Boer War News: Joubert Dies. Kruger May Lead
General Piet Joubert, chief of the Boer army, died of peritonitis. The Pretoria government seeks a state funeral with interment on his mausoleum plan. General Louis Botha may succeed him. Kruger may assume Transvaal command. London journals praise Joubert’s leadership and character.
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Daily Mail
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London
Pall Mall Gazette
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Tugela
Pietermaritzburg
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Estcourt
Barton
Moor River
White
British moves near Bloemfontein and Drakensberg passes
General French reports Olivier commands 6000 men north of Ladybrand as stores pile at Bloemfontein. Lord Roberts plans an advance likely starting next Monday with Milner preparing civil administration in newly acquired territory. Boer observation parties hover while Mafeking endures bombardment.
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French
Bloemfontein
Thaba
Pretoria
Daily Mail
Mafeking
Michael Davitt
Kruger
Tyson kin sought for 15 million Tyson estate claim
Miss Elsie Tyson of Humboldt California sailed for England with an Australian attorney to pursue a $15,000,000 claim on James Tyson’s estate in Melbourne. The search traces Tyson lineages to New Providence New Jersey and England, with kin in New Jersey and California. Baltimore fires cause about 200000 pounds in losses. Des Moines officials clash over railroad tax assessment.
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Elsie Tyson
Humboldt
Cal
England
John Tyson
New Providence
N. J
James Tyson
Melbourne
Isss
Wilson
George Tyson
Morristown
Tyson
Tyson Brothers
Australia
New Jersey
California
Des Moines
Herriott
Executive Council
Shaw
Merriam
Dobson
Consul General Gowey Advises Americans Against Employment in Japan
Gowey in Yokohama sent a reply to U S inquiries warning Americans not to seek jobs in Japan. He notes rising numbers of educated Japanese returning home and says officials will hire natives first, displacing foreigners as vacancies appear.
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Washington
Gowey
Yokohama
State Department
Japan
Beveridge Speech to Be Used by Democrats in Indiana
In Indianapolis the Beveridge free trade speech from the Porto Rican tariff debate is to be issued as a Democratic campaign document. Indiana Democrats secured a printed copy and will analyze it before distribution. The move signals a strategic use of the speech in Indiana and other states.
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Indianapolis
United States Senate
Indiana
Indiana Democratic Committee
Detroit to host supreme lodge Knights of Pythias convention
Detroit will host the Knights of Pythias supreme lodge convention next August after Major General Carnahan of Indianapolis, the uniformed rank commander, visited and chose Detroit. In Paxton and Champaign Illinois services were held for Professor George Fr., longtime head of agriculture at the University of Illinois.
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Mich
Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
Carnahan
Indianapolis
Pythias
Champaign
George Fr
Department of Agriculture
University of Illnois
Paxton
Yesteray
Macrum’s Charges Open British Censor Anger in Committees
Washington hearings reveal ex Consul Macrum alleging British censor opened mail and held cipher cables. He cites a meeting with Steyn and Consul Stowe and claims the president refused to intervene. The military committee showdown hints at further friction as investigations continue.
Very Satisfactory Apology Receveid in Diplomatic Note
Consul Howe reports a very satisfactory apology after dispatches from J G Stowe show two letters from the Cape Town consulate were opened by the censor at Durban. The United States, per a Paris 1875 convention note, may face British cable scrutiny. Russia seeks future guidance from Washington. In the Idaho debate, Lentz insults Attorney Cheney and Hull orders the remark stopped. Hay of Virginia vows to bite.
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Lorenzo Marques
Durban
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Lentz
Idaho
Cheney
Hull
Virginia
Chicago Homicide Suspect Regains Speech After Crutch Incident
Vito Paoletto, Italian saloonkeeper who killed his partner Michael Giavito, tried death by own action at the inquest but fell on the crutch and briefly recovered speech. A physician credited the crutch impact with restoring vocal cord circulation. The coroner's jury bound him over to await grand jury action.
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Chicago
Vito Paoletto
Michael Giavito
Weckjer Paoletto
Paoletto
Viadetto
Lost check recovered and paid in Montreal tale
Simeon Tripanier, now in Merrill Wisconsin, served with the First Connecticut volunteers and mailed his picture and a 500 dollar check to his Montreal father. The check was never received but a year later Tripanier learned of the lost money and traveled to Montreal where the Bank de Parque paid him 1260 dollars including principal and interest. He has returned home.
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Simeon Tripanier
Connecticut
Express
Montreal
Canada
Bank de Parque
Tripanier
Simeon
Bank de Paryue
Snow and assorted shots across a wide frontier
Snow falls in Iowa South Dakota and western states with Chicago noting an inch of wet accumulation. Various items touch on labor politics royal moves in Hungary and local crime and civic matters including a Melrose Park burglary and a planned public building site in Oskaloosa Iowa.
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South Dakota
Chicago
Federation of Labor Executive Committee
News
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
North Market
Avenue A
Oskaloosa
Case of Rev Hillis Sparks Presbyterian Controversy
Dr Hillis asks Chicago editor Dr Gray to advise on leaving the Presbyterian church over Calvinist disputes. Gray suggests Hillis may resign while noting fellow critic Herrick Johnson is called a greater heretic. The issue may reach the general assembly in St Louis May 17 and Chicago presbytery meeting next week.
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Hills
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Brooklyn Divine
Herrick Johnson
Hillis
Chicago
Newell Dwight Hillis
Beecher
Brooklyn
Gray
McCormick Seminary
St. Louis
Fatal Hunting Accident Near Tama Iowa
At noon yesterday John Croskry 29 son of Wesley Croskry an early Tama county settler lies critically wounded on the Iowa river bottoms three miles southwest of Tama after a shotgun shell exploded while Eugene Sherman loaded a Winchester. Croskry was duck hunting with a neighbor and his brother in law on the Thomas Everett farm between Tama and the Croskry homes.
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Iowa
John Croskry
Wesley Croskry
Tama County
Croskry
Eugene Sherman
Thomas Everett
Sherman
Crosbry
Jocker in Subsidy Pack Sparks Shipping Trust Talk
The Buffalo Express notes a provision in the shipping subsidy amendments requiring one third of all subsidized tonnage before Treasury can suspend payments. It suggests the rule enables competing lines to form trusts for select ports without losing government bounties.
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Jocker
Buffalo Express
Secretary of the Treasury
Omaha to Minneapolis line to open January 2
Illinois Central connects Omaha Fort Dodge with Minneapolis and St Paul via the Minneapolis and St. Louis line. The new route is to be inaugurated on January 2, Iv.
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St. Louis
Ly Mina'plis
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