All England Rejoices Over Gen Buller Victory at Spion Kop
London dispatches report Gen Buller’s claim of capturing Spion Kop with the war office noting abandonment of the position. Gen Woodgate dies from wounds after the Spion Kop attack while British units reinforce Ladysmith region. Further news awaited as observers assess tactical gains and Allied cohesion amid Boer positions.
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All England
Gen. Buler
Spion Kop
London
Spearman
Woodgate
Buller
England
Charles Warren
Miles
Warren
Ladysmith
Times
Kildonan Castle
Durban
India
Lancers
War Office
Modder River
Steyn
Kruger
Free State
Ladysmith Impregnable as Bullets Shell Boers Near Spearman Camp
Ladysmith reports show Gen Buller’s guns shelling the Boers with visible effects. Boers fortifying and resisting the relief advance. Ladysmith’s defenses strengthened since Jan 6 and deemed impregnable. Dry weather reduces fever. convalescents rise as fresh supplies flow. Modder River notes Gen Archibald MacDonald arriving to lead the Highlanders.
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Gen. Buller
Spearman
Ladysmith
Frere Camp
Intombi
Modder River
Hector Archibald MacDonald
The
Highlanders
Armed Men at Frankfort Rouse Kentucky Claim 2
About 800 to 1,000 armed men arrived in Frankfort from various parts of Kentucky, disembarking at the L and N station and marching to the state house. They issued resolutions defending liberty, petitioning the legislature, and warning against partisan influence as they awaited contest board reports. The crowd kept a cautious distance as the group prepared to depart at dusk.
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Frankfort
State House
Gov.Taylor
State Building
Kentucky
General Assembly
Miners Fred Clay and Olsen Join New Strike at Big Salmon
Victoria B C January 26 Fred Clay son and Olsen the missing miners once reported murdered for robbery on the Yukon trail are now among stampeders heading to a fresh strike on Big Salmon according to latest reports.
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Victoria
B. C
Fred Clayson
Olsen
Yukon Trail
Plague in Honolulu Drives Panic and Ruptured City
News from Victoria reports 22 deaths in Honolulu from the plague including a white woman of good class. Armed mobs block ship landings at Hilo and ten blocks burned by Cooper of the Honolulu board of health. Beijing to Manila. Thirty four hundred Japanese in Honolulu under quarantine. Also noted are Army rations praised by Acting Commissary Wilson and slight improvement in E J Phelps’s condition.
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Seattle
Wash
Times
Victoria
B. C
Mionera
Honolulu
Hilo
Cooper
Board of Health of
Carmichael
Manila
Roberts Excluded from Utah Seat in House Vote
Washington Jan 26 Brigham H Roberts Mormon representative elect from Utah was excluded by a 268 to 50 vote The seat is declared vacant after the house adopted the resolution stating he ought not to have or hold a seat in the house The attempt to seat and then expel him failed 81 to 244 The result ends a long House controversy over his election
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Washington
Brigham H. Roberts
Utah
House
Congress
House of Representatives
Mr. Roberts
Lacey
Roberts
Lanham
Texas
de Armond
Missouri
Senate
Hay
James R. O'Beirne
New York
Department of State
South African Republic
United States
O’beirne
Race Question Triggers Senate Clash in Washington
Washington reports on a sharp Senate clash over the race question in the south as Mr Money of Mississippi and Mr Chandler exchange heated remarks. The discussion centers on northern actors allegedly provoking sectional strife, with Mr Morgan of Alabama absent but his charge challenged. The urgent deficiency bill for about 9 million dollars passes without debate.
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Washington
Drust
Senate
Money
Mississippi
South
Chandler
N. H
Morgan
Alabama
Department of Commerce
Senate Committee On Commerce
Nelson
Attack by Tribesmen Reported Near Jebba
Dispatch from Lagos reports Capt Carroll of the Norfolk regiment with 150 frontier force escorting telegraph crews was attacked on January 9 by Mitchi and Basa tribesmen near Jebba on the Niger. Capt Eaton and 12 others wounded. one escort member killed. no tribal fatalities cited.
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Lagos
British West Africa
Jebba
Carroll
Norfolk Regiment
West African Frontier Force
Eaton
East Kent Regiment
Special items from the era of Gen Lee and other notes
Gen Lee and his party arrived in Santiago during the inspection tour of Cuban provinces. The Canajoharie National Bank in Canajoharie New York named a receiver. The B and O Southwestern shops at Pana Illinois suffered partial fire damage. Kansas City pushes to host the Democratic National Convention. Jesse James Jr and Stella F McGowan wed in Kansas City Missouri. Painters on John D Rockefeller’s New York residence strike over non union varnishers. Newfoundland legislature convened at St Johns. A proposed modus vivendi for a French treaty urged passage. Bradley Indiana post office burglars blew the safe taking about 1400 in stamps and 40 in cash. Michael Lindemer a Chicago carpenter died after a fall while investigating burglars. Dr Hunter US minister to Guatemala and Honduras visited the president while on leave due to his wife’s illness.
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Canajoharie National Bank
Canajoharie
N. Y
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
Pana
Kansas City
Jesse James, Jr
Stella F. McGowan
John D. Rockefeller
New House
New York City
Newfoundland
St. Johns
Bradley
Inl
Notable World War and Civil War Era Updates
Reports note two fatalities from a Dun kirk New York fire. The Grant with the 48th Infantry arrives in Manila. Ruskin’s remains buried at Conston amid sorrow. Gen Lawton’s body to lie in state in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne for one day each. London sources call Gen Warren’s Spion Kop capture provisional amid Boer risk. Mrs Logan escorts Maj Logan’s remains from San Francisco to Youngstown Ohio. A train with 1000 mountain men and Winchester rifles reaches Frankfort Kentucky, men stand watch at the state house. Politicians seek justice in contested election cases. tension expected.
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Lawton
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
London
Warren
Spion Kop
John A. Logan, Jr
San Francisco
Maj. Logan
Youngstown
Mountain Counties
Winchester Rifles
Frankfort
Hey
State House
Trains Crash in Dense Fog Injuring Dozens at Weycross
A head-on collision in Weycross Georgia between a Plant System special carrying about a hundred Indiana lumber dealers and a freight train left one man fatally injured or possibly dead and several others seriously hurt. Davis of Wabash Indiana suffered crushed legs. Mrs. Smith's baby survived. Thirteen more were bruised as both trains collided near Plant System hospital after a misunderstanding of the running order amid thick fog.
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Weycross
Indiana
South Georgia
Florida
Davis
Wabash
Ind
Miners Deadlock as Joint Scale Talks Open
The first meeting of the joint scale committee of the United Mine Workers and the Interstate Operators association ends in a deadlock with no report. Miners demand a mine run which operators decline to consider. adjournment follows after lengthy argument.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers’ of America
Interstate Operators’ Association
Hawaii's Americanizing influence reshapes native life
A historical overview traces Hawaii's contact with New England seafarers and American missionaries beginning in 1817 1818, noting how schooling commerce and American culture spread. It contrasts Spanish rule in the Caribbean with Hawaii's gradual assimilation led by teachers, books, and a trade wind climate that enables year round labor and growth.
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Cornwall School
Hawaii
Kipling
Cuba
South Seas
Carolines
Cape Horn
Puerto Rico
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