Senate Debates Free Coinage Silver Measure
The Senate resumes Morgan’s push for free coinage as Stewart moves to take up his bill. Morgan warns of party splits if silver is blocked, while Teller criticizes current policy and warns of financial ruin for farmers. The chamber votes to proceed, then enters executive session.
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Floods Swamp Lower Mississippi Valley With Widespread Suffering
Reports from Arkansas Mississippi and Missouri describe 10 000 homeless and dozens dead as St Francis White and Mississippi rivers flood vast areas. Proclamations urge relief while Memphis and St Louis organize funds clothing and food distribution and improve rail transport for aid.
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Merchants’ Exchange
Tillman Visits Charleston To Probe Direct Tax Claims
Governor Tillman arrived in Charleston and met with Master of Direct Tax Claims C G R Miles and prominent citizens. He discussed the direct tax matter and noted claimants are being held from certificates by lawyers seeking 80 percent under the Campbell Truscott Kurie agreement. The governor urged the claimants to act to obtain their money.
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Assault in Beden's ally leaves woman scarred
In Charleston on May 28 a brutal attack occurred as Sarah Goetly and Betsy Fraser, both colored, walked to a trial, when Goetly's husband and supporters savagely beat her and peppered her eyes. The injury badly scarred her eyes though not fatal.
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Murdered by Burglars in Georgia town
Capt. J. A. Sloan, 81, respected resident of McDonoghue and father of former Congressman Andrew Sloan of Savannah, was killed Sunday night by burglars who took about $1,000. Lynch mobs scour the surrounding woods seeking the killers.
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Savannah
Tornado Toll in Wellington Kansas Rips City
Wellington Kansas residents reel from a Friday tornado that killed twenty and left dozens missing. Buildings including the Phillips house and shops on Washington avenue were leveled. a bride and a piano tuner perished. liquefied debris, a damaged phone network, and the destruction of the old court house are noted as the storm’s stark aftermath.
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Starren
Ebbitt
Relief Crews Aid Destitute After Disaster
Centuries of struggling families face homelessness and hunger as relief committees arrive to provide shelter, food, and care for the injured. Local volunteers coordinate aid to those left without homes or necessities.
Dr Pope Attacks Col Keitt With a Cane in Newberry
In Newberry South Carolina May 30 Dr Sampson Pope confronted Col Ellison Keitt on a street corner striking him with a cane four or five times breaking the cane and hat. Keitt warded off blows and said you d d coward. Pope was fined 10 dollars for violating a lowan ordinance. Keitt was dismissed. Pope said the attack arose from a criticism in last weeks Thrall and News about war service.
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Lown
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The Mauritius Hurricane Details of the Worst Storm of the Century
Mauritius endured a catastrophic hurricane with twelve hundred killed and four thousand injured. The cyclone followed a magnetic disturbance and a nine foot sea rise. Much of Port Louis suffered, churches and public buildings were destroyed, including the Immaculate Conception church. the Cathedral survived. A special relief loan of £60,000 will be sourced from the Imperial Government.
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House Clash Over 100000 for Colored World's Fair Department
In Washington on May 27 the House debated a proposed 100000 appropriation for a colored man's department at the World's Fair. Indiana Republican Johnston delivered a combative "bloody shirt" speech, while South Carolina's Johnstone denounced him and defended the Democratic Party. The exchange drew boos and applause, highlighting partisan tensions and campaign leverage.
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South Carolina
Palmetto
House of Representatives
Larrison
Hut
Democratic House
Mr. Johnston
Johnstone
America
Dolmston
News and Courier
Storm Hits Jefferson City After Cloud Burst
A heavy wind storm followed by a cloud burst passed over Jefferson City Missouri at 3 30 pm. Telegraph wires are down and details are unavailable. An operator at Linn twenty four miles east reports strong wind and heavy rainfall.
Set Up on the Lynchings in Columbia South Carolina
An immense gathering of leading African Americans in Columbia at Second Calvary Baptist Church endorsed a memorial day for lynching victims and urged lawful punishment for criminals. The resolutions condemn mob violence and praise Gov. St. Ilman for anti lynching efforts while calling whites to support due process and justice.
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Dunbar
Tobin
Wilson
C. C. Johnson
C. F. Holmes
Wolse
St. Tilman
South Carolina
Mystery Woman at McCreerys Ends in Insanity
A veiled visitor, described as a refined, homeless brunette about 25, caused a scene at McCreery's in Columbia. She was taken to Mrs Chappel's boarding house, found with laudanum, claimed to want to kill herself, and was judged insane by doctors who noted she would be committed to the asylum. her identity remains unknown.
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McCreery
Columbia
Register
Disaster in Kingsman area floods Niles with fatalities
A cloudburst near Kingsman two miles from Niles, Ohio, flooded the Niles River and killed at least six people. A dam break sent a wall of water through farmland, washing away a barn and killing farm residents. Bodies were recovered in a driftwood pile as searchers combed the scene.
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Ohio
Kingsman
K. Stewart
Gon
J. D. Campbell
Peculiar murder and lynching in Basrot Louisiana
Basrot La May 26 A peculiar murder and lynching occurred Sunday. S C Brigman plantation manager Island DeSiard shot from ambush by an old negro. The negro then summoned Col Phillips owner and confessed, asked to be hanged, Col Phillips hanged him by rope over a tree limb. The negro was thought insane.
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S. C. Brigman
Island DeSiard
Col. Phillips
Brigman
Adams Family Drowns in Red River Flood Eddy
Texarkana Ark May 28 The family of Turner Adams his wife and five children were drowned today while trying to escape the flooded Glass plantation on the Red river Adams went to fetch food and returned to rescue them but the boat was swamped in an eddy all were drowned in the waterway of the plantation area
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Red River
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Cholera Ravages Serinagar Amid City Population Decline
Calcutta May 26 cholera continues to devastate Serinagar, a Cashmere capital. With a population of 58,000, deaths run about 600 daily, risking depopulation if the toll remains.
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Cashmere
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