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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1904
Page
6
The Holyoke returns with word that the steamer Clallam sank off Discovery Island. Fifty lives are reported lost. Help was sent too late. Port Townsend dispatches Seattle Times.
Port Townsend reports the Seattle Victoria steamer Clallam helpless off Discovery Island after leaving Seattle with about 49 passengers. Tugboats rushed to aid amid a fierce storm. Iroquois searches along Smith Island for signs of the vessel or crew.
Washington telegraph reports the Alva National Bank of Alva Oklahoma failed to open for business today. The item notes other brief tidbits including former Governor Chas Foster’s death in Ohio and various national notices about finance, politics, and events of the day.
In a forthcoming New York Medical Journal edition Dr B Tracy explores radium’s therapeutic potential. He notes radium can impart activity to fluids and may be used internally to fight bacterial disease via blood and lymph, with simple manufacture enabling regular supply of fresh radium preparations.
Walter Scranton resigns as president of the $60,000,000 Lackawanna Steel Co. retaining the chairmanship. D. O. Mills and H. McH. Twombly active in administration. The works at West Seneca Buffalo are among the world’s largest iron and steel plants. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is recommended for immune support.
Four violators of the Watts law in Yancey county were pardoned after serving hard labor in Randolph county, following convictions for visiting whisky in prohibited territory. The men Frank Warren John Richmond Milton and David Beaman were accused as Taborer workers at distilleries and claimed ignorance. the owner of the distilleries escaped. Local petition from 200 Yancey citizens and anti-saloon league support preceded the pardon.
A warrant was issued for Frederick J. Moss, a receiving teller at Dollar Savings Bank of the Bronx, charged with grand larceny. Moss disappeared September 18. Bank president reports a $200 shortage after preliminary book review. Indemnity Company, on Moss’s $10,000 bond, has covered the missing man. bank not affected.
The Russian Commission for the St Louis exposition outlines a general scheme for an Industrial and commercial exhibit and a government pavilion in St Petersburg. The centerpiece is a gigantic statue of Yermak the Cossack chief by Professor Rekelshlehen, encircled by glass showcases of gold and silver workmanlike items to showcase the craft under a grand tent.
Ralph Armstrong son of Henry Clay Armstrong once a grand secretary of Alabama Masons faced a Friday hanging in Tuskegee for the murder of his cousin Miss Allie Armstrong. Judge Denson suspended the sentence pending an appeal to the state supreme court.
Nearly 500 Boers sailed for Durban Natal today. They were last irreconcilables imprisoned at Ahmadnagar and recently induced by General Delarey to take the oath of allegiance.
Ocala Florida January 9 The second trial of Will Jacobs ended with a verdict of guilty in the first degree and a mercy recommendation from the jury the report notes the court will consider clemency in sentencing and awaits official action from authorities.
Chicago report notes the Troquo is death roll rising with 569 deaths after the death of Mrs JC A Roll today, marking another fatal tally in the ongoing count.
The Military Society of 1812 held its annual dinner in New York to honor Jacksons New Orleans victory 89 years past. General James Grant Wilson read toasts, recounting Washingtons nobility and Wells ords tale of Wellington declining a war 1812 expedition. Of 734 original members only King-Thram Cronk of Sacketts Harbor remains, aged 104.
Fire early today in the new stock exchange building raised alarm as defective boxes delayed the fire department. A Western Union messenger collapsed from smoke while cables burned in the Western Union room. Box out of order at multiple locations, engine company sent from Stone Street after 35 minutes. Telegraph service disrupted. money loss described as small.
For sale fine red raspberry plants 25 cents per dozen. Extra fine two and three year old asparagus 1 cent per dozen, 100 dollars per hundred. FE K Lumpkin Athens Ga Phone 93.
Sale of wash goods offers 1000 yards French Flannel at 35 cents, embroiderd waistings at 50 cents, new shipments of black goods and voiles, silk blends for evening wear at 95 cents, 50 inch Rice Voile at 95 cents, and a 100 pound stock of Shetland Floss at 1.00 per pound.
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