Reinforcements Planned for General Shafter at Santiago
War Department reports indicate Spain could mass up to 25 000 troops around Santiago as United States forces prepare to land. Newport News transports carry Duffield's brigade about 4 000 men with Tampa as main embarkation point. General Henry expected to command a 8 000 man division to reinforce Shafter.
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War Department
Santiago
Shafter
Washington
Dewey
Newport News
Duffield
Massachusetts
Michigan
Virginia
Tampa
Fernandina
Miami
Garretson
Second
Ohio
Guy V. Henry
Henry
Santiago de Cuba
Holguin
Pando
Garcia
Direct Cable To Sampson Links US Cuba Invasion
Washington reports 15,000 troops arrived off Santiago and direct cable between the United States and Guantanamo. Marines hold Cuban soil while Blanco is cut off, easing foreign interference fears as Washington takes charge of actions in Manila and Cuba.
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Washington
United States
Spain
Santiago
Department
Cuba
Dewey
Manila
War Department
Alger
Guantanamo
Blanco
Key West
Rich Spaniards Flee Havana on Lafayette Liner
On the French liner Lafayette arriving in Kingston from Vera Cruz many Havana officials escaped with wealth. Major Anadito Jover of the Spanish Commissariat Corps, a Weyler associate, was aboard with reports he carried about $500,000 in gold. Jover’s wife is sister to a leading New York Junta member, and he has been aligned with the Cuban cause.
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Kingston
Jam
Lafayette
Vera Cruz
Havana
Anadito Jover
Commissariat Corps
General Weyler
Jover
New York Junta
Austrian Agent Delivers Explosives and Cartridges from Madrid
A Paris dispatch says an Austrian agent returned from Madrid via the Pyrenees carrying 3,000,000 empty cartridges and 120 tons of explosives from French Austrian and Belgian sources to the Spanish authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Paris
Madrid
Pyrenees
Madrid hears of big fleet in Cuban coast
An official Havana despatch says about fifty additional ships, many loaded with troops, have appeared off Santiago de Cuba and that battle is imminent as the Spanish forces occupy the coast.
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Madrid
Havana
Santiago de Cuba
Philippines expedition formed into Eighth Army Corps
The War Department issued an order creating the Philippines expedition forces under Major-General Merritt into the Eighth Army Corps. Merritt will command the corps with authority to transfer command to a higher ranking officer as needed to focus on government matters in the Philippine Islands, signaling him as governor general in effect.
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Washington
War Department
Philippines
Merritt
Eighth Corps
Philippine Islands
Islands
Oakes Grieved by Office Rejection in Fifth Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel Oakes of the Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers laments being passed over for a command position. Charlestown residents vow to press for his reinstatement while dissent grows within the regiment and local officials pursue relief from Governor. Regimental plans include camp at Framingham and staged moves through Boston with June medicals for multiple companies.
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Massachusetts
Oakes
Fifth Regiment
Russell Street
Charlestown
Weaver
Whitney
Fifth
Post
Alderman Presho
Board of Aldermen
State House
8. A
Military Department of the Commonwealth
Presho
Boston
Nelson A. Miles
Ramsay
Bancroft
Ballard
A. E. Locke
Mason
Cambridge
Framingham
Newton
Attleboro
Waltham
Braintree
Medford
Plymouth
Woburn
Hudson
Dewey
War Graft Coming as Vulcan Leaves for Santiago
The repair ship Vulcan departs Charlestown Navy Yard this afternoon to join Admiral Sampson off Santiago de Cuba with a stop at Hampton Roads for coal and ammunition. Auxiliary craft at Brooklyn may join, many yard workers facing dismissal Saturday, while Titania and Inca undergo minor work. The new revenue cutters Algonquin and Onondaga head to harbor, and ships like San Francisco Enterprise and Impr.
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Vulcan
Charlestown Navy Yard
Admiral Sampson
Santiago de Cuba
Hampton Roads
Navy Yard
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Charlestown Yard
Lehigh
Wyandotte
Calumet
Governor Russell
Seminole
Inca
Titania
McKay
Atlantic Works
Washington
Atlantic
H. M. Whitney
H. F. Dimock
Herman Winter
Metropolitan Line
Algonquin
Onondaga
Gresham
Ira Harris
Thomas I. Mudge
Chalmer
Portland
San Francisco
Enterprise
Boston
Lodge says Manila in ours troops landed
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts stated this morning that he is confident American troops have already landed in Manila and that the United States is now in possession there after a conference report. He argued that no nation has a valid excuse for interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Hong Kong
United States
Dewey
Charleston
Manila
Secretary Long
Lodge
Washington
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Norse King Likely Sold After Antwerp Service
The Pu ritan line steamer Norse King, long active from Antwerp under Captain Saunders, may not sail again here as negotiations with Baltimore agents move toward sale. The vessel features a double bottom with 3000 tons water storage and space for more, plus distillation gear. Expected price around 250000 dollars.
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Puritan Line
Antwerp
Saunders
Baltimore
Atlantic Ocean
Volunteer Militia Forms New Company in Northampton
Inspector-General Carter reported Northampton sent a petition to form a volunteer militia company, part of 34 petitions received with seven rejected. The group led by Charles C. Story and Frederic Childs from Holyoke and Gloucester partners was approved by the Governor and will be inspected. Three companies were mustered last night, bringing the number in service to eight.
