Boers Fierce But Silent Near Ladysmith
London dispatch reports a war outlook with a possible battle near Ladysmith or a Boer retreat toward the coast for reinforcements. The Free State and Joubert columns are converging, Mafeking reports a decisive moment, while Kimberley remains under Boer pressure and Rhodes Drift sees only a skirmish.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Ladysmith
Free State Corps
Bester
Joubert
Pretoria
Lorenzo Marques
Mafeking
Kimberley
Rhodes’ Drift
Limpopo
Fort Tuli
Rhodesia
Plummer
Zantspemberg
General Symons Slain at Glencoe Had Notable Army Career
General Sir William Penn Symons died from a stomach wound received at Glencoe on October 20 during the Boers battle. Born July 17, 1843 in Cornwall, he entered the army in 1863 and rose to brigadier general. His service included campaigns in the Galekas, Zulu War, Burmese expedition, Chin Lushai, Tochi, Tirah, and later command of Sirhind District, Punjab.
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London
William Penn Symons
Glencoe
House of Commons
Commercial Tribune
New York
K.C
South Africa
Cornwall
Chin Lushai
Wazaristan
Tochi
Tirah
Sirhind
Punjab
India
Englishmen Impressed By Boers and One Killed in Natal
Dispatch from Pieter maritzburg dated October 24 reports Dundee residents walking forty miles to a refugee town after losing belongings. It notes 10 000 Boers in hills near Dundee and that three Englishmen impressed at Krugersdorp were killed, with Pietermaritzburg defense corps parading in readiness.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Pietermaritzburg
Dundee
Harry Escombe
Natal
Joubert
Dannhauser
Transvaal
Mafeking Bombardment Resumes Women and Children Flee
At dawn shelling resumes on Mafeking with several houses burning. The bombardment by General Cronje's command begins and the women and children are given ample time to flee the town.
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Pretoria
Lourenzo Marques
Mafeking
Cronje
General Symons Death Announced By War Office
London October 26 The War Office Parliamentary Secretary Mr Wyndham announced the death of General Symons. He said the news was considerately sent to General Yule and wounded at Dundee.
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London
War Office
Wyndham
Symons
Troops Deployed After Naco Border Clash
The Mexican Ambassador reported two Americans killed and two Mexican gendarmes wounded near Naco, Mexico. Assurances of regret were issued as U.S. and Mexican authorities move troops to the scene to restore peace. Secretary Root ordered a company of U.S. troops from Huachuca to Naco.
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Washington
Senor Azpiros
Naco
Mexico
State Department
Romero
Hill
Root
United States
Huachuca
Legacy that failed: Gates indicted for grand larceny
Mrs Hettie B Gates wife of a barber was indicted by the grand jury in Minneapolis for grand larceny in the second degree. She had claimed a 3 500 000 heirloom from a Cornwall England uncle and used the alleged fortune to obtain unlimited local credit for over a year. She denies fraud saying it was a conspiracy and that she is the victim.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Hettie B. Gates
Cornwall
England
Gates
Stockyards at War May Deliver Cars by Rail
In Indianapolis a Federal Court battle between rival stockyard firms over railroad car deliveries reaches a critical point. Judge Baker's ruling on mandatory injunctions could affect many cities with competing stockyards and may set a nationwide precedent. The court has already ordered Union Stockyards Co. and Belt Railroad to move stock cars for the new company.
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Indianapolis
Old Stockyards
Federal Circuit
United States
Baker
Union Stockyards Company
Belt Railroad
Indiana Knights Face Constitutional Ruling on Pythian Actions
The Judiciary Committee of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias in Indianapolis reports that most acts of the last Grand Lodge session are unconstitutional except officer elections and a lodge amendment. Rural members complain politics influence office holds and seek proper legal amendments to the constitution and statutes at the next session.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Order
Trade with Spain dominates International Congress session
Enrique Alzamora, delegate from Majorca, opened the International Commercial Congress in Philadelphia with a paper on Trade with Spain. He cited a US export total of 9 077 009 dollars last fiscal year and urged expanding American goods into Spain to boost trade.
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Philadelphia
Enrique Alzamora
Majorca
Spain
International Commercial Congress
United States
Gary
van Dorn
Mario Salvini
Florence
Italy
Pauncefote Takes Seat as British Ambassador in House
London reports Lo Pauncefote the British Ambassador to the United States sat in the House of Lords for the first time this afternoon marking his formal entry into parliamentary duties.
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Pruncefote
London
Lo Pauncefote
Unit States
Secret Cleveland conference tale rattles Ohio Republicans
Columbus reports say James W. Holcomb met John R. McLean last night amid denials by Holcomb and State leaders. Secretary Kinney warns a visit would be a grave mistake though party supporters fear a deeper entanglement with Daugherty allies.
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Holcomb
McLean
Columbus
Joséph Blackburn
Missionary Council debates church and state ties
At the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Council in St Louis Bishop Tuttle sought to expel Utah’s Brigham Roberts from Congress, a move ruled out of order. Discussions covered enlarging report circulation, contributions to the missionary fund, and favorable notes on work among colored people, with calls for more industrial schools.
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ST. Louis
Missionary Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
Tuttle
Missouri
Congress
Brigham H. Roberts
Utah
Bishop Whipple
Marquette
Board of Managers
Missionary Fund
W. McKnight
Elmira
N. Y
Women’s Auxiliary
Gaylor
Tennessee
King’s Hall
Washington, D. C
Payne School
Petersburg
Hoffman Hall
Nashville
Tenn
J. B. Cheshire
North Carolina
Cheshire
American Church Missionary Society
Brazil
Cuba
United States
House of Bishops
Japan
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Health Board Orders Indefinite School Closures in Fostoria
The Fostoria Board of Health moved to close all public and parochial schools indefinitely starting tomorrow due to about twenty five scarlet fever cases. All children's meetings and Sunday schools are prohibited as well to curb spread.
