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EAGLE RIVER REVIEW.
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O. B. MOON, Publisher.
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A PECULIAR AFFAIR.
COUPLE HORSEWHIPPED B¥ A
STRANGER.
Unexplained Assault Upon a Manand
Woman at Goshen, N, Y,—Confidence
in the Future of Business Obtains,
Despite Present Quietness.
Whipping Causes a Runaway.
Amos R. Doremus and Mrs. Arminda
Lowe, a pretty widow, while driving to
gether in Goshen, N. Y., were furiously
horsewhipped by a strange man. The
team ran away and Doremus and the
woman were thrown out. Their assail
ant escaped. Mrs. Llowe is confined to
her home, suffering from severe internal
injuries. The affair is wrapped in the
deepest kind of mystery. Doremus and
Mrs. Lowe have been good friends. They
drove out to a band concert and joined in
the procession of fashionable equipages
moving round and round the square in
two continuous lines, going in opposite
directions. Suddenly there was a dash
out of one lme by a man driving a high
stepper. He whipped up his horse until
opposite Doremus. Without warning he
brought his whip repeatedly across the
faces of Doremus and Mrs. lowe. The
woman screamed, horses reared and for
an instant several runaways seemed ces
taifi. Great confusion followed. Dore
mus’ horse ran away, Mrs. Lowe was
thrown out and was picked up insensible.
Doremus and the widow claim to be ab
solutely igmorant of the cause of the as
sault.
FRESCO TRAIN ROBBED
Bandita Overpower an Express DMes
senger and Escape with Booty.
The 'l'risco passenger train leaving
Wichita, IXan., for St. Louis was held up
by two masked men at Andover, Kan. A
citizen of Amdover, who learned of the
plan to rob the train, attempted to notify
the train crew and was shot by the rob
bers. He will probably die. lis name
could not be learned. Several hundred
dollars was taken froin the express car,
but the exawt amount is not known. As
soon as the engineee slowed down the
men, wearing heavy masks, entered the
express car and demanded the money,
The messenger dtew a revolver, but was
gagged and disarmed, after which the
men took the valuables from the safe.
QUIETNESS IN BUSINESS
Prices, However, Continue Steady and
the Outlook Is Promiging,
Ponding the initiation of new fall busi
ness, preparations for which are actively
ander way in all markets, there exists a
juiet midsummer condition, accompanied,
however, jn most cases by price steadiness
and confidenee in a promising outlook
for fall trade. There is a little more hope
ful feeling in the ifon and steel trade.
Dur cereal exports still continue in excess
of correspomling periods of previous
vears, wheat and flour shipments aggre
gating 2,910,287 bushels, as against 2,728,-
642 last year. Corn exports show an in
erease from last week, aggregating 2,882 -
248 bushels, as against 2,411,272 bushels
last year.
Standing of the Clubs,
Following is the standing of the clubs
in the National Baseball League:
Wb W. L
Cincinnati ..51 27 New Y0rk....38 35
Boston .....47 28 Philadelphia. 83 39
Cleveland .. .46 29 Brooklyn ....29 43
Baltimore .. .44 29 Washington. 29 46
Chicago .....45 84 Louisville ...24 52
Pittsbureg .. .40 35 St. Lonis. ... 23 bY
Following is the standing of the clubs
in the Western League: .
Woaiks W. L
Indianapolis. 48 26 Columbus ...41 31
St Papl. ... /45 32 Deétreit -.. 230 45
Kansas City.4s 33 St. Joseph... .24 45
Milwaukee ..46 34 Minneapolis. 23 55
Negro Agitator Shot.
A mob of white men went to the house
of John Durrett, colored, at Coaling,
Ala., to arrest the negro. He had been
trying to arouse the blacks against the
whites for the lynching of Sidney John
son the day before. When Durrett was
ordered to come from his house he cursed
the posse and tried to escape in his night
garments out of a back window. He had
not gone fifty yards before he was shot
twenty times.
Strung Up by the Thumbs.
Forty-five prisoners in the State reform
atory at Mansfield, Ohio, are strung up
by the thumbs in dungeons and given only
one scant meal a day, having gone on §
“strike” because their tobacco supply was
cut off. There were twenty-five others
implicated, but they returned to work
when informed what the punishment
would be.
