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Newspaper

Comet

Location

Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Date

Apr 18, 1895

Page

1

Elking rejects nominee and Nebraska veto on miscegenation bill

Elking says the ie notant will not her presidential candidate. Nebraska governor vetoes a miscegenation bill. Dunkards in Mayville North Carolina gather. Morton probes meat price rise. Tennessees house votes 14 to 10 for free coinage of silver. Supreme Court rehearing sought on income tax. Savannah rice imports from Japan disturb planters. Birmingham grand jury accuses County Commissioner Nail of selling jury lists to gamblers and urges impeachment. Cedar Rapids judge rules town law barring women voters in schools and on tax levies unconstitutional.

B. Elking Nebraska Dunkards United States Mayville N.C Tennessee Senate Supreme Court Birmingham Ac Nail Texas Supreme Court Cedar Rapide Iaban

Oxfords Offered By Drew Selby Line

Drew Selby & Co presents a large, value rich selection of ladies and children's Oxfords with styles from patent tip to opera toe. Prices range from under a dollar to about 2 dollars, including Dongola and tan options in Misses and children's lines.

Oxfords Drew Selby Drew Selby & Co

Peabody Scholarship Details and State Distribution

A Peabody scholarship worth 100 per year covers rail fare to Nashville and back for two years. The academic year runs eight months from the first Wednesday in October to the last Wednesday in May. Recipients receive 25 from the college president on specified late-year dates. Scholarships are administered by a national agent via state superintendents, with 204 total awarded to colored women across states including Alabama and Tennessee. Applicants must be 17 to 30 years old, of good moral character, healthy, and pledge to teach for at least two years after graduation. Examinations for vacancies in specified senatorial districts will be held July 19, 1995.

Peabody Nashville Woman’s Literary Club Baltimore National Federation of Women Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisians Mississippi Carter, Johnson, Greene Unicoi Washington Hawkins Hamblen Sullivan Campbell Claiborne Grainger Hancock Union Cocke Jefferson Sevier

Ex Queen Liliuokalani Granted Exercise on Honolulu Lot

In Honolulu the former queen may roam the ten acre government grounds after 4 pm for health reasons. Other items note an Indiana preacher's legal action against local saloon keepers over his congregants drinking, a mortgage bond injunction in Birmingham, and a 1894 mortality report from the Marine Hospital Service listing Brownsville Texas as highest and Bronx Falls as lowest. Additional dispatches report a Tokyo-St. Petersburg angle on Russo-Japanese territorial questions, a Georgia governor race speculation involving Gordon and Hoke Smith, a New York circuit court bid to challenge the federal income tax law, and a lawsuit against Illinois Central Railroad seeking another constitutional ruling.

Liliuokalani Honolulu Circuit Court New York Ilinoie Central Railroad Company Supreme Court Jackson

Death of Engineer John Ewats after Southern Railway wreck near Alton

Engineer John Ewats died Sunday morning at a farm house near the wreck site after enduring over thirty four hours of agony. He left a wife and four children and had been insured for 3000 with a 1500 benefit to follow from the B of L E. The Knoxville Journal notes past crashes at the same spot and praises Swats as one of Southern’s oldest and best engineers.

John Ewats Southern Railway Alton Station Royal Arcanum B. of L. E Swate John Patterson Swats Norfolk & Western Knoxville Southern Sam Smith John Ramsey John Swats Knorville Journal

Arkansas and Alabama ready displays for Cotton States Exposition

Advices from Little Rock report Arkansas has appropriated 10000 dollars for a handsome official exhibit. Alabama shows strong support at Birmingham with promises of 7000 dollars toward a 20000 dollar state display. A grand electric fountain by Luther Steringer will be a focal point visible across the grounds. The Mexican village exhibit will span nearly three acres with a Palenque inspired gateway, a coffee plantation, theater, and Mexican amusements.

Little Rock Arkansas Exposition Company Luther Steringer Grand Basin Exposition Grounds Birmingham Alabama Deleon Mobile Yucatan Rio Grande San Jose Mission Portales de Merced Zococo City of Mexico Paleneque Axinel Mexico

The School Fund Apportions Upper East Tennessee

Comptroller Harris distributes seventy five thousand eight hundred seventy five dollars among East Tennessee counties based on scholastic population reported by the State superintendent. Total state population 708,358. funds to be issued July 1, 1804. Counties listed include Claiborne Grainger Greene Hawkins Jefferson Johnson Sullivan Washington and others with respective allocations.

Harris Upper East Tennessee Scholastic MERKT Claiborne Cecke Grainger Greene Hamble Hancock Hawkins Jefferson Johnson Sullivan Unicoi Washington Bristol Courier

Legislature Bills On Third Reading In Missouri Senate

The session advanced multiple measures including a House bill to protect hotel and boarding house keepers from nonpayment and allow property sale after thirty days of unsettled bills. Ledgerwood bills set higher fines for petit larceny and redefine exemptions. Thompson and Whitthorne measures on trusts and guarantee firms passed. Insurance and election related bills by Fitzgerald Butler discussed. News notes adjournment and an unrelated No-To-Bac tobacco cure advertisement appeared.

Tne Ledgerwood Mr. Ledgerwood Mr. Thompson Mr. Whitthorne Mr. Fitzgerald Treasury Butler Senate

Black Dress Goods Line Shown in City Store

Black Dress Goods Fashion proclaims a premier display of black dress goods including all wool 40 inch broadcloths, black ratiste, taffeta and serges. The store emphasizes a large, complete selection with various widths and prices, such as all wool 46 inch fabrics priced from 39 to 75 cents per yard.

VALO FOR PRESIDENTS MenKinsey and Stevenson, New York, Apritas

In a canvass of Republican and Democratic committeemen printed by the Evening Zelogram, McKinley leads the Republican side with 14 votes and Stevenson tops the Democrats with 9 votes. Chicago is favored as convention city. tariff and financial issues loom. Also notes name changes for Kennedy House and plans for improvements to accommodate travelers.

New York William McKinley Adlai B. Stevenson William McKinley, Jr Benjamin Hurtkon Thomas B. Reed William B. Allison Levi P. Morton John Sherman Henry M. Teller Adai F. Stevenson Gov. Boies Iowa Matthews William G. Whitney Thomas Denver William L. Wilson Chicago Kennedy House Chattanooga A L. Ross

Hat styles and trimming goods advertised for ladies

A vintage ad highlights large showy round hats and Leghorn hats in demand, with aristocratic accents. It promotes stylish trimming goods and stock for ladies and misses, including Yeddo sailors, neat and airy, noting close sale and additions as trade demands.

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