Cronje Surrounded as Boer Forces Fight to Death
London dispatch reports General Cronje cornered at Modder River with 6,000 to 8,000 Boers under heavy British shell and gunfire. Kronje refuses armistice, insists on fighting to the death while British forces press advance and enclose the laager near Paardeburg Drift. Canadian units and Highland brigades sustain heavy combat as nerves and weather test endurance.
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London
Bronjes
Lord Kitchener
Cronje
General Cronje
South Africa
Lord Roberts
Buller
Chieveley
Tugela
War Office
Koodoos Land
Paardeburg
Orange Free State
Thesday
Magursfontein
Modder
Boore
Highland Brigade
Seaforths
Black Watch
Argyles
Essex, Welsh and
Yorkshires
Mwighland
Smith-Derrien
Laager
Daily News
Modder River
Reere
Magerefontein
MacDoneee
Knox
Resolution Aims Inquiry Into British Censor Actions
Representative Wheelock of Kentucky introduced a resolution directing the foreign affairs committee to investigate charges by Charles E. B. Macrunt that a British censor at Durban opened read or detained a consular mail and that a telegram to the state department was delayed. The panel may also probe British knowledge of the State Department cipher. The measure was referred to rules.
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Washington
Wheelock
Kentucky
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Charles EB. Macrunt
Durban
Department of State
State Department
Plague ends in Yokohama as quarantine lifts
Official word from Yokohama confirms the plague is stamped out with only one survivor from seventy cases. A spate of murders followed, including a maniac who attacked at the shrine in Miami, killing the chief priest, two attendants, and three bystanders before being killed by police.
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Yokohama
San Francisco
Han
St Miami
Plague Outbreak Sees Deaths in Kahului and Hilo
Honolulu reports black plague spreading to Kahului on Maui and Hilo on Hawaii. Latest advices show seven deaths at Kahului and one at Hilo, a Portuguese woman wife of A G Senao. Chinatown in Kahului of about 300 inhabitants has been destroyed by fire. Health situation in Honolulu improves. no new cases in the last ten days.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
Cal
Kihului
Manui
Hilo
Hawaii
Advieca
Kahului
A. G. Senao
Dan Rice Dies After Lingering Illness at 77
Dan Rice, famed circus clown real name Daniel McLaren, died at Long Branch North Carolina after a prolonged illness. He had been in ill health for several months and suffered from Bright disease but remained active until recently.
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New York
Dan Rice
Long Branch
N. C
Rice
Ais
Daniel McLaren
University Leaders to Attend Chicago Conference on Degrees
Prof Leuschner director of UC Berkeley Observatory leaves for Chicago today to join President Wheeler and representatives from leading American universities. They will participate in a February conference to discuss conferring higher degrees.
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Berkeley
Cal
Leuschner
Studenta’ Observatory
Universiy of
California
Wihweler
Chicago
Chieago
Cuban romance ends with husband's release from jail
A Havana dispatch reports Emilio Cashua, jailed for a 1913 killing, was pardoned after months of effort by his American citizen wife Miss Castillo who appealed to General Wood and other authorities. She disclosed a plot to blow up the Tacon theater and Santa Clara buildings, but earned a pardon for Cashua in recognition of his actions.
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New York
Herald
Havana
Emilio Cashwa
Wood
Tieutenant Martines
Cashua
Inglaterra Hotel
Italy
Feelling
Miss Castillo
Gomez
Caprina
Lince
Roosevelt
McKinsey
Tacon
Santa Clara
Tacon Theater
Arriva
Autographs as Evidence at Banks & Co Auction
A large collection of 338 handwriting specimens to be viewed at Banks & Co auction rooms in Fifth Avenue, illustrating how expert handwriting analysis influenced the Molineux trial. Samples include Eugene Field, Wilkie Collins, Wordsworth, Sheridan, and others, showing that formal style often betrays more than the thought.
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Banks & Co
Fifth Avenue
Buma Park
Eugene Field
Picid
Wilkie Collins
Wordsworth
Robert F. Lee
United States Cavalry
Jefferson Davis
Sherman
Sheridan
Nelson and Bronte
Flelm
Ruskin
Henry Wire
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Grant
Halleck
Lee
Charles Dickens
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