Notable political and social notes across the South and nation
A Raleigh preacher is hanged for the murder of six. Taylor campaigns in Ohio while Nash guards extradition. Rutherford farmer dies after a stroke. Corbett defeats Kid McCoy at Madison Square. Connin defends temperance in the army. Bryan endorsements surface from Bishop Terven. An ex-vice presidential nominee suffers apoplexy in Maine. Pekin war loot yields bullets and brocade sacks. Croker wins New York primary. he bets on Bryan. A Tennessee train incident reports 11 deaths and dozens injured. Prohibition candidate Johnny Woonny plans a Nashville visit on Oct 6. Labor Day remarks urge fair wages. Tennessee tax assessment signals a statewide rise in Middle Tennessee counties.
Nashville's New Terminal Opens in Romanesque Grandeur
Nashville's new terminal station, 219 feet tall with Bowling Green stone and Tennessee marble, opens with a grand Romanesque design. The 150 by 150 foot main building includes a three story waiting hall, skylight, marble fireplaces, large clocks, and lavish interiors led by an oak and marble finish. interior spaces house ladies and colored waiting rooms, dining, telegraph and tea rooms, and a French plate glass finished network, all part of a roughly 1 million dollar construction.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Mercury
Commerce
Carrier pigeons sent from Albany to Cincinnati return trip
Twenty eight government pigeons were released from Summertown to Cincinnati last Sunday at 7 AM to return home. Time of the flight undisclosed. Six weeks earlier another group flew from Summertown to Cincinnati in 4 hours and 40 minutes.
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Cincinnati
Summertown
Boers Keep Falling Back as British Advance Opens Line
Lord Roberts reports cavalry and mounted troops moving along the flank and forcing the Boers to abandon strong positions. Watervalhoven falls to South African Light Horse after light opposition, with Nooit Gedacht apparently deserted except for British prisoners. Railway intact to Watervalender save for a destroyed line near a station.
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London
Lord Roberts
Belfast
War Office
Helvetia
Prench
Pole-Carew
Dundonald
Watervalhoven
Dovernhoek
Watervalonder
Strathcona
Noolt Gadnecht
Akron Workmen Arrested After Riot Actions
Akron authorities arrested twelve workmen for rioting following a recent riot. Police guarded the jail all night and Company F of the SS G was kept at the armory to prevent trouble from the arrests.
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Akron
Ihs
McMILLIN-POSTON DEBATES SCHEDULES ACROSS TENNESSEE
A list of gubernatorial debate appearances shows Democratic candidate Ben McMull and Republican W F Poston traveling to many cities from Knoxville to Nashville from Aug 11 through early November. Dates include Sept 14 in Knoxville and Oct 31 in Memphis with many stops in between. Signed by Mason G. Fraviatick and W.S. Trevors.
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NasHerine
Toc Joiot
Benton McMull
Poston
Knoxville
Bristol
Johnson City
Grenville
Morristown
Kingston
Dayton
Donlap
Athens
Chspane
Wednrsday
Ayotteville
Lynchburg
Shelbyvile
Murfreesboro
Franklin
Springfield
Clarsaville
Columbia
Lawreaceburg
Lebanon
Livingston
Cone
McMinnville
Waverly
Paris
N City
Dyersburg
Covington
Trenton
Bolmer
Gene Beteington
Mely Sommerville
Tawassay
Memphis
Nashville
Moxoax G
Friazvateick
State Democratic Executive Committee
Adjou rned to Sept 17 in Pulaski circuit court
Circuit Court adjourned until Monday Sept 17 after organizing juries and completing a prior term. W D Scott and Thomas B Forgey sworn as attorneys. Judge Voorhies and Attorney General Greenlaw preside pro tempore in absence of Judge Holding and Boyd. Grand and petit juries named with foreman N B Rieves and others listed.
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Circuit Court
Pulaski
W. D Scott
Thomas B. Forgey
Holding
Boyd
J. C. Voorhies
W. B Greenlaw
Confederate Veterans Meeting Notes and Delegates
At the September Confederate Veterans meeting in the courthouse more than thirty members attended. The banjo pickers and fiddlers contest committee was continued. A tribute to Comrade J. H. Dunnivant who died August 7, 1900 at Glendale in his seventy fourth year was adopted. Eight delegates were elected to the Tennessee State Bivouac for McMinnville on October 10.
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Court House
J. H. Dunnivant
Glendale
Tennessee
McMinnville
Loyd Cecil
Smith
L Jones
J. N. Alex
J.T. Williamson
H. A. Brown
I A. McMillon
G. W. Brown
Followni Ciel
T. G. Cheatre
McCandless
P. Cheek
Nichols
J. x Inman
J. A. Baker
R.G. Harris
W. H. Edwards
Leonidas Polk
William Henry Trousdale
Man Survives Fall From Sixth Floor Elevator Shaft
Aug 2 report from Phtrapeirimtia states Robert Hoot, a colored worker at Kormet Laundry, fell from the sixth floor elevator shaft to the bottom, smiled and laughed after landing. He was taken to hospital with head contusions but returned to work after treatment.
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Phtrapeirimtia
Robert Hoot
Kormet Laundry Ae
Lea
Ivania Hos
Boers to Yellowstone Yard Plan Revealed
Fragmentary text indicates a plan by Boers to chase or claim a large tract of land near Yellowstone. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
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A. Worm
Yelbe Deciarne Ammay
Crowding at White's Spring as Primitive Baptists hold big Sunday
Sunday drew an estimated six to seven thousand attendees for the Primitive Baptist Association session at White's Spring near Columbia. Special trains from Nashville, Pulaski, and Mt. Pleasant, plus many in vehicles, filled roads and grounds. Food stands buzzed as showers fell, yet preaching continued and spirits rose.
