Insurgent Strength Grows in Pinar del Rio Area
Unofficial dispatches say insurgent forces west of San Juan de Martinez in Pinar del Rio number 1500 to 2000, well supplied for a long campaign as Cubans broadly sympathize. Reports claim 2000 veterans may join at Vuelta Abajo, while government prep includes 2000 horses from Texas and 500 already in Cuba.
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Havana
Piner
Ec Rio
San Juan de Martinez
San Luis
Associated Press
Pino Guerra
Santiago Tat
Jesus Rabi
Vuelta Abajo
Cuba
Texas
Rius Rivera
Ortes Ferrerra
Federal Move Sends Negro Troops From Brownsville to Fort Sam Houston
Civil authorities direct that twelve soldiers under arrest depart Fort Brown for Fort Sam Houston and remain under Texas jurisdiction. The remaining Negro troops also leave to Fort Reno as Governor Lanham, Brigadier General McCaskey, and Adjutant General Hulen coordinate with Camp Mabry officials amid the Brownsville warrants dispute.
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Department of Texas
San Antonio
Fort Brown
Fort Sam Houston
United States
of Texas
McCaskey
Lanham
Brownsville
Hulen
Schuyler
Camp Mabry
Austin
Fort Reno
Government Loses as Insurgents Claim Victory Near San Juan Hill
Report from Tampa dated August 27 notes an encounter near San Juan Hill with government forces led by Lieutenant Azcuy and insurgents gaining the upper hand. Disappearances are reported in Guayanjay as locals join rebels amid unrest over Secretary O Farrill resignation. An American woman is sought regarding a plot hatched in Havana Hotel Leal rooms to assassinate President Palma.
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Tampa
Fla
San Juan Hill
Azcuy
Guayanjay
O’farrill
Leal
Havana
Palma
Government Artillerymen Seize San Juan de Martinez
A force of government artillerymen under Captain Pujol occupied San Juan de Martinez without resistance. The town had been taken by insurgents led by Guerra on August 23. In Havana province near San Antonio de Los Panos a rural guard detachment clashed with insurgents, two were killed and the rest dispersed.
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Havana
Pujol
San Juan de Martinez
San Antonio de Los Panos
Havana City
Three Spoke at Ohio Exposition Address
Vice President Fairbanks and Governor Harris spoke at Grove City during the Ohio State Colored Educational and Industrial exposition. Booker T. Washington also addressed attendees while Fairbanks avoided politics, noting he was on vacation.
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Fairbanks
Harris
Booker T. Washington
Columbus
Grove City
Taylor
State House
Recruits Routed in Havana Ambush with Casualties
Havana reports Colonel Jose Estrampes leading forty five Havana recruits were attacked by eighty insurgents near Gaines. The rout left three recruits dead and six wounded. In Louisville the thermometer reached 93 degrees at 11 PM Saturday with three deaths and one prostration reported.
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Havana
Jose Estrampes
Gaines
Louisville
Fire at Prosper Destroys Several Stores in Frame Buildings
A western Collin county blaze in Prosper damaged multiple structures. The Prosper grocery of T. H. Douglass lost 700 dollars with no insurance, Dr. W. H. Mathers faced 1200 dollars in losses, the W. H. Shrader drug store burned for 4000 dollars with 1500 insured, Dr. W. H. Baldridge 2000 dollars uninsured, and L. W. Smith’s grocery and telephone office 2500 dollars. All affected buildings were frame structures.
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McKinney
Collin County
T. H. Douglass
W. H. Mathers
W. H. Shrader
W. H. Baldridge
L. W. Smith
Head Crushed in Sleep Accident on Rail Line
Denison Aug 25 Ed Sexton a negro slept on the Missouri Kansas and Texas track at Summit I T his head crushed into a pulp Roadmaster Anderson averted a wreck near Warner by noting an angle bar left on the rails just before the flyer passed.
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Denison
Ed Sexton
Summit
I. T
Anderson
Warner
Foundry Destroyed in Waco Fire
The foundry and machine shops of the D. June company were destroyed by fire causing a loss of 10 000 dollars with 2 000 dollars insured. In Havana a detachment of city and provincial police dispersed the insurgents at Arroyo Naranjo.
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Waco
D. June Company
Havana
Arroyo Naranjo
Fatal lye drinking trust in Chandler
News from Chandler Oklahoma reports the death of the little daughter of K C Kidwell after she drank concentrated lye. In Havana insurgents occupy the village of Arroyo Naranjo five miles from the city with about seventy men.
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Chandler
Okla
K. C. Kidwell
Havana
Arroyo Naranjo
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