Homecoming of Guards and Canadians in London celebration
London scene features welcome for Household Cavalry and Canadian contingent arriving in Southampton and London. Queen reviews Life Guards at Windsor, a royal procession through London, and a 12 day program of theatre and sightseeing planned for the visitors. The Telegraph notes fallen Canadian Private Molloy, blinded in action, as a moral highlight of the extended goodwill tour.
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London
Southampton
Household Cavalry
Duchess of Teck
Countess of Dudley
Tweedmouth
Life Guards
Windsor
Horse Guards
Paddington
Lord Strathcona
Duke of Abercorn
Earl Grey
Mackinnon
Portsmouth
Brighton
Kensington Palace
Princess Louise
Westminster Abbey
Brompton Oratory
St. Paul's
Telegraph
Dominion
Molloy
Liverpool
Canada
Bronkhorst Spruit
Brilliant stroke by De Wet
London reports from Johannesburg dated November 28 describe the Dewetsdorp garrison surrender after heavy fighting. British losses include fifteen killed and forty-two wounded, with Knox pursuing De Wet and Steyn near Vaalbank. General De Wet moves west toward Hertzog at Boomplaat, while Steyn and De Wet elude Allied forces near Harrismith Philippolis and Dewetsdorp loot.
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de Wet
Borr
South Africa
Denetsdorp
Reddersburg
Irish Rifles
Mounted Rifles
Gloucesters
Dewetsdorp
de Wet Phat
Edenbourg
Cape Colony
Norval
Pont
Orange River
Knox
Kitchener
Dewesdorp
Glouceire
Highland Light Infai Irish Rifles
H. J. Anson
Edenburg
Cape Town
General Knox
Hertzog
Boomplaatz
Mel Pilcher
Comm 1
Steyn
Pilcher
Helvetia
Boyle
de Wetse
Soldier reflects on war service and bravery after injury
Molloy recalls leaving university to serve the Empire and says he bears his injuries without regret. He was rendered sightless by a bullet that passed through both temples, aided by two comrades, and he believes true bravery requires fortitude in facing fortune’s changes.
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Molloy
Queen greets Household Cavalry upon return from war
The Queen addressed the Household Cavalry at Windsor expressing pleasure and gratitude for their gallant service in South Africa. She recalled her earlier hopes and noted the cloud of sorrow from fallen comrades, while praising their safe return a year after bidding them farewell.
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South Africa
Fareeas
Kruger to Leave Paris After Unanimous Sympathy Vote
Mr Krueger plans travel from Paris to Cologne on Saturday with rest stops in Mainz and Berlin by Tuesday. In the Chamber of Deputies M Cochery announced a motion expressing sincere sympathy to President Kruger on his arrival in France while another socialist motion urged similar support for English democracy. The Cochin motion was passed unanimously as Kruger received deputations and greeted his supporters at the Hotel Scribe.
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Hotel Cecil
England
Akter Gully
London
Sir Wemvesfield
George Alexander
Choate
Gully
Sinco
Paris
Krue
Cologne
Madgeburg
Berlin
Chamber of Deputies
M. Cochery
M. Denys Cochin
Dist Terpe
M. Delcass
Denys Cochin
Transvaal
France
M. Fourniére
Kriger
Chamber of Deput
Kruger
Boer raid reaches Orange River near Sandrift
Colesberg Cape Colony dispatch reports Boer raiders crossed the Orange River and opened fire on a British camp at Sandrift on the Cape Colony side. One man killed and several women wounded.
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Orange River
Colesberg
Cape Colony
Sandrift
Deportation of Women and Children from Standerton
Seventy Boer women and children, whose husbands and fathers remain in fighting, were deported from Standerton Transvaal Colony to Pietermaritzburg Natal on November 27.
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Standerton
Transvaal Colony
Pietermaritzburg
Natal
Cape Colony Refuses Special Trains For Worcester Congress
Cape Town officials reject a request for special trains to Worcester for the December 6 People's Congress. They say such meetings are undesirable amid the colony’s unsettled state. J W Sauer defends Afrikander loyalty and warns Britain would be to blame if loyalty fails.
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Cape Town
Cape Colony
People’s Congress
Worcester
J. W. Sauer
Paarl
Great Britain
Fifteen Women Injured In Browertown Runaway
A Browertown stage coach ran away after the Browertown flag dedication ceremony. Fifteen women were injured when the coach overturned on a downhill curve. The driver suffered two broken ribs and a back injury. Several women including Miss Emma Bell and Mrs Halstead were among the seriously hurt.
