21 Sep 1899
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1899
Page
1
We guarantee all goods as represented or money refunded. We buy for cash in large lots, offering quick sales and small profit. Our motto Give us one trial. This price list features original bottling Rye Whiskies including Old Stag and other brands.
Reports from Rennes and Chickamauga park events highlight Indiana monument dedications and Dreyfus’ quiet release from a Rennes prison. The ceremonies drew thousands, with Governor Mount praising Indiana’s wartime troops and a Wilder brigade monument rising over 105 feet, while a Paris departure showed the Dreyfus saga moving in silence.
St Louis hosts the antitrust conference opened by Missouri Attorney General Crow and Texas Governor Sayers, who is unanimously named permanent chairman. Paul B. Moore serves as secretary. Sayers urges concerted action among states to curb trusts, calling the situation grave and demanding joint federal and state effort without delay. Several state officials and lawmakers arrive to listen and learn about potential action against trusts.
Atlanta Sept 20 Governor Candler orders advertisement for bids to sell the Northeastern railroad seized for nonperformance under Governor Colquitt. Minimum price set at 287000, 40 mile line Athens to Lula in good repair, bids sealed per 1897 act. Massachusetts Democrats prepare for state convention with expected smooth delegate election and potential governor candidate Brace and lieutenant governor hopeful Slattery.
William Dadley, a Hall county farmer living three miles west of Marysville, killed two men with an ax at his house during Dudley's absence. He split their heads, hacked their bodies, burned the weapon, and struck his wife as she escaped to a nearby Negro cabin. Officers pursue Dadley as details emerge.
Chief of police John L Hanna was shot and killed at about 10 am while attempting to arrest three moonshiners in Datton Georgia. A large crowd witnessed the event as the trio fled toward Tunnell Hill, with 126 men forming a posse to pursue. Governor Candler and local sheriff offered rewards for the culprits, while a $200 bounty was posted locally.
A northbound passenger train collided with a freight train 15 miles southeast of Kansas City. Four people were killed and four injured. Listed victims include engineers Fred W. Laker and Frederick Springfield, firemen Charles Rider and J. W. Haslett, among others. Injured individuals include L. P. Halleck and Fred A. Smith. A boy in West Virginia also reports a fatal family shooting on Peter Creek in Pike County Kentucky involving Eli jah Hall.
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