Evacuation Terms Clash in Cuban Autonomy Debate
Dispatches from Havana and Madrid indicate Cuba’s colonial administration is pushing to shape evacuation terms before any withdrawal. The autonomists and Spaniards press for debt, tariff, and government questions, while U S officials demand adherence to an immediate evacuation protocol. At Lytle the Sixth Regiment reviewed. Alger and entourage dined with Chattanooga leaders amid defense department denials of charges.
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Cuba
Spain
Havana
United States
Washington
Madrid
Dewey Victory at Manila Told in Spanish Interview
Madrid reports General Agusti, former captain general of the Philippines, arriving in Vittoria and recounting Manila’s fall. He says Dewey’s bombardment forced surrender after shortages and famine, defending Spain’s rights to Luzon and other islands and denying U.S. humanitarian claims.
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Madrid
Agusti
Philippine Islands
Vittoria
Spain
Manila
Senor Moret
Senor Sagasta
United States
General August
Admiral Montejo
Dewey
Luzon
Asia
Alger Inspects Chickamauga Hospitals in Sept
Secretary Alger and Surgeon General Sternberg visited Chickamauga park on a critical hospital inspection amid controversy. He urged public facts over fear, cited war department unpreparedness, and pledged replacements for incompetent officers. At Lester and Sternberg hospitals he praised patients and nurses, noting the honor due to brave volunteers.
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Lytle
United States Volunteers
Gress
Alger
Partey
Chattanooga
J. G. G. Lee
Lee
Wiley
Sanger
Leonard
Sternberg
Chickamauga Park
Camp Thomas
Tenn
Boynton
War Department
Chickamauga
Lester Hospital
Lester
Sternberg Hospital
General Alger
General Sternberg
Better Guns for the Navy Improve Firepower and Weight
Washington reports the navy has ordered forgings for naval rifles from 4 to 12 inches to equip new battleships. The yard will produce ordnance with radical, more powerful gun construction using smokeless powder. A new 12 inch gun will match the range and power of a current 13 inch gun but weigh less, and fire a projectile at 8000 feet per second. Dewey and Sampson ammunition costs are clarified, with Manila and Santiago firings totaling under 47,000 and under 100,000 dollars respectively.
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Washington
Navy Department
Naval
Navy Yard
Dewey
Simpson
Manila
Sampson
Santiago
Soldiers arriving from Santiago on Seguranca
New York lists convalescent soldiers arriving from Santiago on the Seguranca. Privates Byron Fredmore Edward J. Hackett Walter Simpkins First Illinois Private Henry G. Coffey One Hundred Fifty-ninth Indiana Charles Irink first sergeant First Illinois and Private Joseph L. Rogers One Hundred Fifty-ninth Indiana are named.
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New York
Santiago
Seguranca
Byron Fredmore
Edward J. Hackett
Walter Simpkins
Illinois
Henry G. Coffey
Indiana
Charles Irink
Joseph L. Rogers
Wisconsin Volunteers Pay Up To August 31 Expected
Madison Wis Sept 23 It is now expected that the Wisconsin volunteers of the First and Second regiments will receive their pay up to Aug 31 before muster out dates. The First may be mustered out Oct 10 and the Second Nov 1.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Volunteers
ElMnore Military Hospital Report
ElMnore Military Hospital in Springfield Illinois reports all patients doing fairly well. One discharge, Starry Hopkins of company O Galesburg. Two men of the Fifth and five of the Sixth are quite ill with typhoid.
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ElMnore Military Hospital
Springfield
Ill
Starry Hopkins
Company O
Galesburg
Mayor Perry Nominated for Congress in Fifth District
Grand Rapids Michigan September 22 Democrats of the Fifth district nominated Mayor George R. Perry of the city for congress.
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Tor Congress
Grand Rapids
Mich
Fifth District
George R. Perry
Congress
Internal Revenue Says Receipt Is Taxed As Check
Washington reports the commissioner of internal revenue rules a depositor’s receipt like Received of the La Grange Banking and Trust company 1 to be deducted from my deposit is subject to a stamp tax as a bank check. The War revenue act taxes checks drafts and deposits and treats receipts as a potential evasion. The commissioner explains delays due to the act and counts thousands of letters on schedules A and B, promising to catch up and asking for patience.
