Boers Begin Surrender Wave Across South Africa
Lord Kitchener reports 915 more Boers surrender completing Transvaal capitulations. Orange River Colony and Cape Colony totals pending. In Mafeking and Bloemfontein surrenders, Kemp describes Boer losses and tactics, noting field skirmishes and limited engagements from Colenso to Ladysmith.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Transvaal
Orange River Colony
Cape Colony
Bloemfontein
Orange River
Kipling Triggers Sensation by Quelling Sussex Mob
London dispatch reports Rudyard Kipling on June 2 dispersed a mob at Rottingdean Sussex threatening his aunt Lady Burne-Jones. He delivered a forceful speech, shut the drill hall he had offered to the public, and voiced disapproval of the attack and the banner on the house.
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London
Rudyard Kipling
Rottingdean
Sussex
Kiplingesaue
Rifle Brigade
Kipling
Boers’ conduct praised as mirror of British terms
A Vienna correspondent quoting an American friend in Philadelphia says Boer behavior reflects generous British terms. The letter compares Southern States after emancipation to South Africa, suggesting prosperity and loyalty may follow similar path after defeat.
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London Times
New York Times
London
the Times
Vienna
Philadelphia
South Africa
Lee
Grant
Expect United States to push for Tien-Tsin return to China
The Times correspondent in London says the six allied ministers have not set conditions for restoring Tien-Tsin to China. He predicts the United States will demand changes to the terms and insist on returning Tien-Tsin to Chinese control, gaining U S credit.
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London Times
New York Times
London
Peking
the Times
Tien-Tsin
Great Britain
North China
Liverpool
China
United States
America
Submarine Accidents Reported From Cherbourg
Paris The Times correspondent reports two submarine incidents at Cherbourg. The Silure crew faced near suffocation and an ensign on the Triton sustained burns.
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London Times
NEW York Times
London
Cherbourg
Paris
The
Times
Abbey coronation seating for Peers deemed ample and unostentatious
The Times declares Westminster Abbey seats for Peers and Peeresses at King Edward's coronation will be spacious enough for comfort. Chairs will be Chippendale style with ample space between them. Decorations will be rich but restrained.
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London Times
NEW York Times
London
the Times
Westminster Abbey
Edward
Abbey
The Big French Deficit
London reports The Times Paris correspondent says France’s deficit for the year totals 173 million francs. Minister Rouvier hopes to cut it to 150 million francs by canceling certain credits.
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London
Paris
the Times
M. Rouvier
Alarm for French crops prompts Paris weather gloom
Paris reports heavy rain and cold in two months of poor conditions. Astronomer Flammarion warns of disaster since 1852 while director Jaubert says April weather. Wheat and rye backward, wine grapes mildewed, champagne vines damaged by storms, fruit immature, tourism down as outlook worsens. Perpignan notes four days of snow and harsh frost shocking Mont Louis Saillagouse Prades districts.
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Paris
France
M. Flammarion
M. Jaubert
Paris Observatory
Pyrenees
Perpignan
Bordeaux
Champagne
Switzerland
Cold Rain Dampens Germany Across Major Regions
Berlin reports 54 degrees with Munich at 47 and Metz at 49 as rain and cool conditions persist. Rostock records 39 degrees the coldest spot, while no German city nears 60. Crops suffer with frostbitten fruit and poor cherries amid six weeks of rain and sporadic sun.
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Berlin
Alps
Germany
Munich
Metz
Rostock
French General Bonnal Dismissed From Army Post
Paris June 17 President Loubet signed an order dismissing Gen Bonnal from Commandant in Chief of the Army School and placing him on retired list after a court of inquiry found no grounds for enforced retirement. War Minister Bonnal would place him on non-active list. Bonnal visited Berlin in May 1901 and received Emperor William’s praise and the Crown Order First Class with a message of sympathy for France.
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Paris
Elysée Palace
Loubet
Gen. Bonnal
Gen
André
Bonnal
Berlin
William
Garde du Corps
France
Royal Mail Steam Packet explores large British line association
A circular to shareholders says preliminary negotiations have begun to greatly develop and extend operations by joining a large scheme of association with other major British lines. Details are confidential and will be disclosed to proprietors for approval before final concluded agreements.
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London
Royal _ Mail Steam Packet Company
Ped
Schwab Gifts Mount Aloysius Hall To Cresson Academy
Charles M. Schwab presented Mount Aloysius Academy in Cresson with a $25,000 alumni and assembly hall. The gift was accepted amid a ceremony attended by Governor Stone and clergy from across the country. Schwab recalled his youth as a stage driver and apple thief, joking about repaying past misdeeds.
