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Died. Don Valeriano ("Butcher") Weyler y Nicolau, Captain-General of the Spanish Army, Duque de Rubi y Grande de Espana, 92; of infirmities resulting from a fall from his horse last month; in Madrid. His life was spent in the army-sent to Cuba in 1896, he attempted ruthlessly to suppress the rebellion, succeeded only in intensifying discontent. He was recalled and did not actively participate in the Spanish-American War. Twice minister of war, he helped suppress Catalan, Basque, Carlist uprisings. He was a fierce enemy of the late Primo de Rivera; some said he lived until 92 just...
...year that he hired Publisher George Henry Doran away from his own book firm to run the Hearst-Cosmopolitan Book Corp. But eclipsing all these milestones was that French business. Nothing like it had come to Mr. Hearst since the golden years when he was precipitating the Spanish-American war, getting the Panama Canal fortified, startling the nation with the Yellow Peril...
Married. Mrs. Eleanor Stuart Blue, widow of Rear Admiral Victor Blue, U. S. N. who, as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American War was advanced in rank for "extraordinary and heroic service" in aiding the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor; and Rear Admiral Frederic Brewster Bassett Jr., U. S. N. (retired), also a Spanish War veteran; at Chatham...
...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...
Poet Carl Sandburg, onetime roustabout, hay pitcher, milkwagon driver, stove polisher, house painter, soldier (in the Spanish-American War in Porto Rico with the 6th Illinois Volunteers), newspaperman, is 52, married (he has three daughters), lives in Elmhurst, Ill. Long-haired, lanky-limbed, seamed of face, he likes to recite poetry, sing folk songs, while he accompanies himself on his guitar. Says he: "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Other books: Chicago Poems, Corn Huskers,' The Chicago Race Riots, Smoke and Steel, Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Rootabaga Stones, Rootabaga-Pigeons, Abraham Lincoln...