Constitutional convention call sparks heated House debate
In Columbia South Carolina the House battled over a joint resolution to call a constitutional convention. Proponents insisted any future constitution be submitted to voters, while opponents warned of manuvering to block the convention. A lengthy exchange featured Messrs Bacot Haskell Duncan Wolfe and others amid parliamentary dispute and a decisive vote on the amendment and third reading.
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Jordan
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Mr. Jordan
South Carolina
Mr. Haskell
Wll
Mr. Saskell
Selvcl
Col. Taskell
Mr. Duncan
Sr. Taskell
Saskell
Paskell
Ilsskell
Woltle
Luaushter
Bacut
Cooley
Young
Jordans
Messrs
Anderson
Avinger
Bach
Brice
Deans
Sullivan
von Kolnity
Willimon
Legislative roll call names and totals listed
A fragmented list presents names Oliver Parks Patton Peasman Perry Phillips East Mothers Russel Sher men Sinletary Smith A J Smith J I Stackhouse Mishoe totaling 94. Opposition Nays Anderson Brice Bacot Glover Hamilton Hughes Kelly Lo stor Lowrance Maning Moses Rivers Roper Sullivan Von Kolnitz and Williamson totaling 16.
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Peasman
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Russel
Shermen
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Smith
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Stackhouse
Mishoe
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Anderson
Brice
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Glover
Hamilton
Hughes
Kelly
Lostor
Lowrance
Maning
Moses
Rivers
Roper
Sullivan
von Kolnitz
Williamson
Barnwell Farmer Advised to Convert Corn to Bacon
The Barnwell paper reports advice from Brother Nolmes urging farmers to convert corn into bacon on their own land. He notes corn at 40 cents a bushel equals four pounds of bacon, avoiding middlemen. He also recommends keeping one imported sow, yielding about ten pigs yearly, to feed a family and hedge against hard times. fattening pigs can bring quick cash.
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Barnwell
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South Bound Railroad Edges Toward Florida Completion
A New York dispatch reports Col IL P Du vall saying the South Bound Railroad extension from Savannah to Hart Road Florida will finish by October and operate in November. The project, linking 690 miles of track, challenges Plant system control and offers Florida business leaders a competing rail line to Savannah and the North and East. Llurrah for the South Bound.
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New York
Columbia
IL. P. Duvall
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Florida
Savannah
Harts Road
Fla
Florida Trafic
Florida Central Road
Llurrah
Death in the Flames at Flushing Avenue Brooklyn
A fire in a Brooklyn tenement on Flushing Avenue killed Michael Doyle and his three year old daughter Nellie. Firemen saved others on the first floor and Mrs Doyle as panicked residents cried for help. Doyle threw two children from a window before he and Nellie were killed. Several others were seriously burned. The financial loss is reported small.
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Flushing Avenue
Brooklyn
Michael Doyle
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Rival group formed by ex Union soldiers in Kansas
The Boys in Blue of America, a nonpartisan rival to the Grand Army of the Republic, is organized by ex Union soldiers in Toreka Kansas. Local Camps will replace Posts as the structure with state wide adoption planned. Organizers are members of the People's party and view GA R as a Republican machine.
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Toreka
Kansas
People’s Party
Boys In Blue of America
G. A.R
New Order
The
Jail wedding seals grim fate for condemned man
In Louisville on December 1, Stephen I. Tite and his wife were married in the jail before the hangings scheduled for the next week. Father Brady officiated as the couple faced death, with the wife a recent Catholic convert and their witnesses including the doomed man’s daughter and other death row inmates.
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Louisville
Stephen I. Tite
Railroad question sparks South Carolina Senate hearing
President McBee of the CG and A. and G. roads urged the Senate railroad committee to amend the rail laws, warning the Wilson bill could confiscate property and ruin rail stocks. He argued three commissioners would control all operations, risking bankruptcies, unpaid investments, and state credit.
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Senate Railroad Committee
Wilson Railroads
Major Ganatil
Port Royal
South Carolina
Lans
Mike Bhickberry
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Legistiature
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York
Dr. Macune and the Farmers Alliance in Memo#phis Shadow
Open letter by Dr. Macune reasserts nonpartisan aims of the Farmers Alliance and warns against third party domination. He cites Memphis meetings, names leaders, and argues the need to keep the Alliance free of partisan control to preserve its purpose and strength. Col. D. P. Duncan reports on Memphis discussions and the Alliance’s future, noting tensions over third party influence and a plan to keep politics out of the order.
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National Economist
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Partners Alliance
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Tanbeneck
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McLallin
Washburn
Supreme Council
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D. P. Duncan
Supreme Council of the Farmers Alliance
Georgia State Alliance
Surpreme Council
Alizaece
Ludiana
Loucks
Manny
Col
Volk
Northwest
Tlon
Texas Dlegate
Panic at Bennett School Triggers Stampede After Convulsion
In Charleston a girl’s convulsion sparked a false earthquake panic at Bennett School. Teachers rushed to aid. students flooded exits, injuring some slightly as 1000 plus pupils spilled into the street. No serious harm reported. Similar scare occurred last year at Simmonston with a colored pupil count of 1500.
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Methodist
Episcopal Church South
Astors
Bennett
Simmonston
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