Shafter Visits Garcia as Reinforcements Readied
General Shafter meets Cuban leader Calixto Garcia at Aceredefo with Admiral Sampson aboard Seguranca. The two sides plan hours of consultation as heavy Illinois-bound reinforcements prepare to depart. A separate report notes a smokeless powder plant explosion near Mazon Ohio injuring a spy.
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Calixto Garcia
Shafter
Admiral Sampson
Acerrede- Fo
Ludlow
King’s Mills
Mazon
Ohio
Cincinnati
Albion Battleship Launch Ends in Tragedy at Blackwell
The Albion first class battleship launch at Blackwell with Duchess of York presiding ends in disaster as a massive water surge submerges lower yard steps. US Ambassador Col. John Jay and Lieut WYolewell witness the chaos. hundreds feared drowned with an estimated fifty lives lost.
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London
Albion
Blackwell
Duchess of York
United States
John Jay
Hay
Lieut
Wyolewell
United States Naval
Vache
Terrible Niagara Orleans Wind Storm Causes Widespread Damage
Terrible wind storm sweeps Niagara and Orleans Counties New York ripping into a belt three miles wide and seventy miles long. Hundreds of orchards destroyed and barns wrecked. A Gaines area woman sustained fatal injuries from a falling building. Damages run into thousands of dollars. Wind began in western Niagara and moved eastward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara
Orleans
New York
Orleans County
Gaines
Nic
Pgara
Spain Refuses Exchange in Merrimac Case Cites Santiago Revelations
Madrid correspondent reports Spain defends not exchanging Lieut Hobson and crew from the Merrimac. He says they could have seen many things near Santiago that American naval and military authorities would want to know, and insists the refusal is justified.
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Hotaon
Madrid
Loneon Times
Spain
Hobson
Merrimac
Aples
Santiago
Peru ties praised as U S Senate backs regional project
Enthusiastic reception in Peru follows the U S Senate approval of a regional plan linking Peru and several South American nations in an international program. The move signals stronger cross border collaboration and potential economic and cultural ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veruvinne
Lina
Peru
United States Senate
Troops Move From Camp Alger to Fort Monroe
War Department orders Brig. Gen Gaus L H Mwnfield to move his entire brigade from Camp Alger to Fort Monroe for transport to Santiago. This action follows earlier deployments as U S forces align for the Cuba campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Gaus LH. M. Wnfield
Camp Alger
Fort Monroe
Santiago
Fatal Runaway in Paris Ky Kills Couple
In a runaway accident near Paris Kentucky, Fatatly Hurt in on Ranawas and his wife Yoompson were fatally injured when their vehicle overturned after being thrown from the rails. Skulls fractured and authorities reported a deadly crash with two deaths.
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Fatatly
Ranawas
Paris ‘Yoompson
Kyoth
George Pearson Hanged in Jackson for 1800 Murder
George Pearson, a Black man, was legally hanged in Jackson Tennessee for the murder of Sam Walker, also Black, in May 1800. Jealousy drove the crime. Pearson admitted to the killing and said he had made peace with God and would go to heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Pearson
Jackson
Tenn
Sam Walker
Pearson
Reno
Muay
PSA
Jail Doors Close On Chaska in Fellows Romance Fallout
Chaska, a full blood Sioux who married Cora Belle Fellows in Washington, has begun a two year sentence in Sioux Falls for theft. The couple’s brief, sensational union ended after six years of hardship and public display in dime museums. Fellows, once a Washington schoolteacher, sought to aid the Indian race but faced desertion and scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Bela Fellows
Chaska
Cora Belle Fellows
Washington
Sioux Falls
D. D
Miss Fellows
Fellows
Carthage
Grasshoppers Devour North Dakota Crops Across Counties
Grasshoppers plague Eddy Foster and Wells counties in North Dakota with billions of hatchlings. They strip fields of grain across patches measuring up to forty acres. County commissioners coordinate control while the Northern Pacific Railway provides kerosene oil poured along a 120 foot pan to capture and kill the insects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
Wells
Eddy
Foster
Northern Pacific Railway
Jamestown Northern Branch
Doc Masury’s World Voyage Ends In Rio Trouble
John W. Masury known as Doc tried a around the world voyage aboard the schooner Brunhilde with his wife and Laskers. The ship faced desertions storms and a Spanish threat in Rio Janeiro where a bribe kept the voyage alive. Masury appeals to McKinley and to the consul for aid but receives none.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epaniard
John W. Masury
Rio Janeiro
Santiago
Masury
Brunhilde
Brooklyn
James Lasker
Boston
Lasker
Mhamilton
Bermuda
Doc
Pacific Ocean
Huenos Ayres
Mawury
Sim
McKinley
Bowery
Doe
Aicle Sam
Excess Exports and War Tax Stir Markets in Week
BR G Dun & Co reports a lively week with the war tax bill and bond offerings boosting sentiment. Export surpluses widen the goods balance, grain and corn shipments rise, prices shift with crop expectations, and weekly failures edge near last year’s totals in both the United States and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BR. G. Dun & Co
Leiter
Congress
United States
Mr. Leiter
Canada
Destructive Flood Tests East Liverpool Streets
East Liverpool Ohio suffered a severe rainstorm washing away buildings and flooding streets sewers and railways. West end washout covered Cleveland and Pittsburg tracks with six to eight feet of debris delaying trains eight hours. Local potteries and Williams stave mill shop suffered heavy losses totaling about 40000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Ohio
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Dresden
Knowles, Taylor & Knowles
Revolt Rumors and Quiet in Port au Prince Haiti
A drunken man shouting Vive la revolu tion is arrested in Port au Prince and promptly shot. No further revolutionary activity is reported while Santo Domingo news is conflicting about President Heureaux and control of the country. English syndicate buys Tellico mines near Louisville. Price around 3 to 4 million, total investments about 50 million.
