Construction of the Act on debt nonpreference in North Carolina
The article discusses statutory interpretation of the 1861 act on debts and preferences, comparing McKay v. Gilliam and Reeves v. Cole, and clarifies that the law targets preexisting debts and does not apply to loans made at the deed or mortgage time. It notes Supreme Court reasoning and Chief Justice Smith's views on mortgage rights and procedural limits.
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Ae Justice Pearson
McKay
Gilliam
Farthing
Carrington
Clark
Lexpress
N.C
McKethan Ve. Bar
Ington
Norcan I Gove
Judicial Cone
Ohio miners aid Pittsburg strikers not the strike
Columbus Ohio April 4 miners decide to financially aid the Pittsburg strikers while not endorsing the strike itself. Rock Island officials report a train robbery in Oklahoma. A small pox epidemic is warned in Albany and vaccination urged by City Physician Crowne. In Springfield a Lexow police bill was introduced by Mr O Grady. Provisions sent to Galway destitution sufferers in Ireland. News from New York reports Queen Victoria's death, though denied by authorities.
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Columbus
Ohio
Pittsburg
Carcado
Rock Island
Oklahoma
Kansas City
Crowne
Alpany
O Grady
Monroe County
Lexow
Springfield
Ill
Galway
Ireland
New York
Queen Victoria
Twenty One Children in Hat Creek Marriage
The Lynchburg Advance reports Mrs Molley Foster widow of Charles Foster and widower James Harper married last week at Hat Creek. The bride has fourteen children and the groom seven, so they start life with twenty one children.
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Hat Creek
Molley Foster
Charles Foster
James Harper
Lynchburg
Explosion at New Orleans store kills fifteen. several injured
An early morning blast at Charles J. Salathe store at Decatur and Ursuline streets wrecked the shop and adjoining Fisherman's Exchange saloon. Fifteen people died and many were hurt. Fire followed the explosion as wagons and goods were scattered. a child escaped from the wreck in night clothes.
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New Orleans
Chas
Lalathe
Silk Mills Hit by Mass Panic Fear In Scranton
In Scranton on April 2 a mind reader’s prophecy of a deadly explosion at the Saquoit silk mills caused hundreds to quit. About 600 girls left the Adowbrook Harvey and nearby factories followed, totaling 1,300 workers missing a day’s wages due to a charlatan’s scare.
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Scranton
Saquoit
Adowbrook
Harvey
Ex-Governor’s Son Kills Wife Near Oklahoma City
Harry St. John son of ex Governor St John of Kansas and a former Oklahoma legislator shot and killed his wife two miles from Oklahoma City. He claimed the gun discharged by accident after he demanded she name the letter’s author. Mrs St John Miss Mary Felbon 28 leaves two children. Felbon’s father Willard Felbon formerly judge in Colorado. She was laid to rest at twenty eight.
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Great Elkin
Gastonia
Seaboard Road
Hamlet
Mare
Contemptaon
Yadkin County
Tom Caudle
Wake Superior Court
Monroe Enquirer
Hugh Norwood
Walkerville
Thomasville
North Carolina
South Carolina
Denmark
Charleston
Aldrich
Sanford
Carthage Blade
John Gray Bynum
Morganton Court
Jas. E. Shepherd
Messrs
B.L. Jones & Son
Kinston Free Press
J. J. Cox
Smithfield Herald
Wesley Deacon
W. G. Burkhead
Whiteville
Ladies’ Memorial Association of
Wilmington
Aurora
Shelby
Dresden
Ben Hill
Craven County
New Berne
Onslow County
Campbell’s Caw
Wilkesboro
Wake Forest College
Wyatt Tucker
Chicod Township
Greenville Reflector
W. 8
Paul
Beckwith
Gazette Office
Washington
J. W. Wallace
Morehead City
Rockingham
Scotland County
Lumberton Robesonian
Glen
Mitchell County
Armstrong
Hemlock
Transylvania County
Ecosta
Skynka
Polk County
Lynn
W. L. Carroll
Shelby Aurora
Lexington Dispatch
Robert Deery
W. A. McDonald
W. Covington
D. M. Morrison
Norwood
Usery
T. Gaither Walsh
Lewis Fork
Wilkesboro Chronicle
A. R. Dennison
New Berne Journal
Oxford
Albert Gooch
Berea
George Millis
Rrleigh
Mills
Iana Wimberly
S.A. L
Kemp Kendall
Dressen
Germany
Boone Democrat
Pia
Rocky Mount
James Henderson
Wilson Mirror
Moore County
Walters
Wilkes
Revenus
Durham
Charlotte News
N. B. Spock
Vanceboro
Peck
Statesville
Jac. G. Best
Corinth
Miss
Hcms
America
Laurinburg Exchange
Concord Times
Crowell
OklaHoma City
O. T
Harry St. John
St. John
Kansas
Oklahoma
Ready for the Gallows in Birmingham Confession
Lee Harris alias John Lindy, jailed in Birmingham for a murder three weeks past, confesses to a spree of robberies and killings including the December groceryman slaying near the paper mill road, while implicating Abe Mitchell and Stonewall Thomas. He lists victims from North Birmingham to Eastlake and a failed arrest left Deputy Gols kek wounded.
