Darien Crisis as Whites Patrol Streets and Negroes Mass in Swamp
Darien Georgia reports a tense night as deputies Townsend and Hopkins are killed and wounded during arrests of alleged rioters. White forces, state troops, and civilian militias mobilize to confront massed African Americans in nearby swamps. trains and steamer reinforcements from Savannah and Brunswick are dispatched while sheriffs guard prisoners and churches amid looming clashes.
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Brunswick
Grayson
Liberty Independent
Darten
South Newport
Darlen
da- Wen
Swell
Aireste
Darien
Kenan
Gleason
Henry Delegal
Delegal
Savannah
Townsend
Joseph Townsend
Octavius Hopkins
Sever
Delegata
Hopkins
Pavon
Sherif Blount
Colegal
Darien and Western
Grynon
Iris
Lawton
Liberty
McIntosh
Tom
Big Consolidation Of Cotton Firms Formed In South
A major industrial merger unites fourteen cotton mills under the Mt Vernon Woodbury Cotton Duck Company, with Continental Trust as manager. The new concern, Delaware incorporated, totals about 23.5 million in capitalization and will be led by Cromwell as president, with a 20 member board and executives to be named after formal organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Continental Trust Company
Mt Vernon Woodbury Cotton Duck Company
Delaware
New York
Messrs Vermyle & Co
Mt Vernon Company
Four Mills
Druid
Phoenix
Baltimore County
Maryland
Woodbury Manufacturing Company
Wiliam E Hooper & Sons
Five Mills
Woodbury
Clipper, Meadow
Mt. Vernon
Ontario
Artista
Greenwoods
Columbia
Franklinville
Laure
Mt Vernon
United States
Davies Warfield
Warfield
Hichard Cromwell
Wii
Darien Riots Chief in Command Lawton Takes Full Control
Governor Candler orders swift action over rioting in Darien with a $1000 reward for John Donegal the suspect in Deputy Townsend murder Colonel Lawton empowered to act with plenary authority and awaiting a call from Darien while Liberty troops may be deployed by discretion Savannah dispatches show urgency as the crisis deepens
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candler
Darien
Governor Candler
John Donegal
Sherif Joseph Townsend
Eary
T B Blount
Liberty Independent Troop
Qcolonel
Lawton
Savannah
Darren
RK Lawton
Blount
Liberty
Hughes
Texas Cotton Crop Short In Face Of Floods And Drought
Texas cotton prospects drop sharply due to spring floods and the July August drought plus insect damage. The 1889 crop was about 9.4 million bales. floods cut 230 thousand bales and further losses from reduced acreage and pests could total around 6 percent, with a potential upside of about 25 thousand bales if conditions improve.
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Houston
Tex
the Post
Texas
Indian Territory
Anarchy in Manila Reported by Reuters Cable
London August 5 A Manila dispatch via Reuters says anarchy prevails with Americans occupying a 15 mile radius around Manila and nine miles around Iloilo while Cebu remains briefly controlled. The rest of the country is said to be in Filipino hands and the crew of the Saturnus is reported murdered after the steamer was beached and burned near San Fernando within insurgent trenches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Labuan
Reuter Telegram
Manila
Iolio
Cebu
Saturnus
Compania Maritima
San Fernando
Milner Chamberlain clash shadows Transvaal arbitration bid
London dispatches publish a Transvaal blue book with correspondence between Joseph Chamberlain and Sir Alfred Milner on arbitration and a joint inquiry. Milner urges immediate rejection to avoid broader questions while Chamberlain endorses Milner and notes Uitlander grievances amid war fears.
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London
Foreign Office
Transvaal
Joseph Chamberlain
South Africa
Sir Alfred Milner
Ita
Gir Alfred
Chamberlain II
Milner
Chamberlain
Alfred Milner
Viljoen
Volksraad
Johannesburg
Storm Disaster Keeps Grim Toll Hidden At Sea
Reports from Norfolk detail a growing maritime disaster as hurricane damage widens. Two schooners reach Cape Henry in distress, the McCullough and Oscar Smith, with crews low on water and rations after severe damage. Rescue efforts by Captain French reach the Roanoke Marshes area while Diamond Shoal light remains in peril and vessels like Berwick drift in the sound. The total deaths are likely undisclosed due to vast crews aboard independent, unnamed vessels.
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Norfolk
Albemarle and
Chesapeake Canal
Capes
Frank W Mcullough
Dunn
Oscar Smith
McCullough
Savannah
Cape Henry
French
Roanoke
Neuss
Berwick
Lattie Purnell
Beswick
Baltimore
Oso Ue
Not Willett But Walker Driving Van Wyck Boom
Harry Walker is identified as the real mover behind the Van Wyck boom in New York politics. The piece asserts Walker, not Willett, feeds press chatter, creates Saratoga and conference stories, and pushes a Van Wyck presidential possibility. It portrays Walker as ambitious, versatile, and central to the boom, with no substantial backing from major New York leaders.
