New Orleans Destroys Fort Emplacements Off Santiago
The US cruiser New Orleans engaged fortifications east of El Morro at dawn, while the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius fired can cotton charges that caused massive earth and smoke. Two Spanish shells followed as the Vesuvius completed three charges, marking a successful testing of the new weapon and signaling Adm. Sampson’s approval.
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Santiaro de Cuna
Kingston
Jamaica
United States
New Orleans
Rr Adm
Sampson
el Morro
Morro
New York
Adm
Ansteen Palmer
Pillsbury
Marra
Oreron
Quimby
National League Scores From Cincinnati to Chicago
Baseball innings and battery pairings listed for Cincinnati Baltimore Boston Brooklyn Pittsburgh Cleveland and New York games. Umpires named for each contest and early notes include a schooner collision near Parrsboro causing multiple drownings. J Z Leiter assumes Joseph Leiter’s affairs and settlement actions proceed.
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RWE
Louisville
Cincinnati
Frazer and Snyder
Breitenstein
Vaugin
Swartwood
Wood
Baltimore
Washington
Maul and Robinson
Donovan
Maguire
Cushman
Neydler
Rale
New York
Brooklyn
Rush
Warner
Yeager
Ryan
Lynchi
Andrews
Cleveland
Pittsburch
Young
Zimmer
Swillen
Bowerman
Snyder
Connolly
Jsoston
Philadelphia
Lewis and Bergeon
Dinkle, Platt
Wheeler
Notre Dame and St Marys Commencement Week Ends
Commencement exercises at Notre Dame and St Marys began with visiting families and 200 Chicago alumni attending. Krone 300 Hall won two boat races from Sorin Hall as Rt Rev Bishop Rademacher awarded the Laetare medal to Chief Justice Howard. Rt Rev Maurice F Burke addressed the graduates. Thurston will speak at St Marys academy. In Indianapolis a drowning occurred when Frank B E Caffyn, Sunday school superintendent, died during a Broad Ripple picnic. His mother, nearby, was unconscious and may not recover.
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Notre Dame
South Benxo
Ind
St. Mary’s
Chicago
Krone
Hall
Sorin Hall
Rademacher
Howard
Maurice F. Burke
St. Joseph, Mo
St. Mary's Academy
Ispianapolis
West
Quail populations rise in Southeastern Indiana region
Reports from Attona and nearby counties indicate a record quail season with more birds than any of the past two decades. The bob white cry is heard widely as coveys appear, underscoring the success of the game law in preserving this species from extinction.
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Attona
Ind
Indiana
Glass Makers Report Strong Season in Gas Belt
Mescir Indiana June 16 Glass manufacturers across the gas belt report a successful season with a large stock buildup. About four hundred local glass workers will be sent to Paris and another similar number will visit Belgium.
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Mescir
Ind
Gas Belt
Paris
Belgium
Lebanon Announces Grand Fourth Celebration Plans
Lebanon Indiana on June 16 reports a $2,500 guarantee fund from 100 business and professional men for a large Fourth of July program featuring military drills horse racing ladies driving contests a balloon ascent and an old fashioned cake walk with cash premiums. In Wabash county Mrs Noah Sage accidentally shot Mrs William Weaver at a Pleasant township lake while handling a rifle and joking prompting medical status listed as critical.
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Lebanon
Ind
Wanasu
Noah Sage
Pleasant Township
William Weaver
Sage
Indiana Christian Ministerial convention discusses doctrinal amendments
South Beno Ind June 16 The second day of the Indiana Christian Ministerial association convention focused on doctrinal amendments. Principal speakers were Dr Philput of Indianapolis and Prof C I Smith of Cincinnati. The ministers present represent 50,000 communicants.
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South Beno
Ind
Indiana Christian Ministerial Association
Philput
Indianapolis
C. I. Smith
Cincinnati
Drowning of 13 Year Old John Seitz in Haubstadt Pond
In Princerox Indiana a 13 year old boy John Seitz drowned while bathing in a millpond at Haubstadt. He stepped into a sinkhole in darkness and disappeared. his body was recovered the following Wednesday. Additional brief notices include the German Lutherans of Indiana and Illinois to hold a conference in Terre Haute from July 4 to 7, and Miss Mary Finish declared insane and ordered to Indianapolis asylum after her mother’s sudden death.
