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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1898
Page
1
A Boston sale launches after Samuel Gumpert & Co. wholesale clothiers of New York secured a massive stock of tailor-made clothing. The event proclaims the greatest genuine bargain sale in the city worth $100,000, highlighting the import of the New York wholesale house.
Grace Baron alias Sadie Tucker 21 was arrested by U S Deputy Marshal J H Waters on charges of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. She advertised in Western matrimonial papers, received $5 to $47 from each correspondent, and used photos to lure victims mainly in Illinois and Texas. She will be bound over in Pittsfield and Boston for federal action.
The listing notes prices for orange marmalade at S. S. Pierce Co with a price of 2.00. The Tremont Building and locations on Tremont Street Beacon Street Central Wharf and Copley Square are referenced. Grookline appears as a misread locale.
News brief reports Admiral Sampson in full command at Santiago with reinforcements from the Oregon New York and other cruisers and collieres. Vesuvius to detonate harbor mines paving a joint land sea assault. Spanish bombardment seen as damaging forts including Cristobal Colon. Santiago residents suffer destitution.
Washington June 2 Admiral Sampson arrived off Santiago and assumes supreme command of the American squadron investing the city. He brings the battleship Oregon armored cruiser New York another cruiser and two colliers to reinforce Schley's fleet. The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius heads to Santiago to explode harbor mines before the fleet advances to destroy batteries and the Spanish fleet.
Washington dispatches report that troops are advancing toward Santiago to cooperate with the fleet in the assault on the city and its harbor defenses. The plan is to land east of Santiago, attack from the rear, while the fleet shells the harbor, trapping the Spanish fleet between two fires and likely destroying it.
AP dispatches from PORT-AU-PRINCE and CAPE HAYTIEN detail unconfirmed insurgent bombardment claims and widespread destitution in Santiago de Cuba with officials unable to secure basic food supplies.
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