Chamberlain outlines South Africa policy in Commons
In London on December 9 Mr. Joseph Chamberlain announced government aims for the Orange River Colony and Transvaal. A civil administration, Dutch and English proclamations, and governors for both regions were proposed to end the guerrilla war and move toward crown government and eventual self rule.
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London
A. Emmett
South Africa
Chamberlain
Orange Riiver
Transvaal
Alfred Milner
Orange River
Mr. Chamberlain
Lord Roberts
Opening of fifteenth Victoria Parliament heats Westminster
London reports the fifteenth Parliament opening with fierce exchanges in the Commons. Joseph Chamberlain, colonial secretary, is the focus of attacks while Lord Rosebery signals Liberal leadership and broad criticism echoes across the chamber.
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London
Westminster
Joseph Chamberlain
South Africa
China
Lord Rosebery
House of Lords
Liberal Party
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Meden Powell fixes Transvaal police HQ at Meddersfontein
Johannesburg reports General Meden Powell establishes the police command post at Meddersfontein to defend dynamite store buildings as a bar rack. Authorities prepare rice-track camps for four thousand nearby farm labourers under reconcentrado policy. A Gazette notice says all able British subjects may be conscripted for service in the Rand Rifles.
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Johannesburg
Meden- Powell
Transvaal
Meddersfontein
Rand
Rand Rifles
Telegraphers Strike Ties Up Galveston to Purcell RR
A telegraphers strike on the Galveston Colorado and Santa Fe railroad halted train service between Galveston Texas and Purcell Oklahoma. Operators from the Order of Manlwas Telegraphers demand rule revisions and higher wages while officials offer wage arbitration but deny changes to rules.
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Fort Worth
Lex
Gali
Colorado
Santa Fe
Galveston
Texas
Purcell
T. T
Order of Manlwas
Ehrhardt guns shipped to Britain raise neutrality concerns
Berlin reports Ehrhardt factories in Eisenach and Düsseldorf supply eighteen batteries of quick firers to Britain via the British South Africa Chartered Company. Some papers urge the government to halt the shipments as a neutrality violation.
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Berlin
Dee
Ehrhardt
Risenach
Dusseldorf
Great Britain
Germany
Bold Chicago Robbers
Two attempted holdups on Chicago’s West Side ended in a fight and the capture of two robbers by car crew and passengers. Two hours later three men tried to hold up a car on West Fortieth Avenue. the car was pursued and the thieves fired shots before escaping.
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Chicago
West Side
West Fortieth Avenue
Notable deaths and political vote report across regions
Boston obituary notes Thomas C. Butler a former New England sculling champion died of heart disease at about 61. Washington reports the House passed the army reorganization bill 166 to 133. Other wires log boiler explosions in Vermont and Chicago, a coroner's verdict in Ottawa, a fire in Cherbourg destroying Napoleon relics, and Canadian election results in Burrard and Yale Cariboo with Lib and Con candidates leading.
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Boston
Thomas C. Butler
New England
Washington
House of Representatives
Royal Electric sold to Canadian General Electric
The Royal Electric company of Montreal has been sold to Canadian General Electric of Toronto for 841,000 dollars. The Royal will henceforth limit its operations to supplying light and power.
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Montreal
Royal Electric Company
Canadian General Electric Company
Toronto
Royal
American Cereal to Build Mill in Peterboro for 500 Jobs
The American Cereal company of Akron Ohio secured an option on Peterboro water power and plans a mill with a 350000 dollar investment. They will hire 500 workers if local property assessments do not rise. In Berlin Emperor William plays a practical joke sending Count Von Buelow a 100 pound soap package to clean the chancellor's palace.
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Peterboro
Ont
American Cereal Company
Akron
Berlin
William
Count von Buelow
Treasury taxes Canadian bank notes in U S
The treasury department holds Canadian bank notes circulating in the United States subject to the ten percent tax on state bank notes. Banks may avoid the tax by sending the bills to Canada for redemption.
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Washington
United States
Treasury Department
Canada
Train collision near Minnedosa causes no serious damage
Portage la Prairie reports a freight train collided with passenger coaches on the track last week near Minnedosa. The engineer and fireman escaped by jumping from the cab as the train moved slowly, and no serious damage occurred.