In Hands of Receiver.
Judge Taft of the United States Cireuit
Court at Cokimbus, Ohio, has appointed
John W. Wardwell, receiver of the en
tire system of the Cleveland, Canton and
Southern Railway, as receiver of the
Caoshoctan and Southern Railway.
Loes of a Chinese Boat.
The Hiogo News, published at Kobe,
Japan, contains the news of the sinking
of the Chinewe torpedo boat Hee Ching at
Port Arthur. It is stated that there were
118 men on board, not one of whom was
saved.
Bodde Are Recovered.
The bodres of the ten remaining vie
tims of the Cleveland, Ohio, yater works
tunnel disaster were found by a rescaing
party.
Cu¢ of One-third in Wages.
The American Steel and Wire Compeang,
which controls fourteen of the largest
wire and rod mills in the country, includ
ing three in Cleveland, has posted notices
in the American mill there notifying the
fine wire drawers of a veduction of 83 1-3
per cent I wages.
Three Children Are Cremated,
E. 3. :}lhn‘s farm house, twenty miles
east of Junction , Was burped s
three children undg-hg vears of @ “
et beyond seeovery, - .
CROP PROSPECTS.
Report¢ Shows Decreased Acreage of
Corn—Wheat Good,
The July grain crop report of the De
partment of Agriculture says:
Preliminary returns to the statisticians of
the Department of Agriculture on the acre
age of corn indicate a reduction of 3 per
cent. from the area harvested last year.
There is a decrease of 502,000 acres in Illi
nois, of 303,000 in lowa, of 661,000 in Mis
souri, of 722,000 in Kansas, and of 482,000
in Nebraska.
The condition of winter wheat, 83.7, is 5.1
points lower than last month, but is still
4.5 points higher than at the corresponding
date last yea;, and 4.3 points higher than
the average for the last ten years. The
principal State averages are as follows:
Pennsylvania, 87; Maryland, 86; Tennessee,
90; Kentucky, 98; Ohio, 89; Michigan, 98;
Indiana, 94; Illinois, 66; Missouri, 68; Kan
sas, 89, and California, 40. The average
condition of spring wheat is 95. This is
3.8 points higher than at the corresponding
date last year, is 6.2 above the average for
the last ten years. The principal State av
erages are as follows: Minnesota, 91;
South Dakota, 89; North Dakota, 92; lowa,
97; Nebraska, 102; Washington, 102, and
Oregon, 105.
The percentage of the wheat crop of 1897
ge'fé)rted as still on hand July 1, 1898, is
The average conrdition of the oat crop,
82.8, is 5.2 points lower than last month,
but is 5.3 polnts higher than at the corre
sponding date last year. The average con
dition of barley is 85.7, which is 2.8 points
lower than last year. Winter rye is 93.8,
as compared with 95 July 1, 1897, There
is an increase of 1.8 per cent. in the acre
age of Irish potatoes. There is a marked
fncrease in the acreage of tobacco in nearly
all the States of principal production. The
outlook for the apple crop is very discour
aging. The wool report indicates the aver
age weight per fleece as belng 5.8 pounds,
the same as last year.
TO EXTEND WEATHER BUREAU.
Efficiency of Its Servics Will Soon Be
Greatly Increased.
President McXKinley has on his desk the
draft of an order for making the greatest
extension of the weather burean service
ever made in its history. The general
deficiency bill carried an appropriation of
$75,000 to enable the President, in his
discretion, to authorize the establishment
of observing and reporting stations at va
rious points on the Caribbean sea, but
the promulgating of the order has been
withheld pending the conclusion of nego
tiations with the Governments interested
for the right to locate observers and sta
tions. These have meostly responded fa
vorably, and in a few days the order is ex
pected.
The scheme contemplates the lecation of
stations on the island of Trinidad, at St.
