Yellow Fever Rages Among Troops As Surrender News Arrives
Dispatches report dire conditions at Guantanamo with 2000 soldiers starving after eight days without food. Nations send grain and provisions while Admiral Sampson coordinates relief. Separate items note Hawaii annexation news arrival on the Coptic and varied U S military and local incidents across the country.
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Ral Parajo
Trender
Sampson
Ad Sampson
Rms
Parajo
Santiago
Guantanamo
Rosell
Rigault
Admiral Sampson
Guano
Fievers
Evans
Admiral Miller Ships for Honolulu to Oversee Annexation
In San Francisco on July 27 the steamship Philadelphia sailed for Honolulu. Admiral Miller transferred his flag to the Albatross and will remain in Honolulu awaiting further orders. A guard of 500 will be landed and a 500-man engineer corps battalion plus New York volunteers and regulars sail to participate in annexation ceremonies.
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Francisco
United Siates
Philadelphia
Honolulu
Admiral Miller
Albatross
United States
Shaftenis City
Amer
Iga Seh
Hawaiiaim “ Guard
Engineer Corps
New York
Hawaii Receives Annunciation of Annexation News
The steamship Mariposa arrived via Sydney and Auckland bringing Honolulu advices. It reported sighting the transport City of Rio de Janeiro on July 25 with all aboard well and carrying South Dakota troops. The Mariposa had departed Sydney July 4 and Auckland July 9 and reached Honolulu July 21.
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Cisco
Sydney
Auckland
Honolulu
City of
Rio de Janeiro
Balearic Lighthouses Reilluminated After War Outbreak
Madrid reports that Spain has decided to reilluminate the Balearic island lighthouses which were ordered extinguished soon after the war began, restoring navigational aids.
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Madrid
Balearic Islands
Fatal Winchester Accident Kills Cooper in Norman
A man named A B Cooper recently from Webb City Missouri was killed in Norman Oklahoma by an accidental discharge of a Winchester rifle believed to be unloaded. The incident occurred on July 28.
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Kansas City
Eufaula
I. T
Checotah
Petit
David Greathouse
Briggs
Cherokee Nation
Ledbetter
Piazz
Goldsby
Cherokee Bill
Moses Miller
St. Louis
Charles A. Brant
George A. Harding
Mary A. Harding
Charles Brant
Hoboken
N. J
Harding
Fagan
Martha Schroeder
Robert V. Curry
Washington
Treasury Department
Ehnira
N. Y
E. 'F. Johnson
Troy
Pomeroy and Mitchell Bank
Norman
O. T
A. B. Cooper
Webb City
Winchester
Amy
Frank W. McConnico
Robin and Priscilla reunite in the western tale
John Overton recalls a past romance with Priscilla Grey as he returns eastward from the west. Robin, daughter of Capt. Strathmore, blends two heritages while facing social change and personal longing. A Philadelphia Item notes aluminum’s new use in instrument construction.
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John Overton
Priscilla Grey
Priscilla
West
Overton
Robin
Northwest
Capt. Strathmore
Aunt Bill’s wartime ride haunted by highwaymen tale
Aunt Bill recounts a perilous postwar journey with her brother John and a driver to Rochester. En route they are chased by robbers, forced to seek shelter at a grim inn, narrowly escape, and learn years later of murders tied to the place. The tale ends with the grim discovery and hangings.
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Clover
Warren
Aunt Bill
John
Rochester
New York State
Bill
Brother John
Lake Ontario
Helen Follett
Chicago
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Honorea
Iwan
Associated Press
de Cuba
Bear Sampson
Paraja
Angel Rosell
Amo
San
United States Senate
Newlands
Hawaii
Harold M. Sewall
Islands
Dole
Ohio
Para
Valencia
Indiana
Manila
War Department
Shafter
Santiago de Cuba
Army
San Juan
St. Thomas
Porto Rico
Marshall
Tex
Raymond Johnson
Here
Texas and Pacific Railway
Little Rock
Collier Place
Rob Roy
Jefferson County
Henry Pool
Will Taylor
Pool
Taylor
Sibat
Resale
France
Aunt Rili
Fleischman’s
R. M. Wilson
Kandy
Lee
Lowney
Axinor
of Brazos
Madison
Grimes
Robertson
Burleson Counties
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
Pacific Mutual Life
Union Life
Fidelity and Casualty of
Bryan
A.D. McConnico
Academy of Music and Next
John Mike’s
Tyler Haswell
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