No News From Buller Boers Charged With Firing Upon Women
London reports no further news from the front as of January 18 at 1 am. A large crowd, including the Duke of Norfolk, waited in vain for updates on the war. Dispatch from Mafeking dated January 1 notes renewed bombardment and shelling of the women's laager killing a girl and wounding two children. Col Baden-Powell protested the shelling. Ladysmith relief rumors caused stock exchange chatter but lacked confirmation.
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London
War Office
Duke of Norfolk
Mefeking
Baden-Powell
Snyman
British Forces Demonstrate Strength at Modder River
January 17 report from Modder River Cape Colony describes General Methuen's demonstration with a division to assess Boer strength and lure them from Kimberley. Artillery fired from 4 30 pm into Boer entrenchments while guards on the right engaged with long range volleys. Boers held fire until dusk guiding retreat. six shells followed the British return to camp. No British casualties reported.
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Modder River
Cape Colony
Methuen
Kimberley
Jacopbsdal
Col Plumer Reaches Moschuai North of Mafe King
A Beira dated dispatch from January 11 reports Col. Plumer arriving near Moschuai about 100 miles north of Mafe King with a portion of his forces from Tul. Lourenzo, Marquez, Jan. 15.
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Col. Plumer
Moschuai
That City
Lourenzo
Marquez
Beira
Mafeking
Tul
Fighting at Ladysmith Amid Boer Attacks
The Daily Mail reports from Pietermaritzburg that General Buller progresses as two Boer efforts to seize Caesar's Camp and Wagon Hill were repelled. Descriptions recount Gordon Highlanders and Manchester units repelling flank assaults, heavy shellfire, and a stormy battle ending with Boer retreat and chaotic river floods.
Deathless Fire At Potgieter Drift and Spearman Farm
A detailed battlefield narrative describes a January engagement near Wagon Hill and Potgieter drift, where Boers attacked British positions. Lieuts Digby Jones and MacNaughton, Major Bowen, and Major Walnutt fall or are wounded, Gordon Highlanders and the 60th Rifles suffer, and a subsequent Times despatch notes troop movements west of Colenso and river crossings.
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Wagon Hill
Marrismith Commando
Gordon Highlanders
Sixtieth Rifles
Digby Jones
Royal Engineers
Sangar
Lieut
MacNaughton
Gordons
Edwards
Bowen
Tod
Miller Walnutt
Walnutt
London
the Times
Spearmans Farm
Lord Dunonald
Potgieters Drift
Colenso
Lyttleton
Warren
The St Mary's Bay Wreck at St Johns News Update
No new details on the steamer wreck in St Marys Bay as stormy weather hinders rescue efforts. A damaged life buoy bearing partial inscription El goland Mund, likely Geestemunde the Helgoland's port, is awaited by the magistrate while reports of recovered bodies are uncertain and shore crews persist with salvage attempts.
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St. Johns
N. F
St. Mary’s Bay
Elgoland
Geestemunde
Helgoland
French Colony in Venezuela Calls for Assistance
A Caracas despatch reports Venezuela in anarchy with government funds rejected by Caracas and Venezuela bank directors, including Frenchman M. Montau ban, arrested and jailed. The French charge d affaires says representations were ignored and the French colony at Caracas urges dispatch of the French Atlantic squadron to the Venezuelan coast.
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Paris
Caracas
Venezuela
M. Montauban
Explosion at Avigtiano Factory Kills Eighteen
Turin reports eighteen killed and forty injured after yesterday’s dynamite factory blast at Avigtiano, fourteen miles from Turin. Count of Turin and Duke of Aosta visited the wounded in the hospital.
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Turin
Avigtiano
Aosta
Chamberlains Cough Remedy Sells Well in South Chicago
Pierson drug store manager reports strong demand for Chamberlains Cough Remedy amid la grippe season. Five bottles sold per customer, praised for rapid relief of cough sore throat and lung soreness. Available from all druggists, South Chicago Daily Calumet notes growing sales and customer satisfaction.
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Martin
Pierson Drug Store
Chamberlain
la Grippe
Chicago
Quote from Uncle Eben on helping the poor
A Washington Star excerpt quotes Uncle Eben urging practical aid over sympathy for poor folks who face many troubles. He asserts people cannot be expected to repay kindness and emphasizes action over words.
