United States rejects joint China indemnity guaranty
Washington reports the US will not join a joint guaranty for the Chinese indemnity citing constitutional limits. Diplomats fear the outcome as powers debate a possible Hague tribunal route. Meanwhile imperial party leaders plan to leave Singapore for Pekin September 1, with foreign troops withdrawn and preparations underway for the imperial family's return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
China
Pekin
Singanfu
Legation Guard
Kruger Abandons Planned U S Visit This Season
Washington June 10 It is understood Paul Kruger former President of the Transvaal will not visit the United States this summer or fall. He had intended to come but the visit has been abandoned at least for the present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kruger
United States
Washington
Paul Kruger
Transvaal
Army and Navy Orders in The Philadelphia Times
June 10 military dispatch lists officers and duties. Army: Drom to Plattsburg Barracks with Twenty-seventh Infantry. Ashburn to Fort Sheridan. others reassigned to posts including Jefferson Barracks and Vancouver Barracks. various medical department transfers. Navy: Williams to torpedo station instruction. Cook to sea and wait orders. Kearney to Independence. Murphy to Naval Academy. MacGrail pagе chaplain. Paymaster art to Celtic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Washington
Hugh A. Drom
Twelfth Infantry
Plattsburg Barracks
Twenty
Theodore B. Hacker
Samuel B. Bootes
Frederic H. Pompey
Percy M. Ashburn
San Francisco
Fort Sheridan
Military Academy
Virtain Corps
Fort Me
Girard Sturtevant
Fifth Infantry
Medical Department
Francis A. Winter
Jefferson Barracks
Marshall W. W. Wood
St. Louis
Joseph RB. Girard
Girard
Vancouver Barracks
Department of the Columbia
Charles E. Doster
Twenty-first Infantry
Movements of Warships Across Global Ports
The Navy Department reports numerous ship movements including New Orleans departing Chefoo for Chemulpo, Yankton arriving Gibara, Monongahela at Hampton Roads, Philadelphia at San Francisco, Sylph arriving Washington, Potomac and Sioux at Portsmouth, Mayflower at Port Lamar Venezuela with a plan to La Guayra and Porto Cabello, Newport and Hist leaving for Boston, Peoria arriving Boston, and others to act as stake boats for the Illinois trial. Admiral Remey sails for Sydney while gunboat Concord heads from Yokohama to Unalaska to enforce liquor laws. Essex arrives Boston and Dixie to Rio de Janeiro. Don Juan de Austria and Mariveles at Cavite. Frolic convoy Mindoro to Cavite.
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Washington
Navy Department
Chefoo
Chemulpo
Gibara
Monongahela
Hampton Roads
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Portsmouth
Port Lamar
Carupano
Venezuela
la Guayra
Porto Cabello
Newport
Hist
Boston
Peoria
Illinois
Cape Ann
Admiral Remey
Brooklyn
New Zealand
Australian
Sydney
New South Wates
Concord
Yokohama
Unalaska
Wheeling
Navy
Fassex
Bunker Hill
Holland
Alvarado
Annapolis
Delaware City
Essex
Dixie
Rio de Janeiro
Don Juan de Austria
Mariveles
Cavite
Island
Mindoro
Illinois May Exceed Contract Speed in Trial Run
The battleship Illinois arrived off the New England coast after leaving Newport News. Her trial trip next week aims to exceed a contract speed of 16 knots for four hours, with expectations of 17.25 knots or more based on a successful nearby run averaging 15 knots.
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Illinois
Boston
New England
Newport News
Appointments to Porto Rico Provisional Regiment Officers
The President names officers for the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry and regular service cavalry. Listed ranks include Lt Col James A. Buchanan and Majors William E. Almy Eben Swift, with multiple Captains First Lieutenants and Second Lieutenants, plus assistants surgeons and a surgeon of volunteers. Several OCR errors obscure some names.
