London Letter Delays Queen Victoria Visit and High Society Gaiety
London reports Queen Victoria will stay at home rather than travel to Ireland, spurring joyful British celebrations and a revived social season. Debutantes appear, Cronje and Crone politics draw commentary, and society notes highlight four Queensberry ladies, a South African campaign, and Mrs. Stephen Crane organizing a soldiers’ bazaar in England.
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Goebel Murder Suspects Arrested in Frankfort Ky
In Frankfort Kentucky on March 9 clerk W H Coulton was jailed on charges related to the Goebel assassination with warrants out for Secretary Caleb Powers Captain John W Davis and others as accessories to the crime. Davis and Powers remain at large. Witnesses testified shots came from Powers office area and police continue surveillance.
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McGovern Knocks Out Gardner In Third Round
Terry McGovern of Brooklyn defeated Oscar Gardner the Omaha Kid in a planned 25 round bout at Broadway Athletic Club. Gardner knocked McGovern down in round one but McGovern dominated from round two, delivering a relentless attack including a decisive left hook that finished Gardner in the third.
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British successes in Cape operations noted by Roberts dispatch
London March 9 9:05 p m The War Office issued a Roberts dispatch reporting Clements occupying Norvalspont and the adjacent drift. Engineers pontoons and troops will cross the river when needed and repair of the railway bridge will begin Gatacre occupies Urghersadorp on March Zand greeted with enthusiasm scouts say many rebels nearby are ready to surrender
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Meat Bill Fate Reported From Berlin Dispatch
Berlin dispatch in the Cologne Gazette states influential government circles agree that agrarian claims cannot be accepted and that the meat bill committee proposals will not become law.
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Boer Power Collapsing in South Africa War News
London dispatches report signals that Boer forces are demoralized and the British plan to press on. Messages from Pretoria and Lorenzo Marques discuss Boer desire for negotiations while seeking to preserve independence, amid forecasts of increasing British strength.
Quarantine Lifted After Plague Doubt in Chinatown
San Francisco March 9 The board of health finds the Chinatown Chinaman who died days ago did not die of bubonic plague and the Chinatown quarantine will be lifted this afternoon.
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Woman astronomer Maria Mitchell discovers a comet at Nantucket
On October 1 1847 Maria Mitchell of Nantucket discovered a comet and later secured the Danish gold medal from 1831 for such a discovery. She was duly appointed professor of astronomy at Vassar College where her instruction was highly esteemed.
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