Debate over reopening inquiry into Jameson raid vote in Commons
The House of Commons rejected a motion to reopen the inquiry into Mr Chamberlain and the Jameson raid by 286 to 152. Liberal MPs Thomas and Evans urged full investigation citing new Independence Belge correspondence. Chamberlain defended the prior inquiry as complete and Harcourt pressed for accountability amid Rhodesian agents’ alleged fraud and complicity.
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London
House of Commons
Chamberlain
David Alfred Thomas
United States
Joseph H. Choate
Thomas
Mr. Thomas
Independence Belge
Samuel Thomas Evans
Colonial Office
Evans
Rhodes
Leyds
Colonial Secretary
Transvaal
House
Great Britain
William Vernon Harcourt
Cecil Rhodes
Jameson
John Willoughby
Dr. Jameson
Mr. Chamberlain
Hawkesley
Siege News and Movements Near Ladysmith and Bloemfontein
The dispatch updates British efforts in the Natal and Transvaal theaters. Lord Roberts pursues the Boers while Cronje remains at large. General Buller may join Roberts as 40 000 troops convert to a force for Natal or the Drakensbergs. Casualties rise to 11102. 45000 veterans and home defenders are urged to rejoin. Officers push to outflank and trap the Boer force toward Bloemfontein and Klip Kraal Drift, with MacDonald and Kelly-Kenny in pursuit.
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Cronje
Natal
Cape Colony
Lord Roberts
Daily Chronicle
Magersfontein
French
Magersfontein Lnes
Klip Drift Kopje
Oxfords
Buffs
West Ridings
Kopjes
Kimberley
A. H. Hesketh
Sixteenth Lancers
W. McClintock Bunbury
Second Dragoons
PB. R. Gordon
P. F. Brassey
Ninth Lancers
G. FE. Tuson
R. I. Fordyce
W. Long
T. H. Burney
South Africa
W. McClintick- Bunbury
Lord Rathdonnell
H. M. Durand
Henry Mortimer Durand
Teheran
Persia
Walter Long
Board of Agriculture
Paardeberg
Bloemfontein
War Office
Buller
Drakensberg
Spencer Wilkinson
Morning Post
George White
Laing
Nek
Kelly-Kenny
MacDonald
Klip Kraal Drift
Kelly Kenny
Klip Kaal
Germany Denies Anti British Sentiment Amid War Echoes
Berlin reports that Germany remains strictly neutral since the South Africa war. Foreign Office says no responsible German official holds anti English views and Emperor William has expressed friendliness toward Britain. The press notes only spontaneous public sentiment, not government policy.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Germany
South Africa
William
William St. John Broderick
Netherlands
Berliner Post
British Losses Reported from London War Office
The War Office announces casualties among British forces in a February report from London. Details list the numbers of killed wounded and missing with units and locations not fully disclosed in the available text.
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London
War Office
Queen's appeal to old soldiers for Royal Reserve battalions
The letter from Osborne dated February 17, 1900 reports Lord Wolseley in the field and King Edward VII asking retired officers and soldiers to form year long Royal Reserve battalions to defend Britain as South Africa battles continue. Arthur Bigge notes the plan and loyalty to the throne.
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Lord Wolseley
Osborne
South Africa
Arthur Bigge
Newton social season opens with concerts and meetings
Last evening at Freeman Hall Newton Lower Falls a benefit concert for St Marys organ fund drew Newton society ahead of a grand musicale at Hunnewell Club Hall by the Harvard Pierian Sodality. Miss Josephine Sherwood and Carl Shepard Oakman performed with dancing to follow.
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Freeman Hall
Newton Lower Falls
Organ Fund
St. Mary's Church
Josephine Martin
Cora Davis
Newtonville
C. J. Buffum
Frank L. Wood
Waban
Newton Society
Hunnewell Club
Harvard Pierian Sodality
Josephine Sherwood
Stevenson and Field
Carl Shepard Oakman
Review Club
M. E. Carleton Black
Auburn Gale
Newton Social Science Club
Hunnewell
Garden City Lodge
Armory Hall
Newton
Queen Recommends Home Defence Force From Veterans
The Queen, via private secretary Sir Arthur John Bigge, suggests forming a home defence force from veterans who have already served. The proposal, reported from London on February 20, outlines utilizing experienced soldiers to bolster national security without new conscription.
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London
Sir Arthur John Bigge
Lectures and Socials Highlight Newton Centre Schedule
Mrs E Bourdon and many guests attend a three lecture series at the Unitarian Church Newton Centre with 800 stereopticon views. The tenth annual Sacred Heart coffee party at Association Hall draws about 200 parishioners with dancing supper at 10. A Newtonville Police meeting discusses a relief association. The Newton Council 167 K of C plans a requiem high mass for deceased members on Feb 22.
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Police Department
Police
West Newton
Newtonville Woman's Guild
Metropolitan Park System
Newton Council
Church of the Sacred Heart
Newton Centre
Thanked for Boer sympathy at Faneuil Hall meeting
The assistant to Dr. W J Leyds, South African Republic representative in Brussels, acknowledges receipt of resolutions from the January 17 mass meeting at Faneuil Hall. The letter notes American goodwill toward the liberty cause and hopes it will comfort the struggling Boers.
