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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1889
Page
2
In a North South East West framing the article outlines the purpose of the alliance. It discusses serving unity and the bundled questions of trade and cooperation without settling the long running issues.
State Lecturer J W Beck explains a consolidation turning the Farmers Alliance into a national union embracing all agriculture. He says the plan, to be ratified in St Louis, aims to reform cotton packing and undermine jute trust while uniting labor against monopoly.
Emma Rivers testifies in court detailing the afternoon shooting near City Hall when Judge Clark was wounded by Meetze. Clark returns fire but misses. Meetze surrenders as the jury fails to reach a verdict after two days of deliberation, prompting a mistrial and disappointment for Meetze.
William Whaley, a New York married heir to millions, has not disappeared. He remains in New York while his ailing wife at 30 West Washington Square may die any moment. He gave up their child and property, while the father is said to be chivalrous. the wife has refused him and had him turned from her door at midnight.
A patient under chloroform at the Red Cross Hospital in Lyons awoke during an operation and killed two men, Prof Nagout and a witness, with a knife. He was bound in the torture room and the operation proceeded without anesthesia. The case hinges on a temporary insanity defense and could influence medical law.
A new yellow fever case in Key West prompts resumed quarantine. EK Ellinger, who traveled from Havana to New York by sea and rail to Key West, fell ill last night in a different city district, according to Dr. Posey via Jacksonville. The report notes the Greenbackers advocate a large issue of paper money.
Col Baldwin and partner Flanigen visit Pawnee Bill to bring the Wild West Show to Athens. Charlie Baldwin spins frontier tales, charms Pawnee Bill and Mrs Pawnee William, and persuades Pawnee Bill’s Indians and cowboys to travel to the Athens fairgrounds for a grand attraction.
J W Murray, Deputy Collector, reports Mr John Hardman acted as informer in blockade cases in Madison county but asserts he was not the informer. The letter notes Hardman was arrested and accompanied the group, with Deputy Collector Ware finding whiskey at the site. the notice defends Hardman’s innocence against circulating rumors.
A new sporting club for Athens aims to enroll nearly all young men and University students. Martin Dempsey, Baltimore native and brother of Jack Dempsey, arrives to train amateurs, promising self defense and fitness without turning members into pros. He plans immediate organization and will start classes at once.
Lon Foster, arrested for burglary at Prof. H. C. White's Milledge avenue home and who pleaded guilty, escaped from a second story window at the courthouse. Bailiffs, constable, and spectators chased him through Cobbham. he was recaptured near Maj. Stanley's residence and returned to the county jail.
The marriage of Clement Jefferson Hood and Miss Agate Milvietta of Marietta was performed at the Baptist church in Marietta by Rev. Tumlin. Attendants included Dr. Eugene Adair with Ida Young, Dr. Lamartine Hardman with Northcutt, Col. Donald Harper with Willie Thornton. The wedding party traveled to Atlanta for a Kimball House feast and returned to the Grove to begin their life together.
Special to the Banner from Ellenboro Virginia reports a deadly family dispute. Thomas Dye shot and killed 21 year old Edward Schofield with twenty seven slugs after Dye vowed to kill a Schofield and fired at the shed where workers were stopped. Dye is jailed at Harrisville.
Elder Brown leads Adventists near Fredericksburg waiting for the King of Kings with camp meetings to extend another week. About forty people live in tents on the grounds after leaving farms to self sustain. Delegates from 28 states attend the Seventh-day Adventist conference in Batre Creek with Mrs Ellen G White present.
Kansas City police trace recent fires to a band of schoolboys calling themselves Capt Kid's pets. The group operated under blood oath like an organized secret crew with written orders signed in blood. Leaders are under arrest as investigators pursue charges.
In Shelbyville Illinois at night two ex husbands of Mollie Corwin fought near her residence. Joe Corwin beat John H Little, fracturing his skull. Corwin jailed awaiting Little's fate. Separate dispatch from Birmingham reports Fayette Court House depot and 100 bales of cotton burned on Georgia Pacific line. City Marshal Maylor killed miner Harry Thompson at Carbon Hill.
The Herald's Washington special reports this is Mahone's aim to win the vice presidential nomination in 1892. It notes the Massachusetts Republican governor candidate refused a joint debate with his Democratic opponent, calling joint debates a Southern practice.
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