Boer Spies Arrested as Natal Camp Tension Grows
London reports two Boer spies arrested at Ladysmith and handed to military authorities. Dispatches describe brisk enrollment of 1000 under imperial sanction, with Cape campaigns near Newcastle and Laing's Nek as Boer forces retreat toward Ingagane. Telegraphs warn of possible Boer attempts on Aliwal North and Imberley amid disloyal farmer sentiment.
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Kimberley
Warban
Ladysmith
Jurdan
Pietermaritzburg
London
Cape
Fencoe
Natal
Cape Colony volunteers called out amid Cape Town unrest
Cape Town erupts as residents furious at Schreiner cabinet over Mafeking crisis. 7,000 volunteers with 11 artillery pieces will be raised, with 2,000 gunners in Cape Colony and 4,000 in Natal, bringing total volunteer strength to 12,500. Hoffmeyer strains to escape crowd anger as riots feared. Martial tensions rise.
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Daily Mail
Alfred Milner
Cape Town
Schreiner
Mafeking
Vryburg
Merriman
Sauer
Mainisters
Hoff
Onyngham Greene
Pretoria
Cape Colony
Natal
Wb Times
Cuntry
Boer Invasion Estimates From Refugee Dispatches
Dispatches from Dundee report refugees estimating Boer invaders at 46 000 near Nanto. A refugee claims Commandant Viljoen leads a force that includes many Hollanders Germans and Englishmen in the field.
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Mafoking
Vrrburg
Taungs
Slerbert
Barkley West
Dundee
Nanto
Viljoen
McKinley Makes Stop Across Iowa and Wisconsin
President McKinley travels by special train through Iowa and Wisconsin visiting Cedar Falls Ackley Waterloo Independence Manchester Dubuque Galena Ipswich Mount Horeb Madison and Waukesha. He speaks in support of expansion and receives large ovations including 10 000 at Madison. Secretary Wilson also participates at Ipswich.
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Manny
Milwaukee
President McKinley
Iowa
Wisconsin
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Deutscher Club
Pfister
Wee Sina
Long
Scofield
Cedar Falls
Ackley
Waterloo
Independence
Manchester
Dubuque
Galena
Ills
Ipswich
Montfort Junction
Dodgeville
Barneveld
Mount Horeb Madison
Waukesha
Wis
Madison
Wilson
COLOR LINE CAUSES TROUBLE IN BARNESVILLE
Governor Candler mobilized the Barnesville Blues and Capital City guards after a sheriff’s plea that armed black residents threaten to burn Barnesville following white women striking over black female workers at a local factory. Police placed guards around key buildings as tensions rose.
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Atlanta
Candler
Pike County
Barnesville
Tragedy of the Line Fence Ends in Fatal Fracture
Byron Babbitt and James Robey, prominent Meansville residents, argued over a boundary line near Janesville Wisconsin. Robey struck Babbitt with an ax, fracturing his skull and causing brain concussion. Doctors say Babbitt’s life is endangered. Robey was arrested.
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Janesville
Wis
Byron Babbitt
James Robey
Meansville
Robey
Babbitt
Doctor's Struggle with Madman in Wisconsin
Dr T J Oliver of this village faced and fought a lunatic named Thomas Wicherty who attacked him after forcing entry to the doctor's office. The struggle lasted until neighbors aided, narrowly preventing serious harm or death.
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Madmanden
Wis
T. J. Oliver
Thomas Wicherty
Slaherty
Winterset Postmaster Convicted of Perjury
A district court jury in Winterset convicted A. L. Wood postmaster of perjury yesterday. Wood faced four counts, two for perjury and two for prostitution, and had previous ties as a member of the Iowa legislature. Other related cases against him will be tried later.
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Winterset
A. L. Wood
Wood
Iowa
bin Willl
Death of Prof J B Horton in Columbus at 70
Prof Edward J. Orton first president of Ohio State University and geology chair, died suddenly at his home in Columbus at 3 45 p m yesterday. He was 70 years old.
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J. BF. Horton
Conlumbus
Edward J. Orton
Ohio State University
Fishing Excitement Ends in Tragedy at Lake Wood
Huggins and Sexton from East St. Louis fought a large fish on Lake Wood near Gillett Wisconsin. Both wrestled for the catch and toppled from the boat. Huggins drowned and remains in the lake as rescue efforts continue.
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Gillett
Wis
Ramsey's Bondsmen Fate in Supreme Court Ruling
Illinois Supreme Court overruled lower courts in the Ramsey estate dispute. The sureties argued for $363,539 but the court held they pledged to back Ramsey on illegal loans to Chicago banks, earning 2 percent interest. The decision affects claims tied to the shortage in the state treasury after Rufus N. Ramsey's death. The same term upheld a Whiteside County case allowing Modern Woodmen head offices to move from Fulton to Rock Island amid prior protests.
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Elijah P. Ramsey
Treasury
Chicago
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Parks
Woodmen of
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Ills
Rock Island
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Whitesides County
W. A. Northcott
Illinois
Hawes
Rioting in Auburn Ends in Death of Rotschki
Springfield coroner verdict holds John Knapereck and unknowns responsible for a gunshot fatality after a Sunday riot in Auburn. The priest at Rotschki’s funeral condemned drink as a cause. Slavic miners from Auburn were detained, named suspects including Knaperek and Paneak, with Knaperek admitting the fatal shot and Paneak striking Rotschki with an axe.
