Mafeking Siege Strains Food Supplies Amid Disease Epidemic
A Mafeking dispatch reports siege stress with horse meat and horse forage bread as water runs contaminated. Typhoid dysentery and diphtheria spread, women and children suffer daily, and natives starve. Elsewhere Russ/UK notes reinforce battles and political moves in South Africa and US treaty ratifications.
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London
Mafeking
A Roberts
Orange Free State
Roberts
Bloemfontein
Herschel
Waco and Austin Dominate Texas Democratic Conventions
Austin won the convention for selecting delegates to the national convention at Kansas City and for presidential electors. Waco won the state convention. The June 20 and August 8 meetings were set, with representation one vote per 300 votes and one vote per county, regardless of total votes for Governor Sayers.
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Waco
Tex
Democratic Executive Committee
Austin
Kansas City
Joseph D. Sayers
Farmer's awful crime shocks Scott county
A farmer Sebe Leonard killed his wife and four year old son at a secluded spot then burned his house and shot himself after burying the bodies. Neighbors searched the woods for days and found all three bodies. Leonard was 60, his wife 27, jealousy named as the motive.
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Little Rock
Scott County
Sebe Leonard
Leonard
Public Auction of Bankruptcy Estate in Bryan Texas
On March 20 1900 as trustee of the A B Carr Jr estate a public auction will sell all personal property of the bankrupt including goods wares merchandise and fixtures in Bryan Texas under a referee order dated March 9 1900. Seti Moorisa trustee.
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A. B. Carr, Jr
Bryan
Texas
Seti Moorisa
Poultry Vermin Control Ad With Disinfecting Powder
An old newspaper advertisement promotes Emmet's Carbolic Disinfecting Powder for chickens noting its efficacy against lice mites and fleas and urging trials with a price of 26 cents.
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Emmet
Family Horse For Sale and Community Notice
A sound well conditioned horse for sale described as safe for a lady. Contact J. H. Connell at College 801f. Protracted services begin at the Presbyterian Church next Wednesday at 7 45 p.m. J. D. West asks for Christian prayers and invites all to attend. Also, daily prices for eating potatoes at 25 cents and seed potatoes at 35 cents per bucket at Jno B Mixes.
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J. H. Connell
Presbyterian Church
J. D. West
Jno. B. Mix
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