Massive Sidney Fire Devastates Principal Business District
A fierce 40 mph gale-driven blaze destroyed several blocks in Sidney causing extensive ruin and ashes in four major business buildings as the town faced a severe conflagration around 2 o'clock. A separate note from Victoria cites British capitalists planning to offer for the Conga-Kootenay railway with conditions under review by government.
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Heifax
Sidney
Cie Breton
Oxiat
Victoria
Ithe Financial World of
Canadians Score a Victory in Boer War Skirmish
Pretoria reports Canadian scouts surprised a Boer camp near Balmoral and forced a retreat after a brief engagement. Casualties included two Canadians killed and an officer and two men wounded. Also, twelve Boer leaders including Scheepers are banished from South Africa. London notes Cape Colony unrest with 15,000 Afrikaners armed in three months.
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Pretoria
Commandant Scheepers
South Africa
Balmoral
London
Kruger
Schalkburmer
Cape Colony
Daily Mail
Brussels
Will Be Electrocuted in Bufalo October 28 1900
A noisy set of dispatches reports executions and battlefield orders. It notes President McKinley and Assiasio facing punishment, with dates tied to October 28. Another item mentions Richard Douglas Muir wounded at Riepont on October 11 and Frank Nott ill at Blandfontein amid stern fever.
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Ottawa
Militia Department
Joseph Chamberlain
Richard Douglas Muir
Riepont
Frank Nott
Blandfontein
Muir
MacGregor
Man
Nott
Port Perry
H. Tosthold
Jaggersfontein
Bubonic Plague Ravages Foo Chow City Daily Reports
London dispatch says Church Missionary Society reports fifteen hundred new bubonic plague cases daily in Foo Chow and Divinity with about a thousand coffins removed from city gates daily for two weeks.
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London
Church Missionary Society
Royal Party Departs Halifax Ophir Voyage
The Royal party left Halifax aboard the Ophir at 10 o clock yesterday after a warm farewell to Canada through Lord Minto. A gold heirloom watch and money were stolen from the Ophir during lunch. Congress deficit figures and other brief items follow.
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Halifax
Canada
Lord Minto
Duke of Teck
Wis Gore Deputy Minister of Lakideds Works
Naor Pariitaka es Cae ib is noted in connection with Lakideds Works. The item appears as a brief from a regional agency noting a deputy minister role and a personnel reference. Further context is limited in the fragment.
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Wis Gore
Lakideds Works
Naor Pariitaka Es
Cae Ib
Galways Nationalists choose Arthur Lynch for Westminster seat
London reports Galway Nationalists nominate Arthur Lynch to fill the Commons vacancy created by Martin Norris’s elevation. Lynch, a former Parnellite candidate in 1892, served as a colonel with the Second Irish Brigade in the Boer War under General Botha. He is said to be in France and would likely face arrest if he returned to Ireland.
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London
Galway
Arthur Lynch
House of Commons
Martin H. F. Norris
Lynch
Natal
Botha
Orange Free State
Pretoria
Ontario Mines Review Warns Investors on Ontario Mining
The London cable notes the British Ontario Gold Mining Company fails to draw investor confidence. It cites poor director records and reckless promotions over three years, urging caution before new mining ventures. It highlights stronger silver output but doubts about gold. Contemporaneous items report a fatal Brakeman Durkie accident and notable expatriates.
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Toronto
The
Evening Telegram
London
Ontario
Buller Relieved of Command After Honor Speech
London Ost 22 Sir Redvers Buller is relieved of command of the first army corps following a speech made October 10 at a luncheon hosted by the King's Royal Rifles. General French succeeds him after the War Office decision and full consideration of circumstances and explanations.
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London
Redvers' Bulle
First Army Corps
King’s Royal Rifles
White
Ladysmith
French
War Office
Buller
Agitating Against Chinese Servants Casts Broad Canadian Protest
Ottawa reports the Houseworkers' Union plans a nationwide circular to oppose Hon. A G Blair's move to employ Chinese servants, aiming to spark public agitation and deter other officials. Also noted are medals dispersed by the Duke of Cornwall, Bourassa excluded from Liberal caucuses, Yale Caribo population growth, and the royal train exhibit in Halifax with proceeds to orphanages.
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Ottawa
Bourassa
Tle
Yale-Cariboo
Canadian Pacific
Way
Tephiee
Halifax
Lipton Plans Shamrock II Future and Crew
Sir Thomas Lipton states Shamrock II will stay on this side and race any challengers. He envisions an American crew, possibly with a British captain, with some British sailors, and may or may not have Captain Sycamore. He also notes he will visit America and does not rule out building a new challenger eventually.
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Thomas Lipton
Sycamore
Sir Thomas
John Redmond Seeks Irish Unity Mission to America
Cork Oct 12 John Redmond M P emphasizes in replies to addresses before his US departure that his mission proves reunion in Ireland matches a United States revival. He says England faces twenty million Irish everywhere who will choose honorable means in support of freedom over British rule.
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United States
Cork
John Redmond
America
Ireland
England
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