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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1899
Page
6
Walter Aaron ten years old jumped into the Oconee River to save eight year old companion Cled Prather after a boat accident. He swam fifty yards with the boy clinging to him and brought them both to the river bank where Prather revived.
A New York mob attempted to lynch a Black man two days before Sam Hose’s lynching. The crowd, including Kelly and his sons, surged around the victim and demanded a rope. Bradley fled to the woods but the mob pursued, turning the scene into a lynching in earnest as one man produced a rope.
On sale this week 200 pieces all silk rib bons in all shades with value from 25 to 35 cents per yard. Choice lots at 15 cents per yard. Children’s ribbed hose 10 cents, worth 15 cents. fine lisle ribbed hose 15 cents in tans and black, value 25 cents. A headquarters for hosiery, handkerchiefs and novelties in every line.
A crowd demanded execution by hanging and burning as Bradley faced a noose after being accused of stealing a pocketbook and a horse. Calls to let the law decide clashed with mob zeal, while some urged mercy and arrest. The episode referenced Sam Hose and included moral commentary on justice.
Rome May 3 Exciting debate expected in the chamber of deputies over the government's foreign policy inclining to the demand for a ninety nine year lease of San Man bay in Che Kiang province for a naval base and coaling station. In Manila notes discussant and varied items on a page include medical tonics and odd curiosities from the Philippines with oyster shells used as windows and blinds in Manila houses.
Dr Senn reports ex Governor John P Altgeld is a broken spirited invalid with blighted political hope and grave despondency due to locomotor ataxia advancing, as Chicago notes May 1 1890s.
A dealer boasts a large stock of Farrand and Votey organs sold to over a thousand buyers. He prides himself on being the first south to purchase a solid carload amid rising demand for high grade instruments.
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