Glencoe Battle Reports Boer Attack and Symons Wounding
British dispatches from Glencoe describe a dawn assault by about four thousand Boers with guns on a hill east of the camp. After shelling failed to damage, Allied infantry advanced, taking the position by 1:30 PM. Sir William Symons is wounded and considered possibly fatally.
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London
War Office
Ladysmith
Glencoe
Symons
William Symons
Yule
Mafeking
Kimberley
Spytfontein
Trouble in Samoa as three powers urged to aid government
The Mona arrived with AP dispatches from Apia dated October 6 reporting unrest in Samoa. Tensions rise among the provisional three-power government as consuls face strained relations and a looming crisis without swift assistance to stabilise the administration and distracted officials.
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San Francisco
Mona
Australia
Apia
Samoa
Honolulu
Associated Presa
Fiend Burned at the Stake in Mississippi
A posse captured Joe Lestore who confessed that he and Bob Anderson killed a Mississippi family at St Annes J H Gam brill house. The pair tied the family, piled a feather mattress with oil, cremated them and robbed the house. Lestore was burned at the stake. Anderson was captured and partly burned but survived after a delay in the fire.
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St.louis
Post-Dispatch
Joe Lestore
Bob Anderson
J. H. Gambrill
St. Annes
Misa
Gambrill
Leftore
Tlake
Columbia Defeats Shamrock To Retain Americas Cup
In a brisk 18 to 20 knot breeze on October 20 New York, Columbia defeated the challenger Shamrock in the third international series, retaining the cup for the United States. The defender launched from the start ahead, battled bow to bow near the outer mark, and finished about seven seconds ahead in official time, with a sizable overall lead by the finish.
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New York
Columbia
United States
Leeward
Sir Thomas Lipton
Outermark
Hogarth
Shamrock
Ue Shamrock
General Lawton Takes San Isidro In Manila Report
General Otis reports General Lawton advancing with Young into San Isidoro where a garrison is set. The Twenty second Infantry suffered one killed and three wounded amid resistance. The enemy lost many. one Spaniard and fifteen insurgents captured. inhabitants in the area described as mostly friendly.
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Washington
War Department
General Otis
Manila
Lawton
Young
San Isidoro
Twenty-second
Aemy
Otis
Filipinos Ask For Peace In Manila Request
Three insurgent officers entered Angeles and asked General MacArthur for a Filipino commission headed by a Filipino Major General to visit General Otis to discuss peace terms and the exchange of prisoners. The request was sent to General Otis and the officers are to return tomorrow for his reply.
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Manila
Angeles
MacArthur
Otis
National Convention of W C T U Opens in Seattle
Delegates arrive by train as the National Convention of the W C T U meets in Seattle. The event follows a Pullman Palace Car Company consolidation with Wagner, and other national events unfold including Hay's Alaska talks and the Venezuela crisis ending with Castro entering Caracas.
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The
Seattle
Wash
Pullman Palace Car Company
Chicago
Pullman Company
Wagner Company
Hay
Foreign Office
Local and Personal News from Carson and Nearby Areas
Judge Bonnifield returns to Carson. John G. South arrives from Oregon. Vera Rutherford leaves for Silver Creek to teach. William D. Huffman brings 250 thoroughbred bucks to Paradise valley. Judge Rutherford sentences J. W. O'Brien to thirty days for whisky to Indians. Two drunk squaws receive five days each. Miller & Lux ships 9000 cattle to California ranches as cars are secured.
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John G. South
Oregon
Vera Rutherford
Silver Creek
Lander County
William D. Huffman
Wild Horse Valley, Or
Paradise Valley
Rutherford
J. W. O'Brien
Miller & Lux
California
Fancy trimmed and walking hats arrive at Capital Restaurant
A new lot of stylish trimmed and walking hats has just arrived at the Capital Restaurant on Bridge Street. Call early to secure choice selections.
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Capital
Bridge Street
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