Delayed Dispatches Show Boer Reverses in South Africa
Across reports from Kroonstad and Mafeking a running account details Boer and British movements. Gatacre’s forces repulsed near Bethulie with British losses. Snyman advances toward Lobatsi. Bodle’s reconnoiter at Pitsani ends in Boer attacks repelled with casualties. Desolation spreads in the Free State as troops clash and lootings rise.
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Labatsi
Mafeking
Snyman
Bodle
Pitsani
Tyler
Chapman
Batheen
Here
Lord Methuen
Kimberley
Transvaal
Free State
Brantford
Kroonstad
Bloemfontein
Signs Point to Peace Roberts Delays in South Africa
Cape Town dispatch reports no movement for three weeks while negotiations proceed. Free Staters appear eager to capitulate and stop the war, with Transvaal sentiment unclear. Gen Roberts quietly shoring up stores and ports as British advance stalls.
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London
Roberts
Kitchener
Buller
Natal
Transway
Free State
Methuen
Mafeking
Transvaal
Gatacre and
Clements
Bloemfontein
Cape Town
Daily Mail
Alfred Milner
Swiss reject Boer mediation plea in World War I note
The Swiss federal council states it would have supported friendly mediation to end bloodshed but notes both South African presidents have sought peace with Britain and Britain opposes intervention. It regrets being unable to take steps and wishes the belligerents soon find a mutually honorable basis for understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Afriania
Berne
Switzerland
Federal Council
Washington
Swiss Federal Council
Too Many Feast Days Nineteen Greeks Discharged at Kankakee
Nineteen Greek workers at Sinclair Construction in Kankakee were discharged for observing church feast days that hindered daily labor. The boss, Agamemnon Demosthenes name used humorously, warned they must abandon feast days to keep jobs. Italians were hired to replace them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kankakee
Sons of
Macedonia
Sinclair Construction Company
Agamemnon Demosthenes
Congress Debates Postal Bill as House Seeks Final Vote
The House resumed consideration of the postal bill in Washington on March 22 with an expected final vote later this afternoon. In the Senate, attention turned to the conference report on the Puerto Rican relief bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Chicago Free Employment Offices Report Counts
Free employment offices in Chicago report from August 3, 1899, to March 17, 1900. Applications for employment filed total 32,308 with 21,429 positions secured and 10,879 unfilled. Applications for help filed total 26,299 with 4,870 unfilled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Free Employment
Springfield
Receiver Named For D. Appleton & Co Publishers
J Hampton Dougherty was today appointed receiver for the well known New York publishers D. Appleton & Co. The liabilities are given at 1 100 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Appleton & Co
New York
J. Hampton Dougherty
Olga Nethersole Indicted in Sapho Prosecution
Olga Nethersole and her new co defendants were indicted by the New York grand jury this afternoon in the Sapho case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olga Nethersole
New York
Sapho
Great Teachers Meeting Entertains 1200 Visitors in Twin Cities
The Central Illinois Teachers association returns to Monmouth for its annual gathering. Sessions open Friday at Walker Opera House with afternoon meetings at the University of Illinois and evening events at the Walker. Admission via fifty cent badges. Speakers include L. C. Lord on Waste in Education and A. S. Draper on school responsibility for pupil inspiration. Officials and committee chairs listed.
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Twin Cities
Ilinois Teachers’ Association
Central Association
Bloomington
Peoria
Danvill
Galesburg
Jacksonville
Quincy
Champaign
Decatur
Monmouth
State Association
Walker Opera House
University of Illinois
Walker
Monmouth High School
L. C. Lord
Mlinois Normal School
Charleston
Urbana Chorus
A. 8. Draper
Edward Bangs
Pontiac
Thos. M. Kilbride
Springfield
J. C. Burns
Law
M. M. Cook
Fulton County
University Hall
Music
Plans for entertainment committees for teachers arrival
Twin Cities prepare to host about 1200 visiting teachers with 800 lodging spaces arranged by Champaign committee members W L Huey Mrs Frampton and Misses Collier Mathews and Treakle. Students will guide arrivals, badges issued, streetcar fare waived. Wabash to run a Decatur to Sidney special. Springfield Decatur and Danville groups arrive by early trains. First session at 9 30 at opera house with Urbana High School chorus, Joseph Carter welcome, then president's address.
