Dewey Reaches Naples After Trieste Call
Admiral Dewey arrived in Naples aboard the Olympia from Trieste and is said to stay eight to ten days. He was welcomed by U S officials and remains in good health. A letter from Dewey to New York Mayor Van Wyck expresses gratitude for a public reception invitation. The State Department denies any direct diplomatic communication with Dewey on Austria Germany claims.
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Naples
Dewey
Trieste
United States
Olsanpig
Lewis Morris Iddings
United Sites Combassy
Rome
Die Richard () Marsons
Eine Fed
Prector D. Castro
Viem Consil
Charles M. Wood
Olympia
Admirnal Dewey
New York
Admiral Dewey
Austria
van Wyck
Olsinpina
Gibraltar
Sam
Ghomge Dewey
Washington
Germany
State Department
Street car strike shows turnout fall and militia relief
Cleveland Aug 5 reports no violence for six hours and two militia companies relieved from duty. Boycott sentiment wanes while passenger loads rise on Consolidated lines especially Broadway and Brooklyn. Business groups with the chamber of commerce mobilize to oppose the boycott and many tradespeople plan to ignore it. Strikers say they have liberal donations to sustain the fight.
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Cleveland
Liv Consolidated
Broadway
Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce
White governor to rule Samoa under tripartite plan
The Badger brought dispatches from Honolulu dated July 20 noting Samoa will be governed by a white governor appointed by the three powers with a native legislature. The governor would have veto power. the chief justice would be final authority. Delegates from each faction signed articles approving the plan.
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San Francisco
Hong Kong
Honolulu
United States
Badger
Apia
Bartlett Tripp
Baron von Sternberg
Germany
C. N. J. Iliot
Great Britain
New Zealand
Matanfa
Malietoa
Yellow fever drill and inspection under Hampton quarantines
No new yellow fever deaths or cases reported at Hampton soldiers home. Washington orders town to town railway inspections from Newport News to Richmond to monitor exposed individuals. Also note a January letter from Dr J B de Lacerda stating Sanarelli serum failed in Brazil and at São Paulo experiments were not favorable.
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Washington
Aug. S
Marine Hospital Service
Hampton
Wyman
Donaldson
Newport News
Richmond
Newport. News
Wampton
Sternberg
J. B. de Lacerda
Rio de Janeiro
Sanarelli
Grazil
San Paulo
Coal on the Rise in Pittsburgh District
The first substantial price increase in Pittsburgh district coal since steel and iron market gains has taken effect. Nut and lump coal rise five cents per ton while slack coal climbs five to 15 cents. Mines now offer slack coal at 30 to 40 cents per ton, lump at 90 cents, and other grades up to 80 or more cents. An additional rise to one dollar per ton is forecast within six weeks.
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Vittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Railroad in Alaska to be turned over to owners this month
Seattle August 5 The White Pass and Yukon railway will be formally handed to Close Brothers & Co August 20 by builders Pacific Construction Company Limited of London. The Forty Mile stretch between Skaguay and Luke Bennett cost 2 million dollars exclusive of equipment. Extension toward Fort Selkirk will begin immediately and continue through winter.
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Seattle
Wash
White Pass & Yukon
Close Brothers & Co
Pacific Construction Company
Hmited
London
Skupuay
Luke Bennett
Fort Selkirk
Notable Passengers on the St. Paul from Southampton
Among the St. Paul’s passengers sailing to New York were Met. Thomas Ji. Reed former speaker of the United States House of Representatives Senator William J. Sewell of New Jersey Daniel Frohman and Richard Croker, all aboard from Southampton Moyland on August 5.
