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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1894
Page
2
Mr. Elliott describes the walrus as timid and harmless despite its imposing tusks. The animal sleeps upright at sea with nostrils out, buoy like in shape, grunting for amusement, and warnings to ships often come from its bellows. The piece notes tusk size, weight, and use for digging clams.
Summary of dispatches from Washington covering travel of the presidential party to New York, Senator Gorman’s campaign activity, postoffice directives on Cooperative Loan matters, Indian agent staffing by army officers, through mail pouches, and troop requests for the Indian territory. Also notes on deficits in treasury, stamp theft in Wilmington, a DC court decision in Pollard v Breckinridge, Atlanta exposition building plans, Montgomery voyage to test southern coal, and a comparison of presidential postmaster appointments under successive administrations.
During Harrison’s first sixteen months 20 645 offices passed to Democrats and in the first twelve months of the current administration 22 012 offices followed into Democratic control.
William A. Beach and H. Clay Sinsabaugh, charged as accomplices in the Washington stamp robbery, were arrested in Columbia, D C, Monday night.
World news item highlights a Watova Ark post office raid and store looting. Reports from Yi-Chow describe a battle with heavy losses on both sides. Missing funds surface in Chicago linked to Warren Springer. Cotton market concerns draw Southern growers to Montgomery. Royal ceremonies near Livadia and a Bayard speech in Dover reflect ongoing political and social events.
Pending negotiations at Meridian Miss lead to a new enterprise named Interstate Iron Works Company capitalized at 50000. The venture combines Irans Manufacturing Company of New Orleans and Hudnut Iron Company of Big Rapids Mich to manufacture compress pulleys rope lead dredges and related items employing a large skilled workforce.
The weekly South market report notes strong output across sectors with steady prices. Thirty-eight new concerns are listed from North Carolina to Texas, including Roanoke Rapids Power Co and a Jacksonville brewery, plus mills, factories, and building projects in Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, and beyond.
The Denver registration of women approaches that of men with 61 600 names on closed books and county totals expected above 70 000. If 70 percent vote in the next election, turnout would be well over twice the 22 975 votes cast two years ago.
Early Saturday fire leveled the house of Silas Jones in Knoxville Indiana. Mrs. Jones and her two children, a boy and a girl, were cremated in the blaze.
Report from St Petersburg states the czar's general debility and heart weakness have become more pronounced, signaling a noticeable decline in his health.
Under the Boundary Survey Commission a marble boundary slab dating from 1849 is brought to the city for restoration after years of vandalism. The stone will be shaved two inches and reerected under an eight foot high steel picket fence in a twelve foot square enclosure, with penalties for mutilating monuments. A similar granite slab will be placed at National avenue in Tia Juana, also fenced.
Oscar Andreen of Lexington Missouri toured Sherman Texas where a farmer showcased his trained hog that killed twenty rattlesnakes in half an hour. The hog, bought for 150 dollars, has reportedly slain over a thousand rattlers for the farmer and neighbors.
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