The Silver Question and Free Coinage Debate at Laurens
A lengthy 1890s speech by "Joe" Johnson argues for free silver and explains how money supply affects prices, wages, and debt. The piece cites cash value, inflation, and historic examples to support restoring silver to the mint and critiques contractionary policy and international bimetallism. It also covers a push to repeal the ten percent bank tax and the case for local state bank currency.
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Greenville
5. C
Joe” Johnson
Laurens
Congress
Tillman
Johnson
John Stuart Mill
South Carolina
New York
John ©. Calhoun
Blackstone
Ijmnman
United States
Germany
Democratic Party
House of Representatives
United State
Savea
Senate
Great Britain
France
Rance
Mogeland
Rocky Mountains
Australia
Gladstone
Onl
House of Commons
Magland
Ile
England
London
Liverpool
Milwaukee
Pueble
Atlantic
Appeal to Charity Aids Destitute Pullman Ex-Workers
Governor Allgeld urges statewide support for Pullman relief as 1 000 families about 6 000 people face hunger. Funds directed to Pullman Relief Committee at Kensington would be distributed, with county aid limited. Letters exchanged with Georges M. Pullman outline state support to prevent starvation.
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Cirreano
Pullman Company
Allgeld
Lilinoia
Chicago
Pullman
Citizers
Pwiman Company
Relief Society
Cook County
Pullman Selief Committee
Kensington
Diatresa
Allweld
Georges M. Pullman
Ithberna Lash Saoday
Me. Palla
Sprinsfiehl
Nuvbar
Broad Lotha Company
Three Negroes Lynched Near Mayo Ila After Rape
News from Mayo Ila reports three unidentified black men, said to be from Georgia, were lynched for assaulting Miss Pert. After two confessed, a third was found locally and killed. Bodies were later burned by the mob though mercy is lamented. Miss Pert remains gravely injured.
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Jacksonville
Ilan
Mayo
Ila
Miss Pert
Georgia
Misa Vert
Fatal leap from Richmond clock tower shocks Greensboro banker
Col J M Winstead a president of Piedmont and Peoples banks Greensboro N C leaped from a balcony at the city clock tower in Richmond killing himself. The 60 year old married man left his cane and shoes before the 95 foot plunge and no clear motive was found. His nephew arrived from Danville and said there was no known reason for the suicide.
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Richmond
Col
J. M. Winstead
Piedmont
Peoples’ Banks
Greensboro
N.C
Ile
Colonel Winstead
Danville
Sutic Lettle
SC State Press Association Ends Twentieth Meeting at Pawley's Island
The second and final day of the 20th annual South Carolina State Press Association gathering adjourned at 10 am. Officers were unanimously elected with Aull as president and Osteen as second VP. Resolutions thanked railroad and steamship officials, Georgetown hosts, and Pawley's Island hospitality, and formal invitations were extended for future meetings in Columbia or Sumter.
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Pawley's Island
South Carolina State Press Association
N. G. Gonzales
Lie State
Association
Gonzales
Columbia
Oateen
Sumter
Osteen
Aull
IT. G. Osteen
C. GC. Langston
I °. Melchers
Sidi IT. Brown
Messrs
Clarke
Browne
N. M. Ayer
A. LB. Andrews
Southern Railway Company
M. Emerson
Atlantic Coast Line
W. J. Craig
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway
J. W P. McSweeny
Charleston and Savannah Railway
IL. 8
Cordes
South Carolina Steamboat Company
J. T. Hubbard
Steamer Planter
Josiah Dear
Georgetown
Springs
Congdon
Manigault Light Dragoons
Winthrop Williams
Cgil
Prince
Unusual Multiple Segmented Weddings in Illinois
In Pana Illinois Judge William Price presided over four simultaneous marriages at the brides homes. The matches paired William Misse Slarrison with Edward Munday Lizzie McDermott with Thomas Ellison amid prior divorces. The participants, all on good terms, reported joining through cross connections as they had planned pre divorce.
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Pana
William Price
Misse Slarrison
Edward Monday
Lizzie McDermott
Thomas [Ilison
Monday
Bliligson
Ellison
Munday
Lillison
Milson
Tragic Ice Tank Explosion Kills Joseph Issinger
On Crace street in Buryano Aug 23 Joseph Issinger died when an ice making tank exploded aboard his truck. The blast hurled him twenty feet and tore off his hands and feet before he was fatally crushed by a tree. Reason for the explosion unknown.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Lyman J ’Arka
Floyd Thomas
Indiana Prison South
Parks
Corydon
Brown
I’laces
Buryano
Joseph Issinger
Crace Street
Bissinger
Ile
Ilis
Tragic drowning of three Baton Rouge ladies
A distressing Amite River accident near Baton Rouge claims the lives of Miss Mary Lee Read Miss Belle Chambers and Miss Elenore Garland as they aided a drowning companion. The city mourns the loss of three young women in a single incident casting gloom over the capital.
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Baton Roude
Baton Rouge
Mary Lee Read
Belle Chambers
Elenore Garland
Amite
A Spy Letter Targets Editor in South Carolina Row
A sensational 1804 letter to the Register editor claims political intrigue around Rev. J Bass and ex-legislator Dr Byrd. The writer accuses others of letter theft, coats removed, and dinner host tensions at Florence County venues amid South Carolina senate politics.
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Columbia,s. C
Register
Columbia
The
Lass
Molitor
Dr. Byrd
Florence County
Florence
S3ass
Sam
Bro. Bass
Tillman Criticizes Columbia Management in Address
Gov Tillman spoke on Main street in Columbia to about three hundred people, half reformers. He ridiculed city leadership, promised to attack President Cleveland for violating the Democratic platform, and claimed Cleveland aided northern forces to restrict currency. He said he would soon leave Columbia, to be replaced by someone who would keep the people down.
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Columbia
S. C
Iby
Tillman
Main Street
Ile
Cleveland
Congress
Cotton bag cloth coverage approved by New York Cotton Exchange
The New York Cotton Exchange board resolves that cotton covered by sugar bag cloth constitutes a good delivery under exchange rules and directs the secretary to inform Southern exchanges and others concerned.
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New York
Board of Managers
Neighbors Save Woman Supposedly Buried Alive Near Madisonville
At Midway in Madison County Mrs. Lucinda Allen died after six hours of colic treatment. Moments before burial a neighbor urged a last look. the woman revived when placed in a tub of water, narrowly escaping being buried alive.
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Madisonville
Tex
Midway
This County
Lucinda Allen
Aiken Dispensary Case Set for Extra Session
South Carolina reads the Aiken dispensary dispute as the test case to resolve its 1893 law and constitutional questions. Governor Tillman and Attorney General Buchanan seek an extraordinary session of the State Supreme Court, with McIver Pope and Gary to hear the case.
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Tillman
Buchanan
McIver
Pope
Eugene Gary
Aldrich
Supreme Court of South Carolina
James Aldrich
State of
South Carolina
United States
Osmmuund W. Bucitanan
Meaney General
Relatora Appelant
Congress of the
General Assembly
City of
Aiken
Supreme Court of
Tragedy as Esplenborough Man Finds Family Dead at Home
Thomas Larris of Esplenborough returns from Mount Clemens to discover his wife dead from hemorrhages in bed and two young children aged 2 and 4 lying nearby in a blood saturated scene. Neighbors had thought the family away and the children now suffer from exposure and lack of food.
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Finn
Pirrsruna
Thomas Larris
Esplenborough
Mount Clemens
Ile
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Mogland
Soula
Joun
Avramp
Dr. Yrd
Aiken Cara
Supreme Court
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G. W. Croft
M.B. Woopwanp
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