State Supreme Court Rejects Chester Licenses in Dispensary Case
The Newberry era ruling voids mandamus to grant retail liquor licenses in Chester up to 1893 amid questions on the dispensary law. The court limits review to passage and license-term provisions, declining broader challenges to the act, with a lengthy, formal opinion by Justice Pope.
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Senate
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News and Courier
Colored Leaders Publish Plea on Lynchings in South Carolina
A large Charleston area convention of African American leaders adopts an address urging lawful justice and condemning mob violence. The document presses peaceful rights, calls for education, warns against vigilantism, and appeals to ministers, veterans, and press to shape public sentiment.
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Columbia
S. C
Stenhouse Tall
George, Murray
Deas
Miller
Fred Nix
B.A. Wilson
J. AL. Dobson
T. T. BB. Reed
Be. V. Gassoway
G.T. Coleman
I. J. Dickergson
W. EE. Johnson
Singletop
M. Mack
G. la. Nelson
Cleaton
R. Carrell
J. We
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TO. Wall
Do. Gesu
AT. Thomas
Paul Thanes
AY J. Sets
B. Nelson
Ib Ve Aratt
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D.aa. Godwin
Dr. Watts M. Addtaei
Wo Murrey
Oln Carter
L. Wilson
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Berias
I. J. Miller
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Denmark
Deel Caine
Bencel
Caroline
Senator Mayfield Denies Fund to Remove Negroes From Barnwell
Savannah News claimed a fund was raised to move all the Negroes from Barnwell county. Senator Mayfield said he had heard nothing of such a fund and doubts any family would leave. He noted emigrations in the past and urged white protection of women, praising The Journal as a clean sheet for reporting.
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National Democratic Party
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Senate
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Barnwell County
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South Carolina
Afibis
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Columbia Journal
Poll Tax Liability Clarified by Attorney General Townsend
In Columbia on May 18 the Attorney General addresses the Comptroller General, stating that a man must be 21 on the first of November to be liable for poll tax in the ensuing year. Tax returns run from June 1 to June 20. If not 21 on November 1 preceding the return, he is not liable.
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Judge Cothran Leads Bland Clisby Case in Edgefield
In Greenville May 15 interview Judge Cothran said he reviewed witnesses and argued the Bland Clisby case in Edgefield. Solicitor Bonham drafted the indictment, summoned witnesses, and then handed the case to Judge Cothran.
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Cothhran
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Edgefield
Bonham
Cothran
State
Caustic Letter From Tillman to Charleston Sheriff
The State prints a caustic letter from Tillman of Columbia criticizing Sheriff Ferguson of Charleston for delaying Don Carlos's delivery to the penitentiary. Tillman says no order has been received to deliver the prisoner and demands immediate notification and action. He notes penitentiary authorities can receive no prisoner without the shipper’s delivery and presses swift compliance.
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S.C
Perguson
Charleston
Don Carlos
Isdn Sim
Gourier
Ater Cartes
Hin
Tillman
Public attention on policy lottery scams in New York
Public interest centers on a policy racket described by officials as widespread in the city. The Sunday Advertiser says over a thousand dollars are spent openly by Vicks operators aiming to recover losses, with many shops crowded before drawings reveal any prize, while authorities deny effective enforcement.
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Cyroes
Vicks Rose
Multiple Maritime Disasters and a Fatal House Accident
A string of mid May calamities reports drownings aboard the Mary J Jenkins in Charleston waters and the Bay City ferry collision near San Francisco. In Cleveland a missionary wife dies under a folding bed as a daughter witnesses.
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Charleston
S. C
Mary J. Jenkins
San Francisco
Oakland
Bay City
Train Wreck Wounds Two Men Near Bambeng S C
Freight train No M2 wrecked near BampenG S C injuring two young men. They were found in a car badly crushed and taken to a hotel for care. One man Storace Talley, a Washington D C newspaper writer, is delirious and may recover. the other, POA Malpas, is internally injured and may die.
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Denver
Denmark
Bambere
Leo Pioews
Rene Dort
Malpas
Tom Thompson
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Ayonnoy
Storace Talley
Washington, D. C
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Caminetti Sees President on Chinese Restriction Enforcement
California Congressman Caminetti reports a White House commitment to enforce the Chinese restriction. He argues certificates at cost will limit entrants and punishment of offenders will deter others. He expects possible funding at next session and notes 3,444 Chinese registered in 40 of 63 districts, with coast reports pending.
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Wasslngton
Caminetti
California
White House
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Internal Revenue
Pacific Coast
Record of Mississippi River flood threatening Arkansas and Louisiana
May 17 dispatches describe severe flooding along the Mississippi with Lake Port, Brooks Mill and Grand Lake crevasses flooding Chicot County Arkansas and spreading toward Louisiana Red River as well. Officials report the Grand Lake crevasse widening and river stages rising despite a slight drop in Memphis gauge readings.
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Tenn
Arkansas
Louisiana
Memphis
Oscool
Ark
St. Francis Basin
Chicot County
Lake Port
Brooks Mill
Grand Lake
Wieter
Ohio Valley
Mississippi
Missouri
Mob lynches suspect in Bedford area violence
On May 16 a mob from this town hanged DLou Trenk who killed mebey Kachler a week ago. The lynching occurred at Brownstown at 2 AM, carried out by the same group that earlier lynched Turley at Bedford.
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SryMoon
Dlou Trenk
Mebey Kachler
Brownstown
Turley
Bedford
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