Lost uniforms thread Kansas militia pay for misplaced outfits
About 106 state militia uniforms for Kansas National Guard units were lost or unaccounted after recruits failed medical exams and militia disbandment. Captains owed repayment to the state for missing gear valued at 36 each, as volunteers shifted to service in the United States Army.
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Kansas National Guard
Beltg
United States
Val
Leedy
Alten
Vilicera
Tewu
Oeae
Local notices and weather hints from Topeka paper
Local items report Mr and Mrs S L Deck as parents while notes mention Rev Everett preaching at North Side Christian Church Sunday morning and afternoon. Weather observations predict a clear day with caution about a storm area moving east. Peter J Serrigo graduates with honors from New York Homeopathic Medical College and passes exams for a hospital assistant surgeon post in New York City. Jimmie McMenns, nine, misbehaves after a fall, with family in Topeka reacting to his run-in with soldiers.
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S L. Deck
Bern
Everett
North Side Christian Church
T. B. Jennings
Peter J. Serrigo
New York
Aelty
Bor
Wameep
Dimisnon
Taother
Topeka
Pursued by a Woman What Matrimony Had in Store for Thompson
The Atchison Globe tells of George C. Thompson once with the Exchange Bank in Atchison and later a pension office worker in Topeka. After his wife won a divorce and alimony she pursued him as he moved on as a traveling salesman. He was seen in Omaha with a hammock over his shoulder, lacking prosperity, and friends mourn his uncertain future amid her claimed Kentucky connections.
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George C. Thompson
Atchison Globe
Echange Bank
Atchison
Topeka
Pension Office
Hit
Omahe
Mr. Thompson
Kentucky
Fire Disasters In Brooklyn Kill Firemen In Two Blazes
A pair of Brooklyn fires early today left nine firemen severely injured and at least one critically burned. One blaze struck a wooden tenement row on Culver Street, threatening residents and causing about 200000 dollars in damages. At another site on Green Paint Avenue a fire at a concert hall injured John Carter and others after contact with a live wire. Fireman Peter Hunts suffered melted rubber boots and leg injuries.
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Brooklyn
New York
Culver Street
Tater
Saions
Green Paint Avenue
John Carter
Weitt
Peter Hunt
Chinese colors lowered at Wei-Hai-Wei transfer
May 21 report from Pekin says Wei-Hai-Wei transfer complete with Chinese forces to occupy the port on Monday and hoist flags beside British. arsenals forts and town will pass to Chinese control as buildings are turned over. Also mentions Manila voyage order and other brief items including a death notice and a local concert.
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Wei-Hai-Wei
Ee Jabinuse
Bon Wit
Kres
Manila
Berlin
Foreign Office
Prince Henry I of
Prussia
China
Cowboys at Chicago Ol Grigsbys Troopers Receive Warm Reception
Chicago May 21 Col Grigsbys cow pany Hage arrived in Chic from Joux Falls. Sarge greeted the train as crowds exchanged compliments with soldiers leaning from windows. Train had five passenger coaches eight stock cars 186 men in two companies. Troopers wore cowboy dress with broad sombreros and long mustaches. They unloaded at stock yards rested and stretched. They left for Chickamauga later this afternoon. Other companies are en route from Fort Meade and Manteas and Fargo to join.
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OL Grigsby
Chicago
Col. Grigsby
Joux Falls
Sarge
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chickamauga
Grigsby
Trent
Chirios Lloyd
Fort Meade
S. D
Manteas
Snd Coe
Fargo
Thousands of Volunteers Signal Welcome for Troops in San Francisco
Over 3,000 volunteers from eastern states greeted arriving troops in Oakland and San Francisco. Kansas sent 64 soldiers and 43 officers, Minnesota 82 soldiers and 30 officers, Colorado 186 soldiers and 42 officers, Utah about 20 men. Red Cross ladies served sandwiches and coffee and presented Calif ornia roses as troops marched to Camp Richmond amid cheers. Intermittent drills and preparations were planned, with 11,000 troops quartered in the city and 5,000 more expected next week.
