History Pauses in South Africa as Roberts Prepares For Move
London news reports a tense pause as British nerves fray after defeats by the Boers. With troops due next month, Lord Roberts may direct Buller to attempt Ladysmith relief and invasion plans involve Methuen French Gatacre, totaling about 70,000 troops toward the Free State. Casualty totals rise while resource allocations for 116,000 British home troops, 7,158 Italians, and 91,000 Cape Colonials are outlined.
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London
South Africa
Lord Roberts
Free State
Buller
Ladysmith
War Office
Fae
Methuen
French
Gatacre
The
Ladygamit
Parame
Evereody
Lomien
Bea
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Wilkinson on Boer War outlook and British strategy
Spencer Wilkinson criticizes concealment of the truth and urges bold military resource development. He predicts possible attacks on Chieveley or Ladysmith, argues for increased home troop training, and calls for raising 80 000 to 100 000 troops.
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London
Spencer Wikingen
Ladysmith
Buller
Chieveley
Wilkinson
Bngland
Beneft
Mason Defends Transvaal War View Against British Officer
Senate debated the British stance as Senator Mason assailed the British government and a New Orleans vice consul over remarks on his Transvaal war position. Supporters urged caution toward Britain while denouncing aggression. Also covered were weather bureau reform fights and Sulzer Secre tary investigations. Helen Gould aided Berea College with a $5,900 gift as part of a $560,000 fund.
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Mason
Washington
Senate
New Orleans
Transvaal
Great Britain
Hoar
Rep
Maes
Lodge
Mass
United States
Tillman
Weather Bureau
Sulzer
Iage
Committee On Rules
Ways and Means Committee
Richardson
Tenn
Gaze
Hopkins
Ille
Hill Conn
Dalzell
Helen Gould
Berea
New York
Jan. Si
Alumini Club
Union Theology Seminary
St. Dennis
William Goodell Frost
Berea College
Kentucky
Helen M. Gould
Treasury balance and gold reserve report
The Treasury reports available cash balance of 290,289,469 dollars and a gold reserve of 217,786,028 dollars as of January 30.
Crown Princess Victoria ill with consumption
News briefs report Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden suffering from consumption. Other items note heavy storms in France, U S supreme court recess, Cincinnati club trip to New Orleans for March practice, and various political and international notes.
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Victoria
Sweden
France
United States Supreme Court
Cincinnati Baseball Club
New Orleans
Senate
McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Chicago
Pawtucket
R. J. Lord Salisbury
Lady Salisbury
Cornell University
Maude Gonne
Joan of Arc
New York
The
American Peace Society
Philadelphia
Baye
Transvaal
LA Grippe
Terrible Four Late Bollers Give Way
Four late Bollers faltered in a tight finish as the race concluded with a decisive surrender by the favored team. Officials cited a surge by rivals in the final laps altering the outcome.
Dozen Men Injured In Pittsburgh Mill Explosion
A four boiler battery exploded at Phillips Nimick Co mill in Pittsburgh on January 30 injuring a dozen workers and killing fireman Simon Holland. Five victims were severely mutilated and several others scalded as thousands gathered to witness the ruin.
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Pitteburg
Phillips, Nimick & Co
Simon Holland
Homeopathic
Daniel Noonan
Holland
Americans Shot by Order of Mexican General Torres
The U S secretary of state reports six Americans believed shot near Guayuas by order of General Torres for being found with Yaqui Indians. Consul Kindrick in Juarez seeks confirmation and details for the ambassador. A second item notes a 1900 Cuba withdrawal resolution introduced by Mr Clayton.
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Torres
Washington
Secretary of State
United States
Kindrick
Juarez
Mex
Don Cusack
Jack Eldridge
George Lunt
Charles Burns
Tou Webster
Henry Williams
Guayuas
Navy cablegram from Schley reports Porto Ensenada plague note
A cablegram from Admiral Schley reports Porto Ensenada on Jan 24 with Bubbonte plague epidemic at Rosario 100 miles away and a squadron sailing for Montevideo. Separate dispatches note Prof. Phelps’s patient Gilbert remains gravely ill with pneumonia and a bleak outlook.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Schley
Porto Ensenada
Rosario
Montevideo
New Haven
Conn
Pr. Gilbert
Edward J. Phelps
Yale Law School
England
Miners and Operators Fail to Reach Scale Agreement
In Indianapolis a joint convention ended with heated debate over coal mining scale. The miners seek run of mine basis, higher tonnage rates, and day labor adjustments across Indiana districts, while operators push a nine-cent per ton advance on lump coal with a base at 75 cents per ton in the Hocking valley and proportional gains for inside day labor.
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Bcale
Indianapolis
Indiana Block
District 11
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Pittsburg
Iinojs
Hocking Valley
Lewis
Magnetic Healer Parboiled to Death in Bath Tub
Grand Rapids reports the death of magnetic healer Le flander found in a bath tub. His flesh peeled from the bones as the body was lifted. His brother George lay on the floor unconscious and未 recovered. Water heated by steam apparatus likely caused the fatal scene.
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Grand Rapids
Leflander
George
Fraudulent Butterine Dealers Face U S Commission
Chicago January 30. John R Rooney and Walter H Butler are before a United States commissioner on charges of violating internal revenue laws. Officials allege they operated as wholesale dealers in buttering without licenses and removed stamps from oleomargarine packages to sell the product as butter.
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Chicago
John R. Rooney
Walter H. Butler
United States
Labor war looming as Chicago contractors act
Nine contractors associations and the Central Contractors association moved to trigger a city wide labor conflict in Chicago building trades by sending unions rule copies, aiming for Feb. 5 action. Also notes delays in Moore embezzlement case, Kentucky election contention, and a Dr King’s New Discovery promotional claim of cures.
