Cervera Arrives in Boston to Warm Welcome
Admiral Pascual Cervera arrives in Boston from Portsmouth amid a throng eager for a glimpse. His son Angel Cervera and Spanish sailor Carlos Boardo accompany him, with crowds, police, and a congressman assisting as they travel to Fall River line and on to New York. The party plans to await peace negotiations at Annapolis while on parole as prisoners of war.
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Atral Cervera
Boston
Angel Cervera
Carlos Boardo
Saifor
Union
Portsmouth
Hackman
Boardo
New York Fall River Line
Fall Wmiver
Cervera
New York
Thorndike
Pascual Cervera
Church Street
Yok
Spain
Mr. Boarda
Eulate
The
Vizecaya
Annapolis
Congressman Lowe
Manila Campaign Report Details Spanish Lines and Aftermath
The report describes Spanish entrenchments around Manila with rifle fire on attackers, noting a ten mile outer ring and difficult resistance. Dewey and Merritt allegedly ordered sparing of civilian areas, with limited damage in intramuros. Wildman cites Dewey plans to seize Manila ports Aug 14 and to capture gunboats. Agoncildo advocates Wildman as a Philippines commissioner.
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Manila
Wall City
Dewey
Merritt
Intramuros
Wildman
Admiral Dewey
Mlotlo
Cebu
Royalist
Talawan
Labuan
Iloilo
Bataan
Banay
Australia
Augustin
Hong Kong
Agoncildo
Philippine Provisional Government
Aguinaldo
Philippines
America
McKinley
Philippines Commission
Commission on Cuba and Porto Rico Evacuations Named
The President appointed two commissions to oversee evacuation efforts in Cuba and Porto Rico. Cuba members are Major-General James F. Wade, Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, Major-General Matthew C. Butler. Porto Rico members are Major-General John R. Brooke, Rear Admiral Winfield S. Schley, Brigadier-General William W. Gordon, with Wade and Butler noted as prominent Civil War figures and Butler a South Carolina senator.
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Washington
Cuba
Porto Rico
James F. Wade
William T. Sampson
Matthew C. Butler
John R. Brooke
Winfields. Schley
William W. Gordon
Ben Wade
Ohio
O. H. Perry
Brandy Station
Pennsylvania
Fifty-third
Gettysburg
Spottsylvania
Gordon
Savannah
Yale
Wheeler
Carolina
Labor's Gala Day elects union officers and parade plan
The hoisting and portable engineers elected officers including Arthur Drake as president and Thomas Buckley as vice president. They voted to parade on Labor Day under a band in union-made uniforms with a banquet to follow the parade.
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Arthur Drake
Thomas Buckley
James A. Boyd
Charles Springer
John Crispo
John King
Joseph L. McLaughlin
Labor Day Committee Completes Preliminary Preparations
The joint Labor Day committee reports all preliminaries completed. Chief marshal Thomas J. Murphy appoints James J. Donnelly of District 30 Knights of Labor as chief of staff and Hugh McKay of the Building Trades Council as aide-de-camp. Headquarters open at Wells Memorial Hall 987 Washington Street seven evenings 8 to 10.
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Thomas J. Murphy
James J. Donnelly
District 30
Knights of Labor
Hugh McKay
Building Trades Council
Wells Memorial Hall
Washington Street
Yale Cruiser Arrives in Santiago De Cuba
The Yale arrived today from New York after departing Aug. 11 with the Eighth Illinois Colored Volunteer Infantry a large supply shipment and twenty immune nurses on board. Also aboard were Edward C. Fitzgerald Congressman Fitzgerald's brother Senator Cortett and Boston undertaker Frank Maloney who accompanied remains of Majors Grady and OConnor of the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment sent home through Congressman Fitzgeralds efforts.
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Santiago DE Cuba
Hayti
Yale
New York
Ilinois Colored Volunteer Infantry
Fitzgerald
Edward C. Fitzgerald
Cortett
Frank Maloney
Boston
Grady and
O’connor
Ninth
Massachusetts Regiment
Young Biddeford Soldier Dies in War at 17
Private Eugene Normandin of Company G First Maine Volunteers died at Chickamauga from typhoid fever after a three week illness. He was 17 years old and among the youngest in the service, the first Biddeford man to die in the war, to be buried with military honors.
