Buller Recounts Spion Kop Withdrawal and Losses
General Buller reports the withdrawal of Warren's South of the Tugela after heavy Boer fire at Spion Kop. He cites water shortages and artillery limits as reasons for abandoning the position, with British casualties estimated around 1400 to 1500 and reports of 150 English troops surrendering at Spionskop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs
Warren
Vop
Ers
Spionsop
General Buller
London
Buller
Spearman
Warnm
I Remy
Acton Homes
Myer’s Poort
Ladyath
Emy
Actonnes
Spionkop
Tugela
Spion Kop
Aountain
Uth
Mienkop
Cameronians
King’s Rifles
Lancashire Fusiliers
Middlesex
Thornycroft
Dfantry
Woodgate
Nunand
Boer Victory Near Spion Kop After Tallard Assault
British forces pressed the Spion Kop defenses at Modder Spruit as dawn dawned the Heidelberg and Carolina Rifles fought uphill through mist. Boers repelled multiple bayonet attempts and after heavy artillery fire 150 prisoners surrendered in front trenches.
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Modder Spruit
Tugela
Lourenzo Marques
Highet
Spion Kop
Langer
Ve Hill
Heidelberg
Carolina
Free State
Vo Kopjes
Spionkep
Burghers Hold Line At Kopje In British Transvaal Fight
The British forces at Kopje faced fierce fire from Mausers and a flame wall as the center gave way. Burghers stood exposed on skyline edges to fire on Dublin Fusiliers shelled in trenches, then the fusiliers and Light Horse advanced from trenches. Milner announces government rejects post war property forfeiture claims in Transvaal and Free State dating to Oct 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin Fusiliers
Fusiliers
Light Horse
Kop
Cape Town
Sir Alfred Milner
Transvaal
Free State
Deutsche Tages Zeitung quotes Loyds on prolonged war
The interview reports Dr Loyds stating the war will last a very long time. He says the Transvaal will not be first to seek peace and will refuse any proposals based on the status quo. Berlin dated January 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Deutsche Tages Zeitung
Loyds
Transvaal
Bryan Declines to Discuss Cochran Silver Debate
William Jennings Bryan arrived in Washington after meeting with Senator Jones and other Democratic leaders. He refused to discuss Cochran's offer to back his presidential bid if Bryan opposes imperialism and drops the silver issue, saying his own views are well known and will continue to agitate the silver question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Senator Jones
Democratic Party
Rourke Cochran
New York
Bryan
Cochran
Diaz and Cowboys Seek Vengeance Over Yaqui Massacre
A El Paso report says friends of two El Paso men killed with four others by General Torres during a Yaqui roundup have asked US Consul Kindrick in Juarez for a full investigation. Six Americans reported dead. Arizona cowboys and miners plan to invade Sonora to avenge the killings aiming to aid Yaqui independence.
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Dallas
Tex
el Paso
George Lunt
Charles Burns
Torres
United States
Charles W. W Kindrick
Juarez
Mex
Kindrick
State Department
Guaymas
Naco
A. T
H. J. Corburn
Bisbee
Arizona
Mexico
Sonora
Howe to fill Sheldon’s pulpit amid editorials clash
Editor E W Howe of the Atchison Globe says he will serve as pastor of Topeka’s Congregational church for a week while running the Topeka Capital. He mocks Rev Sheldon’s media stance, vows to buy a Bible and join the church if he fails to argue against preachers as Sheldon does against newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howe
Atchison Globe
Sheldon
Atchison, Kan
E. W. Howe
Charles M. Sheldon
Congregational Church
Topeka
Hlowe
Sympathy for Boers and Filipinos Roars at Chicago Meeting
At Central Music Hall a large Chicago crowd voiced mixed pro Boer and Filipino sympathies with loud clashes over McKinley and the Philippine question. Clarence Darrow urged Filipino justice, while speakers linked American war aims to earlier fights for independence. The event drew about 38 000 attendees amid vigorous demonstrations.
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Chicago
Central Music Hall
Transvaal Republic
Great Britain
McKinsey
McKinley
D. J
Clarence
Darrow
South Africa
Philippines
Victoria
Holland Society
Red Cross
Kate Starr Kellogg
H. W. Wilmath
Schuyler
The
Emil G. Hirsch
England
Bismarck
Pro Boer War Meeting Ends With Protests and Speeches
Madison Wis Jan 29 At Deerfield seventeen miles east of here the H B Fargo company bank was entered by burglars who stole 8100 in cash and thirty pounds of silver. The front window was pried, the vault accessed by cutting masonry, and the safe cracked with nitro glycerine. Paper money was damaged and left behind. No definite crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Deerfield
Here
H. B. Fargo Company
Death of Phillip DyArmour Dy from lung congestion
Chicago reporting a Pasadena telegram announces the death of Phillip DyArmour Dy from an attack of congestion of the lungs. The notice notes the date as January 29 and places the event in Chicago and Pasadena communications.