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Internal Revenue Commissioner
Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
la Grange Banking and Trust Company
John Smith, Jr
Internal Revenue Office
United States
American Citizen Honored by Chinese University Post
Washington reports Minister Conger in Peking says Dr William A P Martin has been named resident of the Imperial University of China newly established by imperial decree. An American missionary for forty years, he led Peking University for nearly thirty years and authored works on China. He gains Chinese official rank moving from the blue to red button and will select professors with his colleague Hsu King Cheng serving as minister to Russia.
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Washington
State Department
Conger
Peking
William A. P. Martin
Imperial University of China
Martin
United States
China
Peking University
Li Hung Chang
Hsu King Cheng
Russia
Thugs Export Question and Cuban Monte Raid
In Regla near Havana two soldiers burst into a cafe during a monte game and forced the players to fight while they robbed the table, pursued by guards who fired but did not capture them. Also reports of a Melbourne bank robbery in Penhurst where a masked man bound the manager and stole about £600 before killing himself. In Cobden Illinois Oscar Blair killed himself after urging his wife to return home, after months apart, with their 7-year-old daughter present.
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Havana
Regla
Bay
San Francisco
Penhurst
Melbourne
Bark of Victoria
Jamieson
Cobden
Oscar Blair
Anna
Russia to Buy Our Wheat for famine relief
London Sept 23 A St. Petersburg dispatch reports imperial authorities plan large purchases of American wheat to aid districts hit by a bad harvest. Kazan district dispatches describe an alarming distress in the affected areas.
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London
St. Petersburg
Kazan
Mystery Solved Inconclusive Girl Murder Case At Bridgesport
The coroner’s inquest in Bridgesport Connecticut confirmed Miss mma GI of Southington as the girl found in Yellow Mill pond on September 12. Relatives identified the body. exhumation ordered for interment. Police stance unchanged on connections to Charles A. Plumb and Harry Guilford. officials refuse details.
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Bridgesport
Conni
Bridgeport
Conn
Mma GI
Southington
Yellow Mill Pond
L. Curtis
Gilbert Street
Birmingham
Bridgeport Mystery Arrest Identifies Yellow Mill Pond Victim
Bridgeport reports a key arrest in the Yellow Mill pond murder case. Superintendent Birmingham confirms the dismembered body is Emma Gill of Southington. Foster of Hartford is jailed as a suspected lover. Miss Gill, 27, formerly a domestic worker, is identified by her brother via facial features.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Yellow Mill Pond
Birmingham
Emma Gill
Southington
Walter C. Foster
Walnut Street
Hartford
Miss Gill
Emma
Gill
Harry Gill
England
James H. Pratt
Mexican Veterans elect leaders in Louisville meeting
The National Mexican Veterans association elected General I. E. Hobson of Greenville Ky as president and chose A. L. Ogg Indiana as vice president Wilbur R. Smith Lexington Ky as secretary treasurer and Alexander Williamson Lexington Ky as corresponding secretary State vice presidents include P. T. Briggs Illinois and Samuel McFadden Indiana The group will meet next year in Indianapolis A pension of one dollar a day for all Mexican war veterans and their widows was urged in a adopted resolution.
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Indianapolis
Philetus Sawyer Turns 82 Amid Public Life Hopes
Oshkosh Wis Sept 23 Ex United States Senator Philetus Sawyer known as the grand cold man received widespread congratulations on his 82nd birthday. Despite age he remains vigorous and many expect him to appear in public life again and influence a future Republican national convention.
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Philetus Sawyer
Oshkosh
Wis
United States
Badger State
Miners Return to Work After Catlin Coal Strike
In Catlin Illinois 200 miners employed by Catlin Coal returned to work after striking on Wednesday when non union top men were allowed at the shaft. The operator A C Daniels substituted union workers to resume operations. In baseball scores Boston routed Pittsburg 8 to 1 and Brooklyn beat St Louis in ten innings 8 to 3 with darkness. Chicago and Baltimore split the second game 8 to 1. Washington rain halted games while New York defeated Louisville 7 to 2 and Philadelphia beat Cleveland 138 to 4.
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Chicago
Boston
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
St. Louis
New York
Louisville
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Baltimore
Washington
Springfield
Ills
Catlin Coal Company
Catlin, Ills
A. C. Daniels
Emperor of China Abdicates to Empress Dowager
An imperial edict from Pekin dated Cent. 23 proclaims the emperor has resigned his powers to the empress dowager who now commands ministers to present their official reports to her. The announcement signals a major change in imperial authority and governance.
