British Troops Press Boers at Scheepers Nek Defeat
Brabant's Horse suffer 4 killed 16 wounded and 120 captured near Zastron in Orange River Colony. The War Office dispatch notes Maj. Blomfield's forces routed the Boers at Scheeper's Nek, with 100+ enemy killed or wounded and arms seized. Magalies Berg prisoners released and moved to Rustenberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aliwas
North
Cape Colony
Zastron
Orange River Colony
London
War Office
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Magalies Berg
Brabant
Blomfield
Vryheid
Scheeper
Rustenberg
KITCHENER CALLS FOR TROOPS
London December 17 Lord Salisbury and his colleagues feel relief as Parliament is prorogued. Kitchener sends urgent orders for more mounted men while De Wet escapes British cordons. The Vryheid Zastron and Magalies Berg disasters spark public concern as Baden Powell’s constabulary recruitment adapts to South Africa needs. Dispatches say Boer forces have ammo but lack food and clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lord Salisbury
Lord Roberts
War Office
Lord Kitchener
de Wet
Thaba N’chu
Vryheid
Zastron
Magalies Berg
Colonial Office
Great Britain
Baden- Powell
South Africa
Lorenzo Marques
Magaliesberg Fight Described In Boer War Dispatch
A dispatch from Rietfontein recounts the Magaliesberg clash where Gen Clements’s camp faced 4 000 Boers reinforced by 3 000 from Warm Baths. Col Legge was killed, Northumbrian defense held until ammo ran low, and Gen Clements withdrew marching to Rietfontein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berg
Standard
Rietfontein
Clements
Legge
Delarcy
Clement
Dovers
Col. Legge
Methuen Takes Boer Laager in Transvaal Action
Lord Methuen with a Kitchener dispatch says he attacked and captured a Boer laager near Lichtenburg on December 15. The action yielded large numbers of cattle and sheep and a considerable amount of ammunition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methuen
Mlondon
Lord Methuen
Lord Kitchener
Lichtenburg
Transvaal
British War Office Reform Committee Appointed
London December 17 The Secretary of State for War William St John Brodrick has appointed a committee to consider reform of the War Office. The committee will meet next January to study the matter and report findings and recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Office
Clinton Edward Dawkins
J. S. Morgan & Co
Charles Glynne Earle Welby
Marquis of Lansdowne
George Sydenham Clarke
Royal Carriage Department
George Clarke
Beckett
Mather
Gibb
Charles Welby
Stanhype
Lord Lansdowne
Brodrick
The
Daily News
Daily Chronicle
London
Secretary of State For War
William St. John Brodrick
Today’s nine page issue with varied sections
The newspaper lists content across pages including financial review, quotation supplement, amusements on page seven, hotel arrivals and out of town buyers on page nine, court calendars and losses by fire on page eight, marine intelligence and foreign mails on page eight, real estate on page eleven, weather on page nine, yesterday’s fires on page three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails
Weather Report
Boers Granted Land Settlement in German Southwest Africa
Fifty Cape Colony Boers now in Amsterdam with families have permission to settle in German Southwest Africa. The German Government has approved land purchases in Damaraland and Great Namaqua Land. They will depart Amsterdam January 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Cape Colony
Amsterdam
Kruger in The Hague Deliberates on European Tour
Mr. Kruger met William J. Stead in The Hague as Stead urged a Europe tour and a possible America trip. Kruger listened but offered no definite commitment and may move from his hotel to a private residence, suggesting a longer stay in The Hague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Kruger
the Hagué
William J. Stead
Stead
Europe
America
The
Hague
Kruger Not Ready to Come Here
Hagurn dispatch reports Mr. Kruger has not decided on visiting America after inquiry from Grand Rapids Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Krueger
Hagurn
Grand Rapids
Mich
United States
Kruger
America
Death of Gen. Lemner Confirmed by British Dispatch
London reports Lord Kitchener dispatch from Pretoria dated December 16 confirms General Lemner, Boer commander, is dead. Lord Methuen has official confirmation of the death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Lord Methuen
Lemner
Woman hurled from Broadway car in street accident
