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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1898
Page
1
Tyres Green Glass Hollow Ware includes bottles flasks and related items. Absillion Iron Bridge Co manufacturers of bridges roote and general iron structures.
A reader asks about investigating ongoing goods and price methods of a local dry goods store that repeatedly claims certain practices. The inquiry seeks clarity on pricing transparency and sales tactics used by the business.
The offer promises free samples to prove the claimed determination. It showcases 33 inch fine White Madras at 15c per yard, silk Warp Crepes at 20c yard, New India Silks 25c to 1.00, Choice Wash Silks 25c, and wash skirts from 50c to 1.65, urging readers to judge by goods and prices.
The store announces a summer clearance of depleted lines and odds and ends. Prices are nominal, with reductions often to half or two thirds. Examples include 35 cent Bilks printed twisled Foulard Biks previously selling at 95 cents to $1.00.
Dispatch from Captain General Augusti dated June 23 reports grave conditions in Manila with torrential rains flooding entrenchments, rising sickness and desertions among Spanish troops. Aguinaldo’s call to surrender is rejected. Pena surrenders with 1,000 soldiers joining insurgents as Luzon detachments capitulate amid hunger and refuges at Cavite.
Washington June 29 The war department reported Barquini 27 via Playa del Este 28 The Yale arrived this morning all right Troops disembarking Your son on General Duffild staff Also Shafter Major General confirms progress occupying an advance position west of the San Juan river near Santiago three miles from the capital.
During yesterday morning's drill of Company F, Eighteenth Pennsylvania, a new recruit refused to perform the manual of arms without a rifle. He hurled the gun, tore his blouse and cap, and was arrested, with a guard ready to shoot if he attempts to run. Sixteen privates are to report for examination, with six top scorers to be promoted to corporals.
Dispatch reports sick soldiers in Juragua receiving immediate hospital care both on shore and in tent hospitals perched on a cliff. Measles heat prostration and dysentery are common. yellow fever seen by insurgents is not epidemic. U S and Cuban forces advance with infantry cavalry mule trains and artillery blocking routes toward Santiago. General Shafter arrives with staff and surveys landing and front operations near Jaragua and Morro Castle.
The report notes anticipated assault by Shafter’s forces as the first army corps is ordered to Cuba. The Santiago water supply is cut off forcing reliance on cisterns while Cuban operations proceed to support the main campaign.
Navy bulletin says Yale landed troops at San Juan Puerto Rico and Admiral Sampson reports Sigsbee’s squadron engaged a Spanish unprotected cruiser and torpedo boat destroyer Terror. The Terror was hit thrice by the St Paul with one officer and two men killed and several wounded. Terror towed into harbor in sinking condition.
President McKinley issued a new blockading proclamation expanding the U S blockade to all ports on the south of Cuba from Cape Frances to Cape Graz and to the port of San Juan in Puerto Rico, continuing the measures begun April 22, 1896.
The American front crosses the Rio Guama by about a mile with a tug near the Spanish entrenchments. Brigades under Lawton Chaffee Wheeler secure positions to flank Santiago while Cubans and auxiliaries skirmish on hills. Water cuts, supply trains arrive, and preparations for a new assault intensify as Shafter forecasts a 48 hour take.
Major General Merritt will embark on the Newport and hurry to Manila, aiming a week before the third expedition. He prepared a Spanish proclamation announcing provisional American authority, promising liberty with order, and ready to use naval and military force if needed. He will confer with Admiral Dewey on arrival to act in concert for occupation of the Philippines.
Altoona Pa June 29 The Democratic state convention met with George A Jenks Brookville poised to win the gubernatorial nomination barring sentiment shift while Colonel Guffey appears in command Jenks claims 312 of 436 delegates and Guffey could be nominated on the first ballot with party factions and McKinley war policy shaping the ticket the scene included Gordon pursing votes and behind the scenes talks among Kerr Mutchler and Orr.
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