Storm Rages Across Britain Wrecks Vessels and Destroys Property
Oct 14 dispatch reports a ferocious storm across England Ireland and southern Scotland causing widespread damage. Seaside towns suffer wrecked ships damaged roofs flooded streets and transport disruption as channel boats unable to cross and Helensburg Pier battered by heavy seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Helensburg
Loudon
England
Ireland
Scotland
Falkstone
Firth of Clyde
Gareloch
Dumbarton
World News Items from Alexandria and Beyond
A wide range of brief items reports General Lee's condition, a Wyoming doctor burned in jail, a Florida horticultural display for the World's Fair, a British steamer incident, and an alien land law note in Dallas. Other notes cover a Bedloe's Island tragedy, a San Francisco murder case, a Birmingham fatality, Mobile bank liquidation terms, a tunnel cage accident at Niagara Falls, and local misfortune and intrigue across Knoxville Marion Anderson and other towns. The Texas World’s Fair Day planned at the Dallas fair grounds is noted, along with a gruesome discovery in Indiana, a Kansas mass meeting proposal, and German cereal trade concessions tied to beet sugar imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida Horticultural Society
Glasgow
Montreal
Devonshire
Barrow
New York
Tory Island
Dallas
Tex
Forty-Fourth Judicial Court
Bedloe’s Island
Birmingham
Ala
Louisville and
Nashville Road
J. W. Pritchett
Clanton
Mobile
Charles B. and
C. Miller
Thomas P. Miller & Co
Knoxville
Tenn
Hugh Walker
Sevier County
George Meadows
Walker
Marion
Anderson
Ind
George Delenteny
White River
Wreck of the Bark Archuas and Convict Escapes
Reports from Vancouver dated October 14 describe the barque Archuas wrecked by a typhoon near Nusgaski harbor with all aboard perishing. European captain and officers survived. Chinese crew drowned. Separately, sixteen Russian railway convicts attempted escape on September 16. fourteen escaped after killing three farm residents and a French officer. None recaptured by latest accounts.
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Vancouver
B. C
New Chwang
Nusgaski Harbor
Americus Light Infantry Sets November Drill Week
The Americus Light Infantry met at city hall to arrange an armory furnishing drill starting November 24 and continuing through the week. Semi monthly meetings will continue with the next session on Tuesday night the 28th featuring a competitive drill for a silver service prize from James Fricker & Bro.
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Americus Light Infantry
James Fricker
Georgia Legislature Passes Wide Range of Bills
The October 13 1801 Atlanta session saw passage of a stage normal school bill linked to the State University at Athens. Senate and house actions included approving a probate of foreign wills bill, approving a county guardian bond provision, and a governor appointed county solicitor bill after two consecutive grand jury recommendations.
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Atlanta
State University At
Athens
Huff
Senate
Baldwin
Atkinson
Coweta
Railroad Commission
House
Smith
Commercial Alliance Life Insurance Company of
New York
Friends of
Brooks elected Episcopate after fierce internal fight
The ceremony marked the consecration of Bishop Brooks at a major church assembly in this city with presiding bishop John Martins and bishops Clarke and Whipple in attendance. The election followed a heated contest fueled by a powerful faction, noted for his pulpit skill as a Low Church orator and his early ties to Harvard and the Episcopal church.
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Philip Brookshusetts
Episcopal Church
Joha Uns
D. D
L.L. D
Conti
Clarke
Rhode
Whipple
Minnesota
Henry C. Potter
New York
Fio Lishop
Arthur Yoke
Church of the Incarnation
New York City
Ly Rede CIA Brooks
Christchurch
Springfield
Brooks
America
E Episcopal Church
Ho Farvard College
Alexandria
Ihm
New Cook
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George D. Wheatley
the Storm King
Great Britain
Megal
Joxisporo
Uncle Sam
Clayton County
Rufus Johnson
Riffin
Clarence
McKinley Land
Simon and
Bob P. Turnip
Perenssula
Francis
Tambuloff
Nipi-Novgorod
Eason
Iala
Ford
Nashville
George W. Ford
J. E. Goodwin
Briceville
Goodwin
Wasitixaton
Controller of Currency
Te Sethi Gsta
Gyascow
Jamas Stafford
Lee
Joseph Benson
Casper
Wyo
Gall
San Francisco
Maurice B. Strellch
Curtis
Alexander Grant
Henry Fransz Gardner
Strellinger
Melbourne
Goodland
Kan
Germany
United States
German Empire
Dayton
Memphis
Henry Harrison
Isaac Harrison
Arkansas
Wasasu
John D. Martin
Pleasantview
Wabash
Hedger
Cuampaian
Dasa Renner
Ani
Benantion
Coe
Mistitat
Howell
Wannentox
Dart House
Warren County
McWhort
Bishoy
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