CAUCUS FAILS TO AGREE ON SILVER BILL IN WASHINGTON
In Washington on April 23, Senator Colquitt urged Miss Laird for LaGrange postmistress with strong letters to the Post Office Department. The House committee neared a New Mexico and Utah state bill but disqualified Mormons. Dr Mary Walker's relief bill passed for $2000. Grover Cleveland sold Oakview to F G Newlands for $135000. An Anthony Powder Mill explosion near NeSauree killed the watchman. a second blast damaged storage, with wreckage unseen and shocks felt in nearby towns.
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Washington, D. C
Colquitt
PostoMce Department
Miss Laird
LaGrange
House Committee On Territories
New Mexico
Utah
DR. Walker
Committee On Claims
Mary Walker
Republicans
Senate
House
Secretary of the Treasury
Grover
Oakview
Grover Cleveland
F. G. Newlands
Nevada
R. M.C
Manquerte
Anthony Powder Company
Ne- Sauree
Iron Street
Negaunee
Marquette
Reed Hesitates Over Rules Committee Vacancy
Washington reports Speaker Reed delays naming Randall's successor on the rules committee. Mills is avoided due to Ways and Means ties and party signals. Candidates Crisp and Blount are both highly qualified, with Blount favored for his longer House experience.
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Washington
Reed
Mr. Mills
Mr. Randall
Committee On Rules
Mills
Committee On Ways and Means
Carlisle
Democratic Teadera
Crisp
Blount
Rules
Randall
La Norva Disease Warned By Doctor In Continent
Washington April 23 Dr Reese says a new disease named La Norva likely influenza derived. It shows as back and limb pains a girdle like sensation and personal crisis impulses and even dementia. Doctor expects it not to reach this country though it wrecks health more than causing deaths.
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Washington, D.C
Reese
Senate probe links public men to Louisiana lottery bill
A Herald dispatch from Bismarck reports that a Senate committee investigating corruption tied several public figures to the Louisiana lottery bill. Manitoba railroad candidate Johnson testified he was offered over 25,000 to withdraw from the race.
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Prom Atlanta Journal
New York
Bismark
N. D
Senate
United States
Manitoba Railroad
Tohnson
Macon seeks grants for large South sugar mill and hotels
Macon plans to lure a North financed chemical plant of about 250000 dollars on fifteen acres of city reserve with a 100 worker payroll. Straw hat and hair restorer factories eye Macon sites, and a hotel project seeks the Sussdorff or Coleman Hill locations. A Canal company with 250000 dollar capital formed, owning six hundred acres near the city, with J C McBurney as president and other officers elected.
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Macon
Americus
8. T. Coleman and Burden Company
C. L. Dawson
South Carolina
Jackson
Fla
Duncan
Sussdorff Place
Tattnall Square
Tattnall Square Park
Plank
Coleman Hill
Canal Company
J. C. McBurney
Atlanta
J. 8. Baxter
Henry Cutter
Cadets Seek Kansas City Trip With George Price Aid
Macon reports about $1,400 raised for sending the Cadets to Kansas City. A $50 check from E. A. Peyser arrives as Georgia prepares a fourth company alongside Columbus Brunswick and likely Atlanta Rifles and Guards. First prize awaits at $2,500 with hopes to bring it home.
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Macon
George Price
Kansas City
E. A. Peyser
Savannah
Georgia
Columbus
Brunswick
Rifles
Atlanta
Cartersville Gas Works Burned In Fire
Atlanta dispatch reports a gasoline process gas works plant in Cartersville destroyed by fire at 8 o clock this morning. Estimated value around $20,000. Main building ruined and adjacent structures damaged. cause not yet known. Also noted: Minnie Willingham, 21, buried at Rose Hill after reported death.