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Cresson Penn
Mount Aloysius Academy
Cresson
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Governor Stone
Schwab
Loretto
Academy
Death of Dean Hoffman on a Delaware train in 1900
The Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, dean of the General Theological Seminary, died on a Montreal to city train at 11 10 AM from heart disease. He had been ill for a year, traveled with his wife and doctors, and expired after leaving Montreal. He governed seminary and his real estate empire, supported by prominent donors, and was active in many societies. He leaves a widow, a son Samuel W. Hoffman, and three married daughters.
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Eugene Augustus Hoffman
General Theological Seminary
Protestant Episcopal Church
Delaware and Hudson
Montreal
Charles E. Carter
Miss Dodds
Dean Hoffman
Columbia
Metapedia
Quebec
Restigouche Salmon Club
Restigouche
Intercolonial Railway
Rouse’s Point
Grand Central Station
Sexton Albert Mearer
Trinity Chapel
William B. Anderton
L. V. Hoffman
Poughkeepsie
Chelsea Square
Trinity Cemetery
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Twenty-fifth
Café Martin
Twenty-eighth Street
Eighteenth Street
Seventeenth
Thirteenth Street
Warren Street
City Hall Park
Warren
Chambers Street
West Broadway
New York Historical Society
Second Avenue
Eleventh Street
Central Park West
American Museum of Natural History
America
Asia
Africa
The
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Clergymen’s Retiring Fund Society
Widows’ Corporation
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Trinity School
Hoffman
Oxford University
Rutgers
Racine
Trinity College
Hartford
University of the South
Trinity University
Toronto
Canada
King’s College University
Windsor
Nova Scotia
Mary Crooke Elmendorf
Samuel W. Hoffman
Charles F. Hackstaff
John H. Watson
Thomas W. Nickerson, Jr
Thomas W. Nickerson
Pittsfield
Mass
New York
F B. Lyons
Estelle Lyons New Isaacs
Jane Lyons
Mandel
East 101St St
Adolphus G. Manel
Pendleton
Middletown
N. J
Caroline M
Thomas
R. Edmund Pendleton
Elisha L. Walton
Pennsylvania
R. R
Long Branch Division
Cortlandt St
Greenwood Cemetery
Kate Parker
G. Ellis Reed
West 75Th St
William E. Seeley
State St
Bridgeport
Stuart
New Windsor
Louise Stuart
John Stuart
John T. Foote
Morristown
Jacksonville
Fla
Fla. Talcott.—On June 15, At Middletown, N. Y., Dr. Selden Haines Talcott
Middletown State Hospital
First Presbyterian Church
Thompson
White Plains
N. Y
Susan Holbrook
Asa Ferdinand Thompson
Barker Avenue
Townsend
University Heights
Randolph W. Townsend
East 73d St
Troy
Daily Press
H. H. Powell
Cashier
van Santvoord
West 42Th St
Abraham
Cornelius
Susan Varick van Santvoord
12Th &T
Career of Dean Hoffman the richest clergyman in America
The article chronicles Dean Hoffman born 1829 in New York, renowned for church finances and social work. It traces his rise from Elizabethport to Grace Church Brooklyn and St. Mark's Philadelphia, founding the St. Mark's Workingmen's Club, and his reform of the General Theological Seminary with ambitious fundraising and expansion, transforming the institution into a endowed, multi-professor seminary with student growth.
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Eugene Augustus Hoffman
America
White Street
New York
Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Glorvina Russell Storm Hoffman
Columbia Grammar School
Rutgers College
Harvard
Prof. Agassiz
Lake Superior
Sereny
General Theological Seminary
Elizabethport
N. J
Christ Church, Elizabeth
Elizabeth
St. Mary's Church
Burlington
Grace Church
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
St. Mark’s
St. Mark's
Workingmen’s Club
Dean Hoffman
St. Mark's Club
New Jersey
Episcopal
Camp Roe hosts lecture on sanitation and drills at Peekskill
At Camp Roe, the Twenty third Regiment practiced battle formation with blank ammo while Col. William H. Chapin lectured regimental officers on sanitation, hygiene, and blanket roll adjustments. Guests at a noon dinner included Col. A C Barnes and Capt. Harold A Davidson before a Lake Mohogan sail.
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Peekskill
Camp
Roe
Twenty-third Regiment
William H. Chapin
Lewis Wermeister
Brooklyn
A. C. Barnes
W. A. Stokes
Henry G. Lyon
Regular Army
Wynkoop
Harold A. Davidson
Lake Mohegan
Davidson
Col. Kline
Col. Chapin
Twenty-third
Fourteenth Regiment
Cockran Returns to Tammany Hall for July 4 Talk
W Bourke Cockran has accepted an invitation to give a long talk at the Fourth of July celebration in Tammany Hall. Triumvirs O Gorman McMahon and Murphy favor his return as an active politician with plans for possible Congress nomination in Manhattan. Senator Bailey of Texas will deliver a long talk, with other Democratic lawmakers invited to speak.
