Meerkatsfontein Battles Run High in Boer War News
Dispatches recount General De Wet inflicting defeats near Meerkatsfontein and potential Boer captures of 900 British with 60 killed or wounded. Reports from Pretoria and London discuss water shortages, cautious news from Lord Roberts, and Methuen’s movement toward Hoopatad amid shifting Boer positions.
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London
Daily Mall
Brandfort
de Wet
Meerkatsfontein
Daily News
Pretoria
Delagoz Bay
Lord Roberts
Miles Willing to Run as Democratic President Nominee
Gen Nelson A Miles shows willingness to be Democratic candidate for president. He told friends and spoke with William C Whitney about the possibility ten days earlier. Whitney said leading gold Democrats oppose Bryan nomination as they did four years ago, and did not commit support.
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New York
Nelson A. Miles
Wm. C. Whitney
Whitney
Bryan
Supreme Court Decision Upholds Indiana Gas Waste Law
The Ohio Oil Company v State of Indiana case affirms Indiana's prohibition on boring wells to vent gas, ruling the state law valid under the federal constitution. Justice White notes a coequal right of surface and subsoil owners, preventing one from harming others by waste and protecting private property from undue take.
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Washington
Justice White
Supreme Court
Ohio Oil Company
Indiana
White
United States
Tuske White
Boers Advance in Orange Free State Tactics
Boers rally near Bethulie Orange Free State aiming to retake and destroy a bridge over the Orange River. Extraordinary precautions set as forces lie twelve miles east. They now hold much of the Free State east of the railway and are buoyed by gains at Reddersburg and Kroneprak.
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Bethulie
Orange Free State
Orange River
Free State
Reddersburg
Korneprak
Despatches Detail British Losses Near Bethany in War
London reports from April 7 reveal British forces facing captivity near Bethany after a clash near Reddersberg. Lord Roberts confirms five companies captured and Methuen’s forces kill Villebois Mareuil, with nearly no news on the larger disaster, heightening public concern about Pretoria’s approach.
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Reddersberg
Lord Roberts
Pretoria
London
War Office
Bethany
Hhis
Bloemfontein
Royal Irish Fusileers
Ninth Regiment of Mounted Infantry
Gatacre
Springfontein
Cameron Highlanders
Utica Presbytery Debates Revised Creed
In Little Falls New York Utica Presbytery met in session and heard Rev Dr Taylor advocate removing from the Confession of Faith the paragraphs on election and reprobation. Dr Hillis of Brooklyn had resigned from the Chicago Presbytery over the issue. Rev B W Brokaw of Utica supported the change and the session referred the proposal to the bills and overtures committee.
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Little Falls
NS. Y
Utica
Taylor
Climton
Presbyterian Church At
Rome
Hillis
Brooklyn
Chicago
B. W. Brokaw
First Presbyterian Church of
Committee On
ARMY BOERS OBTAIN FORMED ARTILLERY PIECES
Times correspondent reports trustworthy refugees say the Boers acquired at least thirty artillery pieces overland from a West African port. Eight guns were sent to the Free State a week earlier, with officials boasting of arms smuggling through Portuguese territory. State Engineer Munnik admitted to drilling holes in twenty five movies under pressure from State Secretary Reitz.
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London
Times
Lourenzo Marques
Free State
Triat
Munnik
British losses in South Africa exceed five thousand horses monthly
Bloemfontein notes a steady stream of remounts while authorities estimate monthly British horse wastage in South Africa at not less than 5608. The figures reflect the toll of ongoing conflict and supply strain during the campaign.
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Bloemfontein
South Africa
New York Special Reports Strong Business of Company
The annual meet notes Geeal year surpassing $14,000 with four months of business totaling $2,590,000 per month. The company is said to be operating at over 8 percent of the United States’ best ness.
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New York
United States
A Night of Terror and a Lynching Scandal
A fifty year old hotel keeper Geo W King of Oxford Indiana endured a mob lynching over a false murder confession after a scheme with Dr Rowe. He later sued the Horse-Thief Detective Company for 25000 dollars and the case settled amid a public outcry.
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Indianapolis
Geo. W. King
Oxford
Ind
Dr. Rowe
King
Rowe
East
Horse-Thief Detective Company
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Evansville Special Confesses to Post Office Safe Blasts
Adam Zeber, a 42 year old noted crook with a long prison record, confessed to blowing a Midland Spencer county post office safe last Monday night taking 10 pennies and 0 cash. He also confessed to robbing two safes in Booneville on February 13. Zeber has appeared in rogue’s galleries nationwide and is linked to prior crimes in Owensville Princeton Oakland City Carmi and other towns. He once used the alias Bill Gorman and served time in Joliet and Paris Indiana.
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Evansville
Adam Zeber
Midland
Spencer County
Zeber
Booneville
Ind
Norton, Jones and Linden
Owensville
Joliet
Paris
Bill Gorman
Princeton
Oakland City
Carmi, Jr
Gene Ackerman
Crawfordsville Crusade Aims to Clean Up City Immorality
Reverend Wallace Tharp of the Christian Church launched a systematic crusade against immorality with a Sunday sermon titled What Crawfordsville Needs. He criticized licentiousness and amusement, targeted barrooms gambling and vice, and urged creation of a city eye inspector while praising mayor and officials for hearing the message.
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Crawfordsville
Wallace Tharp
The
Christian Church
Danny
Judge Hicks rules Lewis wins in Fairbank resort case
In Lebanon Judge B S Higgins awards Zimri C Lewis damages of 200 and issues a permanent injunction against William Tron and the Terre Haute Brewing Co. from selling intoxicants outside the licensed room. The ruling cites violation of the Nicholson law and deems the management a public nuisance affecting the plaintiff’s quiet at home.
