06 Mar 1901
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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1901
Page
1
Washington March 2 Senator Pandler of New Hampshire was presented with a cane by leaders of a leading colored newspaper in gratitude for race services. Kane City Missouri March 2 Ruth Nolland 18 was shot and killed on the street by Payler 23, a former worker.
The report mixes moonshine bust at Beaton six miles from Beason in Polk County with Hart of Knoxville leading a posse that captured Garrett Headen and sixteen hundred gallons of mash. It notes discussions on lynching among local figures and calls for peaceful Black citizen organization under the Fifteenth Amendment.
A Virginia fertilizer maker’s Savannah plant was destroyed by fire that started in an ore burner area and quickly spread to the war houses and acid building. Estimated loss reaches 115000 dollars, with insurance covering the damage. The report notes a Mississippi smallpox scare affecting 400 people in January and February.
Reports describe mob violence in Bryan County where John Moody, a farm laborer, was hanged and shot after being accused of contract violation. Separately, Roslyn Ferrell was executed by electric chair at the Ohio Penitentiary after the 1900 murder, showing calm nerve in the final moments and a claim of last rites.
Special dispatch details Morgan & Co receiving about seven to eight million dollars in cash value for brokering the United States Steel Corporation strantic steel project. Underwriters’ syndicate managers to gain 25 million in preferred stock and 25 million in common stock. Morgan asserts a 2.5 million commission. deal involved 27.6 million cash outlay. Also notes a brewery charter application in Columbia and tax receipts data. Becklen's Arnica Salve advertised as pile cure by Crawford Bros.
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