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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1895
Page
1
A Dr Talmage sermon relates the biblical Beniah slaying a lion in a snowy pit to urge faith over trials. He links historical tyrants, weather hardships, and personal troubles to the power of the Spirit, urging perseverance through snowbound hardships toward spiritual victory.
A report from the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane traces twenty-five years of the institution’s existence. It notes 1865 findings of 706 insane residents and distribution across private asylums and almshouses, against a 1900-like population rise to about 790,000 with patients soaring to 1580, highlighting overcrowding.
A Cherokee Strip romance ends when Al Burt Jones and Miss Clara G. George, both of Aries Anson City Kansas, claim the same land and agree to share. Jones falls ill, Miss George nurses him back, and the couple marry, choosing matrimony over the land office.
A garbled line notes Pennsylvania producing large amounts of oil and related barrels, with unclear figures and wording. The fragment implies a high production total and references oil industry terms but lacks coherent specifics.
The article reviews Washington activity including cabinet changes, naval promotions, and the bi metallic conference talk. It highlights William L. Wilson as postmaster general nominee and details his long tariff career and influence on the Ways and Means Committee.
A Washington issued manifesto by thirty Democratic representatives urges restoring free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1 as a party policy. It argues the Democratic majority should control the party, and that bimetallism is vital for 1896. Signatures were not made public.
Niobrara Nebraska reports George F Danville a farmer opposite Yankton South Dakota on the Nebraska side of the river. He and his wife are parents of twenty seven children all alive. The oldest under thirteen. All children born in triplets all are boys except three sets include a girl. Mother under thirty years. Danville an Indian man and his wife a Norwegian.
Congress faced an all night effort to push appropriation bills through amid exhaustion after a long struggle. By early Monday, the total appropriations stood at about 408 million dollars across Agricultural, Army, Diplomatic, District of Columbia, Fortifications, Indian, Legislative, Military Academy, Naval, Pensions, Post Office, Sundry Civil, Urgent Deficiency and Miscellaneous items.
Bradstreet's Weekly Trade Bulletin notes February ends with signs of improvement in southern and western trade, mild winter aiding activity, and Nashville Charleston Savannah Jacksonville Birmingham New Orleans showing higher demand. International fairing in Atlanta boosts employment. sugar bounty debate and Mardi Gras tourism lift sentiment. Weather in Texas supports gains. northern regions lag with slow jobber activity.
A mid day collapse at 48rd Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan killed five workers and injured seven others. The six story Old Malt House was being demolished to make way for four new flats. Workers had removed the top floors and braced a fourth floor when a heavy load caused the floor to give way, bringing down bricks, iron rafters, and beams onto a crowd below.
The 17th of next May is fixed for raising the American flag over all Petersburg public school buildings. The Junior Order of American Mechanics will oversee the event and invite national and state officers and every council in the state to attend and participate in the exercises.
Southern Railway Company presents the Great Vestibuled Limited route under the Piedmont Air Line and Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Division. Konedale of Passenger Trains highlighted.
After a three day conference in Washington D C between Third Vice President Baldwin of the Southern railway and the federated board of the employes organizations a new schedule of rates was agreed upon and signed. It will take effect May 1 on all Southern lines with sixty days notice required for future changes.
Havre France decked with flags as crowds thronged the quays to greet La Gascogne returning steamer. The vessel reached the harbor at 1 80 o clock p m regimental band played Marseillaise and other airs. City officials congratulated Captain Baudelon and his officers on safely bringing the ship to New York.
Workmen on up town buildings quit work as walking delegates push a hard line. Six hundred additional tradesmen were called out, with more expected daily until contractors settle. The strike expands across multiple building trades as union action intensifies.
A cable dispatch from Peking reports a very good prospect of rapid peace with Japan. Credentials for the envoys are nearly ready and details are being settled by telegraph. If no hitch occurs, the envoys will depart Tianjin about March 10.
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