Iowa News In Brief Summaries Mixed Iowa Tales Of Fire Deaths And Politics
Fire destroyed the Dubuque Portrait Company rooms causing about 1600 in losses. Iowa soldiers in San Francisco may return home for recovery. A Des Moines land dispute favored Mooney with future compliance. A boy, 15, was killed by a horse in Allison area. Dennis Kirr, a farmer, died by self harm in Oxford township. Hemenixeros injured in a Council Bluffs accident. Col Jackson resigns as peace has been declared. Iowa soldiers ask to be moved north. Fay family children die in barn fire. A boy smothered in an oat bin. Iowa Agricultural College to host another excursion. Waterloo barn fire spreads. Sixty to seventy girls employed at a factory. Cornell trained horticulturist appointed at Town College. Davenport saloon keeper Nick Newcomb faces grand jury. Iowa regiments discuss northern move. vote to stay. Des Moines Newsboys strike over price. paper price remains. Anthon burglars escape with 350 after dynamite mishap. Van De Venter shot. Rushlow wounded but revolver misfired. Sam Young, Davenport’s school superintendent, resembles Uncle Sam in caricatures and reflects long civic service. State geologist reports in Dubuque county.
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Wm. Kollman
Allison
Herman DeBower
Tie
Dennis Kirr
Oxford Township
Town City
Tle
Johnson County
J. Hemenixeros
Greenfield
Hager
Grand Motel
Council Bluffs
Braytone
David
Nels Sorenson
Green Bay
Counselman
Iowa Agricultural College
Pyom Goldfield
Northwestern
Webster City
Central
Waterloo
Gasser
Town Agricultural College
John Craig
Cornell University
Tthien
N. Y
Rudd
Nick Newcom
Davenport
Daniel Frost
Noel Island
Newcomb
Frost
Forty-ninth
Fiftieth Iowa
Fiftieth
Shaw
Iowa
the News
The
Daily News
Anthon
Douyx van de Venter
Gilman
Ba. Rushlow
Rushiow
van de Venter
L. Seager
Rushlow
Usere Sam
John B. Young
United States
Uncle Sam
Mr. Young
Superintendent Young
New York State
Middlebury College
Lawrenceyile
Fort Covington
New York
Asaarans
Gronosist
Foster Bat
Dubuque County
Calvin
Hal Ae i
Prosecu
Printey
Manila Surrender and Dewey Meritt Dispatches Report
A condensed Manila update from August 18 19 describes Admiral Dewey and Major General Merritt coordinating after the city’s capture. The dispatch outlines enforcing law and order, protecting religion, and maintaining local institutions under American supervision. Merritt prepares a native proclamation and reports losses under fifty killed and wounded.
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Manila
Dewey
Merritt
White Trouse
Alger
Allen
Washington
Malate
Brumby
Wasnisxeros
Ministers Resign as Austro Hungary Crisis Looms
August 20 Vienna reports Count Thun and Baron Rannfy along with Count Golouchowski tendered resignations. The emperor delays acceptance while seeking suitable successors, signaling a potential major political upheaval. Also notes sick soldiers landing at Montauk and plans for more troops to Manila with General Merriam. England presses Spain over Gibraltar fortifications.
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Austro-Hungary
Vienna
Count Thun
Baron Rannfy
Count Golouchowski
War department publishes Porto Rico tariff rates for tobacco
The war department sets Porto Rico tariff rates applying the Spanish minimum previously enforced on the island. The tobacco schedule mirrors the rates used for Cubs, with August 20 as the notice date.
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Porto Mia
Wasimnaron
War Department
Porto Rico
Island
Mail From Rentricthans Delayed by Postal Committee
Fragmentary report notes mail moved by a postal committee in Washington on August 92. General Emory Smith was to send to Spain or France until an concession was not considered. The ordering violation is implied but unclear.
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Wasnineton
Anguat
Emory. Smith
Spain
France
Fall of Manila Report From Spanish Command to Surrender
Dispatch from Hong Kong recounts Dewey bombarding Manila on Saturday, forcing General Agu- stad to surrender after a five hour bombardment and trench assault. American forces led by First Colorado captured outer trenches and breached defenses with ships Olympia Raleigh and Baltimore nearby. Spaniards totaled around three thousand in the trenches while American forces numbered about ten thousand.
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Wasuisaron
Department of State
Wildman
Hong Kong
Dewey
Manila
Ehy
Augusti
Iannch
Kaiserin
Towey
Vhoe
Colorado
America
Olympia
Vettel
Raleigh
McCulloch
Boston
Monterey
Charleston
Baltimore
Hona Kona
Andre
Merritt
California Red Cross Society
Big Riots Reported Within Spanish Lines to Puerto Rico
Dispatches from August report outrages inside Spanish lines including massed attacks at Ciales where natives hid in a cathedral belfry and fought troops. Other items discuss Manila, cabinet changes, evacuation commissions for Cuba, and cautions on peace negotiations amid ongoing Spanish crisis.
