Victory for General French in Colesburg escape
London dispatch reports General French defeating the Boers and occupying Coleshburg in a major action. British observers claim a decisive success with casualties not disclosed, while the war continues along the frontier as raids and skirmishes persist near Dordrecht and Liesl.
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French Ilas
London
Dordrecht
Monriienercey
Twenty-First Lander
Purner
MT Etininey
PUP
Liew Waite
Phabani
Bomen Wiese
Iintens
Ieuteranis
Wilford
Tie Frontier
Monte
TATA
Wien Caplan
Cape
Eittes
Gerived
Coldawarnhys
Ower
Pelitafky
Maller
Frere
Cieners
Gleichen
Grenadier Guards
Gmern Victoria
Las
Cape Town
Pemling
Roberts
Couvesl ‘Buller
Ladie
Lea
Lir Loyds
Pretoria
de Aar
Souor
Jan LA
French
Coleshburg
New Year's Reception At the White House Opens 1900s Social Season
Washington January 1 President and Mrs McKinley welcomed several thousand guests marking the opening of the social season at the White House. Attendees included foreign government representatives jurists statesmen army and navy officers and other leading figures in capital society and politics. The weather was fine and the White House was generously decorated.
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Washington
White House
McKinley
Army
Navy
New Year Wage Rise Affects New England Woolen Mills
In Boston on New Year’s Day a broad wage increase took effect across American Woolen company mills in six eastern states, boosting pay for about 40 000 workers and affecting up to 200 000 indirectly. The 10 percent raise followed similar moves in cotton mills, with yarn plants like Dexter Yarn Co American Yarn Co and Green Transels Manufacturing Co in Rhode Island also raising wages.
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Boston
New England
American Woolen Company
Dexter Yarn Co
American Yarn Co
Green & Tranels Manufacturing Co
Awtucket, R. 1
Inaugural Exercises Across Mass Cities Today
Thirty two Massachusetts cities begin mayoral inaugurations today. Worcester Mayor Dodge delivers third inaugural at Horticultural Hall noting debt of 9.21 million and a year rise of 1.057 million driven by Kettle Brook water loans. City borrowing capacity exceeds a million, second only to Boston. Dodge urges water system safeguards, grade crossing fixes, public rights in ways, and sewer separation begun two years ago per Blackstone Valley health concerns.
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Worcester
Dodge
Horticultural Hall
Kettle Brook
Boston
General Court
Blackstone Valley
Blackstone
Gloucester
Mass
Carris T. Hix
Rockland
New York
Arbitrate brings hope to French labor troubles
In Saint Etienne a broad shutdown due to coal shortages eases as workers agree to arbitration. A joint decision for arbitration boosts optimism that the labor dispute will end amicably and promptly.
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ST. Etienne
France
Lecoworkers
Baseball Men at War In Secret AL Break With National League
In a seven hour secret meeting Chicago and St Louis leaders mapped a Western push against the National League. The American League plans a 1900s style realignment with Chicago, St Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit in the West and Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo, New York or Baltimore in the East. Proposals include options on Boston’s Charles River park and Philadelphia grounds. President Johnson indicated a definite announcement soon while promising a break with the National agreement and an eastern expansion.
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Chicago
Times Herald
American Baseball League
National League
B. B. Johnson
James B. Manning
Kansas City
Matt Killilea
Milwaukee
Charles Commiskey
St Paul
James Franklin
Buffalo
George van der Beck
Detroit
W. H. Watkins
Indianapolis
Johnson
Clarence Saulzpaugh
Minneapolis
St Louis
Boston
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Charles River Park
Hanlon
American League
van der Beck
Franklin
Germany Denounces British Seizure as Insolence
Jan 1 Berultn news: German officials silent on negotiations after the British cruiser Magicienne seized the German East Africa liner Bundesrath. Von Bulow and a cabinet meeting loom. Germany demands redress while press calls Britain’s actions insolent and overbearing. German navy pamphlets push for strength. Also: Andrew Johnson dies after a 600 foot fall at Kearsarge mine. partner John Sinco arrested.
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Geran
Beruln
Magicienne
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Germany
Count von Bulow
Delagoa Bay
England
National Zeitung
Lokal Anzeiger
Vossische Zeitung
Flottenverein
Berlin
Calumet
Mich
Andrew Johnson
Kearsarge
John Sinco
Foul play suspected in Mrs Brewer’s disappearance case
The body of 80 year old Mrs Fidela Brewer was found in a swamp two miles from her South Sandisfield home after twelve weeks missing. Her eldest son Juling reported a Chicago clairvoyant guided the search. The body was frozen, crow bars used to retrieve it, and authorities will determine cause of death amid murder rumors.