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Princerox
Ind
John Seitz
Haub+stadt
Seitz
Terre Havre
Middle District
Indiana
Illinois
Lawrenceburg
Mary Finish
Medical Board
Indianapolis
Warden Held, Man Slashes Throat in Jail Cell
In Lafayette Indiana on June 16 Wim Jordan aged 70 in jail for safe keeping and mentally deranged attempted suicide by slashing his throat with a tin in his cell. He survived a painful injury but remains alive. In Fr Wayne Indiana Mrs Sylvester Townes wife of a prominent electrician died by apoplexy at a funeral proceeding. In Exwoop Indiana Mrs Zinels Masters killed herself with morphine the second attempt within 24 hours.
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Lafayette
Ind
Wim. Jordan
Fr. Wayne
Sylvester Townes
Elwood
Woop
Zinels Masters
Aggressive American Marines rout Spanish guerillas at private camp
At Estrance near Guantanamo Bay on June 14 Marines led by Lieut Col Robert W Huntington and Cu bans under Col Laborda attacked a Spanish camp five miles from the American position. They destroyed the sole local well, killed about forty Spaniards, and routed the force. One American wounded two Cubans killed four wounded. Fifteen bodies found in brush. Marines returned to camp exhausted but confident the strike hindered bushwhacking. Second Fleet sails for Manila after morning deployment.
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Estrance
Guantanamo Bay
Kingston
Jamaica
United States
Robert W. Stuntington
Cant. Elliott
Laborda
Col
Huntington
Walker
Company D
Dolphin
Magill
Mahony
Warry
Meir
Isolated Santiago Faces Starvation as Navies Close In
Adv Cervera’s arrival to relieve Santiago de Cuba left residents with 700 more men to feed. Spies map the harbor showing Reina Mercedes Vizcaya Oquendo Cristobal Colon Maria Teresa near Cay Smith and Socape batteries. Schley’s bombardment and blockades leave the city in famine ration status as Merrimac sinks in the channel.
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Orr Santiaco Pe Cupa
Kingston
Jamaica
Re. Adm
Sampson
Commodore Schley
Santiago de Cuba
Adm
Cervera
Schley
Reina Mercedes
Socape
Cay Smith
Vizcaya
Almirante Oquendo
Cristobal Colon
Maria Teresa
Merrimac
Bankruptcy bill reaches agreement in Congress
Washington reports the two houses reached a compromise on the bankruptcy bill on Wednesday. The agreement retains all house provisions on administration of the law and judicial procedure. The dispute over the bill is resolved and a unified measure moves forward.
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Washington
Houses
Congress
Senate
House
Spanish gunboats and Porto Rico force shifts reported
In Havana harbor Spanish gunboats and cruisers allegedly slipped out to sea after a blocked attack was rebuffed by Commodore Watson. Meanwhile Washington notes Fourth Army Corps under Maj. Gen. J. J. Coppinger named to occupy Porto Rico, with about 20,000 men planned from regulars and top volunteer regiments from Tampa, Chickamauga, and Falls Church.
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Washington
Santiago
Havana
Watson
New York
Tribune
Fourth Army Corps
J. J. Coppinger
Porto Rico
Tampa
Chickamauga
Falls Church
Murder by robbery suspected after Alabama house fire
Near Wetumpka on Tuesday night the home of William Gurden burned killing him his wife and William Currie all white. Gurden reputed to hide a gold hoard and authorities believe robbers murdered the trio and set the house ablaze. Bloodhounds are on the trail of the suspects.
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Mostcomery
Ala
Wetumpka
William Gurden
William Currie
Gurden
Hawaii annexation passes House in 209 to 91 vote
The House approved the Newlands resolutions for Hawaii annexation by 209 to 91 after days of debate. Republicans largely supported the measure while Democrats split, with 18 backing annexation. The resolution moves to the Senate, aims for immediate consideration, and faces opposition delaying tactics.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Newlands
Hawaii
House
Friends of the
Committee of Foreign Relations
Senate
Reforms, Wars, and Estates Reflected in 1898 News
A batch of items covers resignations and pardons, war funding and mobilization, religious politics, foreign affairs, prisoner exchanges, and military logistics. Notes include Chancellor Boggs's resignation, army appropriation estimates of 13.2 million, Camp Alger recruiting, Anglo American union talk by Methodists in Toronto, and proposed exchanges after the Merrimac sinking. Also noted are Astor’s planned Paris battery trip, war bond subscriptions around 30 million in Chicago, a Vancouver wreck rumor, mint work in San Francisco, and Port Tampa transport totals with 36 army transports and 16 war vessels sailing to Cuba.
