Daring Deeds Daring Deeds Big Filibuster Expedition Lands in Cuba
The Florida and Fanita under convoy of the gunboat Peoria landed the largest aid expedition to Cuban insurgents. Captain Jose Manuel Nunez was killed and Winthrop Chandler wounded. The mission, departing Key West June 25, aimed at Las Tunas and Palo Alto, featured 85 Cubans, US cavalry, Rough Riders, and large cargoes of rifles, ammunition, c, ordnance, and supplies. The operation reached Palo Alto by dawn and spurred further Cuban planning and theater actions.
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Key Weat
Florida
Fanita
Peoria
Jose Manuel Nonez
Emo Nunn
Winthrop Chandler
New York
Paloalto
Cuba
Fanlta
Key West
Ryab
Nunez
6Th
United States Cavalry
Johnson
Abren
Winthrop Chantler
William Astor
Chandler
Lha
United States
Elotha
Bavon
San Juan Point
Cientegos
Trinidad
Lasonas
Thia
Winthrop Chand- Yer
Navez
Tre
Noarm
Ceagar
Dha Boata
Helena
Las Tynag
Hames
Las Tunas
Palo Alto
Vac
Lieut
Ryan
McKinley
Tenth Cavalry
Little Dewey
General Lawton and the Apex of the Apache Campaign
General Lawton, selected by General Miles to lead the Apache pursuit, rose from Civil War service to command in the southwest. Miles trusted Lawton’s vigor and determination to “run down” the Apaches, aided by army surgeon Leonard Wood who gained line officer experience with Lawton’s column.
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Castua
Sam
Geronimo
Rocky Mountains
San Bernardino
Bavishe
Satewood
More
Lawton
Inspector General's Department
Wood
Lawson
Fourth Cavalry
Santiago
Miles
Crook
Pughes
Tatiana Volunteers
Atlanta
Regular
First Volunteer Cavalry
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Suba
The Turk Ismail Yousouf Dies With His Belt of Gold
A dramatic pirate-like tale places Ismail Yousouf, famed Turk wrestler and miser, among the wreckage of La Bourgogne. He clung to a belt of gold coins worth 8500 dollars, preferring wealth to life as the French liner sank, dragging him to a fatal end.
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Atlantic
Sabie Island
la Bourgogne
Ismail Yousouf
Ismail Youront
Sentari
Samphoul
Yousouf
William A. Brady
Brady
Yousout
Youzo
Wire Cutters and Machetes Rise in Battle at Santiago
Five thousand American troops used wire cutters to breach arched defenses before Spanish trenches at Santiago. The army, relying on cutters and machetes, adapted to barbed wire while some regiments still favored rifles. The Philippines theater mirrors this weapon shift as barbed wire defenses persist.
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Santiago
Quartermaster’s Department
Cuba
Uncle Sam
Tampa
Philipines
Orient
Trousers and Goods Prices Feature Silly Exchange
A humorous dialogue reflects rising costs in merchandise and a husband and wife quip about frayed trousers. The husband complains of worn bottoms while planning an important interview and vaunts dignity and gainfulness with fringe on his pants.
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John
Young Bride Leaves Husband in Separate Evansville Marriage
Janesville Wisconsin July 18. Prof Henry Huyke a known violinist who moved from Janesville to Evansville recently wed Miss Maggie A Balfe of Evansville but she has deserted him claiming she is only 17 and did not understand the marriage. Prof Huyke was a recent Madison resident.
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Janesville
Wis
Henry Huyhe
Evansville
Maggie A. Balfe
Oply
Plum
Huyke
Madison
Mowldy grain fed to fowls cautioned by note
A note warns that mowldy grain should not be fed to fowls. If dried in the oven and scorched slightly it becomes wholesome, according to the reader.
Russian Colonization and Eastern Expansion Under Russia
The piece surveys Russian settlement on the Amur and Sungari, Vladivostok districts, and mobilization potential up to 290000 troops. It contrasts imperial governance with Anglo-Saxon democracy, notes Bonsal’s Harper's article on colonization, and cites Barger on the Middle West. Applications for aquor licenses in Philadelphia fall by 250. Sullivan works on Kipling project.
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Mississippi Valley
Mr. Bonsal
Harper's Magazine
Charles Moreau Barger
Middle West
Heady Head Cliff Tops England Coast at 564 Feet
The loftiest coastal cliff in England is Head Head rising to a height of 564 feet, marking a notable geographic feature along the shore.
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England
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Captain Nunez
the Turk
Siberia
Asia
Amur
Sungaruard
Vladivostok
China
Korea
Russia
Agi
Stephen Bonsat
Pacific
Bonsal
Bla
Philadelphia
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Rudyard Kipling
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