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Jos. Ohl
New York
Bryan
Joe Willett
Judge van Wyck
Harry Walker
Harry
van Wyck
Saratoga
Van
Brooklyn
Ramapo
Denunciations Stir Kentucky Politics and McKinley Split
The Courier Journal hostile to Bertillon prompts claims of loaves and fishes elsewhere in Kentucky politics. Governor Bradley fights McKinley factions while Hunter Deboe and Taylor back their own line. A Connecticut delegate predicts returning Democrats and Bryan support in 1900 amid gold standard tensions.
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Courier Journal
Courier- Journal
Frankfort
Loutaville
Will Haldeman
Bradley
McKinley
Kentucky
White House
Godfrey Hunter
Hunter
Deboe
Taylor
Connecticut
Chicago
Palmer and Buckner
Palmer
Buckner
Bryan
Bertillon Evidence Tested in Dreyfus Trial Court
Rennes August 25 Bertillon the handwriting expert led the first installment of a demonstration against Captain Dreyfus. Dreyfusards dismiss his theories as quackery yet the judges may be swayed by diagrams and precise space measures in the bordereau. The session featured heated testimony and crowd excitement as the court prepared for next week's developments.
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Rennes
M. Bertillon
Prefecture of Police
Paris
Dreyfus
Dreyfusard
Dreyfusards
Martal
France
Hertilion
Ecole Polytechnique
M 4Hertilions
Bertilions
Bertilons
Bertilion
Piequart
Bertulius
Echo de Parc
Assn
Mo Gribe
Sta
Marquis de Galil Fet
Dewey's Marines Parade Admired by Villefranche
The Olympia battalion landed at Villefranche for drill as the town watched from the hills. Admiral Dewey received a visit from Edward Andres the Belgian consul at Manila and appeared in good health and rested on board.
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Villefranche
Nice
Olympia
Admiral Dewey
Edward Andres
Manila
Downs Held Without Bail In Assault Case
In Chattanooga Tennessee on August 2, Spe ciel-Thomas Downs a colored youth was held without bail after a preliminary hearing on charges of criminally assaulting Leone Olden a colored girl on a main street. Downs reportedly dragged her into a rear building choking and assaulting her as a crowd grew angry and threatened violence.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Thomas Downs
Leone Olden
Downs
British Officers Request Sanitary Lessons Copies
Washington August 25 Surgeon General Sternberg received a cable from Great Britain asking for 20 copies of Sanitary Lessons of the War. If unavailable, authority to reprint was sought to distribute among British army medical officers. The publication was read at the American Medical Association meeting in Columbus in June 1889 amid war preparedness in South Africa.
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Washington
Sternberg
Army Medical Service of
Great Britain
Columbus
South Africa
Georgia Mines Combine to Form Southern Iron Company
A new Georgia and Alabama Iron Company is forming in New York by merging Cherokee Iron Company of Chalkey County Alabama and Western Mining Company of Cedartown Georgia. Capitalized at 1 300 000 with 650 000 in 7 percent preferred stock the venture will control 9000 acres of mineral lands including an iron furnace at Cedartown and several mines. Organizers Rogers Brown & Co and Eugene Zimerman of Cincinnati will run the enterprise. Zimmerman recently bought a furnace and mineral lands near Talladega Alabama that may join the combination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Iron Combination
New York
Birmingham
Ala
Cherokee Iron Company
Western Mining Company
Crokee County
Alabama
Cedartown G
Georgia and Alabama Iron Company
Georgia
Cedartown
Ora
Rogers Brown & Co
Eugene Zimerman
Cincinnat
Hamilton and
Daston Road
Zimmerman
Talladega
Strike Probable in Chattanooga Tenn
Three Loomis Hart Manufacturing workers, among 300 employed, were charged tonight after joining a labor union. City labor groups expect a strike with strong support from local unions and officials assisting the workers.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Loomis Hart Manufacturing Company
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Darien Ga
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McIntosh Dragoons
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Cromwell
Continental Co
Col. Lawton
England
Kruger
Chamberlair
Jgubert
Dom Paul
Carolina Coast
Willett
Walker
Henry Watterson
Journal
Whitney
Campbell
Ohio
Fifth Avenue
Hanna
Foraker
Auta
Goebel
Courier-Journal
Bertillon
Gagliostro
Bertilon
Dewey's Marines
Vaute
Georgia Mines Combined
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