Law Makers Move Toward New Constitutional Proposals
Delegates at the constitutional convention digest varied suffrage plans with proposals from Governor Jones, Senator Morgan, and others. White-only office holding gains favor amid debates on registration boards, poll taxes, education qualifications, and grandfather clauses while discussions touch local taxation, school funding by race, and reappointment of county and city debts under population and property benchmarks.
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Montgomery
Sla
Bay 22
Jones
General Assembly
United States
Lomax
Oetes
Morgans
Arteriel
Senator Morgan
Hodges
Marshall
Malone
Henry
Miller
Wilcox
Spragging
Masison
Rosinson
Chambers
Pillans
Mobie
Sanford
Samford of
Pike
Howie
Jefferson
Samfords Ness
Ton Il
Mr Vaughan
Alabama convention debate on suffrage and education laws
The session featured a push to restrict office holding to whites, a separate Morgan plan, and a first grade teaching certificate requirement. Miss Fannie Griffin led women suffragists threatening a march, while Governor Jones may back a child labor ban in factories.
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Pillans
Mobile
Neal
Morgan
Whiteside
Fannie Griffin
Alabama
Jones
Tennessee River Floods Alabama Farmland Near Huntsville
The Tennessee River has flooded thousands of acres in the Tennessee Valley near Huntsville Alabama causing major crop losses. Farmers expect substantial replanting of cotton and corn totaling in the thousands of acres.
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Huntsville
Ala
Tennessee Valley
Captain King Takes Stand In Bribery Case
Mobile, May 28 Captain Cyril W. King testified in U S district court that contractor Hobson was behind on Fort Morgan contract work and needed aid. He said Hobson offered him about six to eight thousand dollars in return for personal services to hasten completion. King claimed he earned the money through the services rendered and believed the payment was justified.
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Hobson
Mobile Ala
Cyril W. King
United States District Court
Fort Morgan
King
Joss
Belived
Tragedy in Kokomo Church Woman Takes Life in Pulpit
Miss Aggie Long fourteen-year-old daughter of John Long committed death by her own action in the Methodist church at Sycamore Indiana While practicing organ she brought a revolver and was found dead in the pulpit with a bullet through her heart A letter on the organ named pallbearers choir organist and minister for the funeral and no cause is known
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Aggie Long
Kokomo
Ind
John Long
Sycamore
Miss Long
Militarism of democracy alarms London editor
A London Daily News commentary denounces United States Supreme Court decisions in insular cases as retrogression from democracy. It argues the rulings moral decline and the shift from humanity’s advancement toward a troubling militarism, claiming framers would scoff at such a development and criticizing McKinley’s stance.
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London
Supreme Court
The
Daily News
United States Supreme Court
United States
McKinley
Heavy Damage by Rain Strikes Rutherfordton County Farms
Heavy rain caused extensive agricultural losses across Rutherfordton County last week. Conservative estimates place farm damage at 309000 dollars as soil erodes to hard clay, with most bottom lands ruined and decades of work needed to restore land for crops. The scene reflects widespread agricultural disruption and long recovery ahead.
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Rutherfordton
No Credit Given Rosecrans
Washington May 29 The secretary of war approved the board findings chaired by Major General Brooke on Major William F Smiths claim that he and not General Rosecrans conceived the plan for relieving Chattanooga Tenn by operations in Lock Gue Valley in October 1868 The board found that General Rosecrans devised the plan.
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Rosecrans
Washington
Secretary of War
Brooke
Wbuam F Smith
United States Army
Chattanacgs. Tenn
Lockgue Valley
Democratic State Convention Set For Columbus July 9 21
Ohio Democratic State Central Committee met in Columbus on May 2 and decided the state convention will be held there July 9 and 21. Charles Salen of Cleveland was elected temporary chairman.
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Ohio
Columbus
Democratic State Central Committee
Charles Salen
Cleveland
Ortiz Hoses at Biiliards in New York clash
May 28 report on the second game of a billiards match between Gra Morningstar and Jose Ortiz. Ortiz, the Spanish champion, was defeated by 200 to 6 Not A. F. Tucas. Also from Montgomery special note: Captain A Lucas, formerly with Central and Atlanta and West Point railways, is not the A F Lucas of Beaumont Texas, the new off king.
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Cape Town
Kritaingera
Cape Colony
Vandoesberg
Gorringers
Cloethe
Ortiz
Biiliards
New York
Gra Morningstar
Jose Ortiz
A. F. Tucas
Montgomery
Ala
A . Lucas
Central and
Atlanta and
West Point
A F Lucas
Beaumont
Tex
Cranstonic
Cranstonic Hair Food CO
West Broadway
New York City
Texas
Gladys
West Amirl
Elmball House
Atlanta
Rand
D J Moore
Galveston
Southern machinists vote to strike for nine hour day
Ninety seven percent of Southern railway machinists vote to strike for a nine hour day and await orders from International Association of Machinists president O Connell. Delegation spokesman says the group is unhappy with negotiations with General Manager Gannon. A misrouted telegram prompted a shop poll and immediate work stoppage at Charleston. Gannon calls the situation not serious and notes potential impact on about 200 machinists.
