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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1896
Page
1
The House weighed Rinaker Downing contested seat with recount calls and declined to seat Downing after a mixed committee report. The Senate passed the river and harbor bill with conferees appointed, while debates on immigration literacy tests and Dupont Delaware seat lingered into adjournment.
Bradstreet notes overall quiet general trade with uneven pockets in Illinois Missouri Kansas Iowa and Nebraska while leather hides steel rail mills and pig iron show mixed gains. The Navy Department outlines summer inspections for naval militia in Georgia North Carolina Louisiana and South Carolina with ships assigned for state voyages.
At a cabinet council in Madrid the duke of Tetuan authorized drafting a formal remonstrance to protest US policy on Cuba to Washington. Senor Denuy DeLome may be instructed to protest personally. The government also plans to deploy 40,000 troops to Onba in September.
Will Myers convicted of murder and sentenced to hang for the killing of Forest Crowley in Atlanta Georgia is reported under arrest at Bosworth Missouri. A telegram dated Saturday said Myers is being held for identification. Deputy Sheriff Greene was sent to bring him back to Atlanta and officers are confident the suspect is Myers. Also in Knoxville Tennessee the Court of Appeals ruled against a city bond issue of 9101,000 saying bonds beyond 10 percent of assessed value violate state law.
The sixth annual convention of the Southern Hardware Jobbers Association opened at Lookout Inn in Chattanooga on Wednesday with about one hundred in attendance.
Washington report outlines stalled adjournment amid tariff and financial debates. Proctor proposes a director of scientific bureaus in agriculture, and Terrell is summoned to Washington for consultations. Laurada piracy fears prompt customs notices. McCall immigration tests gain support. Judge Nelson retirement prompts swift river and harbor bill handling. Interstate money talks on international coins. Carlisle responds to Peffer bond inquiry. Interior confirms Gulf and Ship Island land rights under 1874 and 1890 acts with indemnity limits. Senate steering committee discusses bankruptcy, Pacific railroad debt, immigration, and tariff repeal. factions split on free alcohol clause. Colorado Republicans noted.
The Colorado Republican convention nominated Henry M Teller as head of the state delegation with unanimous support and directed Colorado’s vote to follow his views. The platform urged free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, endorsing national bimetallism and the restoration of silver to the coinage standard. At 1 45 a m the body adjourned sine die after naming Teller and delegates at large J W Rockefeller, James Duning and Frank G Gowdy.
The Bell Lewis Yates Coal Company of Buffalo New York sold its plant valued around eight million dollars to a syndicate led by the New York Guaranty Trust Company and including Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg railroad stockholders. The deal covers Reynoldsville Pennsylvania mines and forty seven miles of railroad including Falls Creek Reynoldsville and Tall Creek. Transfer expected about June 1. Adram Iselin of New York heads the buyer group.
The Durant case bill of exceptions is filed in the San Francisco Supreme Court. The district attorney says even if the prosecution wins every point on appeal, Durant could not be executed before November or December, with strong likelihood the execution may be postponed into next year.
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