Busy Days at the Recruiting Stations
Uncle Sam gathers men for the Philippines as ten new regiments are raised. Applicants aged from eighteen to thirty-five face strict physical and character tests, with native or naturalized status required and married men rejected. New York hosts three stations where thousands apply daily, but only a fraction succeed, undergoing eye and dental checks, heart and lung tests, and a final surgeon’s exam before training for overseas service.
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Philippines
United States
New York
Uncle Sam
Soldierly Timber Found in Bread Seeking Youths
The passage notes enlistment driven by starvation and hunger, with most seeking bread rather than combat. It suggests those earnest in their bread search may show soldierly timber and could be polished to proper deportment if they prove fit.
Independence for Cubans proposed under American protection
Washington dispatch reports General Fitzhugh Lee urges an independent Cuban republic under American protection. He recommends a census, suffrage considerations, a president and congress, a codified legal system, and ongoing U S supervision to ensure stable self government and protection of American interests.
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Fitzhugh Lee
Cuba
War Department
Lee
Havana
Pinar del Rio
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Congress
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United States
New Dominican Cabinet Formed by Revolutionists
The revolutionists of San Domingo establish a provisional government headed by President Horacio Vasquez with ministers for interior Jose Brache war Ramon Caceres foreign affairs Doming Ferreras finance Samuel Mayo justice Hose Ma Noel agriculture Arturo Zeeno and posts and telegraph Jose Fro Guzman. The provisional seat has been in Moca.
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San Domingo
Horacio Vasquez
Jose Brache
Ramon Caceres
Doming Ferreras
Samuel Mayo
Rioters in Court Consider Indictment for Treason
At Darien on Wednesday Judge Seabrook recessed until Thursday. The grand jury returned one indictment against John Delegal for murder and failed to indict the riot defendants. Jurors debated indicting the riot defendants for treason, risking capital punishment for about seventy prisoners.
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Darien
May invasion figure reports Central American alliance
An American living in Nicaragua for seven years claims a conference between Nicaragua's President Zelaya and Honduras's President Sierra to form an offensive alliance to invade Costa Rica. He spoke after returning to New Orleans.
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South America
New Orleans
Zelaya
Terencia Sierra
Honduras
Costa Rica
Street Car Blown Up on Wilson Avenue Line
A Cleveland report says a combination streetcar on the Wilson Avenue line was blown up between Scoville and Quincy streets at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Six passengers were aboard. five suffered broken legs while the others and the crew escaped unharmed. The blast lifted the car off the track, wrecked the rails and flooring, and the car then settled back on the line. Crews rescued the injured as the explosion's concussion was heard three miles away on the public square.
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Cleveland
Wilson Avenue
Scoville
Quincy
Democratic Committee reorganizes national body in Chicago
Vice-Chairman W J Stone announces new leadership of the Democratic National Committee in Chicago. John B McLean becomes head of the Ways and Means Committee joining other new appointees from Kansas Indiana Illinois and more. Several longtime members including Altgeld retire as the plan takes effect.
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St. Louis Dispatch
John B. McLean
Ohio
Ways and Means
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Chicago
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National Council
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Michigan
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Indiana
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Illinois
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Tennessee
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Alabama
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Nebraska
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Massachusetts
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Minnesota
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Kentucky
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Colorado
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California
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South Carolina
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New York
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Georgia
Josephus Daniels
North Carolina
Alex Troup
Connecticut
A. Walsh
Iowa
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Altgeld
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H. M. Teller
Mr. Stone
Browns followers re buried in North Elba ceremony
More than three thousand witnesses attended the interment of John Brown’s followers at the John Brown farm graveyard in North Elba New York. Dr Joshua Young of Groton Massachusetts delivered the funeral sermon forty years after Brown’s raid. Kaiser addresses large crowd in Prague as emperor arrives for maneuvers.
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John Brown
Joshua Young
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Burlington
Kaiser
Emperor William
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Bohemia
Cadets admitted to West Point from listed applicants
The following candidates have been admitted as cadets to the military academy at West Point New York after passing entrance exams. Twenty eight of the sixty who reported failed to qualify. Names include John F Franklin E F Graham William H Horton Edward L Oldham Carl Boyd Georgia Benjamin E Gray Florida Hugh Johnson Oklahoma George W Maddox John C Montgomery Kentucky BR J Powers Alabama W G Rodman North Carolina
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West Point
N. Y
John F. Franklin
E. F. Graham
William H. Horton
Edward L. Oldham
Tennessee
Carl Boyd
Georgia
Benjamin E. Gray
Florida
Hugh 5. Johnson
Oklahoma
George W. Maddox
John C. Montgomery
Kentucky
BR. J. Powers
Alabama
W. G. Rodman
North Carolina
Drowned at Black Rock Bathing Beach Tragedy
Five people including a father and four children were drowned at Black Rock Connecticut while sea bathing near Ashcreek. Andrew Koehler and Louis Hitt escaped to shore but the others, three girls and a boy, lost their lives in the accident on a Friday.
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Black Rock
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Andrew Koehler
Louis Hitt
Bridgeport
Ashcreek
Koehler
Hitt
He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last
A pamphlet style notice blends ads with odd cautionary tales about health remedies Hood s Sarsaparilla is praised for purity of blood while a bizarre crime anecdote details a sparrow decoy and electric perch electrocution tied to pot hunting followed by a Cuban army medicine testimonial from Wintersmith s Chill Cure presented as a clipped newspaper fragment.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
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