Soldiers Suffering In Philippine Campaign Widest Losses
Advices from Manila dated June 11 report grave debility among volunteers after three months in tropic heat. Nebraska regiment worst hit with under 200 present. Washington Montana Kansas South Dakota regiments also struggle with 20 percent plus ill or on sick list. Casualties vary with Montana at 160 killed or wounded, Nebraska about 280, Kansas near 200, Washington and South Dakota around 200 each. Dynamite and Gatling guns to Otis, six pounder rifles for transports to deter insurgent attacks.
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San Francisco
Newport
Manila
Nebraska
San Fernando
South Dakota
Montana
Kansas
Washington
Morong
Laguna de Bay
Oregon
Montana Promotions Fill First Montana Regiment Vacancies
Governor Smith announces a series of officer promotions in the First Montana regiment to fill vacancies caused by six officers moving to new volunteer regiments. Major Byron H. Cook becomes lieutenant colonel, Wallace promoted, and several lieutenants and captains are reassigned. Telegram to Adjutant General Corbin lists all new appointments and requests further replacements for Major Drennan, who died.
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Tater Mountain
Helena
Smith Yessterday
Montana
Otis
Byron H. Cook
Butte
Wallace
Thirty-seventh Volunteer Regiment
James FP
Keown
Bozeman
Cook
Old Place
H. C. Corbin
W. J. Bradshaw
Fred C. Yeager
Bradshaw
Arthur W. Church
Yeager
EB. K. Cheadle
James 8. Croft
E. J. Gainan
Charles W. Meade
Alexander Weissitch
Gainan
Valentine Laubenheimer
French
Albert J. Erickson
Laubenheimer
Alexander Laist
E. V. D. Murphy
Drennan
Dynamite Guns To Arm Fall Campaign In Philippines
An American military plan reports six Sims-Dudley dynamite pneumatic weapons to be supplied to General Otis for the fall campaign against the Filipinos. Preparations are underway by the ordnance department after satisfactory tests at Sandy Hook proving grounds. The same model gun was previously used in trials.
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New York
Herald
Washington
Ordnance Department
Otis
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Rebels Driven Back Near Lake La Guna de Bay
Manila reports three troops of the Fourth Cavalry under Captain McGraw and the gunboat Rapidan under Lieutenant Larsen patrolling Lake La Guna de Bay. They used cascos towed boats for surprise visits to insurgent pockets. At Mantilupa 600 rebels were entrenched. 185 American troops attacked and forced them to withdraw to hills. two cavalrymen wounded and 10 rebel bodies found. enemy losses estimated at 35.
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Manila
Lake la Guna de Bay
Fourth Cavalry
McGraw
Rapidan
Larsen
Cascos
Mantilupa
Muster Out In Frisco San Francisco July 18
A telegram from Washington announced that the Oregon volunteer regiment would be mustered out in Frisco and travel pay plus rations would be issued there. Soldiers on the transport greeted the news with loud hurrahs while city committees prepare reception arrangements. Landing date and post landing disposition are not yet decided.
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San Francisco
Washington
Oregon Volunteer Regiment
Oregon Troops to Be Invited Ashore in San Francisco
San Francisco on July 13 reports that Oregon troops returning from service are to be invited ashore to view the city, even if not mustered out locally. If orders hold, they will proceed swiftly to Astoria for muster out in Oregon, though a delay may allow a parade here as Colonel Somers says transports could be detained until late Friday afternoon for coal and provisions.
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San Francisco
Oregon
Astoria
Somemers
Oregon Regiment Requests Muster Out at San Francisco
Secretary Alger received a telegram from San Francisco in which the Oregon regiment unanimously requests muster out at San Francisco. After consulting with the president, the decision was made to grant the request. Travel pay and accommodation rations will be issued to the soldiers.
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Washington
Alger
San Francisco
Oregon
Enlistment in Twenty-seventh Regiment Passes 200 Mark
New York reports about 200 men had enlisted by the close of the third day of recruiting for volunteers in the Twenty-seventh regiment, at local stations as of last night.
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New York
Twenty-seventh Volunteer Regiment
Washington Volunteer Enlistments Hit Seventy One
Up to date there have been enlisted in the volunteer regiments 71 men. As recruiting has all been done at regular stations the result is considered very good at the war department.
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Washington
War Department
Cause of the Paris Wreck Explains Grounding
Falmouth July 13 The steamer Paris recently aground on The Manacles entered the tidal harbor today under wind and tide and became temporarily unmanageable Herster swung around and struck the end of a shore structure as officials investigate the incident and determine the cause of the wreck.
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Falmouth
Paris
Herster
Ship tests reveal mysterious current near Manacles
The Paris escaped the Big Manacle rock under ebb tide and northerly wind as crowds fled the shaking wooden pier. Superintendent Alsbett of the wrecking company described near-miss dangers and a curious current drawing ships toward the rocks, noting warnings issued to other vessels during six weeks of work.