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Revolut Ion
Hait
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Steag
Chemai
Republic of
Santo Domingo
Heureaux
Pte
Monte Christi
Kentucky
Tellico
Louisville
W. Gs. Burry
New York
Tts
French Ministers Resign as Cabinet Faces Crisis
President Faure accepted the entire cabinet's resignation after Premier Meline presented it. The article notes a series of violent events, including the execution of Pearson for murder in Jackson Reno and lynching of five Black men near Watumpka Alabama. It also reports George Snyder, a Lima Ohio farmer, killing himself after selling his property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Snyder
Lima
Ohio
Wotan Hose and Rubber Compas Fails in Boston
The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company assigned with liabilities of 1.2 million dollars after fifteen years of strong credit. Assignees Josiah Bennett and Robert Herrick report assets of 2.1 million including real estate, machinery, merchandise and good accounts. Contingent liabilities are not expected to exceed 100 thousand dollars. directors aim to pay in full and continue operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wotan Hose
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company
Boston
Mass
Josiah Q. Bennett
Robert I’. Herrick
Tacoma shooting ends with double murder and suicide
James Bartlett killed Clarence Emery and Tillie Millet in a Tacomo hotel restaurant private box, then shot himself. Millet, formerly of Seattle and once married to a man named Chandler, had left Bartlett for Emery, a steward aboard the steamer City of Seattle.
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James Bartlett Ehiots
Tacoma
Washb
James Bartlett
Clarence Emery
Tillie Millet
Emery
Bartlett
Taiya
Alaska
Seattle
Chandler
Millet
Consolidation Forms Pittsburg Gas Company by Allegheny Firms
A three year deal culminated in Pittsburg with the consolidation of several gas firms into a new company capitalized at 11 million dollars. Preferred stock 2 million, common 4 million, and fifty year 5 percent gold bonds totaling 5 million. Officers include President J H Reed and General Manager Robert Young with directors J D Callery M K McMillin T H Given Joshua Rhodes and Alexander Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Allegheny County
Pittsburg Gas Company
East End Gas Company
Franklin Cas Company
Alleghenyius Company
Allegheny Iluminating
Allegheny
J. H. Reed
T. H. Given
TP. J. McNulty
Robert Young
J. D. Callery
M. K. McMillin
Joshua Rhodes
Alexander Brown
Baltimore
Plague of Tramps in Kansas Disturbs Wichita Area
A Detroit News report cites a Kansas outbreak of tramps infesting districts around Wichita. They ride freight trains posing as workers, looting farmers as they move on. Separate dispatch notes tea smuggling into Malone New York to dodge a wartime tax, with large Canada United States conference set for July in Quebec.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
State Department
Washington
United States
Grahan
Winnipeg Industrial Exposition Association
Kansas
Wichita
Kan
Detroit Evening News
Montreal
Malone
N. Y
Toronto
Canada
Quebec
Wilfred Laurier
Richard Cartwright
Louis Davis
Wheat Destroyed by Lightning in Monroe County Field
Lightning struck a 2000 acre wheat field owned by Geo Adking in Monroe County Tennessee, destroying the crop as harvesters approached. The event left the field a total loss with no immediate report of injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Adking
Monroe County
Tenn
Market Prices Across Cities for Cattle Hogs and Grains
A detailed list of commodity quotes by city including cattle hogs and sheep prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more. Grain prices cover wheat corn oats rye and barley with varied grades and units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
New York
Egg& Weatern, LLC
Hawaii Annexation Debate Prompts Broad Congressional Votes
The House adopted the Newlands resolutions for Hawaii annexation by a 200 to 91 vote. Debate focused on commercial and strategic implications, with opponents warning of policy shifts away from Monroe doctrine. Senate consideration of the International American Bank bill continued, with amendments expanding privileges to all US citizens.
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House
Grosvenor
Rep
Senate
Lodge
Mass
Congress
Morgan
AlJn
International American Bank
United States Navy
House of
United States
Dingley
Mutual, Casualty, Fidelity and Guaranty Companies
Niagara River
Grand Island
Wilson
Dem
S.C
Carmack
Tenn
Sisseton and
Wahpeton
House of Representatives
Foreign Relations Committee
Davis
Newlands
Hawaiian Islands
Internacional American Bank
Pan-American Congress
Harris
Tennessee
District of Columbia
Nator Morrill
Vermont
Committee On Appropriations
Ants and Population Notes From Historic Report
The article recalls Ht. H. Ballard capturing an ant near its hill and releasing it after a short journey. It details the ant’s puzzled behavior then a long climb, antennae waving, and a straight return home. It also cites population growth in Palestine with Jaffa rising from about 15,000 ten years ago to nearly 8,000 residents today.
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Ant Knowledge
Agnasiz Association
Ht. H. Ballard
Palestine
Jaffa
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