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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1900
Page
3
Heavy rain and rising streams devastate counties around Meridian Miss. Seven deaths are reported as floods force farm abandonments and strain railroads. Officials fear prolonged traffic disruption with 14.4 inches of rain already recorded and more forecast.
Floods around Mobile worsen as logs wash away the Pascagoula bridge near Scranton and rail lines suffer extensive damage. Louisville and Nashville executives tour the scene while Mobile and Ohio faces heavy track washouts and costly repairs. In Mississippi, a family drowns escaping Pearl River floods as traffic halts across routes to Tupelo and Memphis.
Washington reports that the capture of Bocas del Toro could force the United States to intervene to maintain isthmus neutrality. A U S Colombia treaty guarantees neutrality and sovereignty rights for the isthmus and Colombia within Panama’s department.
J M Jackson of Hockingford Ohio sues the Southern railway in the circuit court of this county for fifty thousand dollars claiming both feet were severed by a Southern train. The case is set for trial this week with prominent southern attorneys aboard.
The Tridesman reports numerous new ventures last week across the South including automobile, brick, and broom factories. canning and paper mills. cement works. coal mines. electric plants. Foundry and engine works. lumber mills. planing and stave mills. shoe and silk mills. a land and livestock firm. telephone companies. and related manufacturing expansion in Virginia Georgia Florida Alabama Tennessee Kentucky North Carolina Texas and Texas.
In Atlanta on Saturday the first hypnotic confession in crime detection was obtained from F. A. Parham by Melvin Venable. Parham confessed to stealing hats and other items, with Venable helping recover goods for R. F. Grieves and securing a reform pledge from the confessor. Anarchist plot disrupts Anconia.
Gustave F. Swift, president of Swift and Co., says the company will resist the strikers' demands in every detail and will not discuss the controversy. Edward F. Swift, managing director, is rumored to be in New York handling the firm’s strike interests while local nonunion workers may be targeted to replace strikers.
A report from Bareton says Republicans will back the Populist state ticket in exchange for Populists voting for McKinley nationally led by Senator Marion Butler. The aim is to defeat the Democratic state ticket and influence the November election.
In Zvurauta Alabama on April 23 a husband killed his wife with a club after she fired at him with a pistol. The victim, daughter of late John D. Glass, had been married twice. Blanson was her second husband.
An advertisement extols Johnston's Sarsaparilla as a superior spring medicine for debility, nervousness, and blood taint. It claims to purify blood through excretion channels and rebuild nerves, claiming widespread health benefits and listing multiple regional distributors.
In Mowrooming Alabama on April 23 the Rensalt heirs organize to push claims to an estate valued at 209 million dollars. The move draws wide attention as possible heirs such as Sop ant io a os and Patrick wis tn are mentioned though details remain unclear.
Historic clipping reports the murder of a Black woman in Louisville Georgia, details a confrontation at a residence, and notes a suspect and subsequent involvement of local authorities. Also referenced are a store fire in Elba Alabama and a university professor's death in Chicago, alongside an automobile tour trial and a medical advertisement for Boschee’s German Syrup.
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