Matabele Uprising Deepens South Africa Tensions
Cape Town dispatch reports the Matabele rebellion spreading across Bulawayo district with attacks on estates and killings of whites. Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Leyds linked to covert support. Selous leads a British force against Matabeles as King Yo Bengala reportedly resurfaces.
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Cape Town
Kruger
Transvaal
Jim
Cecil Rhodes
Salisbury
Pretoria
F. C. Selous
Bulawayo
Spreckeys
Laxreules Robinson
Cape Counry
London Colonial Office
Jackson
South Africa
Chamberlain
Rhodes
Yo Bengala
Europe
Germany
France
Russia
South Africa Republic
Berlin
Amsterdam
Leyds
London
Jameson
England
Matabeleland
Hercules Robinson
Cape Colony
Captain Nicholson
Nicholson
Robinson
British South Africa Company
Mafeking
Bently
Bulgwayne
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston Receives Arm
Permission to bear arms in England is granted by the H A C of London. The Boston unit plans a grand procession in London with its own band. The H A C, dating to Henry VIII, is a crown controlled bodyguard noted for historic muster rolls and royal favor.
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England
Artillery Company
Boston
London
Old Bay State
Great Britain
Henry VIII
City of
Fraternity Or Guild of St
Charles I
Prince of Wales
William III
Broad Street
Bank of England
Carstairs
Macmichin
Lord Denbigh
William IV
Grenadier Guards
Artillery
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Massachusetts
Robert Keayne
America
Finsburne
Battle of Life sermon at First Parish Unitarian Church
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore preached on The Battle of Life at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Watertown. She described life as a universal struggle, cited poverty among one in five Americans, and urged faith that God guides the fight for right amid scientific progress and social challenges.
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Watertown
Mary A. Livermore
First Parish Unitarian Church of
United States
Fire Devastates St Sauveur Church and Hospital in Lille
A blaze at St. Sauveur church in Lille destroyed the church and spread to the adjacent hospital. Four patients died from fright and four sapper volunteers died after ingesting schnapps mistaken for medicines. causes traced to a burning brazier left by nocturnal plumbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Sauveur
Paris
Boulevard du Marechal Vaillant
Lille
Little Sisters of the Poor
The World's Largest Clothiers Advertise Economy Hats
A Boston ad from Browning King & Co. promotes sensible clothing prices without penny-pinching. They claim direct factory-to-store shipping cuts costs and offer a top hat for 3.00 dollars, citing emphasis on reasonable manufacturing costs and value for men and boys at 700 Washington St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browning, King & Co
Washington St
Cor
Kneeland
Pinar del Rio Falls to Cuban Patriots in Fierce Battle
Havana reports Pinar del Rio, a Spanish stronghold in western Cuba, has fallen after a desperate fight. Generals Antonio Maceo and Calixto Garcia led the operation with American artillery from the Bermuda expedition aiding the patriots. Spanish troops, 400 men, faced 900 attackers. city destroyed and routed. News arrives from Havana by fast couriers, with limited official details.
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Havana
Pinar del Rio
Antonio Maceo
Calixto Garcia Wee
Cuba
Bermuda
Maceo
Germany Demands Firm Stand Over Transvaal Crisis
Berlin reports a galvanizing German mood against Britain as the Transvaal situation shifts. Press voices blend warnings over Delagoa Bay negotiations, with calls to curb British influence and defend German interests in Africa.
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Berlin
Transvaal
Germany
England
Portugal
National Zeitung
South Africa
Hamburg
Reichstag
Freiherr Marschall von Bibeirstein
Weltpolitik
Vossiche Zeitung
Delagoa
Memorial for Gilbert Stuart Proposed by Stuart Fund Association
The Stuart Fund Association, a group of arts and letters leaders, plans a national appeal to fund a Gilbert Stuart memorial. Stuart, born December 3, 1755 in Narragansett Rhode Island, painted key portraits of General Washington and died July 10, 1828 in Boston. Subscriptions are to be received by treasurer Frank G. Macomber at 115 Water Street Boston.
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Gilbert Stuart
General Washington
Stuart Fund Association
Stuart
Central Burying Ground
Boston Common
Narragansett
R. I
Cosmo Alexander
Edinburgh
Scotland
Sir George Chambers
London
America
Boston
Washington Street
Common Street
Devonshire Street
Essex Street
John Quincy Adams
Edward H. Coates
Philadelphia
Penn
H. Kauffmann
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Henry G. Marquand
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Frank T. Robinson
Whiting Street
Roxbury
Frank G. Macomber
Water Street
Mystery Of The Salt Lake City Body In Chicago Trunk
Chicago detectives pursue a tangled lead after a trunk shipment from Salt Lake City in 1893 yielded a body whose identity remains uncertain. Claims tie the remains to Joanes Prosper Chazel of Lyons France, Oliver Pike of Seattle, and an Englishman, with several suspects and a signed freight receipt pointing to C. M. Morgan of Chicago.
