Boers besiege Kimberley in Rhodes pursuit amid Transvaal tensions
Despatches report Boer forces surrounding and attacking Kimberley with the aim of capturing Cecil Rhodes. General Joubert is said to have offered 25000 for Rhodes dead or alive. Mafeking may be threatened as Baden-Powell resists, while rail lines at Belmont and Spyfontein are cut and fortifications rise.
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Kimberley
Cecil Rhodes
Transvaal
Joubert
Rhodes
Kruger
Mafeking
Baden-Powell
Daily Mail
Cape Town
Belmont
Spyfontein
Modder Bridge
Orange River Bridge
Woman in Moriiatic Acid Suicide Sought by City Hospital
A 25 year old woman who came to Boston two days earlier from Providence drank muriatic acid and lies near death at City Hospital. A rooms search found a box marked The Boston Store and a note with the name G. Parkinson 76 Whitmarsh Street. The motive and identity remain unclear.
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City Hospital
Boston
Medford Street
Happy
Moody
Providence
R. I. Caltender
McAuslan & ‘Troup
Woman in Flight Through Cottage Farms and Brookline
Elizabeth Young, recent patient at a Cottage Farms sanitarium, escaped last night disrobing and ran through streets pursued by a crowd. She leaped into the Charica River. a rescuer followed, saved her from drowning, and she was taken to City Hospital before returning to the sanitarium. The husband is a Brooklyn merchant. The case was kept secret by officials and the hospital.
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Cottage Farms
Brookline
Elizabeth Young
Charica
City Hospital
Sanitarium
Brooklyn
Banker Fredeick H Clark Poisoned Himself at Home
Frederick H Clark a banker from this city and New York took poison at his son Beacon street home yesterday morning. He swallowed a deadly bottle while seeking medicine for a cold and was saved by prompt stimulants and emetics before medical help arrived.
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Frederick H. Clark
New York
Beacon Street
Associated Press
Clark
Coping Collapse Injures Man at Harrison Avenue
Early yesterday morning about twenty five feet of the coping on the three story Field Bros building at 60 Harrison Avenue fell three stories onto a bulkhead. Terance P. Mahan aged 55 was struck below in the cellar and received severe leg contusions after medical treatment and removal to City Hospital. He lives at 4 East Dedham Street.
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Harrison Avenue
Field Bros
Pickles
Terance P. Mahan
Mahan
McQueeney
Hospa Seneee
Dedham Stree
Woman murdered in Dover Street flat one held on murder charge
John Fleetwood age 50 is charged with murder after Catherine McDonald 35 was found dead and brutally mutilated in a Dover street flat where they lived as common law spouses. Witnesses Ashworth 26 and Belair 35 detained. Fleetwood claims another man killed her.
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John Fleetwood
Station 5
Catherine McDonald
Dover Street
Fleetwood
David ¢. Ashworth
Charles Belair
McDonald
Katie
Boston
Cumberland City
Shawmut Avenue
J. A. McCulloch
Dorchester
Dewey Departed Amid Vast Crowd After Boston Visit
Crowds mobbed Admiral Dewey for most of the day as he left Boston amid cheers. He paused to greet a curly haired girl, bowed to the crowd, and waved farewell as the Federal express pulled away. The hotel morning routine showed him tired but attentive to official duties and mail, with dozens of cards awaiting signatures.
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Dewey
Boston
Federal Express
Terminal Station
Tne
Dewey and other Boston celebrations compared visitors to Boston
A brief note compares Dewey celebrations with other Boston events and estimates visitor figures for Foson showing 475000 375000 325090 300000 in the record.
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Dewey
Boston
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Blackstone Cigar
New England
Waitt & Bond, Mfrs
Blackstone St
London
Tonight
Eee
Free
Turkey
George Dewey
Maline
Comer
Com's College
Cab
Washington St
Cor
Konikow
Washington Street
Admiral Dewey
Philadelphia
Admiral Dewevy
Deweys
Hal
Stuart Tucker
Admirals
Helen Porter
Dewe
Rola
Argentina
Rio Janeiro
Bernard M. Wolf
My Clothier
Hanover and
Portland Sts
Eene
Hotel Touraine
Ah Mah
Brumby
Rollins
New Hampshire
Boylston Street
Knights Templar
Christian Endeavor
Odd Fellows
Fos
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