Kipps, Barranquila, the islands of Cura
coa, Martinique, Hayti, the Barbadoes
and San Domingo. There are already in
operation stations at St. Thomas, Kings
ton, Jamaica and Havana. The latter
has not been interrupted a single day
since the trouble began. When the pro
posed belt of stations shall have been lo
cated and are in operation the entire coast
of the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean sea,
the Windward and Leeward islands, and
the passages adjoining will be covered by
daily reports. The benefits resulting there
from in the publication of storm notices
will be to the commerce of all nations
traversing those waters.
BAD OUTLOOK IN ALASKA.
Discouragingz Reports Brought by
Passengers from Klondike.
Nearly all the miners who arrived from
the Klondika on the schooner Hattie 1.
Phillips say they left the country owing
to ill health, W. F. Pinkham, a mining
engineer of Boston, who was sent up to
the Klondike on behalf of an Eastern syn
dicate, is confined to his room by a frost
bitten foot. The miners speak very Dbit
terly of the way a few capitalists in Daw
son attempted to corner the provision
market and charge exorbitant prices for
flour, beans, ete., but their scheme failed,
as miners with more provisions than they
needed sold their surplus stock to old res
idents at cost. The price of flour has now
fallen from $75 to $8 a sack.
Gold dust is being sold in Dawson for
sls an ounce. T. D. Watson, formerly of
Portland, Ore., prediets hard times in
Dawson. There is no credit system there,
and without cash a man may starve.
DOLE TO BE ACTING GOVERNOR
Hawaiian Commission Saila for Hono-
Inlu Aug, 10,
It is stated that President Dole of Ha
waii will be appointed acting governor
of the islands when the United States
assumes jurisdiction. Senator Cullom,
chairman of the Hawaiian legislative com
mission, learned Wednesday that the first
ship on which they could sail from San
Francisco to Honelulu is the Alameda,
booked for departure Aug. 10. Accommo
dations for the party were secured on her
and the members were notified to be in
readiness to leave on that date. Albert
Berry, son of Representative Berry of
Kentucky, one of the most erthusiastic
advocates of annexation in the House,
will be sergeant-at-arms of the commis
sion.
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Mbrro Castle is no more.
Who said we did not have a first-class
navy? -
Spain's navy is mostly submarine, at
present.
Two fleets gone and one going and the
war barely started.
Add the Ladrone Islands to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. |
There is @ widespread feeling that Spain {
doesn’t know when she has had enough.
In ten years to come Fourth of Ju.y
celebrations will have an added signifi
cance.
Whether it was Sampson or Schley, the
fleet is destroyed, and that is what it came
over here for.
It was a glorieus Fourth, thanks to
Shafter and Sampson, and the bravé men
in their commands.
If Spain doesn’t treat for peace pretty
soon, there will Be nothing left of her
with which #o treat.
Among other things Spain is in need of
is a good cabinetmaker who nuderstands
designing and finishing.
Admiral Sampson seems to have made
more breaches in his relations with Schley
than in the ships of Cervera.
The Spanish board of strategy & now
relieved of all further work in regard to
SANTIAGO IS OURS.
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General Toral Surrenders to:
Shafter and Sampson.
FELL WITHOUT FIGHT
Spaniards Saw the Utter Futility of
Further Resistance.
Unconditional Capitulation Was the
Demand from Washington, Naming
of Terms to Be Left to the Discretion
and Generosity of Victors—Spanish
Commander Agrees to All the Terms
Offered by the United E£tates—The
Prisoners to Be Sent Back to Spain,
Washingtonr special:
Santiago is ours. The capitulation of
the city came at noon Thursday. The
United States land troops under Miles
and Shafter had completely surrounded
the beleaguered Spanish stronghold, and
Sampdon’s fleet was lined up ready to
throw its terribly destructive shells right
into the heart of the doomed town. Gen
eral Toral saw the utter futility of fur
ther resistance, and shortly before the
truce extended to the Spaniards had ex
pired he asked for the appointment of
commissioners to arrange terms of sur
render. Shafter wired Toral’s request
to Washington, where the Spanish propo
sition for commissioners was promptly
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nothing short of an unconditional sur
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considered.
