War and unrest sweep worldwide with Kimberley and Albay clashes
Reports from London say Gen French arrived at Kimberley and pressed toward the retreating Boer force as Cronje pulls back north. A long Boer wagon train heads toward Bloemfontein while British infantry roots through losses. Lord Roberts signals a preliminary success. In the Philippines at Albay, a night battle between insurgents and Americans leaves seventy one rebels dead and two Americans killed with five wounded as Spaniards reinforce at Daraga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cronje
London
War Office
French
Kimberley
Lord Roberts
Bloemfontein
Manila
Albay
Daraga
Hold-Up Defeated and Other News From Benson to Chicago
A masked hold-up on the New Mexico and Arizona line near Fairbanks, Benson County, ends with Milton wounded but defending his safe. robbers flee toward Old Mexico. Also, John Weier found nearly frozen in a Kansas City refrigerator car after four days trapped. A $1,000 reward is offered for ex-Quartermaster General William J. White on embezzlement charges. Roland B Molineux sentenced to die at Sing Sing for murder. Louis Kantz drives attendants from a house and self immolates with a coal stove. Rev Bainbridge dies in a fire near Antwerp Ohio. Mrs Schwartz and two children die from asphyxiation in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson
Ariz
Arizona
Nowales
Fairbanks
Milton
Winchester
Old Mexico
Swift
Kansas City
John Weier
Bloomington
Kansas
Weiler
Ife
Will
White
Lansing
Mich
Stearns
State Board of Auditors
Porter
William J. White
Michigan Military Board
Samoans Accept Fate as Capt. Tilicy Takes Tutuila
Reports from Apii and Agua describe Matanfa followers burning Malietona homes while Maaleton adherents return to their districts. On December 6 Capt Wiley informed High Chief Faivac that Tutuila Manila and other islands east of Upolu would be under U S protection. Capt Tilley assured chiefs through Sarvae that the United States would protect natives and hold chiefs responsible for any trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilicy
Tutuila
Alameda
Apii
Agua and
Savail
Wiley
United States Navy
Faivac
Manila
Upolu
United States
Tilley
Sarvae
Revenge of a Jealous Lover Ends in Fatal Balcony Fall
Lily Taly Latcher, an ebony hued Juliet, lies in St. Louis City Hospital with a fractured skull after Henry Richardson, spurned lover of recent date, sabotaged the porch supports at night. He allegedly overheard Lily call out to Romeo as the balcony gave way and she fell, left unconscious and transported to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taly Latcher
Juliet
St. Louis City Hospital
Henry Richardson
Tily
S Tam
Lily
Romeo
Hichardson
Dusiet
Bank in New Mexico Robbed of 3000 by Two Men
Las Cruces banker Freeman telephoned to Sheriff Pass that his bank was robbed at 2 pm by two unknown men. They forced the cashier to open the safe and took about 3000 dollars. The robbers rode away toward the Organ Mountains after leaving the Big Grande Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boul Bewnan
Las Cruces
Pass
Pax
Stoek
Robers
Big Grande
Freeman
Wealth in His Bags as Penniless Trader Dies on Lake Erie
Sam Besick, a longtime Chicago Board of Trade figure, died after a gale on Lake Erie. At Baptist hospital attendants found about $5,000 sewn into his worn clothes, including fifteen $100 bills and a purse with $200 and gold dust. Besick, aged around sixty, was known for thrift and charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
Lake Erie
Sam Besick
Chicago Open Board of Trade
The
Baptist Hospital
Besick
Open Board
Tugs Narrowly Escape in Lake Erie Gale and Snow
The Buckeye Wishing Company tugs Alma Alert Burns Telephone and Wayland, based at Cleveland, battled a gale and blinding snow thirty five miles out to sea while attempting to reach fish laden nets. Fog then snow and ice created mountainous waves forcing a perilous shoreward return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Erie
Alma
Alert
Burns, Telephone
Wayland
Buckeye
Cleveland
Odd Fellows Home at Liberty Destroyed by Fire
The State Odd Fellows home in Liberty Missouri was burned down with all fifty-one inmates escaping. The wood building of three stories and 140 rooms cost 70 000 in 1888. bought by the Odd Fellows in 1804 for 80 000. A plumber thawing a pipe started the blaze. rebuild plans issued from St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Institution
Liberty
State Odd Fellows
The
Odd Fellows
W. S. Woodward
St. Louis
Made insane in Philippines outpost duty degrades troops
Eleven American soldiers sent from San Francisco to Government Hospital Washington due to dementia. About thirty more likely to go East soon. Over three months nearly 20 demented soldiers moved across the continent and over 200 more expected from Manila. Violence accompanies most cases and cause is believed to be ceaseless vigilance required by outpost duty in the Philippine theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Government Hospital
Washington
Manila
Wailip- Wes
Missionaries Die in Liberia
News reaches the Lutheran Publication Society of the death in Monrovia Liberia of Mrs Leanna Simon wife of Rev J D Simon and Mrs Emma Beck wife of Rev Will M Beck. Both were missionaries at the Muhlenberg mission in Africa. Mrs Simon born near Fairview Ohio Mrs Beck born near Princeton Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberia
Lutheran Publication Society
