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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1897
Page
5
A Havana report quotes Marshal Blanco issuing a proclamation to Cuban inhabitants. He pledges to pursue peace, reject violence, and welcome all to salute the Spanish flag while opposing treason. He urges unity among conservatives and reformists for a peaceful island.
The Orleans board of health reports one o'clock Monday two new fever cases and seven deaths since the hour. A temperature drop and cooler day accompany the week’s unusual death rate. authorities note uncertainty about how the yellow fever outbreak will spread next.
The Youths' Companion of Boston offers new subscribers a beautiful color art calendar as a prize with this week’s issue. A Thanksgiving and New Year illustrated insert are included as additional prizes, to be obtained by following instructions in the local paper’s advertising column.
A jury in Atlanta heard the case against Bud Fuller after a brutal act that left a child helpless in the woods. Judge Candler argued the sentence of the law was too light and ten years in the penitentiary was inadequate, with a motion for a higher appeal expected if the punishment stands.
Des Moines dispatch notes a five-ticket race for governor and state house officers with a fusion of Democratic, populist and silver Republican parties behind F. E. White. L. M. Shaw heads the Republican slate. Indications put Shaw ahead by about 14 000 to 20 900, compared to McKinley’s prior margin. Detroit election yields decisive victory for Mayor Maybary on the Democratic ticket.
Violence erupted in Frankfort Kentucky as Democrats and Republicans clashed on election night. Gunfire left four dead and two wounded after a Republican contingent ambushed leader Ben Marshall and a deputy sheriff near the city streets.
Alabama ends the state quarantine for Opelika and Atlanta under orders from Guy John ston. Passengers who have not been in infected areas for ten days may travel within Alabama. Personal baggage requires disinfection certificates. Atlanta newspapers and goods are admitted with bans on furniture clothing and other items. Trains from Atlanta will be screened by quarantine officers. Southern Railway stops at Austell, Georgia.
General James Longstreet took the oath of office as railroad commissioner in Washington on Tuesday, succeeding General Wade Hampton and beginning his new duties.
Washington dispatch reports Major Smythe the Atlanta postmaster can remove Assistant Postmaster Cooper and appoint a successor. Post office department asserts postmasters in first class offices may dismiss assistants at will. No prior case on record of an assistant in a presidential office refusing resignation. Civil Service backing uncertain if Cooper resists.
Report says Nicaragua’s National Diet at Managua refused to back Secretary Sherman’s plan to appoint Captain William L. Merry of San Francisco as minister to Nicaragua Costa Rica and El Salvador. Some claim the move pressures full U S recognition of the diet while still partly recognizing it.
Ex senator Joe C Blackburn of Kentucky rejoices at a Democratic win and is named as a candidate for United States senator to replace William N Lindsay. Returns show Samuel Shackelford widening his lead for clerk of the Court of Appeals, with a potential 30 000 Democratic majority and a renewed Democratic control of the legislature. The silver question divides party editors as 1900 looms.
Lincoln dispatch reports William Jennings Bryan commenting on incomplete returns from Nebraska elections. He says Republicans broadly back their administration, but silver advocates gain momentum, favoring Chicago platform ideas and advocating free coinage at 16 to 1. He predicts continued fight to end the gold standard and money trust influence.
In Maryland the state contest for comptroller and clerk of the court of appeals shows Republican candidates Philip Goldsborough and Alan Rutherford facing Democrats Thomas A. Smith and J. Frank Ford. Early returns suggest the legislature will be Democratic on joint ballot, signaling possible return of Gorman to the U.S. Senate.
A severe fire in the Von Storch mine of the Delaware and Hudson Company in Scranton Pennsylvania kills at least seven men and leaves others missing. The doomed workers were in the deck and surface veins with two escape routes blocked by flame and smoke seeping through air pockets and cross-cuts. The incident is the deadliest in Lackawanna coal fields since the Twin Shaft disaster in Pittston over a year ago.
Gov Atkinson appoints Miss Susie Y Jewett to the unexpired term as assistant state librarian after Ellen Dortch Longstreet resignation. Jewett resigns a state educational post to take the job and is favored to win the full term by the next state librarian.
About 30 000 people attended the final day of the Tennessee Centennial exposition which opened May 1. A closing meeting in the auditorium featured fireworks, concerts, numerous addresses, sixteen salutes and a doxology as Tennessee celebrated its centennial.
Reports from Port au Prince say Germany protests a German citizen’s imprisonment in Hayti. Count Scherwin has lowered the German flag and three warships are slated to support a demand for indemnity, stirring native unrest in Hayti.
Fire destroyed the Georgia Cotton Oil Mill complex at Edgewood a suburb of Atlanta between 3 and 5 am Sunday. Most buildings burned to the ground with only the hull and lint storage houses, boiler room, pumphouse and scalehouse saved. Loss estimated at 117000 dollars.
Official counts show Robert A. Van Wyck, the Democratic nominee, elected mayor by about 75,000. Dems win all municipal offices for four years starting January 1, with Low second and Tracy third. Henry George Jr. polled little. Parker wins state court of appeals chief judge, Republicans likely retain small assembly majority. Weatherish election day. high German support for Democrats. turnout near 50,000 below full registration. Final state totals: Parker 282,967. Wallace 139,772. Parker lead 148,195.
Ohio voters faced six gubernatorial contenders including Horace Chapman Democrat Asa Bushnell Republican Julius Dexter National Democrat Jacob Coxey Populist, and Samuel Lewis Negro Protection. The legislature race centers on Senator Hanna s bid, with last year s presidential totals showing Republicans 527945 Democrats 487547 National Democrats 1831 Prohibitionists 5060 Socialists 1165.
Reports from 55 of 119 Kentucky counties indicate Democrats won electing Shackelford to the appellate clerkship and Charles P. Weaver mayor of Louisville by about 1600 to 2000 in large gains across counties that had previously voted Republican.
About fifty members of the New England Cotton Manufacturers Association, after its annual Philadelphia session, arrived in Washington and left for a Southern mill district tour invited by the Southern railway. They will visit Danville Virginia Greensboro Salisbury Asheville Spartanburg Columbia and Greenville and inspect the large mills in South Carolina.
Southern progress notes many new and enlarged plants across the region. Key openings include Arkansas Brick and Manufacturing in Little Rock, Hygeia Ice and Fuel in Spartanburg, a Birmingham foundry, Continental Land in Atlanta, Energizer Momentum Engine in Charleston, and Charlestown Electric Light Power in Charlestown. Also forming Alabama King Mining in Atlanta and Southern Oil in Corsicana, with Fink Creek Oil and Gas in Weston and a Tampa tobacco firm. Bessemer City Cotton Mills and Centralia broom, lumber firms in West Virginia, plus wood plants planned for Paint Rock, Arkadelphia, Ashland, and Franklin.
The Union Pacific road and assets were sold at Omaha to the reorganization committee for 53 528 532.76 dollars with a total purchase inclusive of government sinking fund 57 564 932.76 dollars. Only one bid was offered and the sale proceeds are to be settled in New York within ninety days.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a threatened cotton operatives strike in northern England affecting about 200,000 workers. It could last months, cost £70 million in losses, and ruin the cotton industry while Lancashire cuts its own throat by supplying rivals with textile machinery.
Parkersburg dispatch reports a man calling himself John Morgan, an adopted son, gained entry at Mary Green’s farm eight miles from Ripley. He clubbed the widow, then killed the oldest daughter and apparently struck down the younger as the family awoke to the door rap.
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