7000 Troops Sail From Key West to Santiago de Cuba
Washington reports General Shafter’s First Division sails from Key West on 32 transports toward Santiago de Cuba to besiege the city. About 17,000 men, loaded aboard ships, with convoys of warships, aim to deter Spanish resistance and strike operations planned for landing at Guanima Bay and Caimanera, with aims to take Porto Rico after the Santiago campaign.
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Washington
Tater
Brajor
Shafter
Fiest
United States Army
Key West
Santiago de Cuba
Port Tampa
Havuna
Traoxport
Watson
Havana Harbor
St. Louis
Indiana
Santiago
Ti Ia Bot
Caimanera
Guantanams Bay
Miles
Coppinger
Lee
Jacksonville
Navy Department
Army
de Bai
San Juan
Ganinson
Breaks Out Between Camp Alger Chief and Regimental Surgeons
Washington June 13 A clash between Colonel A C Girard chief of surgeons at Camp Alger and regimental surgeons led to the appointment of a commission to investigate division hospital policy. Girard claimed regulations authorize centralized supplies. regiments oppose, fearing loss of regimental dispensaries. The commission will study division hospital operations and possible retention of two regimental cots.
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Washington
A. C. Girard
Camp
Comratesian
States
Triands
Fitegerald
Massachusetts
Graham
Girard
Atiatcons
A Sword for Dewey by Navy Board Action
The secretary of the navy names a board to select designs for a sword of honor for Admiral George Dewey and bronze medals for Manila Bay heroes. The panel includes Allen, Senator Locke, and Professor Oliver to submit design plans and cost estimates. An appropriation of 10000 dollars funds manufacture.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Ito
Congress
George Dewey
Manila Bay
United States
Dewey
Allen
Locke
Massachusetts
Marshall Oliver
Rough Riders for Manila to Be Sent from Cheyenne
Denver June 13 orders from army headquarters dispatch the Nevada troop of Cal Torrey's Rough Riders from Cheyenne to San Francisco. Cal Atwood, department quartermaster, seeks railroad bids for transport. Indications point to the full regiment being sent to the Philippines, with troops forwarded as they are equipped.
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Denver
Army
Nevada
Cal Torrey
Rough Riders
Cheyenne
San Francisco
Cal Atwood
Philippines
New Gold Fields in Klondike Region Draws Crowd
News from Victoria reports a rich gold find near Lake Teslin and along the Klondike shore. Prospectors rush from Glenora and Telegraph as 200 lookers-on swell the camp, while river conditions slow Stickeen steamers and drownings occur near Menora.
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Lake Teéslin
Ineky San
Canadian Development Company
Lakes
Ims Wong
Glenora
Telegraph
Ramona
Monte Cristo
Skagit Chief
Lkely
Cauca
Menora
Ballard
Stansfield
Kan, Ave
Miller's “Pharmacy
Cor
Gib
Topeka
Riots in Sierra Leone Report of Casualties and Arrests
Steamers report a devastating uprising in Sierra Leone with about a thousand killed in the district. One hundred twenty traders in Freetown dead or missing, many colonists abducted. Three hundred friendly natives slain, and six colored missionaries of the United Brethren murdered at Mandhbargru. English missionaries spared but at risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Sierra Leone
Freetown
United Brethren of Christ
Mandhbargru
Runaway Horse Crashes Through Stores in St Paul Scene
A runaway horse dragging cart wheels rode through downtown St Paul near B Kant's commission store. The vehicle tore through a passage, smashed glass, and toppled a partition. No one was seriously hurt though Mrs. Schwarts sustained a scalp contusion.
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St Paul
Minn
B. Kant
David Koss
Rose
Thi
Minnesota
Commission House
Soraey
Princess Louise of Saxe Coburg Sued Over 2 Million
Vienna reports creditors of Princess Louise of Saxe Coburg sue to recover two million francs claimed from alleged denature of Crown Princess Stephanie. The princess, daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium, is said to have been confined to a private asylum after weeks with her lover at a castle near Agram Croatia amid mounting debts and forged signatures.
