Soldiers to Pour Into the Philippines Amid Mobilization
An August 19 report outlines a plan to raise ten additional regiments for the Philippines with a total of about sixty thousand men. Soldiers will be recruited across Fort Snelling Fort Meade Leavenworth and other posts and equipped promptly. The administration presses quick provisioning, clothing, arms, and rations as General Otis awaits reinforcement.
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Philippines
Gill
Fort Snelling
Fort Neb
Fort Riley
Kan
the Meade, Pa
Port Y. Y
Fort Ethan Alien
Leavenworth
Jeffers Mo
South Pratingiam
Nile
Oris
Mary Root
Dnance Bureau
Ammisary Department
Arctic cargo and criminals plague Kotzebue and Alaska coast
The Albion reports 100 people rescued at Kotzebue by the revenue cutter Bear and taken to St Michael. Reindeer moved from Siberia to Alaska shores. Thetis and Bear also active. Criminial activity noted in Anvil City.
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San Francisco
Albion
Cape None
Kotzebue
Bear
St. Michael
Bar
Cape Nome
Siberian
Thetis
Siine
Arctic
St. Lawrence Bay
Cape Prince of Wales
Alaska
Bering Island
Arctic Ocean
Cape
Dewey Praises Trieste Welcome and Austrian Courtesy
Admiral Dewey reports warm reception for the Olympia at Trieste. He notes cordial officials and public friendliness toward the U.S. Navy, including 4,000 mourners at the funeral of electrician Rask and kind reception for Naval Constructor Capps at Pola and Trieste yards.
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Washington
Navy Department
Dewey
United States
Olympia
Trieste
Austria
Department
Vienna
Rask
Capps
Pola
George Dewey
U.S. N
Emperor Nikolas Declares Talien Wan A Free Port
The imperial order to the Russian finance minister proclaims Talien Wan as a free port for merchant ships of all nations during the treaty period. It notes Russia’s gains from China, including two harbors and railway links to the Yellow Sea, and promises a new city near the port.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
M. DeWitte
Russia
Europe
Asia
West
China
Talien Wan
Port Arthur
Yukon Miners Arrive Aboard Dutch With Gold Dust
The steamer Dutch brings 100 Yukon and Atlin miners to Vancouver and turns over 350000 dollars in gold dust Purser Turner reports. A Reichstag from Hamburg Naples and Mombasa docks with 400 boxes of cartridges for Transvaal while Pall Mall Gazette notes a Lanarkshire firm securing 10000 tons of steel for shipment to the United States.
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Alaska
Vancouver
B. C
Dutch
Atlin
Turner
Transvaal
Delagoa Bay
German East Africa Line
Reichstag
Hamburg
Naples
Mombasa
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Scotch Steel
United States
Foot and Mouth Disease Spreads Throughout Egypt
Alexandria reports 1 827 cases of foot and mouth disease since July 18 with the entire country affected as of August 17.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Hurricane devastates Red Bay island with massive loss
A Miami dispatch reports Red Bay on Andros Island swept away by a tropical hurricane. About 300 lives lost, with eye witnesses estimating up to 600 dead on Nassau's surroundings. Winds reached 105 miles per hour in gusts. Relief efforts urged for Porto Ricans.
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Jacksonville
Vla
Miami
Times-Union
Dillon
Cocoa
Red Bay
Isand
Andros
Nassau
Wis
Porto Ricans in Distress From San Juan Dispatch
A San Juan report describes widespread devastation after the hurricane in Porto Rico. Cities are crowded for shelter, food is ruined, and only the wealthy can buy provisions. Governors and mayors struggle to aid victims as 200 emigrants drown.
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New York
The
Herald
San Juan
Porto Rico
Cagnas
Cayey
Guaymas
Mayaguez
Concepcion
Samana
Arroyo
Utuada
Explosion on Mexican Central locomotive kills seven
A Tampico dispatch reports a boiler explosion on a Mexican Central rail loco on the sidetrack at Cardneas. Seven men died and three engineers were fatally injured, four of them American named Simon Fitzgerald Hussy and Gibson. Lokhart was also fatally injured nearby. Three Mexican firemen and woodpassers were among the dead.
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Chicago
Tampico
Mexico
Mexican Central Railroad
Cardneas
Simon
Fitzgerald
Hussy
Gibson
Lokhart
Illinois Society Plans State Sanitarium for Consumption
The Illinois Society for the Prevention of Consumption organized plans to establish a state sanitarium for tuberculosis care. It will ask the next legislature to fund the project with a $500 000 appropriation, aiming to treat poor patients disabled by the disease, with Governor Tanner supporting the initiative and the society’s purchase.
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Asylum For
Chicago
Illinois Society For the Prevention of
Tanner
Shamrock Arrives in New York for America's Cup Challenge
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock reached New York with its tender Erin after a swift crossing from Fairlie on the Clyde. The Erin towed Shamrock for about 2,000 miles while Shamrock sailed over 1,200 miles across the Atlantic in less time than expected.
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New York
Sir Thomas Lipton
Shamrock
Erin
Fairlie-on-the-Clyde
Diver Baldwin Drowned Deep Underwater in Andelana Rescue
William Baldwin a renowned marine diver from Seattle died while attempting a 108 foot descent to reach the sunken Andelana. He perished when air pump connections failed amid extreme pressure after earlier diving deeper than prior records. Baldwin had earned a $30,000 prize if the ship could be raised.
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Tacoma
William Baldwin
Seattle
Baldwin
Commencement Bay
Morgan
United States
Charleston
Puyallup
Washington's Fine Regiment Backing Home From Philippines
First Lieutenant William E. Weigle of Company G describes Washington troops as highly adaptable to Philippine weather with relatively low sickness. He praises Colonel Whalley and General King, notes the regiment heads the volunteers for overall discipline, and expects departure for the United States around September. Separately, insurgents attacked Angeles. American Twelfth Regiment repelled them with no injuries.
