War Dispatches from Cape Town and Colenso Front
London telegraph reports General Buller noting no serious Colenso attack and Mafeking safety. Plans for future Transvaal governance outlined as Salisbury speech awaited. Armored train at Colenso recovers supplies while Boers retreat. Kentucky and Frankfort election tallies show Taylor lead with unsettled counties. Blackburn raises Goebel majority claims.
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London
War Office
Buller
Cape Town
Kekewich
Kimberley
Mafeking
Plumer
Fort Tull
White
Pigeon Post
Ladysmith
Joubert
Dundee
Lord Salisbury
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Kruger
Escourt
Natal
Colenso
Dublin
Fort Wylie
Kentucky's Vote Still in Doubt Across Counties
Western Union bulletin from Cincinnati reports Kentucky results with 116 of 119 counties tallied. Taylor leads Goebel by 165,098 votes with three counties still uncounted, leaving the statewide outcome uncertain.
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Kentucky
Cincinnati
Western Union
Taylor
Goebel
The Prince of Wales Birthday News and National Updates
The Prince of Wales marks his fifty eighth birthday while Vice President Hobart’s condition remains stable. Reports note Homer ship arrival with passengers and gold from St Michael Dutch Harbor and Cape Nome. Union boiler workers strike at Sterling Boiler Ohio after three discharges. London papers praise Samoan settlement and cross nation understanding. Silver prices rise on demand from China and India for minting. Abilene Kansas sees a freight train crash injuring two, with a few others hurt in a car collision in Binghampton New York. German neutrality policy over South Africa and Ohio election returns show Nash leading in Republican counts by 60 364 with Democrats challenging.
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Prince of Wales
Hobart
Newton
Homer
San Francisco
St. Michael
Dutch Harbor
Cape Nome
Admiral Dewey Marries Mildred Hazen Quietly in Washington
In a discreet ceremony at St Pauls Catholic Church in Washington Admiral George Dewey and Mildred M Hazen wed before a small group. The event required special dispensation as Dewey was not Catholic. Afterward the couple had breakfast at the bride’s mothers home and departed with Secretary Root offering congratulations.
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Washington
George Dewey
Mildred M. Hazen
St. Paul's Catholic Church
V Street
Fifteenth
Jas. F. Mackin
Joseph H. Foley
Sidney Hurlbut
Washington McLean
Ludlow
Admiral Ludlow
Lieutenant Caldwell
Admiral Dewey
Father Mackin
St. Paul's
Mrs. Dewey
McLean
Dewey
Pennsylvania Depot
Root
Commander Dennison Endorses Chamberlain’s Remedy in Africa
Under date of Nov. 4, 1897 from Vryburg Bechulanland Captain C G Dennison writes he bought Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Kennedy for himself and his men before the last campaign and found it beneficial for bowel complaints. For sale by Brown Bros Druggists.
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Africa
C. G. Dennison
Galishe
Vryburg
Bechulanaland
Chamberlain
Kennedy
Brown Bros
Karl's Clover Root Tea Promises Healthful Bowels Liver and Kidneys
An old ad extols Karl's Clover Root Tea for a healthy complexion by purifying blood and aiding digestion. It claims effects on bowels liver and kidneys with prices 25 and 60 cents at Eagle Drug Store. Another line pitches Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for dyspepsia.
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Karl
Eagle Drug Store
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Cyrus Noble
Jesse Moore
Winnemucca
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A. Rucktescf4er
Winnemucca, Nevada
D. Cordano
Bridge Street
Nev
England
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Leslie
Martin
Frankfort
Blackburn
Bradley
Sterling Boiler Company
Barbarton
Ohio
Union
New York
China
India
Union Pacific
Caboose
Abilene, Kas
Cheyenne
Omaha
Binghampton
N. Y
Delaware, Lackwana & Western Railroad
Scott
Newes
South Africa
Germany
Ohie
Nash
Jones
House
Senate
THE
Silver State Job
Reed
Pueblo
Silver State Winnemucca
Nevada
Silver State Mills
Recanzone & Forgnone
Paradise
Hdun
Shone
J. & F. Martell
Cochag Cordelia Wine CO
P. Laveaga SR
W. J. Bell
Prop
International Bridge
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B. D. Santina & CO
Hood
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