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Chicago
Contractors’ Associations
Central Contractors’ Association
Latering
Can of Gold Found by Worker in Indiana Mine Area
Sherman Worfrey, a laborer near Mt. Mitchell, Indiana, uncovered a tin can with $750 in pre Civil War gold while digging with the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern. The coins, believed buried during the Morgan raid, were invested by Worfrey in a homestead at Underwood.
Missing Loganport man reappears after twenty years
James Sullivan, long sought by relatives in Logansport Indiana, reemerges after twenty years. He says he worked in British Columbia mines and planned to open a pool hall in Dawson City after a Napa California stop. He mentions a past quarrel with a teacher at age 13 and notes his inheritance awaiting settlement. He may claim property here.
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James Sullivan
Logansport
Ind
United States
Mann
Harry Doggett
Napa
Cal
Pon
Dawson City
British Columbia
Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey Ad Promises Cure
An old advertisement claims Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey liberates users from lung troubles and consumption if taken timely. It asserts cough relief and restful sleep, promising cure for coughs colds croup whooping cough and grip with oxygen-rich blood and fat formation. Prices listed 25c 50c and 1.00.
Former Indiana undertaker leader ill in Anderson
Frank Munchhoff once led the Indiana Undertakers' association is gravely ill in Anderson after a Saturday collapse. Doctors suspect a brain base blood clot and caution remains high about his condition.
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Indiana Undertaker's Association
Anderson
Ind
Frank Munchhoff
Indiana Undertakers’ Association
Joseph Munchhhoff
Laurel
Indianapolis
Indicted inmate in murder case at Cass County
Logansport Indiana January 30 John Mitchell an inmate serving an indeterminate sentence in the Jeffersonville Reformatory for attempted criminal assault on Mrs Julia Kehoe has been indicted by the Cass County grand jury for murder Mrs Kehoe died from her injuries a few weeks after Mitchell was sent to prison
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Logansport
Ind
John Mitchell
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Julia Kehoe
Cass County
Grand Jury
Kehoe
Mitchell
Soldiers murdered near Calina in Panay Islands
The U S W dispatch from Hoatio Panay Islands dated December 26 reports three soldiers missing at Calina have been found murdered. Dennis J Vinges William Dugan and Michael Tracey of Company F 2d Battalion 26th Infantry were killed in a cocoanut grove with rifles and ammunition belts taken and their throats cut and bodies mutilated.
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Watertown
N. Y
Standard
Ths
26Th Infantry
Hlotio
Panay Islands
Dennis J. Vinges
William Dugan
Michael Tracey
Calina
Hughes
Co. F. 2d Battalion
26Th Regiment
Silk Thieves Strike Multiple Michigan Cities Looting
Silk burglars looted Herman Zeese store in Michigan City with 450 dollars in plunder and are tied to earlier thefts in Goshen Elkhart South Bend Valparaiso La Porte and the total value now estimated at 5000 dollars. O R Hatfield a former local police member in Mentucky Kentucky was recently convicted of murder at Pikeville and given six months in jail and a 100 dollar fine.
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Michigan City
Ind
Herman Zeese
Goshen
Elkhart
South Bend
Valparaiso
Laporte
Mentucky
Munele
O. R. Hatfield
Pikeville
Hatfield
Kentucky
Matfield
Celluloid comb on fire during sermon at Evangelical church
In Logansport Indiana Miss Mary Warden’s celluloid comb ignited near a hot stove during a fervent exhortation. A church member wrapped her head with a rug and the blaze was put out with minimal injury to Miss Warden.
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Logansport
Ind
Evangelical Church
Mary Warden
Standard Oil Dividends 1882 to Present Revealed
A statement by CL T Dodd of the Standard Oil Co shows dividends varying from 5 percent in 1882 to 33 percent in the current year. The Industrial Commission released the figures, noting no plan to issue warnings to the public about green goods operators. Post office officials say no circulars warning the public are planned at this time.
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Standard of! Company
Washington
CL. T. Dodd
Industrial Commission
Post Office Department
Warships to Bluefields and reform party meeting
Advices from Nicaragua report Italy will join Norway in sending warships to Bluefields to collect claims for damages to their subjects. In Chicago a meeting aims to organize the Union Reform party with a single plank the initiative and referendum. Banner Salve advertised as a cure for chapped hands and cracked lips.
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New Orleans
Nicaragua
Italy
Norway
Bluefields
Union Reform Party
Chicago
Illinois
Draggist
Stoppered Run Ignites Close Call with Buck on Bangor Camp
Antoine Parent, a French Canadian logger in Old Town Bangor, was crushed by a 200 pound buck after leaping to catch the frightened animal. The boss shouted stop and workers rushed in as the deer charged. Antoine delivered a tackle that felled both men and buck, but survived after treatment at Greenville.
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Antoine Parent
Oldtown
Bangor
Jim
Tom
Antoine
Heem
New York Sun
Yaas
Manuscript Flaws Highlighted in Trial Comments
A lawyer laments flawed handwriting analysis while an editor notes a manuscript was not typewritten. Washington Star quotes tension between expert and attorney over misread handwriting. Walker's Tonic is advertised as restoring vital force by uplifting brain function heart action and nerves per D Knoefel.
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Washington Star
Walker
D. Knoefel
London famine relief fund eyed after Curzon report
The India Office reports 3,500,000 people are receiving famine relief and a Mansion House fund is expected to be started in response.
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London
India Office
Lord Curzon
Judge Harrison files probate estate inventory in New Haven
Judge Lynde Harrison, executor of Henry B. Plant's will, has filed an inventory in probate court totaling 16 952 500. The report notes the estate value and lists the appraisal.
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New Haven, Conn
Lynde Harrison
Henry B. Plant
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