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London
Vienna
Princom Louise
Saxe-Colture
Philip
Stephanie
Mellot
London Daily Chronicle
Louise of
Saxe-Coburg
Deserter Hargrove Arrested After Trunk Capture
Deserter Thomas Hargrove from Tampa arrived at Fort McPherson after eluding capture for days as authorities traced him across suburbs to Neb City. He faces court martial with verdict pending. death would mean execution at the reservation. Separate note: Ada Hart of Groton, S D, credits Dr King’s New Discovery for curing her consumption after a cold settled in. Trial bottles offered free at Swift and Holliday’s Drug Store with guarantee.
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Tampa
Atlanta
Thomas Hargrove
United States Army
Fort McPherson
Hargrove
Neb City
Ada F. Hart
Groton
S. D
Swift & Holliday
Fleeing Teneriffe and American Meet Fear Prompts Migration
Dispatch from Teneriffe June 12 reports an English vessel arrives to take residents fleeing due to an American meet. Also notes child worms cure with White's Cream Vermitage, a tonic and worm destroyer by Geo. W. Stansfield and Miller's Pharmacy. Summer tourist rates to Colorado at $24 round trip via Santa Fe. Dr. Davis anti-headache cures headaches in 25 cents.
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Teneriffe
Madrid
White
Geo. W. Stansfield
Kansas Avenue
Miller's Pharmacy
Sixth and
Topeka Avenue
Colorado
Santa Fe
Funeral Mix of Catholic and Chinese Rites
At Clark street in Chicago, the funeral of May Foot Gum Hoy blends Catholic mass with Chinese customs. Devotional acts include paper offerings, drum music, and propitiation rituals as the boy lies in a Chinese temple before burial at Rose Hill cemetery.
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Chieecago
Little May Foot Gum Hoy
Clark Street
Cathay
Ee Oy Tong Hoy
Wee Fook Gum
Rose Hill Cemetery
Moy Long Hoy
Ching Seas
Wiserie
Stoge
Styx
Cartere
Populists Alarmed By Crisis in Omaha Meeting
Chairman Washburn of the Populist national committee warns of a decisive struggle between fusionists and leaders for control. He urges proxies by mail or telegraph if delegates cannot attend Omaha, stresses party unity over factions, and invites Populist officials to the gathering with floor rights but no vote.
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Washburn
Hoston
George F. Washburn
Populisr Party
Yeaders
Pis
Seus
Omaha
Mali
Sterling wrecked after running aground on Nusheyok river
The steamer Sterling, which left San Francisco April 27 with cannery supplies for southeastern Alaska, ran on a reef and wrecked in the Nusheyok river about 65 miles from its mouth. Her crew and passengers were landed at Katkux. The ship carried 175 passengers, 160 of whom were Chinese.
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Seattle
Kodiak
Alaska
Sterling
Nusheyok River
Katkux
San Francisco
Special train itinerary to Washington via Santa Fe Pennsylvanian lines
N. E. A. special to Washington on July 4 1598 departs Kansas City at 7 p m via Santa Fe toward Chicago with eastbound Pennsylvania lines. Tour highlights include Alleghany mountain scenery the Horse Shoe Curve Blue Juniata and Susquehanna river. Apply W C Garver for itinerary and low rate excursions and train pass times. Also Santa Fe offers through Pullman sleepers and Denver via Pueblo Colorado Springs. No-To-Bac advertised and Peerless Steam Laundry services.
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Washington, D. C
Santa Fe
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Kansas City
Chicago
Pennsylvania Lines
Alleehany Mountain
Horee Shoe
Blue Juniata
Susquehanna
York
W. C. Garver
Washington
Denver
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
The
Pullman
Two Cincinnati Girls Suffer Rare Ichthyosis at City Hospital
Cincinnati June 18 two young sisters Agnes and Ella Fitzpatrick aged 5 and 7 are hospitalized with ichthyosis a rare fish scaled skin disease. The condition covers most of their bodies except the feet is incurable but treated with baths and lotions to ease discomfort. Climate worsens symptoms and the girls show bright dispositions despite recurring itching and shedding.
