Battle reports of Boer British clash at Dundee hills
Telegraph summaries from Greece and London recount heavy fighting near Dundee hills, with British artillery silencing Boer guns and a fierce infantry charge. Major Symons wounded, command to Major Rule, Boer retreat followed by cavalry pursuit. British losses about 800. Boer losses similar. Later dispatches note a British victory in Natal with thousands of Boers in retreat and the threat of guerrilla action by the Free State Boers.
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Greecoy
Dundee Hills
Smith's Farm
Dundee Kopja
King's Royal Rifles
Dublin
Symons
Eighteenth Hussars
Leicester
London
South Africa
Natal
Hattinspruit
Laing
Nek
Majuba Hill
Archibald Hunter
Mafeking
George Stewart White
National Live Stock Exchange Opens Tenth Annual Convention
The National Live Stock Exchange's tenth annual convention opened at the Ryan Hotel in St Paul with President W H Thompson presiding. J C Hanley delivered a lengthy paper on meat trusts, the executive committee report was read, and all resolutions were adopted. A key resolution endorsed Senate Bill 624 proposing a cabinet department of commerce and industries, followed by a banquet in the evening.
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St. Paul
Pau
National Live Stock Exchange of the
United States
Ryan Hotel
W. H. Thompson
Thompson
J. C. Hanley
National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
National Grain Growers’ Association of America
Aleged Meat Trust
Executive Committee
Senate
Frye
Cabinet Department of Commerce and Industries
No Alarm Over Senator Delayed by Typhoon
San Francisco report says there is little cause for alarm over the United States transport Senator with Iowa troops aboard after a typhoon near Yokohama. Empress of India also caught, but army officers and owners expect the Senator to arrive as scheduled, by Monday or Tuesday. The ship is steel, two years old, cost $300,000, and a leading Pacific steamer.
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San Francisco
the Chronicle
United States
Senator
Yokohama
Goodill, Perkins & Co
Pacific
Bankers on cattle paper discuss reform in Kansas
Kansas bankers met in Fort Scott to study safeguards after the Gillet cattle paper fraud. They blame Kansas City commission men for floating cattle paper and urge state bank examiner supervision. Officers elected include President W F Murch Lawrence Vice President O Q Chandler Medicine Lodge Secretary J M Harper Conway Springs Treasurer J P Moore Holton.
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Kansas Association
Fort Scott
Kan
Kansas Bankers
Kansas City Commission
State Bank Examiner
Tometin Abilene
Tulle
Association
W. F. Murch
Lawrence
O. Q. Chandler
Medicine Lodge
J. M. Harper
Conway Springs
J. P. Moore
Holton
Robbers Tracked 160 Miles by Broken Shoe in Nebraska
Bart Olson who broke jail at Broken Bow and William Miller the Merna post office robber were captured about fifteen miles southwest of Bartley by Deputy U S Marshals Barber and Palmer. They tracked them from Broken Bow 160 miles using a broke rider horse’s shoe. Miller will be taken to Omaha for a federal court hearing.
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Bartley
Neb
William Miller
Merna Post Office
Bart Olson
Broken Bow
Here
United States
Barber
Palmer
MiNer
Omaha
Labor Federation Set to Convene in Detroit Hall
WasHinetTax Oct 19 The 19th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor will convene in Harmonie hall Detroit beginning Monday Dec 11. An executive council call was issued in the city after a four session meeting. Elevator Burns at Odell Neb Oct 20 The elevator owned by H R Joy burned last night with 10000 bushels of grain. Building was insured and grain partly covered.
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Call
WasHinetTax
American Federation of Labor
Harmonie Hall
Detroit
Federation
Odell
Odell, Neb
H. R. Joy
Vincent Burs
Fort Dengs
Vincent
Iowa
Nation of Towa Baptiste
Boon
Iowa State Conference of Baptist Churches
SLAIN BY HUNDREDS BOERS CAPTURE ARMORED TRAIN NEAR FRONT
Cape Town reports the Boers attacked Mafoking in force and were repulsed, with lavish claims of 1,500 Boers killed by mines. reports from London note White-led movements, Joubert at Dannhauser, and possible shifts to Ladysmith. Natal battles, rail damage, and an armored train sent to bring in wounded are described amid a flurry of dispatches.
