Expedition plans include Gen Lee division at Jacksonville
SPECIAL TO EVENING JOURNAL Chicago July 25 Wheat 74 cents corn 3 ½ oats 24 78. Government officials await news from Gen Miles as Signal reports hint at San Juan cable trouble. Zeeking updates from St Thomas or St Nicholas press delays loom. First Illinois regiment to Santiago found healthy on hills two miles out. Dewitt L. Tucker of Co I 51st Iowa dies. burial in Council Bluffs.
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Santiago
Illinois
Miles Men Arrive Near Porto Rico in Mature Phase of Cuban War
Washington reports from the war department that General Miles has reached the Porto Rico coast near the expedition rendezvous and may land if Spanish forces are weak. Shafter notes Santiago troops improving and 11 000 Spanish prisoners fed while questions swirl over the Garcia letter. Scovel’s breach leads to expulsion. three other correspondents deported for inflammatory posters. The army defends rations and stresses unity with Cuban authorities.
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War Department
Miles
Porto Rico
Garcia
Shafter
Cable
Santago
Cuastillo
Garea
Scovel
Santiago
Cuba
General Shafter
United States
Tampa
Indiana
Cuban residents draft pro US letter in Santiago appeal
A document circulated in Santiago de Cuba asks President McKinley to recognize Cuban sovereignty in the surrendered province. It praises US humanitarian aims and seeks a self governing Cuba, noting potential future annexation only as a possibility.
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Santiago de Cuba
Santiago
United States
Castillo
Garcia
Shafter
McKinley
Cuba
Yellow Fever Reports Mixed at Santiago Camp
A Washington dispatch notes 896 new fever cases at Camp at Santiago with four deaths, none from yellow fever, suggesting mild yellow fever cases. Shafter items list 996 new fever cases, several deaths from various illnesses, and updates on volunteers sailing toward Porto Rico. The Relief hospital ship arrived at quarantine with 125 sick and wounded. Lt Hector R Swift dies in Charleston. Camp Merritt reports a pneumonia death.
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Corbin
Santiago
Shafter
Daniel A. Stone
J. Blair
Twelfth Infantry
William Peacock
Caratt
Second Infantry
New York
United States
Relief
Sibones
Otis Marr
Michigan
J. Manning
Charleston
D. C
Hector R. Swift
West Superior
W S
San Francdsco
Daniel Newsome
Race War Flares in Monroe City Violence and Arson Report
July 25 dispatches describe a second clash in Monroe City between twenty black residents and thirty white locals. One black man died and Constable Joe Barnett was wounded in the hip as shots, stones, and clubs flew. A house was burned amid the fighting and tensions over land ownership linked to David Richey’s eviction and Dennis H. Conrad’s purchase.
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Ind
Monroe City
Joe Barnett
David Richey
Dennis H. Conrad
Richey
Embezzler Warner Captured After Bank Heist Spree
Warner, president of the Hallipshire County National Bank and treasurer of the Trampehire Savings Bank in Northampton, Massachusetts, was arrested in Louisville after a $610,000 embezzlement spree. He admitted the thefts and said he planned to return to Massachusetts without warrants, while authorities held a $1,000 reward for his capture.
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Ews Warner
Traasurer
Hallipahire County National Bank
Trampehire Savings Bank
Northampton
Mass
Warner
Sullivan
Fourth and
Market Streets
Massachusetts
Board of Safety
Horer
Mast Broadway
Frank Williams
Lampshire Savines Bank
Yeu
Harpesie County National Bank
Tle
Courier Journal
Springfield
Republican
Ex-president Warner to face embezzlement charges in Northampton
Northampton July 2 Warner ex president of the Hampshire National Bank and treasurer of Hampshire Savings Bank, a defaulter in both, was arrested in Louisville and will be brought back to answer embezzlement charges. He defrauded about 640 600, overstating assets and understating liabilities. He fled April 26 and has been in the west. He will be heard in district court and held for the superior court next month.
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Mass
Lewis Warner
Hampshire County National Bank
Hampshire Savings Bank
Louisville
Maynard
Warner
District Court
Superior Court
Savigs Bank
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