Summary of Week's Key Happenings and Claims
Philippine customs revenues rise. Cailles refuses surrender. awaits terms. Hoarding and monopolies loom in eastern streetcar lines. Deaths and injuries from tor nadoes in South Dakota and Minnesota. Battleships Illinois and Oregon noted for speed and voyage. Kruger denies peace talks. Washington amends capital punishment law. Rands repealed. Fires, wrecks, and mining tragedies reported across several states.
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Forta Hamilton
Wadsworth
War Department
Academy
Kruger
Washington Senate
la Grande
Oregon
Minnesota
Oysters, Baptism Water, Negro Graduates and Early Stamps
A fragment notes 14000 oysters per ton, regular export of River Jordan water for baptism, Georgia graduates 30000 African Americans at 100 million dollars funded by northern sources, and mentions stamps in letters of Bishop Synesius of Cyrene on the Greek coast 400 years after Christ.
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Jordan
Georgia
Synesius
Cyrene
Africa
Illinois Fastest Battle Ship Sets World Record Pace
The battleship Illinois completed a 66 nautical mile test from Cape Ann to Cape Porpoise and back, averaging 17.31 knots for four straight hours. Rear Admiral Sampson and Evans led the trial aboard as Newport News Shipbuilding workers celebrated a new champion of speed and maneuverability with a flawless day.
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Boston
America
Illinois
President’s Roads
Cape Ann
Cape Porpoise
United States Naval
Sampson
Evans
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Boston Harbor
Washington News Highlights of Industrial Growth and Local Happenings
A broad review of Washington industry shows new mills, gas franchises, mining finds, and large municipal spending. Everett plans a major Fourth of July with a possible naval visit. Nor thwest towns schedule school staffing, water projects, and railroad bridges while mining and oil exploration resume in Belcher Mountain Summit and Colville.
Cuban constitutional convention accepts Platt amendment
Havana June 13 The Cuban constitutional convention approved the Platt amendment by 16 to 0 with no debate. A committee proposed adding the amendment as an appendix to the constitution and the body will form a committee to draft the electoral law.
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Havana
Committee On Relations
Congress
Conventon
Platt Amendment Favors Cuban Evacuation Prospects
Washington reports general gratification at the Cuban constitutional convention adopting the Platt amendment. Officials believed ratification would come as Cubans saw the administration’s firm stance. With acceptance, the United States would withdraw supervision once a stable government is established on the island.
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Washington
United States
Unions Press Slowdown On Rosecrans And Bear Tow
In Tacoma on June 13 the transport Rosecrans and revenue cutter Bear were towed to Bremerton for repairs. Authorities fear progress will stall as machinists and boiler makers may refuse to work, and a union delegate visits Puget Sound Naval Station to urge a work stoppage on both vessels.
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Tacoma
Rosecrans
Puget Sound Naval Station
Bremerton
Seattle
Naval Station
Oregon Arrives Early From Orient Homecoming Plans
The battleship Oregon reached San Francisco from the Orient this afternoon, arriving a day ahead of schedule. Preparations for a grand homecoming were set, but the vessel's early arrival altered plans.
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San Francisco
Oregon
Orient
Goldsborough Breaks Rock Shaft During Final Test
The torpedo boat Goldsborough built by Wolff and Zwicker of Portland broke its rock shaft while at full speed during a planned final official test opposite Seattle. Repairs are expected to take about ten days. The vessel had previously passed two tests.
