Old Johnny Ree of the Civil War Surrender Recalled
The Indianapolis News recounts W. H. Graham the lone surviving eye witness to General Lee’s surrender to General Grant. Graham, a dispatch bearer, arrived at Grant’s headquarters as surrender talks concluded. Dorrough, paroled that night, recalled hunger and hardship after the long war ending at Linton with Union survivors nearby.
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Columbus
Ind
Indianapolis News
Robert E. Lee
U. S. Grant
W. H. Graham
Pittsburg
Z. T. Sweeney
Sweeney
Graham
Washington
Grant
Mr. Dorrough
Dorrough
Linton
Confederate veteran refutes claim in Daily Citizen interview
Elijah R. Dorrough, a Confederate veteran and father of ex-Councilman Henry Dorrough, rejects a assertion by Mr. Sweeney. He recalls picket duty before Lee's surrender and witnessing the handshake between Lee and Grant, plus service in Fitzhugh Lee’s division and battles including Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Petersburg, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
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Daily Citizen
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Dorrough
Henry Dorrough
Johnny Reb
Mr. Dorrough
Lee
Mr Dorrough
Seventh
Virginia Cavalry
Ross
Fitzhugh Lee
Chancellorsville
Wilderness
Petersburg
General Jackson
Stonewall Jackson
Bull Run
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Gettysburg
Mr. Dorvough
Liner Avare Capsizes Trapping Thirty in Hamburg Yard
The Brazilian liner Avare capsized while being hauled from dry dock at Vulman ship yards Hamburg leaving about thirty crew and yard workers trapped in the hold. Rescue efforts by motor boats and the harbor fire department followed as the vessel lay submerged two thirds underwater. The Agare of 8277 tons gross owned by Brazilian Lloyd had been in dry dock eight days after sailing from Santos on April 27 and stopping in Havre and Lisbon before Hamburg.
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Germany
Avare
Vulman
Harbor Fire Department
Agare
Brazilian Lloyd Company
Santos
Brazil
Havre
Lisbon
Ten Die In Storm In Superior Wisconsin
Ten people are dead and more than one hundred injured after a cyclone swept through four western Wisconsin counties. The two mile wide tornado began near Reed and cut a 15 mile path, with Forest and St. Croix County hardest hit. Property damage is projected above five million dollars, including over a million in Clear Lake where fifty homes were wrecked.
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Wisconsin
Reed
Forest
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Clear Lake
Massacre at Bessbrook Strikes Ulster Frontier
Sinn Fein bands attacked overnight in the Bessbrook district defying British troops. Four men and a woman were killed and five Protestant farmer homes burned. It is the first Sinn Fein assault in Ulster after troops drove them from Pettigee and cleared the northern border area.
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Ulster Frontier
Sinn Fein
Bessbrook
Sinn
Firemen Overcome At Alexander Box Company Fire
Fifteen firefighters were overcome by heat while battling a blaze at the Alexander Box company plant in Indianapolis. Two were hospitalized. Damage to the plant is estimated at about fifty thousand dollars.
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Indianapolis
Alexander Box Company
Box Company
Weather Report Fair Tonight and Sunday
A calm weather note forecasts fair skies tonight and Sunday with cooler temperatures likely.
Rail and Miners Leaders Plan Joint Session Talk
Cincinnati report says rail and miners prepare a joint action meeting led by John L. Lewis and B M Jewell. The coalition conference aims to coordinate defense of essential industries under the cooperative agreement with the AFL.
Miners of Indiana Demand Joint Union Session
Terre Haute June 17. T S Roberts vice president of United Mine Workers District No. 11 says Indiana bituminous coal operators withdrawing from the four state agreement will still face a four state meeting. He notes miners have lost three months and may lose the year, and the union will not split to meet Indiana alone.
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Terre Haute
John Hessler
United Mine Workers of America
Indiana
T. S. Roberts
Merchants Prepare for Next Big Community Sale
The organization calls for full member cooperation to stage a large annual sale on July 15 with bids due June 24. The process includes a censor committee, extensive advertising, a floral parade, band entertainment, and prize drawings. Coupon merchandising runs July 10 to 15, with space drawings on June 26 at the library.
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Censor Committee
Warrants Issued for Near 100 Striking Coal Miners
W arrants for the arrest of nearly 100 persons described as striking coal miners were issued in Brazil Indiana on June 17. The warrants include District No. 11 United Mine Workers officials alleged to belong to a group that visited nonunion wagon mines west of Brazil Wednesday and forced closures. Most strikers are said to be from Terre Haute and Clinton, with many warrants sent to county sheriffs. Wagon mine work stoppage halted coal supply to local clay plants, causing factory shutdowns.
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Brazil
Ind
Railway Board Orders Pruning in Rail Pay Roll
The United States railroad labor board cut nearly 27 million dollars from the payroll of 325 000 railway workers by reducing clerks signalmen and stationary firemen hourly wages by two to six cents beginning July 1 The action lifts total reductions to 185 million dollars and faces immediate union protests and possible strike votes The average wage for clerks falls to 58 5 cents an hour from 34 5 cents in December 1917 with other classes seeing varied cuts
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Albert Phillips
W. L. MecMenimen
San Francisco Bay
Fivuers
Mine unions order workers from Bicknell field mines
Pumpers engineers and firemen at nearly all twelve Bicknell field mines have been ordered out by their unions after operators refused to continue the check-off system. District 11 officials directed local unions to act when pay checks for three men kept at the mines for property protection were not being checked off. Similar actions are reported district wide.
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Terre Haute
Bicknell Field
District 11
Indianapolis man arrested for theft after chicken basket clue
Indianapolis June 17 Walter Castetter, who previously underwent a court ordered operation to curb stealing, is again under arrest for theft. He was found on a streetcar with a basket full of chickens police say had stolen headers.
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Indianapolis
Walter Castetter
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