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Atlanta
Cartersville
Willingham
Macon
Minnie Willingham
Rose Hill
Jackson's bagging offers cotton stalk fiber solution
Avousta Ga April 21. William E Jackson, a young lawyer, claims to have solved the jute bagging problem by producing cotton stalk bagging. He estimates $3,000,000 saved for planters and $5,000,000 in gross country savings, with stalks yielding $2.50 per ton at depots. Jackson’s process uses stalk fibers to create a durable, stain resistant bagging, cheaper than jute, with Augusta as headquarters for a new company and factories planned in each state.
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Avousta
William E. Jackson
Jackson
Edward Atkinson
Alliance
J.C. Todd
Patterson
N. J
Cotton House of Doughty & Co
Todd
Augusta
Holmes Acquittal in Floyd County Trial
Romrk Ga April 23 The Holmes trial closed and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a not guilty verdict on the first ballot. Colonel Hammond delivered a moving speech in the Floyd courthouse prompting near universal satisfaction with the outcome.
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Romrk, Ga
Holmes
Hammond
Floyd Court House
Dawson's New P M Confirmed by Senate
Special to Record. In executive session the Senate confirmed Jacob W. Alexander as postmaster at Dawson Georgia. Another item notes Reagan introducing a constitutional amendment for direct election of U S Senators by the people. In Atlanta a railroad man, John Henton, was killed crossing at Whitehall. The World’s Fair bill passed the House, with the Washington clause stricken.
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Wasuisdon
D. C
Senate
Jacob W. Alexander
Dawson, Ga
Washington, D.C
Reagan Today
United States
Atlanta
John Henton
Whitehall Crossing
House
Washington
Winnie Davis to Marry Alfred Wilkinson in Syracuse
The Herald factual report confirms Winnie Davis daughter of Jefferson Davis will wed Alfred Wilkinson grandson of abolitionist Samuel J. May. Wilkinson is a 28 year old local lawyer of modest means, high social standing, betrothed after continental courtship and a recent European journey with Davis. The precise wedding date remains to be announced.
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The
Herald
Syracuse
New York
Europe
America
Winnie Davis
Jefferson Davis
Alfred Wilkinson
Samuel J. May
Thomas Emery
D. McCarthy & Co
Thin City
Society of
Winnie
Mr. Wilkinson
Miss Davis
Wilkinson
What Georgia Gets in River and Harbor Bill
Washington April 14 The river and harbor bill allocates funds across Georgia for multiple projects. Al tamaha $15000 Ocmulgee $30000 partly Macon to Hawkinsville $15000, Oconee $25000 partly Milegan to Central railroad bridge $5000, Coosa $300000, Chattahoochee between West Point and Franklin $20000, Flint $20000, Savannah between Augusta and Savannah $25000, Brunswick outer bar $35000, Cumberland Sound $112600, Savannah harbor $350000, Darien $25000, Brunswick harbor $35000. The first $35000 item for Brunswick is for an outer bar depth survey of 26 feet.
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Washington
Altamaha
Ocmulgee
Macon
Hawkinsville
Oconee
Milegan
Central Railroad
Coosa
Georgia
Alabama
Chattahoochee
Weat Point
Franklin
Flint
Savannah
Augusta
Brunswick
Cumberland Sound
Savannah Harbor
Darien
Brunswick Harbor
Sub-committee to Inspect Southern Courts on Tour
A House Judiciary sub-committee investigating alleged illegal practices in Southern courts plans to depart Washington on Thursday night. They have gathered evidence from the Department of Justice and will visit Atlanta Mobile Montgomery Birmingham and Huntsville.
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RecunpEn
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Department of Justice
Atlanta
Mobile
Montgomery
Birmingham
Huntsville
President to Begin Veto Campaign on Public Building Bills
Special to ReconDeR from Washington reports the President has obtained the list of public building bills and will begin vetoing them. Southern cities are told to expect vetoes, as the White House shows no use for their measures. The Americus public building bill remains pending, avoiding an early veto.
