Montauk Point Occupation May Stir Legal Disputes
Reports a potential legal clash between the Montauk tribe and the U S Government over land ownership at Montauk Point. The camp houses soldiers from the American Cuban army, with attorneys for the tribe warning against government possession. The piece also notes Maj Gen S B M Young commanding the camp and outlines broad wartime muster-out orders and proposed Army expansion to meet global duties.
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Montauk Tribe of Indians
United States
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Long Island Railroad
Long Island City
Montauk’ Point
8. B. M. Young
Death toll in camps from Spanish American War
The Tribune reports 360 officers and men killed or died of wounds. Between 1,200 and 2,000 volunteers and regulars died of disease in camps. It lists 1,284 named dead in camp, on transports, or at home after camp illness, with many more likely unnamed due to record gaps and officer unavailability.
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Ingo ‘Tribune
Spain
Statistics on Dead by Camps in the 10 WS Report
The Tribune lists camp by camp death tolls including Camp Alger Camp Wikoft Jacksonville Tampa Fernandina Lakeland and other minor camps. Fever dysentery and other illnesses are recorded with totals for each camp and a separate tally for regular army deaths by state led by Massachusetts Illinois Michigan and New York with 130 100 81 and 85 respectively.
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Alger
Wikoft
Jacksonville
Tampa
Fernandina
Lakeland
Hoapla
Arny
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Ulinois
Michigan
New York
Regular troops to forts shift in wartime reorganization
War Department decides to deploy select regular troops to U S garrisons in the East. Thirteenth Infantry to Fort Niagara and Port Hope New York Montank camp after recuperation. Twenty first Infantry to Plattsburg barracks. Ninth Infantry to Fort Madison New York. Fourth Infantry to Fort Sheridan near Chicago. Married in a hospital Fastgn William Van Nest Powell and Margaret Olivia Miller Wyatt noted.
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Roat
War Department
United States
Hast
Montank
Sthede
Lhe
Forts
Niagara
Porter
New York
Fastgn Wiliam
van Nest Powelgon
Maine
Spain
Awa
Mise Margaret
Olivia Miller
Wyatt
Ihle
Col
Mil Wilde
Shafter Arrives at Camp Montauk After Santiago Campaign
Gen Shafter the hero of the Santiago campaign lands at Montauk aboard the transport City of Mexico with his staff. A salute is fired by the Tretchkiss battery as Wheeler and staff in full uniform prepare to greet him, though a mistaken landing time caused a muted reception at the beach by Gen Young.
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Montauk
Shatter
Ella
Mexico
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Sceregular
Tretchkiss
Shafter
Wheeler
Santiage
Montauk Beach
Young
War Bulletins From The Warfront In New York Dispatch
Vesuvius arrives in New York from Cuban waters as war updates flow in. An order bans visitors boarding warships at Brooklyn Navy Yard. General Bianco pushes to suppress anti American sentiment in Cuba. Hobson promoted to naval constructor without exam. Insurgents in Pinar del Rio welcome peace tidings amid hunger and exposure. General Polavieja criticized as potential dictator of Spain. Army officers who led the capture of Manila promoted. Graves of American soldiers at Santiago being located for repatriation. Dr Anita McGee sworn in as the first woman on the US Army medical staff. Spanish prisoners at Portsmouth cheer Guantanamo marines arriving aboard the Resolute. Transport Charles N Nelson reaches San Francisco from Honolulu. calm reported en route to Montauk. Beached transport unloads sick soldiers, then proceeds to New York to discharge burning coal. Transport Beaches: Spain cooperates with details on the roving Qovadonga from Santiago de Cuba with 2148 Spanish soldiers aboard.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Bianco
Cuba
Hobson
Pinar del Rio
Polavieja
Spain
Manila
Santhige
United States
United States Army
Anita McGee
Watting
Portsmouth
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Guantanamo
Charles N. Nelson
San Francisco
Honolulu
Army Expenditures Expected to Stabilize by Year End
The War Department reports August expenses for all army purposes about 83 million dollars, with September expected to match that level. Officers foresee a slow return to peacetime basing, noting substantial outlays ahead and a reduction of at least six million dollars every thirty days after mustering out the first 100,000 volunteers, unlikely before October.
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War Department
Flames on hospital ship Catania area scare
On the transport Catania traveling from Santiago to Montauk Point hundreds of soldiers were aboard when a coal fire broke out in the bunkers. Engineers detected the blaze early and fought it, averting a disaster on the hospital ship.
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Accident Near Fort Dodge Kills Child Injures Mother
A team backing off a bridge near Fort Dodge fatally crushed a four year old boy and badly injured his mother. The wagon carried Mrs Newsom and two infants along with the Hively children, who were in front with the older boy driving. Horses pulled the wagon off the bridge as they balked. one horse fell, trapping the child beneath it. Mrs Hively suffered severe injuries including broken ribs and possible internal damage. Victims are from Evanston, a wealthy town southeast of Fort Dodge.
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John Clarke Lively
Scillet
A. A. Rively
Het
Evanston
Double Tragedy at Gredly Ends in Death by Suicide
A boy named John G. Cooksley shot and killed his guardian Glover at Gredly on Saturday, then killed himself after neighbors surrounded the house. The report also notes other local items including a priest retreat in Dubuque, a new hardware dealers association in Council Bluffs, and various court and public notices.
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Gredly
John G. Cooksley
Glover
Cooksley
Council Bluffs
Iowa Retail Hardware Dealers’ Association
P. C. Devol
H. A. Cole
Hali
Soldier Boys Return From Fifty-Second Iowa
The Fifty second Iowa with 860 strong under Colonel Humphrey returned to Des Moines August 30 after a three day train journey. One hundred soldiers were sick with thirty near serious, sent to Cottage Hospital and Camp McKinley hospitals. Crowds greeted them at the depot but no big celebration due to illness. They will be mustered out within months. camp health quarantine and furloughs follow payoffs.
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Humphrey
Des Moines
Cottage Hospital
Camp McKinley
City Board of Health
Iowa Item: Towns, Tempers, Textiles and Trials
A garbled Iowa field reports social shifts from shirt waist to ice cream sodas and pink teas in western towns. Merchants accuse street fakirs of evading taxes while Sioux City gauges heat at 101 and 110 on private thermometers. Pension agent spinney to succeed in Des Moines. Le Mars grants a telephone franchise by 198 votes. Sioux City lawyer O C Tredway indicted for assault on a constable over cattle replevin. State printer charges stir abolition campaign. Kosguth pioneer Dr L K Garfield dies. Lightning rods debated around Tipton. Storm Lake grand jury fails to indict John W Leuter for past homicide. Laffin Rand buys land near Kenosha to move Plateville plant. Welsh Christmas festival planned in Oskaloosa. Parkersburg tragedy as L P Christopher’s wife dies. Parkersburg doctor involved in poisoning charge. Five-year-old Horace Manatt dies after injury in Brooklyn. Crawford County horse incident ends with driver wounded and horse shot. Great Western line wreck near Des Moines causes $20,000 loss. Freight wreck near Fredericksburg. stock losses, engine damage, and fatal engineer. Webster City drug store robbery nets $587.
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E. F. Spinney
Knoxville
Charles Robinson
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le Mars
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