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Cincinnati
City Hospital
Agnes
Ella Fitzpatrick
London
Death at a Party in Opelika Alabama
At Walter Cuilers residence a lamp toppled during a sociable causing oil to ignite dress of Miss Sallie Wimberly. Half a dozen guests tried to help and were burned. Miss Wimberly fled to the lawn, fell and died, her body burned severely.
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Opelika
Ala
Walter Cuilers
Sallie Wimberly
Miss Wimberly
Ex Confederates Ask McKinley To Raise Veteran Regiment
Atlanta June 12 ex Confederate Benjamin M Blackburn editor of the Daily Commercial writes to President McKinley seeking authority to form a regiment of Confederate veterans and Southern youths. He says they would wear two Confederate faces on lapels and wave Old Glory as they march and notes he could assemble a brigade of such soldiers. He condemns any refusal as narrow sectionalism.
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Atlanta
Benjamin M. Blackburn
The
Daily Commercial
McKinley
Coronel Blackburn
Blackburn
Frances E Willard Honor Plan Approved by Temperance Hospital Board
Chicago plan to rename the National Temperance Hospital and Sanitarium Frances E Willard National Temperance Hospital advances with incorporation changes. The 1619 Diversey Avenue facility hosts Dr Sarah Hackett Stevenson as president of physicians and Dr John K R Boyton heading the homeopathic department. Officers include Margaret Inglehart president and Calista E Bigelow treasurer. The institution rejects alcohol stimulant administration as unnecessary and wrongful.
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Chicago
Frances E. Willard
National Temperance Hospits
Instituton
Diversey Avenue
Pine Hospital
Sarah Hackett Stevenson
John KR. Boyton
Homeopathic
Margaret Inglehart
James B. Hobbs
Watson Thatcher
Ralph S. Greenlee
Calista E. Bigelow
Sarah M. Hornby
Glasses linked to Civil War past thrill general
Washington June 12 Maj Gen M C Buller returns from South Carolina and finds field glasses with a note from Mrs Kemper of Virginia saying she came into possession of them after General Butler was severely wounded. Butler instantly recognizes the glasses as his from his Confederate days and says the remark about being a Yankee. The New York Camp of the American Revolution plans to honor Buller with a horse and trappings and present General Grant with a sword.
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Washington
M.C. Buller
South Carolina
Kemper
Virginia
Butler
Lost & Fez
New York
Lone
Buller
Fred Grant
John GC. Calhoun
Grant
Dr. French
Camp Alger
Peerless Steam Laundry Promises Quick Country Work
Ry. informs that Peerless Steam Laundry will handle country work on short order without extra charge, inviting direct inquiry to arrange service.
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Cammanter Mercual
Rerttago
Leighton
Kimen
Gurvie
Trey
Gurein
Seneca
Decker
Hix
T—Commal
Evans
Yucatan
Fan
Winer
Remy
Sexuranca
Berens Ie Hanks Acvacio
I Floride
Miner
Brewers
Nickersin
Ie San Marcos
Misler Peterson
Fatoga
Johann
Ti Leons
Wilders
Roands
Stables
Tro Kimball
Maltewan
B—Morgan
Staer
Imberland
Ienicker Bockerinte
Tesushivapital
Oung
Manila
Wrangel
Omaha Exposition
Sante Fe
W. C. Legent
Princess Louise
Welite
Davis
N. E. A. Special
Baseball
Kentucky
R. M. McGaw & Co
East Fourth St
Sapolio
Miss Willard
National Temperance Hospital
Gen. Butler
H. L. Larsh & Co
Jan Kansas
Winfield
Sup
W. C. Garvey
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