Boers Hold Off as British Advance in Free State
London reports from March 19 to 23 describe Gen. Roberts preparing for a new move in the Orange Free State. British forces occupy Springfontein and Norval’s Post while Boers retreat and bury arms amid scarce resistance. Proclamations claim the Free State remains intact despite Kruger’s annexation claims.
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London
Orange Pree
Gatsere
Springfontein
Pole-Carew
Clements
Norval
Free State
South Africa
Kruger
Lord Kitchener
Prieska
Modder
Bloemfontein
Joubert
Winburg
Kroonstad
Orange Free State
Lord Roberts
Gatacre
Brabant
Pretoria
Daily Mail
Kroonstadt
Cape Town
Moemfontein
Alfred Milner
Voers
Denetsdorp
Col. Plumer
Mafeking
Steyn
Four masked men hang and mutilate a man near Carthage
In North Carolina near Carthage, four masked assailants attempted to hang George Rittle, a 35 year old Black man. He escaped, but was later captured and horribly mutilated and killed, with authorities suspecting moonshiners as the perpetrators. The report notes upticks in violent crime tied to moonshine operations.
William Jennings Bryan Outlines Democratic Platform
Bryan presents a broad platform at a public event, urging tax reform and popular investor rights, municipal ownership, labor arbitration, pensions for soldiers, anti-monopoly laws, and opposition to imperial wars. He calls for a silver standard, greenbacks, and a stable Filipino self government while condemning tariffs and militarism.
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Lfocam
Neb
Wiliam J. Bryan
Democratic Party
Genecritic Party
Kansas City
United States
Lst
Ibera
Nicarague Canal
Dingrey
Great Britain
Hon. John A. Bingham Dies at 85 in Cadiz
Cadiz Ohio March 20 Hon John A Bingham aged 85 died at his Cadiz home after a period of ill health. He served eight terms in Congress from Ohio Sixteenth district and was minister to Japan from 1872 to 1878 or 1873 to 1878. He acted as judge advocate in Lincoln assassination proceedings and sentenced Mrs Surratt. He wrote the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment and was a Republican leader close to Lincoln and Stanton. He received a pension from Congress for his service.
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Cadiz
John A. Bingham
Bingham
Congress
Ohio
Japan
Johnson
Surratt
Lincoln
Stanton
Fiendish Murders and Fires Reported in Multiple Cities
Raleigh reports Tom Jones known as Trencher Jones murdered Ella Jones and her daughter Ida then set beds with bodies ablaze. five sleeping children perished. Elsewhere Flint Michigan loses over 200000 in a wagon works fire, 500 workers displaced. World competition offers 1200 in prizes for essays on school buildings. A Chicago youth, 15, kills his father to save his mother. Other brief items note a drowning in Dallas and a fatal train crash in Chippewa Falls.
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Raleigh, N. C
Tom Jones
Trencher Jones
Ella Jones
Ida
Ella
St. Paul, Minn
National Educational Association
National Council of Education
Chicago
Margh
Albert Finch
Austin
Toa
Minnesota Sees Tax Shifts and Board Appointments
Wealth data shows the 1900 personal property and total statewide valuation rising over 1898 with a 24.55 mill tax rate. State officials named to the board of inspectors of insane hospitals and medical examiners were announced, while militia funding and rail tax receipts are detailed along with bids for Johannesburg mines and Lisbon streetcar work.
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Dunn
Minnesota
Ineed Fame Econ Eae
Culver County
Hennepin
Ramsey County
Charles E. Riggs
St Paul
State Board of
H. W. Brazie
Minneapolis
George W. McIntyre
St. Peter
W. F. Milligan
Wabasha
C. 0. Cooley
Madeira
Lind
Thomas Lowe
Slayton
Louis A. Fritsche
New Ulm
C. J. Ringwell
State Board of Medical Examiners
WW. Morell
John 8
Shrader
Delano
C. B. Pillsbury
Owatonna
Grieving Indians Halt Removal Of Bodies In Kumash Valley
In Kumash Valley a line of 15 graves holds Indian children as mothers plea against removing the dead. Engineers pause as weeping families beg Cyrus Beede to halt action, insisting no price or court can override the city of the dead. Beetle, the Indian service official, calls it a delicate invasion after 30 years on the job.
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Kumash
Cyrus Beede
Beetle
Indian Service
Bill would force railroads to report passenger train accidents
A proposed amendment to the auto coupler law would require railroads to have immediate investigations and detailed reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission for any passenger train accident. It mandates monthly sworn reports on all passenger and employee incidents, with fines from 100 to 500 dollars per offense for late filings, while protecting reporters from use as evidence.
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Senator Custom
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
A Costly Scheme For Postal Pneumatic Tube System
Hearing before the House committee on post offices and post roads reveals a plan to ask the government to pay an annual rental of 2.5 million dollars for a private pneumatic tube service. The cost equals the interest on 100 million in government bonds, yielding high profits for the private company while expediting mail only marginally. New York already operates such a system at great expense. The government could borrow at 2 percent, yet would pay 10 percent on invested money to the private firm.
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House Committee On Post Offices and Post Roads
New York
Mrs McKinley Sits for Washington Photographer Portraits
Mrs McKinley sat for a Washington photographer several days ago and approved three or four proofs. She posed in multiple gowns with the executive mansion rooms as backdrops. Fifteen pictures were taken to capture varied attitudes for friends and the public. Some portraits of the president and Mrs McKinley together were destroyed to keep them private. The new pictures will be on sale in about a week. A wedding couple from the Chisago Record may soon wed after their recent engagement.
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Clay
Agrietcetre Ty Sisant
Alpine Safe & Cycle CO
Cincinnati
Chicaco & North-Western
Waseca
Tracy
Marshall
Watertown
Haven
Piarre
West
Prom West
Sasote
Brookings
Mankato
Kasota
Minneapolia
H. In Brecher
New Olark
M. Northmore
Reading Farm, Stock & Home
Logenia
Tigres
Schaal
Pom
Peeaidéit Menger
Siltanjats
Thad
Meeys
Gomguer
Gutaure
Cuba
Washington
Root
J. McFarland
Kan
Dewey
Savannah
George Dewey
John BR. Huiner
Charles Watson
Wierensin
Manitowoc
Wis
Frank Shadd
Piqua
Wile
Heath
Bingh
Trencher
North Carolina
Borns
Flint
Mich
Flint Wagon Works
Dallas
Tex
W. E. Newman
Detroit
Colorado River
Bastrop
Mr. Newman
Cedar Rapids
John Melick
Quasqueton
Chippewa Palle
Mareh
Tohn
Joseph Chaxmer
Wisconsin Central
Cadott
Buda-Path
Uannhe
Kaelouse
Pays
Minaesofe News
National Guard
Gillette-Herzog Company
Johannesburg
Lisbon
Honolulu
Brier
Carl Lambert
St. Paul
Archangelo Christello
War Department
Lam’bert
Hans A. Aakes
Winona
H. T. Enger
L. N. Scott
Twin City
Jockey Club
Heek
Dover
Somerville Foreign Corporation
Postal
Moss
Masins
Bradfield
Bradtinkd
Woo Weiass
Soe
Ccuaronco
FTO
Dakota House
Howe
City
Western
Offeal
Western Canada
Pamburgl
Ottawa
Te Waisemamin Davies
Peek
Shep and Oifice
Browm Co. Tank
Elmira College For Women
Fur College Sourw
Mackeoeie
Roetra
Schell
Brewer
Alste New
Neda
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