25 Jun 1898
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Newspaper
Connersville Daily News
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1898
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR note references medical help and disease, mentioning diabetics, mouth dryness, and bowel issues. Context suggests a wartime health aide or public health bulletin warning of symptoms and urging care, with unclear specifics due to damaged text.
A long illness ended with death about 10 o'clock last night. The deceased, son of John and Mary Backhouse, was born May 2, 180s in Jackson township. He served as County Auditor, then returned to stock business after retirement. He married Laura J Trus-Poodter of Hom Milton Truster and had three children Clarence and Tot. Community mourns as all attend the funeral.
One year after a Connersville warrant for intoxication, Isaac Van Sickle of Union County was captured in Cambridge City. Police officer Thomas presented him before His Honor, who fined him one dollar and costs.
A hostile engagement yesterday resulted in ten American fatalities and forty wounded soldiers. Officials report intense fighting near the front with allied forces and civilians evacuated as hospitals prepare.
The dispatches report 18 000 more troops headed to Santiago bringing Shafter to 40 000. Rough Riders seize a spy with orders for Spanish troops to fall back. Ten killed and forty wounded in yesterday’s action. Sampson plans immediate bombardment of Morro Castle and will press land assault to seize the harbor and engage Cervera.
The column discusses McKinley and Shafter regarding Cuba with notes on Hawaii annexation, Democratic split, postal gains, and anticipated July Fourth chaos in Brookville. It mentions Bailey and Carmack, the Post Office, and trains by the Big Four to Brookville, plus a tarantula sighting in Cincinnati.
Special to the DaArLy NEWS Wasitseros reports troops are embarking at Tampa and Newport News for Santiago and will proceed to Beach One. The dispatch notes rapid mobilization and upcoming deployment to the theater of operations.
The Seizure of Santiago commenced this morning with Speck to the Party News, Care Hayn, June 25. The operation moved forward in earnest as forces advanced on the city.
Washington confirms the attack on Santiago as reported by Gen Miles. Special dispatches note a Spanish brig captured by the Vigilant at Key West on June 25 and brought into port. Prof J Wo Nicely, recently married to Miss Helen Mount, will preach at First Presbyterian Church with his brother in law Governor Mount in Todinnua context.
The Brookville annual Fourth of July celebration and reunion, a grand event long in planning, will climax one week from Monday as preparations for the nationwide gathering proceed and expect broad regional participation from surrounding counties and many states.
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