Buller’s Forces Suffer Heavy Setback at Tugela
London reports General Buller lost ten guns after attempting to cross the Tugela river near Chievely. He ordered a retirement to avoid greater losses as his assault failed to force a passage, with many guns abandoned and several officers wounded or killed.
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War Office
London
Buller
Tugela River
Lansdowne
Chievely
Tugela
Hart
Drift
Hildyard
Lyttleton
Long
Donga
Schofield
Lord Dundonald
Barton
Hunt
England
German Attache Withdrawn Over Paris Insinuations
Berlin dispatch reports Emperor William withdrew Major Baron von Suesekend the German military attache in Paris. The act follows the Paris press attacks on German military activity and various reports that fed the charges. The move is described as of prime importance to Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emperor William
Paris
Berlin
William
Baron von Suesekend
Associated Press
Allen Eligible Nebraska Senator May Not Be Seated
The Nebraska senator William V. Allen faces questions about his eligibility to take a seat. The issue echoes cases where a predecessor’s successor has not yet been seated, leaving the situation unsettled as to whether Allen can be seated.
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Nebraska
William V. Allen
Hayward
WIFE MURDER HANGED IN DOUGHERTY COUNTY GA
W J Glaser the third person hanged in Dougherty County GA was executed at Albany for wife murder He was the only white man to die in Albany's gallows and faced death calmly insisting on innocence He smiled as the trap fell and died within minutes after the rope was loosed
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Dougherty County
W. J. Glaser
Albany
Glaser
Secretary Hay seeks Moorish aid to extradite Hunter
Secretary Hay directs Consul Gummere in Tangiers to request the Moorish government surrender Thomas J. Hunter, the alleged defaulter of the Atlanta and West Point railroad. Morocco has no extradition treaty and this is a courtesy request, not a right, with conditions affecting any Moorish requests.
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Hay
Washington
Gummere
Tangiers
Thomas J. Hunter
Atlanta and
West Point Railroad
Georgia
Morocco
Hunter
More Men for Manila Recruit Waves to Fill Regiments
The war department plans to send about a thousand recruits to Manila to replenish regiments depleted by death disease and discharge. The steamer Sumner is being converted into a troopship at Norfolk for transporting these recruits who are gathered at Fort Slocum New York.
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War Department
Manila
Sumner
Norfolk
Fort Slocum
New York
Pettigrew Seeks Navy Answer on Philippine Flag Salute
In the Senate on Tuesday Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota offered a resolution directing the secretary of the navy to inform the Senate whether Philippine republic flags were carried at Manila Bay and if Admiral Dewey or his fleet saluted them since May 1898. He questioned if a vessel under Aguinaldo's forces, bearing the Philippine flag, accompanied ships back to Subig Bay in 1898 to force surrender of Spanish forces. The measure was postponed after opposition from Mr. Chandler.
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Manila Bay
Senate
Pettigrew
South Dakota
Secretary of the Navy
Bay of Manila
Owey
Subig Bay
Aguinaldo
Chandler
House
Richardson
Grosvenor
Ohio
Cigarette Ban Expands Through Southern Railway System
The Southern railway system bans cigarette smoking for all employees in South Carolina with an iron clad rule. Assist Gen Passenger Agent Hardwick says the order may extend to all divisions and offices nationwide. Positive letters from Charleston and other cities praise the move as beneficial. A similar rule has started in the Atlanta division's superintendent office as a precursor.
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Southern Railway System
South Carolina
H. Hardwick
Hardwick
Charleston
Palmetto State
Atlanta
The
Southern
Boer Army Underestimated Indignation in England
Great Britain expresses indignation at the British intelligence department over misjudging Boer strength in Cape Colony. Experts estimate that about 15,000 Boers must be driven from the colony before operations across the Orange River can begin.
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Great Britain
Buller
War Office
Cape Town
England
Cape Colony
Orange River
Fuller carried back to Macon in murder case
Allen Fuller, charged with killing Mrs. Eugenia Pottle, was moved from the Atlanta jail to Macon after rumors of a lynching. He asserts his innocence and accuses Alfred Redd of the crime, claiming Fuller was not the killer.
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Allen Fuller
Eugenia Pottle
Atlanta
Freeman
Macon
Fuller
Alfred Redd
TRE MOLINEUX CASE HEARING CONTINUES IN NEW YORK
Writing expert Kinsley testifies again in the Molineux case, presenting further arguments and illustrations to support the claim that the Barnett and Coriah letters in evidence are in the handwriting of Roland B. Molineux.
