British recapture their guns from the Boers
An overview of global events lists British forces reclaiming artillery from Boer combatants. It notes speeches by Bryan in Minnesota and Roosevelt addressing large crowds in Kansas City, with other items on German France Russia tensions and U.S. railway labor actions. The roundup mentions census figures for Los Angeles and St Joseph, factory layoffs, refugee transports, and various political and military updates.
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Bryan
Minnesota
Widespread War News and Miscellany Across Continents
Reports from Achumee and Alaska describe ongoing fighting and a new smallpox outbreak affecting Nome travelers. British forces received Shan Sai Kwanforte surrender while other notes cover assassinations plots, train wrecks, mine boundary claims, and hospitalities in Cuba. Census updates show Arkansas and Seattle growth.
Unrest in Two Kwang Provinces Sparks Ferment
News from London and Hong Kong report rising unrest in the southern Chinese provinces. Triads allegedly stir Canton and Waichan, with a thousand braves sent to quell the rebellion. British and American powers draw back from Pekin amid shifting alliances.
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Kwang
Christiana
Shan Tung
Canton
Waichan
Sauen
Kowloo
Wreck of Futami Maru and other Antipodean news
News from the Antipodes reports the wreck of the Japanese mail boat Futami Maru after a gale near Minders ishind with total loss of ship and cargo valued at 1,500,000. 150 passengers and crew saved. Also recorded are a Townsville plague outbreak with five cases and two deaths, a cable contract awarded for 9,500,000, a Newcastle colliery strike with 1,100 idle men, and several other international incidents, including evidence of violence and storms.
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Vancouver
B. C
Sydney
Minders
Townsville
New South Wales
Telegraph Instruction & Maintenance Company
L Imited
Newcastle
Mount Arrowsmith
Tasmania
Los Negros
K. Lyne
John Garland
Peter Mullen
Reading Company offers arbitration amid miners strike
Philadelphia reports no major developments as Reading Company expands its offer with a 10 percent raise plus arbitration on grievances. Striking workers remain reluctant to return, while state troops oversee quiet conditions. Hazleton hosts miner leaders as Mitchell notes only about 5,000 of 142,000 workers are at work and likely to stay out. Lackawanna wage offer expires tomorrow with broad striker resolve to ignore it.
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Philadelphia
Reading Company
Ite
Gobin
Sebuykill County
Miners’ Organization
Hazleton
Mitchell
Lackawanna Company
Battle in Ashantee reports heavy fighting near Abu Ashu
London dispatch from Komassie describes Colonel Willcock's column clashing with Ashantees at Abu Ashu. After initial failures, Brits captured Isnashu and burned three villages. Casualties included 70 Ashantees killed and British losses of 3 wounded officers, 3 other wounded, 3 killed, and 28 wounded. A flying column pursued the retreating force.
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London
Komassie
Willcock
Abu Ashu
Colomon
Willcocks
Isnashu
Meliss
Lourd
Navy Shows Fight in Warship Stand for Capitulation
London dispatch reports allied squadrons will force the Chinese fleet in Formosa strait to capitulate or be destroyed. A Russian capital correspondent notes speed hindered the Chinese cruiser Rorik and cites famine driven edicts, with German transport limits and Russo German accord shaping the scene. Shanghai telegrams discuss edicts to relocate court to Sinan Pu and alleged attempts to delay foreign powers.
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Times
Formosa Strait
Rorik
Shanghai
Sinan Pu
Tai Yuan Fu
Shun Si
China
Morning Post
Russia
Great Wall
Germany
Chi Li
Shan Tung
Devastating Transvaal Postwar Conditions Seen
Washington reports from Consul-General Stowe at Cape Town describe August conditions in the Transvaal and Free State after war. Wire fencing is down, timber scarce, and iron posts needed. plowing is limited but a large market for American cereals looms. by March 1901 agricultural machinery will be in demand. Meat imports continue, Johannesburg had three days of meat supply, and rail lines are being rebuilt to end the Netherlands railway monopoly. An advisory committee aids Lord Roberts in reopening Johannesburg and restoring mining. There is concern over a return of undesirable mining-town elements.
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Transvaal
Free State
State Department
Stowe
Cape Town
Cape
Johannesburg
Harrismith
Orange Colony
Netherlands
Lord Roberts
Levee History and a Plan for Water Storage
Guy Ke Mitchell argues that billions have been spent on levees since 1717 to shield New Orleans and Mississippi basins. He cites the 1897 flood, calls current measures only palliative, and endorses Captain Hiram Chittenden’s proposal to store floodwaters in reservoirs at river heads to prevent floods and open western reclamation for irrigation.
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Mississippi River
New Orleans
Louisiana
United States
Congress
Hiram Chittenden
Government Engineer Corps
Missouri
Guy KE. Mitchell
Man surrenders in New York robbery case
A man naming himself Frank W Travers surrendered to San Francisco police claiming he robbed his brother D Ki Travers of 1000 in July from a New York cash drawer after a refused loan.
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San Francisco
Frank W. Travers
D. Ki. Travers
Park Row
New York
First Alaska to Seattle Telegram Completes Line
The first message from Skagway to Seattle arrived with a seven hour transit time. The route ran Skagway to Atlin then over the Atlin-Lillooet line to the Fraser River and via Ashcroft to Vancouver before reaching Seattle. A temporary link connected Lillooet and Ashcroft to enable today’s transmission as Canada finishes the through line by October 10 for commercial use.
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Skagway
Alaska
Atlin
Atlin-Lillooet
Fraser River
Ashcroft
Vancouver
Lillooet
Marines sent to Marinduque to crush insurrection
Washington reports dispatch from Manila ordering First infantry to Marinduque with 12 full companies under General Hare to stamp out the insurrection. Earlier operations by Anderson yielded nothing as reports from Oct 2 are the last. Captains Shields and 61 of the Twenty-ninth volunteers were killed or captured by rebels, prompting relief efforts by Anderson with units aboard Yorktown and two gunboats. Local dispatches also note a collision between the Marion and Ranger in San Francisco and a probe into the Columbia Berkeley collision.
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Bulger
Columbia
Berkeley
Peace congress in Paris votes on China policy
A Paris dispatch to the Times reports that the International Congress of Peace has passed resolutions on China. It urges missionaries to act without diplomatic or military support, to bear risks themselves, and calls Europe to abandon its religious protectorate in China.
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The
Times
Paris
International Congress of Peace
China
Europe
Good Fortun and the Cure That Brought Fortune Home
Robert White, a Mt. farmer near Waldron, Indiana, recounts years of rheumatism and grippe related illness. After failed treatments and self care, he credits Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health and strength, saying he regained vigor after taking the medicine starting last June. He praises the pills and urges others to try them, noting prior doctors dismissed as incurable.
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Ind
Robert White
White
Matisville
Williams
Williggy
Iy Waldron
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