The Boers Trap and Bullock Repulse Casualties Reported
Dispatches from London and Cape Town outline Boer artillery actions near the river and the heavy repulse at Bullock with estimated 1150 casualties including 332 missing. Details describe captures of several officers and men, plus follow up notes on British movements and related naval reports.
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London
Ladysmith
Cape Town
Diedericks
Naarwpoort
Arundel
Daily Telegraph
C Jevely
Lieut. Roberts
Lord Roberts
Tugela River
Roberts
Schofield
Congreve
Rifles
Lieut
Foster
Baptie
Devonshire Regiment
Col
Bullock
Hunt
Walter
Goodwin
Daily Mail
Chievely
The
Standard
Buller
Col. Long
Lancashire
Victor Christian Cavendish
West Derbyshire
Duke of Devonshire
Eastbound Roads Agree Not to Pay Commissions
Chicago December 23 roads eastbound sign an agreement to stop paying commissions on all ticket sales over their lines effective January 4.
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Chicago
Dee
Ealterm Oyners
Lawton Monument Funds Grow Across Indiana
Indianapolis and Fort Wayne hold mass meetings to fund a monument for Gen. Lawton and raise funds for Mrs. Lawton. Subscriptions in Indianapolis total 2950 with 525 more for a memorial. Richmond starts a separate drive. Officials plan Arlington burial and a formal memorial committee action follows.
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Ind
Lawton
Indiana
Col. Edwards
Arlington
England
Indianapolis Board of Trade
Board of Governors
English
Commercial Club
Richmond
Gen Lawton
Moody Evangelist Dwight L Moody Dies at East Northfield
Dwight L Moody world famed evangelist dies at his East Northfield home at noon Friday. Family at his bedside heard his final moments as he spoke to them and recited prayers with faint words. Funeral planned for Monday at 3 PM in the Congregational church with burial at Roundtop on the seminary grounds.
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East Northfield
Mass
Dwight L. Moody
Mr. Moody
Mts. Herman
Chicago Bible Institute
Congregational Church
Roundtop
Seminary
Tragic Fire at St Francis School Rehearsal in Quincy
A gas jet caused a dress fire during a December rehearsal at St Francis school in Quincy. Fourteen girls aged 9 to 11 were in the cast. six died instantly and four more would die, while others were severely injured. Sisters and teachers aided, preventing greater loss.
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Quincy
Ill
St. Francis School
Mary Wavering
Alma Middendorf
Bertha Freund
Josie Roszeweg
Miss Hickey
Irene Freiberg
Josephine Bohne
Wilhelmina Kottendorf
Lena Zeiger
Laura Menke
Miss Loebbing
Alva Timpe
Josie Werner
Andrew Butzkneben
Ludwigus
Rodolphia
Theodet
Ephia
Alvin Timpe
Margaret Warner
Wilhelmina Cuttendorf
Mary Althoff
Congressman Boutelle Improves and Leaves for Bangor
Boston Dec. 23 Congressman's condition was much improved Friday night and he departed for Bangor Maine.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Jack Stelzer
Ed Dunkhorst
Congressman Boutelle
Boston
Bangor
Ohio State News. Walked Into the Flames
Gallipolis reports a house fire where Lake Darst and family escape. Father saves eight children by directing jumps from a second story window. ten year old Clarence hesitates and steps into the flames as the roof collapses.
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Gallipolis
Lake Darst
Cheshire
Darst
Clarence
Elephant Sid spared after informal trial for Patsy Meagher death
In Columbus on December 23 the elephant Sid was judged not to be responsible for Patsy Meagher’s death after evidence that cruel bull hook use provoked his anger. Sid’s past record favored him and he will not be killed.
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Austin
Columbus
Supreme Court
Guilbert
Franklin County
United States Court
Bell Telephone Instruments
Sid
Patsy Meagher
Lewis Sells
Columbus Man in Life Sentence Fights Foreman
Tom Hale, a Cincinnati man serving a life term for assault, fought Gus Roth, stamp shop foreman, Friday, repeatedly striking him in the face. Hale was paddled and barred from Christmas festivities.
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Columbus
Tom Hale
Cincinnati
Gus Roth
The
Stamp Shop
Roth
Brooke and Wood Depart Cuba for Tampa Harbor
General Brooke and General Wood depart Havana after a farewell banquet with 65 attendees at the Paris restaurant. Brooke to sail from Cabanas at 3 o clock as a squadron and artillery battery escort him to the wharf. Municipal council rejects sending an address of thanks to President McKinley citing no new promises in his message.
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Paris
Mario Menocal
Ernest Lee Conant
Wood
United States
Cuba
United States Congress
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Brooke
Ludlow
Frooke
Tampa
7Th Cavalry
2D Artillery
Cabanas
Patria
McKinley
Congress
Rock Slide Destroys Amalfi Hotel and Vessels
A Friday afternoon disaster at Amalfi on the Gulf of Salerno saw a massive rock slide swallow the Caprasceini hotel and nearby structures. The debris submerged four boats, trapping inhabitants and crushing crews in the sea below. The earth mass estimated at 50 000 cubic yards.
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Dee
Amalfi
Gulf of Salerno
Caprasceini
Tragic Frelinghem Flood Claims Dozens of Children
About 40 children drowned on a frozen Lys river at Frelinghem near the French border when the ice broke during a holiday play session. The accident is reported from Brussels with details of the catastrophe.
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Brussels
Frelinghem
Lys
Samuel Hunt and T D Rhodes Named Officers
Samuel Hunt serves as president while T D Rhodes is cited as general passenger agent in the formal notice.
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Samuel Hunt
T. D. Rhodes
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