Roberts Faces Boer Army Near Paardeberg
London reports Lord Roberts at Osfontein about 5 000 to 6 000 Boers awaiting action. British camp at Osfontein improving under rain as troops, transport, and half rations are managed. Cronje’s laager attacked. wounded Boers numbered 179. Reinforcements and horses urged to support the British.
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London
Lord Roberts
Osfontein
Paardeberg
Ladysmith
Lord Roberta
Lords
Bloemfontain
Dowet
Delarey
Joubert
Admiralty Board
Cape
Admiralty
Marsh
Gousil Rhodes
Kimberley
Remington
Botha
Dolerey
Dewet
Natal
Pourteberg
Cronje
New South Wales Medical Corps
General Cronje
New South Wales
Bkimberley
Hoanfred
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
India
Builders Stand Firm In Bridgeport Labor Strike Push
In Bridgeport on March 8 contract ors and builders refused to meet union demands for an eight hour day with full wages. Tradesmen including bricklayers carpenters joiners plumbers and others vow to continue the fight May 1 date threat of a citywide construction stoppage. Simultaneously rumors from Madrid say US Britain and Germany have helped form a Spanish government to address Philippine island concerns not covered by the session to America.
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Bridgeport
Spalo
Philippines
Madrid
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Philippine Islands
America
Miss Elida Wilbur Emerges From Two Year Trance
In San Francisco on March 3 Miss Elida Wilbur began to recover from a two year trance following a quarrel with her betrothed James Dunphy. She spoke the line Nobody loves me now and her doctors monitor her uncertain recovery as gas exposure and a cataleptic state are noted.
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Elida Wilbur
San Francisco
Miss Wilbur
James Dnophe
Bay
Death of Hotel Keeper After Rusty Nail Scratch
Lawrence Akins of New Rochelle dies at 33 after scratching his left thumb on a rusty nail. Doctors were called when swelling began, amputation was urged but refused, and he died three hours later. Coroner Banning ordered an autopsy.
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Rotel Korper Akins
New Rochelle
Lawrence Akina
George A. Lyons
E. W. Codding
Akins
Sensational divorce case ends in Bridgeport
Charlotte A. Devine Pendleton of Stratford was granted a divorce from Samuel Pendleton of Bridgeport by Judge Shumway on grounds of intolerable cruelty. Pendleton may resume her maiden name. The couple wed November 2, and she left his home November 18. The case featured conflicting testimonies and a coroner’s report not supporting the plaintiff.
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Pendleton
Bridgeport
Charlotte A. Devine Pendleton
Stratford
Samuel Pendleton
Shumway
Samuel Pendiston
Miss Devine
Doten
Chambers
Mrs Molineux Defends Self Against Baseless Attacks
Blanche C Molineux wife of Roland B Molineux issues a Brooklyn statement denying vile insinuations about her character. She defends her husband and rebukes a prosecutorial line tying her to a death and to Henry Barnet while recounting yacht trip details and public accusations.
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Starlers
Osborne
New York
Blanche C. Molineux
Roland BR
Molinenx
Brooklyn
Waldo Stearns
Boston
Portland
Mr. Molineux
Alwave
Roland
Henry Barnet
Asine
Barnet
McKinley Visit Highlights New York Arrival
President McKinley and party arrive in New York. Carriages tour West 21st Street to Madison Square to view the Dewey arch. They stay at the Manhattan Hotel with elaborate decorations and Mrs. McKinley attending a theater performance.
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New York
McKinley
West 21Th Street
Madison Square
Manhattan Hotel
Hig Hong
Porto Rican tariff bill moves to Senate debate
In Washington on March 3 the Porto Rican tariff measure began Senate consideration under Mr Foraker of Ohio guiding the bill. Two amendments were discussed. The session also covered the Quay case with Senator Hoar urging seating based on constitutional intent to maintain the Senate’s full quota.
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Washington
Senate Committee On
Clark
Montana
James W Kemper
Butte
Wood
Maral
House
Senate
Porto Rico
Foraker
Ohio
Quay
Hoar
Maassachusetts
Train Wreck Injures New Britain Man Roger Egan
Roger W. Egan of 1 South Burritt Street was the sole New Britain casualty in a late Thursday wreck. He sustained a head cut but was not seriously hurt. He described the train as traveling at 40 to 50 mph before a trestle crash sent the smoker car down an embankment. Egan aided a man who worked for P H. Condon of Bristol and escaped through a broken window with another passenger. The wreckage hampered clearance and rescue efforts.
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New Britain
Roger W. Egan
South Burritttreet
Farmington
Egan
P H. Condon
Bristol
Himerlf
Aras
Secretary Root Leaves Washington for Cuba Mission
Secretary Root departed Washington for a two week flying trip to Cuba with Mrs Root Miss Root Edward Root Colonel Carter W S Coursey and Arthur Brooks. A special Southern railroad car carried the group toward Havana to confer with General Wood on pressing issues and Havana’s uncertain future.
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Root
Washington
Gen. Wood
Cuba
Secretary Root
General Wood
Havana
Roberts Nominee for Congress Ends Utah Convention
Salt Lake City March 3 The republican state convention nominated J T Hammond for congress to fill the vacancy caused by B H Roberts exclusion from the house. A platform endorsed the McKinley administration and attacked the democratic party for incompetency and bickering. The platform omits expansion and financial questions. Alarm from Australia reports Chamberlain telegrams and secret cabinet meetings across colonies while Danbury Kid captured in New Haven for attempted mail robbery. Reilly identified as alias.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Congress
B. H. Roberts
House of Representatives
Washington
J. T. Hammond
McKinley
Mir. Chamberlain
London
Daily Mail
Sydney
N.S. W
Mr. Chamberlain
War Office
Ramorearning
New Haven
Greenwich
Conn
Lawlor
Dorman
Fair Street
Danbury
Reilly
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