Miles and Young Shine in Long Army Careers Across Wars
The article recalls Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Lieut. Gen. Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, tracing Miles from a 1861 clerk to a Civil War hero and frontier victor, and Young from private to lieutenant general, noting standout battles, injuries, and honors.
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Miles
America
Massachusetts
Washington Street
Boston
Calignac
Leutenant
Plains
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Fifth Infantry
Twenty-second Infantry
Crook
Terry
Mississippi River
Joseph
Nez Perces
Young
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young
Pennsylvania Cavalry
Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry
Ths
Mechanicsville
Appomattox
Pennsylvania
Theodore Roosevelt
Gen. Young
Las Guasimas
United States
George
Cuba
Philippines
Gen. Miles
Centennial week opens at St Louis
Fifteen thousand people crowded to view the tiny torpedo boats as crowds overflowed into the Mississippi and were redirected by police. The centennial celebration announced a week of events with races for airships and a grand Veiled Prophet pageant culminating in a queen crowning in a new palace.
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St. Louis
Mississippi
Jackies
Merchant’s Exchange
Columns of Fire Shot Out in Mine Explosion
A gas explosion at Northwestern Improvement Co Mine No 4 in Roslyn Washington killed at least eight men and fatally injured three others. A column of fire rose into the air igniting the shaft plant and nearby structures. The hoist shaft collapsed with heat and the mine remained lit up in flames late Sunday night. Rescue parties will enter the mine when safe to do so.
Woman attacked by masked robbers in Lansing woodshed
Mrs. W. B. Scott wife of a Lansing baker was found gagged and bound by wrists to a rafter in the woodshed of her home. She was assaulted by two masked men who entered the house and searched for money before her husband and a neighbor found her over two hours later.
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Lansing
Mich
W. B&b Scott
Tragic Rivalry Ends in Double Deaths Near Hannibal
Oscar Wilkin, 19, shot and killed rival Arthur Dix 22 years old at Clara Ellenbrock’s home then wounded Henry Heelscher 6. Wilkin disappeared, later found dead at Mills Creek schoolhouse, suicide suspected.
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Hannibal
Arthur Dix
Clara Ellenbrock
Oscar Wilkinson
Dix
Henry Heelscher
Mills Creek
Wilkinson
Market Reports from Cincinnati and Other Cities
Cincinnati market notes list cattle at 5.65 for extra, calves 9, hogs 8.10 to 8.15, sheep 4.15 to 4.25, lambs 6.33 to 7. Flour and grains shown with spring patent flour 5.45 to 8.75, wheat 1.29 to 1.21, corn 0.64, oats 0.41 to 0.41, rye 0.70, hay Timothy 15.50 to 15.75, butter 0.23, eggs 0.23, apples 1.50 to 3.50, potatoes 1.76 to 2. Data shows Louisville wheat 1.19 to 1.20, corn 0.64, hay 15.70, hogs 8.10 to 8.15, lard 12.27, Indianapolis cattle 5.76 to 6, hogs 7.40 to 8.15, sheep 4.50.
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Cincinnati
Louisville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Maj. Young
Washington Herald
Germany
War Department
Kaiser William
Berlin
Dresden
Emperor William
Chancellorsville
Congress
Second
Fredericksburg
Gen
Hancock
Beaf
Chicago
Recra Sente Sais Ol-m Ranatonaire
Ules
Nelson A. Miles
Indianapolis
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