Convict Camp Grievances Stir South Carolina Inquiry
A letter from a former convict camp overseer assigns blame to Superintendents Lipscomb and Talbert over treatment of prisoners in Georgia Carolina and Northern rail lines, Sumter and Darlington. He alleges rationing cuts and starvation, improper burials, and missing funds, detailing food shortages and hospital cases amid a broader probe into penitentiary management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lumbia
D. C
Lipscomb
Talbert
Sutter
Col. Lipscomb
Georgia, Carolina and
Jlailroad
Chester County
Wilson Short Cut
Marion County
Eutawville
Clarendon County
Colleton County
Columbia
Mayesville
Charleston
Sumter
W.J. Talbert
Mr.Talbert
Darlington
Palbert
South Carolina
A. Alnan
Ulman
Talvert
Os. Lipscomb
Beft
Rowland Still
Sti]l
E. L. Gandy
Liac Andrews
N. R. Carter
Rh. J. Mims
A. Cook
A. Ulman
Jarvas Scar Utto
J. F. Barrier
B. B. Dibson
UH. C. Rowe
Ht. J. Beard
The State of the Crops and Weather Bulletin Summary
The weekly signal service weather crop bulletin reports cooler than normal temperatures across most districts with scattered normal or slightly above readings in the lake region New England and Gulf States Favorable conditions overall drought relief in the East and Middle Gulf States with notable rains in Waynesboro Ga Gainesville Ga Toccoa Ga Augusta Ga and warnings of dry pockets in Middle New England the middle plateau and South California Corn and cotton prospects improve while oats and wheat harvests show better yields Texas reports promising cotton and corn and a best ever wheat crop Louisiana soils reap gains after drought but gardens suffer rice and cane slow Mississippi and Alabama see drought relief yet crops remain small and late South Carolina receives helpful rains but sun shortage hurts cotton North Carolina reports cool weather and poor cotton with abundant wheat harvests Virginia notes good crop conditions and excellent corn with some wheat rust Overall winter grain and western corn belt show variable conditions with dry spells in Pennsylvania New Jersey New York and New England while corn remains average to good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Signal Service
Lake Region
New England
Gulf States
Virginia
Iowa
Kansas
North Pacific
East
Middle Gulf States
Waynesboro
Gainesville
Arkansas
Texas
Gulf Coast
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
South Carolina
North Carolina
Pennsylvan
New Jersey
New York
Captain Widdecombes Killed in Cable Car Accident
Captain Robert S. Widdecombes former chief of the foreign mails division and a noted G A R member was killed when his horse frightened by cable cars threw him from a buggy. His skull was fractured and he died hours later at a Washington hospital.
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Washington
Robert S. Widdecombes
Foreign Mails Division
Widdecombes
Georgia press poll on Democratic nominee and campaign issues
The Evening Journal surveyed Georgia Press Association members in session in Atlanta. Among eighteen editors, eleven backed Cleveland, two backed Hill, and five were noncommittal. Nine favored tariff reform as the leading issue, two favored free silver, and seven saw them of equal importance.
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Atlanta
The
Evening Journal
Georgia Press Association
Eghteen
Cleveland
Hill
Warrenton Post Office Tragedy Ends Magrath Life
Captain William J. Magrath of Charleston was shot and killed in Warrenton Ga by A V Lowell who accused Magrath of writing love letters to his wife. The incident occurred in a post office as witnesses described four fatal head and body shots. Magrath, married with four children, had connections to Charleston and Warrenton through family ties and recent moves. Lowell, a carriage builder, was jailed awaiting grand jury action after the coroner's inquest.
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Auwausia
Warrenton
W. J. Magrath
A. Vy.lowell
Atlanta
Olowell
Magrath
Llowell
Ile
IL. I. Pitypatrick
Howell
Ilowell
Augusta
Warren County
Flowell
Charleston
Monument to Calvin Crozier Erected in Rosemont Cemetery
A monument to Calvin Crozier, the Texas-born defender who died in 1865 protecting a woman near Newberry South Carolina, was placed at Rosemont Cemetery. The inscription recounts his act, the subsequent execution by a regiment of African American soldiers, and the memorial’s financing by Lea vell and Speers. The item includes details of Crozier’s birth, death, and the elegy inscribed on the base.
