Telegraphic News Roundup From Around the World
A compact selection reports the Danish Antilles sale to the United States. Walla Walla pioneer Dr. Edward E. Pall dies at 92. Transvaal rumors and battles, Honolulu port status, and war prep updates feature military and diplomatic notes. Various U.S. economic and legal items include mining outputs, ostrich trust plans, and naval postings.
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Edward E. Pall
Walla Walla
Botha
Transvaal
Tugela
Vote on Puerto Rico duty proposal fails in Senate
The Senate rejected 16 to 83 a plan to strike 15 percent Dingley duties from Puerto Rico measures. Beveridge urged reciprocity and pledged support for the bill if free trade fails. House passed the army appropriation bill after days of debate, expanding soldiers homes to veterans from the Spanish War era. Boreing’s title to his seat was confirmed after a contest by White.
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Washington
Senate
Puerto Rico
Beveridge
United States
Culberson
Dem. Tex
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
House
War Department
Sumner
Driggs
Parker
New Jersey
Boreing
White
Kentucky
Fault in the Minim us Decision May Free Illinois Convicts
Illinois headline reports Judge Dunne may release many Joliet prisoners after Dreyer case argues misapplied mittimus and parole limits. Questions of board of pardons authority and double jeopardy raised as prosecutors prepare response. Other items note Langtry play ban in Pittsburg, Old Dominion fire, Elijah Moore’s death sentence, and a New Mexico posse battle with outlaws.
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Illinois
Chicago
Dunne
Dreyer
West Park Board
Joliet
Cook County
Muttimus
Danne
Mayer
Boers Concentrate Near Bloemfontein Amid War News
London dispatches report Boer forces massing about 16 miles north of Bloemfontein with Lord Roberts sending troops forward. Other items note Boer raids near Glen and Taungs, British counteractions at Warrenton, and strategic moves by Metheun and Buller.
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London
Bloemfontein
Glen
Lord Roberts
French
Johannesberg
Campbell
Taungs
Barkly West
Warrenton
Lord Metheun
Barkly
Kimberley
Lord Roberta
Maseru
Ladybrand
Clocolan
Basutoland
Buller
Free State
Army on the Move Boers Driven From Kopjes
The head of Lord Roberts’ army is about 21 miles north of Bloemfontein after a stout fight in which 7 officers and 100 men were lost. Boers use kopjes for raiding. Roberts sends 8,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry against them. Transport losses have mounted, with Methuen recalled to Kimberley to supply wagons. Canadian mounted rifles helped occupy Kenhardt as Cape Colony rebellion wanes.
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London
Lord Roberts
Bloemfontein
Lord Roberta
Pretoria
Resson
Lord Methuen
Barkly West
Kimberley
Methuen
French
Cronje
Watervaal
Canadian Mounted Rifles
Kenhardt
Cape Colony
Stories From Kimberley Siege Show Hardships and Hunger
The Standard’s Kimberley dispatch details siege hardships including horseflesh rationing, influenza and cough among residents, anthrax in hospitals, scurvy in redoubts, and a strange throat ailment. Lights are limited by proclamation, and residents report nervous breakdowns and beds strapped for safety. Amid fear, relief forces under Lord Methuen approach Modder River as signal lights seek news.
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London
Standard
Kimberley
Modder River
Belmont
Lord Methuen
Scholtzes
Nek
Spyfontein
Kekewich
Signal Corps
Cape Town
Settlement reaches in Chicago strike across five cities
A national settlement averts a 150000 machinists strike and resumes work in Chicago Cleveland Paterson and Philadelphia as five cities settle disputes and enter arbitration. In Dubois miners clash injuring three. sheriff arrests over 40. Hurst executed in Glendive for 1898 murder. Leung Chi Tso sought dead or alive in San Francisco. Yosemite flour mill fire causes 200000 dollars damage with minor injuries.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Paterson
N. J
Philadelphia
Columbus
San Francisco
Leung Chi Tso
Leung
Chinatown
Leong
Honolulu
China
America
War alarms as Euxine squadron readies for action
London dispatch reports war alarms at navy headquarters with the Euxine squadron fully equipped for instant service. Troops arrive daily from the interior and the garrison grows into a powerful army corps amid talk of forcing Turkey to yield by force.
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London
Sebastopol
Daily
Chaphie
Euxine
Turkey
Treatment of a Governor in Exile Sparked by Costa Rica Incident
Carlom Locayo former governor of Bluefields arrived in New Orleans after arrest and exile during a Costa Rica Costa Rica Costa Rica incident. He was detained in San Jose money seized about 38000 dollars and escorted to Port Lima then boarded the Hispana for New Orleans. He plans to return to Nicaragua. Also aboard the ship were Weldon Roberts Melville Moxley and Joseph Stringham members of the Nicaragua survey party who were forced to abandon their survey 175 miles south of Colon due to Sassardi Indian attacks.