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Seattle
Goldsborough
Wolff & Zwicker
Portland
Seattle Market Prices for Hides Wool and Livestock
Prices offered by Seattle dealers for delivery in round lots include hides pelts and tallow with steers over 60 pounds at 7 40 45 per pound Te light under ten pounds 7c cows all weights 7 salted kips 6 9c calf 8c and bulls 4 4c green hides Ic less salted culls Ic less grubby hides 1ltge less dry hides 12c dry culls 10c summer 20 25c winter deer dry 14 20 good butcher tallow 3 34c grea t wW 2c Wool Western Washington de 13c dirty 11 12c Eastern Washington wool 8 10c Live stock beef cart cows bige steers 449 5c do sheep 5c good hogs live 54 6 hogs dressed Tige calves large 4c small Te Live poultry chickens 1 12 c turkeys 12 124y c duck 13 4c Butter eggs creamery butter 17 18c dairy 15 16c ranch eggs 16 17c Grain oats 28 29 barley 17 18 wheat chicken seed 20 Hay Puget sound 12 Eastern Washington timothy 16 25 16 75 alfalfa 10 10 75 Field seed field peas white oats 28 spring seed wheat seed rye 18 seed barley 18 for something like 100 years the Pearl islands have been focus for pearls and coral export from the islands south of Panama. The export of frozen rabbits from New South Wales last year exceeded frozen mutton. About £883 000 worth of frozen beef and £260 000 worth of frozen mutton were exported.
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Seattle
Washington
Waington
Puget Sound
Washington Timothy
Wonderful Mathematician Tru man Henry Safford
New York reports the death of President Tru man Henry Safford, noted mathematician and astronomer. He will be buried in Williamstown Massachusetts. Born in Royalton Vermont sixty five years ago, he showed prodigious mental arithmetic from a young age and produced an almanac at nine.
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New York
Truman Henry Safford
College Burying Ground
Williamstown
Mass
Royalton
Harvard College
Brave lifeboat voyage aids stranded Border Knight crew
Three men in a small lifeboat sailed about 700 miles from Africa to reach the distressed Border Knight. After 15 days at sea they found relief as the British steamer Durance towed in 450 miles away at Sheet Harbor. Captain Splatt and crew were landed, while the rescuers found a safe harbor 40 miles east. The Border Knight had suffered a broken tail shaft and scarce provisions north of Bermuda before the rescue signal sparked aid.
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Halifax
Border Knight
Mathie
Sheet Harbor
Durance
Philadelphia
Bilboa
W. F. Splatt
Bermuda
Africa
Cape Verde Islands
New York
Fire Hits West Baden Hotel Resort Killing Rumor
Reports from Salem and Bedford say a fire at the West Baden Springs Hotel destroyed the building and belongings of hundreds of guests. Fire departments could not reach the scene due to transportation limits, and casualty rumors could not be confirmed. Proponents estimated the property value at about 1 million with only 100 thousand dollars of insurance.
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Indianapolis
Salem
Bedford
Journal
West Baden Springs
Anto
Jodiane
Four Lives Lost In Schooner Czar Wreck Near Newfoundland
The schooner Czar with 70 people aboard drove ashore in fog and gale on Cabot Island Newfoundland. Four fishermen died and six were injured while women and children survived after two days without food. Rescued by a passing vessel and taken to the mainland, they will return home by mail steamer. The wreck left the survivors deprived of their belongings and badly stranded.
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St. Johns
N. F
Labrador
Cabot Island
New Foundland
Chinese reformer San Yet Sen sails for China to start revolution
San Yet Sen left on the America Maru June 5 for China to overthrow the Empress Dowager and mandarins and establish a presidential government resembling that of America. He claims strong backing from prominent white men in China and thousands of natives, marking his third attempt in China.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
San Yet Sen
America
Life of perpetual motion seeker ends in suicide
William Herford, an elderly German from Williamsburg, New York, shot himself beside a carpenter shop work bench after 30 years of striving to unlock perpetual motion. He was found with a bullet in his brain, pipe clenched, head on a plank.
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New York
William Herford
Williamsburg
Dry-Dock Capsizes Leaving Italian Laborers Unaccounted
The U S transport Ingalls capsized at the Erie Basin drydock in Brooklyn during repairs. About 240 workers were aboard plus 30 Italian laborers in the hold. one painter, Martin Anderson, was killed. The old dock, over 50 years old, sank in 50 feet of water after the ship shifted and toppled, trapping men inside the wreckage and raising fears for others.
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New York
United States
Ingalls
Erie Basin
Brooklyn
Manila
Martin Anderson
Ferry Boats Collide Beside Staten Island Slip
The wooden side-wheeler Northfield sank after a collision with the steel-hulled Mauch Chunk off Whitehall Street. More than 100 Northfield passengers were saved or recovered. officials fear significant loss of life and two dozen aboard the Mauch Chunk were injured.
