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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1895
Page
1
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A blaze originated at 8 p m Thursday at Charles Emerich & Co feather and down goods factory 175 181 South Canal Street Chicago destroyed seven nine and four story brick buildings near Adams and Jackson totaling sixteen firms burned out with property loss estimated at 500000 and danger to hundreds of workers. The conflagration spread to adjoining factories despite twenty five engines as fire brands ignited surrounding structures.{"}
A dozen officers and directors left Chicago to meet with Gray representatives in the South. They seek to locate the Vicksburg battlefield and press Congress for a large appropriation to create a unitable monument honoring soldiers from both sides. The Vicksburg Military Park Association was formed last month. In Alabama, the Mobile and Girard railroad sold in foreclosure for 1 million dollars. Julian T. Davies of New York bought it for the Central Trust Company.
A Calhoun horse swapper convention on November 21 draws Gordon county horse lovers while Athens is to honor Georgia on November 29 as Grey Cobb Day. Augusta pushes small money lender reform, and Yorktown hosts gold field work with a $50,000 capital stock. The Mariners National Congress criticizes Atlanta for expense treatment, and Savannah Press notes lobbying and Chickamanga dedication funding debates.
The governor granted commutation for Mitchell Johnson, sent to the penitentiary for manslaughter in 1890 from Randolph county. Atlanta plans to increase police commissioners to seven. Rome sees talks on a $600,000 cotton mill and bond sales. Fitzgerald grows from 120 colonists to 1,500 residents in Irwin county as an old soldiers’ colony expands.
Colonists under a charter request for Fitzgerald aim to locate the county site there and build a courthouse and opera house. They plan bonds, allot housing at about 800 dollars each, and plot thousands of acres into gardens and truck farms. Residents live in tents awaiting telegraph and funding.
The Knights of Labor general assembly adjourned in Washington to convene in Rochester New York on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in November 1896. Debates included universal organization principles and constitutional amendments shifting presidential appointment power.
The article explains new Treasury guidance on handling gold deposits, marking underweight coins, and settling through banks or subtreasuries. It covers valuation adjustments, safe storage, and how express charges shift to the government under the updated contract terms.
Washington reports a Cuban expedition endgame involving the steamer Horsa seized at Kingston and five key Cuban delegates arrested in Cuba. A dispatch from Tayana dated Tuesday identifies arrestees Fernando Alvarez, Fernando Mendez, Francisco Zaldivar, Manuel Haroztarens, and Leonard Vent as leading members of the New York Cuban colony who sailed on the Horsa from Cape Barnegat on the previous Saturday night.
Special from Alley Georgia reports a mob seized the sheriff and stormed the jail at 2 am. They abducted J W Dorrie accused of assaulting Miss Wallie Grady daughter of J B Grady, a turpentine man, to force action by the grand jury. The attackers disarmed the sheriff and took jail keys.
Marietta Georgia dispatch reports W R Cheney an attorney issues a letter to A 8 Clay state Democratic chairman and lawyer challenging him to meet outside Georgia to settle a heated dispute. The letter credits Newton A Morris as contact.
Georgia Day exercises at the exposition sparked a dispute as Governor Atkinson claimed no invitation was extended. President Gollier asserted the event was entrusted to the governor and no further invite was needed. The clash left officials and the public amused and puzzled by the muddle.
The Trunk Lines Association in New York reports unanimous approval of the joint traffic association articles with effect date January 1, 1896. Executives discuss arbitrators, board appointments, and revision details while signatures and copies are arranged for authorities and press. In the Gulf of Mexico a sponge schooner incident near Tarpon Springs ends with six men drowned: Jeremiah Saunters, Gelieha Albury, Boll er Butler, Joe Levarity, Walton Knowles, Stewart.
A Omaha report notes five to ten inches of wet snow blankets Nebraska after a long Sunday storm. Within a hundred miles of Omaha the precipitation drenched the region and roads remained slow as trains ran one to five hours late Monday morning.
G I Swineheart editor of the Alaska Mining Record at Juneau estimates Alaska gold production in 1895 at 38 million dollars. Of this, about 8 hundred thousand dollars come from placer mining mainly along the Yukon river. He notes fifteen mills with a combined capacity of five hundred stamps in operation.
Governor Atkinson revoked the Gate City Guard right to bear arms pending a decision. Captain Hollis received notice that the company must enlist in the militia or cease to exist as a military organization. The formal order was issued last Saturday.
The San Francisco mint produced only twenty four 1804 dimes in a year when subsidiary coins were recoined. Chief Clerk Robert Barnett explains the scarce dimes arose as bullion depleted and rarities from different mints emerge. Collectors seek coins with distinct mint marks S O C and Philadelphia without marks. The mint notes frequent inquiries from coin collectors for silver coins.
The Tennessee division of the Mari etta and North Georgia railroad 106 miles including the Knoxville bridge sold by Special Master H W Taylor to D Lawrence of Marietta Ga for 530000 representing construction creditors. Col A B Coit trial postponed to December due to juror illness. costs cited. Three enslaved children roasted alive at Forsyth Ga. mother Georgia Ann Head away milking. Senator David B Hill spoke at Milwaukee venue. A coup many horses are docked even without delay.
A Havana letter details a Matanzas province atrocity where Spanish troops under Colonel Melino slew ten women and about a dozen children after a sneer by a woman. De Campos demands Melino’s court martial and death sentence, condemned by both Cubans and Spaniards.
The constitutional convention settled the homestead exemption at 1000 dollars for land and 500 for personal property, stating it cannot be mortgaged once granted, after a month of delay. The body also debated anti interracial marriage provisions but failed to reach a vote on any blood quantum rule.
A Chicago report says major and minor packers face a salt price squeeze from a trust raising Rock salt costs by nearly 100 percent. Prices rose from 2.75 to 4.50 4.75 dollars per ton. Trusted men investigated fact finding that the salt combine controls supply and left packers paying much higher rates.
A large Birmingham mass meeting at the Winnie Davis Wigwam celebrated Eugene V Debs release from Woodstock jail. Under the Birmingham Trades Council, 1500 attendees heard J R McMullen H B Stamps and W H Stanley speak amid two bands.
The November term at Topeka Kansas includes two criminal suits against General Saunders' commonweal army linked to a Missouri Pacific derailment near Scott City that delayed mail. The Hillman insurance case also appears for its fourth jury trial.
The A R U at Devil's Lake Minnesota formally declared the Great Northern strike off on Thursday afternoon. Recalcitrant workers at Hillyar Columbia Falls and Spokane have already returned to their posts, ending the dispute with the company.
John McBride president of the American Federation of Labor announces his candidacy for re election. At federation headquarters it is understood Samuel Gompers former president is a rival candidate against McBride.
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