War Department Shake Up and Tuberculosis Congress Findings
Washington reports a rapid shift at the War Department with Gen Miles acting secretary amid withheld mail and possible presidential reversal of Secretary Alger. Senator Carter and Heitfeld met McKinley over Wardner troop use, while Surgeon General Vaughan’s Berlin tuberculosis congress summary stresses sanitariums and sanitary measures as key to control.
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Washington
War Department
Miles
Long Branch
Alger
Army
McKinley
Carter
Montana
Heitfeld
Idaho
Edward Boyce
Butte
Mont
Westerns Pecration of
W. R. Goldensmith
Miners’ Union
Wardner
Ida
Trocops
Gen. Merriam
Congress
George Tully Vaughan
Marine Hospital Service
United States
Berlin
Alx
Frederick
Duke of
Baseball Games and New Fruit Canners Combine Formed
A new fruit canners' combine has formed in San Francisco, bringing together 11 corporations and 4 plants. Zinc and lead have been found at a depth of 196 feet at Merwin, Mu.
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San Francisco
Merwin
Mayor Harrison Balks at Silver Meeting in Chicago
Chicago reports three political developments stirring Democrats. Mayor Harrison refuses to attend the free silver welcome at the Auditorium, the national committee may repudiate the Croker Hill Murphy machine in New York, and a rule may bar 1896 bolters from 1900 national convention as delegates.
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Chicago
Harrison
Auditorium Free Silver
Democratic National Committee
Croker-Hill-Murphy
New York
Biggest Steel Contract Ever Awarded
Pittsburgh press reports the Pressed Steel Car company landed a ten year deal with Carnegie Steel for 50 000 tons of steel plates monthly totaling about 1 000 000 000. The announcement marks the largest contract awarded to a single firm.
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Pittsburgh
Pressed Steel Car Company
Carnegie Steel Company
Press Comments On War Censorship And Manila Situation
London dispatches relay mixed reactions to American conduct in the Philippines. The Times accuses ministers of corruption and political use of war offices, while the Pall Mall Gazette defends correspondents. President Roosevelt reportedly supports Gen Otis and sees no misrepresentation in dispatches, with Manila reports noting local provinces seeking American protection amid clashes with Tagals and a Manila hospital tally detailing fever cases and wounds.
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London
Manila
Philippines
Alver
Elwell S. Otis
Pall Mall Gagette
The
Times
Alger
Wedtiurtte
Gen. Otis
Mil
White House
War Department
Gen
Otis
Albay
South Camarines
North Camarines
United States
Medical Department
Gen. Otte
Washington
Otte
Philippine towns establish local governments in seven provinces
War department ships 200 horses and 50 wagons to Manila via San Francisco for rapid deployment. Silver ore from South America arrives in Philadelphia aboard the Kentigern, with 16,289 sacks and 600 bars valued at about 3100,000, after leaving Guayaquil on April 25.
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Ipal
Manila
Cavite
Chattanooga
Tenn
War Department
Chickamauga Quartermaster’s Department
San Francisco
South America
Philadelphia
Atlantic
Kentigern
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Spiritualist Camp Meeting Features Medium Messages
At Springfield Missouri on July 9 10 a spiritualist camp drew skeptical crowds as mediums delivered platform messages to attendees. Mrs Cora L Richmond lectured on The Origin and End of Civilization and warned Anglo Saxon rule could fall unless humanity gains a higher brotherhood.
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Springfield
Cora L. Richmond
Wells Fargo posse pursues New Mexico robbers to earth
Denver July 19. Wells Fargo Superintendent Charles N Young announced that the posse pursuing the New Mexico outlaws, where a battle yesterday left one posse member and a bandit dead, has orders to capture the robbers this year. The 20 officers include J M Thacher and William H Reno, with U S Marshal Foraker coordinating.
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Barth- Denver
Col
Charles N. Young
Wells- Fargo Express Company
New Mexico
J. M. Thacher
Wells Argo Company
William H. Reno
Colorado & Southern
United States
Marshal Foraker
Youth Fights for Bride of Go in Topeka
In Topeka Kansas T B Lawrence a farm worker wooed widow Anna Hylt aged 40 plus years Alfred Hylt son of the widow opposed the match. A fight occurred Sunday with Hylt worsted. Lawrence was arrested but Mrs Hylt posted bond and the couple wed after his release.
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Topeka
Kan
T. B. Lawrence
Anna Hylt
Alfred Hylt
Lawrence
Sanday
Hylt
Strikes Spread Across Cities Hit Transit and Brewing Firms
Reports from July 19 describe the Cleveland streetcar strike widening as 30 linemen join the stoppage and New York freight handlers demand higher pay while pensioning extra men. Brooklyn strike action cripples lines as Chicago breweries threaten a wide beer walkout, with unions pressing wage claims and a general stoppage possible. An Admiral Dewey banquet is planned in Trieste and a burglary in Ottawa, Kansas, nets about 500 dollars.
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New York
Brooklyn
Treatie
Chicago
Kansas City
Seiwargschild & Suleberger Packing Company
Tallow Gang
Tripe
Cleveland
Consolidated
Euclid Avenue
Wade Park Avenue
Cedar
Wilson Avenue
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway
East River
Central Vermont Railway Company
York
Putnam Avenue
Fulton Street
Nostrand Avenue
Tompkins Avenue
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Vaughan
Tuberculosis Congress
Dewey Home Fund
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Baltimore
Cineinand
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Pillaburen
Chicairo
Go Lavine Lilo
Haitimore
St Louis
Clevedon
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Detroit
St. Paul
Columbus
Minneapolia
Minneapolis
Lmestale
Aeeewe
OL Hs
Harrison Balks
Free Silver Mask
Portsmouth
Norwalk & Western Railway
Haverhill
St. Louis
Kauffman Milling Company
Mount Vernon
Ind
St. Johns
N. F
Tribune
Great Britain
Transvaal
South Africa
England
Illinois Central Railway
Lenzberg
Thomas Jones
A.J. Elflein
Fort Scott
Mine Workers’ Union
Pratt
Wichita
Beyun
Bryan
Col. Viryan
Braeil
Lad
C. T. Godfrey
Godfrey & Huber
Eel River
Othe
Goluradon
Warren
Horne and Wilder
Sherman
Otia
State Department
Philippine Commission
Munic
Newton
Canada
Ottawa
L. Schermerhorn
Northern Baptist Church
Wisconsin
Kansas
W. A. Redding
Navarre
John W. Breidenthal
McKenzie
Sedalia
John M. Williams
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger’s
Admiral Dewey
Trieste
Austria
Harris
Hungary
Colombo
Ceylon
Vienna
Olympia
Henry Trickler
Triebler
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