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Chicago
Pasadena
Cal
Phillip DyArmour Dy
American Federation Seeks Shorter Work Day in Federal Rules
Samuel Gompers and labor leaders met with the president to press for eight hour government work, a ban on convict-labor products crossing states, and limits on federal courts injunction powers in labor disputes. Gompers also filed formal charges against Claude M. Johnson, head of the bureau of engraving and printing, alleging inefficiency and bias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Claude M. Johnson
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Johnson
Treasury Department
Detective shoots burglar in Quincy hotel encounter
Detective George Koch fatally wounds an unknown man suspected of burglary after the burglar draws a revolver during a 3 PM shadowing in Quincy. The dead man and a companion, later found to be H. M. Crowley and H. Rogers, registered at Moecker's hotel with a full burglary kit including dynamite and fuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy, Hs
George Koch
Theman
Moecker’s
H. M. Crowley
H. Rogers
RAN AWAY TO GET MARRIED INDIANA CHASES ALERTED PARENTS
Multiple short items from Indiana towns report elopements and a fatal jail escape attempt. Roy Tea gardner and Ethel Creek youth eloped from Tren ton with parental objections noted. In Belleville sheriff Barnickel dies after violent jail breakout. Whetzel and Landon feared elsewhere. Miss Minnie Bradley attacked by family cat. possible rabies risk. Kokomo fire injures two workers. twenty women held back by door rescue.
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Wabash
Ind
Roy Teagardner
Ethel
Marion Creek
Guy Whetzel
Pearl Landon Lave
Trenton
Wells County
Whetzel
Michigan
Decatur, Ills
Minnie Bradley
Kokomo, Ind
Kokomo Enameling Works
Charles Wagner
Joseph MacDaniels
Goebel Taylor seat contest ends in Van Meter victory vote
In Frankfort Kentucky on January 21 Republicans concede defeat in the Goebel Taylor contest as the house votes 51 to 44 with 61 to 45 lines on Van Meter. Absentees and late declarations shift several Democratic votes amid cheers directing Van Meter to sit as a house member.
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van Meter
Vayette County
Henry 8. Berry
Speaker Trimble
House
Hays
Sledge
Trimble
Berry
Baird
Cochran
Mehert
Grider
Lafferty
Orr
Hinton
Willingham
Kehert
Tatrd
Wage Scale Impasse Faces Joint Committee at Indy
A joint scale committee session met to consider compromises between Mine Workers delegates and Interstate Operators. Operators offer for ton coal with screens and existing state terms. miners seek 20 cents per ton with a 7 cent differential. After six hours no accord. parties adjourned to a 2 pm joint conference to gauge views and resume talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Mine Workers’ Convention
Interstate Operators’ Association
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Reverend Hammond Arrested in Revolver Theft Case
Anderson Indiana January 20 Reverend Richard G Hammond was jailed Saturday evening on a charge of stealing a revolver from a tailor while he was being measured for a suit. The incident involves a pistol theft during tailoring.
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Detroit
David D. Rien
Russells House
Ife
St. Lawrence Avenue
Chicago
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Spton Kon
Jitish
Ladysmith
Jan
Diaz
Richmond
Thos. A. Brander
Virginia Grand Camp of
South
T. J. Doremus
Montclair
N. J
Friends
Oliver Pike
Delta
Shanghai
Kwang Su
H. M. Day
Cedar, Rapids
Wenertt
Clarence Darrow
Dr. Hirsch
Montecito
Santa Tardurit
Armour
Philip Dr. Armour, Sr
Philip Dr. III
Santa Barbara
P. D. Armour, JR
American Federation
Oficer
Belleville
Ill
Herman Barnickel
St. Clair County
Benton Revelle
Fred B. Phillips
Barnickel
Royal
Taylor
Kentucky
Goebel
W. A. Burkamp
Conrest
Burkamp
Holland
Edwardsburg
Mich
Grand Trunk
J. W. Stackhouse
W. M. Webber
Birchard
Lowell
Cleveland
United States Circuit Court
W.R. Day
Cuyahoga
Elliott
Omaha
Frank Parmelee
This City
J. A. R. Elliott
Kansas City
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Joseph Keck
Presipent
CHAS
H. Keck
Cashmr
Frank Stewart
C. M. Keck
L. M. Sproull
E. M. McConaughy
Over LI
Kleta'sa Clothing Store
P. W. McElwain
Wasmeaton Town
J. R. Burroughs
Orrter
Southeast Corner Square
Columbia Corner
Warrinton, LA
W. E. Anderson, M.D
Fice
Klein's Clothing
Shane O
Washington, Towa
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
Priest National Bank
Marsh W. Bailey
Oity Hall
Yoshington
Iowa
C.J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Alberson's Grocery
Temple Building
W. H. Butterfield
Oralla Store
Iown
Jos. Pollard, JR
Washington, IA
T. T. Keeley
Washington Street
Hotel Allen
Frank Rogers
Allen
Pri Os
T. J. Dempsey
National Bank
Capital
Sumpious
C. S. Lemmon
Clentibia
Porceran
L. D. Robinson
East Side
C. S Lemmon
Mr. Lemmon
Rocky Mountain
Burlington
Philadelphia
G. Fox
W.R. Jeffrey
A. Anderson
J.T. Anderson
Washington County
Ings Bank
Don General
Jon
Kew
A. Warre
Cashter
D. H. Keck
V. P
M. Keon
First National Bank
Wm. Blair
A. A. Wallace
E. C. Keck
P. O
PHONE
J. A. McCall’s
K. H. Welch
Prop
R. F. Riley
Smotse
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