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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
1
Advertisement for Somerset Club Maryland Rye praising purity and excellence in five whiskey. Mentions McLeod Co handling it at Ogilthorpe as Southern agents for Edward B. Bruce & Co of Baltimore. Orders given prompt attention.
In Frankfort Kentucky a public hotel lobby shooting left three prominent Kentuckians dead and others wounded after a feud between ex Congressmen David G Colson and Lieutenant Erbelbart Scare exploded into violence. Eyewitnesses described the fatal exchange amid political gathering before the legislature. Colson is jailed on murder charges claiming self defense.
Mrs Nellie Carl of Myrtlepoint Oregon reports eight years of health trouble followed by relief after using Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery. She details a healthy seven month old baby weighing twenty four pounds and no relapse, praising Dr Pierce's confidential advice and free Common Sense Medical Adviser offer.
The House committees on Brigham H. Roberts of Utah issued a final finding that Roberts is a polygamist and thus ineligible under rules. The majority favors seating him on credentials and later expulsion, while a minority argues for immediate seating. The statement details Roberts’s multiple marriages to Louisa Smith Celia Dibble and Margaret Shipp and the public knowledge of these unions.
In Montgomery Alabama on January 17 Senator Morgan published an open reply to Governor Johnston’s January 4 message. He accuses Johnston of misstatements and defends his own support for Johnston's governorship while urging inquiry into character. He recalls respected Alabama governors and criticizes current irritable attitudes.
The battle scarred Frigate Saratoga, flagship of the Pennsylvania Nautical School, departed Philadelphia for a winter cruise to Trinidad Martinique St Thomas and San Juan. Seventy boys aboard including 45 recruits, under Commander William J Barnette and Ensign ardi, begin the first schoolship voyage. The vessel will return around April 10.
Fort Worth Tex Jan 16 the third annual convention of the National Livestock association began with delegates and an annual address by J W Springer highlighting livestock markets and policy debates. Also reports on Navy hero Henry Hughes, Dewey to attend Mardi Gras, Hague treaty moves, stockholder re election, a bank robbery in West Virginia, and a new city hall contract in Columbia South Carolina.
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