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Washington
Southern Railway
James O'Connell
International Association of Machinista
Gannon
Atta
Charleston
Bpringsfield
Wabash Machinists’ Union
Ramsey
Wabash
Fort Wayne Ind
Moberly Mo
Memphis Veterans Welcome Reunion Chief In Old South Era
Memphians and the executive committee greeted General John B Gordnn as permanent chair at a reunion hall with praise for federal sympathizers and Confederate opponents alike. Senator 1 B Turley opened by noting Memphis citizens who aided the Union, praising veterans and the event’s purpose.
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John B Gordnn
Chaiman
Memphis
United States
Turley
Duc
South
Welcome to Daughters of the Confederacy gathering
Timothy E. Cooper chairs a warm welcome to the Daughters of the Confederacy and other Southern memorial groups. Judge Cooper and Gordon deliver speeches honoring Confederate memory, pioneers, and the enduring flag, praising Southern women and the generation of soldiers and mothers who upheld the cause.
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Bappy
Timothy E. Cooper
Gordon
Timothy E Cooper
Mississippi
Daughters of the Confederacy
Confederate Southern Memorial Association
Jefferson Davis Monument Association
Cooper
Judge Cooper
Tome Hs Best
Thos
Memorial Associations
South
Women of the
Peneath
Ilo
Hall Turned Over to Gordon at Veterans Reunion
General G W Gordon of Memphis presided as hall was turned over to veterans for their reunion. He then transferred control to General John B Gordon of Georgia, grand commander of the United Confederate Veterans, marking a ceremony recalling the Civil War era and the veterans who fought then.
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G. W. Gordon
Memphia
Gordon
John B Gordon
Georgia
United Confederate Veterans
Jana
Peril at Dock as Hudson Sloops Sink Near Miss
Steamer Hudson listing to port in Baltimore yards at Cross Street suddenly leaned 45 degrees, tearing crew from bunks. All hands escaped to deck and dock as ship rested in 30 feet of water. propeller damaged, awaiting repairs at Willam Skinner & Sons shipyard.
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Baltimore
Willam Skinner & Sons
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Oifber Powell
J. Wayward
Lathan
Stephen WeQuide
Martin Rudolph
Gallard Pix
Hudson
Cromwell Steamship Company
Merchants and Miners Company
Holtimore
Savannah
Ovation to Georgia Gordon at the United Confederate Veterans event
General John B. Gordon received a rousing welcome as he accepted the hall for the United Confederate Veterans. Delegates quieted after rounds of cheers while Gordon spoke, recalling historic southern memory and Tennessee welcome across Memphis, Nashville, and Chattanooga in a ceremonial setting.
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Gordon
Lee
Wheeler
Bate
Young
Fitzhugh Lee
Youngs
John B Gordon
George W Gordon
Thomas F Gailor
Memphis
Sons of Veterans
Watch Your Kidneys Stuart's Gin and Bucchu Ad
An aged advertisement warns of kidney symptoms including back pain fever and dark or pale urine. It promotes Stuart's Gin and Bucchu as a universal remedy claimed to cure kidney and urinary troubles for all ages with prepaid orders from Stuart Drug Co in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Bright
Stuart
Iidney Stuart Drog Co
Atlanta, Ga
Woman Carved by Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel Murder
London reports a sensational Whitechapel murder at a Dorset Street lodging house. Victim Annie Austin, 28, was found mortally wounded and died in hospital after being moved there. The killer fled. police learned of the crime only yesterday. Wounds described as too revolting for details. victim conscious on discovery. Authorities fear further outrages in the neighborhood.
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London
Dorset Street
White Chapel
Jack the Ripper
Annie Austin
Tetms
China Yields to the Powers and Indemnity Request
China informs the powers the court will pay 450 million taels indemnity but objects to 4 percent interest. Washington notes the German recall of Field Marshal Von Waldersee, as US officials comment on the broader implications of the era. A Memphis speech extols unity and historic echoes as generals Gordon and Lee unveil gavels linked to Civil War milestones.
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Pekin
Washington Way
State Department
Chine
Count von Waldersee
United States
Veterans Welcome Lee and Gordon in Confederate Reunion
Veterans gather as General Fitzhugh Lee and General Gordon are praised for leadership. Bishop Thomas F Gailor of Memphis delivers a welcome and urges honoring southern sacrifices, stressing education and renewed pride. The crowd erupts in rebel yells as speakers praise the South and its women.
Confederate leaders at convention honor Wheeler and Gordon
A Confederate veterans convention features General Wheeler and General Gordon receiving cheers. Wheeler briefly thanks the crowd while Gordon extols infantry valor and recounts a tale of a brave private. General Bate then speaks on the Confederate cause before roll call and adjournment until morning.
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Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler
General Wheeler
Fitzhugh Lee
Gordon
Longstreets Corps
General Gordon
William Bate
Tennessee
Bate
Deserter Prevention Dominates Georgia Confederate Meeting
The Confederate veterans committee on resolutions and credentials debated steps to bar deserters from the nonfederal army from joining the organization. Delegations from Louisville and Dallas pursued convention invitations, with both claiming growing support despite no official statements on strength.
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Coffin and McWheatley
Georgia
Committee On
Alabama
Bush
Tennessee
Mississippi
Goffin
Louisiana
Virginia
Jo ‘Saylor Lilyson Beth Caro
Kentucky
W. L
Lody
United Confederate Veterans
Louisville
Dallas
Ahea
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