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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1898
Page
6
The report discusses U S naval matters and foreign press reactions to Cuban war events. It notes Miles and Shafter roles, possible ship captures near Santiago, and debates on destroying ships. A separate section covers a church scandal involving superannuated clergy funding and a municipal bond investment scheme.
The Indian appropriation bill was finally approved by both houses this afternoon. It provides $25,000 for irrigation projects and covers lands taken by the Southern Pacific in severalty. The bill authorizes water supply for the western region, including access to land held by the government for development.
In Manila on July 1, General Merritt assumes governor generalship of the Philippine Islands with absolute authority. He will replace Spanish officials, install officers from his own command, and work without direct Washington instructions, while seeking native Filipino aid. The task includes civil and military leadership and teaching civilization to a semi barbarous people.
Rear Admiral Dewey cabled the Navy Department that Manila remains calm with transports and the Charleston not yet sighted. Insurgents have taken the offensive, and General Aguinaldo is moving to comply, awaiting ships to land troops at Cavite before extending operations toward Manila. The plan targets Spanish positions and seeks a surrender without indiscriminate shelling.
Washington July 1 Inquiries at the Treasury show total subscriptions for the 200 million bond issue reaching 700 million dollars. Accepted subscriptions of 500 dollars or less total 40 million. amounts over 500 dollars await future allotment at 250 million. A 1 percent premium round lot proposal amounts to 100 million. Two syndicate offers, 200 million each, total 400 million, are non standard and no allotment will be made. Heavy subscriptions expected as the new month begins. Savings bank deposits may rise with the July 1 six month interest period, withdrawals allowed without losing interest.
A Hong Kong dispatch reports that Spain's governor general met Admiral Diedrichs in Manila to propose neutral control of Manila, but Diedrichs rejected the plan due to the American blockade. The Manila notice, via Hong Kong, is treated as semi official.
A parliamentary return details how long mails took to travel by steamship between Queenstown and New York and between Southampton and New York in 1897. It cites fastest voyages by Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and Lucania, with speeds of about 21 to 22 knots, 5 days 14 18 hours to 5 days 22 hours 18 minutes, and notes Cunard Campania and Lucania performances and vessel specs.
A report describes a noonday tableau clock in a Japanese treaty port with cascading crystal water, a sun on silver wire marking hours, and a tortoise clock face. It also notes a Glasgow botanist who times daily rooms with growing fir trees and a Chinese temple clock featuring an hourly fairy figure from an enclosed box.
In a Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph exchange Squildig offers a joke about violinists and fiddlers. Me Swilligen asks for another answer, and Squildig replies that one can understand and enjoy the fiddlers music.
A French doctor is denied inheritance from a deceased patient. The ruling underscores moral and legal limits on physician benefits from patients. The case highlights controversy over medical ethics and succession law in France.
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