War Office Dispatches Describe Early Jan Battle Progress
London reports a record day at the war office amid heavy wounded counts. General Buller and Warren forces push uphill at Spearman's Camp with artillery, inform of gains and light casualties. Boers near Ladysmith suffer a surprise foray as British troops shell positions and press onward.
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London
War Office
Bulestin
Bul
Warren
Buller
Spearman
Potghter
Lyttleton
King’s Royal Rifles
Ventor’s Spruit
B. Hamilton
McGregor
Lancashire Fusiliers
R. B. Blunt
M. G. Crofton
J. M. Barrett
First
Border Rifles
Co. D. Vaughan
Murier
York and Lancashires
A. H. Kierrey
Dublin Fusiliers
C. A. Hensley
F. English
Gordons
P. D. Stuart
Potgieter
Daily News
Ladysmith
Lord Dandonald
Opinion of One of the Specials at the Front
Spearman's Camp dispatch reports General Warren's forces winning a planned battle west of Spion Kop. British troops assaulted Three Tree Hill, pressed a heavy Mauser rifle and cannon fusillade, and forced the Boer right back toward Spionkop as they bivouacked on the ground they seized.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Spearman
Warren
Spionkop
Spionkep
Death of John Ruskin Endures as Art Authority
Eminent Englishman John Ruskin dies at Brantwood after influenza and long age. Born February 1819 in London, he shaped art criticism, literature, and social philosophy and was seen as a national authority whose word was law in taste. The piece notes his traumatic marriage and divorce involving Millais as a dramatic aside.
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Lon
John Ruskin
Brantwood
London
England
Ruskin
Millais
Circumstantial Evidence Led to Gallows in Washington Case
Mrs Van Horn confessed on her death bed in Washington that she killed her mother Mrs Egan near this city on Sept 12. Her husband Thomas Segaun was hanged for the crime after Egan was choked with a rope and struck with a wooden pin. The execution bungled. he was dropped three times, rope breaking first, then slipping.
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iSoux
van Tlorn
Washington
Thomas Egan
Isso
Thomas Segaun
van Horn
Egan
Pingree Threatens a Bolt If Ferry Is Nominated
Detroit January 22 Governor Pingree warned that if D M Ferry of Detroit is nominated for governor by the next Republican state convention he will run for re election on an independent ticket. He says Ferry differs on taxation reforms and opposes corporate reactionists.
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Ferry
Detroit
Pingree
D. M. Ferry
Ingree
Corporation
Mob hangs two murdered men at Fort Scott jail yard
George Silbee and Wil Meeks both half brothers from Kansas City were convicted of first degree murder in October and lynched Saturday night by a mob in the county jail yard at Fort Scott Kansas. Accomplice Amos Phillips was convicted Friday of murder in the first degree. The trio had been linked to thefts in Bates county involving Edlinger’s murdered mule pair a horse and wagon. In Milwaukee Bishop I L Nicholson declined a temporary Puerto Rico assignment remaining in Milwaukee.
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Fort Scott
Kans
George Silbee
Wil Meeks
Kansas City
Leopold Edlinger
Edlinger
Bates County
Amos Phillips
Columba City reports fatal saloon shooting in quarrelless dispute
A special dispatch from Columbia City states John Wiesweger shot and mortally wounded Harmon Barnes in a saloon Saturday night without provocation. The incident follows no known quarrel between the men. The report is carried by The Journal-Gazette.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Journal-Gazette
Columbia City
John Wiesweager
Harmon Barnes
George Washington Steevens
London Daily Mail
Roberts case reports push for removal and polygamy charges
Washington report details two Utah committee findings that B H Roberts must leave the House, with disagreement on timing. It catalogs his plural marriages, including to Celia Dibbleby, and cites defiance of the Edmunds Act and the U S Supreme Court. The article also notes miners wage talks and United Mine Workers actions with votes on conventions and union requirements.
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Washington
Roberts
Utah
House
B. H. Roberts
Louisa Smith
Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Brigham H. Roberts
Celia Dibblesby Hame
Congress
Congress of the
United States
Supreme Court of the
Executive
Roberts Defies Law Over Polygamy and Cohabitation
A congressional report condemns Roberts for bigamy and ongoing cohabitation with three women since his third marriage. It notes his defiance of Edmunds Law and the Supreme Court, asserting he remains unfit for the house.
Governors concern over Indiana robberies rise
Indiana officials voice alarm over a year of bank robberies with no punishments yet. Governor Mount urges local diligence and offers aid. Separate items note Leroy W. Secor’s arrest in New York for embezzling 17000 from Goodrich Transportation, Mrs. Mary Lawler fending off two Chicago robbers with a meat cleaver, Cyphus Spencer jailed in Port Huron for criminal assault on his 12 year old daughter, and Frankfort Kentucky grand jury indictments against Colonel David G. Colson for murder of Ethelbert Scott and L. W. Demaree.
