Cubans Protest Madrid Appointments in Santiago Meeting
In Santiago de Cuba on July 23 dispatches report Cubans denouncing the continuation of Spanish officials appointed by Madrid. They condemn Gen Shafter for not admitting Gen Garcia and for issues around the surrender terms, while a San Carlos club meeting debated a protest to President McKinley on sovereignty and the potential US protectorate.
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Madrid
Santiago DE Cuba
Kingston
Jamaica
Shafter
Garcia
Santiago
Gomez
United States
Spain
Cuba
McKinley
Senor Joaquin Castillo
San Carlos
San Carlos Club
Cuban Petition Plea for Cuban Self Rule and Home Government
A July 25 dispatch from Santiago de Cuba prints a petition by Cuban landowners and residents thanking the United States for freeing them from Spanish rule. The document urges good faith from the United States and argues Cuba should establish its own government under Cuban authorities, with future possibility of incorporation into the United States. It calls for Spaniards to relinquish control and for Cuban troops to join in raising the Cuban flag beside the American flag.
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Santiago DE Cuba
Mckinley
United States
Cuba
United States Congress
Santiago
Spanish Residents in Santiago Welcome McKinley Proclamation
Spanish residents of this city approve President McKinley s proclamation and seem satisfied as subjects of the United States government. The work to clean streets and improve sanitation has begun in earnest.
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Santiago
McKinley
United States
Troop Transports Readied for Rapid Move from Florida Ports
Tampa dispatch reports transports loading fast and ready to sail. An officer from Fernandina says general opinion is transports will arrive in a few days to take troops off, signaling imminent shipment from Florida.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Tampa
Fernandina
No More Racing at Hawthorne in Cicero Decision
The Cicero town board met in a special session Saturday evening and ruled that there shall be no more racing at Hawthorne. This action ends activities at the Hawthorne venue and closes the local track for future events.
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Hawthorne
Curiaco
Cicero Town Board
Miles Army Moves Toward Porto Rico Landing
Reports from the war department indicate General Miles landed at a Porto Rico coast rendezvous and may begin a landing only if Spanish resistance is light. Troops from Tampa and Charleston progress toward Porto Rico, with Chickamauga units en route from Hampton Roads. Naval officials aid troop movements as Miles weighs timing and fighter availability for a late week start.
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Wasui
Tampa
Charleston
Porto Rico
W Naval
Naval Auxiliary
War Department
Chickamauga
Brooke
Hampton Roads
Miles
Porto Rica
Trestle Fall Kills One in Cleveland Sewer Work
A trestle collapsed in a Cleveland sewer project near Edgewater Park on Sunday killing one worker and injuring several others. The dead man was crushed beneath timber as the car derailed. Injured include city inspector Thomas Hasuzer and Frank Sprungel among others. most were hospitalized. No cause of the fall was determined.
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Edgewater Park
Cleveland
Imber
Thomas Hasuzer
Frank Sprungel
Paul Frohall
Frank Tobinsky
Frank Seczinski
Hobson Returns to New York to Hire Wrecking Firm
Lieut. Hobson of Merrimac fame arrives in New York from Washington with authority to contract with the Merritt Wrecking Co. for raising the Spanish ships Colon and Teresa. He goes to the company office to conclude the contract promptly to save the ships for the navy.
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Hobson
New York
Lieut
Merrimac Fame
Washington
Merritt Wrecking Co
Colon
Teresa
St Louis commission house ships 15 carloads of potatoes to Tampa for Santiago
A St Louis commission house received a telegraph order from the assistant quartermaster general at Chickamauga for 15 carloads of potatoes to be shipped immediately to Tampa and then by transport to Santiago. The firm hired extra drays, canvassed the city for potatoes, and had all 15 cars loaded within 12 hours.
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St. Louis
Chickamauga
Tampa
Santiago
Violent Chilean earthquake shocks Concepcion area
A violent earthquake lasting about a minute shook Concepcion and Telcahuano in Chile. Many houses collapsed and telegraph and electric light wires were severed, damaging the provincial capital and surrounding towns.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Concepcion
Telcahuano
Bay of Concepcion
Third Expedition To Land On Puerto Rico Coast
Reports from New York state government plans three Porto Rican expeditions to circle San Juan. Gen Miles will land at Guanico then proceed to Joes and Ponce before San Juan. Gen L Leaver joins at Guanico to coordinate siege from multiple coastal points. Washington reports Gen Fred Grant brigade assigned to Porto Rico sailing from Newport News after rail unload at Chickamauga.
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Gen. L'Leaver
Miles
Guanico
New York
San Juan
Joes
Ponce
Ponece
L’leuvers
Fajardo
Santosmas
United States
Galveston
Washington
Fred Grant
Kentucky
Illinois
Porto Rico
Newport News
Chickamauga
Surrenders of Spanish troops and guerrillas total 3 005 with parole
The War Department reports Lieut Miley returned from San Luis and Palma Estriano with 3 005 Spanish troops and 350 guerrillas surrendering, giving up arms and parole. About 24 000 are to be shipped home, with 12 000 here and 12 000 abroad, as rations are issued to prevent famine. SHAFTER signs off.
