Butler Answer Opposes Sub-Treasury and Party Caucus Authority
Senator M. C. Butler writes to the South Carolina Farmers Alliance, defending free conscience in politics and outlining views on currency reform, land reform, and government ownership. He rejects binding caucus rule, supports postal savings and per capita currency goals, and argues against national ownership of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones while favoring land reform and reasonable taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Farmers Alliance
United States Senate
National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
Siened
Taos
V. Mitrohell
Execuive Gum
Farmers Alliance of
South Carolina
Placf
Farmers Alliance
Democratic Party
Oder
Senate
House
Llavor
Congress
Commercia Commission
M. C. Burner
Love tragedy shocks GREEN Bay as groom-to-be dies
Silas Gilfillan, a young merchant, blew out his brains on the steps of James Lewis’s house after his engagement to Miss Lewis. She is ill and reportedly dying from the shock, while Miss Lewis herself was not dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Bay
Ala
Silas Gilfillan
James Lewis
Battle at Stickler Hollow Mines Turns Deadly in Strike Clash
In Uniontown Pennsylvania May 24 the Stickler Hollow mines scene of fierce fight between 1 500 to 2 000 strikers and 75 armed deputies. Five strikers killed eight or more wounded and three deputies wounded as violence erupts with gunfire and arrests follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Stickler Hollow
Washington Coal and Coke Company
Fayette City
Layton Station
Stickle Hollow
Monongahela
Youghiogheny River
Wilhelm
Ags Thes
Clemson College Damaged. Officials weigh insurance and repairs
May 23 Columbia reports no definite status on Clem son College after a disaster. Governor Tillman says main building cost around 85 000 with limited insurance of 40 000 discussed but not approved. Recitations to continue. repairs planned using available insurance funds and state exhibit valued at 3 000. Board of trustees to meet Friday to decide the full path forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penny Wise
Pound
Columbia
Clemson College
Tillman
Rock Hill
Board of Trustees
Tie
Repeal of State Bank Tax Gathers Support in Washington
Friends of the state bank tax repeal report progress in the House after a canvass. They claim enough votes to pass the bill as opposition from Democrats wanes due to Cleveland’s influence. Speaker and leaders back the measure in a bid to secure passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uriahttio
Washington
Friends of
House
Ste
Cleveland
Weather bulletin reports near normal crops with heat then frost
The Weekly Bulletin from observer Lauer notes favorable growth early week due to heat and heavy showers, then a cold wave reducing temps from 30 to 20 F within a day. Light frosts occurred in places like Orangeburg, with minor damage mainly to sweet potatoes and some cotton. Reports cite washouts, hail, and a sand storm in Barnwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Observer Lauer
State Weather Bureau
Orangeburg
Spartangburg
Newberry
Greenville
Barnwell
Columbia
Williamsburg
Sumter
Saint George
Society Hill
Beaufort
Elloree
Reio
Charleston
Iluoters
Easley
Central
Trial
Port Troyal
Emingham
Conway
Loopers
Saint Stephens
Spartanburg
Camden
Cheraw
Florence
Hardeeville
Batesburg
Greenwood
Santuc
Little Mountain
Town for Sale in Manchester New Jersey Sheriff's Sale Looms
Manchester New Jersey faces a rare sheriff's sale that could put an entire village including railroad shops churches schools stores and homes on the market. The foreclosure stems from a 1867 mortgage by John Torrey to Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. Torrey, a major New York financier, built the town and the Raritan and Delaware Bay railroad amid New Jersey political battles. A two page description in local papers highlights the scope and fear among residents that their homes may be sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
N. J
John Torrey
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of
Newark
Torrey
New York
Ile
Manchester Township
Ocean County
Raritan and
Delaware Bay
Camden and Amboy
Commodore Stockton
John
Robert L
Edwin A. Stevens
New Jersey
Camden and Amboy State
Raritan
Bayside
Bank of Moyland
Brown Bros. & Co
Dim- Novel Tragedy in a Commission House
INDIANAPOLIS May 23 Wiley Taylor and Cloud Sanders acted as Dead wood Dick in J. L. Keach’s commission house. Sanders claimed the role and warned Taylor not to wink. Sanders drew a revolver from a drawer and shot Taylor in the head after a defiant exchange. Taylor is believed to die. Sanders says he did not know the gun was loaded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Wiley Taylor
Cloud Sanders
Deadwood Dick
J. L. Keach
Commission
Sanders
Taylor
Wreck in tunnel on Newport News and Mississippi Valley Route
A collision inside a tunnel near Princeton Kentucky after an extra freight train struck a pile driver train with a boarding car. Conductor Nick ill and six or seven boarding car occupants were killed. Rescue teams faced delay in recovering victims.
