Prohibition Letter Dispute Over Election Pledge
Burns through August correspondence in South Carolina politics. Crips, chairman of the State Executive Committee, rebuts claims of deception by Mr. Nettles and outlines convention actions approving ballot boxes, candidate pledges, and county organizing plans. Also notes Nettles’s public editorial stance and calls for public judgment on alleged deceit.
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Democratic Executive Committee
Weir
Convention
Prohibition Party
Anarchy in Tennessee as miners seize Coal Creek region
News reaches Knoxville of a large miner mob taking control around Coal Creek and Oliver Springs, burning a stockade, freeing convicts, seizing locomotives and disabling lines. Guards and militia retreat after heavy exchanges, while 3,000+ miners gather, threaten Governor Buchanan and plan further action.
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Wnoxville
Tenn
aAnarchy
Tennessee
Coal Creek
Oliver Spring
Oliver Springs
Cumberland Coal Company
Chattanooga
Larrian
Oliver's
Lee
Knoxville
Clinton
Nashville
Oliver
Congress
Harriman
Buchanan
Secion
Wkooxville
Royster
Col. Woolford
Oliver Sprious
Andrews
Col
Woolfard
Larriman
Knooxville
East
Cuattanooga
Agust
Maj
Chandler
Warden Parris
Orei
Eirs
Phames
Maj. Chandler
Galvio Thandged
Hariiman
Tere Chandler
Madina
Sam T. Carnes
Knox
Shelby
Hamilton
Davidson
Haive
Labor troubles spark convict riot at Inman mines
Reports detail a organized march of about 200 tree miners led by H R Helton from Tracy City toward the Inman stockade. Convicts and guards were captured, prisoners moved to Victoria and then Nashville, while authorities vow to restore order and resume mining.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Briceville
Anderson County
Beiceville
Pracy City
Lovether
Tracy City
F Rom
Nashville
White Wall
Inman
HR. P. Helton
Whitewell
Victoria
Bridgeport
Ala
Nashville and Chattanooga
Wade
Oilicy Company
Moon
Ccircuit
Wb Jasper
Suerill
Abel
Norrow
Roundbank
Sheri Morrison
Duc Chanan
Ife
Cholera death toll narrows in St Petersbug districts
The cholera outlook eased with only twelve deaths reported yesterday in St Petersburg. Official data show the infected regions of Russia averaged 6 001 new cases daily and 4 288 deaths across cholera districts.
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St. Petenrsnune
Russia
Nettles Replies to Childs on Prohibition and the Box Vote
S.A. Nettles of Manning South Carolina defends his position against L D Childs in a heated response published in the Columbia papers. He reiterates support for a voters box plan and argues against Childs view that legislators must pledge to prohibit regardless of public vote. Nettles says majority will should dictate policy and criticizes perceived anti democratic aims while urging enforcement of the prohibition law. Dated August 16 1892.
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Epiron
L. D. Child
Columbia
Child
Artist B
Liby
Childs
Democratic Executive Committee
Prohibition Party
Chilus
Shirl
Unil
Democratic Party
National Prohibition Party
Ife
S.A. Nettles
Manning
S.C, Aug
Railroad effort to rescue trestle bridge in Valparaiso
In Valparaiso Indiana the Chicago and Erie Railroad Station reports 200 workers battling a gaping quagmire where an eight foot bridge has vanished. Timbers and dirt fills fill a large deep pit as trains once crossed trestles now face abandonment fears.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Palmer
Lake County
Chicago and Erie Railroad
Dynamite Outrage Shocks Ostend Cafe Du Prince
Four people killed or wounded as a dynamite cartridge exploded at the Cafe du Prince in Ostend. Police hunt for criminals with two Paris arrivals shadowed. anarchist retaliation suspected as visitors flee the resort. Guards tightened around the Belgian king’s palace and fortifications.
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Cafe du Prince
Ostend
Brussels
Europe
Russia
Icurops
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Viincs
Magland
Paris
Loter Dessain
Storm adds horror to cholera siege at Nijnt Novgorod
From Saint Petersburg August seventeenth report that a devastating storm struck Nijnt Novgorod compounding cholera misery. Hospitals overflowed with dying patients as the hurricane wrecked buildings and tents, causing cries for mercy and mass prayers amid superstition of divine punishment.
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Sr. Petersburg
Nijnt Novgorod
Cholera Hospital
Novorgard
Peoples party VP hopeful passes through Memphis
General Joseph G Fields of Virginia, a People's party vice presidential candidate, toured Memphis en route to Arkansas with General Weaver. Fields told United Press the party could break up the solid South, split the G A R vote, and win numerous Southern states and a broad cross section of the electoral slate.
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MiropPhis
Tenn
Joseph G. Wields
Virginia
People’s Party
Memphis
Arkansas
Gen. Weaver
United Press
Gen. Fields
South
G. A. Rh
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Texas
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Nevada
California
Michigan
Gresham
Indiana
Hud son Rawson arrest over alleged neglect in Edith Rawson case
In Albany New York on August 13 the Hud son Humane Society filed a complaint against Henry A Rawson father of Edith Rawson claiming his neglect led to the child’s death after a truck accident August 4. A warrant was issued and served on Edith’s mother Mrs Rawson who said her husband was ill and refused medical aid seeking faith healing instead.
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E&emira
N. Y
Waverly
M. Y
al Sayre
State Line
Lehigh Valley
Sayre
Shen ‘Ieer
Liow County
New York
Powell
Bradford County
Pennsylvania
Shevills
Sheri Powell
Stephenson
Carmine Street
Sixth Avenue
Tattle West
McGovern
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Bleecker Street
Silas Vincenne
Mulberry Street
Albany
Hudson Hiver Iumane Society
Henry A. Rawson
Edith Rawson
Rawson
Edith
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Prohibition
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Senate
Irby
Democratic Committee
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Chriirman
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Wnd
House of Senate
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Bore City
Idaho
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Bannockbutte
Jerome Wasson
Daniel Flancock
Ske
N.Y
Presbyterian
Amelia
Dutchess County
Shev. Me. Bell
Ezra Willison
Minti
Columbia, &.C
Tillman
Greenville and
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Mythecar Lewes
Lam
Tlaesell
Gid Chenan
Tughes
Tagen
Silver Street
Bern
Chester
S.C
Grand Lodge of
Joseph Lindsay
Code
Wiebory
Church of South Carolina
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Belgium
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