29 Jan 1903
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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
1
A blaze at the Colney Hatch asylum in London this morning burned about 50 insane patients to death in the Jewish wing. Five wooden dormitories and other buildings were gutted as panicked inmates hindered rescue efforts. Officials report around 52 deaths, all women, with many bodies found charred amid the wreckage and relatives gathering outside.
Boerila Jan 27 President Castro's offer of 80 percent of customs receipts from LaGuayra and Porto Cabello to guarantee payment of foreign claims is seen as evidence of sincerity. Officials question if 80 percent is adequate as other powers mull participation and who shares in results from prior naval actions.
The Great Highway of Trade and Travel connects principal commercial centers and resorts of the South with the North East and West. Through sleeping cars between New York and New Orleans via Atlanta Cincinnati and Florida points with 23 hours Augusta to New York. Superb dining car service on all through trains. Winter tourist tickets on sale. For information contact agents or W E McGehee J D Beam Augusta or Atlanta.
In Montgomery on January 27 General Edmund W Pettus was declared the people's choice by the Alabama legislature's Democratic caucus as his successor in the U S Senate. The caucus showed strong attendance and enthusiasm as Senator Pettus was nominated by Senator Craig from Pettus' Dallas County home. The nomination passed by rising vote with all present standing. Each house will ballot today and a joint session Wednesday will finalize the election. It is reported that the five Republican and Populist members will back Pettus.
Indiana Senator C W Fairbanks addressed a joint session of the Indiana General Assembly in Indianapolis to accept re election to the United States Senate He pledged to serve all people of the state regardless of party affiliation and highlighted Indiana progress The session ended with a large ovation in his favor Meanwhile heirs of James R Watson of Raleigh filed a $30000 lawsuit against Seaboard Air Line claiming he was killed when his engine collided with a wild car last July
In London on January 27 the sentence of death for Col Arthur Lynch, convicted of high treason last Friday, has been commuted to penal servitude for life.
Denver January 27 An Arapahoe county Republican central committee resolution condemns Philip B. Stewart Frank G Goudy and other anti Wolcott leaders for conspiring with Democrats to defeat the Colorado Republicans in the state legislature They accuse them of unholy alliance with enemies to elect a powerful Democratic leader to the United States Senate and oppose President Theodore Roosevelt. Stewart and Good led the anti Wolcott struggle within the party and stood against Wolcott’s camp during the contest.
London Jan 27 The German embassy authorized a statement denying any discord with England over Venezuela Both governments claim perfect harmony and plan to withdraw the blockade at the earliest possible moment No date has been set but the blockade will end once powers reach agreement with Mr Bowen The press and cables in New York implying English embarrassment are not supported by the German government
Galveston January 27 British steamship Montenegro arrived from Boston reporting it picked up the abandoned lumber schooner Otis bound for Havana. A line was attached and the schooner towed for hours until rough weather forced parting. The crew were saved and landed at Port Arthur. London reports Batchilde Ross ashore at Aberffraw Point Isle of Anglesey with all crew safe after voyage from Liverpool to Cardiff.
The Paris Herald reports Mrs. Fair had facsimiles made of her jewels and left the real ones in America to foil theft and customs, even her maid did not know the fakes. Maurice Grau, in ill health, cannot sign the Metropolitan Opera house five year lease, the company abandons plans for next season and seeks a successor on similar terms.
Harry Edelstein, 14, son of George Edelstein a prominent clothing merchant, was instantly killed yesterday at about 2 PM when a Chattanooga Belt train ran him down near the Chattanooga Furnace plant west of Cameron Hill. Trainmen report he was swinging from a car.
The United Mine Workers convention in Indianapolis began early today and finished updating the constitution and by‑laws. Key changes include raising the two thirds vote threshold to organize a strike to two thirds of the entire organization, a uniform initiation fee of 10 dollars for miners and 2.50 dollars for boys aged 14 to 16, free union admission for orphans of miners, and a 10 dollar fine on local officers for transfer cards held by delinquent miners beyond three months. The plan to require miners to join their employed colliery union was deferred to districts, while the appeals and grievances committee reported briefly, signaling harmony within the organization.
A south bound Chicago and Evansville mail train collided with a light freight engine one and a half miles south of Danville Illinois this morning seriously injuring the passenger engineer and slightly injuring two passengers and a mail clerk. The engineer jumped and was injured, while the fireman and remaining crew were unscathed.
Forest and Stream recounts a fisherman named Brenty battling a monster catch near lily pads. The struggle spans half an hour as the quarry pulls the boat sides and leaps. Spectators claim the fish weighs over six pounds though scales show four pounds two ounces.
A fragment recounts a cozy scene of tending a winter fire with details on how a big bucklog is managed in a 19th century hearth. It then shifts to a May 1 1637 moment when Cromwell and Hampden were among eight immigrant ships in the Thames halted by royal soldiers before embarkation.
Fragmented OCR style humor and quotations from various papers. The text riffs on Cromwell, the House of Stuart, and imagined migrations, with brief asides about a religious bookseller, a rose from a vine, and comic dialogue about bachelors and married life.
A fragmented reminiscence contrasts lavish royal entertainments in the French monarchy with early Dutch rules in Ceylon restricting cinnamon trade. It notes Comte d Artois hosting a queen for a week and Marshal de Soubise hosting Louis XV for a day at great cost, then wanders to a joke about coats and a Simpkins punchline.
The New York Weekly quotes Necash lamenting rising inequality as the rich grow richer and the poor poorer while a Globe note recalls a friend’s marital plans. An Ashland California reader claims URICSOL cured her inflammatory rheumatism after extensive prior failures and costly remedies.
An old time retailer boasts of January sales and continues advertised prices for 20 more days from February 1. The message urges readers to visit the store to see prices and implies strong demand. It emphasizes knowledge as power and urges reading the ad to avoid being a loser.
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