Fighting Joe Wheeler hailed as hero of Santiago campaign
The Atlanta Constitution reporter KR B Cramer recounts General Wheeler's lead in the Santiago campaign. Wheeler opposed retreat, directed trenching, and brokered surrender talks with Gen Toral. Cramer praises Wheeler as the backbone of American success and calls for a Chattanooga welcome home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KR. B. Cramer
Santiago
Atlanta Constitution
Associated Press
Atlanta
Cramer
Joe Wheeler
Times
General Wheeler
Wheeler
America
Bhafter
Shafter
Toral
Gen. Wheeler
House of Representatives
Gen. Toral
Mr. Cramer
Joe
Gen. Shafter
San Jean
Roone Yolt
10Th Cavalry
Irene Wheeler
Darkey
Wheely
General Chaffee
Gen. Chaffee
Chattanooga
Alabama
South
Mrs Cass dies aged 69 in Elizabethton Wa tauga Valley
Mrs R E Cass widow of William Cass died at her residence yesterday evening at 7 o'clock aged 69. Funeral service will be held at the M E Church Saturday morning at 10 o'clock and burial in the family cemetery near her former home four miles above Elizabethton in Wa tauga Valley. The Elizabethton Mountaineer notes the community's loss and honors her as a Christian woman. President McKinley has invited former Ambassador Eustis and Evan P Howell to serve on a commission to investigate the War Department. Hood's Sarsaparilla is mentioned in the text as aiding digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R E. Cass
William Cass
M. E
Elizabethton
Watauga Valley
Elizabethton Mountaineer
McKinley
Eustie
Evan, P. Howell
War Department
Anil ix Sud
President hints Grace for War Department probe
Washington reports say the President implies Secretary Alger is disgraced and may resign as Civil War era turmoil over the War Department unfolds. Captain Evan Howell met the President and received a commission appointment offer as the inquiry seeks full access to War Department papers and files. General Jackson’s name is floated for the peace commission alongside Gen Stephen B. Lee and Gen Wm H Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Alger
Peace Commission
Evan P. Howell
Atlanta Constitution
White House
Howell
Stephen B. Lee
The
Agricultural College of Mississippi
Wm. H. Jackson
Nashville
General Jackson
Wilson
Tennessian
Belle Meade Farm
Pension rolls show widows and soldiers from Revolutionary War
The report lists twelve widows and daughters of Revolutionary soldiers on pensions with ages and residences, plus three surviving soldiers on the rolls as of June 1808. It also cites yearly totals: 52,048 pensions totaling 5,100,488 dollars, and a June 30, 1808 roll of 909,714 with 180,008,405 dollars in pensions. Ohio leads with 105,804 pensioners, followed by Pennsylvania and New York among states, with foreign-resident pensioners in 67 countries led by Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Pensions
Hannah Newell Barrett
Aod
Boston
Mass
Susannah Chalwick
Aed
Emporium
I’a
Esther
Dauton
Plymouth Union
Sara A. Hurlburt
Little Marsh
Nancy Jones
Jonesboro
Tennessee
Rebecca Mayo
Newbern
Virginia
Eirza Sanford
Bloomfield
Ann M. Slougher
Mittchell Station
Mary Snead
Parksly
Rhoda Augusta Thompson
Woodberry
Conn
Nancy A. Weatherman
Elk Mills
Hiram Cronk
Northwestern
New York
Elijah Gonn
Newark
New Jersey
Hleater Smith
Danburry
New Hampshire
Ohio
Aaylvnnia
Ilinois
Todiana
United Statss Bensioners
Candia
Germany
England
Ireland
Mexico
Shooting at Jim Anderson saloon ends with man dead
In Greeneville Tennessee on September 17 a shooting affray occurred in Jim Anderson saloon. Constable Brumley shot Joe Duncan in the arm with a large revolver during a dispute. Duncan died this morning while Brumley escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeneville
Tenn
Jim Anderson
Brumley
Joe Duncan
Col
Duncan
Bromley
John Kendrick Bangs to Present Stories in The Ladies' Home Journal
The Ladies' Home Journal will serialize John Kendrick Bangs new Stories of a Suburban Town. October Designer features fashion from The Designer with autumn apparel, millinery and patterns. Higginham contributes Anti-Slavery Days in The Outlook September issue with portraits and historical prints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kendrick Bangs
Ladies’ Home Journal
Thomas Wentworth Higringam
Read
Outlook
Pa. Garriset
Lonton
Oniloukenpans
Fourth Avenue
American Tobacco Company Rations Tobacco to Soldiers and Sailors
The American Tobacco Company distributed free tobacco to camps and hospitals since the war began. They provided over one hundred thousand pounds of Battle Axe Play and Duke's Mixture, bought fifty thousand dry wood pipes, and spent about sixty thousand dollars. Headquarters established in each camp to ensure every man and sailor on thirty ships in Cuban waters shared the rations. The effort is praised as practical kindness from a corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuban
Corporationa Lave No
Draggista Agency Highlights King New Discovery Ad
An auction style ad touts De King New Discovery for consumption and coughs with promise of cures for asthma bronchitis hoarseness and throat and chest ailments. Free trial bottle offered and demonstrations promised. Also reports unrest in Austro Hungarian empire with an Italian anarchist murder and riots in Triasia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Draggista
de. King
Callar Ding Store
Gotatria
Agau
Lalpits
Twar
Viduna
Triasia
Mix Tiveh
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Hood
Volko
Hives
J. Cxatham
Arnold
Georgia
Hood's
Tig Etoliver
Cary
Chile
Galatta
Arome
Lamia Bo
Hotel Hamilton
Bribtol
Hamilton
Symple
R.A, Daniels
Grocer
Grey Vetaar
Mites’ Spetem
LC Brumley
Miles Bervine
Miles
Addraa, Dik Miles Medical
Bikhart, i
R. B. Cramer
Cuba
London Society of Physical Research
Earth
Society of Psychical Research
Piper
Hodgson
James
Hyslop
Barnard
Fornm
Eajuirilla
Penson Stanie
Row Inn Saloon
Literary
Muirian
Royal
Mme BM
Drs, Miller
Roonsesand
Opera House
ES. Miller
Tting Street
J. A. Long
M. D
Orvicn
D. Cox
Public Square
Walnut
A. W.stiles
Robt. Burrow
Johinson City
Tennnenen
Chancery Court
Waehity
Reasi Rity Carter Johison
Yulcat
V.wbaw
van Hock
Market Street
Thad, A. Cox
Attorne
OfFee
Kirkpatrick
Williams, JH
Rownie
Kirkpatrick, Willams & Bowman
Attorneys At Law
Chancery
Johnson City
SI. BH. Miller
R.R. Emmert
Enwig, Tats
Oyh, Lyle
Orrin
Ton Corer
Justice of the Peace and Notary Public
Grace~Market Street
Faw Block
Hotel Piedmont
Southern Depot
Brower
OH. Longley
Nat Nyder
Chichenter
Lowe
Smith
Sipheanaftacet Peinacherien Ree Bana
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