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Washington
Porto Rico
Walter F. Martin
Blas Nadal
John C. Steger
A. Owen Seaman
Orval P. Townsend
Jace E. Wycke
George C. Broome
Terence Hamill
Charlee B. Kerney
Jean 8. Oakes
Eben Swift, Jr
Paul Wuttke
Jose Lago
Serene
Ooo
Ely
Clarence Siete
Picestenge
Davida. Peeee
Frank E. Artaud
Miles' Son tha Law Succeeds Michler
Washington dispatch reports staff changes after the death of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Michler and the transfer of Lieutenant Colonel H. K. Fey to the inspector general's department. The vacancies on Lieutenant General Miles's staff are filled by the appointed replacements.
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Miles
tha«Law
Michler
Washington
Francis Michler
Inspector General's Department
H. K. Fey
Assignment of Maus as aide to General Miles
Lieutenant Gelone M Maus is assigned to duty as aide de camp. Colonel Reber is identified as General Miles' son in law.
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Gélone M. Maus
Reber
Miles
Pension Certificates Granted Across States
Washington reports pension certificates dated May 27 1901 for many claimants in Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Maryland and a few special May 28 entries. Names include John Ogden Danville Henry Dommyer Bricker ville Matthew Freer Joseph Beddall and many others with varying amounts from 6 to 72 dollars plus additions and restatements for widows and restored or renewed cases.
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Pennsylvania
John
Ogden
Allegheny
Thomas P. Perry
Danville
Henry Dommyer
Brickerville
Matthew D. Freer
Dunmore
Joseph S. Beddall
Tamaqua
David M. Lots
Duncansville
Albert E. Gibbs
Soldiers’ and Sailors' Home
Erie
Levi Coller
Carlisle
Joseph Lattlezame
Lickdale
William H. Knouse
Swales
William Langhery
Dead
Venango
Felias Bechtel
Ephrata
Calvin H. Mallory
Cherrytree
Henry Bentzel
Swain
Austin A. Ainsworth
Ormedy
William H. Baldwin
Black Walnut
Edgar M. Spencer
Canton
John E. Yerkins
Wilkesbarre
Henry
Letitia A. Swaney
Oil City
Anna J. C
Fort Cae
Sallie Pirac
Anna Fagan
Agnes Wastley
Sewood
Spain
Es Ag
Elijah Cook
Philadelphia
William B. Hoffman
New Hrighton
Charles
Roxbrough
Pittsburg
Joseph A. Golden
Catharine Corrigan
Sugar Notch
New Jersey
Californians Visit Washington on Pan-American Trip
A party of fifty four travelers from California is sightseeing in Washington on their Pan-American Exposition journey. They will stay until Wednesday morning and plan stops in Philadelphia and New York before continuing to Buffalo.
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Philadelphia
Washington
California
New York
Buffalo
Naval Constructors Qualify. Island Plans, Torpedo Boats Delayed
Assistant naval constructors Henry P D Smith and Richard M Watts are qualified. Gov ernor's Island expansion plans in New York harbor are under War Department review. Torpedo boat contracts Bainbridge Chauncey and Barry seek six months extension. Consul General Stowe reports steady British colony trade. US imports hold value. Navy hospital at Yokohama near completion. lease granted in perpetuity by Japanese government. Plans for West Virginia Maryland hulls include overhaul of internal construction. Spanish Claims Commission sees large claims for property losses. Major General Wood approves court of inquiry finding on Captain A M Fuller. charge not sustained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry PD. Smith
Richard M. Watts
War Department
Governor’s Island
New York Harbor
Bainbridge
Chauncey and Barry
Stowe
Cape Town
United States
Navy
Yokohama
Navy Department
West Virginia
Maryland
Spanish Claims Commission
Tobal Alfonso
Wood
A. M. Fuller
Second Cavalry
W. 8. Edgerly
Seventh Cavalry
England to Raise Sugar Duties in War Tax Plan
London June 10 Sir Michael Hicks Beach the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed changes in duties on molasses and sugars under the new war tax. The plan sets rates per 100 pounds based on sugar content including 70 percent or more sweeting matter at 2 shillings 9d and lower percentages with different charges. Solid glucose faces 1 shilling and liquid glucose 2 shillings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Cablegram
Philadelphia Times
London
House of Commons
Michael Hicks-Beach
No Meeting of Cuban Convention
Havana June 10 The secret session of the Cuban Constitutional Convention was postponed to tomorrow due to the absence of Senor Capote, its president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Senor Capote
Mikado to Receive Von Waldersee
Count Von Waldersee arrived in Yokohama and will be received by the emperor in audience tomorrow at one of the imperial mansions in Tokyo, marking a formal imperial reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mikado
von Waldersee
Yokohama
Count von Waldersee
Tokio
Chinese boat disaster reported with 79 drowned
Cablegrams recount a May 8 squall near Victoria B C in which a Chu San to Ning Pi vessel capsized and 79 people drowned. Other items note individuals traveling worldwide, Royal Engineers heading to Bermuda, and naval funding and fleet changes in the newsbrief.
