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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1898
Page
1
A collection of notes spans American wartime humor and policy from Captain Glass and humanitarian acts to Bulgaria’s population plan. It includes a Kansas girl returning a pocketbook with reward, Russian census figures, and a Fourth of July dispute over a ride home, each illustrating civic character and sentiment of the era.
Learned men debate age old hospital ideas but Baden Germany yields a discovered site with fourteen rooms. It holds medical surgical apparatus bone spoons measuring vessels and ointment jars. The find dates to Hadrian era suggesting a Roman military hospital.
In a Texas prison detail at Granite Mountain heat swelters as convicts cut granite for the State House walls. A dying convict named Wainwright confesses his false blame for a sheriff man’s murder to a guarded, seeking mercy before death, revealing a life of innocence, loyalty, and moral burden.
Practical home guidance covers mending porcelain with zinc oxide paste, preserving ribbons and silks in brown paper, pinning blue paper for white dresses, and arching iron chain drapery. It also includes quick hat cleaning steps, keeping meals hot over steam, washing quilts with a wringer, and table decoration trends with varied textures and materials.
Reports indicate Major General Shafter's army in Santiago will be moved to Montauk Point due to yellow fever risk. Roosevelt and other officers urge immediate withdrawal as malaria and fever cripple forces, with contention over the army's ability to return to the interior of Cuba or proceed to Puerto Rico.
A New York fishing party on Ladies Day boarded two rowboats to reach Colonel Jacob Huppert Jr’s Albatrosa in Raritan Bay. Rough waters swamped one boat, drowning four of eight occupants and leaving several passengers missing among the Frohwein family.
Fragmentary notice describes dumping and burning of a pile by General Wood's orders and removal of items from bogs. It references a calibrary pile dumped into the street and a burned blob. Details are garbled and names unclear.
Cable report details a night assault on July 31 at Malate outside Manila Bay. American volunteers of the Tenth Pennsylvania and First California Battalion, supported by U S artillery, held off a 3000 man Spanish force, suffering 13 dead and 47 wounded while repelling over 200 dead and 300 wounded Spaniards.
Secretary Alger pressed for explanations after a report from General Shatter regarding alleged neglect of wounded troops sent to the United States from the Semea and Concho campaigns. General Sternberg denied blame, shifting it to Shatter and Santiago authorities. Shatter blamed the medical department and the plans for Biboney movements. Alger cites medical dept false plague claims as delaying move from Bantingo.
The Brooklyn's five inch guns were mounted on improved carriages while the cruiser lay at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Repairs to ironclads in Cuban waters are progressing actively.
The War Department quietly accelerates fortifications at Eaquimault to absorb the native peninsula. Naval authority notes aim to seal the southern Vancouver Island supply depot as impregnable. General Miles to be reinforced in Portoleo with fifty regiments from Chivkamagga under Major-General Wade.
General Shafter and General Toral met at Palaen fy Bandage in Cuba for a consult and to arrange the embarkation of Spanish prisoners. Wounded Spaniards were moved to the Allegato. troops sailed for Spain. The temporary military governor of Ponce Porto Rico is General Wilson.
The Eighth Ulhnots infantry colored regiment departs for New York aboard the Ateniner Yaho to sail to Santiago. Two battalions of the SINth Cavalry from the South arrive as rat troops aboard the newean at Montauk Point. Troops, many aged, enjoy the cooling sea breeze.
Notes from the era record typhoid deaths and multiple violent incidents across the nation. The War Department orders Light Battery A Connecticut artillery, the Yale battery, to Porto Rico. Reports show the fleet near Cuba largely free of sickness while various murders, suicides, and accidents occur in several states.
The report states that Spain accepts peace terms after presidential discussions. It notes President McKinley and the Trench ambassador ALent agree on a general relief, with conditions beyond satisfaction. The reply indicates not all demands are met and emphasizes complete evacuation and debt assumptions.
General Ernst's brigade captures Cosma Porto Rico after a five hour action. American losses include seven wounded from the Sixteenth Pennsylvania volunteers. Spanish losses total twelve killed including the commanding major and many wounded. Two hundred American prisoners are taken. The flank maneuver blocks Spanish retreat.
A tragedy near Lisbon involving a crew member and passengers aboard a Provident departure. In the incident a number of individuals drowned when a boat carried by a strong current overturned off Portigal. Rescue efforts are underway.
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