Margaret Gill, a laundress at the Imperial Hotel, was thrown from a Broadway car at Thirty-second Street after boarding last night. Nora Seeley identified the conductor as Arthur Cousé. Flynn was later arrested. Gill suffered a fractured skull and grave injuries, with ambulance transport to New York Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Gill
Imperial Hotel
Thirty-second Street
Nora Seeley
St. Nicholas Avenue
Miss Gill
Arthur Cousé
West Portieth Street
New York Hospital
Youmans
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Patrick Flynn
Eighth Avenue
Vassar Students Host Annual Christmas Doll Show
The December display in Poughkeepsie features 300 elaborately dressed dolls arranged by 700 students. Proceeds fund charity as dolls are sent to University Settlement in New York Chicago Indian missions and some stay in town. The event emphasizes personal sacrifice beyond purchase. No education impact stats are yet collected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
Vassar
University Settlement
New York
Chicago
Northwestern Girls Demand More Food At Woman's Hall
Chicago December reports co eds at Northwestern University unanimously complain of insufficient food at Woman's Hall. Officials deny the claim while Evanston grocers and caterers benefit from student hunger. Some say meals like oyster croquettes three days weekly fail to satisfy them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Northwestern University
Woman's Hall
Evanston
Native copper found in New Jersey Watchung Mountain mine
John C. Reiff reports a Watchung Mountain mine near Bound Brook has 10 000 tons of low-grade ore awaiting a 150000 dollar concentrating plant. Native copper appears at 100 feet depth in flakes and sheets. 16 000 tons assay at 3 percent. Ore will be concentrated before shipment to smelters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watchung Mountain
Bound Brook
N. J
Josiah C. Reiff
Phoenix Gold Mining Company
American Copper Mining Company
Reiff
Lake Superior
Knickerbocker
Fifth Avenue
New Jersey
Alaska
New Mexico
Arizona
Secretan Syndicate
Orange Mountain Range
Piuckamin
Senate voices favor American control of Nicaragua Canal
Washington reports senators say executive sessions on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty show no hostility to Great Britain. They argue for American rights to protect the canal, aim to supersede or abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and warn railroad interests may delay action to push the bill to a later session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Great Britain
Washington
Nicaragua
Turkey
Egypt
Suez Canal
Burglars Blow Open Railroad Station Safe Bethel
Three burglars broke into the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad station at Bethel Conn early this morning, blew open the safe and escaped with about $60 in money, leaving tickets and mileage books behind. The incident was reported from Danbury via The New York Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danbury, Conn
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Bethel
Fast Trains to St Louis via Pennsylvania Railroad
Advertisement notes daily departures from West 23d Street New York at 9 55 A M 1 55 and 5 55 P M on the Pennsylvania Railroad service to St Louis with fast trains and schedule details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Pennsylvania Railroad
West 23d Street
New York
Possible Monroe doctrine clash over Brazil France land
Reported move by French financiers to have France buy 100000 square miles of Para in Brazil may trigger U S protest under the Monroe doctrine. Swiss arbitration ruled land outside French Guiana. US watchful as France may seek government aid to recover investments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brazil
France
John Bassett Moore
New York Times
United States
French Guiana
Para
Switzerland
State Department
Department
Bottle float yields $25 reward in Atlantic search tale
Ex-Alderman William A Baumert offers $25 for the return of a champagne bottle found in the Atlantic containing his card. He had released two bottles during a Europe trip aboard the Lahn in 1900, one bearing his address and a note for reward. A French couple later found the bottle with his card and sent a reply from Etretat. Baumert mailed a Christmas check to the sailors and awaits word on the other bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Ocean
William A. Baumert
Avenue A
Baumert
F. X. Baumert & Co
Europe