New York's Big Tunnel to Hire 12,000 Workers
New York on January 17 announced that within 30 days work on the underground rapid transit tunnel will begin. An army of 12,000 wage earners will be employed, with permanent work for at least 3,000 after completion. John B. McDonald won a 35 million bid and expects full start by February 15, with four sections built to open together in about three years.
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New York
John B. McDonald
Rapid Transit Commission
City Hall
Bronx
McDonald
Metropolitan Company
Sammany Hall
Aguinaldo portrayed as traitor in war timeline reveal
A Washington dispatch to the Times reports that forthcoming government papers may show Aguinaldo was disloyal to the United States during Dewey’s Manila action. It alleges he sent emissaries to Spanish forces, even using a flag of truce, and later justified breaking his word to oppose American efforts.
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New York
Washington
The
Times
Senate
Aguinaldo
Philippines
United States
Dewey
Manila
Buencamino
Buencaming
Agustin
Cavite
Danish envoy eyes sale of Danish West Indies to US
Captain W V Christmas Dirckin Holmfeld of Copenhagen told reporters in New York he, as an accredited Danish government agent, has gone to Washington amid talks over selling St Thomas St John and St Croix to the United States. He said negotiations could end soon with a price once ranging from 18 million to 7.5 million dollars.
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New York
W. V. Christmas Dirckinck-Holmfeld
Copenhagen
Washington
United States
St.Thomas
St. John
St. Croix
Government Accepts Four Million To Pay Colonial Debts
The government signals willingness to accept four million dollars, a sum expected to enable Danish authorities to address the colonial indebtedness.
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Denmark
Death to Life Woman Revives in Undertaker’s Room
Mrs Christina Hirt of East St Louis which appeared dead was found conscious and recovering after an undertaker began to embalm her Saturday night. She told rescuing details to a hospital mother superior and to undertaker George Bruggiemeyer who corroborated parts of the account.
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St. Louis
Christina Hirt
East St. Louis
St. Mary’s Hospital
Christina
George Bruggiemeyer
Granite dispute delays Chicago post office cornerstone
Trouble persists over granite for Chicago post office with Mount Waldo Granite of Frankfort involved. After a summer strike, an agreement paying $5.60 per eight hours was rejected by the national union, leading the company to hire non union labor and risking further delays on the project.
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Frankfort
Chicago
McKinley
National Granite Cutters’ Union
Mount Waldo Granite Company
James Duncan
National Union
Crazy Old Sailor Driven Insane by Wreck Reports
Lorenzo Dehulta a 67-year-old former sailor went insane after reading accounts of a shipwreck at St Marys Bay. He smashed furniture with an axe, ripped bed clothes into strips like raft debris, and arranged it near an open window as he imagined himself adrift at sea signaling for help.
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New York
Lorenzo Dehulta
St. Mary's Bay
Bagbee Found Guilty of Murder in Second Degree
Selim M. Bagbee was convicted of murder in the second degree for the November 18 death of Robert Emerton in Norwich. The trial spanned eight days in Woodstock Vermont with State Attorney Sargent asserting malice and premeditation while Bugbee’s counsel contested warrant for deadly force. Sentencing was deferred.
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Woodstock
Selim M. Bagbee
Robert Emerton
Norwich
Sargent
Emerton
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N. H
Bugbee
Wilder
I. L. Niles
Niles
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement in Lowell Ad
A Lowell citizen Mr J J Foster testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved long alleging kidney difficulties after buying at Ellingwood Co. drugs. Ad extols nationwide praise and notes price 50 cents with Fos ter Milburn Co Buffalo as sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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Lowell
Dean
J. J. Foster
First Street
Doan
Ellingwood & Co
Merrimack
Central Streets
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
U. S
Loftus to Manage Grand Rapids in Philadelphia Move
The Chicago Tribune reports Tom Loftus will manage the American Grand Rapids team moved to Philadelphia and based there. Loftus says relations with the Chicago club are friendly and he will run the team when the season starts. The change implies a shorter stay with Chicago and settles tensions within the American league. Comiskey plans to bring his St. Paul team to Chicago, signaling a streamlined eastern circuit.
