War Near End as Botha’s Wings Carried by British
Buoyant London reports say South African war nearing end with Buller’s forces advancing on Botha. Machadodorp captured, Kruger displaced. Boers retreat toward Lydenburg region while Delagoa Day railway seizure looms as proof of defeat. British prisoners released march to Watervalhoven. Kruger and officials at Nelspruit near the Portuguese border. Magpar cyclone damages Mafeking.
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London
Lord Roberts
Botha
Buller
Machadodorp
Kruger
Heer
Elandsfontein
Tduller
Helvetia
Lydenburg
Transvaal
Delagoa Day Railway
Lorenzo Marques
Mooit Gedbacht
Machadadorp
Tmocrs
Lord Ruberts
Watervalhoven
Nelspruit
Pretoria
Delagoa Lay
Mafeking
Bombardment at Mafeking Destroys Camp Hospital
The attack damaged many buildings in Mafeking and flattened the military camp hospital. Suffering followed as the sick and wounded faced exposure. One person was killed and two injured amid numerous narrow escapes.
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Mafekingas
Tragedy at Barnett Home Ends In Deaths
Shots fired at the dining table in James Barnett's home on Howard's Creek kill Mrs. Nancy Barnett, her year old granddaughter, and Mrs. James Bennett. James Bennett is charged with the shooting as family dispute over hosting dinner escalates. one wounded man says the others may have been targeted but intervened after the gunfire. Local report cites multiple victims seated together during meal.
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Daeckson
Lpme
James Barnett
Howard's Creek
Nancy Barnett
James Bennett
Jnes Bennett
Beng
Swoden
Barnett
Peace Proposals Meet With Favor In Global Talks
Shanghai dispatch reports Chinese authorities captured 12 miles from Shanghai eight robbers with one to be starved in a cage. Amoy quiets as Japanese and British guard the concessions. A European audience favors the American Russian withdrawal proposal to enable peace talks and Li Hung Chang as intermediary. Guards at Peking gates to be maintained by foreign ministers, Americans at the south gate. Japanese hold three others. German government surprised by U S and Russia move.
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Shanghai
Amoy
Vropoxnla
Hhondon
Wieking
Li Hung Chang
United States
Russia
Peking
Lie Wang Chane
Yeo Bielaw
Early September World News Briefs Across Nations
Telegraph sheets report German claims of protecting Yangtse valley with nine warships en route to China while Japanese and allied forces tally in Peking relief operations. Von Waldersee lands at Aden to prepare command of international China forces. Li Tung Chang comments on foreign troop withdrawal and order restoration. U.S. plans to move troops from Peking to Tientsin, while a Detroit bridge collapse injures none. Shamokin miners polled to stay at work amid strike threats. A Chicago Northern derailment at Nidott kills one engineer Patrick Ryan and injures several others.
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Promines
Berlin
Haakow
William
Erman
Yangtse
China
Washington
Peking
Aden
Count von Waldersee
Wang Chang
London
Shanghai
Li Tung Chang
Hung Chan
Cen
Chaffee
Tientsin
Conger
Bridge
Detroit
Mich
Races Stile at War Spurred by Lynch Threats
A riot erupted in New York after an apple core struck a white vendor, William Kohles, who had earlier been stabbed by a Black man. White mobs threatened Black residents as police dispersed the clashes. a Black man and his family hid in a saloon as officers intervened. A Black woman armed with a hatpin and razor provoked another raid on Ninth Avenue, with police restraining a growing mob after a confrontation with a man named Michael Grannin. Separate reports note a request from Baron von Ketteler’s widow to Yokohama, a major flood in Santiago de Cuba, and a fire in Potosi wrecking much of La Crosse.
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New York
William Kohles
Weat Forty-eighth Street
Kohles
Forty-eighth Street
Charles Brooks
Brooks
William H. Petillo
Tuth
Lee Springle
Springle
Ninth Avenue
West Thirty-seventh Street
Michael Grannin
Thirty-ninth Street
Grannin
Crippled Farmer Slain by Son in Quarrel near Marielle
A. Woods, a farmer near Marielle, was shot and killed during a quarrel with his wife on September 4. The 18-year-old son was exonerated by the coroner's jury. Also reported is the death of Andrew Cornwall of Alexandria Bay at 87, co founder of the Thousand Islands resort.
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Wis
Cedar Rapids
A. Woods
Marielle
Watertown
Andrew Cornwall
Alexandria Bay
J. J. Walton
The
Thousand Islands
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Chicago & Northwestern
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Nidott
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Michigan Central Railroad
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Santiago de Cuba
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Potosi
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Shepherd's
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Real Estate
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