Regiments Move as Camps Break Up in 1898 Actions
Movements from Camp Wikoff outline Fourth to Fort Sheridan Illinois Thirteenth to New York barracks Seventeenth to Columbus Ohio Twelfth to Jefferson Barracks Missouri Twenty Second to Omaha and Third Cavalry to Fort Ethan Allen. Rough Riders muster out while Sixth Regiment remains at Chickamauga awaiting orders. Breckinridge departs Lexington. Trials by court martial in San Francisco show low acquittals and high dismissal rates with 781 cases heard since troops arrived. Saratoga transports 250 laborers 60 signal corpsmen and 9000 rifles from Santiago to New York. Relief hospital ship reaches Boston with 259 sick soldiers. Manitoba carries 1280 soldiers from Puerto Rico to New York. Typhoid and malaria prevail among Porto Rico troops. yellow fever deaths investigated. Local Kansas lynching fears tied to Judge Prouty threats after Tecumseh killing.
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Camp
Wikoff
Twentieth Infantry
Camp Wikoff
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Fort Snelling
Minn
Fort Sheridan
Ills
New York State
Columbus
Twelfth Infantry
Jefferson Barracks
Omaha
Third Cavalry
Fort Ethan Allen
New York
United States
Saratoga
Santiago
Montauk
Montauk Point
The Monetary Conference Opens in Omaha With Noted Speakers
In Omaha on September 13 a three day monetary conference began at the Nebraska Building Exposition Grounds. Hon J Sterling Morton presided as Morton Warner Towne Bartine Weaver and Reynolds spoke in the first day debates. All factions of the money question were represented.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Exposition Grounds
J. Sterling Morton
Messrs. Morton
Warner
Towne
Bartine
Weaver
Reynolds
Gratitude Letter From Admiral Cervera
Admiral Cervera, writing from Portsmouth New Hampshire, thanks the Associated Press and the American people for their sympathy as he sails for Spain. He pledges to remember and actively conserve that sympathy for the rest of his life and signs as Pasquual Cervera.
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New York
Associated Press
Admiral Cervera
Portsmouth
N.hs
Spain
United States
Pascoual Cervera
Uproar in Spanish Senate Over General Accusations
In Madrid on September 13 the Spanish Senate boiled into tumult as Count Armenas named Weyler Blanco Primo de Rivera and others as unworthy officers. Weyler protested and fled as Armenas argued the accused must face punishment. senators shouted and the president failed to restore order, even breaking his bell.
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Madrid
Senate
Count Armenas
Weyler
Blanco
Primo de Rigiera
Cervera
Linares
Almenas
Gold Seekers in Distress Headed for Yukon Fortunes
Port Townsend Washington dispatch reports from W C Strong that wreckage sighted west of Unamik pass likely from a schooner, with no identify marks. He notes Kotzebue Sound offers no riches as 1000 prospectors wait for transport and 40,000 dollars of supplies sit unsold on the beach.
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Port Townsend
Wash
W. C. Strong
St. Michaels
Garronne
Unamik Pass
Canton
St Michaela
Yukon River
St. Michael
Newspaper dispatch boat wrecked near Nuevitas
A dispatch boat from the newspaper service was wrecked off Nuevitas on September 6. All aboard were saved. The Albia of Munson line arrived at Key West with crew and correspondents. The piece also notes US reply to Turkey over Armenian troubles and Gomez reportedly resigning as insurgent commander.
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Key West
Albia
Munson Line
Nuevitas
Galveston
Dish
Kanavaha
Popular Low Rate Excursion to Hot Springs Ark
IL & G HB R announces excursion tickets to Hot Springs, with round trips from Palestine at 5.50, Galveston and San Antonio at 7.50, other points proportionate. Tickets valid to Sept 15 with 30 day extension on payment of fare. Details via ticket agents or D. J. Price Palestine Texas.
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IL &G. HB. R
Hot Springs
Palestine
Galveston
San Antonio
D. J. Price
Texas
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GLOBE
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Tex
Owl
B. S. Read's
John Mr. Caldwell, Jeweler
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Minnesota
Ilinois
Ohio
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Chickamauga
Ninth New York
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Independent Division
Saratoga Beaches
Boston
Ponce
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Mayaguez
Porto Rico
Washington
War Department
Quartermaster’s
Judge Pronty
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Kans
Dave Fitch
Tecumseh
O. T
Judge Prouty
Fon
the Monetary Conference
Count Ahsenas
Kotzebue
John B. Mike
Pennsylvania Company
Turkey
Constantinople
Gomez
General Gomez
Ark
Reese
Willamsen- Haffner Engraving Co
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Colo
R. R
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South
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Ennis
Ft. Worth
Denisom
Houst
Dallas
ST. Louis
Paris
Austin
Galveston Houston
Brenham
Waco Corsicana
Waxahachie
Piano
McKinney, Sherman and Denson
C. W. Ber
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Bryan, Texas
M. L. Ropersa
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J. Wittmann
Main Street
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Freckala
Efall’s Drug Store
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