Assassination of Grand Duke Sergius in Moscow blast
February 17 Moscow reports detail a bomb attack as Grand Duke Sergius was driven from Nicholas palace. A sleigh aided the plot, the carriage exploded, killing the Grand Duke and the coachman. The emperor appeals for prayers as security tightens around the imperial family amid fear of further killings. Paris dispatches note further revolutionary plots and unsettled rumors.
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Moscow
Sergius
Nicholas Palace
Senate Quarter
Law Courts
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Emperor Nicholas
Tropoff
Bouligan
Paris
Informa
SchemING Scoundrel Promised Boll Weevil Plot Exposed
A Dallas financier proposed shipping boll weevils to depress cotton prices and let him and New York brokers profit. Congress moved to ban insect pest transport and mail use for such schemes. The Lovering bill, backed by the House Agriculture Committee, aims to curb attacks on cotton markets and protect southern growers.
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W. W. Price
Columbia Record
Washington
South
Dallas
Texas
New York
Lovering
Massachusetts
Department of Agriculture
Congress
House
Westminster Echoes a Notable Chicago Speaker in Westminst
Westminster February 22 Rev Mattison Wilbur Chase of Chicago delivered the best lecture heard in Westminster on Why or The Problema of Life The talk tied Bible teaching to human uplift and usefully shaped the race. Dr Chase preached at the Baptist church Sunday using 1 Cor 13 12 as his text. Ballads and local notices follow with social events and business visits noted including Beulah Poore At Home party and visits by S M Ellison and W J Bradley of Bishop Co details on trains brokers and local residents also appear with social and transport notes repeated in local verse.
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Westminster
Mattison Wilbur Chase
Chicago
Baptist Church
Clinton Harris
Will Lesley
EK. Gray
Greenville
Henry E. Fisher
Atlanta
M. Ellison
Honda Path
J. B. Cantrell
Misa Beulah Poore
Irene Miller
Annie Mason
Miss Poor
Nannie Stewart
Katie Harris
Bonnie Freeman
Lula McGee
Tassie Holland
Pearle Hutchison
Nannie Terrell
Lillian Simpson
Paul Pitts
J. A. Durham
Andrew Norris
Peden ‘Anderson
Stacy
Leo Stribling
Burt Mitchell
W. J. Bradley
Bishop & Co
Washington, D. C
Washington
Western Union
Bradley
Westminster Snn
Lathem
Easley
Thomas Clinkscales
Anderson
Mitchell
Georgia
E. A. Dobbs
Walter Zimmerman
H. B. Zimmerman
J. A. Watkins
Willamston
J. M. Bearden
Seneca
Suurday
Weather and social life note from Seneca
The Seneca community reports ongoing church services despite bad weather. A social gathering for Presbyterians, a birthday party for Master Ted Dickson, and library activities with new books by Thomas Dickson and Miss Sloan are highlighted. Lectures by Charles Lane and a planned spring entertainment by Library Association members are mentioned.
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Seneca
Baptist
Methodist
Presbyterian Church
Keowee
Ted Dickson
C. F. Bacon
Thos. Dickson
Claussman
Miss Sloan
Charleston
Library Association
Andrew Pickens
Clemson
P. H. Mell
May
Mary Cherry
Warren Davis
G. Y. McCarey
Chas. Lane
R Nellaas
Charleston shooting and political moves in the state
Isaac Myers, colored, shot and killed Carrie Kinsloch near the Five Mile post in Charleston. The suspect claims it was an accident and surrendered at the police station. Hon. D. H. McGill plans to run for Solicitor of the newly created Judicial Circuit. Wofford College has produced several state judiciary figures including Justices Woods and Klugh. In Manning, Ned Mack was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged March 31. John D. Cappelmann named to the State School for the Deaf board. Kenneth Beasley’s son is missing. 300 searchers and bloodhounds have found no trace. A War Department note says Union and Confederate flags should be returned to states. The infant son of Floyd Hall swallowed a safety pin and was treated to remove it.
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Isaac Myers
Carrie Kinsloch
Five Mile Poat
Charleston
D. H. McGill
House of Representatives
Greenwood County
McGill
Greenwood
Manning
Ned Mack
Klugh
Jol
John D. Cappelmann
State School For the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Cedar Springs
N. A. Walker
Washington
House Committee On Military Affairs
War Department
Floyd Hall
Saxon Hills
Spartanburg
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Ster
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Royal Baking Powder
ORK
Wofford College
D. A. Woods
Dantzler
Gage
Hydrick
Prince
Kenneth
Beasley
Poplar Branch
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