Alger's Homecoming Plans for Secretary Alger
Durxoir Michigan July 24 General Alger to be greeted by a city reception committee on his Washington route and by marching organizations on arrival. He will be escorted to city hall for a formal presentation by the mayor and governor, then a public reception, a meeting likely at Light Guard armory, and a later indignation meeting debated by Governor Pingree. Maybury questioned potential embarrassment to Alger but the governor favored a mass meeting.
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Pingce
Maybury
Alger
Alger's Plan to Ship Spaniards Home Backed by President
Secretary Alger recalled a bold wartime idea to send Santiago prisoners back to Spain. He said a July 9 1898 suggestion to use Galveston failed to finalize until a White House meeting where the president approved the unprecedented plan and he cabled General Shafter that same day.
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Spain
Washington
Alger
War Department
Santiago
Galveston
Tex
United States
White House
General Shafter
Root Accepts War Portfolio On Briefest Notice
Washington July 24 Root becomes secretary of war after Alger resigns. Meiklejohn comments on impact, while Vanderlip settles Hastings postoffice site for 9,400 payment. Mrs McKinley to seek quiet rest. Iowa pensions payout totals 7.78 million. Dreyfus to be tried in Rennes open Aug 7.
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Washington
Elihu Root
Alger
Root
New York
Platt
Hoestings
Washieton
Vanderlip
Lloyd Lynn
Hastings Avenue
Third Street
Hastings
Neb
Congress
Dutton
Lyon
McKinley
Piarriford
N. Y
Hotel Champlain
Iowa
Drs Mores
Dreyfus
Angust
Paris
Rennes
No Funeral Arrangements Yet In Ingersoll Death
The body of Robert G. Ingersoll lies in the bedroom where he died at Dobbs Ferry home of Walston H. Brown. Family grief delays funeral plans with no arrangements made. Cremation is likely. or burial at Sleepy Hollow if not cremated. John Clark Ridpath may deliver the eulogy. sculptor George Gray Barnard to make a death mask.
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Ingersoll
Yeur
Robert G. Ingersoll
Walston H. Brown
Dobbs’ Ferry
Farrell
Sleepy Hollow
Tarrytown
Washington Irving
John Clark Ridpath
George Gray Barnard
Ingersoll Monument Fund Launched In Peoria
Memorial services for Colonel Robert Q. Ingersoll were held at the Tabernacle Peoria with 500 mourners including Eleventh Illinois Cavalry veterans. Twenty speakers praised his charity and advocacy of intellectual freedom. A 15 member Ingersoll memorial committee was formed to solicit funds for a Glen Oak park monument.
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Peoria
Prortz
Robert Q. Ingersoll
Tabernacl
Eleventh Illinois Cavalry
Glen Oak Park
Ingersoll Memorial Committee
Kansas Soldier's Story and War News in Independence
Emil G. Etsold of company G, Twentieth Kansas, writes that two Aguinaldo officers were seen negotiating peace, while the U S government offers 330 Mexican for each man who surrenders his gun. Also reported is a missing wife case of Mrs. Fitzgerald, searched for by her husband in Hastings and Omaha with little progress.
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Independence
Kan
Emil G. Etsold
Company G
Twentieth Kansas
Aguinaldo
Rain revives crops as mills, industries push ahead
A refreshing rain in South Dakota revived corn and aided wheat filling. The Finlayson-Bonefield company of Grafton Massachusetts joined the thread combine. Yantic with the Michigan naval brigade reached Mackinac Island. Mrs Mary Love Lawless died in Lexington Kentucky at 82. Six hundred garment workers struck in New York and formed a union. Delegates from Irish societies formed the United Irish American Society in New York to unite Irish people. Rumor says a national organization will coordinate compressed air plants. Governor Tanner of Illinois tours Colorado escaped game wardens. Forty small river steamers for sale at St Michaels Alaska. Apostolic Delegate Martinelli led mass in Madison Wisconsin. Paris Temps says France may get 20 percent duty reduction to boost US competition. Free Economical Society to exhibit Russian dairy products and machine packing in St Petersburg in September.
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South Dakota
Finlayson-Bonefield Company, Limited
Grafton
Mass
U. S
Yantic
Michigan Naval Brigade
Mackinai Islands
Mich
Mary Love Lawless
Abraham Lincoln
Lexington
New York
United Irish-American Society
United States
Tanner
Clinois
Safariy
Colorado
St. Michaels
Alaska
Madison
Wis
Martinelli
St. Raphael’s Church
Paris Temps
France
America
Free Economical Society
St. Petersburg
Noncombatants Flee Clay County as Kin Conflicts Rise
In Manchester and across Clay County Kentucky noncombatants evacuate homes and crops amid looming violence. Armed factions gather for a march to Manchester to attend a trial in London. ChiefsPhilpots claim rival forces include White Howard. Morris faction cites Bakers alliance.
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Clay County
Lonnon
Manchester
London
Philpots
Aaron Morris
Morris and Griffin
White- Howard
Morris
Bakers
Jia
Davis Chadwell
White-Howard
Griffins
Governor Poynter Goes West for Nebraska Troops
Lincoln and Fort Scott dispatches report Gov. Poynter travels to San Francisco to assist the First Nebraska regiment due midweek, carrying a $1000 state appropriation for soldiers and seeking an early muster out, with a Lincoln reception planned. The piece notes a Washington ruling on commissions affecting First regiment officers, and includes assorted war news from Kansas, Lincoln, London, and Nebraska towns.
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Poynter
Lincoin
Neb
San Francisco
Nebraska
Philippines
Lincoln
Doan's Kidney Pills End Back and Kidney Aches
An Atlantic citizen claims Doan's Kidney Pills cured his back and kidney pains after cold or overwork. W C Dunn of 906 West Sib Street describes relief after using the product from Palmer & Co. Doan's, $0.50, Foster Milburn Buffalo NY sole US agency. Neb banks report deposits over $21 million. Also ads for Dr Fowler's Extract and Ro-Tu-Bae tobacco cure.
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Atlantic
W.C. Dunn
Sib St
Doan
Palmer & Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Douan
Nebraska
Lincolln
Neb
State Banking Department
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