Boers Prepare Large Ammunition Supplies for Burghers
Cape Town dispatch reports vast munitions shipments to Bloemfontein despite Delagoa Bay blockade. Over 2,000,000 cartridges and 500 rifles were sent from Port Elizabeth this week as the Cape Government aids Orange Free State arms, raising fear of imperial inaction.
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London
Cape Town
The
Daily Mail
Delagoa Bay
Cape
Bloemfontein
Port Elizabeth
Orange Free State
Troops for South Africa Sail from Gibraltar and Southampton
The Manchester regiment of 1,000 men sailed for Cape Town from Gibraltar. The Arundel Castle carried 30 officers and 770 men of various regiments to Cape Town from Southampton. Durban’s first class reserves were ordered to rejoin their regiments. In London Salisbury met Queen Victoria amid fears over Transvaal. In Johannesburg a German committee offered volunteers for service in a separate corps due to hardships in the Magato campaign.
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Southampton
Manchester Regiment
Cape Town
Durban
Natal
London
Marquis of Salisbury
Queen Victoria
Transvaal
Johannesburg
British Arrest a Dutchman in Bechuanaland Case
Cape Town Aug 26 dispatch reports Pietrus Wilgeman a Dutchman was charged before a Bulawayo magistrate on a warrant issued by Sir Alfred Milner British high commissioner for inciting Bechuanaland natives to rebel. He was remanded.
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Cape Town
Bulawayo
Pietrus Wilgeman
Alfred Milner
Bechuanaland
Five Miners Die in Carterville Dynamite Blast
Five miners were killed at the Margaret Mining Company's mill near Carterville in an explosion of dynamite. The dead include David J. Sinclair of Duluth Minnesota E J Robbins of Sedalia Missouri Henry Gilbert of Joplin Frank Huddleston of Joplin and Will Messmore of Carterville. Sinclair was there representing a Boston syndicate preparing the mine for purchase. The blast occurred during dynamite handling and a nearby box exploded. The plant was demolished and bodies were found hundreds of feet away as the shock reached Oronogo three miles distant.
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Jor Iin
Margaret Mining Company
Carterville
David J. Sinclair
Duluth
Gilbert
Oronogo
Laurier Likely to Attend Chicago Fall Festival
Premier Laurier of Canada indicated he would probably accept the Chicago fall festival invitation in October with the governor general and most cabinet members accompanying him. The letter from Secretary Lapointe cited by the Canadian Veterans Association of Chicago confirms the plan. Meanwhile Iron Age reports growing iron market excitement with large pig iron tonnage for 1900 delivery and orders stretching into late 1900, led by southern furnaces.
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United States
Great Northwest
South Dakota
Ounicaco
Lapointe
Canadian Veterans Association of Chicago
Laurier
Canada
Chicago
Goveror
New Yoas
The
Iron Age
General Bates Seals Moros Pact in Sulu
In Manila on August 25 General Bates concluded five weeks of negotiations with Moros, gaining American sovereignty recognition, protection of religion, land sale with sultan consent, prohibition of firearms, piracy suppression, U.S. courts jurisdiction, and continued sultan’s subsidy from Spain, with the sultan and chiefs signing.
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Manila
Bates
Sulu
United States
Spain
Otis Applies Chinese Exclusion Laws to Philippines
Washington learns through a diplomatic channel that General Otis has enforced the Chinese exclusion laws in the Philippines. Officials say Otis acted as governor general using his authority rather than following explicit instructions from the state department.
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Washington
State Department
General Otis
Philippines
The
Funston Relieved From Duty to Seek Wound Care
Mania Aug 29 General Frederick Funston has been temporarily relieved from duty at San Fernando. He has gone to the second reserve hospital to receive treatment for a wound incurred during his Cuban service and is not expected to return to active duty.
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Frederick Funston
San Fernando
Second Reserve
Funston
Montana Regiment Sails for San Francisco
The transports Valencia and Zealandia sailed from Manila for San Francisco carrying 709 Montana regiment soldiers and 400 men from other units aboard.
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Montana Regiment
Manila
Valencia
Zealandia
San Francisco
Chicago traffic officials reject lake line rate cut
Chicago freight authorities of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Transportation company faced a meeting to decide on recent rate reductions. They declined to match the cut, keeping traffic to regular tariffs. Competing lines including St Paul and Duluth and Great Northern planned to enforce full rates from Duluth to Twin Cities.
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ChicaGo
Chicago-St. Paul
Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Transportation Company
Lake Superior
St. Paul
Duluth
Minneapolis
Omaha
Minnesota
Great Northern
Lake Michigan
Lake Line
SECRETARY ROOT RETURNS FROM CHAMPLAIN CONFERENCE
Secretary of War Root returns to Washington after visiting President at Lake Champlain. He goes to the Arlington Hotel and meets General Corbin and Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn. He declines to publish details, saying the matters discussed were cabinet level and would not depart from current Philippines policy.
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Washindton
Root
Lake Champlain
Arlington Hotel
Corbin
Meiklejohn
Philippines
Electric Storm Hits Central Iowa Causes Fatality
An August evening electric storm swept central Iowa damaging Des Moines circuits and stopping streetcars. A 42 year old man named Frank Kamber was killed by a lightning strike on his porch.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Frank Kamber
California Asylum Scandal Report Slams Agnews Medical Chief
Governor Gage submitted to the lunacy commission a report on Agnews asylum management. The document accuses Dr Sponagle, medical superintendent, of numerous crimes including rape and murder, with much of the report deemed unprintable.
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California
San Francisco
Gage
The
Lunacy Commission
Agnews
Sponagle
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