11 Aug 1898
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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1898
Page
1
The Assillon Glass Factory and Iron Bridge Co advertise a range of products including green glass hollow tentles, flankes, and ridges. Builders can also source iron roofs and general iron structures from these manufacturers.
It Can't Last Long It Can't Last Long Such sacrificing of choice Dry Goods as in this Shelf emptying Sale. It would bankrupt us to keep it up. People are taking advantage of it so liberally, both by coming and sending, that stocks will soon be down to where we want them, and that will be the end of 1. We want you to get the bene fit of these usual price reduc tions-almost throw-away prices in all of the 56 departmentsnothing like it ever done before. But it behooves you to be prompt-no delay will answer the demands of your self inter est. Anything wanted in Dry Goods, write us about, and find out what's being done in that line. Everything else is-Suits, Shirt Waasts, Shirts, Parasols and like goods wanted now. Get samples 25c Linen Lawns T4e-and rather choice wash goods reduced, ranging 5 to 20c a yard-and you none be long about buying. Prices in this sale that mean SELL.
The article recounts brutal combat near Malate, Manila with at least 14 killed among the American forces and three hundred Spaniards in a typhoon battered assault. It details units under General Merritt and General Anderson, including Tenth Pennsylvania, First California, Third Artillery, Utah Battery, and regiments from Colorado, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. It notes heavy seas, night artillery duels, and steadfast defense before reinforcements arrive, with multiple casualties among Pennsylvanians, Californians, Colorado troops, and others.
Privates Carter and Holmes of Company K Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, former Waynesburg college students, were wounded in the battle at Malate. Carter, a senior, received his diploma in his absence. Holmes, 19, excelled in oratory and played on last year’s football team.
Washington Aug 10 the secretary of war stopped dispatch of further reinforcements to Porto Rico General Miles reported his force ample to complete the conquest The Wade provisional corps of 18 regiments remains in the United States Wilsons division mostly sailed and will be allowed to proceed Two regiments at Newport News detained until further orders large troop movements northward probable with practice marches to improve health of troops.
General Wilson captured Coamo with seven wounded in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania. Corporal Barnes was mortally wounded. Sergeant Wishart Frank Whitlock Clyde Frank Jolly and Herbert Lubold among the wounded. Spanish losses included Major Vellecas Ecante Lopez and nine privates killed and 35 wounded.
Military dispatches describe General Miles moving toward Adjuntas with a troop of the Second Cavalry and telegraph links to his columns. General Wilson’s HQ is by the Descalabrada river with a reconnaissance near Coamo where Spaniards are estimated at 400. Other items note a disorder at Camp Alger and threats of dishonorable discharge, a Breckinridge review at Chickamauga, resignations in Porto Rico service, and a mob execution aftermath in Clarendon.
Dispatches report Spain practically accepts the proposed peace terms. Secretary Day says a protocol outlining the conditions for a Cuba and Porto Rico peace treaty has been agreed, to be executed with the President’s original note terms. Cambon to cable Spain for complete immediate acceptance. signatures to the protocol not today.
The Spanish government signals willingness to assume Cuban debt contracted after April 21 while favoring Cuba taking pre rupture debt. Washington awaits McKinley’s view. Military censorship blocks discussion of Sagasta plot and Castilian revolutionary bands.
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