11 Jun 1897
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1897
Page
1
Prices show underskirts trimmed in embroidery at 60c and 90c for plain and stitched styles. Excellent quality skirts at 1.25, ready-made gowns from 49c to 1.00 with lace and embroidery. Also stockings and vests offered from 5c to 33c. Come quick and choose.
A local advertisement touts handsewn Cordovan shoes from five dollars and Sadie's Oxfords from three dollars, claiming the shop offers the widest range from cheap to best with consistently low prices. It promotes men's Sunday shoes at one dollar and Toadie's Oxfords from sixty cents upward, inviting customers to call.
New York June 10 Maher and Sharkey heavyweight rivals were arrested during their Palace Athletic Club bout and released by Magistrate Coleman. Judge Cornell said the seventh round was disorderly but found no violation of prizefighting laws. public interest and crowd behavior noted, but the match was deemed legal up to the seventh round. In San Francisco Arthur Gilroy Alfred Williams James Rogers and Kate Rogers were arrested in a counterfeit case tied to a Gentiateee sting and remanded for examination.
J Nally assistant general agent of the Postal Telegraph with Chicago HQs wed Miss Lee of Eminence Kentucky. The couple planned a Europe voyage aboard the Teutonic and Majestic before returning to a Chicago home at the Virginia Hotel. Nally, a veteran Telegraph official since 1875, was noted for Civil War service on General Shelby’s staff.
June 10 reports describe Rev. Ebenezer McAllister, an itinerant preacher, being pelted with rotten eggs during a civil case trial in La Roy. He was later warned to leave the county or face tar and feathers amid disputes over a divorce and domestic affair involving Bert West and a wife. The crowd's actions followed a verdict in the case.
The San Francisco outcome reports Theodore Durrant, condemned for the Blanche Lamont murder, received a reprieve as Governor Budd weighs federal court authority over state sentence. The reprieve delays July 9 execution to allow time for potential Supreme Court review and possible further action.
A supreme court ruling reverses a Jefferson county decision, allowing Birmingham to hire city convicts to work in mines for pay. The case drew labor interest as unions watch the outcome and potential nationwide impact on inmate labor arrangements.
A serious freight wreck near Exerex New Hampshire on the Boston and Maine line killed three men and destroyed several cars after a 40 foot embankment plunge. The engineer and two brakemen on the engine were killed instantly, while other crew escaped. The loss included the locomotive and seven freight cars.
Philadelphia June 10 veteran tragedian James Hughes Taylor dies at Downingtown Pennsylvania from dropsy. Native of Philadelphia he performed widely, studied with Edwin Booth era, served as leading man for many years, and later became an Empire actor. His career spanned stages in Portland Philadelphia and Cincinnati.
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