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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1897
Page
2
A poetic fragment personifies the sea as overwhelming power shaping coastlines and continents. The speaker claims dominion over land and stone, turning cliffs to sand and mountains to crumbling relics, while seaspray and beach life persist as evidence of its sway.
A narrator in a Creole New Orleans home a grave with a hidden past. An unseen black flash haunts the library and connects portraits of two boys Jean and Pierre to a lurking mystery. A servant Amelia and Aunt Cilla reveal secrets while a doctor named Jean appears offering aid.
In a tale set around a mansion, Jean recalls a will hidden in a statue head called the Faun after a violent incident. Pierre’s alleged hoodoo and family strife led to a forged will dispute, a buried inheritance, and a dramatic reveal as characters confront justice and memory. The Philadelphia Record reports a separate note of a bird trapping wires near Portsmouth.
Lemuel Goodell died recently at Clifton Wisconsin in his ninety seventh year. He was a pioneer and a member of the commission that drafted the first constitution of the state.
Washington reports indicate the president may send a special currency message to Congress next week to back the creation of a currency commission. Key advisers fear opposition in the Senate and delays if tariff legislation is unsettled, prompting talks of alternative investigative steps by Indianapolis convention leaders and Secretary Gage.
A Washington telegram reports Senator Lodge proposing a tariff bill amendment to tax stocks and bonds. The draft imposes 5 cents per $100 of face value on shares or bonds and 2 cents per $100 on each transfer. United States and state bonds and mortgage securities and mutual benefit building associations are exempt.
The National Reform Press association held its opening session in Nashville on Friday morning with about 75 delegates, including 50 from Texas. President Frank Burkett of Mississippi presided as officers delivered brief remarks.
The Amalgamated Association and manufacturers fail to agree on puddling rates at Youngstown Ohio conference. About 25 000 union workers and many nonmembers face shutdowns across steel sheet iron tin plate flint glass bottle blowers and window glass industries. Tin plate plants halt operations affecting roughly 12 060 workers with no clear date for scale signing. Several sectors anticipate long stoppages as talks stall and industry factions bargain.
At Columbus, Ohio, the Democratic state convention nominated Horace L. Chapman for governor, an original silver man. The platform endorses the Chicago silver plank with two extra planks attacking trusts and endorsing Cuba. The ticket includes Melville D Shaw for lieutenant governor J. P. Spriggs for supreme court James F. Wilson for state treasurer Peter H. Degnan for board of public works and B. H. Hurd for school commissioner.
One thousand miners at Coal Creek Mining Co resume work at the old scale after a brief strike in sympathy with Jellico district strikers.
A major industrial strike spreads across Borinage in Hainaut Belgium where at least 12 000 miners are out. The Borinage district is a key coal mining region and the stoppage affects production and local economy.
A Washington special reports Republican Senators held their final caucus on the tariff bill lasting three hours. They approved amendments including continuing Wilson bill terms barring trusts in imported articles and rejected broad anti trust provisions as unlikely to be effective. They also repealed tea duty proposals and beer tax increases and favored a tax on bond and stock transactions.
The Tradesman of Chattanooga reports 547 southern industries for the quarter, listing agricultural works 3, breweries 2, brick and tile works 9, canning factories 9, and many others including cotton mills 24, electric light firms 69, gas plants 6, oil mills 21, mines 28, waterworks 50, and woodworking plants 18. It notes broader utilization of resources beyond pig iron and cotton and highlights improved equipment and plant enlargements.
A Washington special reports the president intends to name W. W. Rockhill late assistant secretary of state as minister to Greece. Rockhill, long a diplomat since 1884, would be sent to the Senate for confirmation, chosen for his seasoned service and strong work in the state department. He began as second secretary of legation at Pekin in 1884.
A New York telegram reports John D. Rockefeller will fulfill his offer of 250000 dollars for the American Home Missionary Baptist Union. The target amount was raised by July 1, otherwise the gift would be absolved. Field secretary H Lu Moore said the success saves Rockefeller and several others from withdrawing.
The Norfolk and Western Railway implements a new wage scale Friday at Lambert Point tunnel shops, cutting pay 40 to 50 percent for all Norfolk shop workers. Piece work sees major cuts with stringers dropping from five dollars to two fifty while wheel payments fall from fifty cents to thirty cents. Despite strong dissatisfaction, workers will continue on the job.
Georgia lawyers judges and lawmakers at Ionatoni Springs debate criminal law reforms. Bar association members push for definite action though views diverge widely on potential measures and outcomes.
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