Japanese envoy denies official mission in Hawaii dispute
A Paris dispatch quotes Marquis Ito denying any official mission or protest against the United States annexation of the Sandwich Islands. He says he came to Europe for holiday, not diplomacy, and asserts Japan will protect its interests calmly. He stresses friendly U S relations and doubts conflict over Hawaii.
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Paris
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Europe
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England
Mo Dudes
Sandwich Islands
Abrogation Question Hovers Over Clayton-Hulwer Pact
Washington observers expect a Senate probe into abrogating the Clayton-Bulwer convention tied to Hawaii annexation. British interest and Monroe doctrine concerns color the debate as Congress prepares to act after the upcoming session. Tribesmen Attack Camp Mala tind reported with casualties. Simla dispatch notes pursuit. George H. Reid, premier of New South Wales, arrives in New York aboard the Majestic.
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Hawaiian Islands
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Hawaii
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George H. Raid
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New Yor
George H. Reid
Nowth Wales
Westeamer Majestic
Liverpool
No Agreement Yet on Uniformity Plan as Meetings Continue
Prrtsnura July 28 The second day of the uniformity convention opened an hour late with 85 railroad and river mines and four river-only mines represented. Officials say it will be weeks before an agreement satisfactory to most operators is reached. The plan, backed by W P DeArmitt, faces opposition from many operators who deem it too fair. Thomas Young notes the meeting aims to discuss the plan, not settle a strike, and arbitration may be needed for mining prices. Peace commissioners remain hopeful despite obstacles.
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W. P. DeArmitt
Mr. DeArmitt
Prttssura
Pittsburg
Joint Arbitration Committee
Arbitration Commission
Joan
Onion
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Three Blacks On Trial Arraigned for Assault in Decatur
In Decatur Alabama on July 28 Rosa Buford Lewis Thompson and Walter Neville were arraigned for the assault of 10 year old Nellie Lawton. A special venue of 150 names was needed to secure a jury and deputies were sent across the county for subpoenas as empaneling proceeds. The case draws strong local defense and the court appointed counsel for the woman believed to have instigated the crime.
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Decatur
Alsa
Rosa Buford
Lewis Thompson
Walter Neville
Nellie Lawton
Crop Prospects Improve as August Report Shows Strong Cotton
Atlanta July 28 The state agricultural department issued the August crop report noting excellent cotton outlook across the state with few exceptions from drought and wind. Upland corn benefited from timely rains saving the crop while bottom land corn suffered in late July showers. Potatoes planting was below average due to dry weather but enough slips were set. Peaches mostly failed though plums and grapes show good yields. apples expected to be average and sugar cane generally poor.
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Atlanta
State Agricultural Department
Georgia
Indian Officials Active In Chitral Hostilities
Dispatch from Simla reports the government taking all steps to cope with hostile tribesmen in Chitral. Fort Chakdara is cut off. two companies of the Thirty-first Punjab infantry and two guns may hold the garrison. Mardan to Malakand road blocked. telegraph wires cut. Seventh Mountain battery moves to Malakand. West Kent regiment readied at Peshawar. Iain Holland of the Twenty-Fourth Infantry wounded at Camp Malakand.
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Simla
Chitral
Chakdara
Mardan
Maladand
Reid May Be Premier as Health Fades in Washington
Washington hears rumors that Whitelaw Reid may succeed Sherman as head of the State Department, with health concerns about Secretary Sherman potentially forcing retirement. The report notes Reid aboard ship home, possible land purchases in Washington, and mentions other cabinet reshuffles linked to Sherman’s illness in official circles.
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Washington
Sherman
Hitelaw Reid
Smallpox Declared by Jefferson County Medical Society
In Birmingham Alabama July 37 the Jefferson County Medical Society and citizens met to review the outbreak. The pest house on Red Mountain reports 28 cases with one more developed Tuesday morning and sent to the mountain. Suspected cases at the detention camp are not yet showing eruptions as vigorous measures are adopted to stamp out the disease. Bedding from suspected cases is burned and premises disinfected.
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Ala
Red Mountain
Jefferson County Medical Society
Clondyke Gold Fever Drives Chicago Tourists West
A 150 member party plans a Chicago to Clondyke gold expedition leaving Saturday night by special train through San Francisco to St Michaels. They will travel 80 days to reach the Yukon and live aboard steam launches, with provisions for next summer. A second ship from San Francisco will ferry about 200 more travelers, mostly from Chicago, to join the voyage.
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Ontcaco
Chicago
San Francisco
St. Michaels
Yukon
the Transportation Company
Clondyke
Routes to summit pass described for Alaska prospectors
A July 17 report from Forty Mile camp Alaska describes a white pass pack train travel route to the summit pass with a descriptive grade to lakes and distances from salt water to Toochi Lake and Lake Bennett head. A San Francisco rumor says rich quartz discovered on the Stewart river with rock assays at $300, potentially reshaping the Alaska Klondike district and linking placer gold to Stewart river sources.
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Alaska Searchlight
William Moore
Forty Mile Camp
Skagwa
Alaska
White Pass
Summit Pass
Toochi Lake
Lake Bennett
San Francisco
Stewart River
Alondyke
Yukon
Dawson
Canada to tax Yukon gold and telegraph link planned
The Dominion government may levy a royalty on all gold mined in Canadian Yukon, with officials dispatched to enforce it. A telegraph line from Linn Canal to the Klondike and a plan to reserve alternate land sections are also noted.
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Clondyke
Vancouver
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Yukon
Linn Canal
Striker leaders rally for Pittsburgh meeting amid coal strike
Officials say measures will sustain a general coal strike with a Wednesday-Thursday mobilization near Turkle Sand Creek and Plum Creek with Debs and labor chiefs to address New York and Cleveland miners. Debs, Gompers, Ratchford, Garland, McMahon expected. 12,000 miners anticipated.
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M. M. Garland
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Turkle Sand Creek
Plum Creek
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
Scotdale
Wheeling
W. Va
Colonel Anderson Dead Prominent Kansas citizen dies
July 26 Manhattan Kansas report of Colonel John B. Anderson 80, born in Washington Pa, founder of Anderson Collegiate and Female Institutes, long railroad executive roles and Army of the Cumberland commander. Also notes a Montgomery Alabama suicide, Gladstones anniversary, Alpine climber death, license refusal, and national bank call.
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Comptroller of the Currency
Largest Pittsburg coal conference urged uniformity plan
The Pittsburgh coal operators meet with the joint arbitration committee for a planned settlement of the 1890s miners strike. The open conference debates a uniformity plan with cash payments for 2000 pounds of coal mined biweekly and a standard screen. Disputes over vein thickness differentials may split the group as they push toward peace and work resumption.
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