Roberts' Outposts 12 Miles North of Smaldeel
London reports General Roberts advances as rail damage delays supplies. Outposts lie about 12 miles north of Smaldeel while Brabant and Rundle push from Thabanchu. Boers evacuate Thabanchu under pressure. Cape Town notes demoralizing British advance and Mateking relief anticipated. Mafeking siege details show limited action and typhoid decline.
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Roberts
Smaldeel
Brabant
Rundle
London
War Office
General Brabant
Thabanchu
Steyn
French
Ketly Kenney
Chermside
Cape Town
Mafeking
Baden-Powell
Kruger Opens 1900 Transvaal Legislature Session
Pretoria May 7 The 1899 volksraad closing is marked by flowers on Joubert and Decock seats. Kruger opened the 1900 session to a full raadzaal with diplomats present and praised Joubert's humane conduct and the state’s relations with other nations.
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Pretoria
Volksraad
Joubert
Decock
Kruger
Gourkof
Free State
Boers Around Mafeking Reinforced. Roberts Targeted
A dispatch from Lorenzo Marques reports Mafeking’s siege defenders reinforced with an estimated force of 5,000. Colonel Plumer has contact with Mafeking via carrier pigeons as relief efforts proceed. Separately a U S colored man Richards is said to have been offered 5000 pounds to blow up Begbies works. warnings have reached Lord Roberts as plots surface.
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Lorenzo
Marquez
Plumer
Mafeking
London
Lorenzo Marques
Richards
Begbies Works
Strikes Paralyze St Louis Transit Lines
In St Louis on May 8 a general transit strike cripples most lines of the St Louis Transit Co with the Park Avenue division run by non union men. Cars on Park and suburban lines were pelted with bricks while a motorman was injured and a passenger woman struck. A 16 year old, John Kebring, was shot by Conductor George McClellan and taken to hospital as McClellan faced arrest.
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St. Louis
Park Avenue
Lindell
St. Louis Transit Company
Park Arenns
de Hlodamont
John Kebring
George McClellan
Park Avenue Division
City Hospital
McClellan
Race Conference Opens in Montgomery Highlighted by Addresses
May 8 in Montgomery guests arrive for the race conference as Mayor Joseph and Governor Johnston welcome them. J B Gaston opens the speeches on the conference ideas and history, followed by Hilary Herbert who chairs and speaks on Problems That Present Themselves. In Auckland, Samoa reports the American flag hoisted over Tuila with chiefs ceding the island to the United States and Manua awaiting flag rites, natives to self rule under naval governors. Quiet in German Samoa.
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Montgomery
Ala
Joseph
Johnston
J. B. Gaston
Gaston
Hilary A. Herbert
Navy
Auckland
N. Z
Samoa
Tuila
United States
Manua
Peculiar Juneau homicide ends with hanging after robbery motive
News from Danube reports a Juneau case where Martin Sirvent shot Steve Fredigo and then Christianson before capture. He requested hanging, was executed as there was no care for him. Silvert claims justice was served. All involved worked for a Libian Bay gold mine. Otto Bavarian king in Berlin is near death with broken health.
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Danube
Juneau
Martin Sirvent
Steve Fredigo
Christianson
Silvert
Birvert
Libya Bay
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