Americans win most in Paris exposition contests and more
The Paris exposition sees Americans take 16 first, 13 second and 12 third prizes across 21 contests. Lemly rules the president can appoint 16 more second lieutenants in the U.S. Marine Corps. China appears to have declared war on Russia. fighting and reverses unfold in Manchuria. Texas pledges troops for China as needed. A Syrian woman aboard the Havana steamer dies of suspected yellow fever on Hoffman island. A Colombian government split grows with ministers opposing colleagues. Rev. Henry Smith, Cherokee, is ordained a priest of the Episcopal church, to serve in Milwaukee Cathedral.
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Uwth
Lemly R
United States Marine Corps
Syrain
Havana
Hoffman Island
Swinburne Island
Henry Smith
St. Pawl Church
Ardmore
I. T
Episcopal Church
Smith
Ife
Milwaukee
Rain Ends Drought Saving Northern Kansas Corn Crop
Heavy rains drenched Northern Kansas along the Missouri River on the 15th and farther west to the Colorado line on the 16th, ending a four to five week drought and arriving just in time to save the corn crop.
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Kansas
Missouri River
Colorado Line
Gale and fire devastate Atrato town in Colombia
A powerful gale struck Bocas de Toro in Atrato Colombia causing widespread destruction to homes and banana plantations. Immediately after, a severe fire swept the town, destroying its finest buildings and leaving residents demoralized. The blaze reportedly started by carelessness in the Chinese quarter.
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Atrato
Colombia
Saya Bocas de Toro
United States Plans 32500 Gallons Daily Water Purification Aid
The quartermaster's department orders sterilizers and distilling plants for the army in China to provide 32 500 gallons of water daily for inland use where foul water is common. This marks the most extensive water purifying effort the U S has sent with any field army.
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Quartermaster’s Department
China
United States
Missionary Society Grants Secretary Power to Recall China Missionaries
The board of management of the Methodist Episcopal church missionary society meets in New York on the 11th and passes a resolution empowering the secretary, with the China committee, to recall all missionaries in China at any time deemed prudent. The resolution authorizes spending any needed sums to carry out this action.
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Board of Management
The
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
New York
China
Captain Holmes charged with manslaughter in Idler disaster
Captain Charles J. Holmes, master of the schooner Idler, drowned five women and a baby when the vessel capsized off Avon Point, Ohio, on the 7th. He was arrested in Cleveland on the 16th by the U S marshal, bail set at $1,000. Holmes allegedly refused to shorten sail as a squall approached.
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Charles J. Holmes
Idler
Avon Point
Cleveland
United States
Holmes
Fall of Pekin Legation Guards Reported in China
A Chinabound dispatch dated the 15th details that on the 7th early morning the besieged guards and foreign residents at the Pekin legations were overwhelmed after a fierce defense. The defenders, exhausted and starved, were killed to the last man as attackers breached the compounds.
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China
Pekin
Patent Office Surplus and Need for New Building Report
Washington July 19 The Commissioner of Patents reports for the year ending June 30 that 26 540 patents were granted including reissues and designs 1 650 trademarks 682 labels and US prints registered while 19 968 patents expired and 4 052 applications forfeited for non payment of final fees The patent office receipts totaled 1 958 228 expenditures 1 247 128 surplus to treasury 110 401 The report urges a new building for exclusive use by the patent office and recommends salary realignments and library stacks funding The surplus receipts over ten fiscal years exceed 2 000 000 and excess receipts into treasury over 5 000 000
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Washington
Patent Office
Renarly
Interior Department
United States
Treasury
Hawaiians Are Grateful Letter From Honolulu 1900
In a July 15 dispatch from Washington the president received a letter from native Hawaiian citizens of the Territory of Hawaii dated June 20 1900 thanking President McKinley and Congress for liberal laws enacted for Hawaii. The signers listed include DPD Kalaukalan James K Kaulia and Robert W Wilcox as national committeemen extending best wishes to the president Congress and the American people.
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Washington
Honolulu
H. R
Willis McKinley
Congress
The
United States of America
Tawaii
Territory of Hawaii
People of America
DPD
Kalauokalant
James K. Kaulia
Robert W. Wilcox
No Troops Needed as Intruders Leave Reservation
Agent Randlett of the Wichita agency in Kansas City reports to the Indian bureau that Frank J. Parewell, chief of police, said intruders on the reservation are leaving peaceably and troops are not required. Col. Randlett had earlier warned about about fifteen hundred intruders seeking minerals and the possible need to eject them, noting an error in the treaty wording opened the reservation to settlement.