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Map showing the part surrendered with the city of Santiago.
commissioners lasted only about ten min
utes before an answer to the dispatch was
framed. In this dispatch General Shaf
ter was instructed to carry out the or
ders last sent him—namely, to secure the
surrender of Santiago by noon or to re
new the attack upon the city. The dis
patch to General Shafter bidding him
notify Toral that he must fight or sur
render unconditionally without further
parley was sent from the White House
within a few minutes of 12 o’clock noon.
Then ther¢é was neariy two hours of
anxious waiting before the news was re
ceived announcing Santiago’s fall, and
that the Spanish general had concluded to
quit on condition that he and his men
be allowed to return to Spain. These
terms were such as the American com
mander could accept, and the end was
therefore hailed as at hand. Indeed, it
had been informally decided at the con
ference between the President and Secre
tary of - War earlier in the day, in the
event of the capture of the garrison, to
send the prisoners to Spain. This will
accordingly be done as the best possible
way of disposing of the Spaniards, who
would otherwise be an expensive charge
upon us.
The ancient capital of Cuba is now in
possession of the victorious American ar
my under Gens. Miles and Shafter. The
operations of the three weeks leading up
to the surrender are full of stirring in
terest. Gen. Shafter’s ‘forces arrived off
Santiago June 20, and June 23 they were
safely landed at Baiquiri. The advance
upon Santiago began promptly. June 24
Juragua was captured, and on the same
day occurred the gallant repulse of the
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lars and rough riders. June 26 Shafter
occupied Sevilla, and June 27 his advance
was within three miles of Santiago. June
30 Caney was taken, and July 1 and 2
there was fighting all along the front,
which resulted in the capture of San
Juan and the driving back of the Span
iards from their outer line of defenses.
July 8 Gen. Shafter demanded the sur
render of the city, and the demand was
emphasized by the destruction of Cer
vera’s fleet in its desperate effort to es
cape from Santiago harbor. An armistice
was arranged, which was successively ex
tended to July 9 and 10. On the last
named date Linares refused unconditional
surrender, and the fleet bombarded the
city. July 11 re-enfercements came up,
the investment of the city was completed,
and a second demand for surrender was
sent. July 13 overtures werec made by
the Spanish general for the appointment
of a commission to arrange terms of peace
and the armistice was extended again to
noon of July 14. On that date, convinced
of the hopelessness of further resistance,
Gen. Toral surrendered the city and his
army. :
The southeastern end of Cuba, east of a
line drawn from Aserradero on the south
to Sagua on the north—an area of about
5,000 square miles, the capital of the
province, the forts and their heavy guns,
and Toral's army, about 15,000 strong,
have passed into our possession. There
still remain in the western part of the
province the garrisons at Holguin and
Manzanillo, about 6,000 strong, under
Gen. Pando, which are outside the zone
of capitulation, but there is no danger
from this force. Toral’s army will be
shipped to Spain, where it will be harm
less to us and an object lesson to Spanish
fire-eaters on the peninsula. Meanwhile
it is the intention to garrison Santiago
with immune regiments, and every effort
will be made to get the sick into safer
and more comfortable quarters. It will
be a matter for congratulation that this
important result has been achieved with
out the necessity of a general engagement
and the storming of the city. OQur loss of
life has been comparatively small,
amounting to about 230 killed, while we
have about 2,000 wounded and sick in
hospital. The Spaniards have suffered
much more severely, a thousand of their
sailors having been killed or drowned,
several hundred of their soldiers killed,
while a great number have died in the
trenches. It is #lso a matter for congrat
ulation that the Government proposes to
push the expedition forward to Porto
Rico with all speed. Gens. Miles and
Brooke will be in command.
Interested in Dynamite Gun,
The Emperor William has become
greatly interested in the dynamite gun
and has made many inquiries concerning
it. He has asked experts to furnish dia
grams and particulars of the dynamite
guns used in the American navy, espe
cially in regard to their action and re
sults in the bombardment of the forts at
Santiago.
GENERAL VIEW OF SANTIAGO FROM THE WATER FRONT.
UNCLE SAM: ¢ Now run along home and keep out of mischief.””
