SANTIAGO REPORTS QUIET FRONT AS SURRENDER SEEMS NEAR
News dispatches from July 12 describe very little fighting at Santiago with Spanish flag of truce and surrender talks. General Shafter reports lines completed to the bay and two land batteries due, while relief work for civilians proceeds amid battlefield damage and casualties.
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Ludlow
Bay
Washington, D. C
Washington
Alger
War Department
Shafter
Siboney
San Iago
Santiago
Sagasta Resigns as Spain Faces Military Cabinet Shift
Madrid reports Senor Sagasta offered resignation of his cabinet and advised replacing ministers with military figures. United States peace terms are proposed, including Cuba and Puerto Rico possession, a Canaries port, and an indemnity, viewed as unlikely. Shafter’s Santiago operation nears decision, with artillery and naval cooperation emphasized to prevent Spanish escape.
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Spain
Santiago
Sampson
London
Madr d
The
Times
Senor Sagasta
Madrid
United States
Cuba
Porto Rico
Canaries
Spanish ships wreck survey reports only one ship repairable
The board of survey examining the wrecks of the Spanish ships off Santiago de Cuba reports that only one ship can be repaired. The note mentions the fleet under Cervera and includes dates July 10 and July 12 with Kingston Jamaica as a reference point. The passage indicates the ships suffered extensive damage and uncertainty remains about salvage options.
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Cervera
Cratorial Colom
Gunn
Vizcaya
Brooklyn
Oregon
Fulate
Almirante Oquendo
Infanta Maria Teresa Tas
Santiago de Cuba
Kingston
Jamaica
Board of Survey
Washington
Wind Point
Wis
Lake
Mil’gan
Democrats Gird for Illinois State Ticket Nominations
The Democratic state convention opens at the Springfield exposition building to nominate for state treasurer and state superintendent of public instruction along with university trustees. M F Dunlap leads for treasurer, with Pace and Heenan as rivals. Stiver likely for superintendent, while others withdraw or reiterate runs. Resolutions denounce the Allen street railway law and endorse Altgeld and Harrison. fusion Populists plan to meet and back the Democratic ticket.
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Ill
Exposition
State Fair Grounds
University of Illinois
M. F. Dunlap
Jacksonville
E .C. Pace
Ashley
Daniel Heenan
LaSalle County
Dunlap
Altgeld
Harrison
Indorsing
Altgéld
Ten Die in Lake Erie Waterworks Explosion Near Cleveland
Ten men are killed when a gas explosion hits a waterworks tunnel under Lake Erie near Cleveland. Only escapee is locktender Colonel O'Donnell. two rescuers perish, a third dies trying to reach trapped workers. The tunnel runs about four and a half miles from shore, construction halted after earlier blasts and quicksand.
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Lake Erie
Cleveland
John Parks
James Parks
John
John Fradey
Tony Broncett
Emerson Smith
John McCauley
William Tucker
Gus Watt
Frank Clements
Colonel O'Donnell
Patrick Warner
Martin McCauley
James Clementia
Farmers Hold Wheat For Better Indiana Prices Amid Good Yields
Farmers in eastern Indiana delay selling new wheat, storing to gain higher prices as yields prove strong. Many report over twenty bushels per acre, with blights unused this year. Good wheat brings 70 cents a bushel in Pittsburg. other notes include a wage convention in progress and notable deaths and arrivals.
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Anderson
Ind
Indiana
White Top
Hng
Bright Wisconsin Girl Confesses to Arson Fires
Lydia Berger an 11 year old girl is jailed in Milwaukee County after confessing to arson. She left home on a farm north of Milwaukee to witness a carnival pageant and,set fires to the cottage of her family shelter provider and a barn housing hay. Her motives cited revenge on her father for whipping her.
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Milwaukee
Lydia Berger
Wisconsin Lake Ice Company
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