22 Sep 1898
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
1
Paris dispatch reports mutiny among convicts in French Guiana at Cayenne. Mutineers overpowered guards seized arms and ammunition. Authorities threaten no mercy and orders to shoot Dreyfus if any escape attempt or rescue is suspected.
Paris dispatch reports General Chaneine ordered Picquart and M Loblois charged with forging documents, with trial set before the correctional tribunal. Picquart denied suicide and warned of murder if forced to face the hangman's cord. Audience shouted support as the judge adjourned proceedings amid lingering Dreyfus affair tensions.
Captain Alfred Paget British naval attache analyzes Cuban campaign material and argues for naval command of transports and loading. He questions Admiral Cervera's tactics and outlines how a strengthened harbor squadron could have defended Santiago. The report stresses night sorties and rapid mobilization as key to countering American advances.
A dust explosion at the Union Elevator and Transportation plant in Toledo destroyed the facility. Many workers perished or were injured as the fire spread, with 450000 bushels of wheat, corn and oats in storage and 80000 more to be shipped by rail. The blast blew debris across the yard, mortally injuring supervisor W. J. Parks and trapping others inside. Grace Parks, his daughter, survived a harrowing sequence but was burned as she attempted to assist her father.
A fragmentary United States newspaper item reports a winter murder in Seattle by a companion, details a snowstorm tragedy, and mentions a separate naval dispatch: Admiral Cervera’s party arriving at Santander aboard City of Rome, with Captain Enslate withholding publication statements amid court martial concerns.
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