Tunnel blast injures many in Carolina railroad work
FP Charlotte reports a dynamite blast in a tunnel of the new South and Western line injuring six workers and dismembering several, including a Cherokee Indian. A white man was killed, a mule and car were blown away, and the tunnel area near Swain county remains inaccessible. Separate fire news from Macon, Georgia notes Burden Smith Co. loss at 225000 dollars with 135000 insured. A letter from Watertown, Ohio touts Dr King's New Life Pills curing epilepsy.
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Charlotte
New South and Western Railroad
Whittier
Swain County
Macon
J. B. Waterman
Watertown
Ohio
How Diphtheria Is Contracted
Explains the diphtheria germ can follow a simple cold and leave a child susceptible. Mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a treatment to cure the cold and lessen diphtheria risk. Ads note sale by J. W. Bell Wathsila W. J. Looney Boneca.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Child
Chamberlain
J. W. Bell
Wathsila
W. J. Looney
Boneca
Crazy Man Shoots Passengers on Car in Jackson
A demented coal miner Elmer McNeal fired two revolvers at passengers aboard a Jackson trolley, killing Harry White and mortally wounding J D Van Atta and J E Kioninon before being shot dead by officers and citizens at Main and Bridie. McNeal had prior insanity history at Athens asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Ohio
Elmer McNeal
Harry White
J. D. van Atta
Newark
J. E. Kioninon
Jackson McNeal
Main
Bridie Stroom
McNeal
Athens Insane Asylum
Two Die and Four Wounded in Greenville Boarding House Shootout
In Greenville Mi on December 7 a confrontation at a boarding house left Felix Holman dead Celina Holman killed and six others injured. Police men Middlebrook Vaught Thompson and Abercromlin exchanged fire with Holman who fled to a warehouse before surrendering to Sheriff Crouch.
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Geenville
Felix Holman
Arkansas
Celina Holman
Negrani
Pi Middlebrook
William Vaught
Enoch Thompson
Holman
Thompson
Coffer
Abercromlin
Egro
O. Warner
Cozens
A Western Wonder at Bowie Texas
There Hill at Bowie Texas grows from pounds to over 180, claiming weight gain after using Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and cough. He reports a full recovery after twelve bottles and offers a guaranteed cough and cold cure with trial bottle free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
Bowie
Texas
W. L. Hill
Jootora
Dr. King
Ashes of Johnston Scattered on Tennessee River in Peculiar Rite
In Chattanooga Tennessee December 1 ashes of Charles A Johnston a mechanical engineer and draughtsman were scattered on the Tennessee River from a county bridge at his request after cremation in Cincinnati. Johnston long insisted on dispersing his ashes similarly to the act he performed from the Bartholdi statue of liberty and now his urn rests with his wife. He believed in a supreme being but not in a personal God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Charles A. Johnston
Tennessee River
Johnston
Vincinnati
Bartholdi
New York City
Mr. Johnston
Fuel Famine Drives Southwest Kansas Towns to Seek Aid
Topeka dispatch reports Meade Liberal Cimarron and other Southwest Kansas towns appealing to Governor Hood for coal aid as temperatures hit zero. Citizens gather at schools and churches to share a single fire while railroads refuse to supply coal, claiming confiscation risk. Railroads use steel cars to haul their own coal to thwart taking by residents.
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Topeka
Kansas
Meade
Liberal
Cimarron
Hood
Railronds
Seneca Hears New Local Eastor Star Formed
Keowee Courier notes Seneca’s budding local paper scene with the Eastor Star organized by W Cahall Mullins S C and lists officers Mrs E P Lowry W M L P Boggs W P Mrs Eling Farle A M Mrs W H Carey Sec Mrs H P Boggs Treas Mrs Lloyd Trimmier Adair Miss Olive Lowry Ruth Mrs S G Fouchstone Esther, plus word of new arrivals and visitors including Mr and Mrs John Myers, Kate Stribling, Miss Bug Norria, Prof David Henry, Carl B Smith, and Miss Christin Sickson. It highlights church attendance, a move toward electric lighting, a new mayor, social events, and upcoming town improvements with grading on Livingston Hill and plans for the old Keowee Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eling Farle
A. M
W. H. Carey
H. P. Boggs
Lloyd Trimmier
Adair
Olive Lowry
Ruth
G. “Fouchstone
Esther
B. Cobb
Martha
John Davis
Eleora
L. A. Moore
Clemson
David Henry
Seneca
Carl B. Smith
Westminster
Presbyterian Church
Jose Rey
O. M. Abney
Methodist Church
C. L. McGein
M. W. Coleman
Anderson
Emma Stribling
Neill
Board of Public Works
W. ¥. Austin
Eleanor Richardson
Maud Hopking
Misa May Hamilton
Record cotton ginned to December first 1906 rises past ten million
Washington reports 1906 cotton ginned to December 1 totalled 10,025,445 bales with 28,211 ginners. Compared to 1905 8,080,403 bales and 28,600 ginneries. State totals list Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia and others with varying bale counts and gin counts. The Sea Island split shows Florida 10,150 Georgia 17,100 South Carolina 5,167. Local market nudges up on the news before a separate crop report estimated 12,546,000. Dr. A Marks is advertised at Palmetto Hotel in Seneca offering free eye exams.
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Washington
Rhe Conous Bureau
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Virginia
South Carolina
Crop Reporting Board
Thirty Thousand Without Food in Lodz Poland
December 10 report from Lodz in Russian Poland notes a food shortage after motorion closures leaving about thirty thousand people without sustenance. escalating demonstrations by lawless groups reflect renewed clashes between nationalist and socialist labor factions with five nationalist deaths and fifteen wounded over the past two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodz
Russian
Poland
Westminster News Summary of Local Events and Visits
Westminster notes sports, religion, and commerce from December reports. William Roach is cut by William Tiner in Inez. visitors Benjamin Harrison and Benjamin Mauldin from Lavonia. Dobbs move from Commerce to Fair Play. Joshua Jameson dies at Piercetown aged over eighty. Also listed are hunts, auctions, church appointments, and a marble company forming with plans for a new shop on Fightiveway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
William Roach
William Tiner
Inez
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Mauldin
Lavonia
W. L. Dobbs
Commerce
Fair Play
Dobbs
Lora Barton
J. R. Orr
Anderson County
Joshua Jameson
Piercetown
Jfennye Norris
Geo. T. Harmon, Jr
Louise Broazeale
Lois Brown
Atlanta
Stephen D. Hunter
Texas
Lone Star State
Minsos Ossie Gaines
Bowman
Ida Putman
Blacksburg
Bonds
Fem
Rolfo
Hunt
J. W. McGee
Proson
Kalla
Mx Hants
Feod Hunt
Gainesville
John RK. Moore
E. Gray
Mra. J. St, Orr
Mra
J. A
Pitts
Y. E, Pitts
L. P. Smith
Peden Brothers
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Crazy Man
Lunney
Seneca, S.C
C.W
J. E. Bauknicht
O. F. Baron
Livingston Hill
Townville
Keowee
Palmetto Neon
A. Marks
Wight
Palmetto Hotel
N. J. Roberta
Resonate Ta
Louissant Conference
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