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Commercial Tribune
Fostoria
Board of Health
Youngest Patient Ever Sent to Lexington Lunatic Asylum
Mary Hampton, aged 9, was taken from Winchester to the Lexington lunatic asylum after a regular trial, likely the youngest patient ever admitted.
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Commercial Tribune
Winchester
Mary Hampton
Lexington
The Man Behind the Gun Funds Cincinnati Gambling
Daily slot machine receipts in Cincinnati exceed totals sent to poolrooms and other gambling schemes, highlighting the vast cash flow controlled by gambling operators. Authorities scrutinize how funds move through machines and related venues.
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Cincinnati
National Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Opens in Cleveland
The thirtieth annual meeting of the National Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church opens at Epworth Memorial Church in Cleveland. About four hundred attend including Bishop and Mrs. J. M. Thoburn and delegates from India South America Burma Rangoon and other regions.
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Cleveland
National Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Epworth Memorial Church
J. M. Thoburn
Isabella Thoburn
Knowles
Sophia Blackmore
Haskell
Young
Lilivati Singh
India
Rebecca Hammond
South America
Julia Wisner
Rangoon
Burma
M. B. Griffiths
Missionary Society Session Closes with Reception
Reports were read in the morning and the afternoon was spent discussing the society's literary work. In the evening a reception was held attended by city Methodist pastors and their wives. Noted included delegates from Japan and China and Korea with Isabell a Thoburn highlighted as the first missionary.
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Japan
Luella Masters
Julia Donahue
Grace Todd
Wilma Rouse
China
Louise Rothweiler
Lulu Frey
Korea
Isabella Thoburn
Through the Heart A Colored Man Takes Own Life
Charleston West Virginia October 26 Spencer Williams a colored man shot himself through the heart with an old musket at his South Side home. He acted alone and deliberately. A Howard University graduate this is said to be the first recorded case of a negro dying by his own hand.
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Commercial Tribune
Charleston
W. Va
Spencer Williams
South Side
Howard University
Washington
Grantz Finds Rich Black Hills Ore After Twenty Years
Ex Senator Moody of Deadwood relays new version of Otto Grantz gold strike in the Black Hills with a ore vein yielding $79,000. Grantz, after two decades of searching, found a partially exposed piece leading to the vein and the ore sold in Denver.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Yankton
United States
Moody
Deadwood
Black Hills
Otto Grantz
Grantz
Denver
Burdette
Homestake
Gen Lee refuses Cuban questions jokes about Swinburne Island
Major General Fitzhugh Lee, arriving on the Havana, is released from quarantine at Hoffman Island. He declines to discuss Cuba or annexation, preferring to answer about the Boer war. He plans a Washington trip then Virginia then Quemados, returning December first. In Ohio, Editor R H Stephenson surrenders after shooting Richard Junge, bond set at 400 dollars. Junge's condition listed as out of danger.
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Shadow No. 2
Holcomb
Bill Benson
McLean’s
Democratic
State Committee
New York
Fitzhugh Lee
Havana
Hoffman Island
Lee
Washington
Virginia
Quemados
Swinburne Island
Cuba
Annexation
Commercial Tribune
Portsmouth
R. H. Stephenson
Richard Junge
Williamson
Joseph Spencer
Junge
Bankers Will Act Gave An Adverse IRS Ruling
Washington dispatch reports the American National Bankers’ Convention committee led by F. W. Hayes Chas R Hanman and Percival Kuhne planned to urge the Treasury to overturn an Internal Revenue decision taxing express money orders as brokerage income. If overruled they may arrest an express agent to test the ruling in court. Also covers Daly Hartigan’s Cincinnati return with Alfred Hoffman bogus checks and Vanderbilt will details.
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Washington
Commercial Tribune
American National Bankers’ Convention
Cleveland
Arlington
F. W. Hayes
Detroit
Chas. R. Hanman
Council Bluffs
Percival Kuhne
New York
Bankers’ Convention
Secretary of the Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Gagebeng
Bankers’ Committee
Treasury
Thomas F. Hartigan
Cincinnati
Alfred Hoffman
Foreman
Baltimore
Columbus
Dayton
Zanesville
Hoffman
Ohio
National Civil Service Reform League
Civil Service Commission
Treasury Department
Oye
Dawes
St. Mary’s
Ps Va
Eldest Son Cornelius Practically Cut Off Over Marriage
A local family dispute centers on Cornelius, the eldest son, who faces being cut off by his parents due to his marriage. The article details mounting tensions, social expectations, and the couple’s efforts to gain support within the community.
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Cornelius
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Stephenson
Bond
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Harry Payne Whitney
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Chauncey Depew
Lfred G. Vanderbilt
Reginald Vander Bilt
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Oher
Wen
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Fifth Avenue
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Newport
Vanderbilt
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Wm. K. Vanderbilt
Chauncey M. Depew
Edward V. W. Rossiter
William Vanderbilt
Edward Hone
Rev
David H. Greer
St. Bartholomew’s Church
Charles C. Clarke
Franklin Allen
Maud Gwynne Shepard
John Rutgers Leroy
Charles F. Cox
Edgar T. Chapman
E. T. Chapman
Watervliet
George R. Fearing
William S. Langford
George A. Warburton
Robert R. McBurney
J. R. Hartmaker
William Turnbull
John T. Earle
Jeremiah Simonson
Sarah Simonson
Cornelia Littell
Protestant Episcopal Society For
Turner
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Venice
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
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Charles A. Whittaker
Tony
John Allen
Depew
Alfred Vanderbilt
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