Art's Tribute to Dewey Arch in Madison Square
A national sculpture society plans a grand triumphal arch at Madison Square for the Dewey celebration. The design resembles the Arch of Titus with four piers, Bas reliefs depict arms, battle, return, and peace. Naval officers named include Jones, Hull, Perry, McDonough, Farragut, Porter, and Cushing. A ship and Victory statue crown the entrance. a larger scheme includes a Greater New York theme and five boroughs with color contrasts.
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Madison Square
New York City
National Sculpture Society
Paris
Dong
Society
Paul Jones
Scatur
Hull
Perry
McDonough
Farragut
Porter
Cushing
New York
Greater
Five Boroughs
Novel tea saloon rivals liquor shops in New York
In East Side New York the Open Door tea saloon operated by the Church Army and Colonel H. H. Hadley offers tea from one cent, tea with solids for five cents, and tea on draught for outside sale. The converted building includes an assembly room for nightly mission meetings, twelve furnished rooms for rent, and aims to reduce alcoholism by providing cheap, accessible beverages plus moral programming.
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East Ride
New York
Allen Street
Church Army
H. H. Hadley
Hadley
Harper's Bazar
Call for ten regiments to aid in the Philippines
A Washington special reports an order to organize ten additional infantry volunteer regiments for service in the Philippines, numbered thirty eight to forty seven, to be raised at Fort Snelling Fort Crook Fort Riley Camp Meade Fort Niagara Fort Leavenworth Jefferson Barracks and Framingham. Secretary Root says the war department will furnish Otis with troops and supplies to end the insurrection quickly, with no delays in enlisting equipping or transporting. Existing transports will be used or extra ones procured, regiments already organized will proceed promptly, and new regiments will be sent forward as organized and needed to reinforce General Otis. Preparations move quickly with arsenals ordnance outfits tents clothing rations and medical supplies being dispatched to rendezvous and recruiting depots.
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Washington
Philippines
Fort Snelling
Minn
Fort Crook
Nob
Fort Riley
Kan
Camp Meade
Fort Niagara
N. Y
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Jefferson Barracks
Missouri
Bonth Framingham
Mass
War Department
Root
Otis
Philippine Service
Otia
Army
Ordnance Bureau
Quartermaster’s Department
Commissary Department
Five Negroes Held in Connection With Farmhouse Fire
In Coweta County Georgia, officers netted five Black men on charges linked to a barn fire that destroyed a valued herd and other stock on R L Hardy’s Senoia area farm. Andrew Herndon confessed detailing a plan to kill Hardy, with Lewis Brandenburg George Eliot Lint Lightner and Simon Jackson implicated. two others were arrested earlier. The fire was spotted by a tenant’s son before spreading further.
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Newnan
Coweta
R. L. Hardy
Senoia
Andrew Herndon
Wang
Lewis Brandenburg
George Eliot
Lint Lightner
Simon Jackson
Mr. Hardy
Hia
Five Assaults In One Day In Little Rock
Several brutal assaults on white women occurred in Little Rock Arkansas within twenty four hours. Police report four suspects named Ed Wright Joe Gardner Will Morgan and James Randle match descriptions given by victims. Wright has been positively identified by Mrs Kennedy as the attacker.
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Little Rock
Ark
Ed Wright
Joe Gardner
Will Morgan
James Randle
Wright
Drowned at ferry in Indiana carriage accident
A carriage carrying six people including two women and four children plunged into the White River at Washington Indiana on Thursday night as it was being boarded onto a ferryboat. The hawser parted as the horse stepped aboard and the boat swung out, throwing the conveyance into the river and all occupants drowned.
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Indiana
White River
Washington
Ind
Anarchists Rule in Paris Loot and Destroy Churches
Sunday in Paris anarchists and socialists mobbed Place de la Republique then moved to Place de la Nation attacking churches. Faure and Faberot led, police detained several, clashes wounded officers, fires damaged St Ambroise and St Joseph churches, with priests and parishioners harmed amid accusations of government weakness and a manifesto calling forceful action.
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Paris
Journal du Peuple
la Petit
Faure
Faberot
Henri
d'Hert Rande
Place de la Nation
H. Goullier
d'Horr
Place de la Republique
Joseph Terrier
Jean Perrin
Chateau d'Ean
Church of St. Ambroise
Faubourg du Temple
Rue Darboy
St. Mari-Popincourt
Aticka
Guerin
Sebastian Fanre
Still Drlying Filipinos in Manila Skirmish Fatalities and Wounding
Advices from Manila report one Twelfth Infantry lieutenant killed and another seriously wounded during a Saturday evening reconnoiter north of Angeles. An American force engaged a larger insurgent group, driving them from positions with light American casualties. Lieutenant Cole of the Sixth Infantry, leading eighty men, routed about one hundred entrenched insurgents in Ne gros after ninety minutes of combat, leaving nineteen insurgents dead.
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Manila
Twelfth Infantry
Angeles
Cole
Sixth Infantry
Island of
Negros
DEWEY FAVORS AUTONOMY FOR FILIPINOS
Naples correspondent reports Admiral Dewey's view during a visit: Filipinos capable of self government, autonomy to settle the insurrection and ensure prosperity. He says he never favored violence toward Filipinos and that after autonomy annexation might be discussed.
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London
Naples
London Daily News
Dewey
Harrison Suffered Fever In Cuba Inspector General Ill
A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba reports Major Russell B. Harrison, inspector general, critically ill with yellow fever. The illness has progressed for three days and was not identified as yellow fever until Sunday afternoon. The case is the first at Oristo.
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Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
Russell B. Harrison
Oristo
Work of the Mormons Progress in the South
President Rich Treuos reports 496 elders laboring in southern fields, totaling 9,260 miles walked, 8,500 families visited, and 960 meetings held in the week. In the Georgia conference 67 elders worked, covering 909 miles and visiting 169 families, with 87 refusals of entertainment.
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Rich Treuos
South
Rich
The
Mormon Society
Georgia
Three New Cases of Bubonic Plague Reported
Advices from Madrid state that three cases of bubonic plague are reported from Oporto. They are said to be of a mild character.
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Madrid
Oporto
Will Root Resign From Secretary of War Post
Rumor spreads in Washington that Secretary of War Elihu Root will resign soon amid questions about his fit for the job. The story notes he has only led the department a few weeks and may quit to avoid humiliation if pressured, though sources claim the authority behind the claim is uncertain.
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Chargem
Pearson
Washington
Root
Paris rumor: Mercier to be arrested over Dreyfus case
The Paris desk for The London Sunday Special reports government plans to arrest General Mercier and issue orders to withdraw the Dreyfus case. It says documents used to prove his guilt are forgeries and the move follows that finding.
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Dreyfus
Paris
London Sunday
Mercier
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