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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1899
Page
5
The State Normal School begins a new session as about two hundred teachers from across Georgia arrive. President Bradwell expects over 180 attending the opening with classes organized by tomorrow and the faculty fully present. Also notes a testimonial about Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with free trials at local druggists.
An explosion of gas at the Rome Iron Company's furnace severely burned foreman David Gibson and burned Frank Donner and Bill Williams. The men suffered extensive injuries, with clothing burned off, and receive medical care as reports warn of kidney disease risks from feverish urban life. Prickly Ash Bitters marketed as a kidney remedy by H. R. Palmer & Sons.
Henry Smith of near Watkinsville Ga was tried before Judge J O Johnson on a writ of lunacy and found insane. Aged about twenty one he attempted self-destruction by strychnine last week. He was sent to Milledgeville asylum today by Sheriff Overby.
Major Eli D. Hoyle writes from Matanzas on the Cuban province, describing public schools kept open despite two years of no pay. He notes reconcentrado suffering and hunger, mentions Cuban teachers’ devotion, a local interpreter, and a schoolboy surviving on sugar and water while awaiting relief.
Mrs S Owen wife of the First Methodist pastor died at the parsonage on Poplar Street after months of illness She was 46 moving to 47 Her husband bedridden with pneumonia and a newborn feared to die She leaves five children and was buried in Jenaboro tomorrow with support from the Griffin community
City plans paving Broad Street at Foundry Street with Belgium block up to Thomas Street and paving of Thomas Street to the depot. Work to begin after bids for materials, with initial quarry activity and storm sewer construction on Broad Street. Two year timeline for $100 000 bond funded program.
Arlington Georgia February 28 Sheriff E L Peterson arrested five suspects in the Fort Gaines homicide of February 9 with three white men J D Douglass Jr W B R Thompson and J A Gassett and two Negroes Simon Butler Arter Boynton all charged in the Boynton killings Pierce Lewis is still sought authorities could not locate him today.
A user from Emerado North Dakota describes severe hand eczema with oozing blisters. After a month of doctor care none, Cuticura provided relief after the first application and full cure in four weeks. Includes promotional note about How to Cure All Humors and Baby Humors remedies.
Albany reports show 1898 fire and marine premiums totaling $128.15 million with losses paid at $75.17 million and taxes $3.92 million. New York Life leads in new business with 78 471 policies and $6.05 million in new premiums, Mutual Life and Equitable follow. A nonforfeitable incontestable form from New York Life may shake insurance methods and tax revenue to government exceed $350,000.
Paris reports say Royalist papers reveal an Orleanist conspiracy aided by foreign rulers subscriptions to place a general as minister of war. Authorities claim the plot was foiled after M Roulede's action though the Figaro doubts proof of the plan. The notice ends with an unrelated drug advertisement for a skin salve at Smith & Bros.
Collector of the Port Thomas in Philadelphia reports a strange envelope from Lynchburg Virginia written in Chinese hieroglyphics. The message from the Le Chan Fin Company asks for a table of tribute and includes a request to translate the Dingley tariff bill. Also mentions Simmons Squaw Wine ads targeting women at changing life.
In a Washington caucus on February 28 the Democrats in the House adopted resolutions outlining their stance on the territorial question. Led by Congressman Howard of Georgia, the party asserts no permanent U.S. sovereignty over the Philippines and calls for transfer of rights to an independent government when formed, maintaining government by the consent of the governed. The document urges the foreign affairs committee to push the resolution.
Rome reports the pope taken suddenly ill this morning and public audiences suspended. The unprecedented announcement sends a sensation through the city. Irregular bowel movements linked to a chronic constipation ailment. Prickly Ash Bitters marketed as a system regulator by H. R. Palmer & Sons.
Sculptor Charles E. Bentham, stationed at Camp Haskell and living in Athens after the mustering out, is creating a white marble medallion about fifteen inches wide featuring a profile of Lieut Colonel Fred G. Hodgson U S A. The work will join Bentham’s other sculpture specimens. The note mentions Tutt's Liver Pills as a remedy for various ailments and praises their life-enhancing effects.
The marriage of Hon Henry Carlton Tuck and Mrs Frances M Cheney took place at the bride’s Milledge Avenue home in Athens in a quiet ceremony. Rev Julius W Walden officiated with intimate friends present. The bride and groom are prominent local figures with strong community ties and public service histories.
Paris dispatch reports that M. Lambet has signed a decree removing General Zurlinden as military governor of Paris and naming General Faure Biguet, commander of the Sixteenth army corps, to succeed him. The move is reportedly not yet confirmed by other sources.
Berlin reports Baron von Buelow told the Reichstag budget committee that Germany will protect German lives and property after insults at Tien Tsin. He warned China of grave consequences if acts are not punished, and noted German interests in the Philippines amid the Hsiano-American war.
Molineaux indicted in New York for the December 28 1898 murder of Mrs Katharine J Adams. Arrest follows coroner jury verdict tying Adams death to poison mailings that also affected Henry O C Barnet of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club.
Major General Wheeler urges adding 35 000 volunteers from Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines to the regular army under a pending reorganization bill as a wartime measure. He argues regular service yields higher efficiency than the volunteer branch. His own political future hinges on a March 4 action regarding his army seat in Congress. The piece also endorses Hathaway Co for chronic disease treatment in Atlanta GA.
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