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Indianapolis
Mount
Leroy W. Secor
Goodrich Transportation Company
Milwaukee
New York
Mary Lawler
Chicago
Hrute
Dati
Port Huron
Mich
Cyphus Spencer
Riley
Frankfort
Sky
David G. Colson
Ethelbert Scott
L. W.W. Demaree
Operators and Miners Meet for National Conference
Indianapolis Jan 22. Upward of one hundred coal operators have arrived for the national conference between them and the United Mine Workers to discuss men’s demands and labor issues ongoing this week.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Acquitted in Utah Murder Case
Captain Frederick J. Mills former Idaho lieutenant governor was acquitted of murder in Salt Lake City. The jury rendered a quarter hour verdict after learning Mills killed John C. O’Meleveney chief engineer of the Oregon Short Line on Oct 30. Evidence showed Mills wife and O’Meleveney were intimate while Mills served in the U S volunteer army. Mills relied on Utah’s husband defense and insanity pleas.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Frederick J. Mills
Idaho
Mills
John C. O'Meleveney
Volunteer Army of the United States
Cmergeney
City May Buy Racine Water System For $26,500 Yearly Rent
Racine Wisconsin January company offers city a twenty five year extension of its franchise with an annual rent of 26500 and transfer of all property after term. City to cover pipe line and intake extension costs though no action taken yet and another meeting is set. Also brief items from Indianapolis Des Moines and Joliet report a bank robbery no more details and labor troubles with strikes possible in Joliet building trades.
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Racine
Wis
Racine Water Company
Higgins
Fatal Collision in Port Huron Tunnel Yards
In Port Huron Michigan Conductor John O Burke and Engineer William Riggs were killed when Grand Trunk No 2 backed into the stalled engine Riggs died in the cab Burke crushed on the platform. The Joliet Illinois report notes Arthur C Golby an English aristocrat died of tuberculosis aged 35 after bank clerking and steel plant work.
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Port Huron
Mich
John O. Burke
William Riggs
Riggs
Grand Trunk
Burke
Joliet
Ill
Arthur C. Golby
London
England
Golby
Bank of England
National Bank of Illinois
Chicago
American Steel and Wire Company
Yaquis Defeated as Torres Wins Major Victory
News from Nogales, Ariz says General Lorenzo Torres defeated the Yaquis at Macoyata on Thursday, killing over 200 and taking 500 prisoners. Chief Tetabite was reportedly captured and shot. Father Beltran and several nuns were freed. The win, seen as a turning point, may end the war with renewed Mexican efforts.
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Nogales
Ariz
Lorenzo Vorres
Macoyata
Father Beltran
Sisters of Charity
Yaquis
Torres
Tetabite
Mazatlan
Yaqui Indians of Sonora Rise Against Mexican Rule
In Sonora's Yaqui valley the Yaqui people, numbering between ten and fifteen thousand, are described as a superior, independent race long resisting Mexican authority. Historic revolts, current grievances over land, irrigation, and arming, and a famed 1894 siege where a fourteen-person family held a mountain pass for four days are noted in a period-tinged account.
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Sonora
Mexico
Cortez
Spain
Ise
Banderas
Wolfe presents The Corsican Brothers at The Graham
Harrison J. Wolfe and Company previews The Corsican Brothers at The Graham on Wednesday evening. Bar J. Birney, who has spent the last two months visiting in Ohio, has arrived.
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Harrison J. Wolfe and Company
Graham
Bar J. Birney
Ohio
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Clery
Kansas
Pard
Nicholson
I. L. Nicholson
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Puerto Rico
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United Mine Workers’ Convention
United Mine Workers
American Federation
Lewis Havig
Edmunds
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Towa
Des Moines
Legislative Committee
Iowa League of Municipalities
Norwood
Joliet, Ills
Royal Baking
Gen. Torres
Luis Bk, Torres
THE
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Joseph Keck
Priestpent
Chas. H. Kok
Casuter
Frank Stewart
Vick
Casey Bros
Feed and Sale Stable
Hotel Allen
E. M. McConaughy
Orrick
Kloffi
Dor. P.W. McCelwain
Wasnimaron Lowa
J. R. Burroughs
W. E. Anderson, M. D
Klein's
B. Worner
Pavaro
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
First National Bank
Marsh W. Bailey
City Mall
Iowa
C.J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Temple Building
W. H. Butterfield
Orall's
Ron
Jos. Pollard, JR
Washington, IA
C. S. Lemmon
L. D. Robinson
East Side
C. S
Lemmon
Mr. Lemmon
Rocky Mountain
Burlington
Py MN
Philadelphia
H. G. Fox
H. Sanford
T. J. Dempsey
Side Square
National Bank
W.R. Jeffrey
P. A. Anderson
Vievo Pres
J.T. Anderson
Ags't Cash
Washington County Savings Bank
Knox
A. Walt
Cashier
H. Knox
Wm. Blair
A. A. Wallace
C. Fl. Keck
J. F. Henderson
E. C. Keck
P. Co
T. T. Keeley
Washington Street
P. O
J. A. McCall’s
K. H. Welch
Prop
Rogers
R. F. Riley
Sthouse’s
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