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Chicago
Salt Lake City
Harrison
Joanes Prosper Chazel
Lyons
France
Franklin Avenue
Rolande
Paris
Henri Devin
Chazel
Theodore O. Moshier
Ravenswood Park
Ravenswood
Oliver Pike
Seattle
Wash
Pike
Hawes
Fayette
D. T. Keiller
Reidy
Union Pacific Freight Office
C. M. Morgan
C. M. Morgen
Jefferson Street
Book pedler attempts suicide in Sombersworth
George Barns a book peddler aged 50 cut his throat and shot himself at his Cemetery road home in Sombersworth New Hampshire. Doctors say he may not recover. He has a wife elsewhere and has lived there two years. Despondency and dull business reportedly caused the act.
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Sombersworth
N. H
George Barns
Bismarck at eighty one celebrated in quiet home
The elder statesman, born April 1 1815, marks his eighty first birthday in Frederickshule with family gathered. He is described as a fallen power still honored by the present emperor and admired by many across Europe despite critics who call him cruel and arch foe of freedom.
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Frederick Courtney Selous
South Africa
Wilds
Selous
Mashonaland
Rhodes
British South Africa Company
Mr. Selous
Museum
South Kensington
England
Zambesi
St. Lawrence of Africa
Jersey
Africa
Bismarck
Europe
German Empire
Berlin
University of
Gottingen
Saxony
Prussia
Frankfort
St. Petersburg
Paris
Federal Council
Germany
Italy
Russia
William I
Frederick II
Frederickshue
Vermont Maple Sugar Prospects Dented by Cold Weather
From Bellows Falls Vermont March 29 the maple sugar crop looks small due to cold unsettled weather. The season runs two weeks late with March colder than usual and four mornings this week below zero. No significant flow yet though some taps were made last week. Nationally fifty million pounds of maple sugar are produced annually with Vermont contributing over a third. last year Vermont yielded 14 123 921 pounds of sugar and 993.68 gallons of syrup, with warm weather needed to salvage the season.
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Bellows Falls
Vermont
United States
Sugar Crop Forecast Shrinks For Coming Spring
Forecasts note a likely sugar crop reduction with estimates suggesting no more than two thirds of a normal yield, possibly even half, signaling a brief season and tighter supplies.
Waterbury suit claimed graveyard insurance on policy
Mrs. Joseph B. Reilly of Whitesboro N Y sues the Connecticut Indemnity Association Waterbury to recover 4871 on her husband’s life policy after his death April 5 1895. Secretary Doherty says the company had invited suit on the claim and calls it graveyard insurance noting death due to kidney and liver complications forty six days after policy was taken out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury, Conn
Connecticut Indemnity Association of
Waterbury
Joseph B. Reilly
Whitesboro
N. Y
Doherty
The
Indemnity Association
Reilly
McKinley Wins Allegheny Delegates in Primaries
McKinley will gain two delegates from Allegheny as Chris L. Magee and State Senator William Flynn, head of the Republican committee, are pledged. Quay’s landslide shows poor city results with under twenty of 202 districts carried in Pittsburg and better showing outside. In the 22nd district polling places tally McKinley forces win over 2 W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
McKinley
Chris L. Magee
William Flynn
Republican Committee
Quay
Twenty Second
West Berlin Aqueduct Progress Delayed by Weather
E D Smith and Co contractors on the West Berlin metropolitan aqueduct report slow progress due to bad weather. They have built a compressor and plan to sink all shafts at once, then hire more workers. A lodging house for 300 men will be erected with electric lighting, and a spur track from the Boston and Maine Railroad is added to handle anticipated freight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson
E. D. Smith & Co
West Berlin
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
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DR. Wilbor
Kola Chemical CO
Mass
GEO. C. Goodwin CO
Weeks & Potter CO
Carter, Carter & Kilham
West & Jenney
Soul Africa
Lo Bengula
Allan Quatermain
Rider Haggard
British Foreign Office
Dr. Leyds
London Streets
John Woodbury
Oya
Patriots
Pinar de
Rio
Spain
Weyler
Delagoa Bay
Book Pedler
Bedford Street
Boston Regalia
Specia
Shawmut _ ‘Avenue
Tas Brandeeth Co
N.Y
Keystone State
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