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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1898
Page
1
Chicago reports Wheat 64 14, Corn 30 78, Oats 20. Dispatch renamed Democrat. Gen Shafter arrives at Montauk Point aboard City of Mexico and will land today. 150 editorial delegates head to Denver from Chicago, depart for Omaha later. Oswego wreck kills engineer and fireman. many injured. Blanche Roosevelt seriously ill in London. Paris reels as Dreyfus affair widens with calls for trial revision. Esther Hasey to retire from army over the scandal.
The article notes a total death count of 332 among the Chickamauga force with 40 percent from typhoid fever. It details regimental reporting to headquarters, furlough rules, transport movements from Camp Thomas, and lists the dead sourced from vital statistics and the national cemetery records. It also reports on the Spanish prisoners released and transport of troops from Santiago to Montauk Point with 14 deaths at sea.
Washington reports General Lawton’s health bulletin from Santiago dated Aug 31. Total sick 348 with fevers 289 and 9 new fever cases. 44 men returned to duty. Deaths include Clarence Lewis of company F Second Infantry and three other privates from various units due to dysentery, pneumonia, and typhoid.
Colonel C V Hard of the Eighth Ohio volunteer infantry denies starvation stories from the Mohawk voyage home from Cuba. He cites three days of unused rations aboard and notes illness and death rates were lower than any Cuba regiment. The Eighth Ohio had 294 sick on arrival at Montauk Point.
The French ambassador, acting for Spain, informed the state department that Havana authorities have been ordered to remove mines and other navigation obstructions in the harbor as quickly as possible.
David Cob lentz aged 21 a member of the volunteer hospital corps jumped from a window while delirious from typhoid fever in San Francisco on Sept 1 reports state.
Savannah Ga September 1 The Plant steamship lines will resume trips to Havana next week with the steamship Maurotte sailing from Port Tampa next Monday and arriving in Havana Wednesday morning. Future trips will depart every Monday and Thursday, subject to quarantine rules and government regulations.
In Annapolis on September 1 the president directed Admiral Cervera and his officers to prepare to return to Spain at once under marine ministry instructions. The officers welcomed the news and will likely return without parole. Captain Eulate departed for New York. Washington reports none about Calixto Garcia's removal or Lacret’s appointment despite rumors.
Congressmen Sam Smith reports Secretary Alger has advised that Michigan's Thirty-fifth volunteers will not be sent to Manila but will be deployed outside the state, likely to Porto Rico, rather than remaining in Michigan.
Washington reports Brigadier General Royal T. Frank is assigned to command temporarily the Third Army Corps after General Wade was relieved to join the Cuban military commission.
The Merritt Chapman tug Argus reached New York from Halifax with two pontoons bought there. The plan is to move them to Santiago to aid in raising the sunken Spanish warships.
The large Pouse Hazard & Co store and bicycle factory in Peoria Illinois was closed by the sheriff and taken into possession. Three judgments by confession total 39,198 dollars with 1,450 dollars due for rent.
Milwaukee crowd fills Lyceum theatre as H W Sawyer gains the gubernatorial nomination on the first ballot at the Wisconsin Democratic state convention. O’Connor serves as temporary chair. platform endorses 1896 Chicago principles, calls for direct primaries, referendums, anti pass laws, good roads, and criticizes the war department without reference to annexation.
Collins Missouri September first site reports the Populists of the Sixth Congressional district at Appleton City nominating A. C. Rook of Henry County for congress.
The Iowa convention opens with no clear bargains as Merriam of Delaware leads for auditorship. Ben is strongest opponent. Remsey trails as Sims gains delegates. Mowry gains for railroad commissioner amid McMillan support. Resolutions favor gold standard and war profits. Governor Shaw, ex Governor Drake, Lacy, and Senator Gear attend as leaders. The group aims to finish before adjournment.
Dee D Moore was nominated by the Democrats of the Sixteenth Ohio district to run for Congress. The action signals party backing ahead of the upcoming electoral contest.
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