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Alsbett
The
Wrecking Company
Associated Press
Paris
Falmouth
Sam
Nomination Dramatically Unfolds At Republican Convention
Lexington July 18 The Republican state convention reassembled after 9 AM attracting standing room. The platform endorsed McKinley policy on Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines and praised Governor Bradley. Captain Stone withdrew his name to back Taylor who was then nominated unanimously. Taylor accepted. John Marshall named lieutenant governor Caleb Powers secretary of state.
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Lexington
Repub
McKinley
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
Bradley
Stone
Taylor
Judge Pratt
John Marshall
Louisville
Caleb Powers
Knox County
Riot at Bridgeton as non union glass blowers arrive
Fifteen non union glass blowers from Trjdjana caused a riot in Bridgeton New Jersey when greeted by strikers at the station. A crowd stormed the car, bricks struck manager King of Cumberland Glass Works, and windows were smashed as strikers attempted to force the men to leave town.
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Bridgeton
N. J
Trdjana
New Jersey Central
King
Cumberland Glass Works
Latte
Battleship Wisconsin Under Construction At Union Iron Works
The Wisconsin at Union Iron Works advances in build with propeller installation planned after dry docking. Armor and deck work progress faces delays, with side armor not yet delivered. If outfitting events align, ship could sea trial at Puget Sound under government testing rather than local.
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San Francisco
Tuly W
Wiveopein
Union Trot Works
Munter
Two Vessels Wrecked Off Western Australia
The British ship Carhele Castle was wrecked in a July storm off Rockingham, with the crew perishing. The York, of 1,167 tons net register, sailing from San Francisco to Fremantle, wrecked off Rottnest Island. seven crew members were saved while Captain Jones and eleven others are missing.
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Pegih
Western Australia
Rockingham
Millionaire Captain Goodall Reported Dead in England
A cablegram from Drycott England reports Captain Charles Goodall of the Arm of Goodall Perkins Co and Pacific Coast Steamship control has died at about seventy. He was married recently to a young wife and had traveled to Europe. Reports state he had been despondent. His fortune was immense.
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San Francisco
Drycott
England
Charles Goodall
Goodall, Perkins & Co
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Alaska
Goodall
City of Para Sails for Manila With Infantry Units
The City of Para will sail for Manila this afternoon carrying our Twenty Fourth Infantry companies under Major Wigant and two groups of the Fourth cavalry. Coastal dispatch from San Francisco dated July 13 reports the deployment of these units.
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San Francisco
Para
Manila
Twentyfourty Infantry
Wigant
Supreme court rejects new trial in Montana murder case
Special to Inter Mountain Helena July 5 the Montana supreme court denies William Prooks a new trial for killing his wife in Billings last November. The court finds nine alleged errors did not merit interference. Also report notes Pan Tobey, recently arrived from French Flat, died after being run over by a streetcar while intoxicated near Central Park. Judge Knowles hears Boston & Montana receiver request for Snohomish and Tramway model in Butte, tied to Heinze and Larkin estate.
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Inter Mountain
Helena
Supreme Court
William
Prooks
Billings
Pan Tobey
French Bat
Cental Park
Khown
Knowles
Boston & Montana
Snohomish
Lodel
Butte
Heinze
Larkin
Cate
National Education Association Session Shares Wide Range of Topics
Los Angeles July 1 The National Education Association convention drew attendees across sections as the Right Reverend Montgomery Catholic bishop of the city gave an address on The Religious Element in Formation of Character. Papers were read on employment and dismissal of teachers, science teaching, and anthropometric studies. The Stanford status of the fur seal topic drew notable interest amid broader discussions.
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Los Angeles
Cal
National Educational Association
Durkee
Montgomery
N. Webster
San Francisco
Department of School Administration
Rosling
Board of Education
Tacoma
Iiew
Cobb
Athony
Hastings
University of Ihyaska
Stanford University
New Coal Combination in Alabama Industry
In Birmingham on July 1 the Herald reports a major consolidation forming a new company to include Sloss, American Coal, and other coal and iron interests. The merged group plans to unify several furnaces and coal firms, aiming to rank second to Hennessee Coal and Iron, with stock likely listing on the New York exchange within days.
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Birmingham
Ala
the Herald
Sloss Tren and Steel Company
Sloss Company
American Coal Company
Wassey
Shefield
Morence
Galt Coal and Coke Company
Coal and Iron & Pan
Obama
Alabama Coal and Ironany
Trist Company
Joha Shelton Wiliams Syndicate
Battlemore
Hennessee Coal and Ion Company
Ts Stork
New York Stock Exchange
Packing Plant Closes Over Wage Increases
Sehwayz Chita Sulzberger's packing plant in Kanelle City shut down today rather than grant a second wage rise to 200 butchers and three helpers. About one thousand workers lose their jobs as only Monday workers had been raised to the union scale.
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Kanelle City
Sehwayz
Chita & Sulzberger
Uousand
The Wallace Trials Report From Wallace Idaho
Joe Riddle testified in Wallace Idaho on July 18 describing men entering Mullan hall on April 29 and joining a four abreast street procession toward Wallace. He reported finding three boxes of guns hidden in a manure pile near Wallace as the crowd moved past.
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Wallace
Idaho
Joe Riddle
Mullan
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Montana Promotions
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