Vesuvius Arrives Harbor After War Service
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius reaches harbor as the first returning war vessel. Officers praise her performance under tough conditions and recount a troca of events from Guantanamo to Santiago. Commander Pillsbury notes the Bay State hospital ship and a side of beef from Dr. Burrell aboard.
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Vesuvius
West Indies
Santiago
Charleston
Norfolk
Newport
Pillsbury
Guantanamo
Cervera
Nelson
Bay State
Massachusetts
Burrell
Bliss Defends Alger at Fifth Avenue Hotel
Cornelius N Bliss secretary of the interior with family visited New York on the way from Bensonhurst to Washington. He condemned attacks on secretary Alger as an outrage and praised the war department for its care of soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cornelius N. Bliss
Secretary of the Interior
Newton v Boston and Albany Railroad narrowed grade crossing claim
The Supreme Court full bench ruled in Newton city versus Boston and Albany Railroad that the railroad's bid for grade crossing abolition costs is cut by more than 100000 dollars. The court totaled compensation at eleven thousand dollars for modifying the existing Newton passenger station instead of rebuilding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
City of
Newton
Boston & Albany Railroad Company
Wich
Jiter in Jam Peter Muller Sued for Breach of Promise
New York, Aug. Peter Muller a wealthy Harlem builder was jailed on an order from Judge McAdam as Marie Magdeline Mueller age 19 sues for 75000 damages for breach of promise of marriage. She alleges engagement ring gifting and repeated attentions then broken marriage plans.
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New York
Peter Muller
East One
Ludlow Street
Judge McAdam
Supreme Court
Marie Magdeline Mueller
Henry Mueller
East One Hundred and Forty-sixth Street
Muller
Friend, House & Grossman
Marie
Mr. Muller
Harlem
Newport Barn Warming Dances At Cross Ways
Society leaders attend a barn warming at the villa of Mr and Mrs Stuyvesant Fish in Newport with about 200 attendees after a postponement due to Tiffany concerns. The event crowned the summer entertainments as a local high point.
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Elisha Dyers Jr
Fort Adams
Newport, R
Newport
Cross Ways
Wedding Planned After Elopement from Police Station
Mamie Boyer of Madison avenue 18 ran away with Charles Rizzo a local brewery salesman to Midland Beach. They were found at Rizzo's Fulton street room and later detained at police headquarters as a wedding was arranged for Saturday morning.
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Mike Derosa
Derosa
Miss Boyer
Rizzo
Miss Bover Taken Home by Relatives Despite Protest
Miss Bover was taken home by her relatives though she protested that she did not want to leave her lover. The incident reflects a personal dilemma reported in the local society notes.
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Miss Bover
First Woman Army Doctor Bets On Duty In Uniform
New York Aug 31 Mrs Anita Newcomb McGee M D returns from Washington to select twenty women nurses for Porto Rico aboard the Seneca. She travels to Montauk Point to assess Camp Wikoff and discuss nurse needs with Colonel William H Forwood. She plans a skirted uniform matching regulations with a navy blue cloth and black braid.
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New York
Anita Newcomb McGee
United States Army
Washington
Porto Rico
Montauk Point
Wikoff
William H.forwood
Work of Volunteer Aid Ships Goods for Soldiers
The Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association reports shipments from June to mid summer 1998 to hospitals and camps in Cuba the southern camps Montauk Point and the Bay State ship outfitting. It lists supplies including bands towels stockings pajamas sheets shirts cigarettes and more plus gifts of money and food for Cuban regiments and Mt Montauk Point diet kitchens. The Bay State ship will be refitted for a second Cuba voyage and many Massachusetts volunteers are named with locations from Falls Church Salem Chickamauga Park and Boston Armory to Santiago de Cuba and Montauk Point.