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China
Pekin
Telegraphic dispatches mix politics and disasters
Crowds cheered Admiral Cervera and hissed General Toral at Santander. It costs North Chicago and Lake View nearly $400,000 to care for Lincoln Park. Chicago surgeons refused to operate on Frank Collier, who has left for New York. Japan reportedly seeks a foreign loan of $50,000,000. Chile gives Argentina five days for arbitral settlement. English coal mines reach over 2,000 feet depth in horizontal seams. Heavy prospecting in Pennington and Custer counties, South Dakota. A one‑legged Indian is held in Macon, Missouri, suspected of London murder. Anton Ifral, 100, buried in Dunning, Chicago. Alexius Hanson drowns in Lake Monona, Madison. Rothschilds may lend Spain £4–6 million upon peace. John Joers nearly asphyxiates at the Cicero jail visit. Frederick Short and party unaccounted after crossing marshes on Klondike trek.
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Admiral Cervera
General Toral
Santander
Spain
Chicago
Lake View
Lincoln Park
Frank Collier
New York
Chile
Argentina
Pennington County
Custer County
Macon
London
Ont
Anton Ifral
Dunning
Cook County
Alexius Hanson
Dane County
Wis
Lake Monona
Madison
One Scheme Is Dead in Opinion of US Industries at Quebec
The international joint high commission in Quebec faces strong US opposition to a reciprocal treaty. Farmers led by Aaron Jones and N J Bachelder, plus Home Market Club head Albert Clark, urged that any pact not disrupt protective tariffs. Lumbermen also protested, urging no duty reduction on Canadian lumber.
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Quebec
United States
International Joint High Commission
Aaron Jones
Indiana
National Grange
N. J. Bachelder
New Hampshire
National Executive Committee
Canada
Aldace Walker
Interstate Commerce Commission
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
C. S. Hamlin
Boston Merchants’ Association
Colonel Walker
J. A. Tawney
Minnesota
Odd Fellows Prize Drills In Boston Watch Cantons
In Boston on September 23 an audience of 500 Odd Fellows and guests observed prize drills by the Patriarchs Militant. Canton McKeen No. 28 Terre Haute won the first class prize of 100 dollars. Ensign D W Rigner led the individual drill winning 16 dollars. Delegates to the sovereign grand lodge met at Kopely hall to discuss constitutional changes.
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Boston
Canton McKeen
Terre Haute
Ind
D. W. Rigner
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Kopley Hall
Lord Aberdeen Wears Old Glory at Ottawa Exhibition
In Ottawa on September 23 Lord Aberdeen toured the exhibition grounds after exercises. A young woman at the Aberdeen pavilion asked to pin a small stars and stripes souvenir on his coat label. He granted the request and he wore Old Glory for the remainder of the afternoon.
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Ottawa
Ont
Lord Aberdeen
Aberdeen Pavillion
Stevens Point Lighting Company Placed In Receiver
The Stevens Point Lighting company was placed in receivership by Judge Webb in the circuit court at Waushara under a $50,000 bond. The action stems from foreclosure proceedings by First National Bank of Milwaukee which holds $21,500 in mortgages. Emancipation Day in Springfield Draws About 2000 People at Kraus Park.
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9 Lighting Company
Stevens Point
Wis
Stevens Point Lighting Company
Webb
Wautomi
W. P. Atwell
First National Bank
Milwaukee
Springfield
Ills
Kraus’ Park
Central Tenois
Benjamin W. Arnett
M. E. Church
Wilberforce, O
United States
John MM. Palmer
David T. Littler
Tragedy in Colorado Springs Husband Kills Wife Then Ends Life
In Colorado Springs on September 23 Charles Cushenberg, a local Black resident, shot and killed his wife before taking his own life, motives cited as jealousy. Police report the incident occurred yesterday in the city.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Charles Cushenberg
Capote Talks With Cuban President on U S Aid
In a Sept interview Capote, representing the Cuban government, said Cuba would cooperate with the United States to win independence and designate him as special envoy to President McKinley. He noted U S backing would help establish a permanent Cuban government, though formal recognition was not given.