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Kinsley
Roland B. Molineux
New York
Surrender and Captures Reported as Filipino Rebels Fade
Washington dispatch from Manila notes insurgents running low on resources as American forces advance. Mabini captured at Bayambang with 2,000 insurgent prisoners. Mabini described as head of the movement, Aguinaldo a figurehead.
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Washington
Otis
Manila
Howse
Penn
Thirtyfourth
Thirty-third Infantry
Pidding
March
Thirty-fourth
Cayan
Providence
Leganto
Third Cavalry
Tino
Lepanto
Aguinaldo
Gregorio Pilar
Newark
Batchelor
Aparri
Navy
Isabella
Bates
Zamboanga
Mabini
MacArthur
Bayambang
Banquet
Luzon
Philippine Commission
Taylor Installed New Governor of Kentucky Takes Oath of Office
In Frankfort Kentucky on Tuesday noon Williams Taylor was sworn in as governor. He pledged to repeal the Goebel election law and uphold civil liberty while Bradley urged removing the law from statutes. The ceremony followed a blizzard and a smaller crowd.
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Frankfort
Williams
Taylor
Blue Grass
Bradley
Ple
Hazelrigg
Georgia Senate Passes Station Plan and Depot License Bill
Georgia senators approved a bill to erect a union passenger station at Atlanta’s current depot site and another to revoke multiple railroads depot licenses. The fertilizer standard bill failed 65 to 60 in the house amid fertilizer trust accusations. An appropriation of 2000 for Milledgeville capitol improvements was favorably acted on.
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Georgia State Senate
Senator West
Atlanta
West Point
Georgia
Macon and Western
Central
Capitol
Milledgeville
Denny
Floyd
Georgia School of the Deaf
Adjutant General’s Office
Ellis
Bibb
Reynolds
Richmond
Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
Wingfield
W. G. Shockley
Georgia Sanitarium
Senate
Shockley
Superior Court
Fulton County
Bhockley
Swindled orange growers by posing as big buyer
Tampa dispatch reports W. Tucker claiming Leesburg as home deceived orange growers. He represented as a large buyer and induced growers to ship heavy fruit consignments to him at several railroad stations. Tucker disappeared, and growers seek return of their fruit from dealers he shipped to.
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Tucker
Tampa
Fla
Leesburg
Dade City
Smith Captures Bandits Near Malasqui Village
Colonel Smith and a detachment of the seventeenth infantry surrounded a guerrilla band in a village near Malasqui. The capture includes the group that assassinated seven officials for showing friendliness to the Americans.
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Manila
Smith
Seventeenth Infantry
Malasqui
Pressing Call to Use Cunard and White Star Ships as Transports
English newspapers urge the government to employ Cunarders and White Star steamers to speed troops to the Cape. They argue forty thousand men can be sent from England without militia service, with 100,000 militia available and 20,000 to spare. Colonies offer further aid.
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White Star
Cape
England
South Africa
Washington Centenary Observed at Mount Vernon by Masons
The centennial death anniversary of George Washington was commemorated at Mount Vernon with Masonic ceremonies led by Virginia Masons and the Red Men. President McKinley and a congressional delegation attended, with orations detailing Washington's life and legacy amid rites at the tomb.
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Washington
George Washington
Mt. Vernon
Potomac
Red Men
United States
Grand Lodge of Masons
Colorado
Virginia
Old Dominion
Independent Order of Red Men
McKinley
Mount Vernon
Hay
the Treasury
Gage
Navy
Long
Interior
Hitchcock
Wilson Ono Ashe
Smith
Allen
Miles
Corbin
John A. Johnson
Third Cavalry Band
A. Mandolph
Southern Episcopal Diocese
A. A. Burnand
G. H. Ray
D. D
Grand Lodge of
Canada
Belgium
Nova Scotia
District of Columbia
Missouri
California
Duke
Tampa Cigar Payroll Tops Hundred Thousand Dollars
A Tampa dispatch reports that the week ending last Saturday saw a payroll of $100,000 for local cigar makers as factories struggle to meet orders. The industry is running far behind and unable to catch up.
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Tampa
Fla
Hunting Double Murderer Near Adairsville As Posse Tracks
Chattanooga dispatch reports Sheriff Bush and a posse search for Jim Mayfield a white man sought for killing a white woman and her child at Adairsville Georgia. Mayfield has been sighted in Chattanooga and officers expect capture soon.
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Chattanooga
Bush
Jim Mayfield
Adairsville
Mayfield
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