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Reconder
Washioton
D.C
White House
Americus
Hood's Sarsaparilla touted as spring medicine
The piece praises Hood's Sarsaparilla for spring health, claiming it has three health-giving elements: blood purification, strength restoration, and appetite improvement. It urges readers not to remain tired and dull, asserting the remedy can purify the blood and make the weak strong.
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Hood
Washington Notes on House Seats and Politics
Special to Reconsent reports a volatile House opening with Republicans holding an eight vote edge. Unseatings of Jackson Pendleton Cate Compton and Wise are noted as partisan moves, with Langston rumored to pursue ministry. Senator Hoar is praised for handling the Montana seat theft, while Frank Small and Eugene Speer are highlighted as Washington correspondents and figures in journalism circles.
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Washington, D. C
Outlaw Reed
Jackson
Pendleton
West Virginia
Cate
Arkansas
Compton
Maryland
Wise
Virginia
Langston
John M. Langston
Senator Hoar
Senate
Montana
Rev
Sam Small
Frank Small
Sam W. Small
Washton
Frank
Europe
Texas Siftings
Eugene Speer
Atlanta Journal
Speer
Journal
R.M.C
Namouna Yacht Believed Struck by Storm in Chinese Waters
New York April 13 No news has reached the Herald on the alleged accident to James Gordon Bennett’s yacht Namouna. A Nice cable states the vessel was hit by a violent storm, three crewmen drowned, the yacht reached a Chinese port, and Bennett was aboard after being in Cairo two weeks earlier awaiting her arrival.
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New York
Herald Office
James Gordon Bennett
Nice
Bennett
Cairo
His Neck Broken Stephens Killed After Car Fall
Jonesboro Ga April 18 T A Stephens tow brakeman on Central freight train No 41 fell from the top of the cars yesterday afternoon a half mile below Jonesboro breaking his neck and shattering his shoulders The train was running rapidly in a sharp curve it is supposed he lost his balance He lived in Macon and had a brother who is supervisor on the East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia railroad The Macon Presbytery Fort Games April 17 The spring session of the Presbytery of Macon met at the Presbyterian church Rev Robert Adame of Americus retiring moderator preached on Missions The discourse was described as able.
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Jonesuone
T. A. Stephens
Central
Jonesboro
Stephens
Macon
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Macon Presbytery
Fort Games
Presbytery of
Presbyterian Church
Robert Adame
Americus
Scratched Twenty-Eight Years Rescue With Curicura Remedies
Ennis Downing of Waterbury Vermont reports a long battle with a skin disease that began on the head and spread, causing nails and skin to suffer. He describes trying multiple doctors and remedies before praising Curicura Remedies, Germs RESOLVENT, and Grathuna Body products, claiming complete cure after using three boxes of Curicura, three bottles of Germs RESOLVENT, and two bars. He says earlier access and payment could have saved suffering and money, and notes he is now free of the disease.
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Han
Ennis Downing
Waterbery
Georgia Industry Gains and Local News From Athens to Rome
Reports say a paper factory will be established at Athens by Northern capitalists and Alliance stores across the state are thriving, benefiting farmers. Governor Gordon denies a New York World depiction of Georgia’s convict system. Brunswick plans funds to send Riflemen to Kansas City for a drill contest. Rome sees new corporate ventures with a $300,000 stock in the American Valve Company. State University studies show about 71 percent of students are poor and will need work after graduation. The old Altamaha fort cannon remains, spiked during the war, now with overgrown grounds surrounding the preserved fort.
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Alliance
Gordon
New York
Georgia
Brunswick Board of Trade
Brunswick Riflemen
Kansas City
Rome
Univeral
State University
Altamaha
Doctortown
Electric Bitters Promised to Cure Dyspepsia
This ad proclaims Electric Bitters as essential for full enjoyment of life, claiming vast public demand and universal availability. It guarantees relief from dyspepsia and liver, stomach, and kidney issues when used as directed, with prices 60 cents and 1.00 per bottle from E J Eldridge, Druggist, and notes recent cemetery monument erections.
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E. J. Eldridge
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