Death of General Symons Announced in Frontline News
London dispatches summarize conflicting reports from the war front. General Symons died of a stomach wound after the Glencoe engagement on Oct 20. Reports detail Rietfontein and Elandslaagte fights, reinforcements, prisoners, and Boer losses as the campaign continues near Ladysmith Beaters Station and Basutoland borders.
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London
Symons
Glencoe
Yule
Hussars
Whites
Rietfontein
Mafeking
Pretoria
Ladysmith
Gordon Highlanders
Royal Rifles
England
Cape Town
Modderspruit
Nineteenth Hussars
Pietermaritzburg
Elandslaagte
Beaters Station
Basutoland
Johannesburg
Hollander
Schiel
Pionaar
Joubert
Cronje
Free State
Wimburg
Plumer
Rhodesia
War Office
White
Convict Bullock Seen as Romancer by Guard King
A. L. King of Kansas City claims George Bullock alias J C McBride, a Minnesota penitentiary convict who confessed to several murders, is partly demented and told similar crimes during his Lincoln Nebraska prison term a year earlier. King notes Bullock also confessed to murders not yet attributed publicly. An Illinois Joliet burglary sentence and Lincoln actions are cited as context.
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Kansas City
A. L. King
George Bullock
J. C. McBride
Minnesota State Penitentiary
King
Nebraska Penitentiary
Lincoln
Bullock
James Helms
Osawattomie
Lincoln Penitentiary
Illinois
Joliet
Cuban fireman shoots lover then kills himself near Peoria
In Peoria Illinois on October 86 Cuban fireman Juan Garcia aged 28 shot and killed Bessie Mahoney 20 after her parents objected to his nationality. He then shot himself dying hours later. The bodies were found by a passerby along a railroad track north of the city.
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Peoria
Ills
Juan Garcia
Bessie Mahoney
Garcia
Rock Island
Miss Mahoney
Captain Watson Loses Suit Over Fortunes Claim
Abilene Kan October 26 Captain George Watson of company L Twentieth Kansas lost his suit for a fortune of 250000 in Iowa courts He claimed to be the natural son of Matt Watson Maquoketa a wealthy resident who left a large fortune The supreme court ruled his claim invalid.
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Abilene, Kan
George Watson
Company L
Twentieth Kaneas
Iowa
Matt Watson
Maquoketa
Supreme Court
Andrade Reaches Bridgeton After Venezuelan Ex-President Arrival
A Bridgeton dispatch dated October 26 reports General Andres Andrade, former president of Venezuela, arrived in Bridgeton Barbados after being driven from his country by insurgents.
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New York
Bridgeton
Barbadoes
General Andrade
Venezuela
Howeth Elected Gainesville Mayor to Fill Vacancy
Gainesville Texas October 26 W W Howeth was elected mayor to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mayor J R Shortridge.
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Gainesville
Tex
W. W. Howeth
J. R. Shortridge
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Benchley
Thompson Creek
Jesse Taylor
Mary Mooring
H. G. Rhodes
College Road
Brazos Bottom
Brazos
Ayers
Hudson & Nall
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Hall’s Drug Store
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Geo. W. Higgs
Main Street
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Johannnesburg
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Redmond
Davitt
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Times
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House of Commons
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McBride
Purcell Mills Elevator CO
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Watson
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