Wide Range of War News and Domestic Incidents
A compact digest notes progress of Venezuela peace talks, a dilapidated New Orleans ship awaiting repairs, and British relations with Delagoa Bay. Highlights include Eddie Santry defeating Ben Jordan in New York, a Pueblo official killed by a highwayman, telegraph line surveys in Canada, and looming Canadian land cessions. Also covers ship movements to Manila, rail pooling talks, a Fort Snelling riot, and a California police shooting.
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Vanderiip
Fox-City
C. L. Funk
Pueblo
Col
Cripple Creek
Fis
Ashcroft
B. C
Yukon
Dawson
Entertainment for Admiral Dewey and naval news updates
Boston hosted Dewey for a public entertainment while Admiral Dewey is to be entertained in Oakland California next month. The Ranger substitutes the Badger in the Philippines reinforcement fleet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Admiral Dewey
Navy
Ranger
Philippines
Yellowstone Park
Boers Declare War as Rail Lines Seized Across Regions
War declared at Mafeking spreads alarm as Boers advance on multiple fronts including Laing's Nek Kimberley Vryburg Mafeking and Lobatsi. Reports note Boer crossings into Cape Colony raid on Albertina station and threats to cut key rail and telegraph lines.
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Plana
London
Laing
Nek
Kimberley
Vryburg
Mafeking
Lobatsi
Durban
Albertina Station
Ladysmith
Temporary Alaska Boundary Talks Progress in London
Sir Louis Davies, Canadian fisheries and marine minister, to confer with the secretary of state for the colonies tomorrow. He says the temporary moratorium is only a tentative measure to prevent local friction during ongoing negotiations on the main Alaska boundary issue.
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Alaska
London
Sir Louis Davies
General Schwan's Expedition Returns from Cavite
General Schwan's expedition has completed its mission in Cavite and troops are retreating to prior positions. Infantry move toward Taas, artillery and cavalry retrace from Malabou to Buacoor, while insurgents under Trias withdraw to Silang and Indan. Marines report reoccupied trenches and locals mingling masks as amigos as some natives hide or resist.
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Manila
Schwan
Schawn
Peres Deamarimas
Taas
Malabou
Buacoor
Signal Corps
Genreal Trias
Silang
Indan
Cavite
Cavite Viejo
Noveleta
Malabon
Oregon City Shooting Ends in Suspected Spouse Violence
A Brooks of Canemah shot at Frank Freeman in his home injuring Mrs. Brooks who died soon after. Freeman was arrested for assault and bound over to circuit court. Brooks admitted planning the act after discovering Freeman with his wife.
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Oregon City
A. Brooks
Canemah
Frank Freeman
Brooks
Brookses
German Expedition Massacred by Natives In Southwest Africa
A courier aboard the Niger reports the massacre of Lieutenant Guise German commissioner and Herr Leemeyer along with 100 native soldiers near Rio del Rey on the Bight of Biafra. A guide betrayed the expedition leading to ambush and slaughter with natives looting factories and killing staff.
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Africa
Liverpool
Lieutenant Guise
Rio del Rey
Old Calabar River
Dattow
Camerons
Halifax officers mobilize reserve men for Cape duties
Halifax Nova Scotia reports military officers mobilizing reserve troops to be ready to shoulder guns and proceed to the Cape if needed amid the Transvaal crisis. In New York the Dewey victory arch committee collects pledges totaling 100000 for a marble memorial.
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Halifax
N.S
Transvaal
Lord Seymour
Cape
New York
Cape Boer Battle Reports and Mafeking Train Capture
London reports a clash between General Sir George Stewart White and Boer forces in Natal with White optimistic about British gains. A Cape Town dispatch notes Boers attacking Mafeking and a captured armored train near Kraaipan. Other items mention forces movements, an earthquake near Ceram, and Canada planning larger South Africa contributions.
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London
Edinburg
The
Scotsman
George Stewart White
Natal
van Keenan
White
Daily Telegraph
Ladysmith
Archibald Hunter
Acton Homes
Daily Mail
Cape Town
Mafeking
Vryburg
War Office
Cape
Here
Kraaipan
the Times
Free State
Colored Land Holders Affects Census Increases In South
Virginia officials report a sharp rise in land ownership among colored people aided by land contracts. The twelfth census will count occupants on public lands and contract buyers, aiming to reveal full tenure by race and reduce record gaps.