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Carter
Northampton
Charles C. Story
Gloucester
Frederic Childs
Holyoke
Money Pours In To Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Society
A statement from H. I. Higginson treasurer shows the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Society has received 8852.45 in total. Of this amount 4761.80 was not previously acknowledged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. I. Higginson
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Society
Loyalty 10 Cakes Examinations in Fifth Regiment
First physical examinations in the Fifth Regiment were held last night at Charlestown. Eighty men and officers were examined with sixty four passing. Captain Stover and Lieutenants Tolman and Bray received a good percentage. The company will be ready to start for Framingham by Thursday.
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Charlestown
Stover
Tolman
Bray
Framingham
Y M C A Secretary Takes Temporary Post at Camp Alger
Pawtucket Rhode Island June 21 General Secretary Arthur C Stratton has accepted temporarily the appointment as general secretary of the Y M C A work at Camp Alger Falls Church Virginia leaving tomorrow with Rhode Island troops The work will be directed by the Massachusetts and Rhode Island State Association Stratton will organize the effort and later will be aided by two additional secretaries.
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Pawtucket, R. I
Arthur C. Stratton
Pawtucket
Call for 100 Men to Fill Fifth M V M Regiment
Captain Henry L. Kincaide of Company K, Fifth Regiment M V M issues a call for 100 able bodied men to fill vacancies. The recruitment should be completed before Thursday when the company camps at Framingham.
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Braintape
Henry L. Kincaide
Fifth Regiment
Framingham
Recruits Await as Ninth Regiment Recruits Open
For two days a large group of men who passed medical exams by Dr. Hickey of East Boston wait at the East armory for a commissioned officer to swear them in. About 150 men are enrolled with 25 examinations yesterday and over 60 names added. Recruiting continues at 10 am today at the South armory and additional squads head to Camp Alger. Headquarters at the Manhattan Club will organize a provisional Company E Ninth Regiment with John Quinn leading and recruiting every evening.
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Hickey
East Boston
Ninth Regiment
East Armory
Major Downing
Southbridge
South Armory
Irvington Street
Camp Alger
J. M. Cotton
Dalton
Manhattan Club
Harrison Avenue
Bennet Street
John Quinn
Hst
Emperor William Calls Theatre a Weapon for Idealism
The emperor's June 16 speech to the Royal Theatre company frames theatre as a monarchic instrument to preserve spiritual values and fight materialism. He urges the artist to aid the emperor in serving idealism with faith in God and to oppose un-German influences in playhouses.
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Berlin
William
Royal Theatre
Dorchester Heights Monument Passes After Long Battle
Dorchester Heights in South Boston will receive a $25 000 monument honoring Washington and his army after a prolonged legislative fight. The measure survived opposition from the Ways and Means Committee and city opponents, passing in both houses and gaining the governor’s signature.
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Massachusetts
Dorchester Heights
Boston
Washington
Howe
Bunker Hill
Lexington
John J. Toomey
South Boston
South
Orly
Clancy
J. Payson Bradley
William Lee
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Gallivan
Edward 8. Barrett
Sons of the American Revolution
Kramer
Toomey
Marden
House
Committee On Ways and Means
Albert Clarke
Committee On
Callender
Fitzgerald
Hayes
Innes
Monument planned for Heights in honor of leading American event
Community leaders and legislators push a commemorative monument on the Heights to memorialize a major American event. Governor Wolcott signs the bill and a state committee is expected to oversee arrangements. The 75 foot castellated monument will provide views of Boston and surrounding country.
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Marden
Gallivan
Wolcott
Toomey
Bradley
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Quincy
Committee On
Boston
Cadiz fleet returns. Vitoria crippled and towed home
A Marseilles source reports the Cadiz fleet back in Cadiz after a premature departure. The Vitoria, a broadside Spanish battleship, highly damaged and towed by another ship, is alleged to be in poor repair. Madrid abandons plans to send Camara's squadron to the West Indies amid warnings of facing the superior American fleet.
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Washington, D. C
Navy Department
State Department
Marseilles
France
Cadiz
Vitoria
Numancia
Madrid
Uunon
Admiral Camara
West Indies
Camara
Churruca
Pelayo
Carlos V
Flag Raising At Ohel Jacob Postponed To June 27
Messrs Nathan Block Samin Himelbeck and Levi Jacobson notified the Post editor that the flag raising at the Ohel Jacob Synagogue has been delayed to next Monday June 27 A children’s concert is planned at 6 pm with the flag ceremony at 7 30 pm J Heller and Lewis Pinanski corrected yesterday’s report of the flag already raised The postponement was decided due to incomplete arrangements.
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Messrs
Nathan Block
Samin Himelbeck
Levi Jacobson
Post
Ohel Jacob
Blanco redeploys six bat talions to guard Santiago coast
A Havana dispatch reports Blanco is sending six battalions of bat talions to protect the Santiago coast amid ongoing tensions. The move emphasizes coastal defense as the region remains unsettled.
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London
Havana
Blanco
Santiago
Bhafter
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Euriaep
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Atlanta
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Ohel Jacob Synagogue
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Camp McCalla
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