22 Mar 1896
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1896
Page
1
Local vendor advertises hundreds of items with pricing on hosiery handkerchiefs towels shirts and linens. Also offers kitchenware paints soap oils and domestic goods with volume discounts and Plymouth Pantaloons tailoring options. Includes assurance of fit and samples for customers.
The name of Ballington Booths new religious organization was shortened from Gods American Volunteers to The Volunteers. Booth, urged by W G Marts, will head the Salvation Army effort in America, while Mrs Booth Tucker and Ballington Booths son journey to New York amid mixed hopes and tensions.
Gertrude Taylor a 13 year old girl stands charged after poison sickens eight in her household. Her father Dillon Taylor and brother Robert Taylor died, a coroner's inquest notes jealousy toward sister-in-law Laura Varnes as the motive. Poison used was Rough on Rats bought shortly before supper.
March 21 in Cincinnati Pearl Bryan's head is thought identified by G W Wing at 4 North Washington Ave. A man named Cole delivered a woman's head in a tin bucket to Wing claiming to seek a skull for study. The head shows braided hair and a brown color with blood matted left hair and signs of burial or freezing.
Four Princeton University students set sail for the Olympian Games in Athens next month amid a large send off at the Mar-Hill hotel and Fulda’s pier. Friends cheered as they boarded the steamer, bidding farewell with showers of bouquets and warm wishes for success.
March 31 report says the Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation Co. seeks a writ against W. H. Linn as the case inches toward the Supreme Court. The exact legal definition of rights remains contested amid claims by others.
In Cuba fighting broke out in two battles with insurgents defeated. Casualties include three officers and 44 privates wounded. seven were killed on the field. Troops under General Linares and Colonela Luarez and Indian Sanches Bohavarria reconnoitered near Onyajaboa. Northern Pacific Railroad remains in the hands of the receiver Burisigh. judges denied a move to shift control to an eastern receiver.
The jury found Benjamin H. Milliken not guilty of housebreaking with intent to commit rape involving Miss Gertrude Rail, longtime private secretary to Senator Harris. Acquittal followed after days of deliberation amid public interest and courtroom tension.
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