Resignation Demand Fails for General Colville at Gibraltar
London reports war office demands Major General Sir Henry Colville resigns his command in Gibraltar and ninth South Africa division. Colville refuses and heads toward Midland after inquiry into Lindley disaster. A noted social figure and author known as Odger, he remains a prominent clubman with a storied career.
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London
War Office
Henry Colville
Gibraltar
South Africa Field Force
Colville
Midland
Lindley
South Africa
Barre Vermont Chief Shot by Anarchist Ambush
Chief Patrick Brown of Barre Vermont lies in woeful condition after three bullet wounds inflicted yesterday. He was returning from quelling a hall disturbance where anarchists had caused a riot. Otto Bernaccio and Luigi Sussi were arrested and identified by the chief as connected to the assassination attempt.
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Barre
Don
Bolieve
Patrick Brown
Pan
Northern Pacific Rejects O R T book of rules in bid to negotiate
In St Paul on December 20 a conference between President Mellen and Vice President Kendrick led to a lengthy message to the telegraph operators committee. The Northern Pacific cannot adopt the committee's rule book in toto nor recognize the O R T as an organized body, but will treat with Northern Pacific telegraphers as individual employees.
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O. R. T. St. Paul
Mellen
Kendrick
Northern Pacific
Sesion
St. Paul
French Forces Burn Village After Chinese Attack Near Pao Ting Fu
Paris reports Gen. Baillaud’s detachment faced an attack by Chinese regulars and Doxers at Tha Tehoon south of Pao Ting Fu. The punitive expedition captured the village after a fierce fight and secured cannon, provisions, and munitions. Chinese losses were about one thousand. Baillaud’s troops had no casualties. Several Christian Chinese families were allegedly maltreated by the attackers.
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Paris
Baillaud
Bailloud
Widow awarded indemnity in Indiana lynching case
Lulu C. Jenkins, now of Chicago, receives 4000 for her husband’s lynching in Ripley county Indiana three years ago. The payment comes from eight bondsmen of former sheriff Henry Bushing as part of a private settlement in the indemnity suit filed by the widow shortly after the murder.
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Chicago
Mrak
Lulu C. Jenkins
Ripley County
Ind
Henry Bushing
London wire deaths and a stabbing in the dec 20 telegraph
Reports from London announce the deaths of Edmund Morrison Wimperis and actress Miss Marriott on December 20. In Chicago, John Garversio lies dying after a brutal stabbing, refusing to name suspects. Fire yesterday destroyed Hill's bakery and McFadden & McQuade's stock and tinware store, with 21000 in damages. Felix Carbray elected fellow of Irish antiquarian societies. A proposed statue for Peter Henlein of Nuremberg. A new range finder promises to improve object distance measurement.
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Chicago
John Garversio
Collingwood, Co
Hill
McFadden & McQuade
Condensed News roundup December 1900 items
Killed by an express near Canmore. Cudahy kidnappers believed en route to Liverpool. Barre Vermont chief of police wounded. Dreyfus writes to premier for inquiry. Drowning in Chatham. Masonic official wounded. Indemnity awarded in Ripley lynching case. Lord Beresford grave. Apache raids in Mexico. Atlantic express derailment at Severnbridge. Armstrong gun inventor dead. US wheat crop over 622 million bushels. Trains schedules altered. Fire at East India docks London. Czars health restored. weather in England. Indiana race conflict. Paderewski rumor. Japanese dredge sunk. 12 drowned. Chinese killed by French in battle. Prince of Wales and Kaiser discussed America’s cup. Newfoundland fighting force planned. Canada issues $4 note on canal system. Mau Claire fire. wedding murder in Solway. Dowager Lady Churchill dies. Bubonic plague deaths in Mysore. Werten shoots his son in Great Falls. New Zealand to reinforce SA. Calgary fire. losses over 100,000. Berlin population 2.46 million. Aronson dies. Mills child burns. Storms damage ships. Cedar Lake drownings. Influenza epidemic in St Petersburg. Otter name linked to Kingston army college. Fraser River flood. Senate adjourns. Toronto factory fire. German troops shoot Chinese civilians. Cudahy house located. Fort William residents escape. Queen mourns. ships wrecked off English coast. Holy Synod calls for New York church fund. Quebec legislature to meet Jan 24. Anna’s aeronaut sister’s missing status noted. Sultan orders ship contract with Cramps for about 2.5 million.