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Portage la Prairie
Minnedosa
Navy bids open for five battleships and six armored cruisers
Bids were opened at the Navy Department for five new battleships and six armored cruisers totaling 154 000 tons, the largest single bid contract for the navy to date.
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Washington
Navy Department
Navy
Pearson Hanged for Brutal Shooting Near Hamilton
George Arthur Pearson a 21 year old grocery driver who on Sunday September 28 shot his sweetheart Annie Griffin 19 along a country road near Hamilton was hanged in the jail storehouse at 7 53 Friday morning. The execution by hanging passed off without irregularity with officials a jury a dozen medical men and newspaper representatives present. Pearson admitted the crime and expressed peace with God saying he would die to restore the life he took.
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Hamilton
George Arthur Pearson
Annie Griffin
Pearson
Radciffe
Boers Attack Convoy Amid South African Conflict
Dispatches report General De Wet and General Knox pursuing unions after a Buffelsport convoy attack. Boer losses valued. 15 killed and 28 wounded including Lieut. Baker. Rustenburg and Command Nek sent aid, Boers driven off. De Wet’s outposts near Aliwal North. a Krupp gun left behind. Paul Botha urges acceptance of British rule. Afrikander Congress at Worcester shows large turnout amid gun positions and artillery around Gallows Hill and Prospect Hill.
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London
War Office
Lord Kitchener
Bloemfontein
Delarey
Pretoria
Rustenburg
Buffelspoort
Baker
Commando Nek
Aliwal
DeWet
Caledon
Dewetsdorp
Worcester
Cape’ Colony
Gallows Hill
Prospect Hill
Global and North American dispatches from December 7
A roundup of terse items: Sofia reports a cabinet resignation over ministerial matters. New York notes Arbuckles raising refined sugar prices. J H McKeggie dies aged 52 in Barrie. Canada regiments tour the House of Commons in London. Ontario exhibitors sweep Shropshire fat sheep prizes at a Chicago fat stock show. Governor Lind appoints Charles Towne to the US Senate in St Paul. Lord Roberts sails for Cape Town with flags at the ready in Durban. a John Burk dies from injuries in Ottawa, Welland canal guard to remain in place. Boni de Castellane couple negotiating a London house amid financial trouble. Fred Bell of East Zorra dies after self harm, thought linked to temporary insanity.
Various World and Local Troubles Reported
The bulletin notes a fatal Earl of Harrowby death a Heligoland landslide a Yukon gold output forecast of 18 million dollars a weak wheat crop in New South Wales storms in Newfoundland a Leeds miser’s will for foreign missions a New Orleans to Misey Kentucky train wreck eight killed a banker embezzlement guilty verdict a possible Australian Commonwealth ceremony attendance a Dublin Nationalist convention a Montreal police chief's resignation a Swedish beheading a Canadian House of Commons session a Maine wreck a Tasmanian mutiny Winnipeg and Edmonton Strang deaths an insult at a Toronto sermon and a British Commons amendment defeat.
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Newfoundland
Robert Arlington
Leeds
Eng
New Orleans
Illinois Central Railway
Misey
Cornelius Alvord
First National Bank
New York
Hobart Town
Tasmania
Robert Strang
Winnipeg
Colin Strang
Edmonton
Toronto
Lord Salisbury
Queen's Speech Calls Special Session for War Costs
London dispatch notes that after Mr William Court Gully took his seat the Black Rod summoned parliament to the Lords where the Lord Chancellor read the Queen's speech. The monarch asks for sanction to new measures funding operations in South Africa and China and directs focus on ordinary business after spring. Attending Lords included a few ladies and under a dozen peers with four royal commissioners led by the Duke of Marlborough.
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London
William Court Gully
House of Commons
Black Rod
Commons
House of Lords
South Africa
China
Duke of Marlborough
Global unrest and disasters highlight December news
Mount Wrangle erupts in Alaska while Queen Victoria’s health falters. A fire of one million dollars devastates Talti more’s business district. Brussels floods inundate part of the city. The Duke of Westminster and Miss Shelagh West wed. Arthur Wing in Winnipeg receives a two year forgery sentence. The iron ore barge Charles Potter with eight aboard sinks on Lake Erie. Britain seeks cession of the Balearic Islands and Ceuta.
