Fire destroys Augusta Chronicle building and Western Union office
Fire at the Augusta Chronicle building in Augusta destroys the Chronicle office and the Western Union Telegraph Co office including the Union City Ticket office. Loss estimated near 100000 with origin in the job office. The Chronicle prints a four page edition from the mid office at 10 o'clock.
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Union
Augusta Chronicle
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Dama
Nestern Union
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Eisht
Murphy and Billings
Blockade operation busted. McElwee and others injured
Esville North Carolina March 19 Mr John McElwee was thrown from his key at Front and Mulberry Streets Sunday evening and sustained injuries. Sheriff Summers and Deputy Collector Davis were in Eagle Mills township Thursday and Friday after the blockers. A still site was found in Nicholson Mills with fixtures removed. Officers followed wagon tracks to James White’s home a mile away where a still cap and other items were destroyed. Another nearby site had been in operation but fixtures removed and the furnace was still hot, indicating recent removal. Me Kim Rex McCoy died Sunday at his father’s home in Shiloh township aged 17.
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Esville
N.C
John ‘McElwee
Front
Mulberry Streets
Stern
Summers
Davis
Eagle Milla Township
Nicholson Mills Eichterhodry
Jas. White
Kexl McCoy
J. Jovert McCoy
F. Watt
Shiloh Township
Fort Jacumonka
Watchman kills burglar in boiler van struggle
A Sinoese burglar broke into the boiler van at F T L Clements Construction Co. in iletown and was shot dead by a watchman after a struggle over the officer s revolver. The dead man was later identified as McCaugherty, a former tram driver. The incident occurred about 7 20 p m on payday weekend.
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Iletown
F. TL. Clements Construction Coshpany
Sis
Lake
McCaugherty
Wim
Viking Sinking Feared Costly Casualty In Denmark
Copenhagen march 19 the Danish training ship Viking capsized in a storm near the shipbuilding yards. Four hundred men were aboard when the vessel turned over an estimated fifty or sixty were drowned and the tragedy sparked a large rescue effort.
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Denmark
Viking
Beard the
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Mis-trial Of Hasty Case In Greensboro Trial Disrupted
In Greensboro on March 19, Judge Boyd ordered a mistrial after Dr. Chas Roberson reported J W Hasty, ex revenue officer, could not leave a hospital, delaying further proceedings. The court will retry Monday April 1 and sentence those previously convicted for alleged fraud against the government on Thursday. Convicted or pled guilty include ex revenue officers G W Samuel R J Hardin A S Patterson L B Davis C Davis and various distillers and co conspirators W S Smith Cal Eller James Eller and others.
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N. C
Chas. Roberson
J. W. Slasty
Boyd
Ex Revenue
G. W. Samuel
Hardin
Patterson
L. B. Davis
C. Davis
Slicit Distillers
Glass in body twenty years found in shoulder
Derby Connecticut reports Henry Lasch a New London native swallowed a glass piece from a tumbler thirty years ago. Dr Manuel Henkler removed the fragment from Lasch’s right shoulder, suggesting it may have perforated the stomach and caused lingering soreness until recently. The tale spans two decades of fragile health.
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Derby
Conn
Henry Lasch
New London
Manuel A. Henkler
Lasch
Henkier
South & Western Railway gain in North Carolina area
Rutherfordton March 19 A legislature bill grants the South & Western Railway the right to purchase the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line segments from Marion to Shelby and Rutherfordton to Shelby. The act keeps both lines operating with good service as debates on route plans unfold. Local officials note the move may shape future connections and branch routes toward Rutherfordton and Broad River areas.
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Tennessee
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Cand
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Representative Gallett
Rutherford
Mecklenburg
Sam L. Burgin
Charlotte
Burskin
Westers ‘Union
Loulie Reyely
Carolee
M. L. Justice
Main Street
Seventeen Persons Killed In Tunis Collision
Seventeen persons died and twenty five injured in a fatal collision between a passenger and freight train at Tunis on March 19, near Harbin Marchuria. Police described the crash as a heavy impact with multiple fatalities. Local authorities opened an investigation and aid was rushed to the scene.
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Doings at The State Capital Jamestown Exhibit
The North Carolina Laundrymen Association closed its annual session electing P.M. Cave of Cimbotte as president W. West of Raleigh as vice president and J. W. Morton of Ssheyn as secretary treasurer The group claimed no link to price advances and focused on idea exchange and business management A banquet was held last night New appointee Hayden Clement arrived to serve as assistant attorney general with duties including briefing for Supreme Court cases Additionally Wake Forest College will host competitive naval academy scholarships on March 26 and a fifth annual medical commencement will be held May 8 in Raleigh
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N.C
North Carolina Laundrymen’s Association
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Cimbotte
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Ssheyn
Trensurer
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Salisbury
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Geo. W. Long
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Chapel Hill
Wake County
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Richmond College
The
Baptist University For Women
State Museum
North Carolina
Trinity Park High
Cornell University
The Thaw Case to be Given to the Jury Next Friday
The Thaw trial near its end as jurors expected to receive the case by Friday evening. The long proceedings included testimonies by Dr Jelliffe and other witnesses. The defense noted Nesbit Thaw would not testify, while prosecutors prepared the summation and final instruction.
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Evelyn
Jellife Testimony in Thaw Case Examines Insanity Classifications
In a courtroom exchange, Jerome questions if the expert considered facts outside the hypothetical and if he read the question with outside information. The alienist insists he excluded such facts and answered conscientiously while facing debates over dementia and paranoia classifications related to Thaw's mental state at the time of the White shooting.
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Jellife
Jerome
Fel
Graft charges eyed in court martial of Captain Wendel
New York National Guard seeks retrial by court martial of Captain Wendel of the First Battery on grafting charges. Court to meet at the Armory for formal organization. A court of inquiry found he shared over $3,000 in janitor wages and took other sums from the engineer and assistant engineer. Accused of abetting liquor sales at social functions and sharing profits. Major Louis L. Babcock to act as judge advocate.
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National Guard Eireles
Yals Wendel
National Guard
Wendel
Louis L. Babcock
Fourth Brigade
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Stock Exchange Again Thrown Into Flurry
New York to start trading saw prices crumble in the opening hour renewing unease about market stability. Leading declines hit Hill and Harriman stocks St Paul Reading American Smelting Union Pacific Amalgamated Copper Anaconda Great Northern and Northern Pacific while speculation about potential failures fueled the volatility.
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Hill and Harriman
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Reading
American
Union Pacific
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Amalgamated Copper
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