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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1893
Page
1
The President sent a six thousand word message to Congress on Hawaii, urging broad legislative authority to handle the crisis. He cites Blounts report and argues annexation was improperly pursued, calling for redress and avoidance of further conflict.
President Cleveland states the United States will aid a restoration plan only if it preserves American integrity and morality. He notes Queen Liliuokalani rejects conditions for restoring her government and endorses Blount’s report and related correspondence as part of Congress’s consideration. He offers cooperation with any legislative plan consistent with American honor. Executive Mansion December 18, 1893.
In Shamrookin, John Simpkins, a professed blasphemer at a large iron mill, loses speech and hearing after a profanity episode. He attends a Methodist revival, regains voice and hearing, then reports visions and warns others. His recovery is followed by further health decline and city-wide debate.
Joseph I. Johnson president of the Alabama National Bank of Birmingham announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor. He supports free silver and opposes Cleveland. He is the first to announce and seen as the strongest possible candidate amid signs of a bitter primary fight with Kolbite-Populist influence.
The Ways and Means Committee’s majority tariff bill argues that the current tariff is principledly wrong and unjust in operation. It calls for tax relief on inputs, defense of domestic producers, and staged repeal of the sugar bounty while noting impacts on industry and consumers.
The United States Supreme Court confirms Judge Simonton's decree in the Swan case. Swan will be imprisoned for three months and pay a fine of five hundred dollars.
A movement in Colwaria to establish a State museum of evolutionary and Confederate war relics. Plans include housing exhibits in the State Capitol and inviting private relics for safe keeping with owner notes. Generals Butler Farley Kershaw Tillman discuss funding from contingents to start a relic collection.
Greenwood County dead as Senate blocks a bill requiring publication of intent to form a corporation. Debate centers on legality and proper notice, with Mayfield and Tremphill disputing code applicability and personal interests cited. Vote results show a decisive tally against Greenwood County.
A proposed measure bans manufacture sale barter exchange receipt storage and possession of any beverage containing alcohol within the state. Offenses carry up to thirty days imprisonment or a $100 fine and contraband liquors may be seized without warrant and turned to the State commissioner.
Governor Tillman was asked to authorize a five member state commission of battle officers to mark Chickamauga battlefield positions held by South Carolina troops and cover expenses, with an estimated cost up to 750 dollars. A Virginia proposal seeks private funds to erect a Winchester Confederate dead monument funded in part by New York merchant Charles Rouss.
A Wells Fargo messenger John C. Richardson was found murdered in his car on an east bound Southern Pacific train near Liberty Texas. The attack left his head split by an axe and robbed the car. Sheriff Millis led a posse toward Crosby as investigators seek suspects including several who tried to board the west bound train. Richardson, about 35, married, lived in New Orleans.
A historically oriented exhortation argues that daughters should be educated to earn their own living. It claims rich and poor alike require labor training to avoid dependence, warning that fortune shifts and parents must protect and educate their daughters against idleness and ruin.
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