Happenings In The State Chronicle of multiple crimes and events
Kill of Pearl Hall by accident at a weapon discharge in Rowesville. Barnwell court opens with murder trial of Geo D Kirkland linked to Robbins tragedy. Election fraud indictments include John Schroeder. Cotton production reports and local governance changes noted in Cheraw Bennettsville and Anderson updates. A mysterious NC assassinated man Nero Hallams near Norris Station with bloodhounds tracing suspect leads.
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Barnwell
Court of General Sessions
Geo. D. Kirkland
Charleston
John Schroeder
Tody
G. F. Butler
Mysterious coma ends in death at St. Vincent's
Nellie Corolan died after twenty days in a coma at St. Vincent's Hospital New York. Doctors from many specialties described the case as perplexing with no clear cause or diagnosis despite extensive testing and treatment including electricity and hypnosis theories.
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St. Vincent's Hospital
New York
Nellie Corolan
Startling claim for Dr King’s New Life Pills author praises uses
D. H. Turner of Demsey town Pa declares the pills are a grand medicine and two weeks’ use made a new man of him. He says the product is infallible for constipation and stomach and liver troubles and mentions FL Mackey Co and Crawford Bros drug stores.
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Dr. King
D. H. Turner
Demseytown
Mackey & Co
Crawford Bros’ drug_ store
Death From Smallpox Shocks Charlotte
A popular Charlotte man, A A Springs, a 8 son of A A Springs, died of smallpox after a ten day illness. The city faces a serious outbreak with over 50 people in pest houses and detained, vaccination urged to curb the virulent disease. Five deaths last week were among the unvaccinated.
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Charlotte
Marry on His Deathbed in Asheville
Special to The Observer Asheville November 8 John McCormick Gibson died at Battery Park Hotel at 11 o'clock He had come to Asheville to combat consumption He married Miss Henrietta Wolfe on his deathbed last Saturday night His condition briefly improved but then worsened and he died before noon His will supposedly leaves property valued over 1 000 000 to the bride Relatives in Cincinnati are mentioned for funeral arrangements
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Cincinnati
John McCormick Gibson
Ashesville
N. C
Henrietta Wolfe
Asheville
Windsor Hotel
New
The
Observer
Battery Park
Gibson
Winyah
Elephant killed on ship in Barnum & Bailey act
Mandarin the 5 ton Bull elephant of Barnum & Bailey was strangled aboard the Minneapolis by a two inch rope attached to a winch. The method killed him in eight minutes, the cage then sunk with 5000 pounds of railroad iron. He had been with the circus 24 years and stood nine feet ten inches high.
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New York
Bagnum &Bailey Circus
Minneapolis
Atlantic Transport Line
Avin
Barnum & Bailey Circus
American Cigar Company Seeks Greenville Factory
Greenville South Carolina November 8 The American Cigar Company has made a proposal to locate a factory in Greenville. Over seven thousand dollars has been subscribed toward building the plant. A further canvass will be made Monday and indications point to meeting the required amount.
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Greenville
S. C
American Cigar Company
Greenville Board of Trade
Electric Bitters Cure Rheumatism in Blacksmith Tale
A. T. Headley of Tilden Indiana endured ten years of rheumatic pain before two bottles of Electric Bitters cured him completely. The remedy purifies blood regulates kidneys and aids digestion. Available for 50 cents at J. F. Mackey & Co. and Crawford Bros. drug stores.
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A. T. Headley
Tilden
Ind
J. F. Mackey & Co
Crawford Bros
Union Bleaching and Finishing to Build Plant in Greenville
The Union Bleaching and Finishing Company, a New Jersey corporation backed by New York capitalists, plans a large bleaching and finishing plant in Greenville with a project cost not less than $200,000.
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Union Bleaching and Finishing Company
New Jersey
New York
Greenville
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Ale
Rowesville
Azzle Londing
Pearl Hall
Kirkland
Elec
TION
Chest Field County
J R. Jowers
Agricultural Department
Cotte
Ed Redfern
Meanigg
Cheraw
County Board of Control
N. L. Wiggins
Thompson
BennettsVille
County Board of Education
E. J. Sawyer
Klugh
Jude
Aaled
Sawyer
Anderson
Norris Station
Central
Air Line
Nero Hallams
Clemson College
Hallams
ALM. O
Lancaster Hercantile G
Charlotte Observer
Sth
A. A. Springs
Leity
John W. Gibson
Mandarin
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