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Birmingham
Ala
Lee Harris
John Lindy
Merriwether
Abe Mitchell
Stonewall Thomas
Rtv
Here
Dietiller
William Barnes
Fair Grounds
E. J. Daniels
Eastlake
Rev. Stiff
Henry Wiberly
Harris
Shecitt Gols Kek
Major A C Hamilton Killed in Morcantown Kentucky
Major A C Hamilton noted for guiding the Libby prison escape in 1864 was killed in Morcantown after a quarrel in a saloon. Sam Spencer and Alfred Belcher were arrested. Spencer allegedly fired the fatal shot. Hamilton and 104 others escaped Richmond through a 57 foot tunnel after 45 nights of digging.
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Morcantown
A.C. Hamilton
Libby
Sam’ Spencer
Alfred Her
Spencer
Belcher
Hamilton
Richmond
Twelfth
Kentucky Cavalry
James A. Johnson
Eleventh Cavalry
Edward Noble
First
Kentucky Infantry
Slander in Prayer in Los Angeles Librian Case
Judge overruled a demurrer in a slander suit against Rev. J C Campbell. The minister’s prayer asking for grace for Miss Tesea L Kelso, librarian, was deemed potentially slanderous. Court ruled prayers can defame as others unless tied to pastoral duties, without malice.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Clark
J. C. Campbell
Tesea L Kelso
Los Angeles Public
Campbell
Northeastern manufacturers study Southern cotton mills visit Carolina mills
New England cotton manufacturers led by D A Tompkins and R H Edmonds toured North Carolina mills and will visit South Carolina plants. The Arkwright Club members control about 1.5 million spindles and roughly 20 million dollars in cotton mill investments. The group, including William Loving and Thomas Motley, aims to report on Southern advantages and spur New England investments. Their favorable view highlights Southern operatives and potential for regional growth. For BRONCHIAL AND Astomatic CoM PLAInts Brown's Tradies have remarkable curative properties.
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Charlotte
N.C
New England
South
D. A. Tompkins
R H. Edmonds
Baltimore
North Carolina
South Carolina
Arkwright Club
Boston
William ©. Loving
Lovering
Thomas Motley
Chicopee
Saratoga
Victory Mills
C. W. Amory
Travelers
Amory Mills
Manchester
New Hampshire
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Amoskeag
France
Harrison
Howard Stockton
Merrimac Mille
Lowell
British steamer Ethelred fired on by Spanish gunboat near Cuba
The British steamer Ethelred, en route from Boston to Port Antonio, was halted and searched by a Spanish gunboat off Cape Maysi, Cuba. Though flying a British flag, the vessel is owned in Boston and engaged in the fruit trade between Boston and Cuban ports.
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Ethelred
Cuba
New York
Jamaica
Herald
Boston
Mass
Port Antonio
Cape Maysi
Ethethelred
Hopkins
Alliance
Washington, D. C
Chamberlain
Treasury Bureau of Navigation
England
State Department
Spanis Legation
Domestic troubles caused it Mrs Williams killed her children
Columbus April 3 Coroner Herbst held an inquest into Mrs Elizabeth Williams who killed her two children at the Park Hotel Monday. She remained calm until shown the razor used to cut Harry’s throat and then wept. She admitted writing a letter to her husband accusing him of cruelty and intent to end their misery by murder and death.
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Columbus
Elizabeth Wiliams
the Park Hotel
Herbst
Harry
Grove City
Hell
Yellow Fever Appears In Havana Transit
A Havana bound steamer passenger reports 150 soldiers in the home battalion with 16 down with yellow fever and rising deaths. Officials in Washington tighten quarantine, outline three main station beetween South Atlantic Blackbeard’s Island Sapelo Sound Ship Island and Key West to guard against fever. Plans by Surgeon Wyman anticipate contingencies as Cuba’s turmoil raises outbreak risk and Cuban towns may flood with evacuees. The Progressive Farmer is promoted as a practical North Carolina guide priced at $1.
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Tampa
Fla
Havana
Cuba
Santiago
Wassington
United States
New York
South Atlantic
Blackbeard's Island
Sapolo Sound
Aberdeen
Gulf Station
Ship Island
Biloxi
Miss
Key West
Brunswick
Wyman
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Major Hamilton
Libby Prison
Brown
Park Hotel
Progressive Farmer
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