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Show HONOR MEMORY OF CUSTER. " Preaidant Taft Attenda Unvtlllng el Statua of Famoui General. Monroe, Mich. With Prealdent Tatl In altendanca aa the orutor of the : occasion, the nation, state, city and adjacent farming district united hers on Muturduy In paying tribute to thn ; memory of (len. (leorge Armstrong ' Custer, who. with 2M of hla cavulry-men. cavulry-men. was slain hy Hitting Hull's bund . of Hltmx Indiana ul the buttle of the ' Little Hlg Horn In the Hud Lands ol l Molilunu. June 2a, 1S76. An equestrian statue nf (leneral Custer, for which the legislature ol ' Michigan appropriated $J5,0UO, wuu un veiled by tilt general a widow, Mra Kllruheth It. Custer of N-w York, and uniting the ulher guests nf honor win Nevln J. Custer, the cavalry lender I on'.y surviving brother, who still tv-slilca tv-slilca on u (arm near h re lu the neigh burhood where thn farmer unci hla i military brotiiern pusued their boy-. boy-. hood. |