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San Francisco
Oakland
Bu Pier
Kansas
Minnesota
Utah
Tumorrow
Bay
Society of the
Ted Cross
Market Street
Camp Richmond
Shane
Wight Falls
Uncle Sam
Governor General Augusti Vows Manila Defense to Last
Madrid dispatch confirms Governor General Augusti will distribute all rifles and cartridges and defend Manila to the last. Other reports note Spanish troops reinforcing near Tangier and Tarifa as Britain and Gibraltar watch the region. A Havana dispatch claims Cuban rebels align with Spain to oppose the Americans.
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Manila
London
Madrid
Mall Telestapns
Augusti
No Coal for Spain and Spain Tranquil Reported
Officials in Washington dismiss a Montreal report that Spain secured a coaling station on St Pierre and Miquelon. The French embassy calls the claim contemptuous as neutrality rules forbid such privileges. France keeps St Pierre and Miquelon. Spain remains tranquil despite famine fears and ruined trade. Havana dispatch notes several U S ships near the bay but distant from Guantanamo.
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Washington
Montreal
Polo
Spain
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Newfoundland
France
Canada
Madrid
Havana
Sealy
Guatanamo
Arrested in the Army for Embezzling $2800
Eugene Harding a private in Company T New York volunteers was arrested in New York May 21 on a charge of embezzling 2800 dollars from his former employers Snyder and French wholesale grocers of Middletown NW.
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New York
Eugene Harding
Company T
New York Volunteers
Ci Black
Snyder and French
Middletown
Yankee Hurries Away From Block Island Scene
Off Block Island on May 21 the auxiliary cruiser Yankee sped to sea in response to a small torpedo boat signaling the destroyer. The torpedo craft swung back toward Newport as the Yankee fled at full speed southward.
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Block Island
F. 1
Yankee
Newport
Twenty second Kansas regiment delayed departure from city
The Twenty second Kansas regiment will not leave for Washington this afternoon but will move by Monday. General Passenger Agent Black, in St Louis for troop transport bids, wired that the start could occur within 24 hours after bids opened, with departure likely tomorrow afternoon. Col. B C Lindsey, commanding the regiment, has commented on the situation.
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Twenty-second
Kansas
Washington
Black
Santa Fe
St. Louis
B.C. Lindsey
Fight Saloons. Chattanooga Regiments Train for War
In Chickamauga camps regiments undergo practical training under Gen Brooke. Army gearing up fast with constant supplies, carloads of provisions and clothing arriving. Indications point to full equipping within the next two weeks.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Chickamauga
Brooke
Utah Volunteers Sail from Salt Lake for San Francisco
Batteries A and B Utah volunteers under Capt. Young totaling 256 officers and men left Salt Lake at 12 30 a m yesterday for San Francisco. City business was suspended, schools closed, and about 80 000 people filled the march route in a hearty send off for the troops.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Utah Volunteers
Young
San Francisco
War drives man to take own life in futile shelling dream
Alonzo Hedges, of Middletown, hanged himself at Mountainville May 21. Doctors say he was insane from war news and believed the Lord had commissioned him to shell Havana. He killed himself unable to complete the mission.
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Alonzo Hedges
Havana
Middletown
Mountainville
Army camps at park prepare to move units and supply lines
Troops of the Twenty second regiment ready to march to the train with midday departure possible. Four and a half million additional rations en route and a large bakery contracted to supply 75,000 loaves daily. Regiments from New Hampshire to Minnesota arrive and form divisions under Gen Wade and Gen Brooke. One death reported as Frank McReady of company D passes on march.