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New Orleans
Carlon Locayo
Bluefields
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Miner C. Keith
Zelaya
New York
Locayo
San Jose
Port Lima
Hispana
Weldon Roberts
Melville Moxley
Joseph Stringham
Colon
Americans buy wreck Infanta Maria Teresa for metal
Gaston Drake of Naneau Bahamas and associates claim ownership of the Spanish warship Infanta Maria Teresa wreck near Bird Point Cat Island. They seek duty free import of metal, but Treasury counsel says the material would be dutiable as private ownership after US abandonment of the site. A separate dispatch reports French troops defeating an Arab army at Inwaht southwest of Algeria on March 19 led by Lt Col Eu.
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New York
Gaston Drake
Naneau
Bahama Islands
Bird Point
Cat Island
Drake
United States
North Africa
Paria
Inwaht
Cania
Insalah
Algeria
Ambush near Bloemfontein captures British force
British detachment led by Colonel Broadwood, including the Tenth Hussars and Pilcher’s mounted infantry, abandoned Thabanchu after dawn. While retreating to the Bloemfontein water works they were shelled and walked into an ambush, losing six guns with few casualties as the trap unfolded.
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Broadwood
Adrift on the Pacific and Fire at Chicago Theater
Advices report the steamer Cleveland adrift with a broken shaft and a $100,000 sugar cargo after three crewmen fled to Maui for help. A search vessel is en route. the ship last moved north of Maui, with a prior Civil War blockade runner history. The second item notes the Columbia theater fire in Chicago causing $190,000 loss and evacuations.
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Russia
Turkey
Laramie
Union Pacific Oil House
W. H. Colton
Goebel
Natal
Dundee
Harvey L. Goodall
Drover’ Journal
Chicago
San Francisco
Honolulu
Cleveland
Kahului
Maui
Eric
Puget Sound
Vancouver Island
Charleston
Philippines
Chicago Playhouse
Columbia Theater
Iroquois Club
Mission Board Fire Loss in McClintock Building
Fire in the McClintock building caused 76000 dollars in damage. The Presbyterian church board of missions for freedmen was among the affected tenants on the ground floor. Rosenbaum & Co. retail millinery suffered water damage and a 50000 dollar loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mission Board
Pittsburg
McClintock
Board of Missions For
Presbyterian Church
Rosenbaum & Co
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Epitome
News of the World
Sheridan
Manila
Seattle
Wash
England
Utah
Coolorado
Baker City
Chemulpo
Yellow Sea
Korea
Japan
Hancock
Philippine Commission
Yen Chin
Chi Li
Wilson
Idaho
Cushman and Jones
Dalles
Jackson
Secretary of the Treasury
Pacific Coast
San Diego
Port Townsend
Plumer
Maefking
Behring
Massachusetts Daughters of Veterans
John M. Stone
Mississippi
Hollyprings
Merchants National Bank
Rutland
Lord Salisbury
Macrum
Durban
Entre Rios
Bradford
New York City
Ireland
Owens
Arizona
Pasadena
San Antonio
Los Angeles
Phoenix
A. Y. Pearson
Nome City
Sugar Trust
Grand Jury
Tammany
Kearsarge
Gibson
Maryland
Washington, D. C
Louis Botha
Joubert
Cambridge
Oxford
McBride
Crater Lake National Park
Crater Lake
Oregon
John Hayslip
Kansas City
Robert Bradley
Barclay
Vladiokokos
Caucasus
Indiana
Hamburg-American Line
Phoenicia
Hamburg
Boulogne
Erie
McKinley
Navy Department
Crab Island
Glenelge
Gippsland
Australia
Benjamin F. Day
Terry
Washington Navy Yard
May
Pompeii
Christ
Albert Stedge
William Hobson
Hobson
Italian Chamber of Deputies
Baron Fava
Kasson
San Nicholas Island
California
San Pedro
Cal
Santa Clara County
Cuba
Winslow
Silas W. Terry
Iowa
Admiral McCormick
Otacant
Washington Navy
Langtry
William J. Diehl
Presbyterian Ministers’ Association
Old Dominion
Joy Steamship Company
Boston
East River
Elijah Moore
Dexter
Jesse Moore
Poses
Denver
Rocky Mountain News
Gallup
N. M
Navajo Springs
Gus Gibbons
Frank Lesuere
Heers
Dom Paul
Morning Post
Kruger
Vice
Gotham
Grand
Andrew J. Thomas
Tenderloin
George H. Putnam
Thomas
Tivoli
Bohemia
Haymarket
Arcadia
Pekin
Calcutta
Council On
Lord Curzon
Bengal
Bombay
American Park
Constantinople
Porte
Legation
Lloyd ©. Griscom
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Unger
Corea
The
Evening News
Kobe
Rusia
Meas‘ampo
Asys
Peking
New
Chwang
Manchuria
New Hronewick
SN. J
Consolidated Fruit Jar
Kopjes
Glendive
Mont
Joseph
Hurst
Dominick Cavanaugh
Yosemite
California Paste Company
Anatom Grain & Fuel Company
C. BR. Splivato
Pacific
Savannah
Babcock
Ias
Butte
Gustav Henry Geyer
Jackson, Miss
Heller
Cherbourg
France
Sydney
N.S. W
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