Myrtle Point News Rounds Up Week's Global and Local Happenings
A sweeping weekly digest notes Cecil Rhodes heading to England and Princeton College seeking a million for a law library. Reports cover Cuba, San Francisco trade strikes, fires in New York, and competition in imperial powder and sewer pipe manufacturing.
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Rob Fitzsimmons
United States
C Lay Manufacturing Company
Nearea
Wash
Hoine
Boers feelijiudes and global events headline reel
General Joubert takes impreme command of the Boers while Ex-President Harrison backs the Boers. War costs in the Philippines reach 5 million dollars. Ladysmith relief losses near 2000 casualties. Tutuila to be naval station. Philadelphia dry goods fire costs 700000. Koers retreat at Ladysmith blamed on a misstep. Queen Liliuokalani fund proposed at 250000. Puerto Rican tariff denounced from pulpit. Bank planned in Lone Morrow county with 25000 capital. Labor strife in Chicago displaces 50000 workers. Civil war fears in China amid imperial dethronement. Senator Hoar backs 250000 grant to Queen Liliuokalani. Consul appointment in Chung Kiang confirmed. Dr Nansen comments on Andre fate. Plague in Honolulu under control. Cape Colony Boers retreat toward Orange Free State. General Joe Wheeler in San Francisco from Manila. Congress tariff repeal talk on paper. Pauncefote kept as ambassador. Sugar dividend down amid Arbuckle issues. Yaqui Indians disperse 800 Mexican troops near Potam.
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I’are Food and Drug Congress
Washington
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Birmingham
England
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Andre
Honolulu
Boers Outwitted and French Cavalry Presses Their March
London reports the Boers avoided a stand and retreated eastward while French cavalry harassed them with rifle fire. General French stays between the Boers and Bloemfontein as British forces gain rail crossings in Cape Colony. Reports of peace overtures prove unlikely. British command realignments are under way.
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Paris Theater Francais Burns In Devastating Fire
The famed Theater Francais in Paris burned fiercely by noon and was soon a roaring furnace. The fire destroyed the Comedie Francais home, its ceiling murals, manuscript library, and Voltaire statue, while artists Madame Dudlay and Mademoiselle Henryot were aided from danger. The theater had reopened only two weeks earlier after renovations.
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Voltaire
Houden
Canadian War Office Accepts Recruits for Contingent
Minister Borden reported to Ottawa on March 10 that a cable from the war office accepts men for the Canadian contingent with full first South African service.
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War and political tensions in South Africa and US theft case
Reports from Pretoria state General Cronje surrender acknowledged yet bolstering resolve for independence. Boer burghers retreat to Ladysmith Kimberley no longer besieged as Dewet leads commandos. In the US treasury service arrest follows $10,000 embezzlement by Edward Grimmell. Pompton fuse factory blast kills four and injures many at Smith fuse plant.
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United States
Rebels drive natives from town amid northern column battles
Spanish forces under General Legaspi press the South Camarines province as rebels and local defenders clash. Forty men are reported killed or wounded in several engagements while villagers flee and the town is burned.
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Control of Philip General Wheeler Suggests
Fragmented OCR text discusses Wheeler's remarks on governance, self rule, and social order. It references municipal governance, economic systems, and national strength. The piece mentions France and Britain in wartime contexts and debates about American leadership and policy.
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