No Relief Yet as Mafeking Holds Against Boers
War report from March 21 notes Mafeking still besieged with relief delayed. Fighting near Warrenton and Fourteen Streams ends with Boer forces retreating under shell fire. British efforts around Mafeking appear stalled as broader mediation and Swiss stance unfold.
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London
South Africa
Warrentown
Kimberley
Christiana
Mafeking
Plumer
Pretoria
Transvaal
Schalkburger
Natal
the Times
Bloemfontein
Kruger
Styn
St. Helena
Aliwal
Free State
Salisbury
America
Berne
Switzerland
Coucil
Federal Council
Washington
Swiss Federal Council
Warships Trek Draw Crowds to Galveston Harbor
In Galveston 10 000 visitors flock to see the Texas and the New York with ships joined by the gunboat Machias. Oversold ferry trips led to fines totaling nearly 2000 dollars for agents. reception and entertainment followed at the cotton exchange and a New York smoker.
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Galveston
Texas
Admiral Farquahar
Cotton Exchange
New York
Galveston Quartette Society
Machias
Rail line gains control through Mobile and Ohio purchase
President Russell announces the Mobile and Ohio railway company has purchased controlling stock in the St. Louis and Cairo road securing ownership of a line from St. Louis to the gulf due to rising trade with Cuba and Central America. In Luttrell T. A. Pokejoy fatally shoots Charles Donohue over a business misunderstanding. In Texarkana brakeman James Norris is killed in a log train wreck and his body brought to town.
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Mobile
Russell
The
Mobile and Ohio Railway Company
St. Louis and
Cairo Road
St. Louis
Gulf
Cuba
Central America
Knoxville
Luttrell
Here
T. A. Pokejoy
Charles Donohue
Texarkana
James Norris
Arkansas and Choctaw
Red River
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Howell Bros
Grand Opera House
J. B. Mike
Joseph Muller
All Star Company of Fun Makers
HE Girl
CHIL
Doomsey
Warrenton
Steyn
Galena Depot
Joplin
Kansas City
Fort Scott
Memphis
Galena
Kan
Aurora
Chicago
Clara Merrill
Roanoke
C. TI. Marshall
Travelers’ Preferred Association
Merrill
C. H. Merrill
Marshall
Hartville
Missouri Fruit Experimental — Station
Cotton Belt
Nacogdoches
Tex
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Davis
United States Congress
Richard Oliver
United States District Court
Kohlsaat
Pound Pying
J. J. Bauer
Cooper
Charleston
Delta County
Bauer
General Shaw
Waco
Albert D. Shaw
National Grand Army of the Republic
Dublin
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Senate
United States
Lea
John B. Mike
Exchange Hotel
Aryan Water, Ice, Light and Power Company
Wilcox
Bryan Eagle
M. F. Heenan
Dee Mike, Jr
Telephone
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