17 Jun 1897
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1897
Page
1
The advertisement promotes discounted ladies undergarments and gowns with prices like 5c to 1.00 and discounts on underskirts and gowns. It emphasizes ready-made items trimmed with embroidery, lace, and torchon work, urging quick selection as stock is limited and prices beat typical values. It notes quality ranges from good to excellent and highlights the bargain nature of the sale.
June 16 report details the Frank Butler trial concluding with a guilty verdict for killing Captain Leo Weller during a gold prospecting expedition. Butler had escaped Australia on the Swanhild, was arrested in San Francisco, and extradited. Defence claimed Weller caused his own death. Butler allegedly killed other men in Australia, including a man named G. T. Preston, while seeking partners.
In Wasatwotos a formal treaty signing at the State Department linked to Hawaii joining the United States. Officials Thurston Kinney and Cridler joined Secretary Sherman in the ceremony, with drafts read and exchanged and sacred pens used for all signatures. A Honolulu envoy and Hawaiian president Dole oversaw the Hawaiian copy, while the U S side validated credentials and sealed the exchange. A separate note from Pan discusses potential conflict with Japan amid Hawaii tensions.
In St Louis on June 16 O B Collins of Mashyilla Tenn says he was robbed of 6000 by Martin Ensley a traveling man met in Nashville. Ensley, arrested, denies the robbery. Collins was stabbed and found near Moramnac Highlands badly wounded. The report links Martin Ensley to a high profile family and mineral ventures in the south through his father Colonel Enoch Ensley.
Two wounded sailors from the lost Buckhurst were rescued by the Pacific Mail steamship City of Para off the Nicaraguan coast and brought to San Francisco. Buckhurst departed Newcastle Feb 2 for Panama with coal. a fire forced abandonment on April 4. Twenty-one men survived, later saved by City of Para. 17 aboard Buckhurst perished.
Reported cigar shaped craft with 63 feet length passed through locks en route to New York to be turned over to the Cuban junta. Vessel christened the Maceo. crew include Antonio Musario and Pedro Iguirre. Lockmaster notes a Spanish warship would be safe.
The Dental Trades Association of America begins its seventeenth annual convention at Tookout Inn in Nashville on June 16 with over 100 members present for the opening session. Reports from J Gaulkins outline agenda as delegates plan Friday tours to points of interest and a visit to the team realm.
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