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W. Bourke Cockran
Tammany Hall
Cockran
Croker
New York
Joseph W. Bailey
Texas
W. Bourke Cochran
Congress
Manhattan
Cochran
Dyspeptic Man Seeks Health Restorer
An advertisement extols Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge as a certain health-restorer for the overworked, despondent man, promising toning and restoration.
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Jayne
Death List of a Day: Norman S Byram and Levant M Reed
Norman S Byram, 71, president of the Indianapolis Chair Co and Byram Foundry, died last night after a long business life in Indianapolis. Levant M Reed, 59, Judge of Probate in Windham County Vermont, Civil War veteran and former Vermont Bar Association president, died at his home in Bellows Falls.
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Indianapolis
Norman
Byram
Indianapolis Chair Company
Byram Foundry Company
Schenectady Falls
N. Y
Bellows Falls
Levant M. Reed
Windham County
Vermont Bar Association
W. W. Grout
Congress
Deaths of George E. SigeLes and Dr George F Carey
George E. SigeLes of 573 Kosciusko Street Brooklyn died Monday in Long Island College Hospital. Born in 1846 he served in the Forty-seventh New York Infantry and Thirty-seventh New Jersey Volunteers and worked thirty years in the tobacco trade. He leaves a wife and one son. Dr George F Carey of 142 East Nineteenth Street died Monday aged sixty six. Born in Limerick Ireland he studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and practiced twenty seven years focusing on eye and ear diseases. He leaves a daughter Mrs Joseph E Owens.
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George. E. Sigeles
Kosciusko Street
Brooklyn
Long Island College Hospital
Forty-seventh Regiment
New York
Thirty-seventh
New Jersey Volunteers
Reppe
Rooklyn
George F. Carey
East Nineteenth Street
Limerick
Ireland
College of Physicians and Surgeons
County Medical Society
Foundling Hospital
Mrs Julia Ancrum Davidson Dead at 87 Washington Descendant
Mrs Julia Ancrum Davidson a direct Washington descendant died in Chicago at eighty seven. Her grandfather was Col William Washington a cousin of George Washington. As a girl of ten she witnessed Lafayette’s 1825 visit at Col Washington’s Charleston home.
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Chicago
Julia Ancrum Davidson
Washington
San Francisco Capitalist Tubbs Killed in Sausalito Runaway
Herman A. Tubbs a well known San Francisco capitalist and Tubbs Cordage Company member was killed today near his Sausalito home in a runaway. His wife and Miss Ella Coughlin were badly bruised and cut as they were thrown from the buggy.
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San Francisco
Herman A. Tubbs
Tubbs Cordage Company
Sausalito
Tubbs
Ella Coughlin
Trained Hospital Workers In City Welfare Plan
Commissioner Homer Folks at the Summer School in Philanthropic Education urged training for workers in outdoor poor and dependent children bureaus. He suggested a system modeled on nurse training in city hospitals and called for a civil service skill standard to ensure qualified candidates.
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Charities
Homer
Charity Department
City of New York
Folk
Roister XIX Ends Strollers Season At Clubhouse
The Strollers closed their Roister XIX gathering with a banquet pool and ping-pong events and a dramatic musical piece titled Round Herald Square by Rupert Hughes and John L. Golden. Amateurs performed the show as a grand late night finale.
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Herald Square
Rupert Hughes
John L. Golden
San Francisco Man Dies Aboard Bremen Line Ship
John K. Hobbs of San Francisco died suddenly on Wednesday June 11 aboard the North German Lloyd steamship Friedrich der Grosse from Bremen. The body was brought to port and will be sent to San Francisco.
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John. K. Hobbs
San Francisco
Bremen
New York Times Sunday Magazine Supplement Preview
Advertises next Sunday edition featuring enlarged magazine supplement, financial quote section, London Paris Berlin cable news, and summer resort notes with emphasis on New Jersey and Long Island. Promises illustrated features and cartoons and urges readers to subscribe via their newsdealer.
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NEW York Times
London
Paris
Berlin
New Jersey
Long Island
New York
Conger Becomes Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Peking
With the Austrian Minister Baron Caikann von Wahlborn leaving Peking, Edwin H. Conger is named Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. The Doyen role holds special weight in Peking as the corps acts in concert with Chinese authorities on many questions. Conger is popular with fellow diplomats, easing acceptance of the Austrian’s successor.
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Conger Doyen
Peking
Baron Caikann von Wahlborn
Eawin H. Conger
United States
Doyen
Conger
Obituaries and funeral notices from New York dates
A list of death notices and funeral details from June 1902 includes Aldrich Burchell Delano Gans and others. Entries record dates, ages, residence, interment preferences, and services at Temple Beth-El and various churches, with remarks from family, officials, and society boards.
