Boer Ambush Kills Captain Paget and Wounds Engineers
A Boer ambush near Keapmuiden on October 12 killed Captain Paget and one private, wounded Lieut Stubs and five engineers, and captured Lieut Sewell and ten riflemen. Subsequent fighting drove Ie Wet north of the Vaal near Venterkkroon.
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Pretoria
Pagete Ride
Keapmuiden
Stewart
Hife
Paget
Lieut
Stubs
Sewell
Rifle Brigade
Liske
Ie Wet
Vaal
Venterkkroon
de Wet
Europe
London
Daily Mail
Kanglish
Transvaal
Kruger
Cronje
Magersfontein
Joubert
Loers
Colenso
Flooded Province Forces Rail Shutdown Across New Brunswick
St John New Brunswick reports a flood torn province with 12 hour rainfall totals and 10 inches of rain. The CPR lines between St John and Vanceboro and branch lines to St Andrews St Stephen Fredericton and Woodbridge are washed out. Hoyton bridge on the main line is swept away and 25 washouts along the routes average 150 feet long and 25 feet deep. The flood causes thousands of dollars in damage as the Shore Line and Intercolonial also incur losses.
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St. John
New Brunswick
CPR
Vanceboro
St. Andrews
St. Stephen
Fredericton
Woodbridge
Hoyton
Halifax Welcomes Home Canadian Regiment Crowd Plans Banquet
Halifax may host a homecoming for the Canadian regiment with a city hall meeting led by Mayor Hamilton. A banquet and a unifying religious service were agreed, while Ottawa must confirm how long the regiment stays before departure. A committee will solicit funds and finalize plans after Ottawa’s word arrives.
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Halifax
Hamilton
Ottawa
Canada
Laura Carroll named victim in insurance syndicate case
Laura Carroll is identified as another victim of an insurance syndicate led by Dr. August M. Unger. The physician allegedly used her to take out policies in a scheme linked to Marie Defenbach. Carroll disappeared four to five months ago after last seen with associates, described as Unger’s patient and sweetheart.
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Chicago
Laura Carroll
August M. Unger
Marie Defenbach
Miss Carroll
Dr Unger
Four People Killed In Nebraska Train Collision
Four people are killed and a child injured when a farm wagon crosses a railroad track and a locomotive strikes it near Holbrook Nebraska. Victims include Miss Lizzie Tierman, Mrs. Herman Keilbeck, and Mrs. Charlies Dartenbeck along with the affected infant. another child is seriously hurt.
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Holbrook
Neb
Herman Keilbeck
Lizzie Tierman
Canada and Abroad Budget News Condensed
Montreal reports Oct 12 news: Moe tagne Allan becomes director of Montres street railway. London notes Oct 12 Newmarket races winner Clarthaven. Petrolia Ontario reports a fatal scuffle over a land dispute. St John NB reports Alfred Lalond convicted of shooting with intent. Fire destroys City of Parry Sound steamer. Yale Cariboo Labour candidate Christopher Foley nominated while working in a mine. Ottoman steamship strikes rock and later repairs. Coroner clears Edward Taverner in political death case. Ottawa clarifies Africa force stays. Toronto burglaries. New York: Corbett plans comeback with Jeffries. Baltimore: Lyons defeats Cain. Hazleton: police killed. strikers injured. London: India crops good. famine relief down to 2.76 million.
Death of Stadame Perret's Wife in Lyons Feeds Fortune Report
Special dispatch from Lyons reports the death of Stadame Perret wife of the former senator. She leaves a fortune of many million francs.
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Paris
la Patrie
Lyons
Stadame Perret
No Comment on Timing Outshines Latin Quotation Skill
A historical aphorism highlights that restraint and the power to say no at the right moment surpass the value of knowing Latin quotes. The focus is on practical judgment over classical erudition.
Explosion at Spruce mine blasts 70500 pounds dynamite in Minn town
Eighteen hundred people evacuate as the Spruce mine powder magazine near Evelyth blows up. A 100 by 25 foot crater marks the former site with $20,000 in town losses. At least 200 hurt from blast and glass. An unidentified man seen moments before vanished.
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Evelth
Minn
Spruce Mine
Th Soentine
Canadian Troopers Die After Refusing Surrender
A Lydenberg report says five troopers from Strathcona's Horse under Sergeant Brothers were surrounded by Boers and fired upon at close range after refusing to surrender. All five Canadians killed, each reportedly accounting for three Boers.
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London
Lydenberg
Strathcona
Brothers
Redvers Buller
Machadodorp
Lord Strathcona
Ottawa
Idaho
South Africa
Halifax
St. Helena
Lydebberg
Buller
Gordon
Montreal
Cape Town
Carter
Canadian Mounted Rifles
Wonderfontein
Gerald St. Leger Carter
Manitoba Dragoons
Bloemfontein
Smithfield
Rouxville
Wepener
de Wetsdorp
Orange River Colony
Anarchist Suspect Testimony in Paterson Plot Probe
B Mazotti, named as Paterson Anarchist meeting secretary, told Supreme Court Commissioner Trimble that several Anarchist groups exist in Paterson yet disagree on killing heads of state. He said their aim is to abolish government restrictions and promote individual liberty.
