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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1900
Page
9
A woman vanishes during a tense city search, then returns home claiming secrecy. Authorities, aided by a wide search, search rivers and alleys while the public wonders about her condition and the fate of Mrs. Moore. Doctors expect her temporary affliction to mend.
Mrs. Moore, wife of a prominent city man, vanished Sunday morning from her home on College avenue after announcing a visit to her father. An extensive search of the city and countryside failed to find her until late evening when she was heard calling in her yard. She claimed she had been at her father's house and appeared exhausted but well.
In Charlotte on March 5 a nine year old son of Bala cotton mill superintendent A J Rose was fatally injured by the shafting and belting. He was drawn to a revolving shaft near the cotton gin, mangled badly with one leg torn away and the other flesh and bone exposed. He survived several hours despite the severe injuries and doctors saying operation would not help.
Lewis Coleman s negro boatman drank poison from a water bucket mistaken for water. He suffered agonies but was saved by rapid medical care and will recover. Also notes editor A R De Flount of Doylestown Ohio reports rheumatic relief from Chamberlain s Pain Balm praised by the editor. For sale by H R Palmer Sons Druggist.
A N B Forrest camp committee visited Silverdale and Gold Point to count graves of unknown Confederate dead recently found there. About sixty at Silverdale and ten at Gold Point. The graves are sunken and overgrown. the camp aims to purchase the land, fence it, and care for the graves. Citizens affirm the Confederate origin. A dairyman in Albany sought a doctor for his sick child and purchased Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved the child. the druggist notes growing local demand for the remedy.
In San Francisco on March 5 the tong warfare within the Sam Yup organization flared as gunmen killed Poon Gees and Low Boon of Tack Wo & Co and seriously wounded Leong Cheu. Four highbinders fired on the new Tack Wo & Co store, then fled.
A Lourenco Marques dispatch reports persistent claims the Transvaal seeks peace talks while Boer forces may stand firm at Glencoe and Laing’s Nek. Pretoria entrenchments grow as a siege looms. a conference between the Boers president and the Natal commander is noted after General Oronje’s surrender. Colonel Kroger urges burghers to stand fast with faith in the Lord and avoid ruin. Casualties at Colenso through February 25 are listed as 31 killed and 190 wounded. The piece also includes a Philadelphia quip about the Washington lower house compared to the senate.
Fire swept through Mr. Morris Link’s Jackson Street home Sunday night trapping the family in night clothes. Manuel Link woke his father, allowing seven occupants to escape as flames gutted a parlor and endangered adjacent houses. Losses estimated at 650 to 2000 with $1000 insured. fire department saved most furniture and kept the blaze from spreading.
Mr. Tom Long and a friend rode out from a fruit stand on College Avenue. Long spurred the fiery mare, the pair pulled bridle and fell twenty feet on Broad Street near Jackson Street. Both suffered bruises and scratches with no bones broken in a Terrible accident.
A rider, unharmed after a fall, looked at his prostrate horse, then addressed the crowd with a narrow, apologetic remark about cultural differences, saying they don’t do that way in his country.
Edward Flanagan, the DeKalb county double murderer, lies in critical condition in Atlanta as his lawyers fear he may not survive to stand trial. He endures a gunshot wound from an escape attempt and a severe dysentery attack, and attorneys have asked Judge Candler to move him to a cleaner cell with artificial heat and better bed clothing.
In Frankfort on March 5 a Democrat resolution by Senator Triplett seeks an investigation into reports that the Republican Governor Taylor shipped Kentucky state arms to London. If true and arms aren’t returned, the panel will push a bill for 250000 dollars to buy new guns and authorize General John B. Castleman to call volunteers to seize the guns from current possessors and return them to the arsenal. The measure drew applause and lasted over a day.
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