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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1897
Page
4
A Davenport Iowa based ad promotes a new washing machine marketed to women and children as easy to operate. For a short time dealers will offer wholesale pricing not yet stocked locally, with a fight guarantee of first class quality and customer satisfaction. Circulars and price lists are available by writing to H F Brammer Mfg Co.
A Chester dispatch reports George C Haltsol and Co restoring 1892 wage levels on Sept 6. The firm employs hundreds as mills resume full time after prior wage cuts and partial shutdowns. Fall River and other mills reopen or extend hours buoyed by improved cloth markets and rising demand for woolen and cotton goods.
A Hartford dispatch reports James S. Parsons, former president of Continental Life Insurance, has returned after ten years, penniless, to die of an incurable stomach disease. He reportedly lived in Canada after the company wreck, then Massachusetts, and recently Boston hospital.
Habeas corpus hearing over the Patterson murder in Montgomery Alabama ended with bail set for four reverends. Stokes granted $1500 bond, Brown Bray and Mace Coleman bound at $750 each. No state testimony of conspiracy. judge Sayre suggested they might not have been held without grand jury indictment.
Suspense mounts as court hearings in the Pennsylvania coal miners strike unfold before Judges Stowe and Collier. The injunction case touches on rights of labor, with expected modification and possible surprises. Civil and criminal actions against the DeArmitts proceed, and about 150 wage suits loom for struck miners at salaries of 15 to 20 dollars.
Reports from Tradesman noting new southern ventures include flouring mills at New Decatur Alabama and Francisco North Carolina, a 75000 dollar Cold Storage firm in Ennis Texas, rail shops in Montgomery Alabama, a rolling mill and spike factory at Sheffield Alabama, a 25000 dollar Economic Medicine Chest company in Paris Tennessee, a 10000 dollar Oil City company for Corsicana Texas, and a 100000 dollar Southern Cotton Seed venture chartered in New Orleans with oil mills planned for Memphis Tennessee and Wills Point Texas. A knitting mill is planned for Macon Georgia, a 50000 dollar cooperage plant at Little Rock Arkansas, and a 200000 dollar saw and planing mills company to operate at Cameron North Carolina.
A sub committee of the sound money conference at Indianapolis met in executive session at Saratoga New York on Wednesday and appointed commissioners to act on President McKinley s currency recommendation. Names will not be made public until acceptance is received.
Washington dispatch reports a clash between Secretary Gage and Mark Hanna with McKinley as referee over Hanna’s push to appoint A. T. Wimberly as New Orleans collector of customs. Gage opposes citing Wimberly’s demand to secure Mrs Marthilde Guile’s daughter’s honor in exchange for the office.
Georgetown report says Judge Cantrill overruled the Hunter demurrer Monday, forcing the bribery cases to trial. The demurrer was argued by the defendants and the commonwealth attorney for the state.
Governor Atkinson delayed the execution of H. B. Perry in DeKalb County to September 8 1897 to allow time for clemency consideration after conflicting affidavits and evidence. Mrs Perry and Lanier give opposing accounts of the crime and alleged outrage. The governor’s decision hinges on unresolved questions of truth and the dying statements.
A Washington dispatch reports Comptroller Eckels has accepted the presidency of the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York at $15,000 a year. He will begin duties next April after his term as comptroller of the currency expires. Roswell P. Flower is acting president during the company’s infancy. Charles E. Dawes of Evanston Illinois, a GOP leader and McKinley ally, will succeed Eckels as comptroller.
Advices from Madrid report the supreme council of war has affirmed the death sentence by court martial at Vergate for Michael Angiolo known as Galli, the assassin of Premier Canovas, and the murderer is to be executed.
A Idaho Springs special reports the La Martine mine discharge its silver lode workforce due to falling silver prices. The La Martine, once a leading producer, will not mine the gold lodes and other upper Clear Creek county silver properties will suspend silver operations to focus solely on gold veins.
Navy officials expressed strong interest in the Yashima during its trial trip in England. The vessel is described as the fastest battleship afloat and hailed as one of the greatest fighting machines ever built based on the showing observed on the voyage.
A brief note promotes Tetterine as a quick cure for rough dry patches eruptions and ringworm with a 50 cent bor or 80 cents in stamps. It also reports W F Main Co Providence and Iowa City plan to open a branch in Atlanta to showcase jewelers show cases and other goods helping southern merchants buy locally.
An 1890s news brief notes Brooklyn real estate valuation totaling 569,819,762 dollars. Vienna reportedly has four prisons with 2700 beds. 2161 cells were occupied in 1894, now about 500 fewer. It also reports the Italian king and queen’s acceptance of the German emperor’s invitation to September maneuvers. Washington and Lee president Wilson to speak at Johns Hopkins president Gilman’s address on Sept 15. Two Denver youths claim a mile-high flag flight atop Pike’s Peak using kites, the highest sighting of Old Glory to date.
A reader cites relief from six months of severe female troubles after following Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Mass. advice. The testimonial from Mars Louisa Pace of Brockton Mass says four bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one Blood Purifier and one Sanative Wash cured numb spells headaches hysteria and other symptoms.
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