Donation rumor fuels Athens State Normal push
Atlanta Daily News reports a possible gift of 50000 dollars from New York parties to the State Normal School at Athens. State School Commissioner G R Glenn will travel to New York to finalize arrangements and learn about a 500000 fund for maintenance of two Georgia schools. He expects to be away several weeks, leaving around July 1.
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Atlanta Daily News
State Normal School
Ogden
South
Glenn
New York
Normal School
Bronson
Branson
State Teachers’ Association
Warm Springs
Athene
G. R. Glenn
Georgia
Strike Continues as Western Machinists Stand Firm
Cincinnati reports that only a small fraction of the 5,000 machinists out on strike returned to work as shops reopened. Pickets doubled, some workers faced blocking by strikers, and a single clash at Fay-Egan’s shop occurred without broader violence. Deputy marshals face renewed tensions as shots greet trains in Tracker.
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Cincinnati
Fay-Egan Company
W. Va
United States
Charleston
Thompson
Maratine
Reapino
Philadelphia and Reading Company
Baer
Saturda
The
Southern Machinists
Exoxvinie
Southern Railway
Columbia
Machinists’ Union
Cottt
Dr. Pierce
J. V. Pierce
Buffalo, MY
Tables Turned by the Brave Boers in Open Fight
June 6 near Use. British surprise Boer camp as burghers flee, then counterattack to recapture convoy with bayonets. DeWet and Delarey participate. staff officer wounded and captured. Jacobus Botha, Cape assembly member for Aliwalworth, captured, publicly sjamboked, house burned for treason vote.
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Elliot
da Wet
Use
DeLisle
Delarey
DeWet
Jacobus Botha
Cape Assembly
Aliwaloorth
Botha
Lightning Strikes County Farm Barn Causing Major Loss
A Monday night blaze at the county farm barn and stable near Athens, caused by a lightning strike on the lightning rod, destroyed the building and its contents including 909 bushels oats and about 1500 bundles of fodder. A mule perished, stock were rescued, and total losses reach about $2,000 with $600 insurance. county to rebuild separately. Local testimony notes insurance and rebuilding plans.
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Kelly
Palatine Insurance Company
Athens
Ohio Republicans Open Their Ball
Ohio Republicans convened at the Auditorium with Foraker and Hanna leaders amid a keynote push for Foraker and McKinley era unity. Hanna named permanent chair, delegates pledged party discipline, Nash renominated for governor and Nippers elected lieutenant governor as the convention concluded at 1 10 p m.
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Foraker
Buckeye
Columnus
Repubcan
Senator Foraker
Committee On
Fayette County
Committee On Permanent Organization
Senator Hanna
Ohio
McKinley
Jin
Asa W. Jones
Charles H. Grosvenor
Nash
Henry G Taylor
George K Nash
Fora‘ker
Carl L. Nippers
Hamilton County
J.T. Price
Superior Court
John M. Sicheats
Lawson E. Emmerson
Supreme Court
Imac BH. Cameron
W. G. Johnson
State Board of Public Works
Jaxenamy
Mpathy
Etary Covenent
Farmers in bad plight in North Carolina crops suffer
Despondent farmers in parts of North Carolina report endless rains and overgrown grass halting plowing for weeks. Cotton and corn suffer from wet ground and weed growth, leaving acres unworked while harvest nears. A week of sun and warm weather could improve conditions.
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North Carolina
Cuanvortsr
N. C
Ship
THREE NEGROES SHOT IN KERNERSVILLE OUTBREAK
In Kernersville North Carolina on June 25 John Harris shot three men Julius Reid Adolphus Moore and Arthur Mater over a card game. Reid died, Moore gravely wounded, Mater wounded but likely to recover. Harris fled as Sheriff Alspaugh leads a posse.
