Battle Reports Hint at Major Engagement Soon in South Africa
Dispatches from Colenso and Ladysmith indicate a large battle expected within days. Reports from Lord Roberts and Kruger detail stubborn fighting at Plat-Rand and near Ladysmith with near hand-to-hand combat and heavy artillery activity.
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Colenso
London
War Office
Persem Sane
Cape Town
Lord Roberts
Amon
Plats Rand
Plat-Rand
Pretoria
Lourenzo Marques
Ladysmith
Durban
Chieveley
Frere
Congress Teeters Over Philippine and Financial Bills This Week
The senate resumes debate on the Pettigrew Philippine resolution and Hale seizure issue, with Rawlins and Pettigrew speaking in the morning, followed by Berry's general address. Aldrich plans daily financial bill discussion. The house focuses on routine work, paying tribute to Vice President Hobart Friday, and passing urgent deficiency and pension appropriation bills likely to spark debate over army and navy appropriations and pension office conduct. Roberts case unlikely until next week.
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Woasl Lington
Senate
Pippines U
Rawlins
Utah
Pettigrew
Berry
Arkansas
Great Britain
Aldrich
Hobart
Army
Philippines
Pension Office
Roberts
Military movement and reconnaissance report from Colesburg area
Fragmentary notes describe a January 11 cavalry advance from Sitlumger’s farm toward Horlaager east of Colesburg Junction. A January 16 left flank action failed to outpace the enemy while cavalry and horse artillery reconnoitered and pushed north, with further movements and pacification efforts referenced in December terms.
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Modder River
Babington
Victorian Mounted Rifles
Free State
Pilcher
Belmont
Klokfontein
Honey Nest Kloof
Maj. Byrne
Jacobsdal
Ramdon
Lubbe
Col. Pilcher
Gen. Babington
Ladysmith
London
Lourenzo Marques
Methuen
Sitlumger
Horlaager
Colesburg Junction
Orig Gat
Flood Claims Three Lives In Kendrick Idaho
Flooding of the Potluch river in Kendrick Idaho on January 15 leaves three dead including three Hamblin children after a buggy overturns during escape. Many homes and stores are washed away, railroad tracks and a warehouse with 50,000 bushels of wheat are lost, and residents flee to nearby hills.
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Kendrick
Idaho
Potluch
Hamblin
German Farmers Die After Gas Incident in New York
Two young German farmers from Ackley Iowa, John Woessner and George Lehman, stayed at the True Blue on Saturday night. One man released the gas and Woessner's body was found Sunday. Lehman later died in a hospital. Woessner carried several hundred dollars.
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New York
John Woessner
George Lehwan
Ackley
Germany
True Blue
Second Avenue
Woessner
Lehman
Coal Shortages Force Shutdowns in Schuylkill Valley
In Philadelphia on January 15 authorities report coal shortages. The I. E. G. Brooke Iron plant at Birdsboro is shut down for days. Reading Iron is nearly coalless and may undergo a temporary closure. Other valley plants report similar shortages.
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Philadelphia
Schuylkill Valley
Birdsboro
I. E. & G. Brooke Iron Company
Reading Iron Company
Boys drown in Louisville pond after wharf collapse
Three Louisville youths Richard French Thomas O'Brien and Charles Pachow drowned in a pond Saturday while playing on a roll weakened by warm weather. In Butte a blast at the Celsuna Marrett mine killed Joe Melivich and Joseph Maxwell who were working underground.
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Louisville
Richard French
Thomas O’brien
Charles Pachow
Butte
Mont
Joe Melivich
Joseph Maxwell
Celsuna-Marrett
Snow Benefits Northwestern Wisconsin Loggers
Snow is general in the northwestern part of Wisconsin and will prove beneficial to loggers, reports from Milwaukee dated January 15.
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Milwaukee
Denver Editors Shot in Office Encounter at Noon
F G Bonflis and H H Tammen editors of the Evening Post were wounded by attorney W W Anderson after a dispute about a pardon. Bonflis is critically wounded in the neck, Tammen wounded in the chest but expected to live, Anderson jailed and later released on habeas corpus.
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Denver
Col
F. G. Bonflis
H. H. Tammen
The
Evening Post
W. W. Anderson
Bonflis
Kansas City
Tammen
Anderson
Office of
the Post
Post
Packer
Man Eater
Miss Anthony
Gov. Anthony
Kansas
Polly Pry
Bontilis
Virginia
Louisiana
Donflis
Missouri
Leadville
Deadwood
Chicago
C. P. Butler
Denver Athletic Club
Five Die In Merrimac Fire At Home
A. Blanchard aged 65 his wife 43 and boarder William Money 58 were burned to death in their Merrimac home on Saturday night. Fire partially blamed on kerosene lighting and possible explosion. bodies found unrecognizable.
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Manchester
N. H
A. Blanchard
William Money
Merrimac
Death of Felix Morris in New York at 53
New York reports the death of character actor Felix Morris at his city home on Saturday at age 53. He leaves a widow formerly Florence Wood of San Francisco and two young daughters. Morris first appeared publicly in Lotta's support in Musette and found early success as the reporter in Michael Strogoff. He worked with A. M. Palmer's stock company then Rosina Vokes' company for seven seasons, achieving his greatest triumphs in old man's roles.
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Felix Morris
New York
Florence Wood
San Francisco
Lotta
Hanging Pictures Artistically Joke From Chicago Record
A Chicago Record quips on picture hanging methods by suggesting a practical method to hang art properly. The remark contrasts artistic setup with the simple rule of not hanging pictures upside down.
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Chicago
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Kruger
Colesburg
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Transvaal
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Charles Warren
Weenen
Gobbler
Warren
Commandant de Villiers
England
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