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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1898
Page
4
A cavalry drill sergeant in Aldershot berates recruits with a cutting joke about dummies and a shilling price for smarter soldiers. One recruit cheekily asks if there would be sergeants among them, as banter erupts amid the drill.
In a Washington special, Kansas populist Simpson lampshades Dingley with a London hat gag while taking up trusts. Debates over fortifications cut short as politics and McKinley prosperity dominate. Dingley denies wool import claim. House adjourns at 5:05 p.m. Senate actions include Corbett seat challenge and anti scalping bill committee reports. Republican caucus plans for campaign with delegates named from most states.
A Madrid dispatch reports the Cuban war cost from February 1895 to end of 1897 officially estimated at 240 million dollars, with 40 million dollars in arrears from the Cuban treasury. The Imparcial criticizes handling of negotiations by Senor de Lome and urges expert examination of treaty terms for Spain.
The jury in the Cooper case at Lake, Ga., found Cooper guilty of involuntary manslaughter. He received a twelve month sentence in the chain gang amid a crowded courtroom.
Five miles north of Mulberry Franklin county Sol F Autrey a farmer with his family killed his aged father mother and ten year old son with an iron bar after a religious dispute and seriously wounded his wife and three other children. Neighbors found Autrey raving their clothes burn victims on the floor. He claimed witches caused the act and that his last strike was on his boy. Some doubt his insanity.
A new corporation created to unite major biscuit firms spans the United States from Salt Lake City to New Orleans. The National Biscuit Company, incorporated in New Jersey, has $25 million preferred and $30 million common stock, with $23 million paid for merged plants and assets from American Biscuit and Manufacturing, United States Baking, and New York Biscuit. Benjamin F. Crawford of Mansfield Ohio is president with H F Wories of Chicago as first vice president and Frank C. Lowden as second vice president.
San Francisco exporters say German ban on American fruit changes little for California. Albert Castle of Castle Bros. and J. K. Armsby Co. representatives note California sent too little fresh fruit to Germany to matter.
Tests of shrapnel shots for the United States army by Lt. E B Babbitt at Benicia arsenal fired twenty six shells revealing fifty percent wholly worthless. The ordnance company of Washington furnished the flimsy shrapnel. Charles R Suter chief engineer of the Pacific division has instruction from Gen J M Wilson to hasten mounting of modern guns for harbor defense.
A movement to form The Southern Confederacy of Labor has begun in Atlanta Georgia with a convention likely to be held soon. It seeks white southern labor unity independent of northern big labor unions and federations to promote harmony and concerted action.
Columbia reports the South Carolina legislature enacted a law placing telegraph and express companies under the state railroad commission. The act denies these firms the right to establish offices without commission consent, aligning them with railroad oversight.
Mrs. John Tansey of 180 Baker Street Detroit testifies to the healing effect of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People on her daughter after a long illness caused by lack of blood. She urges mothers to keep the medicine for weak blood and nervous frailties.
The Geographical Journal highlights Nordenskiold’s theory that fresh water can be found by boring through granite to fissures, with pilot stations on Swedish islets yielding sweet water at about 100 feet. M. E. B. Martel chronicles Irish caves and underground rivers in Derbyshire and York shire. The discussion, tied to a paper by Mr. Benest before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, notes engineers’ fears of submarine cables encountering subterranean water on continental slopes.
Capt BE Moss claims 24 monkeys aid his mining operation, sorting quartz pieces and collecting debris while working with miners. The animals live cohesively, follow mine routines, and demonstrate methodical habits, aiding overall efficiency as observers note their behavior. Also includes promotional letters about Salzer's German Coffee Berry and Piso's Cure with testimonials from 1894.
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