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Newberry
S. C
Calvin Crozier
Rosemont
Crozier
Ile
Lee
Alston
Jacob Bowers
Columbia
Lone Star” of
Texas
D. C
Leavell & Speers
Rosemont Cemetery
News and Courier
Death by own action club era linked to multiple suicides
A Chicago dispatch reports a sensational death by own action club linked to suicides among its members. The piece lists ten victims, identifies the club president William Zeggs, and notes the group allegedly formed to pursue morbid schemes. Also included are brief crime notes, a shipboard death, and classified ads.
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Bripgerokr
Conn
Robert Louis Stevenson
EK. F. Smith
Birmingham
August Heiserhagan
J. Knipp
George Leavenwoth
Laudanum
William Meckel
John Kinzy
J. C. Schneider
John Hattern
Wendell Baur
New York City
W. H. Moby
E. F. Schmidt
William Zeggs
Gold Street
Loester
Melon Growers Seek Freight Rate Reductions at Aiken Meeting
A called meeting of the Fruit and Melon Growers Association in Aiken discussed overcharges by eastern railroad lines for melon shipments. Delegates argued for 8 mills per mile and a minimum 82 000 pound carload to New York, with resolutions to request tariff rates and avoid pre payment at connections. The group pledged support to W H Loud Jr in his fight for lower freight costs and adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melon Growers
Fruit and Melon Growers Association
Aiken
J.B. Glack
J.D. Copeland
G. W. Groft
E.R. Hayes
Bamberg
J. G. Baynham
Trenton
J. B. Bennett
Windsor
P.Q. McCreary
Whits Pond
Ju. Bradwell
W. M. Jordan
Inter-State Commerce Commission
New York
Georgia Association
Blackville
Alston & Newberry
Barnwell
Tragic Drowning Near Parker's Ford In Schuylkill River
In Pittston Pennsylvania on June 17 Jennie Knerr aged 10 and Frank Bixbee aged 28 drowned in the Schuylkill River near Parker's Ford after Bixbee, intoxicated, waded into the water with Miss Knerr and her companions. He attempted to teach them to swim and carried Jennie beyond her depth before both sank.
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Pittston
Jennie Knerr
Frank Bixbee
Schuylkill River
Parker's Ford
Miss Knerr
Bixbee
Jennie
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Wheeler
Bumter
8. C
John R. Keele
Bailey
Common Pleas
W. J
B. Waynsworth
J. R. Keels
Newanni
South Carolina Weather Service
United States Signal Service
San Francisco
China
Kowloon City
Opposte
Hong Kong
Ife
the Georgia Editors
Warrenton GA
William J. Magrath
Ilu
Altoona
Pennsylvania and Northwestern
Bellwood
Lloydsville
Roat
John Simonton
Bell
Millard Frazier
VanScone
Dunn
Patrick
Cincinnati
Knoxville
Tenn
New Manville
Green County
Stencase
O, N. King
Ufe
Sam Small
Chur
Denver
Colorado Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
NontroLth
John Howard
Hampton Roads
N.W. Trump
Main Street
Chickering
Mathushek
Mason & Hamlin
Sterling
Mason & Hamlin Organs
Sterling Organs
Leitch and
Marshall
Graniteville
James Paxton
Savannah
P. P.P
L. I
Padgett
Life Assurance Society
United States
Equitable
W. J. Roddey
Rock Hill, 8. C
P.H. Hyatt
F. H. Hyatt Columbia
Mechanical Department
W. H. Gibbes, Jr., & Co
D. P. Duncan
W. H. Gibbes
Jnr., & CO
Bales Ah Esg
CO. Smt
Jaans Moan
Ore Ee
Thomas Steam
Talbott & Sons
OLD Dominion Corn Mills
Lummas and van Winkle Corton
V. C. Badham
Talbott
Mornza
Carmi
Ill
G. F. Looxwoop
Dilew
LD Vlator DI
Terry Mie
F” A Co
Aantiin, Tenn
Paluett
ORFER
D&bAy
LRON
Oon
Ipaty Creigeht
L. F. Padgett
Wadgett’s Furniture
Broad Street
Vitaliza
Wiltosud
Germewer
Murray
the Murray Drug Co
Columbia, S.C
Holler & Anderson
É Iy
Lifyhan Bros
Bole
Lippman's
Savannali
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