Kilpatrick dies and varied updates flood the brief
Sir George Kilpatrick ex lieutenant governor of Canada is dead. The report covers multiple items including Cuba casualties, price hikes in tobacco and furniture, bankruptcy cases, St. Paul seeking league admission, and December congress recess. It notes postal receipts, Cuba deaths, and Roosevelt era commerce shifts.
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George Kilpatrick
Canada
Cincinnati
Manila
Charles A. Levanway
Cuba
North Carolina
Charles LeQuesne
New York
Andrew Carneigie
St. Paul
Hickey
Western League of Baseball Clubs
St. Joseph
Congress
Kansas
Wayne
Aberle
Oasis
Henry and
Jefferson Counties
Iowa
Ellis
S. C
Tuskegee Normal Industrial Institute For
Tuskegee
Ala
Madison Square Garden
Joseph R. McFee
Salvation Army
Baltimore
Salvationists
Chicago
San Francisco
Duluth
Cecil Rhodes
Dr. Jameson
Rainy Lake
Admiral Dewey
Beltrami County
Minnesota
Missouri
Kid McCoy
Peter Maher
Maher-McCoy
Coney Island Athletic Club
St. Louis
Earl of Dunraven
Limerick
Dublin Castle
Emly
Lord Ashborure
Ireland
South Africa
New York Board of County
Philippines
Corporation Counsel
Whalen
United States
Samuel B. Weeks
Phillipsburg
Kas
Weeks
Pension Bureau
Charles Ingersoll
Tompkins County
Elizabeth Upham- Chase
Central Alls, R. I
Roberts to Lead South Africa Campaign with Kitchener as Chief of Staff
London reports Lord Roberts appointed commander in chief in South Africa with Lord Kitchener as chief of staff. The army reserve is mobilized including the seventh division. Militia battalions will volunteer for service abroad and at home. Rob erts dies in Tugela river battle while Buller forms commission on Natal losses. Cabinet reconstruction and pressure on Beach and Chamberlain emerge in political circles.
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London
New York
War Office
Redvers Buller
Lord Roberts
South Africa
Lord Kitchener
Her
Malta
Channel Islands
United Kingdom
Yeomanry
F. H. S. Roberts
Tugela
General Buller
Natal
Goschen
Kaplin
Cross
Salisbury
Exchequer Beach
Chamberlain
Radical advance in railroad freight rates to hit articles nationwide
Chicago reports a coming January 1 rate hike on all railroads east and west of Chicago. The sweeping rise averages 25 to 40 percent, affecting thousands of everyday items including sugar soap coffee coal and farm implements. Coal prices rise 25 cents per ton. cattle 20 cents per 100 pounds. hogs and sheep 26 to 40 cents. dressed meats 40 cents per 100 pounds. hay up 1.10 dollars per ton.
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Chicago
the Chronicle
Guns Shell Boer Positions Near Colenso Reported
World dispatch from Frere Camp dated December 13 notes naval guns practiced on enemy trenches beyond Colenso with no Boer reply. White reportedly shelled the enemy rear from Ladysmith, firing ceased at 10 o'clock. Boers supposedly vacated Colenso again and a general forward movement is anticipated. A gun was reportedly disabled at Ladysmith, causing satisfaction.
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Ladysmith
London
New York World
Frere Camp
Colenso
British Commander Arrives in Capetown During Tugela Fight
London dispatch reports Lieutenant General Sir Charles Warren arrives in Capetown after leading the Fifth division toward Port Elizabeth. Boer artillery kept up heavy fire as British retirement proceeded calmly on Tuesday. Mafeking held firm on December 16.
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London
Charles Warren
First Army Corps
Capetown
Port Elizabeth
Tugela River
Mafeking
Death of Lieutenant Brumby in Washington
Lieutenant Thomas M. Brumby, flag lieutenant to Admiral Dewey during the Manila campaign, died at Garfield hospital in Washington after a brief typhoid illness. He was 44, unmarried, with a Georgia Confederate veteran father and a Marietta, Georgia family nearby. Brumby served as Dewey’s personal representative in many duties and had a long, intimate friendship with the admiral.
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Manilia
Washington
Thomas M. Brumby
Adimra Dewey
Manila
Garfield Hospital
Brumby
Dewey
Asiatic
United States
Wihnward
Marietta
Leutenant
Fourteenth
Georgia
Aguinaldo Still At Large In North Iacos Region
Dispatch from Laoag reports Aguinaldo in disguise with several generals left Manitong last Saturday with 500 men toward Salsona. An insurgent major guarding twenty three American prisoners at Cabugaon surrendered.
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Manila
Associated Press
Laoag
North Iacos
Manitong
North Hacos
Aguinaldo
Alantong
Salsona
Cabugaon
Cagayan
Whole Country in Rebellion Against British Invaders
Dec 18 report from Sterkstroom notes widespread rebellion across the northern region and in Basutoland after British reverses. Local natives and Basotho reportedly unsettled and losing heart over British strength.