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Washington
Randlett
Wichita Indian Agency
Kansas City
Indian Bureau
Frank J. Parewell
Plan to Freeze Out Iron Makers Hits Market Prices
Cleveland sources report a trust plan to curb plate and bar iron and steel makers who entered the boom. Prices have fallen from 45 to 25 dollars per ton over seven weeks, forcing several small mills to quit. The plan aims to raise prices on September 1 to 25 dollars per ton for beams and channels iron.
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Cleveland
Illinois State News Prominent deaths and events in Illinois
A roundup of notable deaths including George A Kaemper Peter Howarak Mrs Margaret Smith Henry Nick and others across towns Dicksonville Mattoon Pana Quincey Morrisonville Rushville and Shelby. It notes the State Epworth League convention in Peoria with new officers and reports a missing Chicago businessman John Wollensack believed to be 60 and worth about half a million with large unpaid rents awaiting his return.
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Margaret Smith
Dicksonville
Henry Nick
Dole House
Mattoon
Pechenhaugh
Pittsfield
Michael Cummings
Pana
J. F. Cox
Quincey
Peoria
Thomas S. Marshall
Salem
J. A. Alford
Millersburg
F. B. Madden
Mansfield
Vina Hutchison
Chicago
M. Scherin, Jr
D. T. Miles
Harristown
Bessie
John F. Wollensack
Wollensack
San Francisco
Pearl fishery riches and town tragedies unfold in Sycamore
Miss Alice Craven nets a fine pearl at Nishwaukee near Big Thunder bridge valued at 150 dollars plus six more pearls found, ranging 2 to 100. Roy Wayward dies of lockjaw or illness in Trenant. A Fourth of July accident injures a boy, 12, from Sig. A. Tayword. Mayor John Colvin killed near Illinois Central track. Nathaniel Hill fatally hurt by a self binder horse accident. College presidency offered to Rev. Dr. Pooley of Rockford and possible Detroit pastorate under consideration. Illinois mining board to meet Aug 6 in Springfield for certification. Illinois apples triumph in Paris with scores. Springfield plans to float 207,900 municipal bonds. Mrs. George B. Harrison dies at Bloomington. Mya Fimbrock killed and brother mortally hurt near Wapella. Jail prisoners escape DeKalb county jail. one recaptured by Alderman Sell.
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Alice Craven
Big Thunder Bridge
Perii Legationers Dispatch Details Ninth Infantry Losses
Washington reports from Lieut Col Coolidge give Ninth Infantry casualties at Tien Tsin. Consul Fowler at Che Foo backs Pekin legation safety on July 9 from Yuan Shih Kai sources. Navy wary. Castine on station, other ships en route if needed.
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Fowler
Che Foo
Washington
Pekin
Wu’s
Yuan- Shih-Kai
Shan Tung
Battle of Tien Tsin Casualties Reported
From Washington July 19 the War Department released its first official report on the Tien Tsin attack of July 13 listing killed Col F E H W Liscum and 17 enlisted men wounded Capt C R Noyes Maj J Regan Capt I V Bookmiller Lieut F R Lang and 72 enlisted men missing two enlisted men. Coolidge signs the dispatch as lieutenant colonel of the Ninth Infantry.
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Washington
War Department
Tien Tsin
F. RR. Lang
Coolidge
Ninth Infantry
Aide Sent to Tien Tsin for Accurate Information
A dispatch from Washington July 18 reports army officers Maj Lee Capt Brewster Lieut Nylor Hammon and Waldron not wounded while Capt Chas G Lang marine corps and Second Lieut F R Lang are wounded. An aide travels to Tien Tsin for precise details. Lang served in the Spanish War and Lang became second lieutenant April 10 1899. Capt Charles G Lang previously Massachusetts native, on duty at Cavite P I since April 8 1899. AT THE JAPANESE LINGATION.
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Washington
Navy Department
Cavite
P. I
China
Japanese legation reports Tianjin relief urgent amid bombardment
Washington reports a Tokyo foreign affairs dispatch stating Baron Nishi says legations in Pekin are daily bombarded with ammo running short and massacre feared. A messenger brings a letter noting provisions unavailable after July 1. London notes a possible Chinese invasion of Siberia would complicate international dynamics and risk war if confirmed.
