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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1892
Page
3
Washington June 13. The Senate grants leave to Voorhees until the 26th. The pension appropriation bill with amendments moves to the calendar. A May bill to expand currency and set a bureau of laws is taken from the table. In the House a measure declares Indian children citizens at 21 after ten years of industrial training.
Little Lena Sugarmain, daughter of a Whitehall Street merchant, was struck and killed by an electric Consolidated line car while crossing near Whitehall and Mitchell streets. Her sister tried to hold her back. Motorman C. A. Walker was arrested on $200 bond. He says the car was moving slowly and he could not stop in time despite signals.
A former Columbia mayor and Confederate Army captain, Captain Richard O Neale, was shot in the breast in a suburb street. Suspicion falls on guard Jos B Carter, though he denies the accusation. witnesses report nearby commotion after the shot and a wounded, unidentified vigil.
An advertisement extols Dr Kine's New Discovery for consumption and New Life Pills with Bucklens Arnica and other remedies. It guarantees relief and invites customers to purchase with satisfaction promised.
Philadelphia report recounts an eleven year old girl dying after a teacher forced her to walk stairs as punishment during a school procession. The doctor cites the punishment as directly causing the death amid a sequence of exhaustion and illness. Separate dispatch from Indianapolis notes Albert G Porter declining gubernatorial nomination, citing gratitude to supporters but firm political convictions.
Southborn League games report Atlanta and Birmingham results with Montgomery, Macon, and Memphis scores. National League games list Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, New York results. Opera House fire in Graup Rapids damages Powers' theater at $40,000 with $20,000 more needed for block repair and a minor burn for Ed Warrington. Frank Walter breaks world bicycle record in San Francisco with 363 miles 1,590 yards in 24 hours. Big grocery fire in Cleveland at W P Southworth Co store causes about $50,000 loss with damage to stock. insurance covers.
Reports from Marquette Michigan describe a riot at the Osceola mine resulting in a mine captain and another man killed while about 400 miners remain on strike and tensions rise near Calumet and Hecla. In Pittsburgh seven smallpox cases appear in wards thirteen and fifteen prompting health alerts. West Virginia, Ohio and Virginia outbreaks prompt vaccination proclamations and warnings as authorities respond to scattered cases.
The dispatch reports deadly lightning in Spain with ten killed and twenty eight injured at Melias and five killed with ten injured at Maccenses. A London cotton fire from a Spanish steamer spreads through sheds, while Cuba faces floods in Matanzas with hundreds of homes ruined and six hundred thousand bags of sugar lost. Dems jubilant amid Harrison nomination news as Blaine supporters waver back and forth.
General Eli B. Stackhouse of South Carolina, a congressman and Farmers' Alliance leader, died in Washington at 1 30 a m He had accompanied Colonel L L Polk’s remains to Raleigh A Polk Memorial Association meeting was planned in Raeziau North Carolina to organize a monument fund The failed rope broke injuring workers in Hartford City Indiana A train robbery pursuit in Oklahoma Territory ended without capture and a barroom shooting in Mississipi left one wounded Train service resumed on one track in Bartmont Iowa after river conditions eased
A sensational ad claims Dr Kino's New Discovery cures coughs galps and lung diseases with guaranteed results. Trial bottles are free at John Crawford & Co and Palmers Kinnebrew's Drug store, while large bottles sell for 50 cents and 1 dollar. It also promotes hardware and farm tools with a separate line offering a threshing machine and engine.
Paris papers discuss the Republican convention in Minneapolis with views on Harrison and Cleveland. Cholera deaths rise in Meshda Persia while Russia tightens border sanitation. Indians push for a gold standard currency with broad support across India. Rome expects new cardinals at a December consistory. Reid praised in Paris as diplomat and potential US president.
Congressman W J Bryan of Nebraska will address the University of Michigan Democratic club on June 17 in Ann Arbor, answering Governor McKinley’s recent Republican students address. A cordial reception is planned as Bryan travels from Madison to the Sea Conference.
An unusual three inch display ad from Hatter Medicine Co promotes a Crescent themed “this house” offer with no two words alike and invites readers to look for lithographs or free samples in the issue.
An explosion on the British steamer Petrolia outside Blaye on the Gironde blew the ship apart. Sixteen crew members were rescued with some badly burned. twenty others aboard are believed lost as burning oil set nearby vessels ablaze and wreckage covered the river.
Democratic managers plan to bring up the tin plate tariff bill after the fortifications appropriation is disposed of. The week may also see conference reports and possible action on other tariff measures. Senate plans include a Florida navigation aid appropriation, and reports from a cyclone in Illinois and other local incidents are noted.
A Nebraska correspondent cites Illinois farmer tips on unloading hay with ropes. Tie rope to wagon axle and drag to straighten kinks, untwist in pulleys, and avoid consistent horse turning. Alternate pulling ends by wrapping rope around a tree and hitching horses to pull, repeating to remove kinks.
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