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Princeton
Tie New Ports News
Mississippi
Gov Tillman appeals for aid to Bluffton white residents
Governor Tillman issued an urgent appeal to South Carolina residents to aid the white people of Bluffton Township Beaufort County facing destitution after the coast storm. He cites crop loss, exhausted credit, and death of livestock, urging monetary contributions or shipments of meat flour corn meal, to Bluffton care of Thomas Martin or via the steamer Alpha at Beaufort or Savannah pivot Bay Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Bluffton Township
Beaufort County
Tappeal
Thomas Martin
Relef Committee
Bluffton
Alpha
Beaufort
Savanah
Pivot Bay
Charleston
B. R
Long separated lovers reunite in a web of deceit abroad
A Russian tale from St Petersburg unfolds a man Yaltidze and his former American wife as their lives cross in London Paris Wiesbaden. The husband’s plan to divorce sparks a duel of alibis with a supposed American millionaire lover and a deceitful romance ending with a threat to shoot the fugitive husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
S. Petersburg
Michael Yaltidze
Hungary
Yaltidze
America
Alabama
Ife
Russia
Ile
Paris
Wiesbaden
Yakidze
Madame Y
Vahidze
Mme. Yakidzs
United States
Lord
Yalidzs
Steamer Bertha Brings Survivors From San Francisco Sealer
The Bertha arrived in Vancouver carrying the captain and crew of the San Francisco sealer Undaunted, wrecked March 7 near the Coseper river mouth. The five survivors endured brutal months afloat with two blind and three demented, rescued April 4 and taken to Kodiak, now bound for California.
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Vancouver
B. C
Nanaim
Kadiak
Alaska
San Francisco
Kodiak
California
Gorman's Great Talk on Tariff Debate in Senate
Senator Gorman addressed the Senate on the tariff bill, praising Democratic reform and warning against Republican excess. He defended the tariff law as a revenue measure with limited protection, disputed sugar trusts influence, and opposed peacetime income tax while acknowledging sectional splits among Democrats. The vote to lay the tariff bill on the table failed 38 to 28, with several senators voting against.
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Washington
Gormin
Senate
Democratic Party
Peremnee
Treasury
Cleveland
Gugar Trust
Gorman
New York
New Jersey
Bryce
Maryland
Aldrich
Teller
Lill
Irby
Kyle
Peffer
Ex-private secretary jailed over forged order for government books
Washington reports a former private secretary to Congressman Lockwood has been jailed for selling a forged order to obtain a lot of government documents, including seed and horse books. The incident highlights a persistent trade in government publications supplied to members of Congress and their staff.
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Washington
Congressman Lockwood
Lockwood
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Congressman Satch
Missouri
McMillin
Tennessee
Annual Meeting of South Carolina Teachers at Converse College
Elaborate plans for the 234th State Teachers Association gathering at Converse College Spartanburg July 1 to 5 led by Dr. J Wm Flinn and Prof J Fleming Brown with a full program of addresses discussions and papers. Board and lodging details offered with special Spartanburg free excursion to Asheville and reduced rail rates arranged by the executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
State Teachers’ Association of
South Carolina
Converse College
Spartanburg
J. Wm. Flinn
J. Flemming Brown
W. M. Grier
D. D
Due West
A. B. Calvert
B. I. Wilson
Tr. P. Bailey
Marion
E. L. Hughes
Greenville
Morrison
Clemson College
D. B. Johnson
Carolinas
Georgia
B. F. Bailey
Abbeville
Department of
F. L. Hughes
T. P. Batley, Jr
W. H. Hand
P. T. Brodie
J. H. Carlisle
Wofford College
France
James Woodrow
South Carolina College
Frank Evans
Newberry
Eila Cofield
Geo.t. Winston
University of North Carolina
Maud E H. Masson
H.S. Hartrop
Bamburg
William Welch
Department of School Commissioners
F. Horton Colcock
W. W. Bright
Thomas W. Keltt
K. H. Peters
Mra. L. B .Thompson
8.C
Ashville
Association
B. EF. Wilson
J. F. Brown
Izlar to Decide on 7th District Run in 1892 Style
Representative Izlar weighs a Congressional bid in the 7th district with Orangeburg residence. He could move to Charleston for the 1st district but opts to stay in Orangeburg to avoid antagonism and pursue a Straightout Democrat race based on the 1892 Chicago platform.
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Washington
Izlar
Orangeburg
Charleston
Stokes
Congress
Chicago
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Farmer's Alliance
Sub
Costumbria
8. C
M. C. Butler
Washington, D. C
Tivee
the Condition
Kmeebt
Tilleman
Ion
Orl Loleca
Wileon
the State Teachers Association
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