Cronje Surrenders With 2400 Prisoners to Cape Town
Panicked Boer defense collapses as General Cronje capitulates unconditionally at Paardeberg. Roberts reports 2400 prisoners to be moved by rail toward Cape Town, while Britain erupts in celebration across England on the anniversary of Majuba.
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Bilis
Cape Town
England
War Office
Lord Roberts
Paardeberg
Tise
Intelligence Department
Canadian Regiment
Gorden Highlanders
Secone Shropshires
Cronje
Crosse
Prettaman
Toalay
Fading Jubilation Amid News of Natal Campaign Movements
Reports say the city is quiet after Tuesday’s jubilant outbreak while observers note heavy losses and continued interest in Euler’s ventures. Cranje’s army at Magersfontein is missing heavy guns, with thousands unaccounted for, rumored to have moved north toward Bloemfontein and joined Boer reinforcements near Asvogel under General Joubert.
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Euler
I- Techwth
Natal
Manchester Gruanltan
Cranje
Magersfontein
Kimberley
Methuen
Tanger
Roberts
Bloemfontein
Cronje's Small Force Foils British Hope for Great Victory
London reports Roberts notified the government that prisoners totaled 4 600, far fewer than expected. Cronje's 4 000 man force challenged 45 000 British troops for ten days, casting doubt on a decisive early win for the British.
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London
Roberts
Cronje
Prisoners Burned to Death in Forest City Incident
Forest City Ark special reports Frank Hogan and Charles Norris prisoners at the station house burned to death at 4 AM Sunday. Authorities believe the fire started as an attempt to keep warm. Both men were jailed for minor offenses and little is known about them beyond their names.
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Forest City
Ark
Frank Hogan
Charles Norris
What a Victory Paris Cable Report on Cronje Surrender
The Libre Parole hails General Cronje’s surrender to General Roberts as a glorious victory. It describes three thousand starving men hindered by women and children, ammunition exhausted, crushed by twelve thousand well-fed troops fed on rum whisky plum pudding beef and pale ale.
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Paris
Libre Parole
Cronje
Roberts
Dance tragedy at Pound's Gap ends in murder and injuries
A fight during a dance at Bill Mullins home near Pound's Gap ends with death and multiple injuries. John Newberry dies two hours after being shot, Ed Newberry fatally wounded, Mullins jailed, Luella Mullins stabbed, and Keller shot in the knee. Police guard installed amid lynching threats. Pound's Gap recalls December murders of the Wrafts brothers.
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Toursville
Whitesburg
Pound's Gap
Bill Mullins
Virginia
John Newberry
Ed Newberry
Luella
Mullins
Keller
Dickinson County
Clintwood
Jennings Brothers
Pound
Wrafts Brothers
Boers Massing for Defense Across Free State Front
London report that 590 burghers left Ladysmith for the Free State as Boers concentrate thirty miles from Bloemfontein. Steyn urges universal male conscription while Kruger contemplates peace overtures amid reinforcements marching through Bloemfontein and Mafeking volunteers preferring local farms to far campaigns. The Pretoria government eases debt with gold and Robberts invasion looms in the Orange Free State as mobilization nears 900 to 1000 Boer fighters.
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London
Jarrenza Marques
Steyn
Kruger
Mafeking
Pretoria
Robinson Bank
Roberts
Orange Free State
Mene Latiosmith
Imperial tariff debate spans House and Senate actions
The Porto Rican tariff bill dominates week with Republican factions clashing as Mr. Ray and Mr. Long back the bill while Mr. Henry denounces it as dangerous. Senate discussions on Hawaiian affairs continue with land and forestry probes and a Quay seating dispute coloring Thursday through Saturday sessions.
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Ray
New York
Long
Kansas
Henry
Texas
Colonies
Porto Rico
United States
Secretary
House
Senate
Clark
Morgan
Secretary of the Interior
Hawaii
Secretary of Agriculture
Grosvenor
Ohio
McCall
Massachusetts
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Moody
McClean
Brantley
Georgia
Parker
New Jersey
Democratic National Committee
Penrose
Washington
Littlefield
Maine
Jefferson
Jackson
Renton
William McKinley
Lincoln
McKinley
Congress
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Pennsylvania
Quay
Mr. Daniel
Dem
Daniel
House of Representatives
Tawney
Minnesota
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Mr. Eddy
M Miinesota
Messrs. Clayton
Alabama
Broussard
Louisiana
Platt
Connecticut
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Mr. Morgan
Payne
Richardson
Bilandly
Turley
Tennessee
Tillman
Spooner
Deliver
Iowa
Bailey
Dolliver
Depew
Philippines
London Cabinet Discusses Free State Detachment Policy
A late week cabinet meeting reportedly considered a policy to detach the Orange Free State from the Transvaal as British forces gain ground. The plan hinges on a Free State faction, the Frazer party, opposing the alliance with the Transvaal against England.