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Columbia
The
Primitive Baptist Association
Colore
Baptist Church
White
Nashville
Pulaski
Mt. Pleasant
Public School enrollment rises with opening day turnout
The white Public School reports a strong start to the new session with 407 pupils enrolled on Monday and 401 in attendance today, an increase over last year's opening day total of 302. Enrollment by grades lists totals for boys and girls across all grades, highlighting a hopeful growth pattern for the year.
Magnolia Commandery Sues Over Reinstatement In Golden Cross
In Nashville Tennessee a Chancery Court suit seeks reinstatement of Magnolia Commandery members in the United Order of the Golden Cross of the World. Plaintiffs allege failure to pay death assessments due to Supreme Commander’s mail delays from Vermont, risking wider disruption for several thousand Tennessee members.
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Nashville
Teen
Chancery
Supreme Commandery, United Order of the Golden Cross of the World
Magnolia Commandery
Supreme Commander
Vermont
Tennessea
Citizens' Telephone wires reach Florence Alabama from Columbia
Connection completed this morning linking Columbia to Florence via Citizens' Telephone Company. Florence city council granted a franchise and an exchange will be installed. Regular subscribers can talk free to Florence and other exchanges in Maury county Summertown Lawrenceburg Peasant Point Loretto Applewin Iron City and West Point.
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Citizens’ Telephone Company
Columbia
Florence
Ala
Summertown
Columbia Exchage
Citizens Company
Citizens’ Company
Maury County
Lawrenceburg
Peasant Point
Loretto
Applewin
Iron
City and Weat Point
Engagement Questioned in Curious Tale of Gladys and Bostleigh
A fragmentary dialogue questions how Gladys agreed to marry the apparently apologetic young man Bostleigh. Ethel muses that an engagement may have been driven by necessity or circumstance rather than affection.
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Gladys
Bostleigh
Ethel
London Times Reports Chinese Concert Rupture and China Policy
The London Times notes the rupture of the concert in China as an accomplished fact. Dispatches from Shaighai and Berlin report Jin instructing troops to leave Velen and return to Tien Tein, with Germany ready to cooperate. The paper cites Chinese public opinion urging reform and discusses Russia's policy, Pekin’s role, and the broader balance of power in the Far East.
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London
London Presse
Ching
Shaighai
The
Times
Li Hing Chia
St. Petersburgh
Justin
Velen Anh
Tien Tein
Li Hung Chang
Berlin
Germany
Risso
Shan Si
Shang Tai
Prince Tuan
Put Sing
Russia
Pekin
China
England
the Times
Tetersburg
Far East
Tien Tsin
France
Hussia
United States
St. Petersburg
Tekin
Legation
Lene Yviteh
Downing Street
Fragmented Notes on Chinese Secret Societies and Action
A garbled agency summary suggests tensions involving Chinese secret societies, shifts in attitude toward targets, and potential expulsion of foreigners or overthrow of Manchu rule. It mentions area governments, Russian action as explained by some Runephober voices, and a Standard editorial arguing Britain retains freedom to act to protect interests in China.
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Waehington
Polo
Sine
Russia
Hetalin Vreedan
Ukitain
China
Population of Dor trait big city list from 1900 census found
The census bureau reports Dor trait among the 30 largest U S cities with a total population around 24 3 million and plans to complete the full counts for Congress by December Cites Greater New York Chicago Philadelphia St Louis and others with populations listed and noting faster growth in cities than rural areas and westward farming expansion.
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Washington
Dortrait
United States
Congress
Dakotas
Greater
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Heston
Baltimore
Cleveland
Buffalo
San Francine
Cindinnath Preceve
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Detroit
Milwaukee
Newark
Denver
Louisville
Minneapolis
Providence
Indianapolis
Banana City
St. Paul
Rochester
Toledo
Alleghany
Colwabua
Omlua
Ose
Desertion and mutiny sentence for Henry Vener
A San Francisco despatch reports Henry Vener, late of Company L Thirty-sixth United States volunteers, deserting the army and aiding Filipino forces. He is said to have attacked wagon trains and escort parties while acting as a major. captured, court-martialed, and sentenced to death, then commuted by the President to eight years in confinement.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Henry Vener
Thirty-scruth
United States
Browne
Philippines
Thomas
Vance Wan
Mekin- Teybik
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Kid" McCoy
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Connin
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Henry M. Terven
Georgia
M.be
Churgh
Bryan
Axrauk Bsmwaun
Maine
Congressman Carmack
Kentucky
Richard Croker
Hill
Croker
Southern Railway
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Jellico
Coal Creek
Jonny G. Woonny
Turetren
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Philadelphia & Reading Railway
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W. J. Bevan
Bims
State Board of Equalization
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Montgomery
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Perry
Pickett
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van Buren
Wiles
W. 8. Trevox
State Republican Executive
N. B. Rieves
J.T Moore
J. M. Duke
L. C. Hutchison
J. S Hardison
Tom Goad
Isiac Holden
A. B. Stipe
Charly Hay
Will Lowell
Perry Howell
Will Bingham
Pleasine
Will Farrie
W. W. Scott
John F. Hailey
Frank McBride
W. M. Staggs
W. F. Thomas
George C. Dugger
J. M. Hodge
Thomas Norgrass
J. G. Moore
Bad Andrews
George King
L. L. Beribner
TW. Patton
B. F. Stone
Presley Harris
B.F. Agnew
Jim Smith
D. W. Davis
A. M. Pugh
R. M. Glenn
John Foster, Jr
Confederate Veterans
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Raw
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