Weekly Telegraph Roundup of Happenings and Strikes
The column notes Republicans winning their full Cincinnati slate while Democrats gain in Michigan. Widespread strikes hit Cleveland plumbers and St Louis painters. William J Bryan spoke to 18,000 in Seattle. A Newport Ark fire causes 600000 in damage. Boers cut off communications with Kimberley. Puerto Rican franchises delayed until government forms. Two Astoria boys drown in the Columbia. Boers win seven guns and 860 men near Bloemfontein. Manila endemics raise death rate above 40 per 1000. Web Davis resigns to lecture. Roosevelt-backed bill repeals boxing law. Manila seeks stable government. Joe Pete escapes Carson death sentence. Philadelphia theft: diamonds and 16000 stolen. coachman suspected. British launch captured by pirates. pilot killed. Battles near Bolivar yield thousands dead. A rock-dwelling man nearly starves after being abandoned. Berlin underground railroad planned costing 25 million. Philippines crackdown on outlawry continues. Puerto Rico trade blocked until tariff settled. Kearsarge turrets pass tests. Botha appointed Boer commander. Cambridge overwhelms Oxford in boat race. Crater Lake National Park proposed. Seattle printers push up job costs. Russia maneuvers. war with Japan unlikely. John Haywood convicted of murder in Kansas City. Counterfeiting arrest in San Francisco. entire cutto captured after petroleum tanks ignite in train accident. Indiana coal mines operate under wage talks. many idle.
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Cincinnati
Michigan
Cleveland
Wiliam J Bryan
Seattle
Newport
Ark
Roberts
Kimberley
Vast list of 1900s world events and political notes
A digest of late news items includes Chicago electing 19 of 35 aldermen, Dewey’s presidential bid and museum plans, Queen Victoria’s Dublin visit, and a Paris exposition feature. Also noted are coal trusts, National Guard efforts, bridge bombings at Logansport, Havana sewer plans, and Aguinaldo in Singapore.
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Chicago
Nicaragua Canal Commission
New York
Admiral Dewey
Beeton
United States
Queen Victoria
Dublin
Ireland
Mexico
Snntheonica Institute
Peck
Vanderbilte
Morgans
America
Plumer Near Makeking Suffering Casualties in Cavalry Action
London, April 7 dispatch reports sharp fighting near Mafeking on April 2. Col Plumer’s cavalry repulsed Boer attacks at Kamatabama with twenty of his men killed and six captured. Simultaneously Boers threaten lines south and east of Bloemfontein as Roberts withholds pursuit to conserve horses for the forward march.
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London
Lurenco Marques
Mafeking
I’lumer
Kamatabama
Plumer
Roberts
Bloemfontein
War Office
Cape Town
Free State
Simonstown
SANNAS POST AMBUSCADE REPORTS CAPTURED PAPERS AND BOER VICTORY
The dispatch covers the Sannas Post ambuscade near Brandford Orange Free State on April 9. Boers under Commandant Dewet killed three British and wounded 110, capturing 889 prisoners. British papers reveal invasion plans from Mafeking to Johannesburg and routes via Dr Jamieen. Rebels reported in Venterberg Prieska Kenhardt Calvinia and Fourteen Streams.
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Moore
Piane
Brandford
Orange Free State
Borghers
Sannas
Karre
Korn
Dewet
Otder
Nix
Winburg
Transvaal
Johannesburg
Mafeking
Jamieeen
Wistakee
Bloemfontein
Kroonstad
Vientereberg
Prieska
Kenhardt
Calvinia
Samas Pent
Blaters
Appeal to the Powers
President Steyn speaks at the Free State Raad opening in Pretoria April 9. He says Bloemfontein’s surrender did not fulfill boer hopes, war was forced on the Transvaal, and the Orange Free State must join in a true republic per treaty terms. He criticizes British truces and seeks neutral powers’ intervention.
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Pretoria
Free State Raad
Steyn
Bloemfontein
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Joubert
Balisborg
Europe
America
Congress Delays Hawaii Territorial Bill To Conference
Washington April 9 after four days of debate the substitute for the senate bill providing a territorial form of government for Hawaii goes to conference. Hill of Connecticut pressed amendments to create a resident commissioner and to deny any pledge of statehood but both failed. Deboe of Kentucky signaled a move to refer ex Senator Blackburn credentials.
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Washington
Senate
Hawaii
Hill
Connecticut
Congress
Deboe
Kentucky
Aestice
J. C. 8. Blackburn
Fron
Nce Calamitios
British and Boer movements amid East Cape action
Dispatches describe Boer detachments near Bethanie and Bamfontein with infantry and mounted units moving from Gif anie toward Tractstevens. The report notes temporary gunfire and a near surrender, while British forces pursued and observed Boer activity within 60 miles of Bisons and 90 miles south of Bethanie. General Villebois-Mareuil is referenced in a separate note from London.
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London
Cameron
Bethanie
Dersburg
Sition
Offontein
Bowe
Tractstevens
Bisons Fentetn
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Webster Davis
Roosevelt
Philippines
Joe Pete
Manter
Carson
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Cheek Heung Shan
Bolivar
Venceeael
Vrel Heornandes
Ul Penaloss
Richardson's Bay
Berlin
Fuerto Rico
Silicon
Marylam
Washington, D
Louis Botha
Cambridge
Oxford
McDride
Crater Lake
Oregon
Russia
Japan
John Haywltp
Kansas City
Robert Bradley
Barclay
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Wiedivkokes
Caucasus
Indiana
Thurston, Or
Military Board
National Gnard
Prince of Walea
Brussels
Copenhagen
Christian
Logansport
Ind
Burlington
Michael J. Cady
Brooklyn
Havana
W J Bryan
Tacoma
Wash
Idaho
Oklahoma
Indianapolis
Legislative Council of
Trinidad
Aguinaldo
Singapore
Minneapolis
Hawaiian Islands
Marine Hospital Service
Ilinois Brick Company
A. Agassiz
South Seas
Pomotos
Tahiti
Society Islands
Cook, Earage
Tonga
Suave
Eiltes
Gilbert
Mareball
Easr
Quam
Makeking
Gaberones
Bechuaoalanis
Primer
Zecrast
Mafekin
Plumber
Lobatski
Snyman
Beviews
Fort Worth & Denver Hoad
Fort Worth
Denver City
Magenta
John F Dine
Denver
John J Kunts
A. M . Scrozgin
Slizath
Frank Lane
Sail
John F. Dane
Express
J. B. Chapman
Ieene
Ren and Steel Prests
Sloss Iron & Steel Company
Sloee- Sheffield Iron & Steel Company
Slece-Bhefiek
Ateck
Stee Iron & Steelompany
Wevetiat
A Tat
Sannas Post Ambuscade
The
Free
Stee Raad
Dlawallyh
Villebels Maren
Miele Methwen
Villebuie Maroull
Huamacho
Peru
Gottfried
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