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Taltimore
Brussels
Belgium
Duke of Westminster
Shelagh West
Arthur Wing
Winnipeg
Charles I’otter
Lake Erie
Britain
Balearic Islands
Spain
Ceuta
Peirce Wins 30 Day Extension in Seal Arbitration Case
In St Petersburg Mr TH H D Peirce secretary of the United States reparation secures a thirty days extension to submit evidence in the Russian American seal arbitration before Arbitrator Asser at The Plague allowing arrival from San Francisco. In Mexico City an explosion at San Andres de la Sierra mines kills or wounds miners with 26 bodies recovered and fifteen injured in the wreckage.
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St. Petersburg
TH. H. D. Peirce
United States
Asser
San Francisco
Mexico City
San Andres de la Sierra
Rescued in Dunmore Coal Mine Cave In
Imprisoned thirty two miners were trapped one thousand feet underground after five acres of surface collapsed at Nay Ang Coal company mine in Dunmore near Scranton. External rescuers and the trapped men both dug toward an exit and eventually created a passage to freedom with no injuries reported.
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Scranton
Dunmore
Nay Ang Coal Company
Brighton Welcome for Royal Canadian Regiment Draws Large Crowd
London December 7 crowds welcomed the Royal Canadian Regiment with unusual enthusiasm. cheers rang out as the troops marched through streets. Platte Centre Nebraska December 7 Sheriff Birnes and four Columbus deputies halted a possible lynching after a sequence of shootings. Wealthy stockman W J Gentleman fired on four men, one possibly fatally, keeping the town in fear.
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London
Brighton
Royal Canadian Regiment
Platte Centre
Neb
Birnes
Columbus
W. J. Gentleman
Berlin Population and Notable Notions in Brief
Berlin reports a population figure of 1 581 31. Reeve-elect Cowan of Itnimiota is dead. The Montreal boot and shoe employees strike ends. Dominion surplus for the last five months stands at 7 086 000. G A Pearson who murdered Annie Griffin was hanged at Hamilton. It is believed Colombia will seize a British vessel. W Lenton attempted to extermin ate an entire family at Southpark near Seattle. Mr Chamberlain said civic government would be established soon in new South African colonies. China’s chief mine engineer says peace will boost coal exports beyond all nations.
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Montreal
Dominion
G. A. Pearson
Annie Griffin
Uamuilton
W. Lenton
Southpark
Seattle
Chamberlain
Civic
China
Chinese regulares hold Shan Si passes frontier action
Field Marshal Von Waldersee reports strong detachments of Chinese regulars under General Ma occupying mountain passes on the Chi Li frontier. An explosion at Pao Ting Fu during powder magazine clearance killed one man and wounded Lieut. Wolfgramm and four others.
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Berlin
von Waldersee
Shan Si
Chi Li
Pao Ting Fu
Wolfgramm
Gas suffocation at drug store in Picton
Geo Locie entered rooms over C B Allisons drug store in Picton to find Abram Drummond and two sons dead from gas. A father and his eighteen year old son lay in one bed while a younger boy about twelve lay in a separate bed. Drummond lay unconscious and likely to die. Dampers had been shut off before the gas burned off fully.
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Picton
Geo. Locie
C. B. Allison
Abram Drummond
Drummond
Chinese minister reports Shansi governor executes rebels
Berlin on December 7 reports Li Hung Chang sent a telegram to the foreign office stating that Sih Lang the new Shansi governor has publicly executed upwards of eighty rebels and is vigorously suppressing the Boxers while protecting missionaries.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Li Hung Chang
Sih Lang
Shansi
Notable obituaries and fatal incidents across North America
The item lists several sudden deaths and violent events: C R Wilson of Toronto dies unexpectedly. three men die in a Peru Vermont boiler explosion. two failed robberies target Chicago streetcars. a North Dakota farmer near Emerson is attacked by tramps. Geo Gillis is named as the eighth casualty in the Chicago power house disaster. an American firm plans a 350000 investment in mill property at Peterboro. W J Gentleman from Nebraska fends off lynching. Millard Huhlin dies and George Williams is badly hurt moving a building near Madoc Ontario. the fishing ship Corn S McKay with 30 aboard is reported lost.