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Victoria
B. C
Chu San
Ning Pi
George W. Schilling
New York
Kobe
India
China
Halifax
England
Royal Engineer Corps
Bermuda
Woo-Sun
Nagasaki
Senor Sagasta
Yesewracy
Ome
Angry low churchmen accuse rector over red hood
A Tit Bits item recounts a visit by a group of disagreeing low church men to the Bishop of Oxford, upset that their rector wore a red hood rather than the blue hood from Trinity College. The bishop reframed the accusation as a joke, and the committee dispersed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Stubbs
Trinity College
Dublin
Pa and daughter plan for graduations and marriages
In a humorous Chicago Record-Herald item a daughter asks her father for summer money. She then reveals her plans to graduate and get married, prompting a light exchange about destinations and finances. The gag underscores civic era values and family dynamics in a bustling city newspaper.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Russia
India
Mrs Nibbe Question Sparks Debate on Character
A spirited exchange centers on Mrs. Nibbe with lines urging clarity on womanly virtue. The dialogue echoes charm and social standards as observers weigh the qualities that define a respectable wife.
Oil Tax Creates Stand ard monopoly in state
Memphis June 10 The new oil tax passed last session imposes $2 on wholesale and retail dealers creating a monopoly for Standard Oil Company. Counties and cities levy similar taxes making $600 a year per dealer. Standard Oil has paid in this county and offered to pay in others. Other dealers challenge the law in chancery court.
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Memphis
New York Evening Post
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Chancery Court
Woman Veteran of 100 Battles at Brooklyn Attic Memorialized
A New York Sun portrait of Mother Ferguson a 75 year old Civil War veteran living in a Brooklyn attic. She served as regimental field nurse for Lincoln and Sheridan's forces and claimed participation from Bull Run to Appomattox. Her memories recount fierce battles and a loyal Civil War spirit.
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New York Sun
Sixteenth Street
Brooklyn
Mother Ferguson
Lincoln
Phil Sheridan
England
Queen Victoria
America
First
New York Cavalry
Lincoln Cavalry
Ferguson
Bull Run
Appomattox
Broadway
Washington
Ellsworth
Zouaves
Sheridan
Kearny
McClellan
Franklin
Porter
Hunter
Gettysburg
Shenandoah
Jose
Fitz-John Porter
Harrison's Landing
Corcoran
Piedmont
Martinsburg
New York
Cleveland
Kings Wines Hidden in Buckingham and Windsor Palaces
The King’s wines hidden beneath Buckingham and Windsor palaces are being hauled out for disclosure. Stockpiled for years since Queen Victoria’s era, vintages include sherry, docks, moselles and champagnes. Prince Consort favored sherry and moselle. vintages used at royal garden parties and state events.
