Boer War Ends as Peace Treaty Is Signed in London
Britain proclaims cessation of hostilities in South Africa after Kitchener reports Boers sign terms. King Edward issues peace proclamation amid jubilation. Britain gains 167,465 square miles and new colonial links while promising Boer autonomy, repatriation, and possible land grants as migration and reconstruction follow.
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South Africa
London War Office
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
South African Republic
Kitchener
Milner
Great Britain
Alfred E. Milner
Schalk-Burger
Reitz
Transvaal
Steyn
Orange Free State
London
Downing Street
Edward
United Kingdom
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Cape-to-Cairo
Africa
Peace Comes After Prolonged Boer War Peace Talks
A parliamentary paper chronicles the steps leading to the Vereeniging peace. Schalk-Berger informed Kitchener of peace aims on March 12 and Boer delegates submitted proposals a month later. Milner and Smuts met the Boer commission on May 19, with terms rejected before a final agreement was signed with minimal ceremony. The London reaction praised peace, while critics argued Britain could have secured better terms earlier.
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Schalk-Berger
Transvaal
Lord Kitchener
Brodrick
Steyn
Orange Free State
Verveniging
Lord Milner
Gen. Smuts
Hertzog
Gen. de Wet
Gen. Schalk-Berger
Pretoria
South Africa
London
Costers
House of Commons
Great Britain
Natal
Newcastle
Kimberley
Mafeking
Glencoe
Elandslaagte
Dundee
Ladysmith
Heneral Symonds
Nicholson
Nek
Shattle
Belmont
Gras Pan
Modder River
Stormberg
Gatacre
Magersfontein
Methuen
Wauchope
Colenso
Buller
Tee
Roberts
Cape Town
Spion Kop
Warren
Hear Toss
Laurenith
Vaal Kranz
Modder
Joubert
Samas Post
Cronje
St. Helena
Reddersburg
Villebois Mareuil
Kroonstad
Shootings and Fire Hit Early Oklahoma and Missouri Towns
At a railroad camp northeast of GuthrieO T Phil Brooks shot and killed a boy named One Gun in a dispute. Near Clinton Mo Harry Kidd shot and probably fatally wounded David Green during a horseshoes clash. A Perry O T business district fire caused about 7500 in damage with 4800 insured, arising from Shanafelt s book ore.
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Guthrie
O. T
Phil Brooks
Hickory Grove
Clinton
Harry Kidd
David Green
Perry
Shanafelt
Heroes and losses in South Africa War summed
The article estimates Boer and British casualties and population shifts in the South African War. It notes about 200000 deaths total on both sides, 116000 Boer dead, and 22101 British deaths. Claims 65000 Boer soldiers with many captured or surrendering and large displacement into concentration camps.
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South African Republic
Orange Free State
South Africa
Foreign Office
London
CHICAGO STRIKE THREATENS MEAT AND ICE SUPPLY
Chicago faces a meat and ice famine as the Teamsters Union extend a strike across the city. Riots disrupt West and North sides, with police injuries and blockades at meat wagons. Packers refuse to recognize unions, while delivery drivers walk out and stores refuse the union contract.
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Teamsters
Chicago
Teamsters’ Association
Fulton Market
Swift & Co
Nelson Morris & Co
Armour & Co
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Joseph
St. Loui
Swift's
Libby, McNeill & Libby's
Nelson Morris
Louis Swift
State Street
National Teamsters’ Union
Terms of the Boer surrender announced in Parliament
Mr Balfour announced the peace terms in the House of Commons and Lord Salisbury echoed them in the Lords. Burghers will lay down arms acknowledge King Edward, prisoners return to South Africa, no punishment, Dutch taught in public if desired, rifles allowed for self protection, civil government soon, no war tax, funds for rebuilding and restocking Boer farms.
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Roosevelt
United States
Arlington Cemetery
National Cemetery
Congress
Grant
Lincoln
Philippines
Philippine
Hoar
Orient
Philippine Islands
War Department
Abraham Lincoln
Union
McKinley
Havana
Cuba
Maine
Palma
Amercan
Muskegon
Mich
Charles H. Neibaus
Charles H. Hackley
Lincoln’s Tomb
Frank Bruner
Chicago
Oak Inge
Mr. Balfour
House of Commons
Lord Salisbury
House of Lords
King Edward
South Africa
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War Office
Britain
Ceylon
West Indies
Gloucestershire Regiment
Royal Irish Fusilliers
John Bull
Arlington
Kruger
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Naval Branch
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wiss Helen Gould
Christian DE Wet
Paul Kruger
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