruises but no broken bones. The incident was witnessed by bystanders and reported to local authorities.
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Lizzie Huntley
Main Street
N. E. Bichanon
Wesley Boys Ball Preparations Meeting Tonight
The Wesley fire company ball committee will meet at 7 o clock this evening in Undertaker Burtla s office to decide on the date and other arrangements for the event.
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Wesley Fire Company
Burtla
Asbury Park Report to State Comptroller Reveals Debt
The 1881 report prepared by Mayor Japh L. Ten Broeck for Asbury Park shows funded debt of 276000 dollars including water, fire, school, and road bonds with interest at 4 and 6 percent. Floating debt stands at 59703.52 dollars. taxes and assessments total 60224.67 with a surplus of 521.16. Real estate taxable is 8283800 dollars and property taxable 2686800.
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New Jersey
W. B. ‘Hancock
Asbury Park
Japh L. Ten Broeck
Seberener
Fire Department
Usic
Water Department
Aintenance
Tramp Scholar T. Sterling Abrams Dies in St Frances Hospital
T. Sterling Abrams, a noted Trenton figure and linguist, died Saturday night at St Frances Hospital Enton. He wore an overcoat in heat, lived on charity for decades, and slept in barns. A Pennington Seminary graduate, he taught in the south, toured Europe, and was hosted by Lord Derby. He advocated temperance, never smoked, and preached to tramps each summer.
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T. Sterling Abrams
St. Frances’ Hospital
Enton
Abrams
Trenton
Pennington Seminary
Dickinson College
Europe
Lord Derby
Princeton
Abramé
Dublin College
Abrame
Ocean Grove
Ocean Grove banker elected secretary of Trenton Fair
Mahlon B. Margerum of Ocean Grove, junior partner of McCabe & Margerum and director of the First National Bank, has been elected secretary of the Trenton Interstate Fair Association replacing John Guild Muirheid.
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Mahlon R. Margerum
Mahlon B. Margerum
Ocean Grove
McCabe & Margerum
First National Bank
Trenton
Doings of the Wheelmen Hold First Dance of Year
The Asbury Park Wheelmen announce the first dance of the new year at the club house next Wednesday evening awaiting members and guests for a social event to start the calendar.
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Asbury Park
Wheelmen's Club
Stock Taking Remnant Discounts Flash Across Bargain Floor
Thousands of bargains are gathered for quick selling during the stock taking. The notice highlights deep price cuts and a rush to clear inventory as shoppers hunt for value.
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Iisye
Adval Minstrela
Weidnesday
Journal Ofjeo
BANK
Susan ‘Ackertley
Edison Laminating Company
Thy Journal
Dominic Hayter
Common Council
Boardwalk
Journal
Star and
Olympia
C.entral Hall
N.G.N. J
Tri-Weekly Tribune
Asbury. Oak Weekly Journal
ee.Announcement.in
David H. Wyckoff
Milan- Ross
Banga Avenue
Dr. H . Kinmonth
Fingt Presbyterian
Echool
Cone Ib
LaPorte VanSant
St. Paul's E. Church
Jerusalem
Péalme
van Sant
J. N. van Sant
Abbott Avenue
Wesley Boys
Ten Broeck
Charity
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