20 Jan 1899
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1899
Page
1
Plain Talk promotes E. D. Sheffield Co. offering lower prices on Silks Dress Goods Trimmings Linings Domestics Cotton Goods and Gents Furnishings. The ad urges shoppers to buy where prices are reduced.
Washington dispatch reports no final arraignment date for Commissary General Eagan. Major General Merritt likely to sit, with Leng the senior officer presiding, and Lt Col John W. Clous named as prosecutor. Other potential members include Brig Gen A W Greeley. no volunteers on the court. Charges under Article 61 may hinge on alleged offensive language. judge advocate general to prepare the specifications. Separately, railroad case in Savanna excludes liability for a brakeman’s fatal act against a boy named McIver, verdict for the railroad.
Warmixatox Jan 16 Commissary General Eagan sends a revised statement to the war investigating commission, about 35 percent shorter than the withdrawn version. The commission meets in secret to decide if the expurgated text may join its records. The letter to the commission argues beef served to soldiers was misrepresented as poisoned and confirms removal of objectionable material, with a decision to publish only General Bogan's letter and not the accompanying statement.
Judge Wykes denied the restraining order sought by Thomas P. Ryan to halt transfer of 4,000 Seaboard Air Line shares pledged under a pooling agreement. Ryan, a New York petitioner, was ordered to pay costs. The stock had been offered to Shelton Williams of Brennio, with the purchaser agreeing to pay per share. earlier sale details and prices are contested. Major Bachman and Indiana volunteers arrived from Columbus, Ga., sailing for Matanzas, Cuba aboard the transport Saratoga, with about 400 men. Lieutenant Victor Blue, a native of the U S, notable for earlier acts, is mentioned in related notes.
Johnson alias Harry the valet, famed as a Europe wide jewel thief, was sentenced to seven years penal servitude after pleading guilty to stealing the Duchess of Sutherland’s jewels on a Paris to Calais train last October. He refused to betray accomplices for a life sentence and boasted of larger booty, while police traced sales at a gambling club and his lavish West End lifestyle.
New York January reports a propulsion accident on the Grant while towed to Liberty Island anchorage. Officials reckon a new dynamo may be needed before sail and a Manila voyage now hangs on the vessel’s condition amid a government party’s arrival from Washington to witness the departure.
Jan 17 in Dolive near Montgomery Miss Iona Lay married Dr W Baldwin a convict. Baldwin helped run a convict camp and was sentenced for killing Edson in Ballock county two years ago. He is educated and served as convict physician. Miss Lay formerly led a school at Mittylones and had been stationed near Lynching at Lynchburg.
Louisville Jan 16 The naptha yacht Paul Jones sailed Dec 7 from Louisville with a party of prominent society people toward Pensacola Florida and other southern ports. It likely foundered in a gulf storm with all on board. Passengers included Col H G C Yocum and daughter Miss Yocum, G M Yocum of St Louis, Miss Florence Taggart daughter of Indianapolis mayor, and Miss Gie Woodland of Chicago. Crew members John Berry and Dadgley were the only known survivors. The last report placed the vessel near the Mississippi mouth on Jan 3.
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