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Washington
Tokio
Baron Nishi
Pekin
Tiensin
Siberia
London
St. Petersburg
Manchuria
Roberts reports Boer attack and Allied defense near Bethlehem
London dispatch cites Lord Roberts from Pretoria on July 17 as Irish Fusiliers and Canadian mounted infantry under Lieut-Col Alderson repelling repeated Boer assaults. Casualties total seven British dead, 30 wounded, 21 missing. two Canadians Lts. Borden and Birch killed. Five guns and fifteen hundred Boers broke through near Lindley, chased by Paget and Broadwood. Roberts praises Borden and Birch for gallant leading during a counter attack at a critical juncture.
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London
War Office
Lord Roberts
Pretoria
Pole Carew
Hutton
Irish Fusiliers
Canadian Mounted Infantry
Alderson
Borden
Birch
Tan Hamilton
Weterval
Heaman’s Kraal
Hunter
Rundle
Bethlehem
Ficksburg
Lindley
Paget
Broadwood
University of Havana Seeks Fair Professor Selection
Havana reports that Senor Varona's reforms at the University of Havana are praised for practicality but criticized for how professors are chosen. The plan retains those with competitive exam success and those proven to have ability, while others must resign. Critics warn of invidious judgments and potential favoritism under the new system, urging universal competitive exams.
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Havana
Senor Varona
University of Havana
Senor Varena
Secret treaty proposed between China and Japan warned
Shanghai correspondent claims an unimpeachable source says a secret alliance proposal sought to destroy European and American influence in China and Japan, plan for mass foreign slaughter, and division of eastern Asia from Pariah to Siberia. the commissioner carried a coded message by Li Ming Chang and Sheng, but the Japanese emperor rejected the ideas.
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Tondon
Shanghai
The
Daily Express
China
Japan
Tokio
Eastern Asia
Siberia
Li Ming Chang
Sheng
Woman Captures a Thief in St Louis chase
In south St Louis Mrs Mary Hessel pursued a purse snatcher Tuesday afternoon. A horse and buggy were used and after 12 blocks the man was found in a barn hiding in a manger under hay. A policeman and Mrs Hessel dragged him out and jailed him. A separate New York dispatch notes a buoy from France tied to Andree's polar expedition was found July 7 in the Atlantic near Iceland.
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St. Louis
Mary Hes Bel
Jules Street
South St. Louis
Hessel
New York
France
Andree
Atlantic Ocean
Iceland
Orders for Recruiting Marines in New York
Washington orders received by the U S Marine Corps recruiting office in New York to enlist as many men as possible before July 25.
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New York
Washington
United States Marine Corps
Flood Leaves Long Run Devastation In Ohio Town
A July storm swept Long Run Ohio two miles west of Mount Pleasant killing three people and flooding 75 lowland houses. A Hungarian woman and a miner’s child drowned as homes were swept away and bridges washed out along Short Creek and the Wheeling and Lake Erie roadbed.
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Mount Pleasant
Long Run
John Linfo
Mary Bardock
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Andree Balloon Sighting Tied to North Pole Attempt
A Fort Willam dispatch reports Indians on Hudson Bay coast finding wreckage, two bodies, and a dying man speaking an unknown language. Officials suspect it confirms Andree’s balloon expedition ending. Hudson Bay Co. plans a party to recover evidence and identify the travelers.
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Chicago
Fort Willam
Ont
Times-Ller
Hudson Bay Co
Andree
North Pole
Moose Factory
Smallpox Surge Reported From Nome Camp
Seattle July 20 Two vessels arrived from Nome the Sequoia and the Athenian bringing news of a rapid smallpox outbreak. Officials and doctors work around the clock in the camp where tents hold quarantined cases. Dr J J Tyler reports at least two hundred cases with 17 to 20 people removed daily.
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Seattle
Wash
Nome
Garonne
Ohio
J. J. Tyler
Chicago
Sequoia
Nenthouse
Extradition Limit Clarified in Neeley Case
Judge LaCombe of the United States circuit court ruled that presenting an indictment alone cannot justify Neeley’s extradition. Further testimony will be heard when the case resumes on July 28 regarding Charles I. W. Neeley accused of defrauding the post office department in Cuba.
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New York
LaCombe
United States Circuit Court
Charles I. W. Neeley
Post Office Department
Cuba
Neeley
Powder Magazine Explodes Near Reward Mine in Nevada City
Late last night a powder magazine owned by George F. Turner near the Reward mine exploded, tearing a 40 foot deep hole in the earth. No confirmed word on deaths or total damage while the remains burn and crews fight to stop the fire from reaching a nearby Lake Shore Co. magazine about 106 yards away.
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Nevada City
Cal
George F. Turner
Reward Mine
Lake Shore Co
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