St Paul Returns After Cuban Cruise Under Briggss Command
The auxiliary cruiser St Paul commanded by Captain Sigsbee arrives in New York with a noteworthy Cuban waters voyage. She patrolled off Santiago de Cuba in late May observing Spanish fleet movements while reporting on prize captures and distant ships approaching from Commodore Schley’s fleet.
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Sampson Joins Schley Off Santiago Harbor
Rear Admiral Sampson with the New York Oregon Mayflower and Porter joined Commodore Schley near Santiago Cuba. The united squadrons trap the Spanish fleet in the harbor as monitors and gunboats reinforce the north coast blockade. Each squadron keeps its identity. Schley preserves his Brooklyn pennant. The fleet now numbers twelve fighting ships, two colliers, and a cable-cutting ship.
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Army assigns brigadier generals of volunteers to corps and parks
Washington June 3 reports that Adjunct General Corbin issued general orders detailing brigadier generals of volunteers and their assignments to various commands. Sumner to Colorado Denver. Haines to Brooke at Chickamauga Park. Gillespie to First Corps. Miller to Merritt. Kline to First Corps. Ernest to Brooke. Wheaton to Seventh Corps Tampa. Hasbrouck to Second Corps Falls Church. Hilmore to army headquarters. Randolph to light artillery Tampa. Sanger to Brooke. King to Merritt. Sheridan to Brooke. Grant to First Corps. Duffield to Second Corps Falls Church. Hubbard to Seventh Corps Tampa. Garrettson to Second Corps Falls Church. Gordon to Fourth Corps Mobile. Whey to First Corps Chickamauga Park. Bancroft to Seventh Corps Tampa. McKee to Brooke. Greene to Merritt. Fitzsimmons to Hudson Fourth Corps Mobile. Lincoln to Fourth Corps Mobile. Welles to Brooke. Nelson Cole to Second Corps Falls Church. Oates to Fourth Corps Mobile.
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William Co. Oates
Anglo American Banquet in London Promotes Fraternal Ties
At the Hotel Cecil six hundred Britons and Americans gathered for an unofficial Anglo American banquet aimed at fostering fellowship between the two peoples. Speakers included the Bishop of Ripon Lord Brassey Col Taylor and Sir Frederick Pollock. The event emphasized shared heritage and supported wartime causes.
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Ideal Warrior Andrew Carnegie on General Miles
In a London interview dated June 3 Mr Andrew Carnegie calls General Miles an ideal warrior who wins victories without fighting He says Spain could be accommodated if it blocks Barcelona and other ports and the matter should be settled without hostilities.
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Andrew Carnegie
Miles
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Barcelona
Vendetta Ends in Murder and Self-Destruction in Alfred
In Alfred Me a vendetta fueled by jealousy ends as Joseph Grendony shoots Louis Marcille and then kills himself. Grendony a French trained Italian with a turbulent marriage to a Canadian woman dies after firing at Marcille near a jail. The wife’s past and the stalled lawyer reply frame the tragedy.
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Grendony’s Love Triangle with Vasseur and Marcille
Grendony, a Chelsea metal worker, had one intimate friend Augustin Vasseur a basket maker at 92 Clinton Street Chelsea. Vasseur says Grendony was passionately in love with a woman who deserted him for Marcille. Mrs Grendony brought her daughter Reina from France and she later went to Canada. Reina stayed in Grendony’s home while Marcille lodges there and tended his wife before she died.
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Chelsea
Lorimer Leaves West Medford for Philadelphia Editor Role
George Thorne Lorimer of West Medford son of Rev George C Lorimer of Tremont Temple departs for Philadelphia to serve as editor of the Saturday Post a literary magazine to be published by Edward W Bok.
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West Medford
George C. Lorimer
Tremont Temple
Philadelphia
Saturday Post
Edward W. Bok
A. O. H. Concert Set for Tremont Theatre
Division 50 A. O. H. completed plans at Chickering Hall for a sacred concert at the Tremont Theatre tomorrow evening. Confirmed performers include Miss Ruby Co Cutter Mrs Annette Welsh McMunn Daniel J. Murphy the Harvard Male Quartet Charles Sandy Chapman Walter C. Loud and Lom Clifford.