Monrovia
Leanna
Simon
J. D. Simon
Emma
Beek
Will M. Beek
Muhlenberg Mission
Africa
Sinan
Fairview
Ohio
Beck
Princeton, Il
Fire Tragedy in New York Tenants Perish and Injure
A five story building at 734 First Avenue New York burned fiercely. Smoke filled the upper floors smothering six month old Goretta Lennert who was found dead in bed. Bell boy Joseph Kelleher aided Tillie Powers recovering those who escaped while suffering burns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Avenue
New York
United Dressed
Wee! Company
Goretta Lennert
Joseph Kelleher
Bell Boy
Tillie Powers
Ohio River Steamer Sinks After Pier Collision
In dense fog the Denny M. Stanley struck the Kentucky pier of the Southern Railway bridge at Cincinnati and sank twenty five feet of water with the bow to Kentucky. One man drowned, the boat steward, while several others jumped into the river. The steamer had cleared the Chesapeake and Ohio piers, but the Southern bridge piers were indistinct and the vessel hit one and disappeared rapidly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway Bridge
Denny M. Stanley
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Vevay
Ind
Chesapeake and Ohio
Southern Bridge
Physical tests for Union Pacific labor force ordered
A new Union Pacific policy will require physical examinations for all current and prospective employees at the Omaha headquarters. The process will include health registration and a $1 fee for a health certificate, with records kept to aid retention and promotion decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Omaha
Attempt to Enjoin Cupid over a Young Marriage
Relatives of John Kndsler aged 50 sought an injunction in Omaha to stop a likely forced marriage to 1 year old Josephine Narnowski. After finding the move unlikely to work they switched to guardianship and the wedding was paused for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kndsler
Omaha
Josephine Narnowski
Markets report across multiple cities and commodities
Chicago cattle range 3.00 to 6.25, hogs 3.00 to 5.00, sheep 0. reserving. Indianapolis hogs 8.00 to 8.100, wheat No 2 about 70 to 74, corn No 2 white 32 to 34, oats 24 to 27. Detroit cattle 2.50 to 6.25, hogs 3.00 to 5.25, wheat 73 to 73, corn 34 to 36, rye 58 to 60. New York cattle 3.23 to 6.50, hogs 3.00 to 5.50, wheat 78 to 80, corn 42 to 44, oats 81 to 38, butter 19 to 24. Buffalo cattle 3.00 to 6.50, hogs 3.25 to 5.25. Toledo and Milwaukee prices listed for wheat corn oats rye and related grains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
Caine
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Senate recesses for Gen Lawton obsequies and bills advance
A slow Senate week adjourned early for General Lawton's funeral. A Deadwood public building bill at 200000 dollars moved, while the House held a brief recess and later a private pension session. The following days featured financial debates, a Boer sympathy vote that paused, transit in bond duties, and currency bill progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Lawton
Deadwood
House
Allen
Chandler
Chilton
Money
Messrs
Wolcott
Elkins
Butler
United States
District of Columbia
Allison
Jones
Nevada
Portland
Ore
Adrich
de Slouse
Bartholdt
Benton
Pearce
Missouri
Boutel
Miers
Ind
Showalter
Grosvenor
Ohio
Gillette
Mass
Driggs
XN. Y
Underwood
Ala
Odds and Ends Items from 1900 Era in News Briefs
A collection of brief items covers Danish West Indies policy, Klondike gold outlook at $21 million, a bullet near Gen Botha, California fruit percentages, U S exhibits for Paris, stage sets sales, Reichstag speech, Nipamarra incident, Chicago pupil exclusions, shipbuilding orders, a stuttering cure via a throat wound, foreign labels fraud, McKinley invited to conference, NY fire chiefs pocket telephones, Centralia Backbone Club pledges, and a bone pledged motto gag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
Danish West Indies
Dawson Banks
Klondike
Gen. Botha
Ladysmith
California
Cuba
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Salvini
Columbus
Ohio
Count von Buclow
Reichstag
Germany
Admiralty Island
Chicago
Manila
Philadelphia
McKinley
New York
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Cribune
Sorris & Wooll
Wlisherss
Shes
Terady
Kimberly
Roland B Molineux
Sing Sing
Katherine J. Adams
Louis Kantz
Elkhart
Bainbridge
Antwerp
Jeanette Schwartz
Lulu
Henrietta
New Mexico
Rogbed
Jake
Kirby Creek
Tom Davis
Davis
Matthew Davis
Mournet
Bordeaux
Havre
Francesco Grasso
Liverpool
Genoa
States School of Mines
Golden, Colo
Charles A. Chickering
Copenhagen
N. Y
Grand Union Hotel
New York City
Chickering
Barry
Wiliam Taylor Barry
Akron
Whitmore-Robinson Company
Markie & Son
EB. H. Merrill Company
Robinson-Merrill Company
National Steel Company
Youngstown
Rivierre Salle
Martinique
Senator Knight
Lacecotte
Champigny
Thalr
James Brown
Charleston
S.”C
Philippines
Schutz
J. Schutz
St. Louis County
Clayton
Mr. Schutz
Martin Jordan
Jordan
Mary
Marlin, Jr
Columbia
Lostoria
Delano C. Eberhart
Omaha Packing Company
South Omaha
Neb
St. Joseph
St. Joe House
Ilness
C. I. Bigelow
van Buren Street
Unit City
Tle
Stance
New England
Georgia Postoffice
Athens
Maria Ann Gilbert
West 3d Street
Dayton
Miss Sheets
Tiffa
Orpha Sheets
Green Springs
Claude Tuttle
Princeton
Talanes
Calagan Islands
Birmingham
Will Golson
Robert Warnock
Dewey
George Dewey, Jr
Admiral
Dry Goods Commission
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