Deaths and wars in brief from Alfred Watts to Buller notes
Alfred Watts dies at 22 in Brooklyn inventor of crystal gold used in dentistry. Capt. Julius Freidman dies of heart disease at Palace hotel San Francisco. British prize of the German bark Marie near Inyak. Manila deaths and prisoners arriving in San Francisco. Sweden plans large budget arms buildup. Slover confesses to Minnesota killing years ago. Puerto Rico government bill proposed. Negr os uprising on Negros. Ledyard killed in Infantry. Larned jury awards $1,650 in breach case. Wheeling tobacco injunction. Mexico quake damage. South Africa war moves toward Ladysmith with Buller advancing. Methuen Molteno Gatacre actions. Plumer in Bechuanaland relief. Cincinnati University vacancies and resignations noted.
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South Africa
Buller
Potgieter
Senate action and House votes recap in late February
The period covers February 16 to 22 with final vote date fixed for the gold standard bill on February 17, the adoption of the inquiry on Philippine war conduct, and modifications to Hale's flour seizure resolution. House debates attack Gage over New York customs sale, passage of urgency deficiency and census reporting, and bills to extend census bureau powers.
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Senate
Hale
Wellington
Philippines
Telfer
Gage
National City Bank of New York
Census Bureau
Allen
Transvaal Republic
Great Britain
Rep
Morgan
Dem
Ala
House
League Island
Mare Island
Roberts
Danford
Ohio
Pritchard
South
Turner
District of Columbia
Danish Farmers Gift 12000 Boxes Butter to British Soldiers
A Danish farmers committee sent 12000 boxes of choice butter to the princess of Wales for British soldiers in South Africa. She accepted in the name of the sick and wounded and sent a message noting the gift comes from Denmark.
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Princess of Wales
South Africa
Denmark
Henry Sharpe
Philadelphia
Cadiz
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Engrnes
France
Paris & Orleans
Congress
New York Herald
George B. Eyre
Chib
Chester
Delaware River
Young Eyre
Grand Opera House
Washington
Great Britain
Topeka
Kas
Fairgrounds
Maj
Johnson
Muir
Thirty-Eighth
Taal
Batangas
Luzon
Doric
Orient
Honolulu
Immigration Bureau
Ted
George Meeks
Fort Scott
Leopold Bollinger
Natal
Warren
Lyttleton
Potpeiter
Post Office Department
Senate
Jones
Ark
Andrew Carnegie
Leavenworth
Kaa
Senate and House Hearings Across National Issues
Senate session devoted to speeches on the Philippine question and race in the south. House debates the Roberts case with final exclusion votes. Weather forecaster Hazen dies after bicycle collision. Assumptionist fathers sentenced in Paris. National Guard seeks bigger federal support. Quay exclusion debated in Senate. Americans occupy Santa Cruz in Laguna de Bay. Kansas crime law may restore capital punishment. Christian daily纸 expansion cited with large telegraph orders. Interior estimates for Cuba Puerto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines surveys. Weather bureau reform and retirements bill approved. Massachusetts abstinence society names John D. Long president.
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Senate
Messrs. Turner
Wash
Ross
Mr. McEnery
South
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Roberts
Henry A. Hazen
Weather Bureau
Washington
Hazen
India
Paris
Republic
Order of Assumptionists
France
Indianapolis
Ind
Congress
National Guard
United States
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Quay
Pennsylvania
Santa Cruz
Laguna de Bay
Laguna Province
Luzon
Berlin
Buller
Pettigrew
Gov
Stanley
Kansas
Sheldon
Topeka
New York
Secretary of the Interior
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Mapa
Frances
House Committee On Agriculture
Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society
Boston
Navy
John D. Long
Illinois republic news notes and obituaries update
A long, dense Illinois items page lists deaths and notices across counties including Notting Washington, Cen tralia, Vandalia, Bloomington, Beardstown, Cairo, Medora, Vienna, Highland and San doval. It notes interments, prominent locals and veterans, plus a Republican state convention call for Peoria May 8 and district representation rules. It also covers Miss Kate Herbolsheimer’s trial acquittal, Otto von Schaezier’s renunciation of German baronetcy, and Chicago’s new 385 foot Michigan Avenue tower with searchlights for lake traffic.
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Jerome Reno
Notting
Washington County
DP. N. Frazier
Jacob Frazier
Centralia
Elijah Rhodes
Ramsey
Vandalia
Oconee
Millard C. Boyce
Bloomington
M. Meyer
Beardstown
Ella Bauhan
Eldorado
Sarah Ann Irwin
John Irwin
Lebanon
Sarah Hiles
John Spencer
Medora
Barbara Wright
Vienna
M. J. Sheehan
Cairo
James Helme
Ross Hardin
Mary Eva Lang
Highland
Chicago Delegation Presses Legislature for Revenue Law Change
A 40 member Chicago delegation from the Illinois Manufacturers' Association urged Gov. Tanner to call a special session to amend the revenue law. Tanner refused. A Democratic state central committee meeting is set for Springfield on February 27 to choose the time and place for the state convention and determine representation. Also reported are War dance by Winnebago Indians near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, in Chicago. and two fatal electric shocks in Illinois: Winnie Wilmette Warner, 17, at Gridley church, and Theodore H. Stegeman, 64, in Quincy street accident attempts.