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Biddeford
Eugene Normandin
Company G
First
Maine Volunteers
Chickamauga
Sligo Social Club Elects Officers at Grand Army Hall
The annual meeting at Grand Army Hall on Washington Street elected P. Mitchell as President P. J. Degnan as vice president O. L. Lavin as recording secretary P. J. Casey as financial secretary J. Friel as treasurer and I. Lyons as sergeant at arms. Members condemned an alliance with England as harmful to the American nation.
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Sligo Social Club
Grand Army Hall
Washington Street
P. Mitchell
P. J. Degnan
O. L. Lavin
P. J.casey
J. Friel
I. Lyons
Boston
England
American Pigs' View of the Puerto Rico Invasion
From Guanica to Ponce the writer notes small Spanish detachments, desertions, and praise for American troops. Spaniards, while harsh, fear losing colonial rule. Porto Rico natives welcome the Americans and joyfully wave homegrown flags. The path from Utuado to Arecibo climbs to five thousand feet with engineering carried through rock and bridge spans. Columbus called the island an earthly paradise.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
Guanica
Hulings
Pennsylvania
San Juan
Jurana Diaz
Juhn Diaz
Goama
San Martin
Otega
Spain
Utuado
Arecibo
Cayey Mountains
Yuguilla Mountains
Cape San Juan
Chip of the Old Block
Fitzhugh Lee Jr is named second lieutenant and aide-de-camp on his father General Lee's staff. The President privately selects him and orders report to Major General Hall at the Army Building in New York for a regular army commission examination on August 22, 1898.
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Washington
Fitzhugh Lee, Jr
Lee
Young Lee
Witzhugh Lee, Jr
John D. Hall
United States Army
Army Building
New York
Regular Army
Bay State Arrives at Port Antonio For Need Assessment
The Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association hospital ship Bay State, known as Marmion Bowden then Bay State, reached Port Antonio Jamaica to await orders on where most needed. Once British flagged, she trades with Boston Fruit Company and will be watched by plantation owners as Captain Hopkins of the Brookline brings Jamaica fruit cargo into Long Wharf next Monday.
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Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
Bay State
Port Antonio
Jam
Boston Fruit Company
United States
Spain
William Anderson
Philadelphia
Admiral Dewey
Hopkins
Brookline
Long Wharf
Jamaica
Colonel Pew Not A Sixth District Candidate
Colonel Pew of the Eighth Regiment was at the adjutant-general's department in the State House yesterday and said he was amused by reports he would run in the sixth district. He blamed a severe cold on the first night of his northern trip from sleeping in a bed.
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Pew
Eighth Regiment
Adjutant-General’s Department
State House
Allison Declines Peace Commission Appointment
Washington August 16 Senator Allison of Iowa will not join the peace commission. The President urged him to accept but he cannot due to other important duties.
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Washington
Allison
Iowa
Peace Commission
Wringer Repair Offer by American Wringer Company
Repair work for wringers and sweepers offered by American Wringer Company. Wringers stamped American Wringer Company warrant ed? are promoted as best. Write or telephone for pickup and delivery at no extra charge.
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American Wringer Company
The
American Wringer Co
New Division of Hibernians Formed in Suffolk County
County President William J. Cronin led a banquet in Knights of St. Rose Hall as Suffolk County expands to sixty two AOH divisions. The celebration drew chiefs and warriors from the city and from sixty one other divisions with enthusiastic turnout.
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Order of Hibernians
Knights of St. Rose Hall
William J. Cronin
Suffolk County Directory
Suffolk
A O H Division 29 Roxbury Holds Meeting
A O H Division 29 Roxbury met in Friendship Hall with E I Ward presiding. Fifteen membership applications were acted on and a social dance was set for October with a committee including M T Athridge J F Dempsey J P D Reynolds T Fahey James Long and B E Ward to organize it. Recitations and songs followed.
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Roxbury
Friendship Hall
E. I. Ward
M. T. Athridge
J. F. Dempsey
J. PD. Reynolds
T. Fahey
Sneak Thieves Active in City Construction Sites
A string of thefts at city buildings under construction reports three men as victims. James Mathews loses a gold ring, Michael Moore a silver watch, and Rupert Knights a gold watch. all items were taken from workers’ clothing at sites on Tudor Moreland and Qipford streets.