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Fred
Edmunds
Canmore
Boston
Cudahy
Atlantic
Liverpool
Barre
Yes
Dreyfus
Patrick Kennedy
Chatham
W. H. Smythe
Masonic Order of
Indiana
Indianpolis
Lulu C. Jenkins
Chicago
Ripley County
Ind
United States
England
Comentville
Paderewski
Cork Harbor
Prince of Wales
William
Newfoundland
Dominion
Canada
Mau Claire
Thomas Uay
Solway
Churchill
Lord Curzon
Mysore
India
Jacob Werten
Great Malls
Mont
New Zealand
South Africa
Calgary
Che Bous
Senator Lougheed
Boers Active in South Africa Skirmishes Reported
Dispatches from London and Cape Town describe Boer operations near Louwkop and Reupert Spruit with Lord Kitchener noting engagement with De Wet’s force. Reports say Yeomanry squadron released after capture, and Boers attacked Burgersdorp with heavy fighting. Wounded include Lord Frederick Blackwood.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Knox
Barker
Pilcher
White
de Wet
Louwkop
Cape Colony
Spruit
Prieska
Strydenburg
Evening P Standard
Dritstown
Addy
Bokburg
Johannesburg
Cape Town
Burgersdorp
Bloemfontein
Steyn
Hansbroeck
Lord Blackwood
Burghersdorp
Grenfell
Kruitzinger
6Th Lancers
Kraitzinger
Plaisterheuvel
Lord Frederick Blackwood
Lord Methuen
Soldiers Welcome Home in Winnipeg in Enthusiastic Welcome
Winnipeg greeted its returned soldiers with a fervent, large crowd yesterday. The undemonstrative city showed rare enthusiasm, honoring the men for their duty in South Africa and the noble conduct that will mark Canadian history.
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Winnipeg
South Africa
British review Egyptian troops in Sudan ceremony
Lord Crouvr the British diplomatic agent reviewed the Egyptian troops of the Soudan launder the Sirdar Major General Sir Francis E Wingate. He assured the deputation from the Dinka tribe that the British and Egyptian flags guarantee them protection from slave raids and respect for their ancient customs. Chiefs departed expressing gratitude.
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Khartoum
Lord Crouvr
Soudan
Sir Francis E. Wingate
Oll
Atlantic express derailed. one injured in Severnbridge
Telegraphic brief reports the Atlantic express jumped the track at Severnbridge this morning. All cars derailed, mail car toppled into a ditch. Passengers escaped serious injury, except Parsons Paris who broke a leg.
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Severnbridge
Atlantic Express
Parsons Paris
Fort Erie
KR. Sharp
G. T
Chicago
Notable global and colonial obituaries and incidents
Condensed telegrams report the death of Jules Riviere. a Japanese dredge disaster off Cork harbor with 12 lives lost. mass arrests in St Petersburg for socialist propaganda. Texas cattleman A H Pierce dies at Pierce station. Lord Armstrong dies in Craigside. Edm und Barton leads Australian federation cabinet formation. mining minister proposal in British Columbia. Ted Donald drowns with sister Annie. CP R negotiations for Kingston and Pembroke railway questioned. Montreal harbor contract and Sorel works awarded. Liberia’s president resigns. Cape Flattery shipping disasters foreseen. Turkish soldiers mistreat British envoy. Alvord, Jr. banking fraud case postponed. two Ohio men killed crossing rail tracks. Bryan appears at Lincoln Jefferson club banquet. Apaches on warpath near Chihuahua. Philadelphia and Reading rail contracts worth over 2.25 million. German Bach festival announced. coal gas tragedy in Fort William. Ellice smallpox prompting no municipal nominations. American schooner Jonniewall wreck with loss of crew.
Race Warin Cementville Blazes In Indiana
In Cementville, Indiana, a race riot erupts as armed African Americans clash with whites. Two Black men Lee Ranger and John Redmond intoxicated sparked intimidation. Kendall’s Halcon is seized. Sheriff visits, shots fired, Ranger wounded, Kendall escapes to seek warrants. Community remains frightened and vigilant.
