Landing at Baiquiri Opens Santiago Campaign Strategy
The U S forces completed landing at Baiquiri by 2 P.M. with 2,000 men at Carnegie Iron works and additional troops ashore rapidly. Gen Shafter and Rear Admiral Sampson began the movement at 8 P.M. Texas executed a feint to draw fire. one American killed. By midnight Shafter reported full landing with 5,000 Cubans around Santiago anticipated. siege guns and supplies soon to follow. Miles forecasts battle at Santiago within 24 hours.
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Carnegie Iron Company
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Sampson
Texas
Chicago
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Caimanera
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Santiago Bay
Washington
War Department
Garcia
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Cornell Wins New London Boat Race in Thin Conditions
Thirty thousand spectators faced a postponed race due to rough water but returned to watch the 12:16 start with Harvard first in shell. Yale and Cornell trailed to the stake boat as betting favored Cornell two to one. The final results saw Cornell beat Yale by three lengths and Yale beat Harvard by five lengths in a pretty, weathered duel on the river.
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Olater
Peace at any cost in Spain warns conservative leader
Paris dispatch reports a Madrid conservative politician urging immediate peace to save the monarchy. He argues war under current terms ruins colonies and risks civil war, calling for disbanding colonial forces and homeward redeployment to avert catastrophe.
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Paris
Madrid
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Count Cassini Presents Credentials as First Russian Ambassador
Russian Ambassador Count Cassini and his staff arrived in Washington and were presented to the president at 11 o clock. Cassini expressed pride in representing the czar and fostering enduring friendship. the president welcomed him and praised the long friendly ties between Russia and the United States.
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Washington
Count Cassini
United States
Russia
the Czar
Gladstones Grave Reveals Hidden Coffin in Abbey Dig
London reports that while digging Gladstone's grave in the Abbey workers found a coffin beneath the stone flags. Records indicate the prior occupant was a lady Rich, daughter of Edward Griffith, a Board of Green Cloth clerk in Queen Anne's era, buried in the north cross.
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London
Gladstone
Rich
Edward Griffith
Board of Green Cloth
General Miles to Lead Porto Rico Invasion Plan
A World report says Gen Miles will likely join the Porto Rico invasion force and provisional command at Santiago He will sail on the Yale from Newport News on a second voyage to Santiago where Spanish defense is expected to surrender Then 24000 troops under Shafter will move to Porto Rico to take San Juan and the island
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Washington
Miles
Santiago
Porto Rico
Yale
Newport News
Shafter
San Juan
General Plan of Army of Invasion in Cuba
Washington reports no new Santiago info as of 1 PM. The campaign plan centers on Shafter with insurgent help meeting Pando or securing a strong position on Santiago Heights. Cervera’s fleet and coastal guns remain the main obstacle to capturing the city, with rapid updates anticipated as cable links open between Santiago and Guantanamo.
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Santiago
War
Navy Departments
Shafter
Pando
Cervera
War and Navy Departments
Guantanamo
Cuba
Rmly
Editor Jose Canela Attacks Government in Madrid
Madrid June 23 Senor Jose Canela editor of the Heraldo denounces the government for lacking ammunition stores coal and other supplies for the fleet and blames it for sending Cervera to Santiago He also criticizes Senor Moret for his former colonial policies and for closing the cortes and suspending legislative guarantee.
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Madrid
Senor
Jose Canella
The
Heraldo
Cervera
Santiago
Cortes
Senor Moret
Anti British Row in Cadiz Sparks Demonstration
In Cadiz a large anti British demonstration was held after reports that an American warship chased a merchant vessel in the English channel and fears grew that Americans might bombard Cadiz and other Spanish ports.
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Cabdiz
Cadiz
Spanish
English Channel
Regular Mail Service Established to Santiago
Key West reports regular mail service to Santiago began today with several hundred sacks delivered since morning. The move enables ongoing postal connections between Key West and the Cuban city, improving correspondence and package transit.
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Key West
Santiago
War at San Antonio escalates as Spaniards clash with Americans
In San Antonio Texas on June 23 a group of Spaniards clashed with two Americans who had raised an American flag on their home. The Spaniards tried to tear it down eliciting gunfire from the Americans with Winchesters. One Spaniard was killed and another fatally wounded before the attackers fled.
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Texas
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G. B. C. Roving
F. B. Simmons
Wagga
Grand Central
Speres
McCutcheon, Payne « Co
J. A. Rawlings
Davis Plumbing Co
Wm. Schacher
Emerson & Berrien
Mallen
Dillon
Diaz
11Th Infantry
Chihuahua
United States
Wimberly
Washington Learns From Madrid
News of a battle comes via Madrid indicating the situation is critical though the Spanish were not defeated in the engagement.
