Fears for Baden Powell in Mafeking siege
London reports intense fighting around Mafeking with bombardment on Boer entrenchments and hopes of a larger Tugela river action. Belief grows of a major British assault as Col Baden Powell faces possible collapse while Plumer’s relief force may arrive with 2,000 men if rumors hold.
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London
Tugela
Weensa
Baden Towell
Mafeking
Plumer
Fort Tull
Cape Town
Coleshers
Belmont
Col Pilesar
Cape ‘Town
Tech
Jess
Uin Dutt
Cypilesrath
Charles Howard Vincout
South
Tia Wioskin
Wit
Mafeking sortie details from Colonel Baden-Powell and fort at Gametree
The Times dispatch from Mafeking reports Colonel Baden-Powell's failed assault on a Boers fort at Gametree two miles from Mafeking. The armored train and infantry attacked from two sides, sustaining heavy losses including Captains Sandford Vernon and Lieutenant Taton. The fort, circular with a ditch and many loopholes, resisted under strong Boer sharpshooter fire, with surrounding flags of mercy and wounded scattered nearby.
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Cap- Charles Bentinck
Pantera
Cape Police
Wilngwader
Hore
Gad
Brank
Yatoon
Mtn
Sandford
Vernon
Taton
Red Grass
Gamestree
Daily Telegraph
Frerecamp
Writley
Ladysmith
Colense
Lord Dundonald
Springfield
Geneal Buller
Money Makires and Stock Markets Amid Global Tension
A garbled Europe and Asia report notes railway troop movements and a claimed failure to threaten Afghanistan or India. Wall Street shows mixed trade with imports down and exports up for December, while sugar and steel shares swing as investors digest the global crisis.
Anglo German agreement noted in Lisbon statement
A semi official note from Lisbon dated January 6 outlines an Anglo German accord. It states that if Portugal seeks a large loan to reorganize its finances, five governments would back the operation. Britain and Germany reaffirm Portuguese sovereignty and integrity of the empire, with a loan guarantee possibly handled by the colonial office.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Great Britain
Germany
Portimgal
Colonial Office
Board's Work Completed On Miantonomo Survey
The board at the Le Island navy yard finished examining the double turreted monitor Miantonomo for potential commissioning. It estimates $450,000 needed to restore the vessel, deemed obsolete for modern coast defense needs amid policy shifts after Cuba blockade duties.
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Philscerpola
Miantonomo
le Island Navy Yard
Lina
Cuba
Pep
Buller Disappoints Britishers in South Africa War Talk
London dispatches survey a week of mixed news as British critics lampoon Buller, debate Lord Roberts and Duke of Connaught leadership, and note the war’s toll while insurance firms raise war risk premiums. The Duke of Westminster plans to stay at the Cape, and American horses captivate buttons and sport circles amid tension with Washington.
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Buller
London
Jan T
Great Britain
Delagoa Bay
Irench
Pilcher
Duke of Connaught
Ireland
Lord Wolseley
Lord Roberts
South Africa
Yacant
Bullet
Colenso
Roberts
Duke of Connaiusht
War
Lord Lansdowne
Efor War
Lori Wolseley
Peesas
Phos
America
Day
Toronto
United States
Deva
Duke of Westminster
Cape
Duke
Edward Corrigan
R. Clover
Washington
Admiralty
Clover
Col
Wellh
Strikers to Resume Work at Stafford Springs Mills
Officials of Warren Woolen Mills announced a ten percent raise for sixty striking weavers and expected a return to work Monday. A wage increase was also in the works for others who had quit. In South Manchester Cheney Brothers silk mill, 250 weavers who struck for a quarter-cent per yard returned to work and production continued as normal with the raise granted.
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Stafford Springs
Manchester
Jan
Warren Woolen Mills
Cheney Brothers Middle Mill
Strike Approved Ties Up Chicago Building Projects
The Building Trades council voted to aid the marble workers strike affecting the Western Methodist Book Concern’s Washington street building. About 100 Allied Building Trades men left work after contractor Sollitt refused to use union-factory blocks. Workers press for $3.30 day union wages and demand non-union setters cease. The contractor plans to finish the building with non-union labor.
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Chicago
Building Trades Council
Western Methodist Books Concern
Washington Street
Allied Building ‘Trades
Sollitt
Book Concern
Toth
Plant heirs not interested in Ontario Superior and War Eagle
New Haven Jan G Lynde Harrison reports that the Plant estate and heirs had no role in forming the Ontario Superior and War Eagle companies. He notes that a large portion of stock in both firms is held by Philadelphia capitalists and that rumors of Plant involvement are incorrect.
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New Haven
Jan G
Lynde Harrison
New York
Ontario
Superior
War Eagle
Philadelphia
New Trial Motion Heard In Waterbury Court
Judge Bradstreet presided in New Haven at a short session of the common pleas court on the Howe case. Arguments addressed the amount owed by ex Rev O Raymond Howe for his child's support and the mother Sadie Lamsing expenses. A motion for new trials was entered and decision reserved to be argued next week. Objections were raised to the vote and to parts of the testimony offered by attorney Goodhart for the plaintiff and others.