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United States
Bandago de Cuba
Vide
Capote
Cuban Republic
Spain
Americana
Cuba
McKinney
Fits
Soverhinner
Washington
Montana party fuse over free silver ticket reshapes slate
Anaconda Montana voters watched state party conventions resume with Governor Robert B Smith switching back to the Democrats after previously joining the Populists. Democrats nominated a straight ticket while Populists and silver Republicans fused on a single slate pledging free silver.
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Anaconda
Mont
Robert B. Smith
Colonel Bryan Delays Return to Sacksonville
Col Bryan in Washington Sept 23 says he will not depart for Sacksonville until this evening after concluding business with the war department. He will spend the day in talks with political friends and met war officials yesterday though the nature of the talk remains undisclosed. Church Inquiry in Wisconsin. Sparta Sept 23 Congregational convention adopts plan to ask Congress to investigate treatment of sick and wounded soldiers. Illinois Doctor Benjamin M Griffith Dies Dying Springfield Sept 23 famed physician and state health board member succumbs to stroke from 1895 attack.
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Col. Bryan
Washington
Bryan
Sacksonville
War Department
Sparta
Wis
Congregational Convention
Congress
Springfield
Ills
Benjamin M. Griffith
State Board of Health
Weather outlook by region for the next day
Weather indications for twenty four hours from 8 pm yesterday show Indiana and Illinois fair and warmer in the south with westerly winds. Lower Michigan rain clearing by noon with brisk parible winds. Upper Michigan showers then fair in the west with variable winds. Wisconsin generally fair with light northerly winds becoming variable. Iowa fair with variable winds.
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Washington
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Upper
Wisconsin
Iowa
Markets Report Chicago and Milwaukee Quotations
Chicago Board of Trade quotes show wheat, corn, oats, pork and lard futures with mixed moves and ranges. Livestock receipts and bids are listed for hogs cattle and sheep while Milwaukee grain prices show higher wheat and rye with steady barley and oats trading.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Harly Ohio
Texas
Milwaukee Grain
Milwaukee
Norhler
Peculiar Poisons and the Stomach’s Role
A Victorian ad style piece explains disease origins in faulty digestion and touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure. It links indigestion to headaches, heart and kidney issues, and skin tone, claiming tablets restore acid balance and improve blood, nerves, and complexion. The ad invites readers to buy at 50 cents or mail for more information.
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Bright
Huxley
Stuart
Stuart Co
Marshall, Mich
A Vista Of Fashion In Autumn Wear
Fashion notes from The Delineater describe Little girls and misses styles this autumn as more child like yet grown up in tone. House gowns are often one piece with refined fabrics in skirt linings and morning gowns lined with China silk or light wool fabrics. Sleeves stay long with lace or pleated dress accents. Maria Antoinette fichus gain renewed attention for wear with dark gowns and light tops, suited to open necklines.
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Maria Antoinette Fichus
Fichu
Foley's Kidney Cure Promoted At Local Drug Stores
An advertisement notes Foley's Kidney Cure available at H. J. Moogh's and Swarts and Fleck's drug stores. The claim describes relief for kidney complaints nervous exhaustion and female weakness with a focus on the product as a marvelous cure.
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H. J. Moogh’s
Swarts & Fleck’s
Foley
Commercial Travelers Sept 24 1898 Fare Notice
On account of above September 22 23, all agents of the North Western Line will sell tickets to Omaha at Etobe rates, good until September.
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North-Western Line
Omaha
Home Seeker's Cheap Excursion to the West and South
The Chicago and North Western Railway offers home seekers excursion tickets at low rates on July 19 August 2 16 September 6 20 October 8 and 15 to many West and South points. Ask agents for full information and ticket details.
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North Western Line
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Illinois Central Exposition Tickets From Freeport
Omaha Nebraska round trip fares featured for the exposition period. Tickets sold on Tuesdays and Fridays with a final return limit of fifteen days from date of sale. Round trip from Freeport at eighteen dollars and thirty five cents. Time and connections deemed unbeatable. H W Rowley ticket agent. 9-2d&w2w
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Omaha
Neb
Illinois Central R. A
Freeport
H. W. Rowley
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Ah Sin
Imperial University
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Almaden
John Joers
Cicero
Appleton
Frederick Short
Klondike
Nelson
Pease Rivers
ODD Fellows
Aberdeen
Montana
Chisago Grain and Produce
Ely
Gatarrh
Havfevey
Full Size Inc
Trial Size Inc
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
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