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New York
Staten Island Ferry Company
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Staten Island
Whitehall Street
Spanish Line
East River
Mauch Chunk
Northfield
Daniel Gully
Mutual
Gully
Anarchists Plan Shoot At Wooden Dummies In Park
The World reports in New York that wooden dummies wearing metal chest protectors will be set up in Liberty Park Ridgewood L I for anarchists to shoot. Johann Most will be marshal chief patron and guest as Greater New York anarchists hold a grand annual love feast marking their rifle club formation and dummy purchases.
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New York
Europe
Liberty Park
Ridgewood
L. I
Greater
Johann Most
Heat Claims Three Lives In Chicago Heatwave
Chicago reports three deaths attributed to the high heat over the past three days as temperatures eased slightly.
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Chicago
War Department insurgent captures and materiel totals
Washington reports insurgent totals through April 17: 31,315 captured or surrendered including 247 officers and 2,459 men captured between January 1 and April 17, plus 820 officers and 6,492 men surrendered. Tally also lists 1 558 rifles 45 000 pounds of ammunition 408 bolos and 24 cannon.
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Washington
War Department
Fire at Galley's Island Shipyard Destroys Vessels and Timber
Fire at the Galley’s Island shipyard in St. Petersburg destroyed slips, the cruiser Villas, government buildings, and a large timber stock. The blaze crossed the Nova Fontanka canal and damaged military warehouses. Novoe Vremya reports 12 dead and total damage of 10 million roubles.
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St. Petersburg
Nova-Fontanka
Novoe Vremya
Kitchener Reports Severe Boers Reverse Near Welmansrust
Lord Kitchener cables from Pretoria that 250 Victoria mounted rifles were surprised at Steenkoolspruit near Welmansrust by a superior Boer force on June 12 at 7:30 p m Two officers and 16 men were killed while 4 officers and 38 men were wounded Most escaped to Beaston's camp with two pom poms captured The loss is seen as serious but offset by a Boer defeat of Dewet The report also notes dubious peace talks and Rhodes predicting eventual federation of South African states.
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Monmouth
Cailles
Santa Cruz
Victoria Mounted Rifles
Middlesburg
Pekin
South Dakota
von Waldersee
Germany
London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Welmansrust
Middleburg
Beaston
Dewet
Botha
Kruger
Daily Mail
Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes
Bulawayo
Japan's War on Rats Declares Crackdown in Tokyo
June 1 report from Yokohama via Victoria notes the Tokyo medical authorities faced a rat outbreak after an escaped lab rodent carried disease. Tokyo votes 30,000 yen for traps and offers 5 sen bounty per rat as officials pledge drastic measures to isolate cases and prevent spread while cabinet politics remain gridlocked.
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Yokohama
Victoria
B. C
Tokio
Imperial University
Strike of Trackmen Paralyzes Canadian Pacific Forces
Vancouver June 18. All Canadian Pacific trackmen will strike at 6 am tomorrow after eastern division workers demand a 20 cent daily wage increase was rejected. Officials say granting the rise would cost about 400000 dollars yearly. Bridges and track segments will have coverage appointed while trains continue to run.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canadian Pacific
California Train Wreck near Rincon injures two crew
A Southern Pacific passenger train from San Francisco derailed on a curve near Rincon California today injuring engineer James Stanley and fireman Henry Coyle. The locomotive tender and baggage car were badly smashed while the passenger car with 40 people remained on track.
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Rincon
James Stanley
Henry Coyle
Battle on the Tonkin Frontier reported by Tacoma
The steamship Tacoma brings Hong Kong news that French forces along the Tonkin frontier suffered four officers and 17 soldiers killed in a clash with marauding bands of Chinese numbering over 500. Chinese forces included 1,000 regulars who favored robbery over combat, many Chinese women were killed, and the survivors fled toward Kwang Se province.
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Tonkin Frontier
Tacoma
Hong Kong
Tonkin
Kwang Se
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