D Ready to Move Second Regiment Ordered for Minute-Notice Departure
A compilation of military and world updates from May 18 includes the Second Regiment being readied for immediate departure, McKinley camp notes in Des Moines, reports on Sampson's squadron and Cuba blockade plans, and international bulletins from Havana to London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp McKinley
Des Moines
Iowa
McCleery
O’mstead
Regular Army
War Department
Brookhart
New York
Hong Kong
Manila
Washington
D. C
Good Authority
Oregon
Sampson
Cuba
Chickamauga Army First Division Organizes Troops Arrive
At Chickamauga National Park on May 18 the First Division of the provisional army corps is formed as regiments arrive. Notable units include the Third Pennsylvania and Thirty-first Michigan, with 12 000 men reported and camps set. General Brooke assigns brigades and plans completion by tonight as more guards join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chickamauga National Park
Brooke
Chickamauga
Pennsylvania
Robert Ralston
Thirty-first
Michigan Infantry
Cornelius Gardner
First
Ohio Light Artillery
Gunder
Indiana
George W. Gunder
Sixth Provisional Army Corps
Michigan
Wilson
Geeeral Wade
Provisional Army
Volunteer army nears completion as 92 580 muster in
Washington May 18 reports to Adjutant General Corbin show 92 580 men mustered in. Eighteen states have met quotas including California Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Maine Maryland Minnesota Massachusetts New Hampshire Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Vermont Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming. Milwaukee May 18 Colonel Schadel ordered to move First Wisconsin infantry to Tampa Fla. and Milwaukee light battery not taken for this call. Island Lake May 18 Colonel McGurrin of Thirty second Michigan ordered to Tampa. Marquette May 18 Marquette raises half a company of upper peninsula volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Corbin
California
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Kansas
Maine
Maryland
Minnesota
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Milwaukee
Samuel P. Schadel
Camp Harvey
Tampa
Fla
Schadel
Chicago
Spain
Island Lake
Mich
McGurrin
Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Marquette, Mich
Marquette
Upper Penin
Manhattan Oil scheme to evade Indiana gas waste law
The Manhattan Oil company piped gas under old boilers and burned it to dodge Indiana Gas Waste laws. State Gas Supervisor J. C. Leach vows action to stop operations, seeking a bond and injunction. Estimated annual gas waste saving to the state is $1,250,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford City
Ind
Manhattan Oil Company
J. C. Leach
Manhattan Company
Indiana
Abbreviated Telegrams Highlight Transportation and Personal News
The notes report on jobs tied to electricity, John Sherman’s health trip to Alaska around June, a fatal elevator accident in Boston killing three men, actress Marion Mason suing for divorce in Detroit, a $75 000 fire loss at Old Bay Line sheds in Baltimore, the Roman Catholic Knights and Ladies of America holding their fourth biennial convention in St Louis with 125 delegates, and Chicago watchman Robert Sampson being a first cousin of Acting Rear Admiral Sampson. Portage Wisconsin claims kinship to Admiral Dewey through EB Dewey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sherman
Alaska
O. S. Henry
Foreman
Daniel Doyle
Leo Cardaman
Boston
Marion Manola Mason
Detroit
Jack’’ Mason
Baltimore
Knights and Ladies of America
St. Louis
Robert R. Sampson
Chicago
Sampson
Portage
Wis
Dewey
EB. H. Dewey
Clavera’s Squadron Alleged Disaster Off Cuba Coast
Reported blast on an American gunboat near Havana with eighteen killed. Madrid and Havana dispatches, via London and Washington, discuss Spanish fleet movements, Samp son and Schley plans, and looming Manila and Cuba campaigns amid press scrutiny and official defense of naval timing.
Prospects Dark for Two Captured Correspondents
A Havana dispatch says the two American newspaper men captured near Havana were examined and deemed not as prisoners of war but spies. One alleged to be a Cuban employee in Havana. Revolvers cartridges documents and a camera found on the prisoners. Reports also note Freeman Halstead was arrested in San Juan while photographing fortifications. A Spanish flotilla at Havana is reportedly preparing another sortie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Havana
Freeman Halstead
San Juan de Porto Rico
Also Mentioned on This Page
Schley
Sampson’s Fleet
U. S
Carbarien
Evening Journal
London
Santa Clara
Washington, D. C
Cienfuegos
San Juan
Navy Department
Gladstone
Vallejo
Calif
Charleston
Harwarden
Eng
Badger
Uthols
United States
Provisional Army Corps
James H. Wilson
A. 8. Burt
Ilinois
C. E. Compton
Illinois
H. W. Lawton
Osconsin
Algona
Alton
Martin
Tenn
Ilinois Central
Camp Thomas
Chattanooga
Nashville
Ballou
Miles
Volunteer Army
Jeff Davis
Atlanta
B. M. Blackburn
Atlanta Commercial
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Davis
Congress
Greenup, Ills
Secretary of State
Edgar, Clark
Cumberland
Effingham
Barney L. Hussman
Effingham County
Bishops of the
M. E. Church South
Warren A. Chandler
Oxford
H. C. Morrison
Methodist Episcopal Church South
General Conference
Dubuque, Ia
Iowa State Federation of Labor
Royal
Roa
ROVAL
Royal Baking Powder CO
Clavera
Venezuela
Colombia
Oura
Epleet
Bull Run
Hlanco
Curacoa
Dutch West Indies
Associated Press
Fort de France
Omeral
Department
War Board
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
Florida Straits
Atlantic
Richmond
Martinique
Army
Philippines
Philippine
Merritt
Blanco
Prospect
THE
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Hotel Allen
Frank Rogers
Waukesha
Minniska
Vienna Bakery
Win Smouse & Co
Win. Smouse & Co
R. F. Riley
Science
G. H. Pratt
L. D Robinson's Jewelry Store
Casey Bros
Do. Young
Prem
W. R K. Jeffrey
A. Anderson
Cash
J.T. Anderson
Ags
T Cagh
Washington County Savings Bank
Waynterest
Jom Kok
A. Wurm
Cashier
H. Keck
M. Kwok
Asn
T Cash
First National Bank
Wry Blair
A. A. Wallace
Eph Keck
L.D. Robinson
Krank Stewart
J. Henderson
H. M. Eicher
Attorneyy-At-Law
Waashington County
Germany
Savings Bank
J. J. Kellogg
Treasury Ofice East
Chas. J. Wilson
Albersons,s Grocery
W. H. Butterfield
Law
Crall
T. T. Keeley
W. Washington Street
Gall
H. Sanford
T. J. Dempsey
Fate Dann
Rell Soap Manufacturing Co
Smic
Wabash Ave
Senor Quesada
National Book
Dearborn St
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