COSTS MONEY TO SINK FLEETS,
Ammmunition for United States War
ships Is Expensive,
Lieut. Commander Speyers, command
ing the United States collier Caesar, tells
some interesting facts in cqnnection with
the recent naval battle off Santiago. Gun
ner Applegate of the Brooklyn told him
that when the Vizcaya tried to ram the
Brooklyn the latter fired in the few mo
ments in which the engagement lasted
ammunition costing $31,000. This con
sisted of 183 8-inch, G 5 G-inch, 12 6-pound
and 400 1-pound shells. The shot which
did the most execution was one 8-inch
shell fired by the Brooklyn, which raked
the Vizcaya fore and aft, and killed in its
passage eighty Spaniards. The 13-inch
shells of the Oregon did frightful execu
tion.
SCHLI'Y WAS DETERMINYED,
Declared He Would Follow the Cris
tobal Colon to Spain.
Private McNeil, U. S. M. C., who was
on the U. S. S. Brooklyn, was on one of
the forward six-pounders in the fight with
Cervera’s ships, and was standing only
a few feet away when a shot from the
Cristobal Colon blew off the head of Chief
Yeoman Ellis. MecNeil says in a letter
that when the fleet was discovered coming
out of the harbor the crew was standing
with open ranks for inspection, Commo
dore Schley was on the bridge during all
the fighting, and an orderly heard him
say: “I veant that ship. I have 800 tons
of coal and plenty of woodwork on this
vessel, and I’ll have her if I chase her to
Spain.”
To Seek Alleged Privateer,
The Navy Department sent telegraphic
orders to Admiral Miller at San Fean
cisco to send the gunboat Bennington to
the coast of British Columbia to investi
gate the report that a Spanish privateer
was in those waters, waiting for return
ing treasure ships from Alaska flying the
American flag.
Spanish Batteries Smashed.
From off Carnedas comes report that
batteries in the course of construction, as
wel as two others already completed,
have been destroyed. The Spaniards
made a brave resistance, and the Ameri
can shells caused many fatalities. The
American ships were not struck.
Make Ready for the lowa.
Brooklyn’s new dry dock at the navy
yard is being made ready to rececive the
battleship lowa. The lowa is to have its
bottom cleaned and will have removed
from its armor a big Spanish shell which'
imbedded itself there during the recent
naval fight off Santiago.
Suggests Cure for Fever.
Ag\’ew York physician makes the sug
gestion that a building be fitted up near
Santiago and cooled by liquid air to be-
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ST. MICHAEL’S CATHEDRAL, SANTIAGO.
The Spaniards were using this church for stor
ing ammunition, and tvhen a shell from Samp
son’s fleet struck it the whole church was blown
to pieces.
low the freezing point. This is said to
be practical. As frost kills yellow jack,
cures might be wrought this way.
Can Save Cruiser Colon.
The wreckers have been inspecting the
sunken Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon
and say they are able to save the ship,
WAR HISTORY OF A WEEK
» Monday.
Gen. Miles arrived at Santiago de Cubg
at noon.
Report is made that the Infanta May,
Teresa is the only ship of Cervera’s flgy
that can be saved.
Gen. Shafter reports that in the actiy,
of July 1-3 at Santiago twenty-three of;.
cers and 208 men were killed 80 officerg
and 1,203 men were wounded, and thyt
81 men are missing.
For two hours in the morning Admi)
Sampson’s ships threw shells toward Sap.
tiago. One of them blew up a churep
filled with ammunition. Just as Gep,
Shaftes began his land attack a flag
truce was seen coming from the city,
which stopped the fighting.
Attack on Santiago resumed, the flegt
joining the army in sending shells over
the hills into the town. Great damage
done. General Wheeler went into the
city under a flag of truce and demanded
the surrender of the town for the thirg
and last time. During the fighting the
Spaniards in the trenches suffered bheavy
losses.
’ Tuesday.
General Miles reached the front at Sap
‘tiago and assumed command of our
forces in the field.
- General Duffield is in the isolation hos
pital and is in a very serious condition,
The nature of his ailment is not stated.
It has been decided that submarine
mines in American harbors are no longer
needed, and they will all be exploded.
, Wednesday.
Fierce rainstornys have drenched the
troops at the front.
