Wife Uses Shotgun in Tragic Fayette County Incident
The Hon. Enoch G. Jones, a prominent Fayette County citizen, is dying after his wife fired a shotgun into his head in a domestic dispute. She fled to Fairburn and surrendered to Campbell County authorities seeking protection from Jones’s sons. he is in Fulton County jail for further inquiry.
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Fayette County
Enoch G. Jones
Jones
Awob
Fairburn
Campbell County
Mrs. Jones
Atlanta
General Gordon Re-Elected amid Confederate reunion address
General Gordon delivers a six year review and announces intent to resign as commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans. He recounts the eight year service from 1889 and the growth to over a thousand camps as delegates tally about 7,000 with 1,000 camps represented.
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Nashville
John B. Gordon
D.C. Kelly
Columbia
Tenn
Committee On History
General Gordon
New Orleans
United Confederate Veterans
Gordon
Joseph Wheeler
Stephen D. Lee
Committee On Credentials
Chipley
Florida
The
Confederate Memorial Association
Three-way Iowa Democratic Convention Adopts Silver Platform
In Des Moines the Democratic state convention closes with silver Democrats and allied parties forming a single ballot ticket headed by F. E. White for governor and B. A. Plummer as lieutenant governor. Bryan receives strong cheers as the silver faction dominates proceedings.
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Iowa
Des Moines
F. E. White
B. A. Plummer
Supreme Court
L. M. Kinney
8. B. Grain
G. F. Reinhardt
Bryan
Poor Margaret Reflects on Life and Love in Elmwood
Margaret, lonely in New York, wrestles with duty and desire while contemplating the contrast with Elmwood. She confesses despair at times, finds solace in Bertie's friendship, and clings to hopes about Brian, seeking strength to face an uncertain future.
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Brian
Elmwood
Doctor
Agnes
Nanny
Mrs. Leigh
Margaret
Wilson
Charlotte Bronte
Bertie
New York
Hoffman House
Notions of Duty and Despair in a Lover's Turmoil
Bertie confronts Brian about his drinking and threat to Margaret while pursuing him through New York. Brian resists, fearing ruin for Margaret, as Bertie warns of heartbreak and vows to intervene. Margaret endures sleepless nights, awaiting resolution in a continuing domestic crisis.
Old Glory Torn From Flags on Jubilee Day in Halifax
A large United States flag displayed by Thomas Lowndes on Queen Victoria's jubilee day was deliberately torn from a string of flags. The band remained on the rope as the perpetrators fled at dawn. A prior threatening letter had targeted the U S flag on another occasion.
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United States
Halifax
Thomas Lowndes
Lowndes
Hey
John L Sullivan Eyes Return After Fitz Clash
A Boston dispatch reports John L. Sullivan stepping into the ring after the Corbett Fitzsimmons bout in Carson City on March 17 and challenging the winner, despite doubts from friends that his fight days are over.
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Boston Dispatch
John L. Sullivan
Corbett-Fitzsimmons
Carson City
Sullivan
John
Receiver for Okefenokee swamp project in Georgia
The Suwanee Canal company, created six years ago to drain and develop the Okefenokee swamp in South Georgia and to profit stockholders, faces financial trouble after spending about half a million dollars. Judge Lumpkin appointed a temporary receiver for the company upon the administrator of Captain Harry Jackson’s estate request. The firm bought 240000 acres from Georgia in 1891 for 26 cents an acre, paying $63,101.80, with total expenditures around $440,000.
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Okefenokee
South Georgia
Suwanee Canal Company
J. H. Lumpkin
Atlanta
Harry Jackson
State of Georgia
Tribute to Victoria in Senate Prayer by Acting Chaplain
Rev. Johnson opened the senate with an eloquent tribute to Queen Victoria marking sixty years of reign. He prayed thanks for her exemplary life as wife and mother and for the Anglo-Saxon ties in literature art science and liberty toward perpetual peace.
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Johnson
Senate
Queen Victoria
FATAL TORRID WAVE PLAGS NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans endures a brutal heat spell with temperatures reaching 96 to 98 degrees and little breeze. Officials report around fifty prostrations and eight to ten deaths, including W. S. Dudley, a prominent cotton factors and club member, found dead in bed. Others dying that day include William Grady Peter Tickner William Griven and John Modtler.
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New Orleans
Dudley
William Grady
Peter Tickner
William Griven
John Modtler
Hudsons Fate Sealed as Governor Denies Commutation
Terrell Hudson the DeKalb county youth who murdered a local resident will be hanged after Governor Atkinson refused to commute the sentence. The scaffold stands ready at the county seat for the execution, which had been postponed once by a recent respite following a sensational affidavit from a key witness.
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Terrell Hudson
DeKalb County
Atkinson
Hudson
Decatur
Austin
Evidence all in South Carolina court of inquiry completes work
A Columbia dispatch states the court of inquiry in South Carolina has received all the evidence it desires and has cleared its room for deliberation. A report to the governor will be issued at once.
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South Carolina
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hall Dedication at Virginia Mill Institute
The Stonewall Jackson memorial hall at the Virginia Mill Institute in Lexington was dedicated on Wednesday with imposing ceremonies.
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Jackson
Stonewall" Jackson
Virginia Mill Institute
Lexington
Vets Parade Caps Nashville Reunion in Rain Swept Pageant
Ten thousand veterans faced a beating rain and marched Thursday in a procession unmatched since the Civil War era. General Gordon led the column as the climax of the great reunion. veterans broke ranks at night after his address, pledging to meet again next year in Atlanta for the eighth annual gathering.
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Nashville
South
Gordon
Atlanta
Congressman Cooke Dies in Washington Hotel
Congressman Edward Dean Cooke of Illinois was found dead in his Cochran hotel room in Washington around 5 am. He was 48, a Iowa native educated in Dubuque and at Columbian University Law School. Elected to the Illinois legislature in 1882, he served on key committees and was in the 54th Congress and re-elected.
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Edward Dean Cooke
Illinois
Cochran Hotel
Washington
Cooke
Mr. Cooke
Chicago
Iowa
Dubuque
Columbian University Law School
North Side
Central American Union Treaty Reported Signed
Advices from Honduras state that a treaty for provisional union of the republics of Central America has been signed at Guatemala City. The move signals a possible confederation among the signatory states amid regional political shifts.
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Honduras
Union of
Central America
Guatemmala
Missing brig 18 safe after long overdue voyage
Advices from Portsmouth report the Sea Lark, a brig overdue for a week, has reached safety. Detained by accident, the vessel was en route to a naval review, with training and orders tied to Queen’s Ferry, and now arrives at Spisale.
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Portsmouth
Engle
Queen's Ferry
Spisale
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