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Charles Stannells
Anaoumer R. B. van Cleave
Republican State Central Committee
Peoria
University of Illinois
State Central Committee
McKinley
Chicago
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Tanner
Democratic State Committee
Democratic State Central Comittee
Springfield
Anxiety Over Boer War Pause Feared Costly Capture
London reports extreme tension as news on General Buller’s Spion Kop actions remains unconfirmed. Officers deny reports while stock rumors swirl and officials anticipate decisive news within hours. Botha commands Boer forces. Colenso situation unsettled amid a large public craving for updates.
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London
Exchange
Bulls
Warren
Spion Kop
War Office
Pretoria
Laager
Botha
Cronje
Colenso
Pall Mall
Buller
Words of Mahan Warn Public Meetings on Boer Question
Captain Alfred T. Mahan urges restraint in public meetings over the Boer issue. He argues for careful, nonconfrontational discussion to avoid domestic party divisions and preserve national honor while supporting Britain.
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New York
Alfred T. Mahan
Great Britain
St James Gazette Says His Advice Is Needed in America
London reports the St James Gazette endorses Capt. Mahan's stance, arguing America must not mislead itself into believing anti England sentiment is widespread. It notes official neutrality masks a strong popular sympathy with England similar to 1898.
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The
St. James Gazette
America
London
England
Spain
United States
Germany
Sheldon to discuss Christian edition of Topeka Capital
In Topeka Kansas Rev C M Sheldon and Dr W J Gunslauser of Chicago will meet Dr N V D Hille of Brooklyn to plan a Sheldon edition of the Capital a Christian daily. Orders poured in including 10000 copies weekly and 5000 lines of advertising space with subscriptions from Nebraska and 100 Kansas newspapers seeking cuts of Sheldon. He will have no compensation but proceeds above costs will fund missionary work.
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Topeka
Kas
C. M. Sheldon
W. J. Gunslauser
Chicago
N. V D. Hille
Brooklyn
Sheldon
New York
Telegraph
Nebraska
Kansas
Meeks Brothers Buried After Fort Scott Lynching
The remains of Edward and George Meeks were buried in Oak Grove cemetery in Kansas City after a lynching at Fort Scott on Saturday night. The funeral at Mrs. Edward Meeks home drew mourners including the victims’ mother, while Dr. Stephen A. Northrop condemned the mob act from the First Baptist pulpit. A large crowd followed the coffins to the cemetery.
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Kansas City
Edward
George MeeKs
Fort Scott
Oak Grove
Edward. Meeks
Geo. Meeks
Pueblo
Col
Stephen A. Northrop
First Baptist Church
Kansas
C. M. Sheldon
BODIES OF LAWTON AND LOGAN
Washington dispatch reports practically complete arrangements for transporting Gen Lawton’s remains to Arlington National Cemetery after arrival in San Francisco on the transport Thomas. Maj Gen Logan’s remains move to Youngstown Ohio for interment. A telegram notes special train cars provided for both families and a government composite car for the remains at 25 dollars per day.
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Washington
Lawton
San Francisco
Thomas
Arlington National Cemetery
John A. Logan
Youngstown
Ludington
Col. Long
Gov Stanley backs jury verdict on murder penalty in crimes act
Topeka Kansas January 25 Governor Stanley says he will urge the next legislature to amend the crimes act so the jury decides the murder punishment. He cites the Fort Scott double lynching as influence, noting current Kansas capital law is effectively abolished.
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Topeka
Kas
Stanley
Hig
Kansas
Fort Scott
Two Colorado Towns Afire Amid Destructive Blaze
Houlder Col January 25 Nearly all business blocks in Ward and Lafayette were destroyed by a blaze yesterday. Ward losses run to about 75000 dollars and Lafayette to around 100000 dollars. About 50 Lafayette families are homeless with no shelter in town.
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Ward and
Lafayette
Houlder
Col
Ward
Mrs Conger Returns to China After Visit to New Hampshire
Concord reports Mrs Conger wife of the U S minister to China plans to return to China after visiting friends in the west. She told Mrs Eddy that the empress dowager held a reception inviting wives of foreign ministers. The empress dowager drank tea from the same loving cup with Mrs Conger at a banquet through an interpreter.
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Concord
N. H
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BW. Jarvis
Troy
Alfred Watts
Board of Naval Bureau Chiefs
de Armond
Missouri
Julius Freidman
Palace Hotel
Marie
Australia
Transvaal
Pelorus
Inyak
Delagoa Bay
Durban
Manila
Oscar
Slover
California
Moses Lufkins
Minnesota
William Rose
Grace Lufkins
Henry
Texas
House of Representatives
Negros
Great
A.C. Ledyard
R. Kirk
Mary Eggleston
Larned
Mth
Kirk
Fuller
United States District Court
District of Massachusetts
Wheeling
W. Va
Mexico
Colima
Guadiajara
Vera Cruz
Ladysmith
Cincinnati University
Ayres
BRIER
Brigham H. Roberts
Utah
Messrs. Littlefield
Maine
Harper & Bro., Printers and Publishers
Supreme Court
United States Court
Drainage Board of
Wm. M. Springer
Illinois State News
Kate Herbotsheimer
Princeton
Bureau County
Charles Salzman
Salzman
Herbolsheimer
Otto von Schaezier
Toluca
Marshall County
von Schaezler
Mabel Caniff
Baron von Schaezler
Castle Vornbach
Munich
Lancers
Auditorium
Masonic Temple
Michigan Avenue
Neo
Black River Falls
Wis
Gridley
McLean
Winnie Wilmette Warner
Methodist Episcopal Church
Theodore H. Stegeman
Quincy
Capt. Mahan
Acrts
Tugela
Edward and
Lynch
Law
Lawton and
Logan
Colorado
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