Notice of Stockholders Meeting for Houston and Texas Central
The Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company calls a stockholders meeting at its Houston office on January 19 1900 at noon. Purpose is to authorize a first mortgage on the Waco and Northwestern Division railroad from Bremond through Marlin and Waco to Ross to secure up to twenty five thousand dollars per mile, payable within thirty years at six percent, to pay for completion improvement and operation. E W Cave secretary. d Jan 19
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Houston
Texas
Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company
Waco & Northwestern Division
Houston & Texas Central Railway
Bremond
Robertson County
Marlin
Waco
Ross
McLennan County
Baden-Powell’s Proclamation and Boer War Dispatches
Reports from London and Cape Town relay Baden-Powell’s proclamation to Mafeking burghers claiming no foreign intervention for the Boers and noting America’s stance to side with Britain if interference occurs. Dispatches cover British officer appointments, Cape Town defense plans, and ongoing siege casualties near Mafeking and Ladysmith.
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London
Dev
Baden- Powell
Mafeking
Lorenzo
Marquez
William
England
Baden-Powell
Charles Howard Vincent
Sheffield
Queen's Westminster Volunteers
City of London
Imperial Regiment
Africa
Lockett Leads Raid on Mountain Stronghold Near San Madeo
General Otis reports Colonel Lockett with his regiment two battalions of the Forty-sixth and Forty-fifth and a Twenty-seventh Infantry company attacked a 600-strong rebel force on a northeast San Madeo mountain stronghold. Rebels suffered heavy losses, 24 captured, plus the seizure of 1 cannon 40 rifles 20 000 rounds of ammunition 500 pounds of powder fortifications and provisions. Casualties include Lieutenant Enslow and five enlisted men wounded and Private Matson drowned.
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Washington
War Department
Otis
Lockett
Forty-sixth
Forty-fifth
Twenty-seventh Infantry
San Madeo
Enslow
Eleventh Cavalry
Matson
Forty-fifth Infantry
Trains Reach Colenso as Boers Link Ladysmith
Pretoria reports trains now run to Colenso indicating a Boer connection around Ladysmith. Cronje notes two British forts at Kuruman captured on Dec 17. Rumors say Methuen’s big naval gun exploded and Transvaal imposes a 30 percent gold tax on mine output.
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Pretoria
Schalkberger
Dats
Colenso
Ladysmith
Cronje
Modder River
Kuruman
Methuen
Transvaal
Wreck in Colorado Kills Baggageman in Brighton Crash
The Cheyenne Flyer collided with the Boulder Valley train at Brighton Colorado early today. Baggageman William Randleman died and 11 others injured as two cars burned and the locomotive derailed.
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Denver
Boulder
William Tell accident ends in tragedy in Bennettsville
In Bennettaville Bennettsville 16 year old Robert Chaffin allowed playmate Edward Johnson to shoot an apple from his head with a rifle Johnson unknowingly fired a loaded gun and the shot killed Chaffin Johnson faces no charge as the district attorney dismissed the case Colonel Parker's trial is postponed to the second week of January Elwood Madden, once a Cape Nome resident reported worth 10 million dollars after 30 years missing will return with mining machinery and talks of rich gold nuggets
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Cape Colony
Bob
Cape Town
Victoria West District
Lorenzo, Marquez
Matt Steyn
Steyn
Orange Free State
Ladysmith
Surprise Hill
Rifle Brigade
Duggan
Colonel Parker
William Tell
Columbia
D. C
Robert Chaffin
Bennettsville
Edward Johnson
Bennettaville
Johnson
Chaffin
Kokomo
Ind
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Warner Bullet
Katy
ST. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
Paul M. Baylor
Bryan, Texas
Dee Mike
E. W. Cave
Brogdon’s
TRANT
R. L. Brogdon
America
United States
Vernment Pas Iyer
Calenand
Cincinnati
Monsieur Pirot
M. Pirot
Cradock
Stormberg
Gatacre
Indwe
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Colorado
Cheyenne
Indian Territory
Crow Creek Agency
South Dakota
Congress
South
McAlester
I T
Hart
Versailles
J. N. Camden, Jr
Kentucky
Nathaniel Hart
Lafayette
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Aaron Burr
Winfield Scott
Henry Clay
John J. Crittenden
Stan Breckinridgeley
John
Oo’Malley
C. O'Malley
Parker
New Orleans
Dominic
Malley
Colone
John B
J. L. Hearne
J&g.n
Mexico
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Arkansas
Memphis
D. J. Price
G.P
T.A
Palestine
Rock Island
Sta
B. Sucat
Fort Worth
Exchange Hotel
American Laundry
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