Mafeking Siege Reports Mixed As News Flows In
Dispatches from March 16 to 18 describe Mafeking as holding its own on quarter rations with no relief yet. Reports detail Boer reinforcements, ongoing bombardment by a home made gun, and clashes at Fourteen Streams. Attacks on natives and protests accompany Irish Patrick’s Day celebrations worldwide.
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London
Pretoria
Mafeking
Lourenzo Marques
Cape Town
Drummond
Peadman
Lobatsi
Eloff
Zerust
Schwartz
Aasvogelkop
Pitsani
Kimberley
Warrenton
Windsorton
Stadt
Baden
Dillon
Tipperary
Ireland
Dublin
Dulin Corporation
Aldershot
Reveille
Garry Owen
St. Patrick’s Day
Wexford
South Africa
Lord Roberts
Bloemfontein
Rudyard Kipling
Dominion
United States
New York
Chicago
England
Eighteen Hundred in One Batch Desert ers Bring in Artillery
Field Marshal Lord Roberts reports from Bloemfontein that 1 800 Free Staters surrendered at Molenburg after a junction with General Gatacre. Deserters arrived at Belmont Colesberg with weapons including a Maxim. Lord Methuen reached Warrenton to secure the Vaal dam and reopen the railway to Cape Town. A 2,000 strong Amazon corps at Pretoria is noted and calls for peace spread as rifles flow to British authorities.
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London
War Office
Lord Roberts
Bloemfontein
Guards’ Brigade
Norvals Pont
Pele- Carew
Sprinvngfontein
Gatacre
Pele-Carew
Neval's Pont
Clements
Lord Methuen
Warrenton
de Pent
Vaal
Cape Town
Daily News
Pretoria
St Patrick Celebrated by Queen in Empire Honors
London observers report St Patrick Day celebrated with royal ceremony and Empire wide display of green. Crowds wore shamrocks and green ribbons, Eva the Orangemen joined, and Ladysmith Day imagery appears in public pageantry across the city.
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London
Queen Victoria
Eva
Orangemen
Ladysmith
England
Mortgage filings, discharges shift statewide in Michigan
State labor bureau finds in thirty four counties mortgages filed in 1930 are on average one percent lower than last year. Thirteen counties show no change while thirty report a twelve percent average rise. Farm mortgage activity drops most. Mortgages discharged rise twenty one percent across fifty six counties, with eleven counties showing declines. Real estate dealers report higher activity and prices. overall value up about eighteen percent.
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Lansing
Mich
State Labor Bureau
Drainage Canal Litigation Remands Sanitary District Case
A petition for rehearing is filed in the Illinois Supreme Court in the consolidation suit between the People by B M Chipperfield, state's attorney, and the Chicago Sanitary District concerning the canal commissioners. The court had remanded after reversing Fulton county circuit court, and practically enjoined dam removal on Minvis river at Henry and Copperas Creek unless Lake Michigan discharges keep navigable depths. Cedar Rapids suspects dynamite incident as a joke. Col James A Wildman dies at 66. he served as state auditor, legislator, postmaster, and held Odd Fellows leadership roles.
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Springfield
Ill
Supreme Court
B. M. Chipperfield
Chicago Sanitary District
Canal Commissioners
Circuit Court
Fulton County
Sanitary Trustees
Minvis
Henry
Copperas Creek
Sanitary District Act
Sanitary District
Lake Michigan
James A. Wildman
Milwaukee
Howard County
Indianapolis
Board of Trade
The
Odd Fellows
Manila Center of War Faces Gag on Mabini and Insurgent Tactics
Manila dispatch reports General Otis labeling Mabini’s circle the most troublesome center as insurgents in Luzon rally from Hong Kong and Manila. Rebels threaten Congress with favorable terms, while arms smuggling and brigandage surge across Morong, Nueva Ecija, Zambales, and Samar.
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Congress
Manila
Otis
Manish
Hong Kong
Mabini
Flores
Spain
Philippines
Luzon
Louis Spitzel
Louis Spitzel & Co
Taylor
Thirty-ninth
Calamba
Morong
Zambales
Mascarde
Nueva Eciga
Nueva Ecciga
Albay
Legaspi
Donzel
Major Allen
Fortythird Regiment
Iskiuid
Samar
Lukban
Kobhe
Leyte
Gen. MacArthur
Lepanto
Union
Euinalle
Mad Luck Strikes Couple in Jamestown Incident
In Grand Haven Michigan on March 19 John Watson of Jamestown tripped going outside and broke his leg. His wife hurried to help and fell breaking her left arm.
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Grand Haven
Mich
Johnnn Watson
Jamestown
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House
Monroe L. Hayward
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Mildred Jackson
Richardson
Tennessee
American Steel and Wire Company
Federal Steel Company
Ade
Stein Kali
Royal Household
Carter
Lloyd's
Ming See Ee
Mason
Eeeee
Mennen
Clark
Colgate
Aig
Adis Asad
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