R L Decline Plans to Revive Knights of Labor
The Knights of Labor faces collapse with vanishing membership and near bankruptcy. General Master Workman Powderly may resign as head while elections for Atlanta Convention delegates run through September. The Crippled treasury may force mortgage or sale of headquarters. Powderly foregoes Europe trip and shifts toward legal work.
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Puinapenoria
Powderly
Knights of Labor
Knights
Atlanta
North Broad Street
Europe
K. of L
Scranton
New England
New York City
Newark
South Jersey
Wilmington
Baltimore
Georgia Forecasts Record Corn and Cotton Crops
A Georgia farmer notes bumper corn across the state with abundant ears and bursting shucks, predicting self sufficiency and a shift away from Western imports. Cotton fields also promise heavy yields with large stalks and bolls. the article cautions about fall prices as West crops rise.
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Georgia
King Cotton
Athens
Danish Lovers Die in Apparent Double Suicide
In Fresno California yesterday a Danish couple Andrus Olsen and his lover died after taking poison and were found by the wife of attorney W. H. Tupper. The servant Elizabeth Verney discovered them and an empty poison bottle lay nearby. An inquest is set for tomorrow as their marriage hopes were blocked by a third party.
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Fresno
Cal
W. H.tupper
Elizabeth Verney
Andrus Olsen
Olsen
Queer Result of a Railway Accident
John M Dowell a Floyd county farmer missing since July 5 in a rail disaster between Bristol and Lynchburg on the East Tennessee Virginia railroad. Henry Heaton and others search for proof of death, noting the wreck burned with remains unidentifiable. Dowell owned a $5000 farm near Silver Creek. proof of death is needed to administer the estate.
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John M. Dowell
Floyd County
Rome
Bristol
Lynchburg
Tennessee
Perry E. Wood
Henry Heaton
Louden County
Virginia
State Senate
Neaton
Dowell
Liberty
Bill to limit compensation for Solicitor General Clarke case
Notice states a bill will be presented to amend an 1881 act providing compensation for the Western circuit Solicitor General in criminal cases in Clarke County. The proposed change strikes out the clause granting yearly county treasury orders up to two hundred dollars based on approved insolvent lists. The notice is dated August 2.
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Athens Banner- Watchman
Elberton Star
John G. Gibson
Crawford
Gibson
General Assembly
Western Circuit
Clarke
Fatal Meeting Trial Proceeds in Decatur Court
In Decatur Georgia August 21 witnesses testified at length in the murder trial of Alexander Wilson with Dr W P Bond identifying the skull fragment and noting brain injury from a knife. William Wilson brother of the dead man testified about the night of the killing and the altercation with Dan Alston.
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Banner
Decatur
W. P. Bond
Lithonia
Wilson
Octor Bond
Alex. Wilson
William Wilson
Dan Alston
Alex
Alston
Mr. Wilson
John Davidson
Alexander Wilson
Scragg
Boardhouse
Davidson
John Wilson
Prominent U S Consul recounts health struggle and treatment
Hon C Edwards Lester, former U S Consul to Italy, writes from New York on August 1 1886 detailing a decade long battle with illness following a college setback. He describes repeated hemorrhages from the nostril passages and ineffective treatments by top physicians before finding a remedy.
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New York
27Th St
J. C. Aver & Co
Lowell
Mass
New Haven
Death of Willie Turner shocks Rockmart family
Will Turner, 23, shot himself in his home Monday morning after decades of suffering. His sister found him dying in a chair, him making no explanation of his motive. His parents were away visiting relatives, leaving their only son as a great loss to the family.
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Rockmart
Barney Turner
Willie
Paulding County
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R. OF L. Decline
Hon, C. Edwards Lester
U. S
Italy
England
America
Ayer
C. Edwards Lester
J.C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Maas
Will Turner
Talmadge Bros
Lucy “Hin‘ton
Mattaponi
Panther
Jay Bird
I’. C. Williams Co
Richmond
D&w
Reraping
D. H.schweser
William Lenheart
Jacob Smith
E. de Long
Alfred Weiler
Bower’s Woods
Lenheart
Coon
Harmony Grove
Cheney
Hardman’s Creek
Frank Starke
Prof
Walker
Gravie Goss
Monroe
Robt
W. Neal
Banks County
Jackson County
J. H. Williford
Grove
R.A. Echols
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
W.E. Boggs
D.D
Fey
Lamar Coib
Board of Trustees
Nim
Massena
Ted
John R. Bero
American House
Hogansburgh
N. Y
Potter Curve and Chemical Corporation
Boston
Cl. Bk’s College
Erie
Hiscox &Co
N.Y
Parker
Lever
Drugeists
Wm. H. Parker
National Medical Association
Een
Belk Eee
J. U
NANCE
Hobbyville
Ind
Ciece
Annie Geeslina
Columbus
Swift SpeciFic Co
ST. Vitus
DRS. A. _ RICHMOND NERYIME Ce
Joseph, MI
Georgia Railroad
Stone Y
Winterville
Duolap
Lexington
Antioch
Maxeys
Woodville
Union Point
Union Poin
Gainesville
Augusta
Washington Macon
Washington
Dunlap
Lam Am
Charleston
Micon
Willston
Crowetown
Harlent
Dearine
Son
Norwood
Barnett
Crawfordyije
Greensboro
Ured Circle
Covington
Conyers
Lithousnountain
Athe
A. Dorsey
Danville
Dalny
Atti Ltd
Dalty
Lula
Lata
Pasner
Armony
Kley, Su
L. L. Meulesky Das
Taye
Hiss
ELBER
WORMS
B. A. Fahnestock
Aihenea
Baene
Stechica I
L. D. Sledge & C
Best
Wa Perfert Timekeeper
Tinvon & Co
F. Johnson & CO
Main St
Mond
Va- N. B
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