Line of Fresh Meats on Hand for Immediate Call
Local butcher advertises a constant stock line of fresh meats and invites customers to call for purchase. Phone 64.
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Newspaper
Traverse Bay Eagle
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1898
Page
1
Local butcher advertises a constant stock line of fresh meats and invites customers to call for purchase. Phone 64.
Travel trains depart Traverse City at 8 30 am on Sundays including May 22 and every other Sunday after. return from Manistee at 5 40 pm. Round trips cost at most one dollar for any distance. Tickets valid only on sale day and non transferable.
Reports from Santiago de Cuba Port au Prince and London claim varying outcomes of the naval war. The Alfonso XIIl troopship is reported captured near Cuba while Spanish and American fleets exchange fire with damaged ships and guarded claims of victory or check.
From Havana the Spanish fleet at Santiago de Cuba engages the American squadron. After twenty minutes of fire the Texas and other ships press the attack on El Morro, destroying it. Socapa and Punta Gorda forts deliver the last shots as Spanish losses are described as considerable.
Spanish account of the May 21 engagement off Santiago de Cuba reports the American squadron including Iowa Massachusetts Brooklyn Texas New Orleans Marblehead Minneapolis and other vessels firing on the harbor while the Spanish cruiser Christobal Colon and gunboats El Morro Socapa and Punta Gorda returned fire from the shore and sea.
Cape Haytien dispatch reports Porter, St Paul, and New Orleans joining the American squadron at the harbor entrance. Iowa Massachusetts and Texas pour heavy fire on Morro Secapa and Punta Gorda forts for two hours, with Spanish guns silenced and numerous casualties on the Spanish side. No American deaths reported, though damage to the auxiliary cruiser is feared.
London puzzled by contradictory Santiago de Cuba reports. News placards dispute whether the Spanish fleet was destroyed or surrendered and claim varying battle details. Dispatches describe inshore maneuvers, heavy fire on Morro, and Commodore Schley’s alleged actions near Reina Mercedes.
El Progreso in Havana denounces the United States as cowards and proclaims Spanish victories. It claims the Spanish fleet bombarded Boston, threatens New York, and predicts Spain will plant the flag on the American continent while praising Captain General Blanco and Cuba’s pacification.
The dedication of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha Neb took place June 2 amid a thousand bands and banners. A three mile parade drew at least one hundred thousand along the route as President McKinley spoke by telegraph. Enjoyment continued with a Marine Band concert and a grand night pyrotechnic display. At Kingston Jamaica the West Indian and Panama Cable company said cables from Santiago de Cuba remain intact.
A terrific blast rocked the Tobias New & Co tar paper factory on West Nineteenth Street New York injuring several workers. The plant was wrecked and thousands of dollars in damage resulted. No fatalities reported though some injuries are feared to be fatal.
Charles F. Cochran is renominated by acclamation for Congress by Democrats of Missouri's Fourth District at Savannah. The nomination comes as the party formalizes its candidate slate in St. Joseph and nearby counties ahead of the June election.
Key West dispatches say a small Spanish gun boat left Havana on Sunday morning and again on Tuesday, venturing two miles offshore. She was chased and fired upon, then returned to port. A blockade squadron ship neared Havana Monday night, ~five miles away, seeing lit streets and debunking darkness rumors.
In Washington on June 2 officials at the navy department had not received confirmation of a bombardment at Santiago. Experienced officers doubt the report and see no motive for Commodore Schley to start such an attack, though he may have exchanged shots to test ranges.
Report from Mexico City says Spanish government agents are buying cattle and grain to smuggle them out on tramp steamers to run the Cuban blockade. The government vows neutrality and is investigating the activity, with Spaniards working in secret as Mexico begins exporting wheat to Europe.
The schooner Jane Gray, carrying prospectors from Seattle to Kotzebue Sound, wrecked off Cape Flattery. Of 61 aboard, 27 were saved including crew Crockett, Baneen, Carlsen, Olsen, and Johnson, with passengers Ingraham, Lessey, Ackard, Pennington, Blackwell, Loneston, Richards, Weaver, Brooke, Reilly, Coutrie, Heller, Davenport, Sella, Bianchi, Ceira, Wachter, Kingsbury, Roberts, Watson, Wilson, and Johnson.
London June 2 Samuel Plimsoll known as The Sailor's Friend and inventor of the Plimsoll mark to prevent ship overloading is said to be dying at Folkestone. He once led the National Amalgamated Sailors and Firemen's Union of Great Britain and Ireland and wrote Our Seamen and Cattle Ships.
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