Yale to carry remains of Majors Grady and O Connor
In New York on August 8 Congressman Fitzgerald Senator Corbett and Undertaker Maloney arrange with War and Navy to escort Majors Grady and O Connor remains aboard the Yale. The Eighth Illinois colored unit is due to arrive and join the voyage. A monument dedication in Frederick Maryland honors the Star Spangled Banner with Henry Watterson delivering an oration and Mrs Donald McLean speaking.
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New York
Witsgerald
Corbett
Undertaker Maloney
War and Navy Departments
Yale
Dubs
Grady
O’connor
Fitzgerald
John&. O’connor
Major
Mr. Maroney
Congressman Fitzgerald
Cuba
Illinois
Key Monument Association
Frederick
Boston
Key
Henry Watterson
Donald McLean
Ritchie
Maryland
National Society
Mission Receives Sanction To Bring Home Bodies
The Post reports Congressman Fitzgerald secured U.S. government consent to remove the bodies of Major Grady and Major O Connor from Cuba within a day. Undertaker Frank S. Maloney will return the remains in sealed metallic boxes with U S cruiser assistance and may extend to other fallen Ninth Regiment members for proper burial in Boston.
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Mast
Boston Undertaker
Congressman Fitzgerald
Cuba
P. J. Grady
Michael d. O’connor
Fitzgerald
Ninth Regiment
Washington
United States
Grady
Major O’connor
Frank S. Maloney
O'Connor
Will Bring Home All Dead From Santiago
Secretary Alger issued orders to transport all soldiers who died at Santiago to Washington. He will move the remains after the heated term ends, replacing temporary headboards with permanent ones for ID. Fever deaths may wait months. others will be returned to relatives or buried in national cemeteries.
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Washington
Alver
Santiago
Alger
Memorial to Key to Be Honored Today at 2 PM
This afternoon at two o clock a memorial service will honor Francis Scott Key, author of The Star Spangled Banner. The event marks the memory of the renowned poet and patriot and is expected to draw local residents and officials.
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Francis Scott Key
Purified Brandy Offer Across the Nation
In hot weather buyers are urged to order purified brandy by mail or express from Cushings at 580 Washington Street Boston. Pure California Brandy is advertised at 80 crs per quart and 3.00 per gallon with other rates for best gee and French brandy ranging from 1.25 to higher per bottle. Orders sold only in bags.
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Cushing Process
Washington St
Boston
Bringing Collins Home After Death in Tampa Typhoid
The body of Frank P. Collins, war correspondence for the Boston Journal, who died in Tampa from typhoid contracted in Cuba, is due in Boston this evening. Funeral arrangements fall to Joseph Carlin and Daniel Griffin with a Thursday morning interment at Gate of Heaven Church, South Boston. Collins, a Gate of Heaven lifelong member and former altar boy, was educated at Boston College and active in the Y M C A and parish life. Special prayers were offered at the Church of the Immaculate Conception as Boston press colleagues mourned their colleague.
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Boston Journal
Tampa
Cuba
Mr. Collins
Joseph Carlin
Journal
Washington
Daniel Griffin
Collins
St. Gregory’s Parish
Gate of Heaven
Boston Daily
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Boston College
Young Men’s Catholic Association
South
Boston
Secretary Long Defends Admiral Sampson Against Critics
In a Washington message dated August 8 Secretary John D. Long replies to letters attacking Admiral Sampson. He praises Sampson’s professional attainments and duty, explains Porto Rico movement, and notes orders to avoid exposing battleships to mine risks. He highlights Sampson’s leadership before the battle with Cervera and calls for unity and full praise for all officers.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Admiral Sampson
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Lampson
Santiago
North Atlantic
Sampson
Porto Rico
Department
Cervera
San Juan
Army Fourth
Schley Praises Comrades in Guantanamo Letter
A letter arriving in this city from Flagship Brooklyn in Guantanamo Bay dated July 27 expresses that Admiral Schley credits the victory to all his comrades, from lowest to highest rank, and thanks Mr. D. C. Pavey for the kind expressions.
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D. C. Pavey
Brooklyn
Guantanamo
Cuba
Schley
M'LOUGHLIN OF THE NINTH HONORED DEAD IN SANTIAGO
George P. McLoughlin of Company B Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers died at Santiago last Saturday. He was an only son living with his mother Mrs Ellen McLoughlin at 236 Broadway South Boston. The Twenty Five Associates of 236 Broadway honored him, a committee to arrange bringing the body home will be appointed, and resolutions of sympathy were adopted for engrossing on records. He was a popular, upright young man among his circle.
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George P. McLoughlin
Ninth
Massachusetts Volunteers
Santiago
Ellen McLoughlin
Broadway
South Boston
MceLoughlin
James F. Curran
America
Cortes Must Approve McKinley Cable Note
Madrid dispatch reports the Liberal says government accepts the United States conditions ad referendum and cannot cede territory without Cortes approval. If President McKinley objects, Cortes will be convoked this month. a reply note from McKinley is expected this week.
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Madrid
United States
Cortes
McKinley
Spain
Niagara Falls Bride Finds Lost Keys Save Trunk
A newly wed couple at Niagara Falls struggles with a 487 pound trunk after the groom realizes his keys are at home. The bride improvises with a hairpin to open the trunk, resolving the crisis and cementing their happiness.
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Niagara Falls
Harry
Cleveland
Pickle Extinguishes Maine House Fire
In Waldo County a drought scarred home fire was halted when a woman, thinking of pickle, emptied a cellar brine onto the roof. The salt water proved a miraculous extinguisher and saved the house, as she recalls the word kept running in her mind.