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Southampton
Moyland
American Line
St. Paul
New York
Thomas Ji. Reed
United Ae House of Representatives
William J. Sewell
New Jersey
Daniel Frohman
Richard Croker
Filipinos Burn a Steamer and Fall Campaign Plans
The steamer Saturnus of the Maritima line, under the American flag, was burned with the crew missing. Reports from Manila describe insurgent actions and plans for a fall Philippine campaign with Gen. Lawton commanding a cavalry department. Aguinaldo’s junta faces internal shifts as Manila hosts events and U.S. Secret Service signals expanded counterfeiting concerns. Eight college athletes who toured England returned noting a hard loss to Oxford-Cambridge but praise for sports conduct.
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Manila
Saturnus
Compania Maritima
Maritima Company
San Fernando
London
Washington
Philippines
Lawton
Wheeler
Otis
Root
War Department
New York
Hong-Kong
Aguinaldo
Ifong-Khong
United States
Wildman
Crisanto Lichancho
Gen. Otis
Secret Service
Wilkie
Philippine Islands
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
England
Oxford-Cambridge
St. Louis
Prominent citizen Clay H. Stinnett shot dead near Ardmore
Ardmore Aug 5 Clay H Stinnett a leading territory figure was killed instantly while trying to separate two men fighting near Ardmore Bender Henson the slayer fled Stinnett served on the United States grand jury and was widely known in local affairs
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Springfield
Patrick Deury
Drury
Ardmore
J.E
Clay H. Stinnett
Territory
Here
Bender Henson
Stinnett
United States Grand Jury
Mil ler Named Census Supervisor for Eighth District
Cennon supervisor in Washington announces John W Miller of Wausau Wisconsin has been designated census supervisor for the Eighth district.
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Cennon
Washington
John W. Miller
Wausau
Wis
Eyewitness Report on Carrabelle Storm Damage
Purser L. E. Andrews describes the wreckage at Carrabelle after the storm as 14 ships wrecked or aground, a damaged town with unroofed houses and a blown hotel. The Gulf Naval Stores complex, railroad offices, jola steamer sunk, and barrells of turpentine adrift. mercantile stocks ruined and many left starving and without clothing.
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Mobile
Ala
Alpha
Carrabelle
L. E. Andrews
Carrrabelle
Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Gulf Railroad
Jola
Gulf Naval Stores Company
s @locks
Capitola
Cattle for Cuba regulatory entry relaxed for breeding cattle
Acting Secretary Meiklejohn issued regulations allowing duty free admission of graded cattle into Cuba for breeding, under strict rules. Entries only at Havana Cienfuegos Nuevitas and Manzanillo, with inspection to prevent fever immunity. Cattle of less than one half blood or graded cattle may be admitted duty free if proven suitable for breeding.
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Washington
Meiklejohn
Cuba
Havana
Cienfuegos
Nuevitas
Manzanillo
Kansas corn crop bodes biggest yield in state history
Topeka August 5 Secretary Corburn of the state board of agriculture reports a corn crop condition of 99.63 with prospects for the greatest yield ever known. The state’s corn acreage is 8,234,560 and the estimated yield is 44 bushels per acre, totaling about 362 million bushels, three times last year and nearly 100 million more than 1889.
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Topeka
Kan
Coburn
State Board of Agriculture
Kansas
Hobart Arrives at Lake Champlain With Family
Vice President Hobart and family reach Plattsburg New York by special train. They travel in President Oliphant’s private car from Long Branch. Hobart appears weak and pale after a serious grip attack last winter. Festmaster General and Mrs. Smith depart for Philadelphia.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Hobart
Long Branch
Oliphant
Delaware & Hudson Road
McKinley
Smith
Philadelphia
Lahn Limited by Break in Main Shaft in Mid Ocean
The North German Lloyd steamer Lahn capt. Pohle arrived from Bremen and Southampton 60 hours late after stopping in mid ocean due to a break in the forward connections of the main shaft. Repairs were finished August 28 and the vessel resumed at 16 knots for the remainder of the voyage.
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Midocean
New York
North Germanloyd
Lahn
Pohle
Bremen
Southampton
Demonstration in Salzburg Ends in Street Fight
In Salzburg Austria on Friday evening after a German National club meeting a street demonstration escalated into violence. Crowds stoned police and fired revolvers injuring several. Police charged with drawn swords and required troop reinforcement to clear the streets with many rioters badly hurt.
