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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1905
Page
6
New York Oct 14 five lives are known lost and over thirty injured when a giant wave swept the Cunard steam ship Campania’s steerage deck last Wednesday. The ship arrived with ten seriously hurt in the hospital and many more with injuries. Officers fear the death toll may rise as steerage passengers are accounted for.
Americans consume more than six million bushels of peanuts yearly at over 14 million dollars. Virginia leads in farming and processing with large factories, many workers being Black women and children. Peanuts support oil and meal production, with widespread use in foods, livestock, and industry across the South and East Coast.
Moscow reports Maxim Gorky expressed sorrow at Prince Troubetskoy’s death but said Russia gains nothing from his activities. He branded Troubetskoy as honest yet unfit for real reform and warned of an impending revolution like an avalanche. Gorky vowed to force trial rather than have proceedings dropped.
Mrs Ida Withers Harrison of Lexington Kentucky a noted speaker at the Christian church convention will address the gathering on Wednesday evening November 8. She is president of the Kentucky C W E M and was chosen by the National C W E M Beard to represent their work at the state convention. Georgia Shaw suffered a severe ankle sprain while walking on Prince Avenue and will be kept indoors for several days.
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