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James Mathews
Tudor Street
Michael Moore
Moreland A
Somerville
Rupert Knights
Bellflower Street
Qipford Street
Roosevelt Lauds Regimental Diversity and Valor in Cuba
Colonel Roosevelt praises his regiment for rapid organization and two victorious fights in Cuba. He notes its wide geographic makeup from New Mexico to Maine, argues merit over background, and highlights roles from cow-punchers to miners and professionals among the ranks. He condemns scapegoating and cites Columbus as Spain’s adversary.
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Wikoff
N. Y
Roosevelt
Cuba
New Mexico
Arizona
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Maine
California
New York
Massachusetts
Texas
Louisiana
Great Plains
Rocky Mountain
Packer
No tin soldier he in New York court tale
Joseph Murray of the Seventh United States Artillery defies the tin soldier label by being seen at Coney Island and Willets Point then causing a scene at a Second Avenue bar. Police intervened and Magistrate Cornell warned he would face military discipline, Murray acknowledging the outcome with a grim remark.
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New York
Joseph Murray
Murray
Seventh United States Artillery
Coney Island
Willets Point
Second Avenue
Thirtieth Street
Grobler
East Thirty-fifth Street
Yorkville
Cornell
Cuban Sentinel Kills Thief in Santiago de Cuba
In Santiago de Cuba on August 16 a Cuban intruder was shot by a sentry after being detected stealing American commissary supplies. The thief, an old offender, broke toward liberty and was killed. The sentinel was briefly arrested then returned to duty by Colonel Hood.
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Santiago DE Cuba
Sentinel
Colonel Hood
Mangrove Fight Converted Lighthouse Tender Hears Peace News
In Havana reports recount American and Spanish naval actions as peace signs emerge. The US gunboat Mangrove bombarded nearby targets on Sunday with eighty seven shells while Spanish gunboats returned fire. A flag of truce announced cessation of hostilities and peace was confirmed.
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Havana
Carbarien
Remedios
United States
Mangrove
Canto
Intrepido
Hernan Cortes
Spain
Suspected Spy Zapatero Freed From Fort Monroe
Spanish prisoner Jimimes Zapatero, held at Fort Monroe since early in the war on spy suspicions, was released by order of Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn. Once believed to be Lieutenant Carranza, he was captured on the Panama near Havana and protested his innocence from his cell.
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Washington
Jimimes Zapatero
Fort Monroe
Meiklejohn
Zapatero
Carranza
Panama
Havana
Double tragedy ties two friends in Sing Sing world
New York reported that Private William Valentine of the Seventy-first and his friend John Hyland, a local hack driver, both killed themselves in the Sing Sing area. Hyland, mourning Valentine, shot himself in the same temple spot as Valentine, placed at the railroad station and prison hill.
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New York
William & Valentine
Seventy-first
Sing Sing
John Hyland
Hyland
Valentine
Bogus Soldier Captured After Bogus Wound Illiad Town
Deputy Sheriff Booth of Southold Long Island captured a man posing as a soldier with a burned arm in a sling. The alleged casualty claimed a Santiago origin and travel from Long Teland to Montauk camp with no money for fare. The arm bore acid burn not a bullet wound. The officer gave him five minutes to leave town.
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New York
Booth
Southold
L. I
Santiago
Long Teland
Montauk
Worry Kills a Veteran in New York Hotel
Major F. W. Reid of New York locked himself in his hotel room after learning of his wife’s death in Savannah by telegram. The 70-something veteran died of probable cerebral apoplexy before reading the message. A hospital doctor noted the death occurred about the same hour as his wife’s, with a telegram dated Savannah arriving that morning.
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New York
Savannah
F. W. Reid
Marlborough Hotel
M. Reid
Reid
Pullman son George M Fullman weds Miss Fernald in New York
George M. Fullman son of the late George M Pullman and Lynch Fernald of Chicago were married last Tuesday evening in New York City. The Tribune notes the wedding as it prepares tomorrow’s paper.
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New York
the Tribune
George M. Fullman
George M. Pullman
Lynch Fernald
Chicago
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