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Show CAPTURED CANNON. Wll be Given to Municipalities and Patriotic Patri-otic Organizations. Washington, May 20. The secretary of war has secured from Judge Advocate Advo-cate General Lieber an opinion confirming con-firming his right to loan or give to municipalities, G. A. R. posts and other patriotic orga nizations such of the cannon can-non captured from the Spaniards in Cuba and Porto Rico as are unserviceable. unservice-able. Thursday the first of the guns which are in the possession of the army were bestowed upon the military post at Fort Thomas, Ky. They are two beautiful bronze pieces of antique pattern, pat-tern, made in Barcelona in 17G8 and 1759. |