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Winston-Sanea
N. C
Kernoraville
John Harris
Julius Reid
Adolphus Moore
Arthur Mater
Reid
Moore
Mater
Bell Telephone Company
Winston
Greensboro
Kernersville
Harris
Matwer
South Carolina
Alspaugh
Earl Russell Indicted for Bigamy in England
True bill found in Old Bailey court indicting Earl Russell for bigamy. Recorder says trial to be held in the House of Lords. Decree nisi absolute in December 1001 divorce case against his wife named Somerville. US divorce does not bind Britain. Lord Halsbury notified of the court’s finding.
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Earl Russell
England
Loxpon
House of Lord
Nisi
George John Somerville
United States
Great Britain
Lord Halsbury
Tillman in the Dance at Clemson College Hop
Senior Senator Tillman attended Clemson college commencement festivities and, in a rare playful mood, urged an old fashioned square dance as the floor was slicked for the event. He led the dancing, flinging his hat and insisting on leading and completing the lively party with a swing corner call. A traveling man praises Dr Caldwell syrup for family relief.
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Clemson
Spantaxiana
Tillman
Ted
Dr. Caldwell
Railroad Ultimatum Faces Ashley Strikers in Witxespank
The Central Railroad of New Jersey issues an ultimatum to Ashley shops strikers. Noncompliant workers will be discharged and replaced by nonunion men. The move, anticipated after days of warnings, signals potential clashes at the plant.
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Allroad
Witxespank
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Ashley
Ehopa
Cdmo
Georgia Farmers Face Poor Cotton Crop Says Brown
Hawkinsville farmer and state fair representative J Pope Brown toured Georgia and warned that fewer than seventy percent of an average crop is likely. He cited extensive wet weather injuring cotton, with watergrass choking the crop and little chance of recovery, advising farmers to salvage hay and bale it for sale.
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Haas
Hawensville
J. Pope Brown
Hawkinsville
Brown
Bor
Murderous Mongolian slays Chinese in Ladner row
Three Chinese men are dead and four are fatally injured after a Chinese assailant went on a homicidal spree in a riverfront shack near Ladner. The victims were said to have been on friendly terms with their attacker, who had recently been behaving oddly before the killings.
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B O
Ladner
Shack
New the River
Lizzie A. Bowman
Newpees, Washi Co
Ohio
Precocious Prince Farward in Public Eye on His Birthday
A juvenile party near Windsor highlighted Prince Farward’s precocious talent as he thanks mates with old fashioned phrases, earning the Duke of Cornwall’s remark that the boy speaks better than he does. Meanwhile reports from Kentucky describe Cedar Bluff flood damage and Liberty town devastation, with dams gone and houses washed away. In London, D. B. Henderson and Henry White attended the inspection of guards by the Duke of Marlborough.
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Acertiini
Plang
Prince Laiward
Prince Laiward Will Bon Anilor
Britannia
Mademoiselle Bricku
Or ‘Leck
Prince Farward
Duke of Cornwall
Cornwall
Kentucky
Tazeweua
Cedar Bluff
Here
Liberty
Russell
Forty- Mile Road
Loupos
D. B. Henderson
United States
House of Representatives
Henry White
Duke
Marlborough
The Alabama Convention Proposes Sheriff Tenure Reform
The Alabama constitutional convention, Montgomery, June 24, revises section on sheriff tenure and removal. A sheriff shall be elected for four years with potential ineligibility for reelection, and may be impeached for neglect allowing prisoner escape or lynching. governor to apply remedies pending legislative action.
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Mostcomery
Ala
Aoner
Jones
Burns
Montgomery
Cape
Unique Case In Court Against Gambling House
A Memphis National Bank filed suit yesterday against Patrick Quin and others to recover about 1000 dollars allegedly paid on a forged draft and lost in a gambling establishment. The action, noted as potentially Tennessee’s first of its kind, seeks recovery from the gaming house and involved various local figures and entities.
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Gambling House
Maxrm
Memphis National Bank
Patrick Quin
Tost
Tennessee
Peing
Paycrook
Revown
Cron
Enon
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