Secretary declines Miss Favre claim over San Juan blockade
Secretary of state issued an answer to Miss Tyan Fyfe for $10,000 damages from the capture of the French steamer Rodriguez during the San Juan blockade. The response finds no liability by the United States, noting the Rodriguez was observed by the Yosemite, captured by the New Orleans, and later released to the French company.
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France
Tyan Fyfe
Stermer Olinda Rodriguez
New Orleana
San Juan
Yosemite
Miss Favre
Port Au Prince
Rodriguez
New Orleans
Charleston
United States Naval
Hay
Griggs
United States District Attorney
More Guns to the Cape and Global Dispatches
Seventy third battery ordered to South Africa as fifth field unit. Thirty machines shipped to the Transvaal amid quiet bourse, high explosives tests at Sandy Hook deemed successful. Rural delivery routes assigned across several states. Hatfield surrenders to governor after feud violence. Dewey receives Congressional medal edge engraved. Life saving bureau reports 642 rescues in Texas floods. Western commissions added for volunteers. Salvation Army council closes with 1,500 attendees and new recruits.
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London
South Africa
Cape
Transvaal
Frankfort
New York
Ordnance Department
United States Army
Proving Grounds
Bandy Hook
Washington
Alfred Q. Kenneth
Missouri Volunteers
Thomas R. Hayson
Kansas
Charles A. Phillips
Kansas-Nebraska Salvation Rally
Wraotz
Neb
Council of War of the Salvation Army
Nebraska
Blue Springs
Here
Fire at Monroe Street Tenement Claims Young Girl
Fire at 101 Monroe Street decimates a five story tenement killing six year old Rachael Silber and injuring a dozen others including Samuel Lundon and Bessie Bossick. Firemen saved fifteen families guiding victims down stairs and applying first aid taught by Dr. Janeway. Survivors evacuated to a neighboring house as smoke and burns filled the building.
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New York
New Yor
Monroe Street
Rachael Silber
Samuel Lundon
Bessie Bossick
Max Press
Basch
Silber
Janeway
Various International News Briefs From July Dispatches
In Detrott a convention of Colored Youth educators featured Rev W S Bradden protesting a W W Boyd remark If Christ were in the south and his kin outraged by a negro brute would he resent it The talk drew a defensive response from Bishop Alexander Walters In Dubuque Archbishop Hennessy postpones Seminary work for a new Sisters of the Holy Ghost mother house No Leaks in Shamrock Sir Thomas Lipton denies rumors of a hull leak in London The Chautauqua course ends with Léon H Vincent Barrie and Scotch fiction and a concert Miss Julia Jewett is committed to an asylum in Weastel Orry Aaron Wolf president of Parkersburgs Exchange bank dies at 79
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Detrott
American Association of Educators of Colored Youth Today
W.S. Bradden
Committee On Resolutions
W. W. Boyd
St. Louis
Endeavor
Mr. Boyd
Roy. Bradden
Christ
South
Williston
Alexander Walters
Jersey City
Dubuque
Duargue
Hennessy
Sisters of the Holy Ghost
D. J. Hennessy
London
Thomas Lipton
Associated Press
Burlington
Bourarmeron
Léon H. Vincent
Barrie
Decca. Opera Company
Telegraphic Briefs From The Nation And World
Reports include Belgium’s king to visit Newport this summer. Lords pass second reading on seating shop assistants. Detroit street railways face municipal ownership after Michigan Supreme Court ruling. A third party marriage negotiation deemed void by Judge Shepard. National Association of the Deaf opens its sixth annual convention in St Paul with about 200 delegates. San Francisco passengers from the orient released from quarantine aboard the Nippon Maru. Father Flamdien of Lille acquitted of murdering a boy. Charges filed against Indian Agent John S Mayhugh of White Rock for arbitrary administration. U S President confirms officers for the Thirty sixth and Thirty seventh regiments in the Philippines. El Paso extradition case records reach state department, set precedent in Mrs Rich murder case. Attorney General says Havana street railway franchise Lorre concession is superior and may proceed.
