From the Nation's Capital on Cape War and Navy Scrutiny
From Washington Aug 5 1001 dispatch discusses tensions between Navy officials over Admiral Schley and Captain Parker. It notes Crowninshield and Hackett pressuring and spying on Parker while questioning orders and court actions. The piece also covers consular reports on South Africa violence, Campbell camps, and concerns over military logistics and extravagance.
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Wasuinaroy
D. C
Navy Department
Crownin Abtold
Hackett
Long
Schley
Captain Parker
Secretary Long
Crowninshield
Parker
Navy
Pergona
State Department
Cape
Kaflira
Lord Kitchiner
Herstofora
South Africa
Army Transport Service
Inspector General
Quartermasters Department
Breckenridge
Corbin
Uncle Sam
Kentucky
United States
Bride Dances to Death at Polish Wedding Feast
In MacKeefront Pennsylvania Anna Bradowicz twenty three bride of twenty four hours died after dancing with hundreds of guests at her wedding celebration. The custom involved each male guest paying one dollar to dance with the bride. After the ninety four rounds she fainted and died from heat prostration. Her husband John Bradowicz is held under watch following tragedy.
Good Health in Havana Shows Yellow Fever Victory
Reports to the Secretary of War from Havana sanitary officials credit Major Gorgas and Governor General Wood with turning Havana away from yellow fever. Three months with zero cases. death rate down to twenty three per thousand. Quarantine kept external infections from sparking outbreaks. no smallpox since July 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorgas
Wood
Havana
Tampico
Canitary Office
Juy
New York
New Orleanas
Phia Ledger
Gist Rifles Survivors Hold Nineteenth Annual Meeting
The Gist Rifles survivors association met August 2 2001 at Spring Park Williamston DC with President R V Acker presiding The gathering included officers elected for 2002 and the attendance of members and visitors from various Hampton Legion units A poem by Mrs William F Lee was read and a monument project discussed credits were given to Col J N Brown and others for remarks and memories of Civil War service.
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Gist Rifles Survivors’ Association
Spring Park
Williamston
D. C
R. V. Acker
Wm. FP. Lee
G. M. Rogers
R. Y. Acker
Wm. F. Lee
Wyatt Mattison
W. M. Mayfield
David Moore
J. W. Pickens
T. F. Taylor
John V. Whitt
KR. V. Acker
I. W. Wickens
That Vic
J. W. Whitt
J. F. Hendrix
Wm. 1. Lee
Col
J. N. Brown
Mth
S.C. V
McGowan
David Garrison
Hampton Legion
Simeon Eskew
E. W. Lee
Orr's Regt
J.T. Smith
M. T. Smith
Almotto
Anguat
Newton
T. Elrod
M. ?. Allen
W. H. Mauldin
A. J. Stringer
Mannesas
Gist Hiflea
J. N. Brownshe
Gist Rifles
Acker
I. W. Pickens
Jans. PF. Hendrix
Eula Crymeg Wilson
Eva Stringer
R. R. Hodgins
Virginia
Col. Brown
Anderson Inteligencei
Whitefield News Protracted Meetings Amid Dust and Travel
The Whitefield community reports warm dry weather for ongoing protracted meetings but no new members. Notable items include Mr. L. W. Harvin leaving with friends for the mountains, visits between Cecil Kaye and Mrs. Griffin in Pickens, and the elopement and marriage of John Bowlan and Maggie Cox in Belton last Sunday.
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Whitefield
L. W. Harvin
Cecil Kaye
Griffin
Pickens
Berry Jones
Brushy Creek
D. J.tucker
John Bowlan
Mita Maggie Cox
Belton
John
Married by a Woman at Squire Bailes House
A couple sought instant marriage at Squire Bailes home on the North Carolina South Carolina border. While Bailes was away his wife officiated, and the couple wed. Days later the bride’s father got a license and remarried them with a minister. The wife questions if the knot was proper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squire Bailes
Mr. Bailes
Squire
North Carolina
South Carolina
Jealousy Fatal: Soldier Kills Wife and Shoots Self
At Sullivan's Island early this morning Lewis Hackerty, a private in the 10th United States artillery, shot and killed his wife Hattie Harvey Lewis before taking his own life. Jealousy focused on a fellow soldier, Meanor, as the motive. The dead husband’s body was claimed by military authorities, while the wife’s body was to be buried at public expense.
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London
Canopus
Wyalington
Kentucky
Kearsarge
Porto Rico
United States
Charleston
Lewis Hackerty
United States Artillery
Sullivan's Island
Hattie Harvey
Marry Lewis
Hockerty
Rge
Meanor
Killed his Neighbor in Teat County Feud
Roanoke Va Aug 5 Two farmers William Mallory and Zig Jones near Teat County head of pec pyillery quarrelled after leaving a distillery. Mallory was shot to death and Jones fled across the state line into West Virginia. Mallory left in the room until evening and a quantity of whiskey was found at the scene. Mallory was a highly respected farmer and father of five.
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Roanoke
William Mallory
Zig Jones
Pec Pyillery
Teat County
Mallory Wi
Jones
West Virginia
Mallory
Mall
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