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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1896
Page
3
A jumble of items includes Dr Hartman’s Liver Health claims for a “new woman” cure and a warning about open owners, plus notes on Belgium cattle imports, a Tennessee bond proposal, a claim about lightning proof garments, and various ads. Names, places, and dates appear with mixed reliability and tone.
Bulawayo Aug 24 The mission of Cecil Rhodes to the Matabele chiefs is reported a pronounced success. The natives yielded, the rebellion quelled, and Rhodes arms the reforms to be inaugurated at once. Fort Gray deems the surrender nearly unconditional. The article recounts earlier raids, tax resistance, and Rhodes’s armed intervention ending the war in Matabeleland. It notes parallels with the American South Africa conflict of 1866 and describes Bulawayo’s defense and relief aided by Rhodes’s column.
Reports from Cincinnati to Montgomey show barns struck and roofs blown off hundreds of houses unroofed and livestock killed. In Ohio near Bowling Green and Lima damage described as widespread with deracks leveled and cars overturned. In Indiana Seymour and Wabash barns and contents destroyed by lightning with multiple notable property losses.
In Cleveland crowds estimated at 50 000 watched the Second Ohio regiment parade yesterday afternoon. Regiments from Pittsburgh Allegheny Lancaster Pa and Muncie Ind arrived along with first battalion from Charleston and Parkersburg W Va. Rathbone Sisters headquarters noted as part of Prathamism preparations for a supreme senior election. Wivitaldis Huntington Ind Aug 93 reported a circus storm at Wallis causes tent wreckage and property damage with animals and riders unsettled but no spectator injuries. Texarkana Ark Aug 94 an altercation at fire house led to the killing of Sam Donaldson by a young white man ending with a shotgun blast and a rifle shot through Donaldson's brain.
New York Aug 24 Henry J Winsor veteran newspaper editor and Civil War correspondent died yesterday at his Newark home of Brights disease aged 63 He also served as consul to Saxe Coburg for twelve years beginning in 1868 London Aug 24 Dr Nicolaides Crete masacres report claims 6000 Christians murdered in Crete Bangor Me Aug 24 Charles Potter Minot guide shot dead on Deer Island by 15 year old C T Russell of Boston Potter mistaken for a bear Terre Haute Ind union meeting of five railway brotherhoods drew several thousand people
A chaotic and fragmentary roundup from New Orleans covers a shooting in which a man was severely wounded after a dispute over peas. Other items report a house fire destroying a warehouse, a street assault on a Chinese laundry, a wagon derailment near Cypress, and the steamer Thomas P. Leathers potentially released to family control after sheriff seizures. Also noted are fire-fighting and relief efforts, a bird dealer’s flamboyant ad, and stray mentions of accidents and a railroad mishap near Shreveport.
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