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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1899
Page
6
Lima Nov 11 The revolution is over and rumors say President Eduardo Romana will urge Congress to declare a general amnesty. The move would boost the president s popularity as he consolidates control.
News notes from London and Chicago report censorship delaying Boer War dispatches as General Buller delays Christmas campaign plans. Updates cite Ladysmith siege, Kimberley communications, and heavy artillery movements with Boer guns rising in hills around Ladysmith.
Berlin reports Major Von Reitzenstein, who won the Berlin to Vienna long distance military ride, has gone to the Transvaal to join the Boers. Deadwood, South Dakota notes Black Hills residents fear pine timber destruction by a worm that appeared two years ago and now travels in packs, reaching about three quarters of an inch long and a quarter inch thick.
John Parker files for divorce in Defiance County Ohio on October 11 1899 claiming marriage on March 1 1899 and desertion on March 2 1899 with alleged adultery in Van Wert Ohio. Alice Parker to answer by November 2 1899.
Samuel J Scott, a prisoner in the One Penitentiary, has been recommended to the Board of the Warden and Chaplain for parole consideration. The hearing on the parole application will be held on or after November 7, 1899.
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