Multiple Disasters and Incidents Sweep World News
A fire in Portland, Oregon caused losses over 460000. Four youths aged 16 to 18 drowned when a boat capsized near St Louis. Escaped Oregon penitentiary convicts Tracey and Merrill remain at large. The Kai Chi cruiser was wrecked with 150 officers and men killed. Grasshoppers threaten crops in Sacramento Eldorado and Placer counties. Madrid to appoint a minister to Cuba. Charles J Dillon killed in Helena runaway crash. A cyclone and tidal wave hit Kurrachee. An earthquake tremor feared in Chilpancingo. Colon Colombia reports reoccupied Chorrera by government troops. South African Boers urged to emigrate by Peruvian press. Gen Jacob H Smith to San Francisco after Manila court martial. Atchison saloon shooting in San Pedro NM. Cuban Senate sets Palma salary at 25000 and Estevez at 6000. Warren City boiler works strike over union president’s discharge. New York silk workers arbitration attempt by Italian chamber of commerce. Wyoming Sheridan public building site purchase bill proposed. Melilla Morocco tremors panic. no losses. Koenigen Renten ordered to La Guayra for Dutch interests. Judge James Jenkins argues abolition of elective judiciary in Illinois. Hamburg America plans New York to north Brazil monthly sailings. Union Hill silk factories largely closed amid riots. Minnie Gay of Tacoma, 20, dies after carbolic acid suicide over infidelity. General Molto dies from fall injuries at Madrid. In Indianapolis, an 80-year-old man murders his 16-year-old bride and dies by carbolic acid. motive jealousy. German chargé d affaires silence not viewed as significant. Eskimo Konnuck kills doctor treating his consumption near Nome. he dies weeks later.
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Portland
Ore
St. Louis
Tracey and
Merrill
Oregon Penitentiary
Kai Chi
Kurrachee
Sinde
India
Chilpancingo
Mexico
Colon
Colombia
Chorrera
Jacob H. Smith
Manila
San Francisco
W.W. Atchison
James O'Meara
Will Thayer
Atchison
San Pedro
N. M
Palma
Senor Estevez
Warren City, O
Italian Chamber of Commerce
New York City
Paterson
Senator Warren
Wyoming
Sheridan
Wyo
Melilla
Morocco
Koenigen Renten
Willemstand
Curacoa
la Guayra
Venezuela
Netherlands
United States
James Jenkins
Chicago
New York
North Brazil
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Union Hill
N.J
Minnie Gay
Tacoma
Elmer Smith
Island of Martinique Described By A Visitor
A correspondent recalls a pre disaster visit to Martinique praising the island’s climate, charm, and cheerful inhabitants. He notes the women’s dress and adornment, language, mixed race society, and physical fitness, comparing French and English colonies and highlighting the island’s neat, orderly management under French rule.
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Island
Martinique
West Indies
England
Burns Memoirs and the Writer's Memory Practice
The passage notes that Burns memorized his poems while composing and faced no drafting process beyond transcribing what he had already completed, illustrating his method of work and discipline.
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Burns
A Health to the Fighting Man in War Times
A poem praising the fighting man and his sacrifices with lines about courage duty and homecoming. It juxtaposes combat valor with prayers for safety and a return to peace, attributed to W. B. Nesbit in the Baltimore American. The adjacent brief wartime anecdote describes a flour theft, a clay hole concealment, an explosion, and an undisclosed resolution in a Civil War era journal excerpt.
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W. BD
Nesbit
Baltimore American
Honored Veteran James F Morrison, Civil War Soldier
James F Morrison born Philadelphia October 1840 enlisted April 1861 joined Company K Second Pennsylvania Reserves served with Army of the Potomac until December 1862 wounded at Fredericksburg and captured at Hamilton's Crossing. He was imprisoned at Libby, mustered out June 10 1864, life disabled. Member of George G Meade Post No 1 for twenty years held key GAR posts and was elected department commander of Pennsylvania at Gettysburg in 1889.
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James F. Morrison
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Army of the Potomac
Fredericksburg
Hamilton's Crossing
Morrison
Libby
George G. Meade Post
Ant
National Council of Administration
Gettysburg
Grand Army of the Republic
Kept Their Flour During Winter Quarters at McAfee Church
After the Knox ville march in December 1863 the company moved to winter quarters near Chickamauga at McAfee's church. They built small log shanties and daubed them with clay from a rear-hole dump used by Humphreyvill Mc Masters Haynes Tweedy Roe and the speaker. Short rations and hunger led Haynes McMasters and Whison to plan stealing a barrel of flour from near the government bakery to bake daily bread for the division.
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Knoxville
McAfee's Church
Chickamauga
Humphreyvill
McMasters
Haynes
Tweedy
Roe
Sturgis
Whison
Brave Dromme? The Civil War drummer Johnny Clem in Dallas
In Dallas during a reunion visitors included Lieut Colonel John L. Clem deputy quartermaster general now in San Antonio Texas. The Brave Union veteran recalled his youth in 1861 at nine when he joined the Twenty third Michigan as a drummer boy. He survived Shiloh and Chickamauga, fired on a Confederate colonel, earned a sergeant stripe, and later received a commission from Grant in 1871. He rose to major and quartermaster in 1895 and became lieutenant colonel deputy quartermaster general.
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Dromme
Dallas
John L. Clem
San Antonio
Tex
Clem
Shiloh
Chickamanza
Third
Ohio Regiment
Cincinnati
Twenty-third Michigan
Pittsburgh Landing
Chickamauga
Johnny
Thomas
Grant
Fortress Monroe
Secretary of War
Galesburg University
New Soldiers Monument to Stand on Taunton Green
Cyrus H. Lothrop presents a Westerly granite monument to be placed on the east side of Taunton green Massachusetts. The nearly completed figure stands seven feet high atop a twenty six foot structure with three bases and an infantryman in parade rest. The donor’s name and erection date appear on a polished panel. inscriptions reading Army Navy 1861 1905 on the third base. Gov Taft testified before the Senate Philippines committee detailing a brutal eel of Mindanao where a sergeant narrowly escaped decapitation after a bolo strike. the man rode thirty miles to a surgeon and recovered. The closing line notes the farm and garden are the best gold diggings.
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Cyrus H. Lothrop
Taunton Green
Mass
Gov. Taft
Senate Philippines Committee
Mindanao
Gov. Taft Said
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Sacramento
Eldorado
Placer Counties
Cal
Madrid
Charles J. Dillon
West
Helena
Molto
of Marid
Alfonso
Indianapolis
Andrew Deisa
Caracas
Herr von Pilgrim-Baltazzi
Lasuayara
Konnuck
Nome
Fair Martinique
Wwe
Louisiana
Sham
Uncle Sam
Wall Hill
Anil
Seret
Withrow
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