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Washington
Madrid
Ervera
Music Teachers National Association Convention Opens in New York
The twentieth annual convention meets at the Waldorf Astoria with greetings from New York musicians and a welcome reply from Herbert Wilbur Greene. The program highlights new educational aims including college and university music, public schools, churches, and musical journalism. A concert tonight features Liza Lehman’s new song cycle In a Persian Garden.
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New York
Music Teachers’ National Association
Waldorf-Astoria
Herbert Wilbur Greene
Liza Lehman
Atlantic Fleet Remains Visible Near Harbor Mouth
Dated Santiago June 22, report posted in Madrid says at daybreak the American transport fleet had vanished from the harbor area though rear guards steamed southeast as yesterday. Twenty one vessels remained outside the harbor mouth including ships present during Guantanamo attack.
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Madrid
Santiago
Chamber of Deputies
Guantanamo
A A U Contests Open Track Championship in Chicago
The American Athletic Union annual track and field championships opened at Parkside Chicago with a large crowd and strong attendance of noted athletes. The central location boosted spectator numbers compared with recent years.
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Chicago
Ill
American Athletic Union
Parkside
Surgeon seeks sanitary encampment for 15000 troops near Mobile
Major Daly of Gen. Miles's staff surveys Mobile Fernandina and Miami areas for a suitable camp site. He aims to locate a sanitary encampment for a reserve force of about fifteen thousand men for the government.
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Kryn Westt
Daly
Detroit Free Press heir weds Irene Goddard in Ann Arbor
Walter Channing Boynton of Detroit and Irene Katharine Goddard of Denver, daughter of Justice Goddard, Colorado supreme court, married in Ann Arbor. They are students and will sail from New York to Paris on Saturday.
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Mich
Walter Channing Boynton
Detroit
Col. Boynton
Detroit Free Press
Irene Katharine Goddard
Denver
Justice Goddard
Colorado Supreme Beach
New York
Paris
Women at Denver Discuss Civic Clubs and Village Improvement
The second day of the Denver gathering of club women opened with a discussion on Civic Clubs and Village Improvement Associations led by Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson.
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Denver
Colo
Cornelius Stevenson
President nominates William F. Dunn for commissary of subsistence
The president sent to the senate today the nomination of William F. Dunn of Wyoming to the commissary of subsistence with rank of captain in the volunteer army.
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Washington
Senate
William F. Dunn
Wyoming
Chaplain Keifer Dies of Heart Failure at Camp Alger
Camp Alger, Va. June 23 Chaplain Keifer of the Eighth Ohio Volunteers died this morning from paralysis of the heart. The body will be sent home to Wooster today.
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Keifer
Eighth Regiment
Ohio Volunteers
Wooster
Senate Reconsiders Hawaiian Annexation After Arkansas Timber Dispute
Washington June 25 The senate revisited the Hawaiian annexation resolution but spent four hours on a less important Arkansas timber seizure issue delaying the main debate.
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Washington
Senate
Arkansas
Two Soldiers Die at Camp Alger
Two privates Keever and Seaton from Indiana died at Camp Alger this morning in separate incidents.
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Washington
Camp Alger
Keever and Seaton
Indiana
Bar silver prices in New York and London
On June 23 in New York the bar silver quoted at 58 3 4 pence while London prices stood at 27 1 8 pence.
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New York
London
Hearst Plans Cuban Newspaper Expedition
Hearst leads New York editor W R Hearst sails for Cuba aboard the British steamer Sylvia with a full newspaper plant and staff to establish a US style paper near Santiago. The effort aims to publish the first American newspaper in Cuba.
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New York
W. R. Hearst
Journal
Cuba
Sylvia
Santiago
Ameri C&o
German ambassador denies Manila landing report
Washington June 23 The German ambassador called on the secretary of state to deny the report that German marines had landed at Manila before American occupation.
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Washington
Manila
American Institute of Homoeopathy Opens 54th Session in Omaha
Nearly two thousand delegates attend the fifty fourth annual session of the American Institute of Homoeopathy at Creston College in Omaha Nebraska. President A R Wright of Buffalo announces a shift to focus on health measures for American soldiers in Cuba. An evening gathering at First Congregational Church will include speeches by the mayor and governor. Dr Wright will deliver the annual address.
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Neb
American Institute of Homoeopathy
Creston College
A. R. Wright
Buffalo
N.es
Cuba
First Congregational Church
Wright
Institute
Sierra Madre Placers Offer Rich Work Season Ahead
The best season for working placers in Guaynapa country is nearing. Dry stream beds yield rich placers during rain and allow reservoirs to store water for future use. Many hard workers are needed in this extraordinarily rich country.
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Texas and Pacific officials tour line in private car
A party of high officials including S. L. Thorne 3rd vice pres gentlemans manager E. L. Sargent genl freight agent and J W Addis superintendent of motive power arrived this morning in Mr Thorne's private car attached to the regular train on a general inspection tour of the line Mrs Thorne and other ladies accompanied the party.
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E. L. Sargent
J. W. Addis
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