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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1899
Page
1
Despatches report revolutionaries nearing the capital by horse within an hour. Government efforts to negotiate fail as troops patrol streets and martial law grips the city. Foreign nationals flee while insurrectionists cut telegraph lines and rumors of interior uprisings persist.
The report notes Hobson’s role with the navy department and details two Spanish ships in Manila bay, Isla de Luzon and Don Juan de Luzon, now under his supervision in Hong Kong. They are to be ready for service within weeks after Fies arrivals and the electrical plants are installed.
Atlanta dispatch reports seven applications for the reorganization of military companies on file in the adjutant general’s office. The state military advisory board will review them at its September meeting.
Bridges a former Floyd county commissioner and North Rome church pastor sought reinstatement to full fellowship and was denied. Church members locked the doors to keep him out as he planned to preach elsewhere. He then delivered a sermon at the Rome Congregational church.
Deputy Chief of Intelligence Colonel Cordier testified at the Dreyfus court martial, voicing belief in Dreyfus’s innocence and praising Colonel Picquart as an honorable soldier. He described internal rivalries, noted Henri’s jealousy, and discussed the bordereau dated May. The audience laughed at his wit as multiple witnesses sought confrontation.
The American Bar Association in Buffalo New York resumed its session as delegates and notable lawyers gathered to hear Senator William Lindsay of Kentucky. A committee resolution expressing sympathy with labor defender M Labori was offered but tabled by a narrow vote.
A Washington special reports that the war department will not ignore the south in recruiting for ten new regiments. An army order designates officers for temporary duty as recruiting officers with stations in Savannah Macon Knoxville Nashville Louisville and Raleigh. The department claims to erase sectional feelings in its recruiting effort.
The Florida state board of health has declared yellow fever in Key West via its local representative Dr Sweating. Two persons Dennis L Eagan an attache of the custom house and William M Brow der a treasury department special agent were pronounced ill. Several others show fever symptoms. Authorities take precautions to prevent spread amid city excitement and hastened departures.
Editor Murat Halstead stirred a heated response at the Economic Club in Vine Street Congregational Church. A questioner’s bleaker view on Otis prompted accusations of treason and a violent clash with chairs overturned as the crowd debated imperial policy.
A Chattanooga dispatch reports that in the dull season of 1896 Southern railway reduced wages by 10 percent for all employees. Wages for shop workers had been restored and engineers received a small raise. President Spencer is expected to announce a full restoration of the 10 percent cut around September 10.
A Kansas City special reports a 500 million feet order of southern yellow pine, the largest single lumber sale in trade history, said to be for Cecil Rhodes's Cape to Dairy road in Africa. Negotiations are said to be completed with twenty thousand miles of Texas and Louisiana railroad lines under contract to supply the wood.
A Netherlands Woman's Disarmament League petition presented to Queen Victoria pleads for no war with the Boers. It states it would cast a frightful blot upon her majesty's glorious reign and appeals to women hood and motherhood for influence.
Commissioner Evans annual pension report shows 40 329 names added and 43 186 dropped with 34 845 due to death. Expenditures total 138 355 052 dollars and the pension roll value reaches 131 617 691 dollars, driven by higher average annual pensions. The roll includes 753 451 surviving soldiers 237 415 widows and dependents and 653 nurses.
Rebels seize Santiago de los Caballeros after storming the fort and advancing across the island. President Figuero resigns. provisional government to form with ministers staying on until elections. Puerto Plata surrenders. other towns like Santo Domingo, Moca, and Port au Prince allied with the revolution.
Secretary of War Root traveled to Sandy Hook with Major General Miles and other officers to witness cannon and shell tests at the proving grounds. The visit highlighted ongoing military testing and evaluation by top Army officials.
Mr. M. L. Duggan, secretary of the Georgia Dairymen's association, mails a prospectus and premium list for the sixth annual meeting to be held at Grantville October 12-13. Five hundred dollars in premiums awaits the best dairy displays, with expectations of record exhibits and a feature filled program of interest to dairymen.
Report from Darien and McIntosh County details two riot ringleaders surrender after a conference with negro preachers, civilians, and Colonel Lawton. A circular urged peace and warned women to avoid courthouse areas. Lawton expects no further trouble and keeps troops for court protection as sixty suspects await trial.
The Tradesman notes various new industries during the past week including a bridge and machine works in West Virginia coal mines in Kentucky copper mines in North Carolina cotton mills in Georgia Louisiana and Texas a crate and barrel factory and cotton and woolen mill in North Carolina electrical industries in Florida Mississippi and Tennessee flouring mills in Alabama Tennessee Texas and West Virginia furniture factories in Alabama and Georgia gold mines in Georgia a 150000 bushel grain elevator in Texas a 100000 hardware company in West Virginia a harness and saddlery works in Kentucky an ice factory in Alabama iron ore mines in Virginia a knitting mill in Tennessee lumber mills in Louisiana and North Carolina phosphate mines in Tennessee a planing mill in Louisiana a telephone system in Kentucky tobacco stemmeries in North Carolina and a woolen mill in West Virginia.
Atlanta dispatch reports a race conflict in Darien easing after state troops and Inspector General Obear returned from the scene. The governor received a reassuring briefing that order was being restored and the race war danger was fading, with danger presumed passed for now.
After four months of balloting and meetings, Selma Alabama elected D. P. Uptegraft a 60 year old printer as chief of police. A total of nearly 3,000 ballots were cast before a result was reached.
The Birmingham Chattanooga Times reports renewed debate over declaring General Wheeler's seat vacant after his order to the Philippine islands. The Montgomery Journal raises the issue, shaping public opinion for governor to consider vacancy.
John R. McLean won the Ohio Democratic nomination for governor on the first ballot with 4024 votes as Kilbourne Haskell Sherwood Seward and Lentz trailed. The convention backed Bryan and free silver and adopted a Chicago platform reaffirming 1896 ideas including imperialism opposition and labor reforms.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance gathering at Exposition Park Atlanta Ga raised 18032 dollars last Sunday. The 11 o'clock service collected 16000 dollars and the 3 o'clock service yielded 2032 dollars, a scene unseen in the South before, with subscriptions often exceeding these totals in Alliance history.
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