Bill Arp's Letter on Ignorance of Antebellum History
Bill Arp laments general ignorance among younger generations about antebellum events and slavery. He praises General Henry R. Jackson for a Savannah address on the Wanderer slave ship and laments lack of compiled sources while contrasting Northern and English roles in slavery and emancipation. He recounts historical bits, cites Appleton references, and ends with a personal aside about a stolen grindstone.
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Henry R. Jackson
Savannah
Atlanta
Georgia
Young Men's Library Association
Henry Grady
Pope Barrow
General Jackson
Daniel Webster
Capon Springs
Mexico
Buchanan
Jeremiah Black
South
Africa
General Grant
Lincoln
James Grant Wilson
Appleton's Encyclopedia
St. Louis
Galena
Tanyard
Grant
St. Augustine
Nathaniel Gordon
New England
New York City
Appleton
England
East Indies
John One
Ripper case in Evansville set for trial
Wilbur S. Sherwell, a former Evansville police officer, faces a murder trial for killings linked to the Jack the Ripper type cases. He is charged in the deaths of Lena Renner and Georgia Bailey and connected to Mary Anne Storck and Fannie Butler cases. The grand jury indicted him for three murders. he has denied guilt. His family retains notable local defense counsel.
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Evansville
Ind
Wilbur S. Sherwell
Jack the Ripper
Sherwell
Lena Renner
Georgia Bailey
Mary Anne Storck
Fannie Butler
Butler
Monroeville
Originator of Postal Card Dies in Vienna
Privy Councilor Emanuel Hermann, credited as the originator of the postal card, has died in Vienna after a long career in public service. His work shaped modern mail communication and international postal cooperation. He was widely honored for his contributions to postal reform and global correspondences.
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Emanuel Hermann
Vienna
Execution at Nacogdoches of Jim Buchanan to end
Jim Buchanan, an African American convicted of murder and rape, was hanged in Nacogdoches Texas after arriving with militia. Despite early delays and crowd pressure, the city held a lawful execution on the public square with a crowd estimated in the thousands, the body later buried in a pine box.
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Nacogdoches
Stanford Sentenced to Death for Assault on Stepdaughter
Hazlehurst Miss October 18 Will Stanford a negro has been sentenced to death in Copiah county by Judge Powell for a brutal crime. Stanford was convicted of criminal assault on his ten year old step-daughter, the assault occurring several years ago.
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Hazlehurst
Miss
Will Stanford
Copiah County
Tudge Powell
Mississippi
Stanford
Panama Canal Company Title Report Due for President
Washington Oct 18 The results of Justice Department investigations in Paris and elsewhere on the Panama Canal Company title will be sent to President Roosevelt Monday. The cabinet will decide whether to publish the report or withhold it until Congress convenes. Attorney General Knox is expected to declare the title clear. The move is viewed as a blow to Senator Morgan who opposes the Panama route, though he may rely on the same feature his committee clerk is probing.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Paris
Roosevelt
Knox
Morgan
Panama
Popes Intention to Seek U S Envoy for Ratification
Rome October 18 The Pope plans to ask the United States to send a special envoy to Rome to ratify the Philippine agreement once settled by Archbishop Guidi and Governor Taft. He would designate the governor as a transitory diplomatic mission.
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Rome
Phillipine
Guidi
Taft
United States
Prisoner to be hanged at Hazlehurst on November 20
In Copiah county circuit court the prisoner faces a death sentence to be carried out at Hazlehurst on November 20 unless a Supreme Court appeal is filed, which is unlikely as the evidence is strong. Five other prisoners received penitentiary terms, including a white man named Bargeas convicted of passing counterfeit phony money.
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Stanford
Hazlehurst
Supreme Court
Copiah County
Bargeas
Unhappy Wife Seeks Ride Up Potomac
A Washington Post brief describes a man on a riverboat ride with a wife who chatters about scenery while he dreams of meals and meat. The piece ends with a cynical motto about marital happiness, noting an unhappy wife is one whose husband always lets her have her own way.
Smoking lake near Cocopah country described near Imperial
The Arizona Republican reports Squire Redwine describing a new volcanic lake about 40 miles from Imperial and 21 miles south of Mexico. The lake sits on the Mexican side within the Cocopah country near a volcano, with boiling water, eruptions throwing mud up to 40 feet, and distant flames audible for miles.
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Squire Redwine
Phoenix
Arizona Republican
Imperial
Mexico
Cocopah
California
Chino River
Texico
Arizona
Mosby’s Closest Run Falsely Timed By War Duty
Col John F Mosby sent word to his old guerrilla band at Leesburg Va that duty kept him away from their reunion. Col Tichener of the board of general appraisers in New York once faced a night chase, spared a prisoner, and Mosby later recalled the escape as the liveliest run of his career.
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John F. Mosby
Leesburg
Mosby
Col. Tichener
Board of General Appraisers
New York
Tichener
Suerilla Mosby
Draw a cork with sealing wax at a picnic trick
A simple stunt explains how to remove a cork from any bottle without a corkscrew. Heat sealing wax, drip onto the cork, press the waxed end onto the cork until dry, then pull out the cork with the waxy stick as a substitute screw. Even a tight cork yields quickly.
Caution on Wax and Cork Handling in Craft Process
The guidance warns to avoid pulling the wax stick too hard while drawing it out and to ensure the cork is completely dry before applying wax. It emphasizes careful handling to prevent mishaps.
Edge of Pelee shower halts fiery tornado's spread
A dramatic storm wrinkle near Pelee describes a fiery tornado widening its path south and west until two cool rain laden currents intersected its arc, cooling it along a marked line. Men near the line report fire and hail on one side while the other sees only mud rain.
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Pelee
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Henry Jackson
Arp
Noah
Abraham
Bob Toombs
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Darkey
Billarp
Atlanta Constitution
Jack
the Ripper
Wilbur Sherwell
Jim Buchanan
Tex
East Texas
Spradley
Imboden
Major Raines
John Garrison
Court House
Matthews
Oreet
Josh Henson
Sheriff Spratley
Henry Miller
Sheriff Spradley
Panama Canal Company
Potomac
Glesboro Point
Southland
Alexandria
Old Fort Washington
Washington Post
Mary E. Wilkins
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