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Newport
Washington
House of Lords
Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Shepard
Chicago
National Association of the Deaf
St. Paul
San Francisco
Orient
Father Flamdien
School of the Christian Brothers
Lille
France
John 8. Mayhugh
White Rock
Nevada
Otia
Saventh
Philippines
el Paso
Rich
State Department
United States
Lorre
Janitors Claim Ballot Fraud Sways 1897 Amendment
Lincoln July 12 The senate committee began hearings into state offices and 1897 ballot frauds. Janitors L Simon and another man testified they and Inspector Edmiston altered ballots to favor the constitutional amendment allowing two more supreme court justices. Several blank ballots and forged judge names were alleged. A Holcomb letter questioned testimony and noted public knowledge of the conduct of the executive office. Nebraska census appointments and other notices follow from Omaha to Chadron, with various local items.
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Senate
Supreme Court
L. Simon
State’ House
Edmiston
G. W. Blake
Simon
Holcomb
Neb
F. N. Prout
James H. van Dusen
Jacob Rocke
Lincoln Hotel
City
Silas‘a. Ho.cons
Dixon Defeats White for Negri Crown in Denver Bout
featherweight world champion George Dixon won a 20 round decision over Tommy White before 2500 at the Olympic club. Dixon controlled from the sixth round with sharp lefts to body and head, narrowly surviving a late rally as the bell ended the bout and Masterson declared Dixon the winner.
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Denver
Tsrendeth Ryan
George Dixon
Tommy White
Olympic Club
Dixon
Sammy
George
Tom O’rourke
Kid McCoy
White
Masterson
Tommy
Kidnaper's Solitary Confinement At Joliet
Mrs Elizabeth Ann Ingersoll, accused kidnapper, spent last night in a padded solitary cell at Joliet penitentiary after a violent hold against arrest in Chicago. The warden called it the worst case he faced, with no hysteria but intense rage and shredded handkerchiefs.
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Joliet
Lapiner
Crtcaco
Elizabeth Ann Ingersoll
Gerald Lapiner
Court House
Chicago
Juliet
Cardinal Mertel Dies in His Early Nineties
Telegrams report Cardinal Teodolfo Mertel died in his 93rd year after a long church service. Other notes include ships arriving at Cape Town, Admiral Howisor heading to join the cruiser Chicago, and war department awarding a $289,500 contract to the Cramps company for transport Thomas.
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Holy Roman Church
Chicago
Cape Town
Admiral Howisor
Johannesburg
War Department
Thomas
Cramps Company
Philadelphia
von Holleben
Germany
Hay
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New York
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Detroit
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Alfred BE. Bate
Lenin
Jules Philippe Louis Albert Grevy
Algeria
Paris
Jules Grevy
Republic
Bisley
Eng
National Rifle Association
Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
E. P. Allis Company
Milwaukee
State Department
United States
Paris Floated but Still Listed After Rocked Stranding
The French liner Paris has been moved 160 yards and shifted slightly eastward by German salvagers. A heavy fog and smooth seas persist. the ship remains on rocks with a starboard list and danger not yet ruled out. Three salvage boats aided the effort as divers struggled to reach the rock. If conditions permit, the Paris will be towed to Falmouth for inspection and possible repairs at Southampton or another dock.
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Loxpoy
Paris
Falmouth
Southampton
The Dead Czarowitz Interred in Fortress Cathedral
The czarowitz body will be brought to St Petersburg and interred in the fortress cathedral, with condolences from Queen Victoria and others. He was an English scholar and naval student who translated Mahan. He apparently married with his mother’s consent and left no children.
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St. Petersburg
St. Peterspure
Czarowitz
Queen Victoria
Grand Duke
Captain Mahan
London
Paris
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