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EiLonnoy
Daily News
Oape Town
de Aux Junction
Mafoking
Fourteet
Modder
Kimberley
Loxpoy
War Office
Gordon
Fifth Landers
Regimnt
Hlundslagate
Stewart White
Joubert
Golan
Dannhauser
Nazi
White
Mafeking
Baden-Powell
Vryburg
Beerdam
Gleneoce
Ladysmith
Natal
London
Cape Town
Daily Mail
Kerchman
Kuruman
The
Grahamstown
Rund
Johannesburg
Klerksdorp
Glucose Trust Hard Hit by Illinois Supreme Court
The Illinois Supreme Court declared the American Glucose Company of Peoria a trust and void its charter under the anti-trust law. The case alleges long term mismanagement by Cicero J. Haulin and his sons, forming a trust to unlawfully regulate glucose and grape sugar prices across factories and plants nationwide.
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Tilinois Supreme Court
Doealston
Sprinartenna
Supreme Court
American Glucose Company of
Peoria
Illinois
Poovin
Hay Baan
Cicero J. Haulin
William
Warry Thumilin
Aleady
United States
Freight wreck on bridge spares passenger train
A freight wreck east of Webster City Iowa crippled several cars on a Boone River bridge. Crews raced to flag an eastbound passenger train, stopping it at the crest of a hill to avert disaster. Wreckage will be cleared as Central trains detour via Goldfield and Webster City.
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Raee
Worriover City
Illinois Central
Boone River
Goldfield
Iowa Falls
Webster City
Northwestern
Telegraphic briefs from across the era
Summary of brief items including Resolute sailing for Porto Rico with provisions, New South Wales assembly sending troops to the Transvaal, Croker purchasing a horse, harness writer Leslie McLeod's death at 87, Gambrill family murdered in Mississippi, Knights of Pythias rejecting dramshop expulsion, Shamrock’s America’s Cup fate and Lever’s racing idea, Regular Army and Navy association broadening to include Spanish-American War volunteers, robbery at Cariboo mine with $50,000 in amalgam stolen, American Bridge Company being formed to operate by Nov 1, 85 plants, and a Colorado land case ruling against taking cowls from public lands.
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United States
Porto Rico
New South Wales Assembly
Transvaal
Richard Croker
Clay & Woodford
Engand
Leslie McLeod
Trotter
Pacer
America
New York
J. G. Gambrill
Lever
Regular
Army and Navy Association
Spain
Ashcroft
B. C
Cariboo
Cariboo Hydraulic Company
American Bridge Company
Herrmith
General Land Office
Colorado
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Hight
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Couia
Lefé
Vanderree
Cornett
Miles
Dr. Miles Medical Company
Elkhart
Ind
Tranavant
Nalal
Sitweion
Caps Town
Durban
Delagon Bay
Lexpos
Pietermaritzburg
Bester
President Burns
Workers’ Association
New Jersey
Ingham
Philadelphia
Ellery P. Ingham
Harvey P. Newitt
Lancaster
Javice
McPherson
Onicsco
Grain Dealers’ Association
Warren T. McCray
Kentland
J. W. McCord
Columbus
J. M. Sewell
Hastings
Charles 8S. Clark
Chicago
Frankie Hathaway
Sixteenth Street
Holland, Mich
CaCell E
E.G. West
Yford
H. G. Weber
Ag’t. Atlantic
Nervita Medical Co
Hinton & Jackson Sts
Chicago, Ill
H Gd
Weber & CO
Ole Agents Atlastic
Sauunil Plain Paekau
Beare
Kokdam
H. G. Weber & CO
Atlantic
Bes
Vooxek
Ely
ELY Brothers
Warren St
New York City
Humphreys
D.D
Oliyers
Wilines & Jeb Mae
Manitou
Colorado Springs
Great Arenau
Denver
Ail
Kansas City
Great Rock Island
John Sebastian
Audubon Branch
North
Griswold
E.C. DeWitt
Munn & Co
Scientific American
York
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