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Bradstreet
Waterbury
Common Pleas Court
New Haven
O. Raymond Howe
Sadie Lamsing
Goodhart
Death of Colonel Prouty in Newport Vermont
Colonel Prouty, 78, longtime Newport resident and prominent lumber operator, died at his home after a long illness. Survived by one daughter and four sons including interstate commerce commissioner Charles A. Prouty, once a contender for the U.S. Senate. He served in the Vermont legislature in 1858 1859 and 1884 and held various town offices.
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Newport
Jane
John A. Prouty
Joson Charles A. Prouty
Justin Morrill
United States
Colonel Prouty
Carnegie Library Promise at Emporia College
Emporia Kansas receives a $30,000 pledge from Andrew Carnegie for a library building once existing debt is cleared. Financial agent B H Gragg reports $8,000 raised from Topeka presbytery and citizens add $5,000. Synod of Kansas commits $10,000, covering all college obligations.
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Emporia
Kan
Jan G
Andrew Carnegie
College of Emporia
B. H. Gragg
Topeka
Timporia
Synod of Kansas
Fire destroys Juniata smith shop in Altoona
A brick structure 225 by 75 feet housing the Juniata blacksmith shop of the Pennsylvania Railroad was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at 100000, covered by insurance. Fire likely started by a live electric wire. Sixty workers were on site when the blaze began. they saved personal effects as the roof collapsed. Hundreds of workers may lose jobs.
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Altoona
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Juniata
Discharged Philadelphia and Reading Railway Workers Unite
Eight Philadelphia and Reading Railway conductors and brakemen were discharged in SHAMORIN PA. They claim the sole reason was union activity as Brotherhood of Tralomen members organizing a branch in Shceder next Sunday. Officials refused to explain the action.
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Neeson
Shamorin
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Brotherhood of Tralomen
She Ceder
Alev Dle
Fire Tragedy in New York Tenement Claims Several Lives
In a Mast Ninety-second Street tenement fire early today, Mary Sutherly and her infant son Frank died, two other children perished, and Harry Sutherly was critically injured. Firefighters and a policeman rescued residents, with Lt. Charles Stone and crew suffering gas exposure. Rafael Pietzao lost his balance after saving his children, injuring himself, as flames cut off escape routes. Damage estimated at 86500.
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New York
Jane
Mast
Mary Sutherly
Frank Utherly
James Sutherly
Harry Sutherly
Sutherly
Haplael Pietzzo
Charles Stane
Michael Kdean
Michael Sullivan
Charles McCarthy
Martin Cleary
Warry Satherly
Chere
Jadde
Charles Stone
Ron
Raphiel Pietzao
Water Scar Threatens South Norwalk Supply
South Norwalk officials report Wilton Lake, the city water source with 500 million gallons, is empty. They will draw from the upper reservoir of 75 million and the distributing reservoir of 10 million, enough for four weeks. If rains do not come, pumping stations may be built to avert a water famine.
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Norwalk
South Norwalk
Jan G
Wilton Lake
Tramps Rob a House in Middletown Fire Suspected
Middletown police search for two men believed to have tried to burn the house of Joseph Fredericks yesterday afternoon. They visited the home seeking food and money while one man talked to four children, the other rummaged the kitchen. Moments later the house was found on fire and neighbors, aided by a snial Toss, extinguished the flames.
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Middletown
Joseph Fredericks
Otis Sends Cablegram From Washington Detail
War Department received a cablegram reporting troops en route from Vigan and arriving tonight with a telegraph list planned for tomorrow. Captain Gilmore is among the numbered officers. From Washington dated January 6 1900s era dispatch.
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Otis
Washington
War Department
Manila
Vigan
Gilmore
Captain Gilmore Among Returned American Prisoners
Official information from Washington sources confirms Lieutenant Gilmore is among the American prisoners released by Filipino forces after months in captivity. The report, citing General Otis and Admiral Watson, settles any doubt about his status as a released prisoner.
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Washington, D. C
Jane
General Otis
Admiral Watson
Lieutenant Gilmore
Vanderbilts Big Check Bequest Boosts New Haven Fund
New Haven on January 6 received a $100,000 bequest from the late Cornelia Vanderbilt. The single tax free check funds the university general fund. Also reported in Buffalo on January 6 that H A Newton Fidelity Trust & Guaranty Co teller is named an embezzler for $48,000.
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Vanderbilt
New Haven
Buffalo
H. A. Newton
Fidelity Trust & Guarastes Co
Mrs Kingsburys Will Probate In Hartford Probate Court
The will of Mrs Alatha R Kingsbury wife of Frederick J Kingsbury of Prospect Street was filed for probate Today. It grants Mr Kingsbury a life estate in real and personal property with power to sell and directs the remaining proceeds to the daughters Misses Alice K and Edith D after his death. During their lives the daughters receive the house and land on Prospect and Linden Streets along with books pictures horses and carriages and they will pay taxes. executor named is Mr Kingsbury. The will dated August 30 1899 was witnessed by George L Elizabeth and Caroline L Dickerman of New Haven.