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New York
Supreme Court
Trimble
Paterson
N. J
King Humbert
B. Mazotti
Mines offer ten percent wage increase at Hazleton region
Hazleton Pa Oct 11 The A Vanwicke estate operator of Col erain and Milnesville collieries and Calvin Pardee Co owners of Lattimer mines posted notices offering a ten percent wage rise to its workers Similar notices have been issued by other local firms About four independent operators have not yet offered the increase G B Markle Co expected to follow soon No march occurred this morning but crowds gathered near working collieries to keep men from returning to work with no disturbance reported
Mystery of the Mine linked to Keller murder confession
Danville Pennsylvania reports that I W Keller executed in Oklahoma has confessed to seven murders, including a 1873 Mausdale case dubbed the Mystery of the Mine. The Mausdale death of Bernard West Dossel, a former Prussian army lieutenant studying for priesthood, sparked local intrigue.
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Danville
West
Mnurder
I. W. Keller
Oklahoma
Mausdale
Bernard West-Dossel
West-Dossel
Strikers Clash at Coxe Bros Colllery Omeda Schuylkill
In Pottsville, a clash occurred this morning between striking and non-striking workers at Coxe Bros & Co colliery in Omeda Schuylkill county. Strikers massed near the colliery to urge workers to stay home. A second victim was found in the Chicago insurance frauds after Detective Smiley's confession.
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Hazleton
Oneida
Schuylkill County
Here
Pottsville
Coxe Bros. & Co
Omeda
Chicago
Smiley
Live toad found in rock near Berwick by blast workers
Workmen blasting near Berwick Scotland report finding a live toad embedded forty feet below the surface. William Barker, survivor of the Light Brigade, died at Leighton Buzzard in his ninety second year. Credulity is mocked as a common flaw among people and in instruments.
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Berwick
Scotland
William Barker
Leighton Buzzard
Condensed World News Telegrams October 11
World and regional items dated October 11 cover resignations and appointments in Winnipeg politics, harbor work resuming, a Chalifour factory fire in Quebec with insured building value, a Russian cruiser shipment, anti foreign unrest in Taishan, Chicago Orchestra’s season opener, a Cambridge election assault, a writ over alleged alienation of wife’s affections, racing stakes at Newmarket, Canadian fabric imports cautions, and a soldiers home fire in Boise with 800 inmates and 40 000 loss.
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Belleville
M. T. Conley
Madoc
Dr D. Archer
Port Perry
Boise
Idaho
Hayes
State House
Paris Order Targets Insults to President in Public
The public prosecutor instructed police to arrest on the spot anyone who publicly utters insults against the president. Government journals say the measure is needed as political discussion has grown dis graceful.
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Paris
Prisoner Death Inquest Returns Natural Causes Verdict
In Winnipeg yesterday a jury half citizens half prisoners in the jail held an inquest into the death of Carey Archibald Herman in the prison hospital. The verdict states Herman died of natural causes.
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Winnipeg
Carey Archibald Herman
Herman
Lipton Mayrenew America's Cup Challenge Reaches New York Club
Reports from London say Sir Thomas Lipton sent a challenge for another America's Cup series to the New York Yacht Club. Members there took note but no definite statement was issued.
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London
Thos. Lipton
New York Yacht Club
Morley Wins Montrose in Tight Scottish Seat
London reports John Morley secured a satisfactory majority of 1570 for Montrose Scotland down 423 from 1896. By date 337 Unionists and 184 Liberals and Nationalists have been returned in the British elections.
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London
John Morley
Montrose
Scotland
Man Dies at 111 in Leitrim Local Death Near Mohill
Bernard Killain dies near Mohill County Leitrim at age 111. He is said to be the oldest local man with a father who fought in the 1798 rebellion under General Monroe and was executed after capture. An old bachelor notes women talk so much they have no time to think.
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Bernard Killain
Mohill
County
Leitrim
Ireland
Monroe
Bryan campaigns sweep through Indiana in Bryan tour
Anderson Indiana October 8 The meeting closed at 10 tonight marking the last of several large political demonstrations tied to Hon W J Bryan in Indiana Bryan left Indianapolis this morning planning to visit many counties in the gens belt speaking in twelve venues after circling the city and delivering speeches in nine counties.
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Anderson
Ind
W. J. Bryan
Indiana
Bryan
Indianapolis
Gens
Man Choked to Death at Wabigoon Hotel
John Nottingham of Winnipeg, part of a laborer group from the Imperial Limited, died choking during breakfast at a Wabigoon hotel. He left a wife and child in Winnipeg. the incident occurred as the men paused at a local stop on their eastward work trip.