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Chicago
George Gillis
Chicago and Northwestern
Gillis
C. R. Wilson
Toronto
Peru
Vermont
North Dakota
Emerson
Peterboro
W. J. Gentleman
Nebraska
Millard Huhlin
George Williams
Madoc
Ont
Montreal Protestants to Honor Father O'Leary with Gifts
Protestants in Montreal plan a reception at the Windsor on December 27 in Father O'Leary's honor. They will present the First Canadian regiment chaplain with a chalice and paten, fine jeweller’s pieces reflecting the era.
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Montreal
Father O'Leary
Veusisters
Empire
Father O’leary
Windsor
Fire destroys Mesker iron works in Evansville
A fire in Evansville Indiana destroyed the structural iron works of George L Mesker Company located on First Street and Loewenthal's commission house. One life was lost and several people were injured in the blaze which occurred early yesterday.
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Evansville
Ind
George L. Mesker & Co
First Street
Loewenthal
Census tallies 6118 residents in Sault Ste Marie
Authorities in Sault Ste Marie announce a census count to September 30 showing 6118 bona fide residents. The figure reflects the town’s population at that date and excludes nonresidents.
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Toronto
Sault Ste. Marie
Czar's Condition Improves. Return to St Petersburg Undecided
Lividia Dec 7 The czar felt no ill effects from sitting up at meals and is much improved. Court discussions focus on when he may return to St Petersburg, though no decision has been reached.
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Lividia
St. Petersburg
Historic Clippings Report Varied Fates Across Regions
Viscount Iairfax renounces violence and remains Protestant. John Lark dies from skull fracture in Ottawa hospital. Lord Roberts receives a tumultuous Durban welcome. Mesker iron works in Evansville destroyed by fire. Rev John Wohl dies in a Virginia duel with Hon SS Davis Stokes. Steamer Rossgul sinks near Jersey Island with 29 lives lost. SS Parisian reaches Halifax after four breakdowns. Explosion in a mine kills 26 people. Bell of Woodstock district dies from self-inflicted injuries.
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Viscount Iairfax
John Lark
Ottawa
Lord Roberts
Durban
Mesker Iron Works
Evansville
Ind
John Wohl
Virginia
Davis Stokes
Jersey
Halifax Harbor
Bell
Woodstock
Winnipeg Markets Report Stresses Grain Prices And Dairy Rates
The Winnipeg markets listing shows No 1 hard wheat values at Fort Within and various flour brands with prices per sack. It details miller and feed rates, oats, barley, ground feed, outs, flax, hay, butter, cheese, eggs, vegetables, dressed meats, poultry, hides, wool, tallow, and wool prices, ending with a note that the war office awarded five Victoria crosses during the South African campaign.
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Winnipeg
Medora
Opilvie Milling Company
Glenora
Manitoba
Stu
Imperial
Shorts
Deakin
Seneca Root
Great Northern offers low rate Canadian excursions
The Great Northern Railway promotes round trip Winnipeg to Eastern Canada under $40 with departures December 2 to 6 and stops in St Paul and Chicago. Tickets valid three months with stopovers. add Tourist Sleepers every Tuesday and a $1 night rate, including meals and porter service. Write L. D. Kitchell, 498 Main Street Winns for details.
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Great Northern Railway
Bist
Winnipeg
St. Paul
Chivett
Montreal
Chicas St. Paul
Detroit
Great Northern
L. D. Kitchell
Main Street
Winns
As It Usually Happens Speech On Rearing Mr Courtney
A clipped exchange recalls parental influence and expectations. The speaker refutes claims of proper rearing, saying parents exhausted their energy and enthusiasm on the elder brother, highlighting family dynamics and personal sentiment.
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Courtney
A Book's Attractiveness in Binding Taste
Ferguson argues books lose value by focusing on binding over content. Chumley counters that beauty in binding matters, saying life is short to read books without considering their binding.
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Ferguson
Chumley
Senele
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Wilfrid Laurier
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Sweden
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