Insurgents Seek Friendly Ties as Manila Sanitation Fails
Dispatch from Manila reports insurgent leaders show confidence in the American government as the assembly in Malolos aims for friendly relations. Sanitation efforts falter among Spanish prisoners housed in churches and public buildings, with typhoid rising and calls to remove prisoners from Manila. Hospitals face delays, and ships carrying troops and vessels under flag of the United States move between Manila Cavite and Rio.
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New York
Herald
Manila
National Assembly
Malolos
General Otis
Sanitary Corps
Cavite
Rio
Boston
Raleigh
Cebu
Iloilo
How Some Spaniards Would Greet Cervera
Workmen in Bilboa planned a demonstration at Santander to greet Admiral Cervera on his return but the government barred such welcome scenes. The Havana cable shows Captain General Blanco disagrees with the Cuban colonial ministry over autonomy. The duke of Tetuan cites Canovas del Castillo’s hypothetical stance on war and accuses Sagasta of responsibility for Spain’s disasters.
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Cervera
Santander
Spain
Blanco
Havana
Cuba
Tetuan
Canovas del Castillos
Senor Canovas
United States
Canovas
Stewart L. Woodford
Senor Sagasta
Duke of
McKinley Eyes Expanding Civil Service Openings
President McKinley weighs relaxing civil service rules to open many positions to political appointments. Exemptions would move private secretaries clerks confidential staff and labor roles from classified service, with targeted changes in internal revenue customs justice postal services and major offices in New York and other cities.
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McKinley
Congress
Executive Department
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue
Customs Service
Board of General Appraisers
Port of
Department of Justice
Postal Service
Morphine tragedy near Terrell claims boy's life
News in brief reports a negro boy near Terrell Texas died after receiving morphine for quinine. Other items note August cattle imports from Mexico totaling 3154, Colorado wool clip at 4 million pounds, rising lambs on markets, a Washington DC clothiers building fire with 200000 loss, Dallas resident Lawrence Knefly dead, Gilmer church dedication, Mrs. T C Moore's death near Weatherford, hopeful Bayard prognosis, tobacco industry consolidation, and Fort Worth site ground broken for widows and orphans home by masons.
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Washington, D. C
Robinson, Cherry & Co., Clothiers
Lawrence Knefly
Dallas
Tex
New Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
Gilmer
T. C. Moore
Weatherford
Thomas F. Bayard
Masons
Fort Worth
Three More U S Warships Ready for Commission
The Chicago Atlanta and gunboat Yorktown near ready for service. Chicago and Atlanta from New York yard join North Atlantic fleet pending peace with Spain. Yorktown set for Asiatic station to aid China and the Philippines. Commanders named. bids soon opened for coast defense monitors. torpedo boats contracts undecided.
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Philippines
P. H. Cooper
Chicago
Perry
Navy Yard
Yorktown
Atlanta
J. W. Philip
North Atlantic
Boston Navy Yard
H. L. Howison
Union Iron Works
Bath Iron Works
Colombian Iron Works
Dialogue & Sons
Naval Board of Construction
Herrschoffs
John W. Trigg
Richmond
J. C. Watson
Navy Department
Guantanamo
Newark
Infanta Maria Teresa
Washington
Rumor of Bryan Resigning Army to Reopen Public Questions
A Jacksonville dispatch reports rumors that Colonel William Jennings Bryan of the Third Nebraska volunteers may resign his U S army commission to resume public questions. The item mentions excitement in Knoxville over Secretary Alger's anticipated visit to Camp Poland with orders for a review.
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Kansas City
The
Star
Jacksonville
Fla
William Jennings Bryan
Third Nebraska Volunteers
United States Army
Knoxville
Camp
Poland
Alger
Texan Testimony Boosts Swift's Specific Blood Remedy
A Texan praises Swift's Specific as the only cure for stubborn blood diseases citing multiple family cases. He details brain fever-related sores healed after using S S, a poisoned wound cured in a daughter, and a chronic internal blood trouble resolved in a son, endorsing the product and urging readers to seek it.
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S. S
Richard
Clement J
R. J. McKiyney
Dicey
Parker Co
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
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