Navy Chief's Annual Report Highlights Manila Victory and Fleet Growth
Secretary Long outlines the Navy's wartime actions from Manila to Santiago, noting the flying squadron’s maneuvers, the Merrimac incident, and the bombardment decisions. He stresses the surge in naval strength, new coaling stations, and officer staffing to support a larger fleet.
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Manila
Sigebee
Dewey
Innont
Pacific
United States
Cervera
Aying
Cape Verde Islands
Ampson
Cape Nlaiti
St. Thomas
San Juan I
San Juan
Kayana
Santiago
Marblehead
Hobson
Guantanamo
Shafter
Tampa
Sharter
Sampson
Shatter
Naval Board of Bureau Chiefs
Bliss report reviews lands mining and Indian progress
Secretary Bliss outlines public land disposals totaling 11,328,037 acres for year ending June 30, a 28 percent rise from the prior year, with 89,674 individual entries. He notes mining revival with 389 more mineral entries and cites state outputs in gold and silver led by Colorado and California. Indian progress is steady with minimal disturbances and a total Indian population around 180,132 excluding New York and five civilized tribes. Pension rolls include 993,714 names and $144,651,000 disbursed. $3,431,012.99 remained unexpended at year end. The treasury anticipates revenue of about $10.1 million and expenditures of $105,000,000 for 1900, with a $4.2 million deficiency.
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Bliss
Colorado
Union
California
Montana
South Dakota
Utah
Idaho
Minnesota
New York
Five Civilized Tribes
Pension Department
Commissioner of Pensions
Treasury
Meat Inspection report shows growth in abattoirs and animals
Dr D B Salmon head of the Bureau of Animal Industry reports for the fiscal year ended June 30 1898 meat inspection operated at 185 abattoirs in 35 cities up from 128 and 33 in 1897. Total animals inspected before slaughter 51 835 898 with major gains in cattle sheep calves and hogs. Rejections and condemnations totaled thousands while 14 583 780 packages bore inspection stamps. The Army Pay Roll rose to 23 499 969 dollars, up 2 326 804 from the prior year.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
D. EB. Salmon
Secretary of Agriculture
T. H. Stanton
Army
Postmaster General’s War Era Postal Service Review
The annual report by Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith highlights military and naval postal expansions during war. It notes rapid troop mail handling, new military post offices in Cuba and the Philippines, and widespread connections from Portofico to Jamaica and Havana. Hawaii’s mail system remains self-sustaining amid these changes.
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Charles Emory Smith
West Indies
Philippines
Cuba
Santiago
Eben Brewer
Santiago City
Havana
Jamaica
West India Islands
Portofico
Ponce
Manila
Cavite
San Francisco
Army of Occupation
Hawaii
Smith
Mysterious cases and frontier feats headline late items
A sampling of late 19th century notes shows a 10 year old girl found intoxicated in New York, a libel suit withdrawn in Los Angeles, a man believed murdered in Portland turns up alive, and a flood of archival documents in a Venezuelan arbitration. Reports cover Havana crackdowns, Cuban floods, a post office burglary in North Grafton, Edison reception in St Petersburg, and Tesla’s wireless power concept.
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New York
Blanton Duncan
Los Angeles
Cal
Associated Press
Daniel R. Kennedy
Lynn
Mass
Portland
Newport Democrats
United States
Manila
Europe
Havana
Blanco
Scientific
St. Petersburg
Russia
Thomas Adison
Arnold
Seattle
St. Michael’s
Alaska
J. W. Stewart
Sixteenth Infantry
Cuba
Louisville
Wichita
Kan
Lord Salisbury
Guild Hall
Lord Seymore
Col. Briscoe
Halifax
France
Maysfield
D. C
Woolfolk
Thomas Woolfolk
Philadelphia
John McGahan
John Hays
Lake Superior
Cleveland
Ohio
Copper Harbor
Milwaukee
Nikola Tesla
New Inventions Span Toys Utensils and Safety Gear
A Texas woman patents a spring-loaded jack in the box toy with a ball and elastic tether. Other items include a clothes hanging ring post device, a Missouri ice creeper for shoes, a kitchen masher and strainer, an Ohio ground-freezing shoe device, a door brush attachment to keep flies out, a mouthpiece sleeve for higher notes, a dual-section hot water tank for stoves, a threaded pencil lead tip, a distilling coffee pot design, and a life saving buoy reel attachment for ships.
