Labor's Great Day and May Day Riots Across Cities
Labor demonstrations sweep New York and several cities on May Day. In Louisville some 6,000 wage earners marched while many factories closed. Paris reports 300 arrests with dynamite blasts and a quiet overall city. Marseilles sees a socialist meeting riot with arrests. Pittsburg notes 3,000 carpenters, 1,200 bricklayers idle as strikes ripple through trades. Atlanta hosts 15,000 children and parents at Piedmont Park for a May Day festival with pageantry and racing. Additional notes cover legal filings in Savannah, streetcar tax reassessment, and ongoing lease case arguments in Atlanta.
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Chatau Fence
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Blaine Candidacy Tangled in Cabinet Controversy
Washington May 1. Friends of Secretary Blaine report he is indignant at a double‑lead editorial in Russell Harrison’s weekly that claims he is out of the 1892 race. They fear it may force him to announce he is not a candidate to quiet his supporters. President Harrison’s circle supposedly arranged a plan to keep Blaine from entering the race, hoping he stays in the cabinet.
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Russell Harrison
Ita
Harrison
Destructive fires sweep New Jersey pine region
A massive fire across South Jersey devastates pine and cedar timber from Pleasant Point and Bayhead to Egg Harbor, threatening towns and causing widespread destruction. Smoke blankets roads, rain relief is absent, and thousands flee to open country as losses reach at least a million dollars amid concurrent blazes near Reading, Pennsylvania and Newberg, New York.
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Macon Post 8. T A. to Augusta and Floyd Rifles picnic
Macon May 1 The Macon post 8 T A will travel Sunday morning at 10 o'clock for Augusta over the Central road in a special car. about fifty will go. Judge Speer and U S court officers return from Savannah tomorrow to convene civil and criminal cases Monday. The Floyd Rifles picnic draws about 400 attendees with a five-coach special train. Col W H Wylly dies at his Macon residence after long illness. he was a lawyer, justice of the peace, and Confederate veteran. Ice cream parlors and local improvements are noted in Americus. A Second Methodist Sunday school picnic at Coney is praised as delightful. An Americus genius, O W Littlejohn, is praised for a lifelike crayon portrait of Clyde Williams. No steamer ashore reported at Queenstown. Georgia longevity noted in Wilcox County with four men totaling 364 years and descendants. A colored militia company in Massachusetts faces harassment. Brooklyns judge criticized for poor English.
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Central Road
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Rifles
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