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Ill
Auburn
Stephen Rotschki
John Knapereck
Knapereck
Father Carroll
Rotschki
Wight
Sheriff Woods
Rotsewski
Chasly
Andrasak
Johann Knaperek
Johann Skeblilak
Ignatz Paneak
Joseph Kriso
Joseph Bodnar
Michael Bodnar
Stave Rotz
W Knaperek
Rotsechki
Knaperek
Paneak
Trotsechki
Typhus warning after Aragonia ship passengers reach Illinois
Dr Ngan of the state health board received a telegram noting four passengers from the Antwerp steamer Aragonia arrived in Philadelphia Oct 12 and later traveled to Illinois. Two fever cases from the ship led to typhus confirmation after landing. Passengers bound for Chicago and Peoria names listed for supervised exposure.
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Ngan
State Board of Health
United States Commissioner of Immigration
Rogers
Aragonia
Antwerp
Philadelphia
Point
Illinois
Ilinois
Sofia Mas
Thomas Mas
Eighteenth Street
Chicago
Lubina Chimoj
Joe Chmoj
Maria Renninger
Mark Schmuck
Peoria
Wyan
Miners’ Pay Pact Reaches Mercer County Mines
Springfield Ills Oct 17 state officers of United Mine Workers report operators at Gilchrist and Wanlock in Mercer county employing 800 miners have agreed to pay the state mining scale of 55 cents. The rest notes a fad: American bicycles popular in Germany, factories there no longer paying dividends.
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Springfield
Ills
United Mine Workers
Gilchrist and Wanlock
Mercerounty
Germany
Bottomless Holes in Tranavans Echo Enigmatic Depths
A Cincinnati Enquirer note describes a round rock chasm near Malmani river said to swallow stones unseen, and a nearby larger pit filled with water with a drifting grass island. Rumors say locals avoid deeper probing, fearing an irritable power elusive to soundings and potentially dangerous.
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Malmani
Diamter
Tropics
Cincinnati Enquirer
Rebels Attack Angeles in Philippines War Toll
Manila dispatch reports an insurgent assault on Angeles at 2:30 am with one American killed and seven wounded. U.S. troops from the Seventeenth Ninth and Thirteenth regiments engaged. the enemy retreated by 5:30 am. A scouting party near Ttalinate captured eleven Filipinos and another near Maycauyan captured a Filipino major. All captives were brought to Manila.
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Filipinas Manila
Angeles
Ttalinate
Maycauyan
Manila
A Chess Genius and the Knight Hurdle
Before the 1899 international chess tournament in Manchester, Lasker played a simul against an unknown local. The would be challenger, still mastering knights, never moved them. Lasker won, noting the stranger had effectively conceded two knight odds and a cramped position.
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Lasker
Manchester
Brooklyn Eaele
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised remedy claim
Local apology text promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a cure for catarrh and constitutional disease. It asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, claims high physician endorsement, and offers free manuals with druggist availability and a price reference.
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Catarh Isa
Hall
Cheney & CO
Questioning Health in a Book on Ailments
A Philadelphia Times quote asks if readers ever found a human ailment they could not diagnose in themselves though they began feeling well. The remark reflects skepticism toward self diagnosis and medical certainty.
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Philadelphia Times
Bethesda Miner Spring Water Cure Claim
Bethesda Miners Spring Water is promoted as a reliable cure for Brights disease diabetes and kidney related ailments. Foremost physicians prescribe it and it is sold in sealed half gallon bottles by first class druggists with a purity guarantee. Bethesda Mineral Spring Co. of Waukesha Wisconsin endorses the claim.
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Bethesda
Bright
Bethesda Mineral Spring Co
Waukesha
Wis
Found the Boy's Mother Fight Over Estate Begun
Des Moines Oct 17 Judge Walter I Hayes attorney for George D Niles in the case against the estate of Mott Watson says the fight over Watson s property has just begun. Supreme court decision against Niles prompted a new trial motion in Jackson county where the original ruling was made. The mother s existence had been known but kept secret to aid morale.
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Des Moines
Walter I. Hayes
George D. Niles
Niles
Mott Watson
Watson
Supreme Court
Hayes
Jackson County
Weather postpones Phillies Brooklyn post season game
The first post season series between Philadelphia and Brooklyn National League clubs was postponed due to threatening weather.
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Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Lady Sholto Douglas Arrives in New York
Lady Sholto Douglas, formerly Lorette Addis Moon ey, a San Francisco variety actress, arrived in New York from England yesterday and immediately departed for Oakland to visit her family.
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Lady Sholto Douglas
New York
Lorette Addis Mooney
San Francisco
England
Oakland
Chicago Board of Trade Quotations and Market Summary
Chicago and Milwaukee market notes with futures quotes for Wheat Corn Oats and Rice. Coverage includes DecemberMay terms, pork and cattle prices at Chicago Live Stock October 16, plus butter eggs and produce prices and Milwaukee grain standings for October 16. Names of commodities and price ranges reflect early trading totals and stock receipts.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Rextra
Springs
Burbanks
Tlebrons
Cape Cod
Texas
Milwaukee
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