Official account of Lawton's death in Manila action
The Sun reports Major General Henry Ware Lawton of the United States Volunteers was killed December 19 1900 near San Mateo as his forces crossed a river during an operation against insurgents. The dispatch describes the troop movements supports and Lawton's final words and death.
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Washington
W. D. Beach
United States Volunteers
H. W. Lawton
United States of America
Lawton
San Mateo
Sargent
Montalban
Linton
Lieut. Breckinridge
Lieut
Breckinridge
Capt. King
King
Fuller
Rogers
Cl. Leckett
Eleventh Cavalry
Lockett
Tran Vie
Manila
Lawton Honored by the President
Messages of praise from President McKinley and Secretary Root laureate Gen. Lawton for his wartime leadership. The notes recount victories at San Isidro Tayug and San Mateo, his rise from Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry to major general, and the President and War Department tributes mourning his death. Mrs. Lawton receives heartfelt sympathy as the nation honors a gallant officer.
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Mc Kinley
Root
Gen
Lawton
San Isidro
Otis
Manila
Tayug
San Mateo
Geronemo
Tropics
Executive Mansion
Eighth Corps
Regular Army
Senate
Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry
William M'Kinley
United States
War Department
Eighth Army Corps
Gen. Lawton
Veterans Roll Shrinks Fast As Reaper Claims Rise
The roll of veterans is falling rapidly with the number decreasing by about 2,000 per month in the United States. This trend signals a sharp, ongoing decline in veteran population numbers across the nation.
Few Confederates Left as Pension Rolls Shrink
Richmond and Washington reports show Civil War veterans now about 975,000, with Confederate survivors nearly extinct. The grand camp reunion in Richmond marks one of the last major gatherings as deaths outpace new pensions and the cost rises to about 145 million annually.
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Washington, D. C
United States Pension Office
Richmond
Amos
Gray
Pension Office
Congress
Pension plans exclude southern soldiers in the era of good feeling
The era of good feeling has grown to pledge pensions for veterans from the north and south, but southern soldiers are not yet included in the pension bounty. The note clarifies that southern veterans are not part of the current pension program.
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South
North
Peddler Struck by Rockefeller Auto in Yonkers
May 30 Yonkers report says a peddler was run down by John D. Rockefeller’s car. The machine sped away after bystanders claimed Rockefeller or his party ordered the chauffeur to flee. An auto policeman pursued the vehicle but could not stop it.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Yonkers
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Fishing schooners Elf Giradin and Leóftame Lost
North Sydney May 30 officials at St Pierre report the fishing schooners Elf Giradin and Leéftame with 40 fishermen aboard have been given up as lost after two months since sailing for the Grand Banks. It is believed they were wrecked in the storm of April 9.
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Scrippsa-McRae Preas Association
North Sydney
C. B
Schoner Elf Giradin
Leéftame
St. Pierre
Grand Banks
Oldest U S veteran Amos Martin from 1798 life spanned three centuries
Special to The Susquehannon. New Castle Pa May 90 Amos Martin 109 is possibly the oldest veteran in active service having served in the War of 1812 Mexican War and the Civil War He recalls a Minie ball wound at Bull Run his long life began in Campbellton Scotland He enlisted as a boy in 1812 and later marched with Taylor across the continent He now lives in Beaver and Lawrence counties with stepdaughter and relatives drawing a pension of $ monthly.
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New Castle
Amos Martin
Ades
Cambellton
Scotland
Canada
Philadelphia
Washington
Martin
Mexico
Twenty-fourth
United States Volunteers
Gen. Taylor
Beaver County
Lawrence County
Princeton
Daniel Tooney
Here
West Leading in Manufacturing Says Hutton at Claypool
Prof Frederick K Hutton of Columbia University and president of the American Association of Mechanical Engineers reports a manufacturing boom in the west. He notes Indianapolis ranks third in automobile production, with Detroit and Cleveland first and second, and sees westward advantages in building and expansion over the east. He highlights interurban freight growth for Indiana and the use of gas or internal combustion engines for farm needs, praising denatured alcohol and gas as cheaper fuels.
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Frederick K. Hutton
New York
Columbia University
American Association of Mechanical Engineers
Claypool Hotel
Hutton
Indianapolis
Detroit
Cleveland
Prof
Indiana
Prof. Hutton
Ruef Case Postponed In San Francisco Court
The sentencing of Abe Ruef, scheduled for today, is postponed for two weeks. Theo dore V. Halsey is arraigned on indictments accusing him of bribing supervisors in the Pacific Telephone case. pleading set for Saturday.
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Scrippa-MecRae Press Association
San Francisco
Cal
Abe Ruef
Theodore V. Halsey
Pacific Telephone
Jump gossip on Jiggers as Standard Oil attorney home
In playful chatter, Jiggers rents his house and makes it resemble a fire engine house to fit his role. The quip asks why, answering that he is one of the Standard Oil company's attorneys.
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Jiggers
Standard Oil Company
First Men to Discover the Klondike Gold Were Russians
Special to The San Seattle May 30. Russians explored the Klondike district in the 1830s and mined gold on the Anauk river before abandoning the fields. The 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle will display Russian mining relics and the history of Alaska and Yukon. The story recounts a discovery on Hunter creek and the fate of two buried miners in manacles, with relics preserved for the exhibit.
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Seattle
Wash
Solomon
Hiram
Tyre
Alaska
Klondike
Alaska Central Railway
Yentna
F. A. Cook
Mount McKinley
Anauk
Seward Peninsula
Yukon
Hunter Creek
Russia
Sitka
Koskokwim
Yellow River
United States
Skookum Jim
Lost Legion
Memorial cross placed over Michael Davitt’s grave
In Straid abbey graveyard Dublin admirers of Michael Davitt founder of the Land League and of the National League of Ireland set a fine memorial cross over his remains on May 30.
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Dublin
Michael Davitt
Straid Abbey
The
Land League
National League of Ireland
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Fourth Cavalry
Ordinance Department
Sewall
Jent. Fuller
Manilla
Ta Loma
Stewart
Maraquina River
San Mateo, As Orginally Planned By Gen. Lawton
Montalbor
Laguna de Bay
Santa Cruz
Tayabas
Cavite
Batangas
Laguna
Cabanatuan
Biac-na-bato
San Miguel
Twenty-ninth
Governor General’s
Col
Cavahy
Jett
San Matteo
General Lawton
Arlington, VA
M’kinley
Indiana Hero
William M’kinley
Reaper
Richmond, Va
J. D
Hero
Bull Run
Company I of the
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
West
Ruef
Ficod
Conklin
State
Crafts
Meridian &T
Indianapols
Ind
San
Davitt
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