Clemency for a Confederate veteran in a Georgia court
In a Macon Telegraph report a tall ex Confederate veteran named Mr Prosser from Baldwin county received clemency from Judge Speer in a United States court. The veteran, described as brave and aged, faced a one month sentence for distilling seven gallons of moonshine from muscadines. The judge then discharged him as trivial, noting the veteran’s wartime service with Phillips' Legion and Stuart's cavalry amid a mood of shared respect among onlookers.
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United States
Yaterday
Prosser
Baldwin County
Speer
Gray-Bakre Jier
Lee
Phillips’ Legion
Stuart
Hampton
Jorge Speer
Battle Abbey
To the Wife and Echoes of Day in New York Tribute
A fragmentary piece honors wives and daily virtue, mentioning a funeral for New York’s oldest graduate William and a remark about a local cutie. The text blends praise of women with fleeting notices of a death and a public greeting.
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Soman
Wall Street Storm: Northern Pacific Surges Amid Market Frenzy
Thursday's trading sent the New York stock market into a dizzy spell as Northern Pacific rose sharply while most securities slipped. The record-breaking activity signals a speculative fever across the country, with caution urged as past panics followed similar surges.
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New York
Whch
Northern Pacific
Mistrial in Driscoll blacklisting case amid rail dispute
In Chicago on May 11 the jury in Michael Driscoll versus the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad failed to reach a verdict and was discharged. Driscoll had sought 50000 damages over alleged blacklisting following the 1894 American Railway union strike, claiming railroads conspired to blacklist strikers and deny employment. The Duke of Manchester affairs also surfaced with bankruptcy accounts showing 37349 debt and 7915 assets, including 5000 tied to theatrical speculation and 8000 for a company promotion. adjourned as creditors await a proposed scheme for better terms.
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Oicaco
Driscoll
Michael Driscoll
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company
American Railway Union
United States
Duke of
Bad Blood and Complexion Prompt Skin Remedies
An advertisement extols blood purification as the cure for persistent skin diseases such as eczema acne and rough skin. It promotes S S S blood purifier as vegetable and claims it clears eruptions by removing poisons from the blood while inviting readers to request a physicians guide from the Specific Company in Atlanta Georgia.
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S. S
Atlanta
Baptist Brethren in Crescent City Elect Officers
New Orleans May 10 ex Governor Northen of Georgia re elected president at the forty sixth Southern Baptist convention. The gathering opened with hymns and prayer as 1 400 delegates were listed including Governor Heard of Louisiana and Longino of Mississippi. Officers elected by acclamation include W J Norris as president, Lansing Burrows and O F Gregory secretaries, and vice presidents W W Heard Longino Engle and Eaton.
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New Orleans
First Presbyterian Church
Northen
Georgia
Southern Baptist Convention
Woman's Union Convention
A. C. A. Hall
B.D. Gray
Birmingham
Joshua Levering
Baltimore
W. W. Heard
Louisiana
A. H. Longino
Mississippi
J. P. Engle
Arkansas
T. T. Eaton
Louisville
Will Not Bleed Veterans Reunion Lodging Aid
May 10 meeting of the Confederate Reunion committee reports letters denying hotel rate hikes during reunion week. Resolution: rates not advanced. more guests assigned to rooms. Another resolution provides badge lodging and meals at no cost to indigent veterans. AtRasy May 11 Governor Odell vetoes the Raines bridge bill as a city matter.
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AtRasy
Odell
West Street
New York City
Financial calm on Wall Street as exchanges close
New York May 11 with the Stock Exchange and Consolidated Exchange closed press reports indicate quiet curb activity. Clerks sort out speculators’ records, bank statements awaited, and London quotes push minor gains. Northern Pacific control battles dominate market chatter amid Union Pacific buying.
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New Yon
Stock Exchange
Consolidated Exchange
Wall Street
London
New York
Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Illinois Central
Union Pacific
Tatreet
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Shorts
Legal notice advertisement with monthly deadline and fees
Legal advertisement states a monthly deadline at noon each month for notices and accompanying fees will be enforced at the base. The fragment provides limited clarity on jurisdiction or exact action but indicates routine enforcement of a fee-based notice.
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Nérroe Allegal
Eac
Sumter Sheriff Sale Property in Americus City Lots
The undivided one fourth interest in four lots in Americus Sumter County Georgia numbers 13 16 4 B i cad a ies. The sale to satisfy executions from Sumter County Court in favor W H Stat against W C Wirty. Property of Jackson Carter fifty acres more or less. Sheriff I Bell. May Northwest street quarter of land in Sumter County listed in notice.
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Court House
Neneeu
Wits
Americus
Sumter Cory Ga
W.O Parlow
Sumter County
W.H. Stat
W. C. Wirty
Sumer
Jackson Carter
Trey
Russelvi Carter
I. Bell
Sheri
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Price
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