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John Jacob Astor
Jamie Fernieres
Alicante
Key West
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific Railway
Skeena River
Czar
Dawson
Senate
Margaret Love Skerrett
Adm Skerrett
San Francisco
Port Tampa
United States Army of Invasion
Cuba
Cloudburst Near Chelsea Suburbalsbelieved to have caused deaths
A cloudburst around 11 o'clock on Wednesday near Chelsea suburb south west of Kansas City, Kansas, is believed to have caused the deaths of at least five people and possibly more.
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Kansas City
Kan
Chélséa Ee
Here
Market Report From Cincinnati and Chicago Prices
In Cincinnati on June 15verages show firmer tones across grains and livestock with No 2 red wheat around 80 cents and oats at 27 cents. Chicago quotations for June 15 list wheat around 8 cents for June and 72 1/4 for December futures. cattle, hogs, and sheep edges reflect modest gains with prime cattle at 5.10 and hogs near 4.00.
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Cincinnati
Northwestern
Chicago
Delegates Named From Townships and Allegheny Areas
State delegates list includes Delegate at Large P H McCormack Columbus and 15 others from Clay, Clifty, Columbus, Flatrock, German, Nineveh, Union, Hawcreek, Jackson, Rockcreek, Wayne townships. Congressional delegates total 30 with names from Clay, Cliffy, Columbus, Flatrock, German, Nineveh, Union, Hawcreek, Jackson, Rockcreek, and Wayne townships. Senatorial delegates totals 30 across the same areas with diverse listed names.
Very Low Rates to the Booming South
Southern Railway offers low-rate homeseekers tickets on the first and third Tuesdays each month to points across eight southeastern states including Kentucky Tennessee Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia Alabama and Mississippi. Travel to Asheville N C and other resorts along the line as prosperity rises. Wu H. Tayo assistant general passenger agent 216 Fourth Avenue Louisville Ky.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Southland
Asheville
N. C
Land of the Sky
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L. Z. Leiter
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London Daily Times
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Clay and Clifty
Wm. Coffee
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Columbus Tp
C. J. Kollmeyer
A.M. Kirkpatrick
E. R. Shea
M. D. Emig, S. Webber Smith, Wm. McEwen
Flatrock Tp
James Newton
St. Louis King
Nineveh and
Union Tps
Jacob Stuckey
W. T. Card
Taylorsville
Harrison
Wm. Rhoades
Hawcreek
A. D. Galbraith
Rugby
Jackson
Ohio
Frank Winchester
Ogilville
Rockcreek
Sandcreek
A. J. Hull
E.town
Wayne
John M. Thompson
Waynesville
Congressional Delegates
Clay
Chas
D. Finkle
Cliffy
Wm. H. Scott
Courtney Rush
John Carr
Fred Meyer
W. C. Smith
K. D. Hawley
J. N. Marsh
J. F. Cox
Amos Bolinger, W. J. May
W. T. Tillman
Henry Mensendiek
Thomas Folger
Jacob Maley
Dock Hill
German
Geo. W. Ely
Nineveh
John Barshill
Union
A. M. Rhoades
Harrizon
James Thompson
P.M. Rhoades
Hawccreek Tp
Felix Williams
Phillip Gilliland
Wm. Fry
J. L. Stuckey
Frank Melson
John Messenheimer
N. G. Smith
Ed Bennett
D. Z. H. Hauser
Chas. A. Reeves
M. Dennison
Samuel Bray
Harry Kocher
S. W. Daugherty
Wm. Lowe
Jacob Cook
Lewis W. Heagy
John Gant
Chas. Everroad
E. F. Heflin
W. R. McQueen
Union Fp
Ed Suverkrup
James Sparks
Chas. Dietrich
Havereek Tp
Chas Morrison, E. A. Norman
Uriah Glick
Jackson Ip
Frank Ditmer
John E. Phillips
Eli Eddleman
P. J. Later
B. F. Merritt
Wm. Bess
Eli Margrette
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