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Alatha R. Kingsbury
Frederick J. Kingsbury
Prospect Street
Kingsbury
Alice K
Edith D
Prospect
Linden Streets
George L. Elizabeth
Caroline L. Dickerman
New Haven
Lawton
Augustus J. Smith
Hamilton Park
Kilduff
Emma M. Lathrop
Ludlow Street
Nellie Keleher
B. A. O'Hara
Cairns
Hartford
Catholic Women's Association
St Patrick's Hall
Movilay
James E. Russell
Rot
District Court
McGrath
Supreme Court
Maurice Corbett
West Main Street
Hermann Gartz
Hellmann Brewing
Burpee
City
T. H. Hayes
East UN Street
Phoebe Ellis
Maple Street
Monda Lerhoonh
Dr Bowland
Riverside Cemetery
Develiv
Congress Hall
Worrow
South Africa
England
Connecticut
Éantera
New York
Cahey
Peter Kelly
Joseph Pauley
Charles Grilley
Waterville
St Patrick's Church
Father Jordan
Fred
John
Albert Miller
Frank Reed
James Ryan
Fred Miller
New
St Joseph's Cemetery
Board of Education On Rules and Regulations
Messrs
Russell, Kilmartin
Chapman
Kilmartin
Board of Education
Edward Kik
Baldwin
Wheat Immaculate Conception
Father O'Leary
Dennis Shes
Daniel Man
Thomas Sullivan
James Maurice
Michael Harrington
Thomas Lynch
New England Watch Fact U
Grocer Fends Off Burglars With Revolver at Leominster
I M Lynch proprietor of a Leominster grocery chased two burglars from his store after a dark struggle. Shots were fired as the trio, all armed, fought inside and outside. Lynch escaped unhurt though a bullet grazed his coat and about $18 vanished from the till.
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Grocer Gynch
Leominster
Mass
I. M. Lynch
Lynch
Grover Lynch
The French Prisoners Sentenced by High Court
Paris prisoner M G Guerin was sentenced to ten years confinement in a fortified place and has arrived at Clairvaux, while M Buffet, banished for ten years, remains in Brussels. Deroulede has been banished and heads toward Milan then Spain, aiming for San Sebastian.
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Paris
Jan G
M. Guerin
Clairvaux
Aube
M. Buffet
Brussels
M. Deroulede
Milan
Spain
San Sebastian
Pather O'Donnell's History Receives High Praise
Pather O'Donnell's history of the Hartford diocese earns broad acclaim from readers and historians. The work is lauded for its wealth of detail and prodigious labor, promising lasting value for the Catholic cause in Connecticut. The American-Irish Historical Society and others laud his scholarship as he prepares to speak at New York's annual banquet on the 18th.
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Rey Father O'Donnill
Hartford Dioce
Father O'Donnell
Connecticut
American-Irish Historical Society
New York
Catholic Transcript
British Steamship Glasgow Sunk After Collision Off Dover Strait
The Glasgow, en route from Buenos Ayres to Hamburg under Captain Leslie, sank after a collision with the British steamer Ormise commanded by Captain Veale in the Dover Strait near Dungeness. Passengers and crew were landed at Dover. the Ormise sustained no damage.
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London
Jan
Glasgow
Leslie
Buenos Ayres
Hamburg
Dungenese
Dover Strait
Ormise
Veale
Sydney
Dover
Foxhall Keene Feared Injured After Hunt With Queen’s Hounds
London Jan 6 American sportsman Foxhall Keene broke his collar bone while hunting with the queen’s hounds yesterday and is feared to have sustained internal injuries.
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London
Foxhall Keene
Queen's Hounds
William NeelySick Veteran New Haven Businessman Ill
William Neely Nesly a veteran New Haven business man lies seriously ill at his home as erysipelas grips his condition and neighbors report his health has deteriorated tonight.
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William Neely
Wiliam Nesly
New Haven
This
Kerwin Arrives for Twenty Five Round Bout in Waterbury
Mysterious George Kerwin landed in Waterbury this afternoon in top shape for his scheduled twenty five round match with George McFadden. He witnessed the Sullivan McFadden fight in New York last night, calling it the toughest he ever saw, and he challenged Spike Sullivan who has refused to meet him. Kerwin plans to train locally and says he will stake all his money on defeating McFadden next Thursday night.
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George Kerwin
George McFadden
Waterbury
Sullivan
McFadden
New York
Spike Sullivan
Kerwin
Manhattan Arrives in Lomé from New York for Royal Navy Use
London reports the Atlantic transport steamer Manhattan has been chartered for use as a port of departure for the British fleet. The vessel arrived at Lomé on January 4 from New York, under the Admiralty’s orders.
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Berlin
Aden
Yrout
Red Sea
Wspateh
London
British Admiralty
As & Traeport
Manhattan
Lome Dop
New York
Lawton family fund open for subscriptions and local notices
City news item list events from Lawton family fund subscriptions to roller skating at the Auditorium Monday evening. Birth announced for Augustus J. Smith’s son. Various society notices include a funeral, recoveries, civic meetings, and court actions.
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