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W. J. Leyds
Brussels
Faneuil Hall
Suffragists Lose as House Blocks Municipal Vote for Women
In the Massachusetts State House debate on extending municipal voting rights to women, the measure failed 132 to 24 after intense testimony. Bleiler mocked the bill with a facetious, humorous take while Fall urged rights and precedent, and Saunders cautioned on political maturity and past failures.
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State House
Senate Debates Over Boston Johnson Buildings Bill Passes Engrossed
In the Senate Mr Post of Berkshire protested against the Boston Johnson Buildings bill charging excessive privileges to a real estate association. Mr Joy of Middlesex defended as harmless for conveyance. The measure passed 17 to 9. Also Mr Atwill urged a bill for manual training in city schools over 20,000, Tolman opposing. the bill was rejected per the education committee report.
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Post
Berkshire
Senate
Johnson Buildings
Boston
Joy
Middlesex
Atwill
Essex
Tolman
Committee On Education
Committee Reports on Clerks Salaries and Civil Service Extensions
The public service committee opposed compensation for vacations for clerks of deeds in Norfolk County and opposed increasing the Western Norfolk district clerk salary. Bills propose raising Norfolk County Sheriff to 1800 and Middlesex assistant probate clerk to 2500. Other measures set clerk salaries in the auditor's department at 2500 and 2200, and adjust Roxbury District Court clerks salaries to 1800 and assistant to 1200. The committee also backs extending civil service to Natick police and other firms, and cites cranberry barrel regulation. Probate committee urges against minor fines for business and opposes protecting children from dwelling fire risks.
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Public Service Committee
Norfolk County
Norfolk
Middlesex
Auditor's Department
Roxbury
Natick, Cobb, Aldrich & Co
Cobb, Bates & Yerxa
Boston
Harwich
Sheppard
Quine
Davis
Amesbury
Mrs Lincoln at state house advocates prison county control bill
Leaders of the movement to place all county prisons under Commonwealth control appeared before the prison committee with their bill. About thirty or forty people attended though Moorfield Storey and A H Wellman were prevented from speaking.
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The
Commonwealth
Moorfield Storey
A. H. Wellman
Call for State Prisons Under Central Control Amid Court Absence
Mrs. Alice N. Lincoln cites ex Governor Wolcott urging State control of county prisons. The Prison Commission for three years backs the idea and endorses it in its annual report. A 1896 special commission also recommended centralized statewide prison control.
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Lawrence
Washington
Alice N. Lincoln
Wolcott
Resolution on Senator Hoar Cushman Incident Closed
The committee on rules recommended that the rule not be suspended, arguing an after-dinner club speech reflecting on a Massachusetts senator did not demand action by the General Court. Mr Howland of Chelsea led the report, and action followed to suspend the rule for immediate effect, thus closing the Cushman Incident.
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Mellen
Hoar
Cushman
Washington
Committee On Rules
Massachusetts
General Court
Howland
Chelsea
Song Birds and Moths Hearing Sparks Controversy
Island Game Commission chair Prackett linked gypsy moth outbreaks to loss of song birds caused by the English sparrow. He cited averaging eight sparrows shot yearly and urged exterminating sparrows while urging women to drop wearing wings of song birds. J C Clark of Medford reported trees killed by pests.
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Prackett
Island Game Commission
J. C. Clark
Medford
Moth pest damages orchards and namesake confusion linger
The report notes orchard losses in 1889 including five apple trees a plum and a pear tree tied to William Clifford of Medford. It cites ex Senator Bailey of Newbury who claimed a double in Arlington and says the testimony troubled him though he supported the committee.
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William Clifford
Medford
Bailey
Newbury
Arlington
Committee
Maine News Roundup Reflects Local Affairs and Trials
The Maine Veterinary Association moves to bar non graduates from practice. Gardiner High School pupils form a detective force seeking the arsonist who set the high school fire. Portland rolling mills sale to a distant syndicate will rebuild with 75 thousand capital and fifty workers. Westbrook Citizens party nominates local officers for mayor and aldermen at large. Insular Estates formed by Massachusetts stakeholders filed for large real estate and mining ventures worldwide. Four masted schooner at Camden nears launch in March. Biddeford freshet damages limited to fee fields. Saco crop harvest partial. Augusta plans a permanent sewer system after city engineer Getchel completes designs. State cases against Arthur Sargent for the murder of Harry Quimby and Willian Colbath proceed in Supreme Court with exhumation showing a dislocated neck and new motive evidence.
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Maine Veterinary Association
Gardiner High School
Ncen Fiary
Portland
Citizens’ Party
Westbrook
Charles W. Wentworth
Williams M. Lamb
Luther A. Frank
George A. McAubrey
State House
Massachusetts
Bon. O
Baker
Augusta
Camden
H. M. Bean
George Bailey
Manasquam
N. J
Biddeford
Fee Fields
Saco
Getchel
Arthur Sargent
Harry Quimby
Willian Colbath
Steteon Pond
Supreme Court
Quimcy
Quimtyn
Colbath
Sargent
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GLOBE
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Utah
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