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Chicago
the Tribune
Tom Loftus
Grand Rapids
Philadelphia
Loftus
New York
Comiskey
St. Paul
A Colored Burglar in a Texas Township Shootout
Albert L. Hodge, 67, a colored burglar and Civil War veteran, fought Sheriff Snow and two deputies at Mrs. Nathan Coleman s residence in Texas township. After a dash and a volley of 14 shots, Hodge was wounded twice and captured. Deputy Clark was burned and grazed by a bullet while dodging behind a tree.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Albert L. Hodge
Snow
Nathan Coleman
Texas Township
Clark
Hodge
Two Defunct Banks In New Hampshire Face Liquidation
In Laconia Belknap Savings bank trustees announce a ten percent dividend to depositors on February 25, completing three prior dividends totaling fifty percent of funds due. At suspension it owed $961,273.93. Lake Village Savings of Lakeport plans rapid liquidation after closing just over a year ago as its securities are sold.
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Laconia
N. H
Belknap Savings Bank
Lake Village Savings Bank of
Lakeport
Lake Village Bank
Bear Trap dam opened to connect Great Lakes and Mississippi
Lockport Jan 17 The Bear Trap dam was lowered allowing water from the Chicago drainage canal to flow into the Desplaines river Col Isaac Taylor of the Canal commission said the opening marked the start of a larger project to link the northwest Great Lakes with the Mississippi River through canal construction.
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Lockport
Bear Trap
Chicago Drainage Canal
Desplaines River
Col
Isaac Taylor
The
Canal Commission
Great Lakes
Missippi River
Big Store Burned in Paterson Fire
The dry goods firm Seeger Marks and Co. in Paterson New Jersey burned today causing about 30000 in stock fixtures and building to be lost with insurance. Adjacent properties sustained damage raising total losses to between 40000 and 50000 dollars according to reports.
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New York
Seeger, Marks and Co
Paterson
N. J
Ely's Cream Balm Endorsed by Readers
Readers report Ely s Cream Balm cures catarrh and relieves headaches. Rev HH W Hathaway of Elizabeth New Jersey and W J Hitchcock of Buffalo New York praise its effectiveness. Balm is sold by druggists for fifty cents or mailed from Ely Brothers New York.
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Ely
HH. W. Hathaway
Elizabeth
N. J
W. J. Hitchcock
Buffalo
N. Y
Ely Brothers
Waren St
New York
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Stock Exchange
Daily Mail
Pietermaritzburg
Lourenzo Marquez
Transvaal
Standard
Frere
Caesar’s Camp
Caesar
Manchester Regiment
Heidelberg
Thorn Bush
Hunt Grubbe
Carnegie
Rifle Brigade
Dick Cunningham
63Rd Battery of
Field Artillery
Abby
Klip
Umbulwann Mountain
Abdy’s
ST. Mary’s Bay Wreck
Ingraham
Thirthun
Eben
Washington Star
Dr. Greene
Nervara
Sam
Massachusetts
Leg
New York's
Danish West Indies
Newmark
Ohnson
Mall
Ter Jonmson
Moe
Petladelpeta
National Granite Cutters
Crazy Old Sailor
Pearl
Ruby
Bagbee
NEW Quaker City Club
Carter & Sherburne
Bellavita Ee
Nervita Medical Co
Clinton & Jackson
Sts
Ail Druggists
Siliio
Mass
Harfina
Philo Hay
COR
R. Burtt’s
Errimack
Wees Ack Street
Tilden
C. F. Miles
Reie
Lowell Exchange
New Eng, Telephone & Telegraph Co
Bear Trap Dam
Chicago Canal
Gardner Bros
Pine Street
Westford Street
Highlands
Cushman Optical
Hildreth Building
Opera House
Fay Bros
Hosford, Props. & Managers
Geo. W. Wilson
Guv’nor
Messenger
Jarvis
New England
Katherine Rober
Music Hall
Virginia
Lincoln J. Carter
Savoy, Theatre
Ladies’ Favorite
George Bly
America
Keith's
Boston
Smith O'Brien
Ivy Leaf
Terry
Elmer
Gavin and
Platt
Frederick Brothers
Flying Orvilles
Valvino
Bessie Searle
H. B. Shattuck & Son
Central St
Vermont
Rott St. Tekek
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