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Portland
William E. Weigle
First
Washington
Philippines
Whalley
Washington Regiment
Thies
Charles King
King
United States
Manila
Angeles
T. Spencer
Kentucky
Manihte Times
Typographical Union Chooses Milwaukee as Next Meeting Place
The International Typographical Union selected Milwaukee as its next meeting site at its August 18 session in Detroit Michigan. A report urging a special assessment of up to six dollars and fifty cents every three months to bolster the strike fund was adopted. The note adds that iron mining employs over 17 000 people in England.
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Typographical Union
Detroit
Mich
International Typographical Union Convention
Milwaukee
Committee On Laws
Executive Council
Family of Ministers Reunite Near Portland After 17 Years
A large family of Presbyterian ministers gathered at their home near Portland for a reunion last week. The clan includes Rev. E. B. Prumbull Lee D. D. and wife, and sons and daughter with several prominent clergy. Among the sons are Rev. George H. Lee Seattle pastor selected Cincinnati College Hill Presbyterian Church, Rev. Lewis Kinle Lee Cincinnati North Presbyterian Church, Professor Wallice H. Lee Albany College president, Dr. William A. Lee Portland accountant at the American Type Founders, and Herbert M. Lee Standard Oil Portland. The daughter is Mrs. William M. Fleming of Spokane. Grandchildren add to the merriment as the family reunites for the first time in 17 years since the New York gathering. Additionally Pacific American Fisheries of Fairhaven Washington plans a cold storage plant to support its cannery with work beginning soon, as the cannery project nears completion. Once the cannery is finished, cold storage and ice plant construction will follow, with a large fall and winter workforce expected to operate in the fresh fish department and ship long distances to astern states.
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Portland
Hey
Lee
D. D
Eb, Prumbull Lee
Second Presbyterian Church
Cincinnati
George H. Lee
Seattle
College
New York
Pacific American Fisheries Company
Fairhaven
Wash
Oasfroy
Astern States
Salem may host new box factory by Maxon party
May establish a box factory as G Maxon and family arrive from South Bend Indiana. Report says he and others plan to launch in Salem but Maxon denies firm commitment while offering to observe openings. He aims to set up a factory if the location suits Salem's needs and could boost local manufacturing.
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G. Maxon
Salem
South Bend
Ind
Maxon
Potatoes Drop as Surplus Crowds Market Near Corvallis
Farmers near Corvallis received 75 cents a sack for new potatoes but overproduction pushed prices to 60 cents. Potatoes cannot keep long or ship far, so buyers avoid stock. If shipments were ship ready, dealers would pay 90 cents a sack. Both farmers and dealers eye a strong fall winter price outlook.
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Corvallis
Inland Grain Company prepares season under Liebes and Macleod
The Juliaetta Tramway, now Inland Grain Company, readies for the season with George Liebes as president and A. L. Macleod as manager. It installs Idaho’s largest grain cleaner at the upper station, a Monitor with 900 to 1,400 bushels per hour, same as used at Portland wharves, and will also engage in banking.
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Juliaetta
The
Inland Grain Company
George Liebes
A. L. Macleod
Idaho
Portland
Sugar Factory to Open in Anaheim Looming September First
The Alamitos sugar factory in Anaheim California will begin operations on September 1 and run for 30 days Beets needed for this run cannot be harvested locally in Los Alamitos territory and will be imported to fill the shortfall No pulp will be given to ranchers this year A large band of cattle will be brought to the factory corral to fatten on the product
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Alamitos
Anaheim
Cal
Los Alamitos
Mill at Wasco closes for harvest completion
The North Pacific Flour Mills at Wasco shut down until harvest ends because all wheat is ground and no new supply is available. Workers will install a new engine and improvements to boost next year’s output. since startup, production has surpassed 5,000,000 pounds. Oregon Short Line inaugurates Granger to Portland car service with three buffet cars three diners eight-chair cars and three coaches to enhance efficiency and status.
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North Pacific
Wasco
Granger
Portland
Short Line
Dillon voters authorize 75000 bonds for water works and electric plant
Property owners of Dillon Montana by a strong majority vote approve issuing seventy five thousand dollars in bonds to fund a water works system and purchase the Orr Company electric light plant. Total tally 58 for and 16 against. The council will sell bonds at once and begin water works operations as soon as possible.
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Dillon, Mont
Orr Company
Trade review cites crop profits. shortages loom elsewhere
Bradstreet's notes favorable crop reports with a possible 2.2 billion bushels of corn, near the 1806 record. Spring wheat shows a July decline in condition while overall canning and wool markets remain firm. U S weekly business failures total 156, with exports of wheat up to 22.13 million bushels since July 1.
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Bradstreet
America
England
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Ile
Dewey
Deidrichs
Philadelphia
Pacific Coast Trade Prices on Fruits Vegetables and Staples
Seattle market lists new onions at 1.25 per sack, potatoes 1. for Ib, beets 1 per sack, turnips 50 60c per sack, carrots 1 1.25, cauliflower 40 60c per dozen, cabbage 1.50 per 100 lb, cherries 75c, peaches 75c, apples 1.25 1.75 per box, pears 1.75 per box, prunes 1 per box, watermelons 2 to 3, cantaloupes 2 to 2.50, berries and dairy prices, poultry, eggs 23c, butter 23 46c, cheese 10 12c, hay and milled grains with varied per ton and per barrel rates, wheat and oats prices, and San Francisco market notes on wool and millstuffs.
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California
Puget Sound
Washington
Graham
Walla Walla
Valley
Oregon
San Francisco
Nevada
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