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Virginia
Division of Agriculture
Stringent Missouri law bans alum in foods and baking powders
The Missouri legislature enacted a strict food safety law prohibiting manufacture or sale of any item used in food that contains alum or arsenic. It notes England Germany and France curb alum in bread and lists brands sold in the area found to contain alum. It cautions housewives to avoid cheap alum powders and compares costs with cream of tartar.
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Missouri
England
Germany
France
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Kentucky
District of Columbia
Congress
K. O
Alam Calumet
Calumet Baking Powder Co
Chicago
Alam
Home Baking Powder Co
F. Man
Precific Chemical Works
Tacoma
Crescent
Crescent Mfg. Co
White Lily
Alam Washington
D. Ferrers & Co
Washington Mfg. Co
San Francisco
Bon Bon
Grant Chemical Co
Defiance
Portland Coffee & Spice Co
Portland
Beno & Ballis
Wreck of Laurada After Stranding Near Zapadine Bay
Survivors from the Laurada recount a perilous voyage from Seattle to Cape Nome and a final grounding at Zapadine bay St George Island. Captain White steered the sinking ship ashore October 28 after a forward leak worsened while 185 people were later taken to Dutch Harbor by the cutter Corwin.
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Seattle
United States Revenue
Corwin
Laurada
Zapadine Bay
St. George Island
Frank White
Cape Nome
Active Pass
New Metlakahtla
Dutch Harbor
Umoa
Pribyloff
Seal Islands
St. George
Captain White
North American Commercial Company
Herring
St. Michael
San Francisco
Brown
Yukon
General Shafter to be retired this October
Washington reports retirement of General Shafter from the regular army on October 16. The move is expected to prompt promotions and retirements of several colonels to brigadier generals and to pave the way for elevating staff officers Lawton and MacArthur to general officers of the line.
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New York
the Tribune
Washington
Shafter
Lawton
MacArthur
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Massachusetts
Adruiser
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New York Navy Yard
United States
Loomis
Venezuela
Lennox Athletic Club
Eddie Santry
Ben Jordan
Delagoa Bay
Portuguese East Africa
Great Britain
Standard Shoe Machinery Company
Trenton
N. J
Hugh McGrath
Fourth Cavalry
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Vancouver
Medical Department of the Army
Newport
Volunteer Signal Corps
War Department
Otis
Indiana
Tennessee Regiment
Cottage City
Senator Shoup
Calloway
New York Central Railway
Industrial Commission
Eighth Infantry
Fort Snelling
Fenner
Stout
Kelly
Brazille
St. Paul
Cope
Yokohama
Maxim-Nordenfeldt Gun & Ammunition Company, Ltd
George W. Vandusen
United States Artillery
Thorta
Uteomomya
Japan
Alameda
Cal
A. ©. Gott
Conrade
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Canadian Pacific
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Young Turk Party
Olympia
Jenkins
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
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Wis
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Kan
Aetna Company
Millers
Ind
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Larkspur
Republic
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Pernambuco
Pretoria
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Geary
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Thirteenth
George O. Webster
Fort Sheridan
Fourth Infantry
Webster
Cuba
Lauzon
Rockwell
Norfolk Navy Yard
Admiral Schley
South Atlantic
Bechuanaland
Hburghere
Cape Colony
Johannesburg
Orange River
Thilipstown
Deer Junction
Lindiwe
Baden Powell
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India
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Komati Port
Komati River
Laing's Nek
Volksrust
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Sonora
Mexico
Ramsey
Miller
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Conemaugh
Fourteenth Infantry
Chicago Tribune
Paris
Piew
Glencoe
Ingogo
Agulcalde
Herald
Aguinaldo
Martiboga
Amsterdam
Mandeteblad
Batavia
Java
O Ceram
Moluccas
Boorco
Papua
Amhei
Hawaii
Anatralia
Honolulu
Hmr
Frederick J. Cross
Marconi
Hawaiian
Canada
Ottawa
Ont
South
Behring Sea
Charlea L. Fair
Nettie R. Craven
James G. Fair
Han
Roseburg
General Shafter
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