Yellow Fever at Tre Ome and Hampton Home
Reports from Norfolk and Washington on August 1 detail three deaths and 30 cases at the Soldiers’ Home in Hampton Virginia with quarantine and immune nurses deployed. Officials note possible import via excursionists and a dengue misdiagnosis, while Navy yard operations face quarantine and Fort Monroe guards.
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Norfolk
Woodfin
Hampton
Washington
Sternberg
Dewitt
Bert Monroe
Pettus
United States Marine Hospital Service
National Soldiers’ Home
Corbin
Old Point
Newport News
Santiago
War Department
Department
Fort Monroe
Merritt
van Ruypen
Navy Department
Navy Yard
Arbitration treaty signed by sixteen powers at Hague
Washington reports Ambassador White states sixteen powers including France England and Russia have signed the protocol of the arbitration and mediation treaty though it will not affect the US until ratified by the Senate. Even then arbitration requires full consent of both parties to apply in the U S Canada boundary dispute.
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Washington
Hay
White
France
England
Russia
United States
Senate
Canada
Alum Baking Powders List and Private Brands Warned
A Nebraska state chemist and other authorities identify baking powders containing alum. The list names Calumet, Crescent, White Lily, Bee-Hive, Bon Bon and others from Chicago to Tacoma. Grocers’ private brands also push alum powders, often labeled under store names. Prices under twenty-five cents per pound signal possible alum content.
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Nicholson
Nebraska
St. Louis
Food Commission of
Minnesota
Alum Jaques Mfg. Co
Chicago
Calumet
Alum Calumet Baking Powder Co
Alum Home Baking Powder Co
San Francisco
Washington
Alum Pacific Chemical Works
Tacoma
Crescent
Alum Crescent Mfg. Co
Seattle
D. Ferrera & Co
Washington Mfg. Co
Bon Bon
Alum Grant Chemical Co
Defiance
Alum Portland Coffee and Spice Co
Portland
Alum Reno & Bailis
Kansas City
Calamba Captured by 1000 US Troops Near Laguna de Bay
Brigadier General Hall with 1000 men takes Calamba on Laguna de Bay. US losses are four killed and 12 wounded. Calamba, a town of about 12,000 on the bay’s eastern shore, lies 30 miles southeast of Manila. The assault force includes 400 Washington volunteers, 450 of the Twenty first infantry, 100 Fourth cavalry and two First artillery guns. Washington regimental members waded ashore through swamps while Filipinos in hay stacks fired until the tinclad Napidan began firing. On the US side two from the Fourth and two from the Twenty first infantry were killed and several wounded.
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Manila
Hall
Calamba
Laguna de Bay
Bay
Washington
Twenty-first Infantry
Washington Regiment
Twentyfirst
Miners Move Westward from Elkhorn to Western Fields
About two thousand miners have left Elkhorn West Virginia for western coal fields in search of higher wages. Local mines are closing rapidly and operators warn the emigration poses an alarming situation. Even quiet Walter is frequently called to order as the tension grows.
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Elkhorn
W. Va
Walter
Storm Hits Alaska Business District Wrecks Vessels
A severe windstorm swept along the western coast around St Michaels on July 31 causing extensive damage to small steamers and other craft. Several vessels broke from anchors, some steel hulls were driven ashore, and storms damaged Alaska Commercial Company and Alaska Exploration Company assets. No lives were reported lost though many boats were wrecked and valuable cargoes lost.
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St. Michaels
Cape Nome
Galvin Bay
Alaska Commercial Company
Anna Eva Pay
Unalaska
Paris
Alaska Exploration Company
St. Paul
Anna Eva Fay
Alaskan Commercial Company
Louis
Dorothy
James Deitrich
William McKinley
Anna Wanda
Brant
Mate
Dove
Nome
Otis reports Filipino attack near Calamba and losses
General Otis sent a war department update on Calamba and Negros actions. Insurgents gathered near Calamba and were repulsed by Hall with one killed and seven wounded. Captain Simpson of the Sixth Infantry killed a robber band in Negros. Fred J. Ballou of Company H, First Washington, wounded in the shoulder but not seriously. North Dakota Wyoming and Idaho troops aboard Grant ready to depart as monthly pay delay allowed.
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Washington
Otis
War Department
Calamba
Manila
Hall
Simpson
Sixth Infantry
Negros
Washington Bay
Hart
Fred J. Ballou
Company H
First
Washington Infantry
North Dakota
Wyoming
Idaho
Collision near Walcott kills two aboard Union Pacific train
A Times Cheyenne Special reports an eastbound overland passenger train colliding with a westbound light engine near Walcott. Engineer Marsh and fireman Ronald died. two mail clerks were injured. The light engine engineer fled. Denver reports later state arbitration favoring a compromise on the smelter strike, ignoring union status.
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Denver
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Walcott
Overland
Marsh
Ronald
Mack
State Board of Arbitration
Yale Harvard Athletes Sail for Home From London Meet
A portion of the Yale Harvard athletic team that competed in inter-university sports at the Queens club in London have sailed for home aboard the steamer St. Louis. They were given a hearty farewell by a large crowd.
