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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1900
Page
2
The public is invited to inspect new millinery stock in the Ganson Cash Store department led by Misses Wadsley of Baltimore and Huey of Rock Hill. Special attention to a bargain line of black dress goods for suits and skirts. ARE THEY WANTED:
Norfolk detectives report two African American men W H Green and WS Carter arrested after a Camden inquiry. description attached. A serious shooting at Wateree Bridge near Camden left John Mickle wounding Harry Johnson. both men worked for Philadelphia Construction on the Seaboard Air Line bridge project. A tale from the Ladies Home Journal about Henry Ward Beecher and a caution on speculation is included, plus an ad for Woolford's Sanitary Lotion.
Calhoun Allen, who plunged seventy feet from a Presbyterian church steeple, is reported improving. His wife and two children from Atlanta arrived to see him yesterday morning. The incident is noted amid subscription prompts from Ledger.
The commission for a Chicamauga battlefield monument in Columbia South Carolina awarded the contract to the Stewart Company for 4750 dollars. The shaft, one of the handsomest on the field, rests on South Carolina granite bases 21 feet high with bronze relief figures and a bronze palmetto tree statue atop. Completion is planned for December.
Washington reports the president told Kentucky Republicans he cannot disarm rival factions but will recognize Republican officials as de facto. He will order mail to be delivered to named officials, and to state officers without names to the incumbent. Postmaster Smith confirms mail to unnamed officers goes to the actual holder until lawfully inducted.
A sensational note warns of a deadly consumption linked illness causing nerve and muscle damage. It promotes Dr Kings New Life Pills as a safe cure, claims benefits for stomach liver kidneys and bowels, and advertises 25 cents at Craw Crawford Bros drug store. The piece also reports Boer generals Cronje and Joubert killed in action.
Washington reports a serious China crisis with the battleship Oregon and cruisers Newark and New Orleans en route to the China coast. The Boxers, backed by the Empress Dowager and Russia, clash with Imperial troops near Yenghui in Pechili. heavy casualties, about fifteen hundred fighters on each side. A Russian squadron reaches Yokohama at Chamulpo, Korea, signaling possible land concessions and stirring Japan.
Belair Maryland March 97 Miss Annie Mellvaine with disheveled hair and a cocked revolver led a mob of about two hundred to attack the jail. They dragged Lewis Harris from his cell and hanged him at a tree after he confessed to assaulting Mellvaine. Sheriff’s men exchanged shots. two bystanders were wounded.
The Harrisburg report by James Rodserick, chief of the State bureau of mines and mining, details 9,575 lives lost in and around Pennsylvania anthracite mines over four decades. It breaks down losses by decade with rates per 1,000 employed and cites totals for the periods ISTOTu ISS0-80 and 1905 0, noting a cumulative death toll of 2,181 for ISTA-To and 4,508 in a final tally.
The Greenville News editorial praises Gov McSweeney for promising to discipline every magistrate who refuses to enforce the vaccination law. It labels those who resist the mandate as unworthy of office in an enlightened state, arguing the measure is essential to prevent disease spread.
Mrs S H Lincoln recounts a fearful night for General Burnham of Mabhias Maine as doctors feared pneumonia would end his widow. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving her life and curing consumption after three doses. The product promises to cure throat chest and lung diseases with trials offered at Crawford Brown drug store.
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