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Porto Rico
Foner
Massieres
Ciales
Madrid Commissioners End Personnel Representative in Cuba
In London August 19 the Madrid correspondent of the Daily News says generals Hann Castellanos and Admiral Manter headed a mission to appoint commissioners. The report notes morale and sessions of the government as opposition silage to the process, detailing the consolidation push amid hostile reception.
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Blanco
Byala
Cuba
London
Madrid
Hann
Castellanos
Admiral Manter
G Morale Mielns
Pa Moret
Build Warships: Navy Board Plans Immediate Fleet
The naval board reports a plan for Congress to authorize immediate construction of fifteen ships. It calls for three sea-going barbette turret battleships of 11,000 tons at 18.7 knots loaded, three armored cruisers of 12,000 tons at 22 knots, three protected armored cruisers of 2,000 tons at 22 knots, and six protected cruisers of 2,500 tons at 16 knots.
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the Tribune
Washington
Congress
Naval Board of Experts
Long
Navy is Welcomed at Grand Demonstration in New York
The North Atlantic squadron returned to New York Bay and was greeted by tens of thousands. Ships including the New York, Iowa, Indiana, Brooklyn, Massachusetts, Oregon and Texas maneuvered up the harbor in review before cheering crowds amid harbor guns. A salute of twenty-one guns sounded as they passed General Grant's tomb and later anchored off Tompkinsville. The entire review lasted two hours and thirty five minutes.
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New York
North Atlantic
New York Bay
Iowa
Indiana
Brooklyn
Massachusetts
Oregon
Texas
General Grant
Tompkinsville
IMPERIALISM FOR AMERICA Prophesied by London Spectator
The Spectator in London predicts the United States will keep all Spanish holdings it has captured and that Cuba may be governed by the U S for twenty years due to Cuban loyalist pressure. It envisions America shaping a tropical overseas empire by year’s end, with England unlikely to envy its expansion.
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London
Loxnox
the Spectator
America
Cuba
United States
The
Spectator
England
Dewey for President Rumors Sweep Tammany Hall
August dispatches report Tammany Hall backing Dewey as its presidential candidate amid New York buzz and press debate on McKinley renomination. Manila capitulation details and Dewey admiralty speculation color a wider U S political and military outlook as Congress faces peace treaty timing.
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Tammany
New York
Tammany Hall
Dewey
Telegraph
Thel Croker
Tyne
Mckinley
Hanna
Manila
Terms of Manila capitulation agreed by American Spanish authorities
A Manila capitulation terms notice from August 22 outlines a six article agreement declaring Spanish troops in Manila and suburbs capitulate with the city and defenses. The scope appears to cover the whole Philippines with provisions for surrender arms and orderly evacuation, while harbor terms are excluded and feeding 13 000 troops is noted as feasible.
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Wasumnaroy
Manila
Seat Department
Merritt
Philippines
Manta
War Department
Phillippines
Alger
Dewey
Santiago
Reducing the Army 75 000 to 100 000 Musters Out
Washington reports the president has ordered a reduction of the volunteer army from seventy five thousand to one hundred thousand. The discharge will affect infantry artillery and cavalry with those who wish to stay in service retained as needed. The timing for designation of units to be mustered out remains to be decided, but the reduction will proceed as soon as practicable.
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Washington
Hobson to Cuba raises sunken Spanish ships plan
Naval Constructor Hobson conferred at the navy department on plans to raise the wrecked Cristobal Colon and Maria Teresa. He voiced confidence in floating the Colon while noting progress on the Teresa. Hobson departs for Cuba via New York. Also, President McKinley sends thanks to Admiral Dewey and General Merritt for Manila victory.
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Washngton
Hobson
Navy Department
Hiehborn
Cristobal Colon
Maria Cresa
Maria ‘Leresa
Cuba
New York
McKinley
Dewey
Mervtt Bis
Manila
Deway
Winston Mortnnury
Merritt
Wintian
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Dubuque Portrait Company
First Senatant Gravat BR
Tenronn
Lucian Winder
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San Francisco
Division Hospital
Register of the Land Office
Des Moines
O Brien County
James F. Brice
Samuel D. Cone
Mooney
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Fla
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Cherokee
South
P. Fay
Aurora
Mr. Fay
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Mobile
Roth
de Mobile
Siel
Arizona
Merriam
Tonolulu
Scandia
Wonolulu
Department of the Patifie
Bpain- Mapnip
Associated Press
Gibraltar
Mapniv
Silvela
Sagasta
Maprin
Gonzales Parado
Luis Pastor Tiandero
Navarro
Cuban
Marquis de Moutor
Maine
Mapitn
Bonin
Maprid Commissioners
Kifteen
NAVY
Daily Mail
Vandener
Philippine Archipelago
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