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Southampton
Yale-Harvard
Queens Club
London
St. Louis
Mrs Mc Kinley Improves in Health and Spirits
Platteburg New York July 31 Mrs Mc Kinley continues to improve in health and spirits amid public attention and ongoing medical care reflecting a cautiously upbeat outlook from the White House entourage and local observers.
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Platteburg
N. Y
All Around Market Report from Spokane Mills Prices
The market shows wheat at 51c bulk 62c sacked for Bluestem, No 1 club 47c bulk 49c sacked, No 1 red 45c bulk 47c sacked. Fruit lists apples 5c lb apricots 15c lb bananas 30c doz cherries 10c lb. Lard 50-60c 5-lb pail, hams 11-18c lb, breakfast bacon 12-18c lb. Livestock and dressed meats include beef steers 4.00-4.60, cows 3.50-4.50, hogs 5c live 6-6.5c dressed, mutton 4-4.5c live 10c dressed. Wheat Portland Walla Walla 57c valley 58c bluestem 59c. Tacoma club 56c bluestem 69c. New York silver certificates 60 Sle, bar silver 60.5c, Mexican dollars 48c. London bar silver 27 4d, New York pig iron warrants firm at 17.95, lead at 4.35 at close.
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Spokane
Pennsylvania
Colorado
London
San Francisco
New York
International peace conference signs multiple arbitration and prohibition declarations
The Hague report notes 16 states signed the arbitration convention and other conventions on balloons, gases, and expanding bullets while 15 and 17 declarations were signed for prohibition measures. In Colorado Springs, two boys ages 12 and 10 drowned in Big Sandy creek near Matheson, Elbert county, the elder likely drowned while trying to save the younger.
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the Hague
Colorado Springs
Colo
Donald Matheson
Robert Matheson
Big Sandy Creek
Matheson
Elbert County
Secretary Hay’s Rubaiyat Collection Noted Leader
Secretary Hay widely known as devout Omar Khayyamite has a large Rubaiyat collection. His holdings rank second in the country, just behind Nathan Haskell Dole.
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Hay
Omar Khayyamite
Nathan Haskell Dole
French Minister Heads to Paraguay to Reopen Ties
France and Paraguay move to reestablish relations as the French minister departs Buenos Aires to Paraguay. The envoy seeks to resume diplomatic contact and normalize ties between the two nations.
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France
Paraguay
Buenos Ayres
Mining News Roundup From Pacific Northwest Mines 1899
The bulletin reports U S pig iron production for the first half of 1899 at 6 289 167 gross tons with Bessemer pig iron at 3 778 937 tons. Republic Notes describes San Pail mine drift assays and North Star tunnel progress. Across British Columbia reports cover Ymir, Balmoral, Pender, Sunset and other shafts, ore shipments, new plants, and rising prospecting activity in Thunder Mountain Warrens and Grangeville.
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Bulletin of the
American Iron and Steel Association
United States
Bessemer
Republic Notes
San Pail
North Star
Palo Alto
Lambert Creek
Belcher
Eastern Star
Columbia
Republic
Marcus
Golden Harvest Group
Golden Harvest Consolidated Gold Mining Company
Liberty
Sheridan Camp
Zellar
Britten Columbia
Ymir
Kettle River
Arrow Lake
Fire Valley
John Worth
John Lodge
Grand Forks
Camp McKinney
Balmoral
Deadwood Camp
James D. Sword
Rossland
James Cooper Manufacturing Company
B. C
Mother Lode
Boundary Creek
Hidden Creek
Sullivan
Fort Steele
Canadian Pacific
Gem and
Stoney
Sullivan Group
Gem
Evening Star
Tamarac
Thunder Mountain
Warrens
Idaho
Grangeville
Buffalo Hump
Bill Keeler
Coeur d
Mariposa Estate
California
Charles T. Taylor
John M. Fulton
Reno
Nevada
Samuel Hunt
Orrin Bennett
Palmer Mountain
Palmer Mountain District
Gold Hill
Douglass, Ellmeham
Little Cha- Dacca
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Charles Haight
Alpha Haight
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George Overly
Cecil Priest
Raymond Cape Haitien
Re- Howe
Evans
Dominican
George Haight
Santiago de Los Caballeros
Moca
Santo Domingo
Jiminez
San Domingo
Ashland
Wis
W. C. Ott
Julian
Julian Pauncefote
Hong Kong
Canton
Lueigert
Joliet
Adolph L. Luetgert
Alaska
China
Germany
the Spectator
Japan
Peru
Lima
Pierola
Law
Mra. McKinley
Walla Walla
Valley
Metals OF the Northwest
Pacific Northwest
Society Girl
Moyle
Hast Kootenal
St. Hugene
War Eagle
Center Star
Pacific
South Fork
Boroule
Whitewater
Bear Lal
Landon
Cody
G. F. Copeland
Kootenay
Railway and Navigation Company
Kasio & Slocan Railway
International Nav, & Trading Co
Kablo & Blocan RY
Sondon
Kasio
Dally
Bandon
Kaslo
International Nay, & Trad, Co
Kootenay Lake
International
Nelson
Balfour
Pilot Bay
Ainsworth
All Way Pointe
Five Mile Point
Alberta
Bonner's Ferry
Bonners Ferry
Bonner’s Ferry
Great Northern Railway
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