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Maine
Waldo County
Sanitary report from General Shafter lists Aug 7 deaths
Washington reports the August 7 sanitary summary from General Shafter. Fatalities include Private Ranger Mellin and several others from Eighth Ohio and Eighth Infantry units, with yellow fever and typhoid among the causes. Deaths also note pernicious anemia and thermic fever.
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Washington
General Shafter
Santiago
Ranger Mellin
Ninth
Massachusetts
Charles Wren
Eighth Infantry
Daniel Gruber
Hans Larsen
Third Infantry
Frank J. Muck
Michigan
George L. Hopper
Ohio
Ira N. Reyer
Dudley Wilson
Charles Diggs
Twentyfourth Infantry
Frank Dibler
Eighth Ohio
Shafter
Prisoners Embark Spanish Ship Alicante From Santiago
Information from Santiago reports the hospital ship Alicante sailing today with 800 Spanish prisoners bound for Spain. It is believed the ship carries most of General Toral's sick and wounded. The War Department has no definite details on other vessels' sailing times.
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Washington
Corbin
Humphrey
Santiago
Alicante
Spain
Toral
War Department
Long March Planned for Eighth at Chickamauga Park
Soldiers of the Eighth at Chickamauga Park discuss a long march expected next week to Charleston Tennessee covering fifty four miles. The move will shift camp to an open field near the old parade ground with a two day pause in Charleston. The outing lasts about twelve days and pay is awaited. Corporal Paris of Company I has a thirty day furlough for health reasons. The sick list in camp includes about thirty men in the division hospital.
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Chickamauga Park
Charleston
Tenn
New Hampshire
Paris
Company I
Death of Brigadier General John Poland in North Carolina
War Department reports Brigadier General John Poland died of typhoid fever in Asheville North Carolina this morning. Born October 14 1836 in Princeton Indiana he graduated West Point in 1861 and served in the Second Infantry later rising to colonel of the Seventeenth U S Infantry in 1891 and appointed brigadier general of volunteers May 4 1898.
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Washington
War Department
John
Poland
Asheville
N. C
Princeton
Ind
West Point
Second Infantry
Seventeenth U. S. Infantry
Bismarck Fire Destroys Business District
A blaze in Bismarck North Dakota on August 8 heavily damaged the city’s business area, destroying banks, newspaper offices and blocks for a loss of several hundred thousand dollars. Sheridan House narrowly escaped. telegraph offices were moved to a temporary setup.
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Bismarck
N. D
Sheridan House
West Cantonia Street Fire Forcing Families Into Street
A fire at 237 West Cantonia streets caused about 3000 dollars in damage and forced two families to flee in scant clothing. Officer P J Reardon found the blaze burning in the rear parlor and burst out the front door to awaken seven sleeping residents with help from Officer Moran. Nellie Aldrich, lessee, and the Littauer family next door were awakened. 237s first floor gutted, second floor badly wet down.
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P. J. Reardon
Moran
Nellie Aldrich
J. Littauer
Missing Colum bia Exploring Company party on Muskovite River
A late July message from Unalaska reports twelve Columbia Exploring Company prospectors and accompanying Moravian missionary Rev R Weber with family and two native pilots are lost after their steamer Lakme left Good News Bay for the Muskovite River. A storm followed by a stranded barge and adrift raft led to the belief that all seventeen aboard perished.
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San Francisco
Unalaska
Columbia Exploring Company
R. Weter
Wif
Muskovite River
Mr. Weber
Sigsbee to Go to Texas in Naval Shakeup
Secretary Long announced two command changes in the navy. Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, former Maine commander, will relieve Captain John W. Philip of the battleship Texas now under repair in New York. Philip likely to take shore duty at Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco.
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Washington
Long
Charles D. Sigsbee
Maine
Havana
St. Paul
John W. Philip
Texas
New York
Philip
Mare Island Navy Yard
San Francisco
Hobson Visits Cervera After Washington Stop
Naval constructor R. P. Hobson arrived in Annapolis from Washington and visited Admiral Cervera after meeting Admiral McNair. He recalled their 1898 rescue at Santiago Harbor and spoke with Commander White and other officers while a crowd gathered at the station.
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Annapolis
R. P. Hobson
Washington
Admiral McNair
Academy
Cervera
Hobson
Santiago Harbor
White
Lieutenant Healey Reported Very Ill at Camp Alger
Clinton August 8 reports say Lieutenant M. J. Healey in charge of Ninth Regiment recruits at Camp Alger is seriously ill after a hot long march Friday. Several men collapsed from exhaustion and heat, Healey among those affected.
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Clinton
M. J. Healey
Camp Alger
Healey
Sea Gold Stock's Future: Special Meeting Set
Directors of Electrolytic Marine Salts Company met yesterday to call a special stockholders meeting for Aug. 16 in Lorimer Hall Tremont Temple to decide the company's future. The regular stockholders meeting will be Aug. 19 in Portland, Me. Actions at the special meeting are expected to be ratified at the regular meeting.
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Electrolytic Marine Salts Company
Lorimer Hall
Tremont Temple
Portland
Lampasas Arrives at Quarantine From Ponce With Sick Soldiers
The United States transport Lampasas No 8 capt Bars tow arrived at quarantine from Ponce Puerto Rico via Hampton Roads. She landed at Fortress Monroe eighteen sick soldiers. On board are three medical students twenty four female Red Cross nurses and two male nurses. Health officer to board for thorough examination.
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New York
Lampasas No. 8
Barstow
Ponce
P. R
Hampton Roads
Fortress Monroe
Red Cross
French envoys rewarded for services in Washington
Madrid reports the government will reward M. Cam bon and M. Thibaut, secretary of the French embassy in Washington, for their services.
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Madrid
M. Cambon
M. Thibaut
Washington
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