Reported Boer Cruelty Amid Ladysmith Siege Oddities
The dispatch from Cape Town details Boer forces shelling near Helpmakaar and advancing from Modder's Spruit toward Ladysmith. Dundee and surrounding towns allegedly occupied with civilians harmed. Dum-dum bullets reportedly found but later destroyed on Kruger's orders.
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London
Ladysmith
Natal
Cape Town
Modderspruit
Helpmakaart Road
White
Dundee
Besters Station
Kruger
Fatalities Among Officers In Natal Battles Raise Protests
London reports British officers suffer higher casualties than enlisted men in Natal fighting. At Glencoe, four officers die for every one enlisted man, while overall casualties show officers repeatedly wounded. Army custom of leading from the front remains entrenched despite losses.
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Associated Press
London
Natal
Glencoe
Great Britain
Tommy Atkins
Cuban General Lacrett Offered Prison Inspector Post
Havana on October 28 reports General Lacrett, a former Cuban commander, being offered the inspector of prisons and police by Senor Capote with a $200 monthly salary. Lacrett said he is grateful but cannot accept a position requiring an oath of fidelity, despite his evident willingness.
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Havana
Lacrett
Senor Capote
Not Guilty in Blacklisting Suit Against Railroads
A Chicago jury found Joseph O Day not guilty in a $50,000 damages suit against the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Wabash Railway over alleged blacklisting tied to the 1894 American Railway union strike. Other notes mention bankruptcy bid for cattle king George O Landers and Philippine commission talks in Washington.
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Chicago
Joseph O'Day
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Wabash Railway Company
American Railway Union
Wichita
Kas
Evans, Buel & Snider
St. Louis
George O. Landers
Harper County
Sanders
First National Bank of
Kansas City
Landers
Exposition Saloon Sells Four Pur Smoke Metropolitan Cigars
Four Metropolitan cigars are sold at Exposition Saloon. The sale highlights the popular tobacco item offered by the establishment during the event.
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Exposition Saloon
Dif
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India
Lord Roberts
Symons
Hunter
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Roberts
Journal de Geneve
Constantinople
Russia
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Dardanelles
Transvaal
Bloemfontein
Steyn
Vrazier
Kimberley
Rhodes
Mr. Rhodes
Mexico
Austin
Rio Grande
Brownville
Hidalgo County
United States
International Water Boundary Commission
Clement
Paris
Tex
W. R. Clement
H. A. Clement
R. M Clement
G. W. Smith
Louisiana
Carthage
Adaline Higginbotham
Springfield
Henry Fox
Jasper City
General Lacrett
Alfred Wrights
Bryan
Texas
Kyo
Neal Reing
Lion
Century Cook Book
Lion Copfer
Grocery Illustrated
The
Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Ohio
Cattle King
Phillippine Commission
Washington
Messrs. Denby and Worcester
Philippine Commission
State Department
Hill
Schurman
New York
Buenos Ayres
Chamber of Deputies
Mr. Robertson
Macon
J Robertson
Twiggs County
John Golosby
Lion Heads
American Beauty Roses Bestiiles
Kandy Kitchen
Berwick Bay
Lowney’s
Gunther
Rosebery
Lord Rosebery
Glasgow University
Lord Kelvin
Hudson & Nall
Jerry
Dunny& Daly’s
Jno
M. Caldwell’s
Exchange Hotel
Postal
Todaro
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