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George Westervelt
W. K. Kendall
E. Bell
E. F. Cosse
F H. Howe
George Houstis
S. M. McBride
C. Roemer
Bertha Roberts
Nellie Bell
W. F. Greer
George Halstead
M. Kelly
William Reynolds
Mary Roberts
B. B. Whitmore
Emma Bell
Gerge Halstead
W. S. Howell
Park-ave
William Greer
Sixteenth-ave
Smallpox Scare Spreads on West Side with 24 Cases
A smallpox outbreak in Manhattan’s West Side grew from two reported cases at West Sixty-eighth Street to twenty four by late night. Doctors vaccinate residents in affected tenements and a Riverside Kindergarten linked to transmission, with Willard Parker Hospital receiving patients.
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West
Board of Health
Benedict
Somerset
Bureau of Contagious Diseases
West Sixty-ninths
Thomas Burkhalter
Pr. Marx Auch
Willard Parker Hospital
Meants
hHinek
West End Ave
West Sixty-ninth-st
Frank Kear
West Sixty-eighth-st
Alonzo Blauvelt
Board
Williams and Walker Troupe
Fittsbore
Sixtieth-st
West Sixtyninth-st
Riverside
Riverside Association
Sixtyw
Eighth St
Amsterdam
Murray Threatens Suit Over Ex Mayor Interview
Ex superintendent William Murray denies ex Mayor Hewitt’s account of a prior discussion on police enforcement. Murray says the claims are false and threatens legal action while Hewitt asserts the conversation occurred during his illness and defends his remarks its veracity.
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FEX
Chamber of Commerce
Hewitt
Grand Jury
Yat
Dawson arrivals and food shortages headline Seattle steamer report
Seattle readers learn of the Dolphin voyage from Lynn Canal with R. W. Calderhead among the passengers. Dawson news mentions a seventeen day route, fair trail conditions, Burr Creek food shortages, and merchants arrested for selling bad provisions. An advertisement highlights automatic signals on the Pennsylvania Railroad and Hallantine's India Pale Ale for the tired and nursing mother.
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Seattle
Wash
Dolphin
Lynn Canal
R. W. Calderhead
Dawson
Tankalderhead
Burr Creek
Hallantine
Roof collapse at Pacific Glass Works kills nine in San Francisco
A massive roof fall at the Pacific Glass Works on Fifteenth Street during a football game crowd scene killed nine and injured about fifty as two hundred spectators watched Leland Stanford Jr. University face the University of California. Many bodies were burned near hot furnaces and glass vats. hospitals and police rushed to aid victims amid a chaotic, crowded scene.
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San Francisco
Pacific Glass Works
Fifteenth-st
University of California
Southern Pacific Railway
St. Luke's Hospital
City Receiving Hospital
Glass Works
Typhoon devastates Guam. Yosemite wrecked near San Luis d Apra
Manila dispatch reports the Yosemite struck a reef during the November 13 typhoon off Guam and sank November 15 after a failed tow by the collier Justin. Casualties include crew, marines, and officers with extensive damage at Agana and Motajan. Governor Schroeder and families await relief.
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Manila
Navy
Remey
United States
Yosemite
Habor
San Luis d Apra
Guam
Newark
Somaye
Swanson
George Aubel
J. L. Mahandy
J. L. Davis
Joseph Anderson
Justin
Agana
Kidnap attempt on dancer at Froctor's Theatre ends in beating
George Fletcher Hewitt of London tried to force Mae Stebbins into a cab after mistaking her for Alice Pierce Stebbins. A New York lawyer accompanied Hewitt. the crowd attacked Hewitt, who was briefly jailed and later released after presenting his story of an English marriage to Alice Pierce.
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Albany
Mae Stebbins
Froctor’s Theatre
Alice
George Fletcher Hewitt
London
England
Hewitt
New-York
Alice Pierce
America
Miss Pierce
Proctor’s
Miss Stebbins
Navy reports Yosemite disaster at Guam and dispatches Kempff
The Navy confirms a Guam disaster involving the Yosemite transport. Captain Kempff will depart to assess losses as the Newark heads toward Guam. A typhoon damaged the Yosemite while Brutus was stranded but later saved. a harbor survey commission sails to Apra with planners and engineers aboard.
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Sherman
Navy Department
Yosemite
Remey
Long
Samoa
Kempf
Sas
Guam
Solece
San Francisco
Honolulu
San Luis de Apra
J. F. Merry
Navy
John Biddle
Army Corps of Engineers
A. M. Beecher
Nav
Congress
Selace
Sar Luis
Apra
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