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New York Herald
Buckingham
Windsor
Queen Victoria
Prince Consort
Ostrich Outwits Guardsman in South Africa
A London Express item recalls a swaggering guardsman posted near Cape Town who mocked a cock ostrich at a remount depot. After four hours missing, rescuers found him flat on his back with the bird perched on his chest, refusing to move until the party arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Cape Town
The Crater at Popocatepetl Marvels in Harper's Weekly
The crater at Popocatepetl is a vast gloomy pit with sulfurous fumes and steep walls, reportedly 1500 feet deep. At the bottom lies a small emerald lake, ringed by volcanic rock and sulfur deposits, as observers braved the edge ledge for measurements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Weekly
Crater Steels
Senator Bradley case looms as trial nears Canton
Miss Ida Balls sues State Senator R L Bradley in Canton Mississippi while guards protect the prisoner. The plaintiff tried to shoot Bradley and her friends vow vengeance if he is not convicted across the case reported from Memphis Tennessee. In other items a girl is found with throat cut in Georgia and a Guntersville ex-superintendent is jailed after capture in Newport Arkansas. A Georgia divorce grants Mrs Sophia Dunham a divorce from Bradford Dunham with a society man named as co respondent.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
Memphis
Tenn
W. W. Kidd
Guntersville
Ala
Newport
Ark
Kidd
Savannah
Superior Court
Sophia B. Dunham
Bradford Dunham
Plant
Dunham
Head End Collision Injures Seven Trainmen
Seven trainmen were severely hurt in a head on collision between a freight engine and a passenger train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad near Colesburg. None of the passengers were injured.
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Elizabethtown
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Colesburg
Captain Kings Sentence Postponed
MOBILE Alabama June 10 The sentence of Captain Cyril W King convicted of accepting a bribe in connection with harbor work has been postponed until Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
Mobile
Ala
Cyril W. King
Monay
Secretary Kerfoot Improves at Atlanta Hospital
Dr. F. H. Kerfoot, corresponding secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Board, was slightly improved today in Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerfoot
Atlanta
F. H. Kerfoot
Baptist Home Mission Board
Cotton operatives strike at Vance Cotton mill Salisbury
Charlotte June 10 150 operatives employed at the Vance Cotton Mill Salisbury went on strike today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
N. C
Salisbury
Alabama's Governor at Death's Door
TUSCALOOSA AL June 10 Governor W H Sanford is much worse and it is feared he will not recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Ala
W. H. Sanford
Remembering James A Herne Practical Jokes Murderous Saloon Scene
From the Baltimore Herald, a recalled wartime incident involving James A. Herne John T Ford and Owen Fawcett in Baltimore. During a prank at a saloon they posed as United States officials marking the room with a tape. A German saloon keeper shot a blunderbuss as Raymond fled to police. Raymond injured, Herne and Fawcett escaped, Ford posted security.
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Baltimore Herald
James A. Herne
Herne
John T. Ford
Baltimore
John T. Raymond
Owen Fawcett
Gay Street
Jim Herne
Raymond
United States
Teuton
Fawcett
Mr. Ford
Baby on the battlefield in 1897 frontier India
From Cassell's Little Folks, a tale set on the northwest frontier of India during November 1897. Ghoorkas surge into Bara Valley, scouts encounter an Afridi slain with a baby beside him. Soldiers seize the infant, a Kohati native nurses it, then the unit leaves the child with the Afridi village as they move on.
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Cassell
India
Bara
S Solis
Broker and Bargain Hunter Quip Over Stock Prices
In Brooklyn Eagle chatter, Mr. Margins urges buying ten shares of P. D. G. now at 2.60 a share while Mrs. Bargainhunter muses that no stock is marked down to 1 987. The exchange captures the era’s market chatter and wheeling dialogue about investments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Brooklyn Eagle
Margins
H'm
Farce Comedy Sparks Over Pilot Absence
In a witty exchange, Miss Schermerhoro declares the novel devoid of a pilot while Mr. Stuyvesant suggests turning it into a splendid farce comedy. The banter showcases a playful debate on tone and direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Brooklyn Eagle
Miss Schermerhoro
Mr. Stuyvesant
Third Annual Silver Sale Attracts Sterling Articles
The silver store hosts a third annual sale offering sterling ware and quadruple plated items at low prices. Bon bon dishes butter dishes entee dishes and spoons are discounted with many pieces shown as $1 to $3.75 and whole sets offered at reduced prices. Sterling silverware and toilet articles feature deep cuts in prices, highlighting tea sets and berry bowls alongside plated alternatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers
Ribbon Sale Promises Half-Price Ribbons for Brides and Dresses
Ribbon Store on the first floor advertises a June sale with many examples. Contents include dainty striped ribbons at 8c for 15c, lace-edge satin ribbons, corded stripes, and all-silk ribbons in colors from white to Nile and green. Sizes range from 3% to 6% inches, with substantial discounts like 87c instead of 55c and 50c instead of 75c for select sash and millinery ribbons.