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Salzburg
Austria
Weathering records and racing notes fill Aug day
Rain halted postponed events with the 2:21 pace and 2:20 trot called off. Success awarded first place as Surpol and Charley Herr followed, with betting settled by purse shares. Also reports fights updated dates, bicycle races in Philadelphia and New York, yacht Defender defeating Vigilant, and upcoming St. Louis fair trotting program and notable horses.
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Surper
Vigilant
Columbus
Surpol
Charley Herr
Senator L
New York
Berkely Oval
National Cycling Association
W. Torrence
W. E F. Wahrenburger
Greenwich
America
A. E. Hughes
Denver
Weatchester Athletic Club
Tuckahoe
Jack S’ox
Jim Howard
Kansas
England
Frank Purcell
California
St. Louis
Baseball Scores and Battery Details From National League
In Chicago the Cubs beat Cleveland 4 to 0 with Callahan and Chance pacing Chicago while Knepper and Sugden worked for Cleveland. Brooklyn hosted New York but rain halted play after the fourth. Boston defeated Washington 5 to 5 with Nichols Bergen and Mercer contributing. Philadelphia triumphed over Baltimore 8 to 10 with Bernhardt on the mound for Philadelphia.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Catrna
Callahan
Chance
Knepper
Sugden
Brooklyn
New York
Gnome
Boston
Washington
Nichols
Bergen
Washington, Mercer and Kittredge
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Bernhardt
Delcasse Visits St. Petersburg Amid Franco Russian Ties
French Foreign Minister Delcasse arrived in St. Petersburg and met with Count Muravieff for talks and a dinner with Russian ministers. He is slated to visit Peterhoff to see the czar, while Russian papers praise the alliance. The Novoe Vremya criticizes the visit as one sided.
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St. Petersburg
M. Belcasse
Novoe Vremaya
Waldeck-Rosseau
M. Debassi
France
Novoe Vremysa
M. Delcasse
Count Muravieoff
Delcasse
Peterhoff
Attempted demolition of Milwaukee county courthouse suspected
Reports to Milwaukee police indicate an incendiary plot to blow up the county courthouse. Several fires have broken out in six months, with July 27 gas jets found in the big vault and other jets lit. Vault locks were changed as authorities suspect records are the target.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee County Court House
Court House
Nevermann
Register of Deeds Office
Polk Democrats Back Bashor for Iowa Governor
In Des Moines Polk county Democrats endorsed S. H. Bashor of Waterloo as their candidate for governor and denounced Cato Sells who had Conservative money support. Sells was organization Democrat in 1896 but free silverists doubt his commitment to silver. The convention action is viewed as likely to secure Bashor’s nomination at the state convention on August 16.
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Des Moines
Polk
Capitol
Iowa
S. H. Bashor
Waterloo
Cato Sells
Sells
Basher
Funeral of Col Hawkins of Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers
In San Francisco on Aug 5 a significant funeral was held for Col Hawkins late commander of the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers. Services were under Occidental lodge No 22 A F and A M with private bearers from the Tenth and honorary pall bearers from officers of regular and volunteer regiments and California national guard. The regular army was represented. Remains will be shipped east this evening under Regimental Chaplain Hunter of the Tenth.
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San Francisco
Col. Hawkins
Tenth
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Occidental Lodge No
A. F
A. M
National Guard of
California
Army
Hunter
Seventeen Die In French Railway Collision
Paris August 5. Seventeen people were killed and thirty seven injured in a late evening collision on the Orleans railway at Juvisy. The wreck occurred when the Paris and Nantes 9 40 train and the Paris and Lyon Mediterranean train, eight minutes late, collided due to imperfect signalling.
