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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1901
Page
4
Aouedale hosts a brief Sunday gathering at AUB with two hours of activities and a 100 participant limit, featuring Wallyeseege as the highlighted speaker.
The article recalls Mrs Mary Palmer Banks widow of Gen Nathaniel P Banks detailing their rise from cotton mill workers in Waltham Massachusetts to prominence in New England society. It notes his Civil War service and political career, while praising Mrs Banks for kindness and learning. It includes other items from The Ledger and discusses 1904 political debates and maritime topics.
A youthful looking woman testified last week in Superior Court about being mother to twenty three children, twenty two living. Lawyers questioned her age as the story, supported by reputable witnesses from Monroe Journal, drew disbelief from the defense and judges.
Baron Von Masse of Gersmany left a will bequeathing his fortune of 2,000,000 dollars to the remaining Mosby's Cavalry survivors. Col Mosby doubts the report, noting about 100 to 106 survivors of the command, once numbering under 400. He recalls Baron Vonowell as a brave, imposing figure who commanded a brigade in the German army and rose to general, later serving in major European wars.
Report from Krakow, Russia, states seven condemned students will be hanged publicly as a warning to others involved in insurrections. No formal trial was held, sentence pronounced after only the accusers spoke, and the czar confirmed the decision through an administrative decree.
Five Black men Sylvenia Georgia February 20 were found guilty of aiding the August killings of two white men Fillawee Harrington and Milton Mears in Inlet County. They belonged to an organization titled the Rights of the Archer, whose charter reportedly contains an oath of vengeance against whites and obligates members to defend themselves and to act in retaliation.
To T. Ova, a wealthy woman cured of deafness and head noises by Nicholson's Artificial Bar Deum, donated $10,000 to his institute. The fund supports free Bar Drome access for deaf people unable to obtain it. Address 1167 Nicholson Institute, Brist Ave, New York.
John Palmer, a colored cotton handler for local buyers, was arrested for stealing and selling waste cotton. He collected loose cotton around bundled bales, selling it to Uh Bailey for mattress making, and later sampled full bales until shorting buyers by about $36 or $840. Palmer confessed accomplice Will Turner helped sample and split proceeds. Turner fled and remains at large.
An advertisement-like notice markets a purported remedy for water durhy sleep, claiming value over $100. It mentions J Macney & Co, Druggist, Land Center, and claims to cure old and create cow trouble at one. The text appears as a strange, garbled OCR snippet with and without clear context.
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