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Jeffersonville
Tnd
Cementville
Panhandle Road
Lee Ranger
John Redmood
Ranger J
Redlond
Kendall
Halcon
Rave
Clanentville
Vo Gond
Ranger
Montgomery
Street Car Strike Binds Scranton Valley Transit Lines
Scranton, Pennsylvania December 27. The strike of motormen and conductors of the Scranton Railway company continues with only two strikers deserting to operate one car inside the city. The service remains tied up from Preston to Forest City, affecting all towns in the Lackawanna Valley.
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Scranton
Scranton Railway Company
He Oi Ting
Preston
Forest City
Lackawana Valley
Telegraphic Briefs From Across The Nation
A compilation of short items. Maggie Novi, 18, abducted near Pueblo, feared murdered after being left in charge of a child. London artists push for a professional union with 700 members target. Jacob Werten fatally shoots his son amid family abuse. son dies from neck wound. Werten surrenders. William Frame, Collingwood police magistrate, dies after long cancer battle. Lord Minto receives gifts from President McKinley for rescuers of the Velin wreck. Frank Richardson, wealthy St Joseph and Savannah, Missouri, businessman, murdered at his home by a stranger.
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Pueblo
Col
Maggie Novi
Charles Beattie
St. Joseph
Frank Richardson
Savannah
Missouri
Richardson
John D. Richardson
Jtrist
Mexican troops ambushed by Yagui Indians in Sonora
Report from Sonora says Mexican forces were attacked in ambush by Yagui Indians. Four officers and about thirty men were killed. Col. Francis Peinado, a popular army officer, was among the dead. The incident occurred as troops moved through the region near the border.
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el Paso
Texas
Sonora
Mexico
Francis Peinado
Ashanti captures royal fugitives in Kumassi report
Reports from Kumassi state loyal chiefs captured the Ashanti queen mother and the rebel king Kakafu with hopes to seize remaining rebel chiefs London reports Dr. Thompson elected unopposed to the House of Commons from Monaghan North Berlin notes Sternberg banker found guilty of grave immorality sentenced to two and a half years with five years citizenship loss Vancouver reports tramp steamer Royalist arriving from Japan after 88 days at sea. she faced a fierce gale that wrecked steering gear and washed a sailor overboard
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Kumassi
Kakafu
London
Thompson
House of Coimmons
Monaghan
Daniel MacAlees
Berlin
Sternberg
Vancouver
Royalist
Japan
An Isle of Gold and the Pirate Island Quest
A 1877 Panama encounter inspires a crew of convicts and misfits to seize a rumored gold vein on a remote island. The crew's mutiny, cabin blaze, and brutal killings end with a small salvage party returning bearing a secret fortune. Rumors of a curse cling as a new expedition forms, while authorities murmur of doom.
The Wily Celestial Quip on Burial Casket Preps
A Washington Star quip notes a Chinese buyer arranging his own funeral, with a diplomat explaining that such people know better than to trust one notch further than he absolutely no party.
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Washington Star
Dr Chase Kidney Liver Pills Credited By Ontario Resident
A Con gacon resident testifies to the kidney liver pills curing Brights disease symptoms after years of pain and poor urination. The letter from J J Ward JP Consocon certifies the claimant and endorses the medicine as a world renowned kidney remedy.
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Chase
Pilla
Congacon
Ont
Janes Dellihunt
Consecon
Prince Titward County
Bright
Dr. Chase
Ril Doale Ieee
Edmanson, Bates
Toeronto
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Edmund Morrison Wimperis
Royal Institute of Painters In Water Colors
Quebec
Felix Carbray
M.P.T
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy
Nuremberg
Peter Henlein
Hele
Anid
Priday
Lord Beresford
Lord Armstrong
East India Docks
Constantinople
Czar
Aronson
New York
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Jarvis
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Dauphin District
Cedar Lake
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Gol. Otter
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Fraser River
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United States Senate
Matthew Bros
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Hioly Synod
Intsa
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Arctic
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Young Albertson
Erie Railway
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Armstrong
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Washabackel River
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Folger Bros
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Malone & Poupore
Sorel
Sierra Leone
West Coast of Africa
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G. W. Gibson
Port Townsend
Wash
Ihv
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de Bunsen
Porte
Cornelius Alvord, Jr
First National Bank
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Ohio
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Blakslee
Wabash Railway
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Lincoln Hotel
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Daniel Campbell
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Ellice Municipality
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Werten
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Frame
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Lord Minto
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Lloyd
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Isle OF
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Anil
Tome
Niko
Wiseacros
Chicago ‘Times- Herald
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