British Hold Off Boers Despite Heavy Ladysmith Bombardment
Reports from Frere Camp on January 6 give conflicting updates on Gen White’s efforts near Colenso and Ladysmith. British forces repulsed Boer assaults at least once and carried out bombardments while Gen Buller fears continued pressure and possible fall of Ladysmith.
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London
Frere
White
Gordon Highlanders
Manchesters
Buller
War Office
Colenso
Clery
Cen. Hildyard
Barton
Hianwane Hill
Fort Wylie
Ladysmith
Daily Chronicle
Frerecamp
Daily Mail
Umbulwhna Hill
Chievely
Suffolk Regiment
Forestier-Walker
Cape Town
French
Col. Watson
Kuruman
Pretoria
Lourenzo Marques
Cornet Visser
British Bechuanaland
Bates
Dennison
Hillyard
Bearne
Vryburg
Great Britain
Bryan in Chicago cheers for Liberty and democracy
William J. Bryan league members gathered at Tremont house Chicago on January 8 to honor Bryan. Mayor Harrison and speakers from Wisconsin Michigan and Kentucky addressed the crowd while Bryan criticized imperialism bank interests and anti trust laws. He defended the currency bill and gold production supporting democratic monetary theory.
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Chicago
William J. Bryan
Tremont House
William Jennings Bryan
Harrison
Joseph LB. Doe
Wisconsin
Thomas E. Barkworth
Michigan
James H. Mulligan
Kentucky
Altgeld
Col. Bryan
England
McEnery
United States
Senate
Philippine Islands
Col Bryan
Republican Party
House
Bryan
Weyler
Democratic Party
Fatal Row in Kentucky on Otter Creek
News from London Kentucky reports a large fight at a Otter Creek schoolhouse in Clay County. Sige Lewis and Gen May were shot and kiled, four others seriously wounded. The clash arose during a Jacksons trial for killing another Jackson. Four men were jailed in Manchester.
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London
Otter Creek
Clay County
Sige Lewis
May
Jackson
Manchester
Train Collision Near Mount Clemens Injures Several
Mount Clemens Michigan reports Car No 17 of the Rapid Railway Detroit and Mount Clemens line crashed into an open switch at a gravel pit four miles south of the city Sunday evening. Mrs Carrie Riley of Detroit is badly hurt Mrs Ed Shabman has a broken arm and dislocated shoulder Frank Newey also suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder. Several others are injured.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Rapid Railway
Detroit
Carrie Riley
Ed Shabman
Frank Newey
Fire destroys Bloomingdale warehouse in East Fifty ninth street
A Sunday morning blaze destroyed the brick factory building at 338 to 342 East Fifty-ninth street causing about 100000 dollars in damage. The Bloomingdale Bros owned the structure used partly as a storage warehouse and they suffer the most losses.
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New York
East Fifty-ninth Street
Bloomingdale Bros
Gen William Glenny dies at 69 in New York
Brevet Brig. Gen. William Glenny dies in New York at age 69. He rose from colonel of the Sixty-fourth New York volunteers in the Civil War and was brevetted brigadier general for gallantry. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks.
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New York
William Glenny
Sixty-fourth
New York Volunteers
Fair Oaks
Norwegian steamer Ansgar sails for Kobe with cotton load
The Norwegian steamer Ansgar under Capt. Amundsen cleared New Orleans and will sail to Kobe, Japan within days carrying 12 000 bales of cotton. It is the third direct Japan voyage this season for a steamship.
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New Orleans
Ansgar
Amundsen
Kobe
Japan
Piano Lamp Return Fracas in New York Weekly
Mrs McCarlem demands a refund for a piano lamp sold by a dealer. The seller questions the complaint, and Mrs McCarlem protests it is worthless, insisting the item be taken back.
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New York Weekly
Prominent Catholic Priest Rev. Dr Edward McGlynn Dies
Newburgh New York Rev Dr Edward McGlynn rector of St Marys church died at the rectory after seven weeks of heart failure and Brights disease He had gained notoriety years earlier as a labor movement leader He was 62 last September Archibishop Corrigan arrived to offer prayers and mourners prepared a testimonial earlier in his ministry he celebrated his first mass New Years Day 1895
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Newburgh
N. Y
Edward McGlynnn
St. Mary's Church
Bright
McGlynn
St. Mary's
Jesus
Dr. McGlynn
Archbishop Corrigan
St. Mary’s Rectory
Government declines to interfere with Masset death sentence
London reports that home secretary Sir Matthew White Ridley refused to intervene in the death sentence given to Mile. Louise Masset, a French governess in England, for murdering her illegitimate three year old son who stood in the way of her planned marriage. The execution is set for next Tuesday.
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London
Matttew White Ridley
Mile
Louise Masset
England
Jones supporters plot move to Senate by forming party
In Toledo on January 8 supporters of Mayor Samuel M. Jones announce plans to organize his nonpartisan campaign into a party or movement aimed at winning several congressional districts in the region next fall and potentially electing Jones to the United States Senate in 1902.
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Want Jones
Toledo
Samuel M. Jones
Jones
United States Senate
Lumber Workers Shot Down In Pensacola Mills
Fred Diden a white lumber mill worker in Santa Rosa county was ambushed and fatally shot on his way home. Two black coworkers from the same mill were found dead Friday morning. Authorities say the killings stem from strife between union and nonunion laborers.
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Pensacola
Fla
Fred Diden
Santa Rosa County
National Building Trades Council Opens in Milwaukee
The annual convention of the National Building Trades council opens in Milwaukee today and is expected to run through the week. Delegates from a large number of unions have arrived with representation from sixteen trades unions and nearly every section of the country.
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Building Trades Council
Milwaukee
National Building Trades Council
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