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France
Paris
Orleans
Juvisy
Nantes
Paria
Lyon
Mediterranean
Tracks torn up in Pontiac clash over street paving
In Pontiac Michigan on August 5 a Detroit employed mob wrecked the Sylvan Lake Street Railway on Saginaw Street to block paving. A temporary restraining order misissued delayed the work but tearing resumed, leaving one track in use as hearings on the injunction proceed.
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Pontiac
Mich
Sylvan Lake Street Railway Company
Saginaw Street
Detroit
Smith
Wardell
Sooon
Sylvan Lake Company
Remains of Col Hawkins to Be Shipped East
The body of Col Alexander I L Hawkins of the Tenth Pennsylvania will be shipped from San Francisco to Washington Pa. Maj Gen Shafter assigns Chaplain Hunter to accompany the casket. Full military and masonic honors will accompany the procession with Presidio troops escorting the gun caisson to the ferry.
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San Francisco
Alexander IL. Hawkins
Pennsylvania
Washington
Shafter
Hunter
Presidio
Third Artillery
Sixth Cavalry
Oregon
Nebraska
Utah
Knights Templar
War council to rule on Santiago surrender verdict
Madrid reports the supreme council of war will render its verdict Sunday on the Santiago del Cuba surrender to American troops. Accused officers are expected to be acquitted. The prosecutor reportedly seeks life imprisonment for Spanish officers tied to the Manila surrender.
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Madrid
Supreme Council of War
Santiago del Cuba
Manila
Yacht Columbia Leaves for Newport Tow in Towboat St Michaels
The Columbia departed from here for Newport in tow of the tender St Michaels shortly after eight in the morning. Rigging work continues aboard the yacht with running gear not yet installed as sails are ferried out before departure. The voyage aims to prepare sailing trim en route for the Navahoe Vigilant and Defender race. The second item reports the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Cleveland Canton & Southern railroads being conveyed to the Herrick syndicate in New York, signaling a planned consolidation under one management.
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Newport
R. I
Navahoo
Columbia
New London
Herreshoff
Block Island
Providence
R.I
Crescent Park
Earl Kiser
Tom Cooper
Bristol
R. IL
St. Michaels
Navahoe
Vigilant
Defender
Cleveland
Evening Plain Dealer
Mercantile Trust Company
New York
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Cleveland, Canton & Southern
Herrick Syndicate
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Onore
Attae Tele
Mim
Nelturas
Clyde Mattox
Newkirk
O. T
Tierce
Los Angeles
Cal
Lincoln Swinney
Ponca City
Mattox
Mats Tox
Change Saints
Buffalo
N.Y
Maytham
Hand & Johnson
Great Takes Towing Company
Trenton
Nod
Philip Daly, Jr
Jennie Joye Dally
Chancery Court
Wood
Samoan Islands
Inilientes
Alaska
Skagway
Lake Dennett
Stved
Fila
Agulanido
Manilla
Lloyd's
Peacemaker
Sin In
Fla
Lake Champlain
Mehkinky
THE
Sioux City
Tom Linton
Europe
Harry Elkes
Burna Pierce
Woodside Park Track
Elkes
Linton
Bobby Thompson
Fred Sims
Billie Sims
McFarland, Baltimore, Naps and Robinson
Pittsburg
Evees Sane
Advent and Schriver
Young and Schreckengost
Cincinnati
St. Cincinnati
Louisville
Hahn and Peitz
Phillips and Zimmer
Minneapolis Sneer
Milwaukeee
Husting
Minneapolis
Friend
Fisher
Kansas City
Kensas City
la St. Paul
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Pardee
Wilson
Katoll
Spies
H. E
Indianapolis
Grand Apias
Kellum
Scott and Heyden
Grand Rapids
Jones
Buckley
Thomas
Low
Gray
Diggins
Baseball
National League
Pole County
Bashor
Col. Hawking
War On the Street Railway Company
Michigan
Street Railway Corporation
de Showa
Omflicerax
Santiago
Council of War
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