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Sterkstroom
Basutoland
Rockefeller Gives 810000
John D. Rockefeller offers 10000 to Tuskegee Institute at Tuskegee Alabama. Five thousand dollars to cover last year's deficit from new building work and other improvements, and five thousand toward this year's current expenses.
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Rockefeller
New York
Booker T. Washington
John D. Rockefeller
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Tuskegee
Ala
Makes a Daring Escape
J H Morton, wanted for forgery, escaped from Sheriff Davenport near Farley Iowa while being transported. Morton jumped from a train toilet window in shirt sleeves and skull cap. Officers scour the countryside. Morton had been caught earlier in Boston.
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Sioux City
J. H Morton
Davenport
Farley
Morton
Norton
Boston
Chicago Rabbi Denounces Christmas Day Celebration
In Sinai temple Rev. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, a leading Chicago Jewish clergyman, denounced Jews celebrating Christmas as a day of rejoicing. He urged observance in sorrow, recalling the persecuted history of Jews in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sinai Temple
Emil G. Hirsch
Europe
Decrease in State Convicts Reported in New York Prisons
Albany December 18. State prison commission annual statistics show a steady decline in prisoners across prisons penitentiaries reformatories and country jails with the drop most noticeable in the penitentiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
State Prison Commission
Ex Congressmen Pidcock Dead
Former New Jersey Democratic leader James Nelson Pidcock died at his White House New Jersey home from paralysis after being stricken unconscious. Doctors failed to revive him.
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Pidcock
New York
James Nelson Pidcock
New Jersey
White House
N. J
Appeal to the Queen to Stop the War in London
Dr Parker urged Queen Victoria in a city temple address to end the war. He said cabinets and Parliament cannot act, only the queen as a woman, mother and widow could halt the conflict, calling it the most hideous war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dr. Parker
City Temple
England
Buller Reports Reverse At Tugela River Fight
General Buller admits a serious reverse near Cheveley on December 15 16 losing eleven guns as he withdrew to avoid heavier losses. The Connaught Rangers under Hart bore heavy losses while Col Brooke was wounded and the East Surrey led a failed attempt to cross the Tugela with artillery.
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London
War Office
Buller
Tugela River
Cheveley
Hart
Hilyard
Lyttleton
Connaught Rangers
I. G. Brooke
East Surrey
Colenso
Long
Donga
Schofield
Lord Dundonald
Barton
Root Advises Mercy on Soldiers Death Sentence
Secretary Root recommends commuting the death sentence of Corporal Damhofer and two other Washington Volunteer Regiment soldiers convicted by court martial of ravishing Filipino women. The proposed punishment is twenty years imprisonment. He states the original sentence was legal despite lawyers raising questions.
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Washington
Root
Damhofer
Washington Volunteer Regiment
Senator Foster Seeks Homestead Bounty for Spanish War Vets
Senator Foster of Washington introduced a bill to extend the bounty provision of the homestead law to soldiers who served in the war with Spain and who have served or are serving in the Philippines.
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Washington
Senator Foster
Spain
Philippines
Yale Gets the Money From Yale Will Case
The contest by Robert H. Watters against the Yale will of Prof. Othniel C. Marsh was withdrawn. A New Haven superior court decree approved the will, transferring an estate valued between 75 000 and 100 000 dollars to Yale University.
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Yale
New Haven
Lumber Bosses Sell Everett Lands to East Coast Syndicate
A Seattle dispatch reports most property owners of the Everett Washington land company including John Rockefeller holdings have sold to a New York and Boston syndicate with James J Hill and other Great Northern factors. Frederick Weyerhaeuser who bought 1,000,000 acres in Washington now negotiates for tracts in Snohomish and adjacent counties.
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Hilb Ina
Minneaplos
Seattle
Wash
Everett (Wash
John Rockefeller
New York
Boston
James J. Hill
Great Northern
Frederick Weyerhuser
Wisconsin
Washington
Snohomis
Continuous
Britain losing grip in South Africa amid martial law talks
Sir Alfred Milner pushes imperial approval for martial law in Cape Colony as Dutch disaffection grows and censorship tightens. Lord Salisbury resists, fearing rallying England’s enemies. Cape governance centers on Sir Forestier Walker with Cape forces under his command.
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London
New York World Cablegram
South Africa
Sir Alfred Milner
Cape Colony
Lord Salisbury
England
Alfred Milner
Rhodes
Milner
Forestier Walker
The
Cape
Two Brushes with Rebels in the Philippines
War department reports a Manila cable stating Batchelor Twenty-fourth Infantry battles at Magat and Rio Grande junction Isabella. Four dead four mortally wounded. one drowned four wounded. Navy relief expected. Spanish prisoners arriving. insurgents hold about 1,000. Alfred Roeder and 20 soldiers attack 400 insurgents at Madrigal Negros with no casualties. Enemy losses reported.
