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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1891
Page
18
An Athens report details events from yesterday evening including local gatherings and incidents. The piece notes several venues and activities, highlighting community reactions and brief outcomes.
Memorial Day rites in Athens honored Confederate dead with prayers, music, and speeches. Hon. E. P. Upshaw delivered a masterful oration at the University chapel, praising southern valor and urging reverence for veterans.
A long Confederate memorial program features Hon. E. P. Upshaw praising Southern valor, mourning Lincoln and Washington, and urging mothers and sons to honor the fallen. The day continues with a cemetery procession, flower tributes, and a Glee Club memorial invocation, concluding with prayers and a march past the graves.
A Big Four mail train No. 10 traveling at speed derailed three miles west of Indianapolis when a broken rail on a heavy grade caused the rear Pullman to overturn and detach. Six passengers were hurt including ex secretary of state Smith Myers with a broken jaw, Albert Berry with back injuries, Albert Gogle with a fractured knee cap, Thomas McGil with an injured ear, B C McMillan with a broken hip, and Liebenthal with a head wound. Porter and conductor unhurt.
The South shows broad industrial growth with 53 new industries and multiple new buildings rail lines and electric lines reported by The Tradesman weekly review. New plants include barrel factories brick works carriage factory fertilizer factory glass works and textile mills with capital infusions in Virginia South Carolina Georgia Alabama and Tennessee among others.
Gen Wade Hampton and family, including nephew Frank Hampton and Misses Daisy and Lucy Hampton, arrived at the Arlington in Augusta Georgia on April 28. Hampton appeared well and spruced, with whiskers removed leaving a silvery mustache. Other Confederate generals joined the event, but Hampton remains the central hero cherished by old soldiers. The crowd expressed deep pride as memories of the war era revived.
Rev. George W. Bothwell of the Church of the Covenant is believed dying at the city hospital from a cork swallowed accidentally and lodged in his lung while he held the cork in his mouth during medicine intake and burst into laughter. The rest reads as fragmented notes on a stalled New York senate and general musings on music.
A lone man with a dark complexion allegedly killed Charlie Patterson after fleeing Bainbridge town. He was found with a two and a quarter inch throat wound, hidden by removing clothing, and died in a puddle of blood. Regster reported hearing a struggle and a lamp being lit. The deceased wandered Scotland previously and bore similarities to Charlie Ross in leg mark.
New York reports a record influx of arrivals last week at the port including many who landed via Canada. Officials note a sizable portion of newcomers were undesirable, though not legally barred from landing or joining the population as citizens.
In Shenandoah Pennsylvania Patrick Matthews on East Lloyd street battled a highwayman who demanded his money and raised his hands. Matthews knocked the attacker down seized his package and reached settlement. In Washington on April 27 Congress convened to settle 8 million acres of Indian lands opened to white settlement.
An ad touts Clark's Lightning Liniment as a quick relief for rheumatism pain in muscles and joints. It claims direct action at the seat of pain and instant relief without waiting for blood-based cures, sold by druggists for fifty cents.
In Atlanta on April 27 the Western & Atlantic Commission heard the state receipts shown by the lessees. Gov Northen testified receipts were not a full settlement but stated on their face. The commission will rule on this testimony tomorrow.
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