Sagasta said at Madrid that the mowent
for peace negotiations had come,
A few cases of yellow fever are being
treated in a field hospital near Santiago.
The victims are teamsters and refugees,
President McKinley and his cabinet
have decided that the capture of Santiago
must be effected with expedition in conse
quence of the terrible climatic conditions
and the danger to our men owing to an
outbreak of yellow fever.
Admiral Dewey reports that a German
cruiser prevented the Philippine insur
gents from capturing Isla de Grande, in
Subig bay. Whereupon he sent the Ra
leigh and Concord to capture the island
and turn it over to the insurgents. Over
1,000 Spaniards were made prisoners and
a quantity of ammunition was captured.
Thursday.
Gen. Toral, commander of the Spanish
forces at Santiago de Cuba, surrendered
to Gen. Shafter.
The United States Gowvernment will
now turn its attention to the capture of
San Juan, Porto Rico. An expedition is
to be started at once under Gen. Brooke,
An ingpired article in the Cologne Ga
zette declares that there is no truth in the
report that a German cruiser interfered
in any way with the operations of Ad
miral Dewey in the Philippines.
The Florida and the Fanita, convoyed
by the gunboat Peoria, have landed large
expeditions at Palo Alto, on the south
coast of Cuba. In the fighting which took
'place Captain Jose Manuel Nunez was
killed and Winthrop Chanler of the rough
riders and several soldiers wounded.
Friday.
Blanco expressed bitter opposition to
peace negotiaticns.
Maj. Gen. Chaffee in the field hospital
at Santiago suffering from dysentery.
- The Harvard, with over 1,000 Spanish
prisoners, arrived at Pertsmouth, N. H.
~ Up to Friday noon but twenty-three
new cases of yellow fever developed
among the forces in Cuba. The disease
of a mild type.
A royal decree published suspending
throughout Spain individual rights as
guaranteed by the constitution and assert
ing a state of war exists.
Inhabitants of coast cities of Spatn in
a panic over the expected arrival of the
United States fleet. Barcelona, which is
not fortified, particularly in terror.
Santiago de Cuba not yet turned over
to Gen. Shafter. = Spaniards quibbling
over the terms. DPresident McKinley in
structed Gen. Shafter to insist on instant
surrender, and if his demand were not
complied with to begin bombardment.
Saturday.
The official classes in Spain are said to
be moving earnestly to secure peace.
It is denied that France or any other
Government has begun peace negotiations
at Washington.
Gen. Toral surrendered on the terms
proposed by President McKinley, and
Spanish power in eastern Cuba is at an
end.
Since Ambassador White’s Fourth of
July speech the tone of the German press
has materially changed in favor of Amer
ica.
Gen. Azcarraga, the former Spanish
premier, is said to be on a mission sound
ing the European cabinets touching peace
negotiations.
Admiral Cervera and other Spanish
naval officers captured at Bantiago arriv
ed at Annapolis and are confined at the
naval academy.
Toral’s request that his soldiers be al
lowed to retain their arms was denied, |
and the guns will become the property of
the United States.
Snunday,
Two sharp.skirmishes preceded Toral’s
final surrender. At Baracoa the Annapo
lis destroyed a Spanish blockhouse which
opened fire ypon her, and at Guantanamo
Spaniards who tried to lure a launch fion
the Marblehead to destruction were vigor
ously shelled. :
The Spanish troops under command of
Gen. Toral left their trenches at Santiagoo
and marched into the American lines
where, one by one, the regiments Jaid
down their arms. At the same time the §
Spanish flag was hauled down and th
Stars and Stripes hoisted in its place
Gen. MeKibbin bas been appointed tem
porary military governor. The Spenist
troops had partly looted the town.
SN G e L LT
Sparks from the Wires.
Twenty business bloeks in the Lithe
town of Rogers, Texas, were dostroyed I
fire, ,
Chili has sent an ultimatum to Arge™
tina giving her until Aug. 15 to settle th
boundary dispute.
- The number of immigrants to the U’.flto'
ed States shows a marked decrease urte
the past few weeks, - -
~An American flag, sald to be the mgesd!
flag in the world, measuring 75 fe¢t |
inches by 57 feet, was flung to the bree
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