Lahn
Christian Wera
Werner
Etretat
Entretat
Seine-Inférieure Department
France
Gaston Dallin
Pierre Paumelle
Tower Street
Robbery at Dinner Targets Rabbi Hirsch Home
In Chicago on December 16 Rabbi Emil G Hirsch and family were dining when two robbers entered the house taking 500 dollars valuables and fled by buggy. neighbor John Tait exchanged shots with no hits as ten officers pursued toward the railroad tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Emil G. Hirsch
John Tait
Stanton Avenue
Thirty-seventh Street
Calumet Avenue
Dr. Hirsch
Defenders Purchasers Buy Yacht and Gov Island Cannon Balls
Mendel Samuel & Sons of Newark have bought the yacht Defender which beat Valkyrie II in 1895 cup races. They also purchased 5 635 tons of old cannon balls and shells from Government storage on Governors Island to be broken for iron and used in locomotive and machinery production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Lord Dunraven
Mendel, Samuel & Sons
Governors Island
Little Bat, Famous Scout, Shot Dead in Nebraska
Baptiste Garnier known as Little Bat, an Indian scout famed in the West and among army men, was shot and killed by James Hague Wood, saloon manager, during a dispute over a bar bill. Garnier had served in campaigns against Indians and recently led as chief officer in the Government Secret Service at Fort Robinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Bat
Crawford
Neb
Baptiste Garnier
James Hague Wood
Garnier
Government Secret Service
Fort Robinson
A Perfect Protective Policy for PRR Signaling
An Adv. notes Pennsylvania Railroad plans to equip its lines with an electric automatic signal system. The move aims to reduce collisions and improve traffic flow by automating interlockings and distant signals across main routes. The article highlights expected safety gains and实施 timelines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Gas Kills Two Men in adjoining rooms at boarding house
A gas leak at 23 West Seventeenth Street killed Miles Novotny, a 33 year old stenographer, and Henry B. Gibbons, a 60 plus man, in adjacent rooms after a jet was left on. An ambulance and doctors failed to revive Novotny and Gibbons died despite resuscitation efforts. Police, coroner, and residents describe a quiet morning as investigators determine the gas turn on as accidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Seventeenth Street
Miles Novotny
Henry B. Gibbons
Mr. Gibbons
Mr. Novotny
C. D. Lawrence
Novotny
Lawrence
Grant Williams
Tenderloin
New York Hospital
Yoemans
Gibbons
F. L. Lawrence
Mrs. Miles
Mr James
Second National Bank
West
Albany
Brooklyn
Taylor
E. N. Valentine
St. James Place
Italy
Chicago
Oxford Building
la Salle Street
Washington
Coroners’ Office
Architect Miles Novotny Missing From City Directory
Chicago notice notes architect Miles Novotny who lived on Lawndale Avenue in 1899 and does not appear in the City Directory for 1900. The item records a discrepancy in residential listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Miles Novotny
Lawndale Avenue
Eagan and the Loyal Legion Controversy
Gen C P Eagan once Commissary General now retired and pardoned has not regained his pre sentence status. He was expelled from the Loyal Legion after the case stirred several meetings and may seek restoration through member friends amid opposition to the presidents action being seen as vindication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
C. P. Eagan
The
Loyal Legion
Carnegie mulls gift to fund Winona librarian school
Richmond Ind December 15 Andrew Carnegie is weighing a donation large enough to endow a library school at Winona Indiana and he reportedly favors the plan as a way to support education and librarianship in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ind
Andrew Carnegie
Winona
The Pittsburg Limited Train Fare Notice
Advertises the Pittsburg Limited train from New York South Ferry and Liberty Street at 6 55 PM and 7 00 PM arriving Pittsburg 8 55 AM. Rates shown are 9.00 first class and 8.50 second class with Pullman drawing room sleeping cars. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
New York
Baltimore and
Ohio
R. R
South Ferry
Liberty Street
Pullman
Adyv
German Cadets Die as Gneisenau Sinks in Malaga Storm
The German training frigate Gneisenau foundered at Malaga entrance during violent seas. Captain and many cadets drowned. estimates of total losses range from 100 to 140 with 40 rescued badly injured. Survivors treated at local hospital and hotels.