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London
Transvaal
South Africa
Cronje
Stormfontein
Free State
Frazer Party
England
Plague Cases Reported After Twelve Day Silence
The Australia arrived from Honolulu with news of three new plague deaths after twelve days without cases. Two Chinese and a Chinese Hawaiian died, with infections linked to contaminated food from a Chinese store. A burning block near the woman's residence was previously suspected and destroyed.
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San Francisco
Australia
Honolulu
Associated Press
Prohibitionists Set State Convention in Indianapolis
The Prohibition committee announced a state convention will be held in Indianapolis on May 1 and 2. The dates were moved from the last week of April to avoid conflict with the Republicans' choice of dates.
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Prohibition Committee
Indianapolis
Anniversary of Opening of the Revolution Celebrated in Santiago
The article notes General Wood declared Saturday a holiday in honor of the revolution in Santiago de Cuba. Most businesses closed except for a few American houses as Cubans mark the Fourth of July spirit. The Antonio Maceo Club hosted speeches focused on creating a Cuban republic and funding the Cuban army through a first loan.
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Santiago de Cuba
General Wood
Antonio Maceo Club
United States
Big Restaurant Combine Formed With Seven Million Capital
New York announces Childs Unique Dairy Company Elsworth Childs and A W Dennet join to create a national restaurant group with 7 000 000 capital stock. The merged interests operate in major cities and plan lunch rooms in cities of any size nationwide.
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New York
Childs Unique Dairy Company
Elsworth Childs
A. W. Dennet
United States
Melineux Sentenced to Die at Sing Sing
Roland B. Melineux was sentenced Friday to die in Sing Sing during the week of March 2 for the murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams. He was taken to the penitentiary Friday afternoon and claimed in court that he had not been fairly convicted and that yellow journalism had put a price on his head.
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Melineux
New York
Roland B. Melineux
Sing Sing
Katherine J. Adams
An Awful Seance Sauls Interview With Samuel
A sermon by Dr. Talmage denounces modern spiritualism as fraud and doom. He recounts Saul seeking a medium at Endor, the conjuring of Samuel, and warns that spiritualism corrupts faith, harms minds, and leads to infidelity, urging a noonday Christian seance with the Bible as guide.
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Dr. Talmage
Saul
Vilage
En-dor
Samuel
King Saul
Spirit's Call and Warnings on the Door of the Heart
A sermon opens with a fiery exhortation about the Holy Spirit and divine invitation. The speaker urges listeners to heed the Spirit because it will not always strive with them and warns against grieving or quenching the call to Christ.
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God
Christ
Wireless Telegraphy and the Marking of Marconi's Path
The article traces wireless telegraphy from Hertz and Maxwell to Marconi. It cites Henry, Fitzgerald, Lodge, Hughes, Onesti, Branly, and the coherer as key steps, noting Lodge’s remark that only stupidity delayed long distance wireless.
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Marconi
Hertz
Maxwell
Michael Faraday
Henry
James Clark Maxwell
Fitzgerald
Dublin
Lodge
Hughes
Onesti
Branly
Catholic University of Paris
A Corporal's Guard of Cripplies
Washington correspondence notes a contrast between war costs and losses in the Spanish American War. Pension officials say early rulings protected crippled soldiers and widows, with only 29 amputations in battles prior to Santiago and fewer than 50 amputations in Cuba Puerto Rico and the Philippines to date.
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Spain
United States
Evans
Pension Bureau
Surgeon General
Santiago
Sternberg
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
Washington
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Cheap Wool Production Promised in Mississippi
The Mississippi climate permits year round grazing with abundant wild forage, boosting wool potential though fleece quality may vary by heat. The state reports 300,000 sheep in Jackson County and an Ocean Springs offer of land for a woolen mill as part of local efforts to process wool domestically.
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Mississippi
Jackson County
Ocean Springs
New York Post
Longtime helper cooks for Dr Holland and bride
An obituary style note honors an employee who has served Mrs. E. Holland for twenty one years. The worker prepared the first post wedding meal and continued to cook for the household at house keeping duties.
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Mason
Mre
Nf. E
Holland
Dr. Holland
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