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General Henry Slocum Dead and War News
Obituary notes General Henry Slocum’s death amid sweeping global dispatches. Reports detail smallpox in Chicago, fires in Santa Cruz, Belgium ships lost near Boston, and Coxey’s Army movements toward Washington with Oklahoma contingents preparing for rail transport.
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Henry Slocum
Chicago
Montana
Santa Cruz
California
Christopher Columbus Paliseer
Esquiman
Seattle
Washington
Samoa
North Atlantic
Sargeant
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Congress
J. M. Meldon
America
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Great Northern Railroad
Court of Appeals
Jenkins
Northern Pacific
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Coxey’s Army