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Washington
War Department
Philippine
Manila
Batchelor
Magat
Rio Grande
Isabella
Tugucargo
Cagayan
Vigan
Young
Bangui
Luzon
Negros
Alfred Roeder
Madrigal
Otis
Payne Abandons Resolution on Republican Delegates
Washington December 16. The Payne resolution to reappoint delegates to the national convention by state vote will not be pressed at the meeting of the national committee. After a White House conference with the president present Secretary Dick and Governor-elect Nash of Ohio, Payne abandoned the effort citing opposition and the impropriety of pushing the plan now. He will address the committee in the morning with his reasons.
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Washington
Payne
White House
Nash
Ohio
Republican National Convention Set for Philadelphia
The Republican National Committee chose Philadelphia to host the convention on Tuesday June 19, after a closed door contest with Chicago St Louis and New York. First ballot tallies gave Chicago 20 Philadelphia 13 New York 7 and St Louis 9. On the second ballot New York votes shifted to Philadelphia and St Louis split between Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Philadelphia
St. Louis
Windy City
the Lake
Defaulter Caught in Tangier
U S Consul at Tangier reports Moorish authorities have arrested Thomas J Hunter, sought in Atlanta Ga for defrauding in railroad auditor duties. He denied identity, claimed British subject but matched fugitive description. no U S Morocco extradition treaty, yet surrender consent given.
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Tangier
Washington
United States
Gummere
State Department
Thomas J. Hunter
Atlanta
Wunter
Morocco
Trouble Over Published Article Causes Retracement Clash
The offended party demands a retrace which the editor refuses. A shot is fired and a staff member is dismissed after a coroner’s jury verdict on the incident.
Editor in Belden shoots Blenkiron in self defense
Laurel Neb. December 13 The Belden News editor Charles H Harris shot and killed J N Blenkiron a stockman with county ties during a dispute over a newspaper article Blenkiron demanded retraction Harris claimed self defense in Hartington coroner s inquest and public sentiment favored the editor Harris surrendered after the incident and was held harmless pending investigation
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Laurel
Neb
Charles 8. Harris
Belden News
J. N. Blenkiron
Atkinson
Nebraska
Harris
Blenkiron
Belden Bank
Belden
Chris Larson
Hartington
Hark Bienkiron
Mixed the Wrong Chemicals Explodes on Woman’s Face
Mrs. M. Watts of Humboldt Nebraska suffered a facial explosion after mixing two vials by mistake. She poured nitric acid into carbolic acid and shook to hasten mixing, flinging corrosive liquid onto her face despite wearing spectacles that protected her eyes.
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Humboldt, Neb
M. Watts
Burglars Loot Nebrick Stores Then Crook Sentenced
In Chappell Nebraska on December 6 burglars broke into Sudman and Fish and A J Swanson stores for the third time in seven weeks stealing shoes pants and overalls. Mr Fish tracked the burglar to Julesburg Colorado then to Cozad where he was captured brought back and pled guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary at a special term of court.
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Chappell, Neb
Sudman & Fish Company
A. J. Swanson
Fish
Julesburg
Colo
Cozad
Grimes
Dies at the Age of Ninety Five in TABLES ROCK
Frank Blecha died at his home four or five miles southeast of Tables Rock after a long illness. He was said to be ninety five years old. He came from Chicago about forty years ago and claimed government land where he lived and died. His wife passed away twenty years ago. He had been paralyzed for over a year and was helpless since. He leaves many children and grandchildren.
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Tables Rock
Neb
Frank Blecha
Here
Chicago
Woman Killed by Train at Lincoln Avenue Crossing
Mrs. C. A. Baldwin was struck by the St. Joseph and Grand Island train at the Lincoln avenue crossing in Grand Island Nebraska. Her body was thrown forty feet and horribly mutilated. She was the wife of an ex county surveyor. Engineer Harry Dunn was arrested and held for investigation.
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Cara
Grand Island
Neb
C. A. Baldwin
Lincolln Avenue
St. Joseph
Dewey's Surgeon at Manilla
Dr. Aldrich Hammer the Olympia physician who served at Manila Bay has left Nebraska after visiting his sister Mrs. William Nelson. Navy veteran of fifteen years with much time in Asiatic waters was assigned to land duty after returning with Admiral Dewey. The reunion was described as very pathetic and he was royally entertained in town.
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Dewey
Manilla
Nebraska
Cty
Neb
Aldrich Hammer
Olympia
Manila Bay
William Nelson
Mares Island
Cal
Asiatic
Aarival Dewey
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Charles H. Harris
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