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W. K. Wright
Prosper, Lazard & Co
Park
Park Army
First Army Corps
Third Corps
James
Wadevill
Second
New York Infantry
Timnois Artillery
First
Missouri Infantry
A. K. Arnold
Pennsylvivie
West Virginia
Ohio
Iniiana
Alenis
John R.brooke
Army of the Ul
New Hampshire Infantry
Robert H. Rolen
W. K. Cafee
Pennsylvania Merit Artillery
L. T. Hunt
E. E. Hardin
Minors
Phillip Yeager
Edwin Buldert
Brooke
Third Army Corps
Fred D. Grant
James F. Wade
Trnors
Thas
Frank McReady
Company D
Twelfth New York
New York
Rossville
Missionary Baptists elect officers for coming year in Rochester
Rochester May 21 The American Baptist Home Mission Society in convention elected Stephen Green of Massachusetts as president and EB M Thresher of Ohio as vice president. W G Brim in, Danville treasurer, and D A Waterman of New York as auditor. Corresponding secretary Rev. Thomas J. Morgan of New York and recording secretary Rev. A S Hobart of New York. Managers named include Rev W C F Rhodes of Brooklyn Rev J Bosworth of New York and others.
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Rochester
N. C
American Baptist Home Mission Society
Stephen Green
Massachusetts
EB M Thresher
Ohio
W.G. Brimon
Tinelss
D. A. Waterman
New York
Edgard L. Marston
New
A.S. Hobart
W. C.F Rhoades
Brooklyn
Bosworth
F. Wayland
Ha- Bernie
Pretty girls with roses meet Kansas volunteers in Sacramento
Kansas troops travel to the Sacramento Valley amid warm welcomes. Pretty girls greet the soldiers at Sacramento as trains arrive, showering them with roses while bands play and cannons boom. Citizens give fruit and supplies to the troops.
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Kansas
Sacramento Valley
Sacramento
Cal
Demand Passports in Constantinople Protest By US
United States Minister Angel in Constantinople protests Turkish authorities for refusing to grant passports to Americans to travel in the interior. The action, Anzell notes, violates existing treaties. Passports withheld only from American citizens and British subjects.
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Constantinople
United States
Angel
Min—leter Anzell
Bishop Kain Chosen for Two Years as Spiritual Adviser
St Louis May 21 The Catholic Knights and Ladies of America closed their biennial convention electing Archbishop J J Kain of St Louis as supreme spiritual adviser and Charles O Donnell of Chicago as supreme president The slate also named James B Crumley Detroit J J Duty Memphis and Mrs E Sheridan Louisville as officers A board meeting for the Auditorium association is set for May 26 at the Commercial club rooms all members urged to attend
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The
Auditorium Association
Cc. H. Nettles
Red Cross Handicap Draws New Yorkers to Benefit Race
New York May 21 large crowd attended the track as proceeds from the day went to the Red Cross relief fund. The feature race, the Red Cross handicap a mile and a sixteenth, was won by Previous with Sloan up in a sustained drive, breaking the track record by two seconds.
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New York
Red Cross Society
Red Cross
Sloan Up
Welcome Kansas Troops Arrive in San Francisco amid Cheers
San Francisco reports the third battalion of Nebraska volunteers arriving yesterday, with Kansas volunteers greeting them warmly after marching from the ferry. The “first Minnesota” troops reached the Oakland Mole an hour later, all in good health and spirits, while plans for Manila remain unconfirmed by German officials.
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San Francisco
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Oakland Mole
New York Money Market Report Snapshot
A fragmented New York money market note outlines sterling exchange rates, commercial bills, and government bonds. It references demand and supply terms, fluctuating rates, and coupon details for various securities, including railroads and Pacific issues.
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Brite Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Hasker
Paciic
Sugar and Coffee Trade Notes From New York Market
Fragmented OCR notes from New York dated Atey 21 describe sugar and coffee descriptors. Mentions raw sugar, refined sugar, first crush, percentages and powders, with unclear figures and terminology.
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New York
Atey
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