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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1896
Page
2
The Durham Recorder announces a move back to Durham and future publication from there. Subscribers urged to settle balances with the paper’s former leasees King and Rollins, as the current owner Hackney signs off from Pueblo Colorado with thanks to patrons.
The Syracuse Post notes pride and folly in public works as New York spent over four million on a state capitol project that ballooned to twenty one million and still wasn t finished. It cites wasteful management and the risk of big payrolls when right kinds of fellows run projects. Burnietay will get a daily paper and Burlington expands with a new weekly and a forthcoming daily evening newspaper. The Burlington venture aims to hustle from the start and reflect the city s growth with railroad shops and press enterprise.
A congressional passage signals US support for Cuban independence. The New York Mercury praises America as defender of the oppressed and ally of the striving for freedom, framing the resolution as a stride toward realizing this destiny.
Mr Washington Duke of Durham, already the largest North Carolina donor to Trinity College, offers to add 2.00 for every 13.00 raised by others toward a 75,000 endowment goal, urging Methodists statewide to boost efforts and reach the target.
Telegraphic briefs note a call for the church federation to raise funds from nearly 150000 members to match peers. Editorials urge a $75,000 annual goal to build a $125000 endowment, citing Wake Forest and Davidson as benchmarks. Also reports a Danbury fire damage and Richmond drummer William Weisiger's suicide.
At 2 30 this afternoon a Mooreville Cotton Mills warehouse burned with about 250 bales of cotton. Insurance covers the loss estimated at 10 000 dollars. The fire’s origin remains unknown with speculation a boy struck a match to find a lost hat.
John J. Jones, president of the Memphis National Bank, was mortally wounded and his son Nat injured in a shooting on the street near the bank offices. The elder Jones died that night. Pardue and Scarborough were involved in the feud that sparked the violence.
News from Tecumseh reports about 100 armed men abducted James McGrifflin, accused murderer of the Mound brothers of Avoca. They hanged him three times to force a confession, then returned him to jail for a hearing set in a few days.
Hartford losses reach 300000 after Russell and Erner Harden ward Manufacturing fire. Atlanta hotels Alcasar and Park Gate burned as unoccupied exposition sites. Providence Hosiery Mill destroyed with 125000 loss, 400 workers laid off. Rumor links Gen Bara tieri to death in Abyssinia after March 1 battle.
In New York on March 3 eight year old Fletcher Harper son of Theodore Haight and grandson of the late Fletcher Harper of Harper Brothers publishers was accidentally killed by his fourteen year old brother Theodore. The boy entered his bedroom at the family residence in Astoria L I with a shotgun. He stumbled and the trigger struck a dressing case. The discharged load hit the boy in the groin and he died about fifteen minutes later.
In Decatur Michigan a 1500 resident village is described where all village officers except the dog catcher are women led by Mrs Alma Sage. The town features women in medicine preaching janitors lodging shop owners and trades including blacksmiths painters carpenters and florists with social clubs and a woman undertaker in a nearby village.
A testimonial style ad promotes the Bradfield Regulator, described as a superb tonic for women that strengthens the system by driving through impurities. It claims health improvement and includes a customer letter from Malvern Arkansas and distribution details from Atlanta GA, with price and guarantee.
The Durham County Clerk of the Superior Court announces updated election precincts and voting sites for Durham County. Precincts include Four in the Town of Durham and additional listed precincts across Cedar Fort, Oak Grove, and Patterson Townships, with voting at specified locations.
An old advertisement links heart disease symptoms to a patent remedy called Dr Miles Heart Cure. It lists chest pain, irregular pulse, fluttering, choking sensation, breathlessness, and swollen feet as signs. The pitch promotes the product as a cure.
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