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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1898
Page
8
Advertises 300 tailor made overcoats priced under 15 dollars with many early season styles in cloths like covert and worsted. Promises money back if a cheaper duplicate exists elsewhere. All sizes and kinds offered for 16 dollars, urging buyers to act fast.
All wool serge suits priced today with varying grades from $7.75 to $20.00. Sizes 34 to 50, finish options rough or smooth. Weather prompts bold advertising and friendly liability note.
A Quincy Hannibal excursion boat carried about 300 travelers to Clarksville Missouri where Curtis Young fights with Lena Bryan. City Marshal Meloan is killed by a shooter in the crowd. A posse arrests Sam Youngs Curtis Young Bob Taylor and Charles Taylor. Curtis and Sam Young are found hanged at the jail after sheriff and prosecuting attorney arrive. The fate of the remaining men is unknown.
The Baptist Social Union gathered in Gilbert Hall Tremont Temple last evening with large attendance. Edward H. Haskell presided. Rev D A Smith D D gave the invocation. Rear Admiral L A Kimberly spoke on Our American Navy. William H Olin discussed Our Commonwealth. Rev R S MacArthur spoke on Our Country God's Hand in the Nation's Conflict. Benediction by Rev C F Williams of Brookline.
Details of the Sixth and Ninth Massachusetts regiments departing for Boston to enlist recruits. Colonel Bogan names enlisted men as recruiting officers and clerks. Dr. William H. Devine named for brigade surgeon. Camp life includes food changes, punishments, pay rolls nearly ready, and a reported move to Harper's Ferry with a mass return of recruits to Massachusetts.
A meeting tonight at Lower Lyceum Hall at 8 to finalize plans for Sunday evening’s fundraiser for Company H M V Regular Army East Boston. Subscriptions total $900 with more expected. all fund subscribers become honorary Company H members. The plan includes a grand chorus with East Boston churches under Professor John O Shea, with Miss Kate Belle Walton and the Orpheus Ladies Quintet volunteering. Alderman Joseph A Conry chairs, Marshall Brown secretary.
At dawn two wheezy steamboats tied to the Fort Warren dock as four batteries of the First Heavies boarded and moved toward new stations. Colonel Pfaff and staff had prearranged camp at Fort Pickering Salem, with Lt Parker accompanying to Salem. Battery G heads to Plum Island while Battery K sails to Gloucester this afternoon.
The double flag raising, postponed from Friday, will now happen Wednesday at 7 20 p m at Roxbury Crossing.
Major Priest third battalion forces 1 F B D endure 24 hour outpost duty using blankets as shelter with damp spot on F. First battalion under Major Taylor builds trenches rifle pits and shelters while half the unit simulates covert movement. Major Darling oversees reconnaissance as Majors Taylor Dering and Captain Cook praise the instruction quality.
Violence erupted as a nationalist demonstration in Belfast marked the 1798 revolution. Collisions with counter crowds led to stones and melee. police and troops faced rioters. Over fifty officers injured, twenty four hospitalized with skull fractures and severe scalp wounds. unrest continued into midnight.
Yesterday 159 applicants faced physicals at Minnesota for enlistment in the Naval Brigade Boston division. Fifty five were chosen. Adjutant E Pelham Dodd leads, likely future commanding officer. Chief Engineer Ayers enlisted twelve coal passers and one fireman. Ensign C H Borden took a two day leave from Fall River, first since the war began.
The Fanita steamship from Mobile, allegedly carrying arms and dynamite, sailed toward Cuba under Generals Jimines and Morrillo. At Monte Cristo port, a landing party opened fire. Morrillo was fatally wounded and General Jimines among others were wounded as troops closed in.
Reports indicate about 5000 of the invasion army landed near Punta Cabrera west of Santiago and will descend on the old Cuban capital. The Americans joined General Garcia's 3000 Cuban forces and siege guns were landed. Imparcial reports American warships attacked Santiago de Cuba at 10 pm on Saturday but shots fell short.
A landing party dwindled from fourteen to five as sailors fled amid a volley of bullets. General Jimmes jumped aboard the Fantta’s boat, guiding the crew to safety. Two wounded men disappeared from view, while the Fantta carried Jimmes and Roberts to shore then returned with its cargo, the captain silent on the expedition’s aims.
At last night's Allied Printing Trades Council meeting at 15 Cornhill the annual election of officers elected a president James Meehan from the Pressmen's Union and vice president Richard Moore from the Stereotypers' Union. D J McDonald becomes secretary and business agent, with W G Harber as auditor and D J McGilvary from the Mailers' Union and Robert Washington Kelley from the Web Pressmen's Union as auditors and officers. Retiring president Thomas M Nolan did not seek re election.
The union discussed a proposal to require steamfitters at Union Station under construction to work nine hours daily, a topic dominating last night’s Steamfitters' Union session.
General Castillo commands Cuban troops in the west and north of Santiago province. They have been concentrating about four Cuban units in the vicinity of the city as of June 5.
Veterans of Civil War and staff of General Hazard Stevens met at the American House to discuss a memorial to Governor Wolcott urging reform in recruiting for 1898. They favor no new regiments until field units are full, a drill camp for camp life prep, and state pay of seven dollars monthly in addition to government pay.
The death of former Senator William Hf McMorrow. lifelong Dorchester resident and St. Augustine's Church member. Funeral arrangements set for next Wednesday morning with a home service at 48 Dix Street Dorchester. Body to be conveyed to St. Augustine's for a high mass requiem at 10.
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