British Buller Bombards in South Africa Struggle
London Jan 5 Gen Buller keeps night bombardments and patrols as Boer resistance slows. Tugola river fordable again, stretch-bearers requisitioned at Durban and Pietermaritzburg. Reported captures include a German steamer Bandesrath with guns, shells, and troops. Casualties around Colesburg: six killed, twenty wounded. traitor suspected in destroyed supply trucks.
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Suit over 640 acres in Polk and Hopkins counties
In Arkansas a suit filed Wednesday by W W on of Polk county seeks possession of 640 acres across the Trinity, claimed by Mrs Elizabeth Bertson now Harrison of Dallas county who migrated to Hopkins county and married a Mr Harrison. Her son Bria C Harrison, his half brother, joins as heir. The Oak Cliff and Loan Co. and others are sued claiming Mrs Harrison never signed a deed. Also from Bristol a dispatch reports the Glasgow steamer Borghese wrecked off Cape Finisterre in a hurricane. 22 crew drowned and nine survivors have arrived.
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Diplomatic clash over food seizure flags war business
Not London January 9 United States Ambassador Choate pressed Lord Salisbury over Britain seizing American ships en route to friendly ports and rejected flour and other foods as contraband of war. Frankfort January 5 a box of four thousand dollars and five hundred dollar bills was shown to the grand jury in a bribery case involving Col. John H. Whalen and Senator Harrell, contents unknown. County Health Officer reports five smallpox cases in the Ross family and a strict quarantine around Kerons town.
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Mississippi Senate Nominates Sullivan for Short Term
In Jackson Mississippi on January sixth the joint Democratic caucus nominated Senator W V Sullivan to fill the one year US senate term ending March fourth 1901. Sullivan 41 a lawyer from Lafayette county was a former congressman and received 88 votes to 72 with 104 members signing the call. The caucus elected George J Anderson of Warren as chair and moved Sullivan be named unanimous. Ex Gov Lowry opposed him and a bitter campaign followed in Lincoln Bryan present. The article notes Bryan later attended a Populist Western conference in Lincoln to discuss fusion with the Democratic ticket.
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Western Star
Messrs. Robb
Iowa
Edmiston
Nebraska
Rozell and
Patterson
Is Party
Wyoming
Oklahoma
Infantry unit arrives at Vigan with American prisoners
The 8a Infantry and Lieut. J onse of the 34th Infantry escort all American prisoners including Lieut. Gilmore to Vigan in the Grovines of South Ll os.
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Two Hanged and Fatal Stabbings Reported in El Paso
El Paso, January 6 reports Antonio Ferrer and Geronimo Parra hanged after killings. Ferrer stabbed a woman along a railroad and Parra killed a U.S. guard during arrest. Caseload cases appealed, lower court judgments stood. Separate accounts describe a fatal shooting over a quarrel near Cass County, both farmers. Accident at Homestead Steel Works in Pittsburg leaves one dead and three injured. Charles Root kills wife and himself in Kalamazoo, witnessed by children. In Washington, little action in the House. Beveridge resolution on Philippines retained. Aldrich discussed the financial bill. John H. Whalen reportedly indicted in Frankfort.
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Texas
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New Mexico
Mtrox
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el Paso
Jeal
Court of Appeals
Aged Clergyman Reaches Sixty-Second Year of Service
The Rev. Mr. George Docker Grundy, oldest Church of England clergyman, enters his sixty-second year at Hey near Oldham. He received the living a year after Queen Victoria's accession, and at 38 years old remains healthy and active in all duties.
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Oldham
Victoria
La Porte Texas emerges as a key deepwater port city
New star La Porte in Galveston Bay between Houston and Galveston marks a bold Texas growth story. Plucky entrepreneurs, brains and capital drive wharfs docks and waterfront shipping upgrades. The U S Government plans to deepen the channel to accommodate the largest ocean vessels with cargoes.
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Galveston Bay
Houston
Galveston
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