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Madrid
Gneisenau
Malaga
Gibraltar
Mogador
Morocco
Kresthman
Hotel de Ville
Bodies Found After Boat Capsize Off Squaw Island
The steamer Manhattan retrieved the bodies of Mrs Shields and her niece Mrs Maury Davis near Squaw Island after a Friday capsizing. W H Shields and William McCaul, two light house keepers, survived after seven hours adrift in freezing conditions with two bodies lashed to the overturned craft. Lucien Morden drowned earlier. two rescuers were hospitalized with severe frostbite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitowoc
Wis
Menhattan
W. H. Shields
Wiliam Mecauly
Squaw Island
Lucien Morden
Montague
Mich
Shields
Mary Davis
Harbor Springs
MacCauly
Morden
McCauly
North Passage
Manhattan
Want Ad Fills a Church in Austin Sermon
The Methodist Church of Austin was crowded after a want advertisement for 500 girls to attend services drew worshippers. Pastor Rev. A N White preached If I Were a Girl urging foundation principles to gain beauty and health with temperance in sweets and more athletic activity. The girls appeared pleased with the sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yor Times
Chicago
Methodist Church of
Austin
A. N. White
Baltimore Mayor hints at Western Maryland Railroad sale
Baltimore mayor says negotiations are underway to sell the Western Maryland Railroad to a Canton Company led syndicate including D D Malory J W Widdendorf Alexander Brown and others. A sale could extend tidewater terminals to Canton and solidify city ownership due to debt. The mayor declines to reveal bidders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Hayes
Western Maryland Railroad
Blue Ridge
Tidewater
Pennsylvania Road
New York
Canton Company
D. D. Malory
J. W. Widdendorf
Alexander Brown
George C Jenkins
W. B. Brooker, Jr
James B. Colgate
John D. Probst
William Baylis
Ferdinand M. Thieriot
Walter B. Brooks, Jr
Canton
Baltimore City
Five-Year-Old Boy Killed In Accidental Shot Incident
Lawrence Bryant, five, was accidentally shot and killed in Lero y New York when his ten year old brother, playing with a loaded shotgun, fired. The tragedy occurred this morning as two siblings played in the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy, N. Y
Lawrence Bryant
McLaughlin Assaults Devery as Brooklyn Ties Split
Hugh McLaughlin of Kings County Democracy denounces Chief Devery’s police shake up as harmful to good government and warns of a possible break with Tammany. He calls Devery’s motives vindictive and predicts Devery will be buried under the ruins of his own scheme, citing transfers and public backlash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh McLaughlin
Kings County Democracy
Remsen Street
Brooklyn
Chief Devery
Devery
Mr. McLaughlin
Tammany
McLaughlin
Ar. McLaughliin
Thooklyn
New York
McClusky
Abell
Kings County
East Side
Mcihaughlin
Boylan
Coney Island
Hardy
Capt Titus Takes Post at Detective Bureau
Capt. George F. Titus discussed his unexpected transfer to the Detective Bureau yesterday. He expressed gladness to continue the work on familiar lines alongside a close associate, Capt. McClusky, while noting his past reluctance to assume charge. The change reflects evolving conditions in the bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Titus
Detective Bureau
Bureau
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Fusiliers
British War Office Reform
Financial Review
William T. Stead
Vassar’s
Lfe
South Amercan
Rabbi Hirsch
Henry
B. Gibbons
Eagan and the Loyal Legion
Carnegie
Dantsh
Isiv
Western
Maryland
M’laughlin
Political Machines
Capt. Titus
Capt. McClusky
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