Wagner Palace Car Company Transferred to Pullman
New York Jan 1 The formal transfer of the Wagner Palace Car company to the Pullman company occurred Saturday. President W Seward Webb expresses thanks to Wagner staff for 15 years of faithful service and loyalty as orders shift to Pullman. Directors of Pullman now include William K Vanderbilt Frederick W Vanderbilt Dr W Seward Webb and J Pierpont Morgan. Capital stock rises from 54 million to about 74 million with speculation of reaching 100 million, Wagner capitalization was 20 million.
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Wagner
Pullman Company
New York
Wagner Palace Car Company
Pullman Palace Car Company
W. Seward Webb
Wagner Company
Wagener Palace Car Company
Pullman
Wagner Palace
William K. Vanderbilt
Frederick W. Vanderbilt
Dr. W. Seward Webb
J. Pierpont Morgan
Chicago
Vanderbilts
Robert T. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Irish Aid For the Boers In Toledo
The Robert Emmet club of Toledo, a leading Irish society, inaugurated a movement to aid the Boers. At a secret meeting they pledged financial and moral support and offered volunteers if needed. Fifty five members volunteered for any emergency in which England is involved. In Middletown New Jersey Dr Lewin Armstrong, 81, prominent in medical and business circles, has died.
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Buller
Frete
Alense
War Office
Cape Town
Delzel
Ug Séren
Tugela
Chieveler
Toledo
Robert Emmet Club
Emmet Guards
Spain
England
Middletown
N. J
Lewin Armstrong
Opyase County
The Czars Rescript and William's Adore
A Vorwärts report outlines a czarist rescript issued around the Russian New Year urging renewed international deliberations on naval armaments and world peace while lamenting new war and armament growth. Emperor William’s New Year speech lauds the army’s devotion and the standards as symbols of national history.
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Count Muragien
Wie Hague
Annual meeting and social events fill New Haven day
The Catholic Total Abstinence union held its officers’ meeting in New Haven with many from other denominations attending. An incoming board of education planned to meet tomorrow. A St Thomas’ club gathering featured Mamie Fogarty and Frank Egan, and a reception honored Miss McCarthy. A Boer meeting yielded no resolu tions and instead ratified prior action aiding the Transvaal. Edward S. Smith was critically injured in a traffic accident near East Main and Silver streets, hospital bound, with his horse wrecking a carriage toward the new courthouse.
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Catholic Total Abstinence Union
New Haven
Board of Education
Judge Cowell
St Thomas’ Literary and Dramatic Club
Mamie Fogarty
Frank Egan
Matthew J. Neville
New York
Mar Dougherty
George M. Brown
Promine
Hinsdale
N. Y
Maury DD. S. Griggs
Frederick Street
Rewt
Chaplin
Egan and
Rickett
MrCarthy
Soidve Street
Mr Cook
Adams Brothers
Katie Burns
Beacon
Summer Streets
A. Ackerman
A. Moore
Cook
M. Hanlon
John Sheehan
Ireland
United States
Transvaal
Kruger
Sheehan
Edward 8. Smith
Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Co
East Main
Silver Streets
Hayes
Anderson
Moriarty
East Main Street
Exchange Place
Cole Street
New Courthouse
Hackman McCarthy
RNG
New Men in City Ball as Mayor Barlow Passes Key
Retiring Mayor Barlow hands city to successor Kilduff after a holiday closure. Brett sworn in as town clerk with Grady and Ryan exchanging duties in the education office. New officials take oaths, discuss office transfers, and appoint deputies including Hynes for voter registrar and Allman, Wagner, Dawson, Sheridan, Corden, Murphy, Maher, Carney for districts.
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Loughlin
Belden
F. P. Brett
Brett
T. F. Lawlor
Tuttle
Regg
Grady
M. J. Ryan
Board of Education
Ryan
Justice of the Peace
Wilduff
Barlow
J. W. McDonald
M.D. Russell
W. Thoms
James Hynes
Kilduff
Ife
Comptroller’s Office
Comptrekler
Russell
Saratoga Rescued After Ten Days Aground At Santiago
The Ward line steamer Saratoga, ten days aground, was freed yesterday by the Santiago and two tugs. All cargo and coal were removed and the channel around the propeller and keel was dredged. An investigation found port regulations lax with no harbor pilots licensed except two with Spanish licenses. The grounding was blamed on an unlicensed pilot.
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Santiago de Cuba
Ward Line
Saratoga
Santiago
Steamer Tor denskjold Runs Afloat After Ashore Break
The Norwegian steamer Tor denskjold Thomason, bound from Progress with hemp, ran ashore near Jones Inlet during a snowstorm at 4 a m. It came off without assistance at 9 a m and proceeded to port with no detected damage.
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New York
Tordenskjold (Nor) Thomason
Progresso
Jones Inlet
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