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Fort William
John Nottingham
Wabigoon
Winnipeg
Imperial Limited
Nottingham
Boers Defeated in Cape Frontier Fight and Canadian Reports
In Vredefort dispatch Orange River column clashed with Gen DeWet's 1000 men for three days from Oct 5 to 7. Boers were dislodged and demoralized with slight British casualties. Additional notes report Cecil Rhodes set to preside over South African league congress and parade statistics for the Royal Canadian Infantry. A Canadian Mounted Infantry private, McCarthy, was wounded at Belfast on Oct 4.
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London
Tuas
Vredefort
Orange River
DeWet
Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes
Congress of the South African League
Col. Otter
Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry
South Africa
Eestre Fabrieken
Silverton
Kruger
McCarthy
Canadian Mounted Infantry
Belfast
Theora Chester Declines Hawthorne Threat to Wed
Theo resists Frank Hawthorne who declares he will force marriage with a justice of the peace. She denounces his control and vows to die rather than wed him, while he vows to marry her within a day despite her resistance.
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Theo
Frank Hawthorne
Tim
Rank Hawthorne
Strathmore Hall
Theora Chester
Mr. Hawthorne
Theorn Chester
United States
Free America
Mrs. Hawthorne
Immigration official cites Poukhobours self support this winter
Winnipeg reports from Moffat of the immigration department state the Poukhobours have provided well for themselves this winter and require no outside aid. Several other brief items cover rail disasters in Neidelberg with 5 killed and 75 injured due to signalling error, militia disbandment orders in Britain, a Terre Haute strike over hours and pay, CP REs time bill, English sculling champion at Putney, a Manitoba murder in Elva, and Rockefeller extradition papers with Roosevelt’s stance.
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Winnipeg
Moffat
Immigration Department
Poukhobours
Neidelberg
Carlsbor
Terre Haute
Ind
Terre Haute Electrical Railway
Manitoba
Elva
McCrae
Matta
Attorney-General’s Department
Plague Reported in Brisbane on October 10
A fresh case of the bubonic plague is officially reported in Brisbane today marking a new health concern for the city.
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Brisbane
Professor Kindermann Lectures on Political Economy
Heidel berg professor Kindermann delivers lectures on political economy from noon to 1 PM to allow merchants and clerks to attend.
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Kindermann
Heidelberg
Note to self about independence and decision making
A brief personal reflection urges taking initiative without being swayed by external opinions. The speaker asserts autonomy in choices and actions, emphasizing confidence and self-responsibility amid skepticism.
Marquis of Butte Dies at Dumfries House
John Patrick Crichton, Marquis of Butte, died this morning at Dumfries House in Ayrshire from paralysis. The funeral arrangements were not announced.
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London
John Patrick Crichton
Marquis of
Butte
Dumfries House
Ayrshire
Bloodshed Follows Republican Escort in Chicago Streets
An organized gang attacked Chauncey Depew and his three mile Republican marching clubs escort as the line turned a street corner. The ambush in a dark alley wounded many marchers and sparked a street clash in Chicago.
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Chicago
Chauncey Depew
Sedgewickstro
Chicago Avenue
The Quiet Move To Secure Theo Chester
Dorcas Lane confronts Theo Chester as Frank Hawthorne presses for a marriage he seeks to bind Theo to. Theo faints after a struggle, Dorcas tends her while the plot thickens with Hawthorne’s warned promise of wealth tied to the union. Violet Kensington appears at Strathmay Park, signaling further intrigue.
Land in England Now 806 Times More Valu able Than 200 Years Ago
A historical press note claims English land has increased in value by 806 times over two centuries. The article discusses long term wealth shifts and property value trends affecting landowners and national economy.
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England
Dr Chase's Ointment Widely Praised for Itching Skin
An advertisement touts Dr Chase's Ointment as the standard remedy for itching and irritated skin including eczema and rashes. It cites testimonials from M A Smith in Brockville and Mrs James Bradley of Amberley and claims instant relief and thorough cure, noting a price of 60 cents a box from Toronto dealers.
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Chase
M. A. Smith
Brockville, Ont
Toronto
Dr. Chase
Edmanson, Dates & Co
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Belgaum
Ahnechacar
Rijapus
L. Neuman
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Petrolia
Ont
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O 1 Springs
Marke
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Chaussee
St. John, N. B
Canadian Pacific
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Sutton Station
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Light Brigade
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Rossland
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James Wilkes
Foley
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Edward Taverner
Isaiah Warner
Taverner
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Quebec
Get
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Jeffries
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Joe Cain
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Cain
George Hamilton
India
Lord Curzon of
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Humbert
Hazleton, Pa
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Col McMillan
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St. Boniface
Morris
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Hogan, Macdonald & Co
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Department Today
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Canadian Regiment of Infantry
Salem
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Island of
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Broken
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Laura Jean Libbey
Edence
British War Office
C. P. RE
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Putney-Mortlake
Thames
George Towns
Wray
St. Louis
Gov. Sayers
Texas
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Henry M. Flagler
Standard Oil
Roosevelt
New York State
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Doereas Lane
Theo Chester
Dorris Lane
Doreas
Dorcous
Frank
Dorcas
Aladdin
Strathmay Park
Violet Kensington
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