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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1895
Page
1
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Charles J. Searcy was arraigned at Stafford Courthouse Virginia on the Aquia Creek train robbery charge and pled guilty. The jury fixed his sentence at eight years in the penitentiary, and he was immediately sentenced to be taken there without delay. A Boise dispatch reports a Denver to Reno railroad via Butte will be built, with Philadelphia and New York capitalists finalizing plans and Denver business leaders providing a $100,000 bonus. A St Petersburg dispatch notes Japan will withdraw garrisons from Korea in about seven months. The Southern Presbyterian Assembly met in Dallas Texas with over 100 delegates from across the south.
An eighty horsepower boiler exploded at West Bingham in Potter County Pennsylvania killing five men and fatally injuring three others. The incident stunned workers and prompted safety inquiries by local authorities.
The Lebanon Pennsylvania belt and nut works has begun double turn work, adding several hundred workers. The company notes that each man is robust and quiet, and can bluff nearly anyone.
An all night Tillman Irby meeting in Columbia SC discussed Judge Goff’s ruling on registration law, urging Governor Evans to call an extra session. Tillman warned of open rebellion if Goff pressed further, signaling a planned July 30 white primary to nominate constitutional convention delegates and a late August section, while conservatives fear mass fraud and a race issue in Georgia politics.
Governor Turney summons the legislature to convene on May 27 for twenty days to consider six core topics including a penitentiary system, an appropriation bill, revenue measures, bank regulation, a levee district for overflowed lands in four counties, and registration law changes. He omits calls for a constitutional convention and centennial appropriation, arguing it not within legislative power.
The Citizens' Bank of Redwood Falls Minnesota suspends operations with assets of 125000 and liabilities of 100000. Directors report 80 percent stock assessment paid mostly by directors, stockholders outside the board refusing to pay. Insufficient funds to continue running the bank. Turpentine Operators Organize in Savannah. The Turpentine Operators Protective Association is formed as a stock company to handle product movement. Members are moval stores producers across Georgia and Florida.
Shareholders favor reducing the capital stock of the Southern Cotton Oil Company to two million dollars with 80 to 90 percent of stock already consenting. The move is expected to strengthen finances and a dividend is anticipated in June.
The Pratt City Alabama fire left forty four families homeless and prompted a large mayoral meeting to aid victims. News from Totoro Washington via Northern Pacific shows Havemeyer Searles and Rockefeller pushing to control the Northern Pacific as it faces reorganization by bondholders. Some men are described as one legged millstone figures in the commentary.
Secretary Carlisle leaves Washington at 2 30 pm for Covington Ky aboard the Chesapeake and Ohio rail line. The president agrees to Admiral Monado's request to retire from active duty. A naval retirement does not erase responsibility for notes or investigations prior to detachment. Winnie Davis and others depart Washington for the Houston Confederate veterans reunion. Lee Camp Confederate Veterans members join at Danville. A New Orleans court cites the treasury secretary as final judge of immigrant law compliance in a key case involving Cuban cigar makers. habeas corpus petitions are discussed. State Dept. reports North Carolina consul at Shanghai notes China and Japan advancing cotton cloth production, reducing U.S. imports. Japan's mill growth cited and wage comparisons made to U.S. labor. The author comments on international labor value standards and the potential rivalry from Oriental workers.
The Central Bi metallic League of Tennessee calls a national silver friends conference to organize in every state and county. Delegates are urged to attend a bimetallic convention at Memphis on the 12th and 13th of June with prominent supporters to expose gold standard advocates and counteract their influence.
Delegates at the Mansillon Ohio district mineral convention vote to keep suspension until 50 cents nationwide and delay any district settlement. A mass meeting will be held to ratify or reject the decision.
In Salt Lake City Utah delegates debated names for a new permanent organization selecting The Bimetallic Union. Resolutions establish an executive committee with one member from each invited state and territorial group and state committees to raise funds and coordinate activities across the union. The chairman appointed delegates to the League convention for June including Brad Prince New Mexico Sargeant Montana Governor Williams Colorado Donaldson Oregon and Henry Laugenur Washington.
In Macon Judge Winory Speer issued a temporary injunction against the Southern Railway and Steamship Association lines, freeing the Seaboard Air Line from boycott. The ruling follows a separate Georgia suit and suspends the boycott until the great trial set for the 80th instan t.
Report from Paso Tex details a local uprising in Chihuahua Mexico where two thousand natives attacked an American surveying party led by C V Morrison, killing twenty. US troops from Parral retaliated with 100 men to the scene, then were repulsed with heavy casualties. Meanwhile Russia, France and Germany plan to boost naval forces in the China Sea.
Bradstreet's weekly trade report notes general trade conditions remain favorable nationwide. Activity centers on speculative and investment circles, with gains in merchandise retained, woolen goods prices vary by region, and Australian transactions strongest. Bank clearings reach 1.161 billion, up over last week, while early vegetables suffer from cold, and southern cities show cautious improvements in groceries and general trade. New Orleans reports smaller business volume.
Weather reports from Geneseo valley New York to Trinidad Colorado and Indiana describe a hard freeze and snow easing harvests. Farmers report damaged fruit wheat corn potatoes and early vegetables with ice forming up to a quarter inch and several crops needing replanting. Enduring frost stretched across days with lingering effects on potato and grape yields.
The Savannah, Americus and Montgomery railroad was sold at Americus, Georgia, for $1.8 million to the bondholders' committee. J. W. Middendorf and KR. 8 Sperry of Baltimore and J. 8 Williams of Richmond led the bid. The Albany, Florida and Northern sold for $209,000 to I. 8 Hamilton, L. 8 Bent and Henry G. Talmadge. The sale was by commissioners under court order, with $600,000 to be deposited pending litigation with unsecured creditors led by the Pennsylvania Steel Company for rails. The bondholders plan to reorganize and invest nearly $2 million in extensions and improvements.
The Florida senate approved a bill to ban lottery operations, sending it to Governor Mitchell for signature. The measure, aimed at driving out the Honduras Lottery Company tied to Port Tampa, would make raffles at church fairs illegal and target the Honduras drawing network.
A crowded Tinos club debate in Chicago features W J Harvey, author of Cotos Prinncial School, opposing Prof J C Lanehity on free silver coinage. Harvey argues for independent US action restoring silver as money. Laughlin counters with risks of inflation and fraud, tying free coinage to greenbackism and corporate interests.
Florence and surrounding areas were struck by a sequence of violent earthquakes Saturday night. Homes toppled and roofs fell, throwing residents into panic as casualties mounted from crush injuries and debris.
Western governors ex governors and Congressmen gathered in Salt Lake City for a silver convention called by Governor Rickards of Montana. About 2,000 attendees heard Rickards argue for free coinage of silver as the cure for national finances. Ex governors Thompson Adama and others chaired sessions as states cast three votes each.
The Retail Butchers Association of Kansas City expands a month old boycott against Armour Packing to Chicago St. Louis and Denver, aiming to spread nationwide unless Kansas City differences are resolved. Reports say 200000 cattle waiting in Texas and New Mexico will be moved to Wyoming and Montana feeding grounds as Union Pacific and Denver and Gulf rail lines begin transfers.
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