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San Luis
Palma Estriano
Miley
Toral
Guantanamo
Sagua
Baracoa
Shafter
Lawyer to contest ship contract for Spanish prisoners
In New York on July 25 the World reports a lawyer has been hired by steamship companies that failed to win the transport contract for 22,000 Spanish prisoners captured at Santiago. He will begin action Saturday to have the government contract with Compagnie Transatlantique Espanola set aside on grounds that remain unspecified.
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New York
the World
Santiago
Spain
Compagnie Transatlantique Espanola
Cuban Ally Tensions Rise After Santiago Crisis
Gen Garcia declares he will withdraw support from Gen Shafter and act independently as American forces tighten control. Shafter orders northward movement to protect troops and prepare a Holguin campaign as Santiago resumes normal life amid scattered Spanish cooperation.
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SanTiago
Vra Plaaya del Este
Garcia
Shafter
Toral
Holguin
Luque
el Caney
Siboney
Lieut
Delehanty
Suwanee
West Indies
Wasuinetoux
Units Prepare for Scaled Move to Porto Rico
CHICKAMAUGA Park Ga July 25 Soldiers at general headquarters alerted at daybreak Saturday. The signal and hospital corps marched to Rossville to board trains for Newport News en route to Porto Rico. Maj Glassford leads Company 4 with volunteers from every state plus Mexico and Canada. Many regulars who served in Cuba will join the march.
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Chickamauga Park
General Headquarters Camp
Signal and Hospital Corps
Rossville
Newport News
Porto Rico
Signal Corps
Glassford
Mexico
Canada
Cuba
Illinois Regiment Arrives in Newport News in Three Trains
The 8d Illinois regiment arrives in Newport News Virginia on Sunday afternoon from Camp Thomas in three special trains. Gen. Haines and the second battalion under Maj. Shand came at 12 55 PM. The first battalion led by Maj. Jackson arrived at 1 10 PM and the third battalion under Maj. Coughy followed at 2 55 PM. The total strength is 1294 men.
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3D Illinois
Newport News
Illinois
Camp Thomas
Gen. Haines
Maj. Shand
Maj. Jackson
Maj
Coughy
Beach Hotel in Galveston Burns For Large Loss
The Beach hotel on the gulf front in Galveston Galveston Texas burned Saturday causing a loss estimated between 200000 and 259000 dollars. Insurance coverage is only partial and the building and contents are a total loss.
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Galveston
Tex
Gulf Front
Collision in yards leaves fireman fatally injured
TexEpp Ohio July 25 A collision occurred in the T and O C yards between two yard engines. Bernard J Monroe a fireman had both legs broken and was hurt internally and will die. Five or six others received slight injuries.
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TexEpp
Bernard J. Monroe
Fire gutts car barn in Pittsburgh loss 175000
Early Sunday morning a fire swept the Consolidated Traction Co car barn at Frankstown and Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. The blaze caused about 175000 dollars in damage, with insurance expected to cover the loss.
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Pittsburgh
Consolidated Traction Co
Frankstown
Pennaventes
Dewey to Ignore Aguinaldo Dictatorship Plan
Admiral Dewey has been instructed to ignore Aguinaldo s proclaimed dictatorship in the Philippines and has been given full authority to act. The order reflects U S policy and immediate actions in the region.
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Dewey
Aguinaldo
Washington
Adm
Philippines
Lieutenant Bridges Alive and Well
St. Louis July 25 Lieutenant CG Bridges of Company H 22d United States infantry who was reported killed at Santiago is alive His mother has received a letter from the officer saying he is well and in command of his company the captain having been wounded.
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Bridges
St. Louis
CG. H. Bridges
United States Infantry
Santiago
Desperate break from jail thwarted by Sheriff Stone
In Galipolis Ohio on July 25 five desperate criminals tried to break from jail aided by outsiders with steel saws. They planned to kill deputy sheriff Stone after escaping. Among the prisoners was W A Ladd, the Toledo real estate dealer indicted for attempted burglary and the murder of Mrs. Lucinus Lewis.
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Galipolis
Gail
Stone
W. A. Ladd
Toledo
Mra
Lucinus Lewis
War profits and Spanish contract clause described
The passage notes a licensed corporation bid and a Spanish measure that requires half of receipts from firms doing business under the Spanish government to go to the war effort. It asserts that awarding the contract to a Spanish company funds Spain and releases enemy vessels from blockade for transport from neutral ports.
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United States
Cavalry to Leave for Porto Rico
Five cavalry troops from Camp Alger Va ordered to Newport News for embarkation to reinforce Gen Miles in Porto Rico. If practicable they will sail with Gen Rain's brigade. The units include troops A and C of New York cavalry governor's troop Sheridan troop and Philadelphia city troop of Pennsylvania.