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Liberty
Mass
Cardinal
Early comers snap up boys clothing bargains
Sizes 8 9 18 14 likely all go to early comers. Double breasted suits for summer 4 to 7 dollars off 6 50 and 7 dollar suits for boys 7 to 16. Fancy deviots green olive brown. Coats full lined. Wash Sailor cotton stripes 2 50 for 3 to 12 years blue with white sailor collar. Wash Sailor suits 3 75 3 to 12 Bedford cords blue red brown. Trousers 50c 3 to 16 linen crash plain linen cotton mixed 25 35c. Cheviot 50c knee trousers 3 to 16. Patent waist bands. Waists blouses assorted. Adras blouses ages 6 to 15 50c. Third floor with hats.
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Adras
Night on the Plains from the Times-Democrat
A Texas visitor recalls night on the plains near cattle country in middle Texas. He describes vast desolate beauty, shifting shadows, and a haunting hymn echoing across the landscape, guiding him back to a ranch after losing bearings in the moonlit prairie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Great Plains
Texas
Middle
First Rooster-Young Clockatuck Impresses Brooklyn Bugle
The Brooklyn Bugle highlights Rooster-Young Clockatuck as a lively roster entry with spirited energy. Report praises his chip of the old tacebator qualities and early promise for the team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Bugle
First Rooster
Clockatuck
Rooster
Baby Weight Moment Missed At Birth
A lighthearted exchange recalls a newborn whose weight was not recorded for nearly two hours, leaving anxious parents unsure of the exact pounds and ounces. The remark highlights the infant’s initial delay in weighing and the humorous frustration of the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Record-Herald
Ferocious Abdul Hamid From the Pall Mall Gazette
A Pall Mall Gazette profile paints Abdul Hamid as preferring charm over regular features and frequenting the harem to brief on politics in simple stories. When crises loom his mind sharpens, he fasts and stays awake for days, planning against imagined dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gazette
Abdul Hamid
Detroit Free Press quote on ancestry and horse theft remark
The Detroit Free Press quotes Billings asking Rick Etts about an ancestor described as a horse thief. Etts replies that the ancestor was indeed such, and Billings responds with a wry remark about improvement on ancestors, indicating a sharp, humorous exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detriot Free Press
Billings
Ricketts
Kept Hise Money Dark From the London Fyn
In a dialogue between Little Ben and Mr Moony the boy challenges a gentleman caller about race. Ben asks if he is black, Moony denies and expresses hope he is not. Ben mentions his father saying the caller is awfully unsightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Little Ben
Gentleman Caller
Mr. Moony
Dogs Pianos and Typewriters Dominate Ads in New York Sun
Advertising man notes dogs pianos and typewriters are the most advertised for sale in second hand listings in the New York Sun. Cameras and bicycles follow closely as items people wish to rid themselves of, while household furniture horses and carriages rank next. Jewelry watches sewing machines and musical instruments appear further down the list. Most folks with knives keep theirs to themselves.
Conjurer Outwits Collier in Scottish Village Trick
A London Telegraph report recounts a conjurer visiting a Scotch village who, after a display of tricks, borrows a halfpenny from a collier. He claims to turn it into a sovereign and passes it about for all to see, until the collier pockets the coin and asks to exchange it again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Telegraph
Legislature Reacts To Senator Robbery In Paris Incident
A Washington Star excerpt records two legislators discussing a recently elected senator who was robbed by footpads in Paris. One remark notes the French have brutal methods, prompting the other to respond with astonishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Washington Star
Paris
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