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Irwin
Soldiers’ Home
Chelsea Marine Hospital
Chelsea
Mass
Azel Ames
Porto Rico
Appel
Olivette
Herbert Howard
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Carney Hospital
Gonzaga
G. H. M. Rowe
City Hospital
Talbot
Homeopathic Hospital
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
Ankers
Bay State
Dean Building
Cuba
Association Treasury
Montauk Point
Massachusetts Volunteers
Bogan
Falls Church
Woodward
Salem
Keefe
Boston Armory
Coggswell
Chickamauga Park
Davis
United States Hospital
Fort Myer
Bowen
Santiago de Cuba
Dow
Magurn
Hersey
Rough Riders
Tampa
Fla
Foster
South Framingham
Freeland
Fortress Monroe
Russian disarmament note proposes joint conference
Ambassador Hitchcock reports in St. Petersburg that Count Muravieff delivered a copy of the czar’s note to foreign representatives urging a general disarmament conference. The full text will be mailed by the Russian government.
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Washington
Hitchcock
St. Petersburg
State Department
Count Muravieff
Sullivan offers Lyceum Hall for sick soldiers care
Mayor Quincy receives a letter from John H. Sullivan proposing use of Lyceum Hall East Boston at no cost for hospital purposes. The hall is described as two 100 by 8 foot halls with two floors, cooking facilities and good ventilation. Sullivan says hospital authorities may alter and control the space as long as needed.
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Quincy
John H. Sullivan
Bay State
Lyceum Hall
East
Boston
Botkin Declares Innocent as Grand Jury Probes Murder Case
Mrs Botkin, jailed on suspicion of aiding the Mrs Dunning murder, proclaims innocence through the press while the San Francisco grand jury hears witnesses. Detective Wren and nurse Mrs Raouf are summoned to testify as authorities seek to confirm or quash indictments and determine trial venue.
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San Francisco
Grand Jury
Botkin
Delaware
Wren
Healdsburg
A. Raouf
Suboena
Woman Denies Poisoning Wife of John P Dunning
A statement from a defendant asserts innocence amid public scrutiny. She claims she aided John P Dunning in financial troubles, denies любов letters or romantic ties, and pleads to be judged fairly without sensational newspaper verdicts. She cites police accounts and her attorneys support.
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Police
Lees
Delaware
Dunning
John P. Dunning
San Francisco
Fall Millinery Ad Promotes California Wine and Spirits
An advertising notice from Cushing Process Co. markets a California Wine three years old at $1.00 per gallon with purity assurance, plus purified Brandy at $3.00 and Whiskey at $2.00. Sold only in packages and shipped free to nearby towns from Boston and New York offices.
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Cushing Process Co
California
Omnes Cushing Process CO
Washington St
Boston
Sixth Ave
New York
Fulton St
Training Ship Enterprise Aids Massachusetts War Effort
At the outbreak of war with Spain the Massachusetts Nautical Training School loses six naval officers to the new auxiliary navy. Commander Andrew Iverson becomes superintendent as cadets scatter for service. The ship remains off Maine then Portland with plans to cruise two weeks and return to Marblehead or Salem by September 15, then Boston shortly after.
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Spain
Massachusetts Nautical Training School
Navy Department
Massachusetts
Navy
Finsigns
George R. Lauriat
Franklin B. Harwood
Horace F. Fuller
William H. Boardman
Philip W. Lauriat
Edward M. Jennings
Clarence E. Wood
David R
Opw. Woodbury
E. G. Freeman
L. F. Cox
C. W. Clift
J. A. McGregor
J. H. B. Meehan
H. F. Bartlett
C. B. Peterson
EB. G. Frisbie
J. Mee
Grath
Maine
Halifax
Portland
Wim
Marblehead
Salem
Boston
Yellow fever declared in Taylor Mississippi area
Officials of the Postal Telegraph Company report a Holly Springs Miss. office message announcing four cases of yellow fever in Taylor Miss located about forty miles south of Holly Springs with Taylor about two hundred miles from the coast.
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Nashville
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Bliss
ALGER
Aloc
Boston & Albany
Havana
W. Pm. Douglas
Fit
W. L. Douglas
Washington, Cor
Essex &T
Courttreet
City Hell Avenue
Jiter
Pretty Clark
Mamie Boyer
Dr. Mooee
Gzar
United States
John HH. Sullivan
Mrs. Botkin
MR. Dunning
IRS
Raoul
Enterprise
Massachusetts Bay
Mississippi
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