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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1895
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text listing officials in Atlanta Georgia and Washington with garbled names and titles. No coherent event or action readable.
Advices from Mackinaw City Mich report the steamship Cayuga of the Lehigh Valley line sinking about twenty minutes after colliding in dense fog with the steamer Joseph L Hurd of the Lake Superior line near Skilla galoo lighthouse. The Hurd lost her bow but stayed afloat with lumber. A deckhand drowned. Crews from both ships were rescued by the steamer Manolo. Signals were extinguished moments before impact. A Florida senate memorial urged higher duty on fruit.
Market rundown from Atlanta listing varied prices for coffee, grain, tea, sugar, flour, corn, oats, wheat, hay, cotton seed meal, peas, butter, eggs, live poultry, dressed fowls, turkeys, ducks, chickens, potatoes, cabbage, onions, berries, and bacon. Includes ranges for quality grades and container sizes, with notes on Georgia and New Orleans commodities and general market directions.
The Japan China peace pact lifts duties on modern machinery, signaling vast openings for American cotton machinery telephones electric lights and printing presses in China. The move ends China's long ban on such tools enabling rapid use of cotton machinery and boosting Southern cotton demand.
Governor Turney was inaugurated for a second term in Nashville with 2,000 spectators in the House chamber as Republicans absented themselves to chat with H. Clay Evans. Pillow praised Turney, condemning the GOP walkout and pledging to uphold the constitution and election laws in 1896.
The governor suspects Arch Brown was entrapped in a Louisville murder case. Prosecution claims a plot to assassinate him used Gordon as a tool. A Frankfort contact allegedly alerted a Donisville connection and a Louisville man assisted in the plan. The spy’s identity may be revealed in court.
In the 192d ballot of the Delaware legislature a noon vote produced Higgins and Massey tied as Republicans with six votes each Pennewill received one and Ridgely nine for the Democrats Tuonell received one Massey wrote to supporters declining further use of his name in the contest.
Advices from Yokohama Japan report 1300 people died or fell ill from cholera on Pescadora Island in one month. The epidemic is now subsiding.
An extra session of the Tennessee General Assembly is certain as the seventy five day limit nears expiry on Tuesday. The move aims to address urgent state issues despite potential unpopularity for the right decisions over pleasing the crowd.
The piece outlines appointments in the naval pay corps with Baron Dubois and C. T. Brawley named as assistant paymasters, and Secretary Carlisle preparing five speeches in Kentucky and Tennessee. It also covers the Thurston recall move, the Japan China treaty ratifications with Liao Tung renunciation, and cotton movement statistics from the southern states to ports. It notes plans for Monroe Doctrine emphasis after the new Congress convenes and potential Nicaragua correspondence inquiry.
If the correspondence is not turned over the senate committee will be asked to investigate the entire subject and will be given authority to send for persons and papers.
May frost hits Western Minnesota Nebraska Wisconsin Illinois Iowa and Missouri with heavy damage feared to fruits young flax and vegetables. Corn oats and cereals largely spared in some areas while others report replanting needs and widespread fruit loss. Temperature dropped from 41 to 28 degrees as clouds limited damage in places.
Judge Simonton finds Charleston dispensary constable Beach in contempt after a $300 fine. He is jailed for refusing payment as a test case in the dispute over the injunction allowing liquor imports for personal use. State authorities plan habeas corpus action to seek Beach’s release from federal injunction.
The Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company will advance 600,000 to the reorganization committee for the purchase of the Savannah Americus and Montgomery railroad. The sale is fixed for May 17. A minimum price of 1,800,000 has been set by the courts. The loan will retire preferred liens including the Americas Preston and Lumpkin bonds and the receiver's certificates. The road runs 265 miles from Lyons Georgia to Montgomery Alabama, with 800 miles total including the Albany Florida and Northern railroad line. An extension Lyons to Savannah may follow the reorganization.
Warm weather swept Chicago and several western cities. Friday marked the hottest May day in Indiana in 24 years with the thermometer at 104. Des Moines reported intense heat with a 104 reading, while Madison Wisconsin logged the warmest May day on record for the region. A government thermometer at 6 pm showed 100 in Chicago.
The furnacemen's strike at Sharon and Harpsville Ohio ended as the overstore granted the demands of striking workers. Wages were increased and work resumed at once, pleasing about fifteen hundred men in Sharon, Sharparille and Wont Middlusua.
An Amalgamated Association and the Merchant Bar Iron Association join to raise wages for iron workers and secure uniform prices for manufacturers. Pittsburgh puddlers strike, aiming to push the puddling rate from 4.00 to about 4.55 per ton, with potential for further rises. If the plan succeeds, over 5,000 workers benefit nationwide.
The article reports on responses to two U S judges Golf and Simonton decisions in Columbia. It notes official circles silent on registration matters while liquor interests and Governor Evans avoid extra sessions or new action. The Negroes celebrate emancipation and the newly formed Ministerial Union thanks lawyers and supporters in their fight against disfranchisement.
Braistreet's Review notes an overall uptick in business for the past week with rising prices and stronger demand in dry goods plantation supplies and collections. Savannah carnival may boost demand while Auguste reports factories seek higher pay. Memphis Charleston Chattanooga and Atlanta show better demand, Birmingham New Orleans Galveston remain quiet. Cotton goods move slowly with lower buying figures. dress woolens orders for fall taken. woolen machinery fairly employed. interior wool prices exceed manufacturers' views while stocks in eastern cities are light. The crop is late.
A blast at No. 10 Sherman Street Chicago leveled the lodging house run by Aug Mitchell. Three men died and nine were badly burned with rumors of greater loss of life as firemen battled the flames after a gas-fed explosion at 1 15 Saturday morning.
The piece muses on Pontius Pilate washing his hands to claim innocence while the mob cries for crucifixion. It links legal ritual, religious ceremony, and moral purification to contemporary conscience, urging true repentance over empty rites. It threads in biblical figures such as Mary, Claudia Procula, and Herod, highlighting the power of inner virtue versus outward acts.
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