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Trates
Twin Cities
Champaign
W. L. Huey
Frampton
Wabash
Decatur
Sidney
Danville
Springfield
Opera House
Mysteriously Disappears then Returns Home Safely
Edgar Thomas, son of Postmaster Moses Thomas, vanished Sunday night at 10. He reappeared Wednesday, trudging home from Fithian after riding freight to Chicago was abandoned. Neighbors feared suicide but he is bright and top of his class, and his parents rejoice at his safe return despite a bid to ride to Chicago.
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Edgar Thomas
Homer
Inl
Moses Thomas
Fithian
Chicago
Momence
A Good Meeting Last Night at Presbyterian Church
A large audience attended the Presbyterian church meeting last night. Rev Lennington preached an effective sermon on the lepers reference And as they went they were cleansed. The pastor Dr Wilder aims for renewed church interest, not excitement, and tonight cards will be distributed for attendees to indicate their religious desires.
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Lennington
Presbyterian Church
Wilder
Rescued From a Perilous Position in Homer
An elderly man claiming Vermont origins and posing as a temperance lecturer fell into an epileptic fit on a railroad track as the eastbound Continental limited approached Homer. He was rescued, revived by a doctor, taken to a hotel for a warm meal, and declined an offered ride to Danville choosing to walk instead.
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Homer
Vermont
Continental Limited
Bennett
Danville
Foresters Prosperous in Kankakee
In Kankakee Illinois on March 22 twelve new members joined the Canadian Court Catholic Order of Foresters. The court now has 272 members. Officials discussed the annual picnic and proposal to invite ten or twelve county courts to the outing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
King’s Daughters and Sons of
Illinois
Pekin
H. B. Goodwin
Foresters
Kankakee Kankakee
Catholic Order of Foresters
Kankakee
Illinois postmasters named for fourth class appointments
Illinois yesterday appointed fourth class postmasters B. L. Barnes Marvel and A. C. Ennie Shafter as part of the latest federal postings to staffing.
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Illinois
Washington, D. C
B. L. Barnes
Marvel
A. C. Ennie
Shafter
Farmer Killed by Buzz Saw Accident in Millington
Millington Alabama March 2. Graham Brodie a farmer was killed when a buzz saw he was using to cut wood broke and struck him. The accident occurred at his home farm with local authorities investigating the incident.
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Millington
Graham Brodie
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South Africa
Pretoria
Kroonstadt
Olivier
Plumer
Gaberienes
Gatacre
Bethulle
Lobatsi
Free
Witzerland
Supreme Court
Mount Vernon
Richard F. Buckham
Southern Division
Ilinois
J. O. Chance
Chance
Raleigh
N. C
Garner
Lulu Jones
Jones
Central Association of Illinois
Central Illinois Teachers’ Association
W. R. Hatfield
Pittsfield
F. D. Thompson
Salesburg
M. E. Medora Schaeffer
T. M. Jeffords
Winchester
J. A. Mercer
H. J. Barton
H. L. Roberts
Farmington
M. S. Magil, Jr
Ladis
ETON
W. Lewis
Prop
Neil Street
Champaign, Ill
Walker & Mulliken
Rockford
Walker & Mulliken’s
Michigan Chair Co
Grand Repids
Michigan
Jardiniere
United States
Widdicomb Furniture Co
Florea
Walker & Malliken
Skinner & Steenman
New England Furniture Co
Jamestown Co
Alker & Mulliken
Jamestown
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