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Lebanon
B. S. Higgins
Indianapolis Fairbank
Zimri C. Lewis
William Tron
Terre Haute Brewing Company
Tron
Fairbank
Noblesville City Council Approves Central Traction Right of Way
After a long session Noblesville grants 3 right of way through the city to Central Traction Railway Company. Horace Stilwell of Anderson and Charlies H. Ford of Kokomo oversee the project. The company secures county Franchises for segments through Atlanta Arcadia Westfield and other short county sections totaling under three miles. The Noblesville franchise lasts forty years and the line runs Kokomo to Indianapolis via Tipton Atlanta Arcadia Cicero Noblesville Westfield Carmel and Broad Ripple. Work begins at once with completion planned between Noblesville and Indianapolis this summer.
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Noblesville
Central Traction Railway Company
Horace Stilwell
Anderson
Charlies H. Ford
Kokomo
Atlanta
Arcadia
Westfield
Nobblesville
Indianapollis
Tipton
Cicero
Carmel
Broad Ripple
Indianapolis
Ft. Wayne
Princeton Special Arsenic Tragedy Ends in Death
Daniel Dougan twenty four son of a prominent farmer from Francisco died after taking arsenic given by his cousin William White for quinine. Dougan fell ill Friday evening and died Sunday night after medical help was delayed. White says he bought the drug for quinine. the druggist sold pure quinine. The coroner conducts a thorough investigation.
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Princeton
Daniel Dougan
Francisco
William White
Dougan
White
Bunco Scheme Snared Richmond Merchant in Jay County
Finley Myers of Jay County a country merchant fell for a Cincinnati based bunco in a hotel setting. He paid $300 for $4,000 in fake money and green goods, expecting delivery by express but received nothing and alerted police. Investigations aim to locate the con artists.
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Richmond
Finley Myers
Jay County
Cincinnati
Myers
Express
Divorced and Remarried in Huntington
Dr. J. M. Hicks of Huntington and his ex wife Zella Hicks reconciled after a separation that led to a divorce. Hicks sought to remarry his former wife and, after a brief courtship, they wed on February 27 with Rev. W. T. Wells of the Christian Church officiating in a quiet ceremony.
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Wabash Special
J. M. Hicks
Huntington
Zella
The
Christian Church
Hartford City Paper Mill Find Reveals Diamond In Box
A box found in a bale of paper at the Hartford City paper mill reveals thirty one large brilliant stones believed genuine diamonds. The tin box, wrapped in parchment, bears an address to London and a notation of a fabulous sum. Bonner, the machine tender, is greatly elated by the discovery.
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Hartford City
Bonner
Bugland
London SC
Rollevan
Joshua and Ai Ambush Lessons From a Biblical Battle
A sermon compares Joshua's ambush at Ai to modern Christian work. It highlights a victorious retreat, the transient triumph of the wicked, the value of ambush strategies for opportunity, and the need for clear aim and bold, disciplined action in faith.
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Joshua Vili
Ten-Year-Old Handles Urgent Doorbell Run
A poor Up Town family’s ten-year-old girl answers multiple doorbell rings while her parents are away. Milkman, ice man, and grocery man circle the house as the child tells each visitor no one is home. The scene ends with the girl sighing and her father stepping out to face the day.
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Old City
Joshua
Wellington
Waterloo
Meade
Lee
Gettysburg
Old Town
Joahua
Israel
Decanter
Washington Post
Cigarette Smoking Spreads Among English After Crimea War
A correspondent notes that prior to the Crimean War English smokers mainly used pipes or cigars. After soldiers returned, cigarette rolling spread from military officers' mess rooms to civilians, and consumption is now estimated at about eight billion cigarettes annually in Britain.
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England
Crimea
America
Russia
London News
Stories of Blackmore the market gardener and his men
The London Daily News recounts tales about Blackmore a market gardener who faced frequent cheating in fruit trading seed and manure deals. He amused himself with stories of carters who overcharged and a farmer who offered manure at a discount bluffing the price.
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Covent Garden
Blackmore
London Daily News
Chatham Island Holdings of Black Cats Noted
Captain Reinman reports Chatham Island near Ecuador hosts black cats in lava crevices. The island lies near Guayaquil with the equator passing through it. He studied grounding of a deep sea cable for the Gala Pagos group and observed cats as the notable wildlife.
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John ©. Reinman
Chatham Island
Ecuador
Guayaquil
Capt. Reinman
Galapagos Group of Islands
Cata
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Meerkatsfonteijn
Wepener
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Hoopatad
Bloemhoef
Transvaal
Gen
Miles
Willin
United States Supreme Court
Low Roberts
Sieet Fusileers
Methuen
Ds Villeboia Mareuil
Berees
Almeet
4Xapolis Southern Railroad
Schaffer
Peter
Indianapolis Southern Railroad
John E. McGettigan
David M. Parry
William E. Stevenson
GE. Barrett
James H. Wilson
Indianapolis Southern Railway
Nashville
Brown County
Brown, Jackson
Hroyd, Clark and
Orange
Jeffersonville
Clark County
Salem
Washington County
Orange County
West Baden
Electric K Railway
Dr. Talmage
John Bunyan
Bedford
Longbridge
Bethaven
Jersey Heights
Am- Dbuah
Hmanuel
Church of God
Kingdom of God
Austerlitz
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Jesus
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Ladysmith
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