22 Sep 1898
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
1
An advertisement solicits prescriptions and family recipes for filling with pure and fresh drugs. It promotes high grade pharmaceutical service and mentions locations at 25 Court Street Frederick and Masonic Building Thurmont.
A Bridgeport report says Emma Gill, 24, of Southington is identified as the dismembered corpse found in Yellow Mill Pond. Walter C. Foster, Hartford, is arrested on suspicion of complicity with a lover’s alleged murder plot.
The report lists prices across produce and grain, noting flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, and potatoes with bidings and spot quotes. Dairy, meats, and butter figures appear alongside stock market figures for beef, veal, sheep, lambs, and pigs, with regional price variations and freight rates included.
Paris reports say Colonel Picquart and lawyer M Loblois face charges over national defense documents. Adjournment was pressed amid political contention with M Labori opposing. Picquart’s dramatic courtroom statement preceded a shock scene as he was led away, while press and public weigh possible further delays and Esterhazy’s London sighting.
Cable dispatch from Rome reports Cardinal Rampolla asking U S authorities to shield the bishop and priests of New Segovia from brutal treatment by insurgents. General Otis will investigate while ensuring humane conduct within his jurisdiction. Opposition reports claim brutality is exaggerated.
Washington reports Cuban delegation members expect General Cahato Garcia to travel to the United States within two weeks visiting New York Baltimore and Washington. They raise questions about old criminal proceedings connected to Garcia during the Cuban filibustering era and his Baltimore arrest on a landing expedition charge.
News brief notes Hon Thomas F Bayard in weak condition after illness. Phrenic tests show extreme weakness while weather remains unsettled. Also reports a September conference among powers on suppressing anarchist influence and recent deadly floods in Spain with twenty reported drownings near Cadiz.
Secretary of War General Alger inspected Camp Poland in Knoxville and reviewed troops. He blamed camp sickness on commanding officers and urged better hospital and sanitary conditions while praising the camp’s overall state and location.
Lexington Kentucky September 22 a prominent gentleman close to the national administration and to the officers here at Camp Hamilton says the present tour of inspection of the camps by Secretary Alger Quartermaster Ludington and Surgeon General Sternberg will likely develop numerous charges from regimental and general field officers against both the medical and quartermaster departments and especially against some commissaries. General Sanger and General Waite critique the handling and neglect in supplies and requisitions prompting calls for accountability. Delays and mismanagement cited as causing hardships for hospitals and soldiers.
Washington dispatches describe Colonel William Jennings Bryan meeting contacts at the Metropolitan Hotel regarding the Third Nebraska muster and possible resignation or transfer. Other items note Captain Capron’s funeral at Arlington, Maryland silver Democrats in Baltimore endorsing Bryan, and sailors for Dewey’s squadron plus various international posts and Manila events.
The Teutonic arrived from Liverpool with Colonel John Hay and family aboard, along with J. Angell and George Gould among first cabin passengers. Hay plans to assume secretary of state duties soon, denying any alliance with Britain and praising Allied neutrality. He will visit Washington next, while other notes cover Seth Low’s stance and Connecticut gold Democrats, plus Philadelphia primaries.
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