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Ruby Co. Cutter
Annette Welsh McMunn
Daniel J. Murphy
Harvard
Charles
Sandy’’) Chapman
Walter C. Loud
Yreage
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Night of Terror Aboard the Belvidere Wreck
Chief Steward F J Leonard told the Boston Post of the Belvidere wreck off Calera Point Cuba after a storm from Port Morant Jamaica. Passengers and Cuban party were landed with a plank from basalt cliffs then sheltered by Cape Maysi lighthouse keepers, as Captain Paine guided the evacuation amid darkness and rain.
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Cuba
Boston
Calera Point
Cape Maysi
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Port Morant
Jamaica
Captain Paine
Cubaris
Paine
Spanish Cadiz Squadron Reported Near West Indies
A dispatch from Port Antonio quotes a AP source that a Cadiz fleet is nearing West Indian waters and could reach off Santiago de Cuba tomorrow to reinforce Admiral Cervera. The reported squadron is said to include sixteen warships, among them battleships and torpedo boats.
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Jamaica
Associated Press
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Cadiz
West Indian
Santiago DE Cuba
Cervera
Gibraltar
Invasion Transports Leave Tampa for Santiago
Unofficial reports say six transports carrying the first division of the army for Santiago departed Tampa today, with about 4990 men. The force includes engineers, artillery batteries, infantry detachments, and a siege train under Capt Mills. Colonel Randolph commands ten light and four heavy batteries. The government coordinates with General Garcia for a future junction.
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Santiago
Tampa
Wallace I. Randolph
S. M. Mills
Garcia
Porto Rico
Spanish soldiers aid Cuban exiles after belvidere voyage
A party including Charles Sawyer of Melrose and Drs E B Hopkins and H A Huntington from Amesbury, aided by Spanish soldiers near Cape Maysi, received beds food and clothing. Captain Gunderson arranged transport aboard Kong Frode as Leonard heads to duty on a Boston Fruit Company vessel replacing the Belvidere.
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Stifftt Beats Smith On Foul At Tattersall’s
Chicago June 3 Billy Stifftt won a decision over Mysterious Billy Smith in five rounds after a late jaw foul. Kid McPartland edged Tom Tracey on a foul in a wild bout. Gans defeats Robertson in six. Strong and Childs draw. Moffat beats Janey in six.
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Billy” Smith
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Stifft
Kid’ McPartland
New York
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Masterson
McPartland
Joe Gans
Baltimore
Flanagan Beats Barry In Six Round Philadelphia Fight
Steve A. Flanagan of this city defeats Jim Barry of Chicago in six rounds at the Arena. After a close start Flanagan accelerates with sharp lefts, opening a gash near Barry’s eye and finishing with the final round edge.
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Jim Barry
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Flanagan
Barry
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Burlen Quits Board Of Election Commission
City Hall chatter says Burlen seeks retaliation after Judge Parmenter abolishes his post. He plans to lobby Republicans to abolish the entire board before the next Legislature. Pearson expects reappointment. Corbett backs Pearson and isn’t seeking the chair.
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Corbett
Spain faces dire path from Cervera squadron at Ban tiazo
Madrid dispatch via El Heraldo notes Santiago de Cuba situation shows no remedy for Spain s misfortunes. Cervera s squadron at Ban tiazo adds little value to hinder Yankee expedition or defend Havana, leaving Spain along a straight road to perdition.
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Santiago de Cuba
Spain
Cervera
Bantiazo
Havana
Burning at stake shocks Shreveport crowd
In Dayline, 18 miles from Shreveport, William Street, a Black man, was burned alive after confessing to an attempted assault on May 30 against Mrs. Parish. Street named a colored minister and a man named John Rhodes as implicated before ignition. The execution lasted ten minutes as flames consumed Street.
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Dayline
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Parish
Street
John Rhodes
Franklin Fond Alumni Urged to Back New MIT Building
The MIT Alumni Association held its annual reception at the Exchange Club on Milk Street. The class of 1898, numbering 179, attended as discussions urged securing a new Benjamin Franklin building and a $840,000 fund for physical science facilities with lectures yearly.
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Franklin
Fire rekindles at 82 Chelsea Street in East Boston blaze
Firefighters were recalled two hours after leaving 82 Chelsea Street at 6 45 PM when flames rekindled. The house owned by Thomas Fitzgerald was initially set ablaze by children playing with matches and a still alarm was sent to Engine 9.
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