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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1892
Page
3
A forthcoming election will determine the issuance of water works bonds. Officials outlined the ballot action, noting the vote will take place on a designated date at local polling sites and funds will support infrastructure improvements.
Citizens urged to vote bonds for a new water works system amid court ruling, failing pressure from Athens Water Works Company, and dangerous water analyses. City tests and reservoir checks press for urgent action to meet growing needs and sewer flushing requirements. Also reports on Electropoise experiences, a Georgia marriage, and a two week revival at East Athens Methodist Church.
Captain Burnett has accepted an invitation to speak on the national campaign. The committee asks his preferred dates and states, with September 1 to 15 as the available window, considering Western regions or Western North Carolina for appearances. Acknowledgments note his prior speaking value and party opportunity for victory.
The University of Georgia expects a large turnout when it opens in a few weeks. Inquiries have come from across the state and beyond, with catalogs sent out widely. Interest centers on the Agricultural Course, Prof HunniCUTT predicting forty or fifty students in that department, signaling growing scientific farming in Georgia.
The city’s cotton men prepare for the fall crop with higher expectations after last year’s declines due to a short crop. Athens factors offer top prices and strong warehouse facilities to aid farmers more than nearby towns as the fleecy staple is set to roll through the streets.
In Forestville, the Roman Catholic church three miles away burned on Sunday during services. Miss T Gustin died from burns, A M Grant and Mrs Jane Armstrong were seriously burned amid a frantic rush as women and children were trampled. The church valued at 3500 dollars.
A Herald cable from Buenos Aires reports Buenos Aires in a wild excitement with 80 000 Radicals at meetings for President-elect Saenz Pena. Clashes erupted as police tried to disperse crowds at plaza Martin and other areas, with rioting likely to prompt calls to mobilize troops. Also ad for SHILOHS CATSAR REMEDY nasal injector offered with bottle.
Bound over with or without bail after rioting miners are brought to Clinton. D B Monroe’s testimony fails to sustain his claim of joining to protect property. he is jailed in Knoxville. Other miners submit, some bound over with bonds. Bud Lindsay bonds, later briefly detained on deportation, then protected by a guard. Harmony Grove reports school opening and a Democratic rally with speakers Graves and Blackburn. The state election is set for October 6 and the national election for November 2 with Democratic congressional candidates listed.
Local items report Hon Gholston facing third party opposition for Senate in Comer. Journal notes William McDowell as Athens oldest merchant since 1819, Maria McCartney Deap’s death in Brooklyn, a Marion county ten acre corn patch predicted to yield 1200 bushels, Judge Geo C. Thomas posting a $4000 bond to fix a murder case, a petition urging Vice President Stevenson to visit on the 24th, and J C Geiger leasing Hotel Toomer for two years to position it as a premier Athens stop.
Georgia items report Col George A Mercer of Savannah elected to the national bar association executive committee. W A Martin of Hancock county cultivates a ten year old Amsden June peach tree that bore fruit this year after a stray shoot, with yellow freestone peaches maturing later than the rest of the tree. At Eastman Miss Harrell loses a pet mocking bird to a rat snake that swallows the cage. A Hood's Sarsaparilla ad claims large sales and cures. Tom Watson comments in Sparta on Major Black’s Georgia roots and past nomination, recalling 1882 remarks supporting Black for U S senator.
Southern Athletic Club of New Orleans extends a formal invitation to Corbett to base training at its club house with quarters nearby. The club, large and fashionable with about 1100 members, has not hosted a regular glove contest but supports boxing events and previously aided Sullivan in Kilrain fights. Sullivan Remembers Erin reports Arthur Lumley receiving Sullivan’s colors, a white silk emblem with imagery of the glove, flag, rising sun, harp, and shamrock.
Aug 29 dispatch reports a five story Prince and Wooten streets plant housing United States Picture Frame and a paper box firm. Fire on the top floor spread quickly. many girls employed in the box concern feared dead. Sixteen firemen reportedly killed by collapsing wall. exact toll unknown as details remain unclear.
Greenville August 29 Henry Fisher bridge foreman for Pittsburg Shenango and Lake Erie railroad died when engine 23 derailed at Dixonburg while repairing flood damage. Conductor Diffiendiefer lost both legs and may die. other crew injured fatally or seriously. Deadlock stalls nominations in several Texas conventions and Breckenridge nominated in Kentucky. Fragments mention Australian boxers and a proposed two year military service plan.
A garbled OCR fragment cites T D Meador of the firm advocating precautions against swift bowels trouble and robbery impacts on retail shelves. It mentions Dr Biggers and bowel ailments in a damaged context.
Grave news from Loxpon Aug 29 reports the third death from Asiatic cholera aboard the Gamma from Hamburg with no current spread, while La Teurine from Havre is quarantined and released after disinfection. The tale also covers missing persons, a preacher charged with attempted assault, Foster's Canada trip, a balloon romance, and labor unrest at Carnegie mills in Pittsburgh.
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