Joy in London as Mafeking relief sparks nationwide roar
London erupts in a nightlong celebration after news of Mafeking relief. Crowds flood streets, theaters empty, and banners rise as Londoners mix East and West End in a mass chorus. Saloon doors ignored and songs from Rule Britannia to Way Down on the Suwanee River echo through the capital.
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Nowna
Great Britain
Mafeking
Ladysmith
Hoors
Mansion House
Whitechapel
Piccadilly
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Commons
Heaven
Lambeth
Fleet Street
Strand
Kensington
Mayfair
Belgravia
Regent Street
Paris
East
Suwanee
John Brown
Nover
Violence in St Louis strikes strain city and police
Reports from St Louis describe escalating streetcar violence during a general strike. J R Richardson shot and beaten, a special officer disarmed, patrolman Barton shot, with numerous arrests including a woman. Fragments mention barricades, torpedoes, dynamite, and a city invoking emergency measures amid widespread unrest.
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Laclede Avenue
J. R. Richardson
Vandevonter
Laclede
Grand Avenue
Barton
Jefferson Avenue
House of Delegates
Easton Avenue
Ormar Schools Girls Rebuked For Train Behavior
In Willimantic Connecticut May 19 the Normal school faculty denied suspending any students after reports claimed 14 were suspended. Fifteen young women were summoned and urged to stop flirting on the train and to show better conduct or discontinue attendance. The students say the suspension story began as a joke and they regret the publicity.
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Willimauti
Conn
Sharp Lesson to Filipinos Rebels Attack an American Post in Samar
Insurgent general Delos Santos surrendered to American forces at Bulacan near Manila. On May 1 in Samar, 700 rebels attacked Forty third Volunteer infantry at Catarman, one American killed, another wounded, and two hundred insurgents killed. Major Gilmore then pursued rebels to Pambujan. Rebels attempted to ambush at the city bridge. 75 insurgents killed, one American wounded.
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Cubig
Forty-third Infantry
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Pambujan
Plumbers Union Locked Out by City Association
Kansas City Master Plumbers' association voted 29 to 6 to lock out all union plumbers who kept ties with the Building Trades council after Tuesday. The move will idle between 250 and 800 workers amid strikes and lockouts leaving little construction except for the convention hall.
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Kansas City Plumbers
Kansas City
Master Plumbers’ Association
Building Trades Council
Aguinaldo Proclamation Urges Freedom Amid Commission Clash
A May 4 proclamation, circulated in Manila, claims the McKinlay commission lacks congressional authority and warns Filipinos not to surrender arms. It urges welcome of the commission yet asks for the form of government desired and condemns deception while calling for renewed liberty and independence.
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Philippine Commission
Widow's cousin dies in charity home move amid failed investments
From Sydney New South Wales to Nashua New Hampshire the week reports a cousin of the late Go Binghamton Jay Gould lineage, Moore, aged about 58, entering public charity after failed investments. He will relocate to East Phargalia with a family next week. A separate note from Nashua protests chaining insane patients at Hillsboro county farms. In Hartford City Indiana a five acre strawboard factory fire at Utility Paper destroyed buildings and contents valued around 100000 after a gas engine explosion.
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N. Y
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Peter
Moore
Jay Gould
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Mr. Moore
East Phargalia
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Inenne
Nashos
N. H
New Hampshire Federation of Women’s Clubs
Hillsboro
New Hampshire
United States
Hartford City
Ind
Utility Paper Company
Tragedy at Boarding House Ends in Acid Suicide in Binghamton
Thomas Kelly of Binghamton, New York, drank carbolic acid after a quarrel with his sweetheart Miss Nellie Dillon and died soon after. Earlier, Kelly had warned of self harm as he faced dismissal at work. The incident occurred in a boarding house parlor and leaves his sweetheart having left town prior to the tragedy.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Nellie Dillion
Kelly
Mary Fenton kills husband in Indianapolis murder case
Mrs. Mary Fenton, long known as the Terror of Vermillion county, killed her husband Samuel Fenton last night in Indianapolis by stabbing the heart. The couple, recent Indiana transplants from the Indian Territory, had quarreled after her release on a prior knife attack on a minister. Fenton, who worked in the mines, explained his wife’s alleged incorrigibility as the reason for their vows. Local authorities report prior killings in the mining camps.
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Attar
Indianapolis
Mary Fenton
Vermillion County
Samuel Fenton
Fentan
Indiana
Indian Territory
Cholera Clamps Indian Camps as Death Toll Rises
A Hyderabad despatch reports rapid cholera spread across famine camps with 46 camps attacked in one division. Gujeras sees the most virulent outbreak and thousands have perished. Godbra camp reports thousands more casualties, signaling an impending large loss of life.
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London
Hyderabad
Gujeras
Godbra
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