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Athens Weekly Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

May 19, 1899

Page

8

Sale of Ladies Fine Sample Shoes at 50 Cents

A sale offers 325 pairs of Ladies Fine Sample Shoes priced from 1 dollar to 1.50 dollars. Sizes range 34 to 73. Each pair priced at 50 cents.

Madras

Wilmington’s Amazon Voyage Reaches Yquitos Peru

Commander Todd reports the gunboat Wilmington navigated the Amazon for 2100 miles to Yquitos Peru against a three knot current. Manaos at the Rio Negro junction is the previous navigation head, and the ascent above sparked consternation and protests against the American consul and local pilots aiding the voyage.

Wilmington New York Navy Department Todd Amazon River Great River Yquitos Peru Manaos Rio Negros Amazon

General Wood reports peace in Cuban departments dispatch

A San taro, Washington May 18 dispatch from Havana dated May 17 reports Adjutant General in Washington that Gen Wood's recent trip through the department shows everything quiet and peaceful with brigandage reports without foundation. Brooke commands.

Washington War Department Havana Wood Brooke

Admirals Born Aboard in Norfolk Three Sons Named

Mrs John O Keefe of Norfolk presents her husband with three sons last night. Today the father names them Dewey Sampson and Schley to honor the naval heroes of the late war. The mother and the three rear admirals are doing well.

Norfolk Johu O'Keefe Dewey Sampson Schley

Peace Conference Opens as Delegates Arrive in The Hague

Delegates from many nations gather in The Hague for the peace conference. M. De Staat, Russian ambassador to Britain, will preside temporarily. The city displays foreign flags while three commissions are formed to study armement limits warfare laws and mediation mechanisms.

The Hague M. de Staat Great Britain M. van Karneboek

Desperate Negro Kills Two Officers Then Surrenders

Washington May 18 Humphrey Taylor a negro suspected of the Rosenstein murder at Slidell Md shot and killed Police Sergeant Fritz Rassau wounded Policeman Gow and held a six man posse at bay from a house loft for nearly two hours. Dozens of shots were fired before Taylor surrendered as fire was prepared to burn the building. Rosenstein and his wife were found insensible and wounded in their Slidell store room with Rosenstein dying and the wife near death. Taylor alias Brown was previously missing amid the investigation.

Washington Humphrey Taylor Rosenstein Slidell Fritz Rassau Gow Louis Rosenstein

Insane mother slays infant then wounds self

Mrs Mary Foster, wife of farmer John E Foster of Cool Springs township, Statesville area, attacked her 16 month old baby with a razor and killed him this morning. She then slit her own throat but survived. She had been considered insane for a month but had recently improved.

Raleigh N. C News and Observer Statesville Mary Foster John E. Foster Cool Springs Township

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