Methuen Captured by Boers After Dawn Assault
London reports that General Methuen and four guns were captured by General Delarey’s forces in South Africa. The British suffer heavy losses with killed and wounded, while Irish cheers erupt in Parliament over the setback. Delarey’s tactics cause stampede of British supply mules and oxen as the Boers advance at dawn.
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London
Lord Methuen
del Rey
South Africa
Trish
Commons
House of Commons
Lord Kitchener
Brodrick
Methuen
Twe-Buseh
Palmideknit
Delarey
Methven
Gras Derr
Magersfontein
Returned from the Dead and Doubted Parliament Trust
A fragment notes skepticism toward an independent parliament after a Prit lah military disaster, with observers saying leaders could not entrust free lawmakers who celebrated the defeat.
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Pritlah
Booth Tarkington and Miss Louise Vietcher Engagement Rumor
Indianapolis March 11. Circles show strong interest in a rumored engagement between Louise Vietcher and Booth Tarkington author of The Gentleman from Tyre and Beaucaire. Tarkington and Miss Fletcher deny confirmation. friends note the couple traveled together to Philadelphia. Marriage not expected before next winter.
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Indianapolis
Louise Vietcher
Booth Tarkington
Krom Tydia
Beaucaive
Tarkington
Fletcher
Vietcher
Philadelphia
Mansfeld
Would Make Nebraska Wet Offers Rain For One Thousand
A Nebraska offer from E. G. Whitney to create one inch of rain over three fourths of the state for 1000 is not being taken seriously. Whitney claims fourteen years of rainmaking knowledge and wants to prove it publicly. Other items report Clyde Stephenson and Carlisle Ramage missing after a sail on Green Bay, a man named Knight Joles dying by dynamite, editor John J Murphy's death, and John W Reagan recovering from danger in Palestine Texas.
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Lincoln
Neb
Mare
Nebraska State Board of Public Lands and Buildings
E. G. Whitney
Rocky Ford Company
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Clyde Stephenson
Carlisle Ramage
Green Bay
Moody
Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary Long
William Henry Moody
Sixth
Massachusetts
Long
Navy Department
Navy
Capitol
House
Reed
New York
Chicago Board of Trade market quotations long and mixed
Quotations from Chicago on May and July grain futures with corn oats and rye figures, plus earnings for hogs, cattle, and sheep. East Buffalo and St Louis warehoused prices listed for dairy, poultry, apples and potatoes along with Texas steers and veal calves.
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Chicago
Catttle
Texas
East Buffalo
Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St. Louis
Wheta
Milwaukee Grain
Milwaukee
White
May
Nation Wide Anti Trust Ruling Roils States
The U S Supreme Court voids the Illinois entitret law exempting agricultural products and livestock, striking down the entire act as unconstitutional. Justice Marlin delivers the decision in Connelly v Union Sewer Pipe Co, affecting anti trust statutes in twelve other states. Moody named navy secretary succeeding Long, amid cabinet reshuffle.
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Woehington
Mare
Anpcome
Iiinasa
Thomas Connelly
Union Sewer Pipe Company
Obie
Justice Marlin
Tete
Harlan
McKenna
Georgia
Ilineis
Indiana
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Mondana
Nebraska
North Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Wisconsin
Elkins bill stalls as railroad plans clash in Senate
In Washington March 11 the Elkins bill faces solid interdepartmental and rail company opposition as lawmakers warn no consensus exists among railroads or with the House Hepburn committee. Amid talks of amendments and delay, a Crow reservation cession bill advances with a comic Senate reading slip. Idaho senators Dubois and Heitfeld secure front-row seats by swapping with colleagues. A Des Moines feature recalls the Steele Lockwood domestic triangle ending in shared housing and a conditional divorce plan.
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Waasntxeros
Hepburn
House Committee
Clark
Montana
Senate
Platt
Connecticut
Cockrell
Missouri
Conscience gift noted by post office official
William M. Johnson, first assistant postmaster general, received a $70 conscience contribution from a Richmond, Indiana resident. The amount will be credited to the treasury conscience fund.
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Tadtawa Nan
Washington
William M. Johnson
Richmond
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Conscience Fund of
The
Treasury
Will disinherits daughter. funds go to hospital
Omaha. The will of Arastus Chandler, who died a week ago, leaves his daughter Mea John K Patrick a small annuity starting Jan 1, 1913, with the remainder of an estate valued at 55000 to Bishop Clarke Memorial Hospital. The inheritance split is tied to a disliked marriage. Chandler, blind for years, was kept informed by a reader.
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Omaha
Neb
Arastuse
Chandler
John K. Patrick
Bishop Clarkeon Memorial Hospital
Savage and fatal affray shocks Illinois town
reports from Mattoon Illinois describe a deadly affray at Humbert twelve miles north of the city. William Mull proprietor of the Mull hotel lies near death after a beating with a club by Amos Metick who claims self defense. The clash stems from a political grudge dating to the last presidential election and Mull’s threat to kill Metick. In Kokomo Indiana a brave act earns a gold medal for Frank Wyatt a Panhandle railway engineer who saved four women from burning buildings. He and others are injured. Further Illinois items note a cave linked to counterfeiting near Carbondale and a penitentiary contract dispute in Joliet with calls to remove Warden Murphy. Fort Wayne reports a smallpox quarantine near a private sanitarium and crowd unrest. London notes the Countess of Warwick’s fall from a horse during hunting near Marquidy.
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Mattoon
Humberit
William Mull
Mull Botel
Amos Metick
Mull
Melick
Mall
Kokomo
Ind
Frank Wyatt
Panhandle
Wyatt
Lawyer on Trusts Presses Federal Rule for National Corporations
A New York attorney spoke at Harvard on national governance of trusts. He urged a federal charter framework instead of state laws, arguing uniform nationwide oversight would curb harmful commerce and prevent state race to the bottom. Publicity, he said, would educate investors and strengthen national corporate accountability.
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Hoeward Wnivtestry
Corporation Lawyer
New York
Marvard Economiew
Dill
Tle
Woman Survives Electric Shock After Ring Contact
Mrs Clara Banker narrowly escaped death when her engagement and wedding rings touched a live globe. The left hand sustained severe burns and tissue torn, but she survived with hours of care. Reports from Denver and Kenosha, Wis cite other injuries and incidents, including a hunter maimed by a gun discharge and a Baltimore house fire prompting a large family to flee.
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Cole
Mra
Clara Banker
L. B. Tanker
Gane Company
East
Colfax Avenue
Jill the
Kenosha
Wis
James Larsen
Winthrop Elarbor
Larsen
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