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Kimberley
de la Rey
Mafeking
Colenso
Spion Kop
Ladysmith
Brankspruit
Vilakfontein
Johannesburg
Krugersdorp
Pe-chi-Li
Mont Louis
Saillagouse
Prades
C. M. Schwab
Bene
Ninth
Tenth Avenue
Apostle of
Work
Peekskill State Camp
Owen Wister
Arthur I. Keller
New York Tribune
MR. Wister
the Macmillan Company
S. Byram
H. A. Tubbs
Missoula
Tetonia
Society OF Colonial Wars
William Street
Eugene A. Hoffman
Frederic J. DE Peyster
Arthurs. Walcott
June Adams
Margaret
W. 49Th St
Astorino
Lorenzo
Carmine St
Butterfield
Harriet
106Th St
Saskia
Alae Ham & Mb
Brady
James
Dewey House
Berry
Stella
Flower Hospital
Bruns
Vincenzo
BATH
Elizabeth M
Brunner
Frances
Carey
George F
Fisther
Conway
Chase
Jennie
Connelly
Bridget
Christensen
Peter
Corr
John E
Madison Bt
Brentamis
Slocenas
Brentanoqo’s
Union Square
John
Serene Eel Covaty
Lafayette Place
Blupre
Friedrich
Dusenbury
Mary
Wal
DE Francesch
Angelo
Clamont
Clinton St S
Lellehan
Gunther Theresa
Amsterdam
Virginia
Hickey
Andrew
Hall
Frank
St Vincent's Hosp
Hackett
Michael
Orth
Holmes
Fils
Hochtor
Hagan Peter
Houghton Ertha
E. Houston Ag
Johnson
Clarence G
Keegan
Eiward
Kruger
Rederick L
Kamenetzug S
Henry St
Kantehawitch iLena
Monroe
Kopfman
Lexington
Kuvalcire
Martha
Liebman
Dr. Charles
Larimer
E. 12Th St
Lindsey, Emma
Learned
E.ooth
Loewy
Leopold
E. Tooth Stee
Rees
Mulmolland
Messinger
Howard
McTiucgh
W. Oy McCarthy
Ilia
Clinton Sr
Parodi Paul
Baxter
Antonio
Izello
Roscigno
aAricola
Reed Kate P
Me W
Rogers
Ada
Lizzie
Rothkuss
Morris
Altem
Reid
Roughan Bridget
Renwick
Rapvetti Angelo Mnit
Tt Smith Bertha
Sullivan
Nellie J Ho
Minnie F
Aimster Schaefer
Schoenholtz
Stanten
Sagana
Domenica
van Santvoore
Bronx
Clark
Eugene
Hart
Wwlassen
Elizabeth M. JL
Henne Berger
Catharine
Oaks Maine
Schneider Carl
Goettel
Bt Nolan
Sarah Westchester
Ann
Lucy
Nant
Kate
St. John’s
Shaessen
Liams
D. M
Annister
St. Joseph’s
HURST
Ruppert
Wilhelmina
St. Ann's
Alexandrowics
Helen
Greene
Caria
Badger
Henry
Kings Co
Abe
Bremer
Liberty
Brooks
Alfred
Burns
Isabela
Degraw St
Patrick
St. Mary's
Io Butterfield
Eliz. A
Decatur
Carlson
Ellena M
van Brunt
Carroll
Matthew
Walworth
Casey
Bernard
Cassidy
N. Oxford
Iit Colleran
Martin
Withers St
Coppetta
Luigi
Raymond St
Daly
Irene
Marcy
Gabel
St. Catharine's Hosp
Gavin
Joseph
Taylor St
Hunter
Helen M
Pierrepont St. Fia
Jacklitseh
Florence L
Klein
Vandervoort Pisw
Knepple
George
Skillman Avy
Obar
Koertge
Charles
Norman St.teeee
Laird
Fred
Convent of Mercy
Nassau St
Amp
Leverich
Martha A
McDon
Annes
Lomond
Margaret D
Looney
Katherina
Oakland St
Maguire
Della
Lafayette St
Mahon
Ida B
St Se
Malloy
Florence
Mascarell
Maggie
Mentz
Jena
Miner
Susan M
Prospect St
Mitchell
Mary A
Evergreen
Nichols
James i
M. E. Hosp
Nolan
Prospect Park
Pegayay Sea
Pearlman
Mamie
St. John's
Hos
Paschal
Scholes
Steeeee
Powell, David
Centre St
St. Cath’s
Rochford
M. J
Meserople St
Romano, V
Hamilton Av
Schafer
J. A
President St
Sommetti
Stager
George W
Stanhope
Stewart Charles
Sumfleth
Flushing Av
Sweeney
Evelyn
Madison ‘Ste
Tifanay
West St Seen
Elizabeth R
Belsean
van Hobsen
Ellen
Lombary St
Wolff
Jacob
Grand St
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