Global and local dispatches sweep the world and seas
Reports from Seattle to Havana note medals awarded to Washington volunteers. Ludlow visits New York. Berlin council elections. Pillsbury’s $100,000 gift to a Minneapolis home. logging in Snohomish County. Forty second regiment injuries. Nez Perce demands higher railway payments. New York assemblyman fraud claims. Basuto risk in South Africa. Samoa partition talks in Berlin. timber for U S ships from Vancouver Rh C. Negros government greetings to McKinley. Otis reports Major Melirath dies in Manila. Marconi wireless rights in Samoa. 1,000,000 feet of timber for Cramps. Samoa arbitral convention. San Diegans plan transcontinental railroad. Pacific Mail sale denial. auto and bicycle trusts coalescing. Wisconsin lumber deal. South Africa telegraph limits. Holland submarine tests. Oregon battleship voyage. Pathan crew mutiny. diplomacy on Boer war. Thirty-fifth Infantry reaches Manila. Emperor William rumor on Tiger Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snohomish County
San Francisco
Mazet
New York
Stewart
South Africa
Samoa
Berlin
England
Germany
United States
Vancouver
Rh. C
Philadelphia
Washington
San Diegans
Salt Lake
Huntington
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
New Japan Line
Bicycle, Automobile and Rubber Trusts
Wisconsin
Pacific Coast
Pathan
Philippines
St. Petersburg
Russia
France
Spain
Otis
Thirty-fifth Infantry
Manila
Portland
Cleary
Paris Figaro
William
Tiger Bay
Angola
Delagoa Bay
New York Horse Show Opens as Global News Flows
Long list of items from the era. New York hosts its annual horse show while figures like Carnegie and Rockefeller are noted in shipping links. International tensions, political moves, and court actions color early 20th century headlines.
British hold South Africa lines amid Boer activity
London reports continued British resilience with Mafeking and Ladysmith holding while Boers maneuver toward the Drakensberg front. Dispatches mention lyddite firing beds at Ladysmith and signs of Boer food difficulties as a possible siege outcome. In California, a powder mill explosion kills Patrick Hughes and damages property. Chicago police crack a counterfeit gang at 216 Huron street with Harry and Mrs Fay arrested and Captain Porter overseeing the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
South Africa
Belmont
Keith Falcon
Natal
Baden-Powell
Mafeking
Ladysmith
White
Drakensbury Tange
Zoutpansberg
Estcourt
Chicago
Huron Street
Harry Fay
Fred Rogers
Porter
Secret Service
United States
Puerto Cabello Fall Surrenders After Heavy Battle
Venezuelan fighting ends as General Parades surrenders at 10 o'clock after a brutal battle. The bombardment by ships arrives too late to change the outcome, with 650 or more killed or wounded. General Ramon Guerra led the land assault and entered the town while surgeons from the Detroit attend the wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puerto Cabello
Venezuela
Parades
Andrade
Castro
Braisted
United States
Detroit
Ramon Guerra
Six Die in Deputy Arrest Attempt near Walnut Station
Six men died when a deputy sheriff tried to arrest a Navajo yesterday ten miles south of Walnut station in Flagstaff Arizona. One white man and five Navajo Indians were killed. two whites and one Navajo were wounded. News from the scene has just reached Flagstaff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flagstaff
Ariz
Walnut Station
TROOPS AT THE CAPE AND AREAS OF BATTLE LINE
Cape Town reports the Armenia delivering three artillery batteries and an ammunition column while Nubia carries the Scots Guard and part of the Northamptonshire regiment. Reinforcements total 12 802 with about 6 000 more en route to Durban. Armored train reconnoiters near Colenso. Boers exchange fire but no injuries occur. Mafeking defenses hold with light casualties after a two day bombardment. enemy forces retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cape Town
War Office
Armenia
Nubia
Scots Guard
Northamptonshire Regiment
Durban
Estcourt
Natal
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Colenso
Hensley
Fort Wylie
Ladysmith
Mafeking
Baden- Powell
Cuban Government Appointments Face Congressional Voice
A Washington report says President McKinley will propose civil governors for Cuba and Puerto Rico and may wait for Congress to act. Governor Roosevelt pushes for General Wood in Cuba, while Secretary Root drafts a Hawaii-like Puerto Rico plan. Dewey bounty case seeks 382800 for North Atlantic squadron officers with potential 19994 for the admiral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladysmith
Admiral Dewey
Washington
Court of Claim
Roosevelt
Wood
Cuba
McKinley
conTess
Texas
New York
The
Herald
Congress
Puerto Rico
Committee On Foreign Relations
General Wood
Root
Hawaii
Dewey
Manila
Court of Claims
North Atlantic
Cervera
Corregidor
el] Fraile
Bay
Cavite
Manila Bay
You Cant Catch the Wind in a Net Advertisement
An old promotional piece extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a constitutional remedy for a blood impurity. It claims the cure rebuilds inflamed membranes and expels the impurity from the blood, urging readers to rely on the tonic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Charleston Ill claims world’s largest broom corn warehouse
Charleston Illinois claims the world’s largest broom corn warehouse with a capacity near 2000 tons or about 10000 bales of brush. The district grows most of the world supply requiring 8000 acres and over 100 farmers producing the crop with 2500 to 3000 workers in planting and harvest. The wooden structure is sided with corrugated tin and last year’s crop pushed capacity to its limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Ill
Chicago Tribune
Parachute Horror and Rail Dining Car Service Advances
A collage notes a parachute tragedy headline followed by rail news. The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company adds a buffet lounge and library car to the Portland to Chicago through train, with dining service and modern cars, plus a Granger connection to Union Pacific and Ogden to Rio Grande. Also mentions Victoria’s cat ban, Solomon’s crown, boots with 2000 stitches, US merchant vessels total, Pittsburgh and Allegheny moulders, and Chippewa Falls phone rate hike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon Short Line
Portland-Chicago
Granger
Union Pacific
Ogden
Rio Grande Line
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
W. H. Hurlburt
Portland
Also Mentioned on This Page
the News OF the Web
Telegraph Columna
Mabalacat
Luzon
Seattle
Ludlow
Havana
John §. Pillsbury
Minneapolis
Government of
Negros
Hugh Melirath
Fourth Cavalry
Novaleta
Frederick J. Cross
Honolulu
Marconi
Samoas
Wootenai
Corean
Carter
Holland
Uncle Sam
Navy Department
Hong Kong
Cebu
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Webb C. Hases
Aguinaldo
American Municipal League
Columbus
Bank of Athens
Athens
Reed
James J. Corbett
James J. Jeffries
Melliffert
Presbyterian General Assembly
Europe
St. Louis
University of Chicago
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court of Oregon
Magers
Link
Hobart
Montreal
Schley
Nicaragua Canal
Janban
Tarlac
Kentucky
Union Iron Works
Seligman Syndicate
Shipbuilding Trust
Mexico
Kansas City
Allen
Naval Reserve
Japan
Corea
Andrew J. Davis
Montana
Montana Supreme Court
Kimberley
Santa Cruz
Cal
California Powder Mill
Wpeyton
Patrick Hughes
Herge Batile
General Parades
Cape
Lorenzo Marquez
Cordoba
Magicienne
Mrs. Newlywed
Mr. Newlywed
Puck
Victoria
Solomon
Pittsburg
Allegheny
Chippewa Falls
Wis
California Fig Syrup Co
California
Alifornia Fig Syrup CO
Louisville
W. C
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!