Comprehensive Review of Telegraphic Week Happenings
The Oregon Sunday school union met in The Dalles with 26 new schools formed and large enrolment losses noted. San Francisco chamber debates annexing Hawaii and urges congressional action. Behring sea sealing policy, a royal yacht design, and a constitutional amendment on territorial annexation appear in various reports. A Peru siege, volcanic activity, and a fatal camp incident in Dakota are reported, plus robberies at sea near Hong Kong and U S cruiser movements toward Hawaii. News from Spain Cuba, JacksonVille Weyler calls for troops, and a Chicago man’s suicide are noted, along with whaling dangers off Herschel Island and icebound ships Mary D Hume Jessie H Freeman Fearless risking wreck.
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Oregon State Sunday School Union
Dalles
San Francisco
Pribylov Islands
David Starr Jordan
Admiralty
Pembroke Dockyard
Crumpacker
India
United States
Testaleah Gate
Texas
Methodist Eeen Valley
Defias Opanty
Mayan
Bay
Libon
Aernvict
Dakota
Aga Reauit
Grees Bros
State Penitentiary
Hong Kong
Tuyuan
Australia
Loosonok
Bangkok
Marion
Philadel
Honolulu
Herschel Island
Mackenzie River
Mary D. Hume
William Haggerty
Jessie H. Freeman
W. 8. Porter
Fearless
James McKenna
Fatal gunfire on Astoria fishing boat ends in hospital
In Astoria Oregon last night between 8 and 9 a quarrel on a fishing boat led to Louis Spina being shot in the left groin by Antone Tonich with a Winchester rifle. Spina is dying in St Marys hospital after doctors removed four feet of intestine. Tonich is jailed as investigators probe the incident.
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Astoria
Louis Spina
St Mary’s Hospital
Spina
Antone Tonich
Tonich
Tragedy at Sea Off African Coast Claims 77 Lives
The Indian government steamer Mayo reports the Aden was lost off Socotra Island on June 9 with 34 passengers from China and Japan aboard. Eight women, nine children, two officers and several crew escaped in a boat but are untraced amid bad weather. Mayo saved nine passengers and six crew. In total 77 souls drowned or missing, including 25 passengers and 32 crew.
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Aden
Mayo
Yokohama
Colombo
London
Socrata
Africa
China
Japan
Daily Mail
Arabia
Rasradeisa
Carden
Miller
Madames Gillett
Pearce
Strain
Miss Lloyd
Miss Weller
Mesers
White
Kelt
Cave
Vespy
Lascar
Pension Bills Reported After Senate Committee Meeting
Washington July 1 Several hundred pension bills were reported to the senate after the first pension committee meeting of the current Congress. Gal linger said the committee would favorably report three bills already passed by a branch of Congress or favorably considered in the committee. Major items include general pension measures amending the 1890 act and a bill on proof in pension cases. The day also covered lead ore pricing and minor paragraphs.
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Senate
Washington
Pension Committee
Congress
Gallinger
Amendment targets monopolies in tariff article control
Washington reports the Judiciary Committee favors an amendment making monopolizing trade in tariff protected articles punishable by fine and up to one year in prison. The draft aims to curb conspiracies between individuals and corporations to monopolize markets.
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Washington
Committee On Judiciary Today
Americans to be tried in Cuba for naval incident
Havana dispatch reports that Ona Melton American correspondent Captain LaBored and others of the captured schooner Competitor will face trial July 1 before civil judges. Declarations from prison will be the basis, with no new testimony. Ferran alleges the vessel bore the American flag beyond the three mile limit. he is jailed for perjury.
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New York
Havana
Lee
Ona Melton
Cabanas Fortress
Admiralty
War Department
George Ferran
Ferran
America
Rivera
Ballacoa
Weyler
Ascarraga
Matanzas
Sagna
Santa Clara
Sancti Spiritus
Cienfuegos
Pinar del Rio
Roban
Cuban forces attack Gibara and Banes in Cuba
Reports from Key West describe insurgent forces under General Calixto Garcia and Colonel Torres numbering 5 000 to 6 000 storming Gibara and Banes. Spanish defenders were alert and strong, with Garcia briefly entering Gibara before retreating amid heavy casualties on both sides. General Gomez plans a broad summer campaign from Santa Clara.
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New York
Key West
Santiago
Gibara
Banes
Calixto Garcia
Torres
Garcia
Machado
Cuba
Gomes
Gomez
Santa Clara
Spanish minister to Washington reported for Castelar
In Havana in June 1880 Senor Santos Guzman head of the uncompromising Spanish party says Castelar is to be named minister to Washington, a post presently held by De Lome. Guzman claims the move will strengthen Castelar’s influence with the United States.
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Havana
Senor Santos Guzman
Senor Castelar
Washington
de Lome
Strike Ordered by Milwaukee Steel Plant Employees
At a meeting of the Amalagmated Aggoviation workers of the Illinois Steel Company a strike was ordered to start Thursday. The company offered a wage cut which the union refused. About 500 men will strike and 400 more may lose their jobs if the plant closes.
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Milwaukee
Illinois Steel Company
Rebuff for the Sultan over Thessaly aid
Constantinople on June 30 reports a new bid by the sultan to win Germany's backing for Thessaly retention, met with refusal and urged to align with European wishes.
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Constantinople
Germany
Thessaly
Europe
Wabash wreck near Kansas City leaves several dead and many injured
A Wabash road train wreck 20 miles northeast of Kansas City near Missouri City killed at least four mail clerks and left conductor Copeland alive but seriously injured. Seventeen others were hurt, with Mrs. Wilkins the most seriously injured. rescue crews recovered victims from a swollen stream after a cloudburst.
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Kansas City
St. Louis
Missouri City
Wabash Road
W. S. Mills
St. O
Copeland
Wheater
Moberly
Mra. Wilkins
Kana City
Kamsas City
Insurgents Turn Highwaymen
Havana dispatch reports a Havana to San Jose de Lajas coach ambush by a large insurgent band killing 18 scouts and six guerillas, a Spanish officer, a doctor, a carpenter, and three passengers. A woman and child survived. The band seized $17,000 in medicine and $3,000 in cash plus provisions. Weyler freed 14 women and 15 children from an insurgent camp. A separate note cites Gomez’s horse being shot in battle. Maple sugar production in Vermont’s Cambridge district yielded only one pound per tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
San Jose de Lajas
Weyler
la Lucha
Tunas
Gomez
Gomes
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Peru
Chicago
St. Bouls Ty
Paris
Reyler
Jacksonville
Spain
Iunta
Stolongo
Matansac
Boatpuller
Famorian
Will Recey
Cambridge
Vermont
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