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Texas
Missouri
Ohio
Shrewd Tonga Chief Rejects Money System
A Tongan chief Finow rejects adopting a money economy after white traders praise it. He argues wealth from money makes people selfish, preferring yams and coconuts. Mariner notes writing as a tool, including a test of name recognition. A diver recalls conger eels attacking hands and sharks avoiding humans.
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Martin
William Mariner
Mariner
Tonga Islands
South Sea Islands
Achima
Tonga
Finow
Finon
Tarky
Diver Lambert Fights Shark For Trophy Backbone
A St Nicholas tale recalls Lambert’s battle with a shark at the bottom of the Indian Ocean near Diego Garcia. He repaired a coal hulk, warded off the shark by venting air, then used a sheath knife and rope to subdue the creature and bring home its backbone as a trophy.
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Lambert
Indian Ocean
Diego Garcia
Lambet
St. Nicholas
Remarkable literary notices and an Egyptologist author
A roundup of forthcoming works and literary gossip. Crispi’s reminiscences may fill eleven volumes with first English publication plans. Maxwell Gray releases The House of the Wideen Treasure. Meredith birthday books and editions spark interest among readers and collectors.
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Crispi
England
Maxwell Gray
Dean Maitland
George Meredith
Meredith
Poetical Figures and Ocean Wit Across the Sea
A Norfolk visit inspires Thomas Tennyson with a sea saying about wind. A stormy scene recalls a fishwoman who laments to the tide quoting a fierce white teeth image. A submerge view and fish banter reveal how many so-called friends fail trials.
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Norfolk
North Sea
Tennyson
A King's Ingratitude How Louis Philippe Repaid American Generosity
Gouverneur Morris aided the duke of Orleans fleeing France, providing transport and funds for a voyage to Philadelphia. The royal family received Washington and Adams era hospitality, toured Mount Vernon, and later the duke, as king of the French, treated the U S with contempt until Jackson forced policy action against French ships.
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Louis Philippe
Gouverneur Morris
France
Duke of Orleans
Lonis
Philippe
Philadelphia
Oprlonns
Europe
Morris
Duke
Tainburg
Prince Am
Tale
Trainburg
Wrenehman
Tramuburs
United States
Germany
Tadidelphia
Ames
Ness
Washington
Presen
Congress
John Adams
Mount Vernon
Washington Finish
Cuba
Spain
Havana
New World
Mor
Jackson
Washington Post
Furniture dealer's arson extortion ploy ends in signing
An insurance adjuster questions a dishonest furniture dealer after a blaze wipes out his stock. The dealer claims mice started the fire, but under pressure the man signs a settlement releasing the insurer from obligation. A single word unsettles him.
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Het
Uncle Josh Wayback Rejects Damages Showdown
Uncle Josh Wayback limps into the village grocer and explains he wandered to the city and “kerlided” with an electric beer. He says damages from the incident aren’t his aim, preferring self reliance and repairs over suing the company.
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Josh Wayback
Josh
Lofty artist or a Trescoer with a ladder
The Washington Star quotes a sparring exchange in which a patron calls a creator a true artist while the reply asserts pride in being a Trescoer who always works with a ladder. The dialogue hints at pride, hierarchy, and eccentric method.
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Amanda
Washington Star
Diamond Duty Question Sparks Brief Exchange
A Peoria merchant asks when the diamond duty was highest, recalling a meeting at the National. The unnamed reply notes it was just before his marriage. A separate quip remarks that a criminal judge may speak little but not always briefly.
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Peoria
the National
Peoria Journal
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