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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1899
Page
6
A newspaper note asserts that scrofula leads to consumption and states Swift's Specific is the sole remedy reaching the disease. It cites preexisting predisposition to scrofula and implies health restoration through the product.
A New Orleans visitor abroad notes the term Yankee shifts with distance from the United States. In New York it labels Connecticut Vermont or Massachusetts natives, elsewhere it means Northerner or Yankee. In London and Bern locals use Yankee to refer to many Americans.
An account from Jose Bach describes Amazonian tribes using wooden drums buried in sand and linked by earth to transmit signals between settlements of 100 to 200 people. Drums strike with a mallet create vibrations felt and heard in neighboring houses, enabling long distance communication through the same earth strata.
The London Times reports a lantern once carried by Guy Fawkes during his 1605 plot is in the Ashmolean Museum at Cambridge. The lantern’s history is now fully established, securing its place among renowned world museum exhibits.
Colonel Potter reports insurgents threaten to burn the city at first bombardment while U S troops may land on Guimaras island to establish a camp. Americans sailors are attacked and a private dies, natives wounded. Foreigners seek refuge on the Bonaventura as ships are pressed for military use.
A dispatch from Major General Otis in the Philippines prompted an immediate conference at the White House. Officials say the message shows no alarming changes and no shots fired, though its significance warrants presidential and cabinet review. General Miller was ordered to land troops transporting there, status unclear from Otis’s message.
Aguinaldo’s agents issue a manifesto in Manila within hours of Otis McKinley proclamation. The revolutionary leader denounces Otis as military governor and pledges to pursue independence with his followers using force. Rios cables that hostilities between Americans and Tagalos are increasing as of January 9 in Manila and Manila.
Manila reports a looming crisis with talks of a peaceful settlement possible by tomorrow. US authorities brace for unrest as Otis tightens control and Californians arrive by transport while natives strike and depart. Aguinaldo issues a sharper second proclamation, believed to be the original draft.
A New York Herald report states eighteen killed and over twenty five injured after a head end collision between Lehigh Valley trains at West Dunelen New Jersey. Victims include Martin Keenan and several Shamokin Mount Carmel Pottsville residents.
Four people died and seven injured in a Union Pacific wreck near Swaxey Neb fifteen miles east as two passenger trains collided. Eastbound stopped for a sidetrack. westbound at 45 mph rammed main line. Engines and cars destroyed by fire. four cars burned. Names given include Engineer Dell Bonner and Fireman John Coleman. A young woman, likely Myrtle Armstrong of Paynter Neb, and an unknown man among the dead. Next item notes Massachusetts bank robbery in Ashburnham with $1500 to $2000 missing.
Market wrap with Duluth and Minneapolis grain quotes including WHEAT cash and futures prices. Also notes Sioux City and St Paul stock yard hogs cattle and sheep prices, receipts, and Chicago grains closing prices for wheat corn oats pork and poultry ranges.
War Department release summarizes Colonel George A. Waring's Havana inspection. He condemns crowded dwellings and poor street cleaning, cites malaria from harbor marshes and sewage in trees, but praises the water supply. He warns yellow fever could reach the U S unless decisive reforms are taken now, including a central Public Cleaning department, sewer system, abattoir, asphalt paving, crematorium, and marsh reclamation. Estimated cost exceeds 8 million dollars with potential epidemic costs far higher.
Jan 10 Santiago and Manzanillo. Former Cuban revolutionary president Bartolomo Masao praises American governance during a luncheon, hopes for flag from every Cuban home, and credits General Leonard Wood’s work. He supports Cuban autonomy under a nominal Havana military head. General Brooke voices astonishment at Santiago demonstrations against customs plan.
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