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Wasurxetrox
Camp Alger
Newport News
Porto Rico
Miles
Rain
A and C
New York
Sheridan
Philadelphia City
Pennsylvania
No Yellow Fever in Tampa Say Officials
Reports of yellow fever in Tampa were investigated by Dr Brunner of the marine hospital service. After inspecting Tampa he states there is not a single case there. No word has come from the War Department on a separate Cuban body soldiers incident. The situation remains unsettled with possible grave implications for U.S. policy.
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Wasuixeron
Tampa
Florida
Brunner
Marine Hospital Service
Havana
War Department
Washincron
Department
Rumor on Cervera residency after war circulates in Annapolis
Rumor says Admiral Cervera will not return to Spain after the war and plans to live in Boston with his son, Lieutenant Cervera, a prisoner in Annapolis. Spanish officers arriving on the Harvard are escorted through town and appear satisfied with quarters.
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Adm
Cervera
Spain
Annapolis
United States
Boston
Lieut
Tragic Jump in Lexington Sigma Builder Building
Henry Spencer aged 45 a bachelor known for heavy drinking leaped from the fourth story of the Carty building at Main and Mill streets in Lexington instantly killed. He had threatened two weeks earlier while intoxicated and his body was found mutilated. He was brother to Geo E Spencer and Will B Spencer both noted local figures.
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Lexington
Henry Spencer
Carty
Main
Mill Streets
Spencer
Geo. E. Spencer
Will B Spencer
Hobson Returns from Santiago Mission to Washington
Lieut. Hobson arrives in New York aboard the St Paul after his Merrimac feat and heads to Washington by rail. At the navy department he meets Secretary Long and top officials to discuss the Santiago salvage of sunken Spanish vessels and to brief the president.
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New York
Hobson
Santiago
United States
St. Paul
Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad
Adm. Sampson
Whitehall Street
Lieut
Merrimac
Navy Department
Long
Allen
Crowninshield
Bradford
Evans
California Troops Advance Toward Manila Front
A Cavite dated dispatch reports the 1st California volunteers moving to Janbo near Manila as the advance in the attack on South Manila. Colorado and Utah batteries land at Parangue, while the 10th Pennsylvania and artillery head to Malabon. General Green commands the advance with General Anderson in Cavite.
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New York
Cavite
Hong Kong
1St
CaliforNia Volunteers
Janbo
Manila
California
Anderson
Colorado
Utah
Parangue
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Malabon
Francis V. Green
Tist Regiment of
Expedition to Nipe Declared Entirely Successful
War department received a cable from Samp son dated July 22 1898 reporting the Nipe expedition as entirely successful though mines were not removed for lack of time. The Spanish cruiser Jorge Juan defending the place was destroyed with no American losses. The Annapolis and Wasp then assisted in landing the army commander on arrival at Porto Rico.
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Playa
Nipe
Jorge Juan
Annapolis
Wasp
Porto Rico
Sampson
Military Garrison Planned for Honolulu Territory
War department perfects arrangements for a military garrison in Honolulu Hawaii Orders issued for a battalion of the 2d regiment of volunteer engineers to proceed with the 1st regiment of New York volunteer infantry to form the first U S troops stationed on the newly annexed territory This marks the first U S military presence on Hawaii with the two units sailing to establish a garrison.
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Honolulu
Washington
War Department
Hawaii
2D Regiment of Volunteer Engineers
New York Volunteer Infantry
United States
French Wine for Sick and Wounded Soldiers
A Rheims wine maker offers 1200 bottles of champagne to aid U S troops. The surgeon general referred the gift to the treasury secretary who ordered duty free import. Part will go to Santiago and the rest to other points for the sick and wounded soldiers.
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New York
Rheims
France
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Santiago
Aguinaldo Declares Dictatorship Across Islands
Cablegram from Hong Kong reports Aguinaldo proclaims dictatorship and martial law over the islands. The people are believed to seek independence and recommendations mention China ponies. The note is addressed to the War Department via the Navy.
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Washington
War Department
Hong Kong
Secretary of War
Aguinaldo
China
Madrid government enters preliminary peace talks
The Daily Mail reports Sagasta told a representative that Spain has begun preliminary peace negotiations. Gen Polavieja has arrived and will meet the queen regent tomorrow.
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Loxspan
Madrid
The
Daily Mail
Senor Sagasta
el Imparcial
Polavieja
The Powers Against Us
Berlin correspondent of Daily News reports that the powers except Great Britain have agreed not to permit an American annexation of the Philippines or an Anglo American protectorate over the islands.
Miner Killed in Slate Fall at Mine No. 13
John Grimes aged 63 was killed instantly Friday morning by a fall of slate in Mine No. 13 six miles east of Suawner O. He was single.
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John Grimes
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