Georgia Items Feature Involving Grants and Elections
Items of Interest from across the state note deaths of Col. L. P. Grant and Mr. Michael Lynch in Atlanta, rewards offered for criminals, the extension of law and order leagues, a convicts case in Fulton, railroad fee cases in Alabama and Georgia, and a dramatic pardon for A. J. Burnett. Also covered are state education moves, history becoming compulsory, and Georgia’s electoral college vote for Cleveland and Stevenson with messengering by Dick Grubb.
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Law and Order League
Macon
Crah
Bob Hardomiah
State of Georgia
Tia State University
Athena
Sig
Noheck
State Owea College
A. L. Hull
Athen
State University
Savannah
Girls’ Normal and Industrial College
Milledgeville
Eame
General Assembly
Georgia
Atlanta
State Board of Education
Bradwell
Northern
Cook
Wright
Terrell
Robert Gaines
Pike County
Pike
Cobb County
County Boards of Education
Board of Education
Cleve
Steve
Senate
Grover Cleveland
Adlai B. Stevenson
Dick Grubb
Darien
Rioters Convicted In Duquesne Works Strike Case
Pittsburg dispatch reports ten of thirteen strikers found guilty of riot at Duquesne works Carnegie Company. Two charged with unlawful assembly and one acquitted. Verdict seen as prosecution victory and first case from Homewood troubles. Maximum penalties: $500 and two years jail or workhouse. Defense moved for new trial.
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Pittsburg
Duquesneatec Works
Carnegie Company
Populist Kansans Back Third Party Senate Candidate
A Topeka special reports that Kansas populist leaders held a Monday caucus and decided to back a middle-of-the-road third party man for senator. Judge John Martin, once seen as a fusion candidate, was rejected. Democrats fault the move. five balancing legislators may push for a compromise candidate.
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Kansas
Topeka
John Martin
Martin
Cangus
Oakman Warns Central Reorganization Bluff Hailed
A Savanosh Georgia special reports President Oakman of Richmond and Danville warning Receiver Comer about a reorganization plan without major stock consent. Central factions call it bluff aimed at hurting the Central, but stockholders are deemed only by courtesy. Court hands control the property. terminal interests claim no stake to halt actions.
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Savanosh
Georgia
Oakman
Richmond and
Danville
Comer
Central
Italy
Germany
Cnamnot
Harrack
Dust Explosion Kills Twenty Seven at Colorado Mine
A premature dust explosion in a Union Pacific coal mine at King near Cone Colorado traps twenty eight miners. Twenty seven are killed with one survivor near the entrance. Bodies recoveries delayed by smoke and collapse. A later report revises the toll to twenty five inside and twenty four dead.
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Colorado
Union Pacific Coal Minea
King
Cone
Gas Explosion Destroys House in Pittsburg
A natural gas buildup in a Sarah Street cellar caused a Saturday morning explosion that demolished a brick house. Victims include Thomas Duffy, his wife, and their three year old daughter. Duffy's nineteen year old son and William Harrison were injured. Harrison entered the cellar with a lighted lamp to fetch coal when the blast occurred.
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Pittsburg
Rbsdal
Sarah Street
Thomas Duffy
Duffy
William Harrison
Murphy Wins Secure US Senate Nomination by Caucus
A Albany special reports the Democratic caucus chose Edward Murphy Jr. for United States senator with 85 votes to Cochran’s 5. McClelland and Brown supported Cochran in the Senate race, while most assemblymen backed Murphy. Also notes a Halifax dispatch about a Nova Scotia coal deal with Pennsylvania magnates and Canadian Pacific, investing over seventeen million dollars, to place most Nova Scotia coal fields under their control, pending Nova Scotia legislature ratification.
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United States
Albany
N. Y
Edward Murphy, Jr
McClelland
William L. Brown
Rourke Cochran
Assemblymen
Murphy
Cochran
Halifax
N.S
Pennsylvania
Canadian Pacific Railway
Nova Scotia
Battle of New Orleans remembered in Southern praise and critique
A long homage to Andrew Jackson and the 1815 battle at New Orleans describes the clash as extraordinary for its 18 000 troops, forty minutes, and 2 600 enemy deaths. It lauds Jackson as a brave, independent leader who challenged courts and federal plans, yet notes the battle occurred after peace. The piece contrasts southern heroism with northern politics, recalls Indian wars and the bank fight, and ends with a reflection on patriotism and national unity.
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Old England
New England
Union
Hohenlinden
Thermopylae
Banker's Hill
New Orleans
Dixie
England
Jackson
Musses
Wellington
Napoleon
Parin
Ibe
Washington City
Pensacola
Mobile
Hill and Hollow
Washington
Winfield Scott
Boott
John C. Calhoun
Berrien
Eaton
Supreme Court
Georgia
Indiana
Hoe
Tom Benton
Carl
Blair
Taney
Hovenhard
United States Bank
McLean
Cean
Howie
Duane
Roger B. Taney
Aman
Cromwell
Sam I Houston
Davy Crockett
Grasslomde
Florida
Spain
Monroe
San Augustine
St. Marks
United States
Shiloh
Corinth
Vicksburg
Nat
Ghout
Belgium
Pakenbaw
Arente
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Georgia News
Brier
North Georgia
Dahlonega
A. H. Henderson
J. W. IL Underwood
Henderson & Underwood
Cleveland, Ga
White
Logan & Son
Cleveland, Georgia
Clark, Bell & CO
Gainesville, Ga
Hillsdale Mfg. CO
Hillsdale, Mich
Col. L. P. Grant
Michael Lynch
W. H. Bunkley
Brunswick
Valente
Northen
Asbury Gentry
Haralson
Fulton County
Sanford Cohen
Augusta
Ker
Richard Golden
Appling
Golden
Allroad Commission
Savannah, Florida
Augusta News
Chittahoochee Brick Company
Central Railroad
E. R. Dozier
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Ramecy
Divison
The
Atlanta Journal
O. C. Fuller
Fort
Interstate Commission
Texas Pacific
Cincinnati
Social Circle
Newman
Federal Court
Georgia Midland and Gulf
Georgian Midland and Quill
Gulf
Maine
Pond
A. J. Burnett
Superior Court
Crawford County
High Court
Himelf
Gaiye
Rogoutentiary
Capitol
Campa
State Penitentiary
Aentleman
Burnett
Lay
Billarp
Valler
Michigay
Jeneth
Sion
Yale University
Tam Miller Carriage and Harness CO
St. Paul Building
West Ath Street
Ohio
the Cushman Iron CO
Memrd Works
Roanoke
Virginia
Brooce
Richmond
Anton My
Bloomington, Ill
Bloomington Mfg, CO
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