British Loss Reported as Boers Threaten Cape Colony
A Cape Town dispatch says 800 Boers and 18 British were killed at Mafeking while Orange Free State burghers threaten to invade Cape Colony via Norval Point and Aliwal North. British forces at Aliwal North include a Royal Berkshire detachment. Hopetown bridge over the Orange River was blown to slow the Boer advance.
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Orange Free State
Cape Colony
Natal
London
Cape Town
Mafeking
South Africa
Norval Point
Aliwal
Aliwal North
Royal Berkshire Regiment
Lorenzo
Marquese
Transvaal
Delagoa Bay
Hopetown
Orange River
Burghers Released as South African War War Supplies Tighten
Pretoria reports the executive council frees all burghers serving a year or less while other prisoners are moved across the border. Jhb is ordered to quell disturbances. railway tampering prompts shoot-on-sight rules. Mafeking fighting continues as Aliwal North isolates and Boer attacks yield heavy losses.
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Pretoria
Executive Council
Joubert
Charlestown
Transvaal
Laings Nek
Rand
Commando of
Johannesburg
Cape Town
Cape Colony
Colesburg
Mafeking
Boers resume attack as Dundee girds for assault
In a shifting frontier on Oct 17, Boer forces push toward Dundee while a British relief countermove fronts the town as heavy artillery arrives. Two burghers killed and three wounded in a skirmish precede armored train actions near Spytfontien with five Boer dead and seven wounded. All women and children have evacuated Dundee amid the threat.
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Cronje
Ladysmith
Glencoe
Dundee
Kimberly
Spytfontien
Boers repulsed at Mafeking amid heavy losses
Refugees arriving from the Transvaal report Boer forces were repulsed at Mafeking with heavy casualties. Berlin sources claim Count Mouravioff visited Paris to exploit England's South Africa embarrassment and to push a Franco Russian alliance agenda rather than intervene on the Boers' side.
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Marquese
Transvaal
Berlin
Berliner Tageblat
London
Mouravioff
Paris
M. Delcasse
England
South Africa
Palais Bourbon
Robbery at Denver poolroom by ex policeman
Denver on October 17 reports Austin's poolroom the city's largest was robbed of 4000 by Robert Boykin a former policeman. He forced the cashier to open the safe with a revolver taking all cash including 900 in coins and fled. Boykin is a dead shot feared to resist arrest may lead to further violence.
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Denver
Austin
Robert Boykin
Boykin
Antitrust Conference Planned for Chicago in January
Chicago officials announce a national antitrust conference to be held in January under the new organizing body formed at the recent trust meeting. Headquarters are set, with a formal call to be issued next month and a committee led by M. L. Lockwood of Pennsylvania as chair. The group includes Judge William Prentis, Dudley Wooten, A. M. Todd, A. P. McGuirk, Judge W.B. Fleming, and P. E. Dowe.
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Chicago
M. L. Lockwood
Pennsylvania
American Antitrust League
William Prentis
Illinois
Dudley Wooten
Texas
A. M. Todd
Michigan
A. P. McGuirk
Iowa
W.B. Fleming
Kentucky
P. E. Dowe
New York
Louisville Women Ban Beauty Rules In Public Statement
Eighteen Louisville women vow to be no prettier and shun usual dress adornments claiming simplicity and hygiene are their aims. They form a club to publicly assert that men’s gaze is irrelevant and foresee a world divided with men when all women share the stance.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Louisville Club
Judge Wheaton A Grray Warns Jury In Fresno Trial
Judge Wheaton A Grray of the supreme court commission, presiding over a Fresno criminal case, notes a juror asleep after a long prosecution argument. He interrupts to say, Wake up and listen to the instructions of the court, ending the harangue.
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Wheaton A. Grray
Supreme Court Commission
Fresno
California
Delayed Bailey torpedo boat destroyer launch tied to iron strike
The Bailey destroyer construction in Morris Heights on the Harlem river is postponed indefinitely due to a two month iron workers strike. Separate items report U.S. Supreme Court postponing Louisiana Texas yellow fever quarantine hearing until Monday, and cotton receipts in Corsicana, Texas, plus news of Senator Harris’s death in Chicago.
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Bailey
Gas Engine and Power Company
Morris Heights
Harlem River
United States Navy
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Louisiana
Texas
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