Election Rogues and Christmas Worries in a Rural Ledger
A rustic dialogue warns of election fraud amid holiday poverty. Citizens discuss suspicious figures, locks, and guards, while a governor and senator are urged to act. The piece sits beside a railroad tax note and a critique of pooling rates, cautioning about rising costs and political power.
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Flella
Hope
Isy
Betsy
Europe
China
Atch
Senan
Christiana
Alien Land Ownership Demands Stir 51st Congress Report
A reform note highlights a Judiciary Committee report on alien land ownership in the United States. It cites English noble owners holding about 21 million acres and warns of landfordism, urging legislation to curb foreign landholdings and protect American settlers and wages.
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Judiciary Committee
United States
Scully
England
Illinois
Schenleys Estate
Pennsylvania
Oates
Alabama
Railroad tax victory lauded by Progressive Farmer and Alliance
The piece credits the Railroad Commission for forcing railroads to pay tax after twenty years of debate. It praises the Commission and Supreme Court rulings, urges Alliancemen to stay united, and warns outsiders seeking to steer their policies. It calls the tax win a grand Alliance victory and a reminder to remain vigilant.
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Railroad Commission
Supreme Court
North Carolinian
Progressive Farmer
North Carolina
State News Notes Grow Trade and Tragedy Across North Carolina
A wide sweep of NC items notes a peanut factory planned, hotels crowded with Northern visitors, rivers low, and the Wilson Advance sale. Incidents include fatal wrecks near Mt Airy and Laurinburg, a fatal railroad crush, a damaging spring fire at Statesville, fertilizer sales, and tax receipts. Local deaths, fires, and promotions fill the pages with brief, linked reports from towns like New Bern, Goldsboro, Statesville, Clinton, and Raleigh.
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Qilery
Southern Pines
Neuse
Little Rivers
Wilson
W. L. Cantwell
Frank Croft
Yadkin County
Mt. Airy
Goldsboro
Ellerbey
Carolina Central
Laurinburg
McIver
Hamlet
New Berne Journal
George Green
Statesville
North Carolina
North Carolina Insane Asylum
Frank B. Howard
Granville County
Manchester
Jonesboro Home Journal
Egypt Coal Mines
A. M. Barrett
Dan Robinson
Anson County
New York
Charlotte
Ben Ritch
Walter Hobbs
Church of Concord
Lipmore & Co. Fail in Dundee Commerce Loan Crisis
Lorpon December report notes Lipmore & Co., Dundee site merchants, failed with liabilities near £1,250,000. Other items: Gov Flower appoints Susan B Anthony as Rochester State Industrial School manager. Gen Henry Gray dies at 74. Rovier resigns in Panama Canal scandal amid cabinet crisis. Meggett suicide in D C. Santa Fe train wreck near Kansas City with fatalities. Ropes mine closes in Michigan after heavy spending. prohibition bill advances in South Carolina. bodies of Mills and Wilkinson not found. Wanamaker approves blue gray international return card. Alabama box car wreck. Italian miners shot near Jonesboro. Sister M Julienne charged with assault. Ormonde sold to William McDonough for future England voyage and U S service.
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Lorpon
Lipmore & Co
Dundee
Apany
Flower
Susan B. Anthony
Rochester
New Orlans
Henry Gray
Confederate Congress
Jefferson Davis
Paris
Rovier
CuHarveston
D. C
Joseph M. Meggett
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Nhpeming
Michigan
Columbia
S. C
Senate
Richmondd
James Mills
Judson Wilkinson
Philip Nicholas
Washineton
Wanamaker
International Return
Mositz
Ala
Mobile and
Birmingham Road
Whatley
Peter Riser
Charrleston
Jonesboro
Andreas
PirTsBurg
Charity
M. Julienne
West Tarrentum
Peter Cohman
Buenos Ayres
Ormonde
William McDonough
California
England
United States
Destructive Cotton Fire at Brown Warehouse Baltimore
A major blaze at Alexander Brown’s massive cotton warehouse at Bond and Thames streets in Baltimore started shortly after 8 am. The fire swept six buildings storing 17,202 bales valued around 850000 dollars, with only a few bales afloat in the harbor saved. Total damage estimated at 750000 dollars, insured. The cause is likely spontaneous combustion.
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Baltimore
Alexander Brown
Bond and
Thames Streets
Robbery and double murder at a Cheyenne saloon
In the Cheyenne area near Sheridan on a Saturday night, three masked robbers raided A. J. Case's saloon on the Burlington Road. A bystander was shot in the shoulder, bartender Whiskers Sullivan died from a head wound, and Case was shot in the back room. The robbers took cash, valuables, and firearms, then rode off. Suspected desperadoes believed to be from Jackson Hole. A boy was wounded in the wrist during the raid.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Burlington Road
Sheridan
A. J. Case
Dan Kuhne
Sullivan
Case
Casey
Jackson Hole
Gillett, Crook Co
Masked men rob multiple venues in half hour spree
On Sunday evening masked men robbed two saloons, a general store, and injured a dozen people without dismounting as a Burlin passenger train passed through 6 Pre while they were at the Willis.
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Burlin
Pre
Nevada Mines on Fire Ends Work Suspension
A long smouldering fire in the Consolidated California and Virginia Mine at Virginia City breaks out again after six years. Ore extraction halted as gas and heat rise from the 1650 to 1750 foot levels near Ophir. Air cuts fail. airtight bulkheads are under construction as hundreds of miners lose work.
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California
Virginia
Virginia City
Nevada
Probable Spring Visitation of Cholera Warned by NYC Doctors
The Senate Immigration Committee asked New York physicians about an expected cholera outbreak in 1893. Dr Charles G. Wilson and peers fear an epidemic in spring or summer. They urge strict quarantine and medical inspection for steamship arrivals, and suggest immigration suspension if needed.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Immigration
New York City
Chas. G. Wilson
Shall They Be Allowed to Pool
Senate committee hears railway magnates advocate pooling to set standard, just rates and curb discrimination. Executives from Pennsylvania, New York Central, Chesapeake & Ohio urge law change to enable contracts among carriers, promote efficiency, and spur national development.
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Ilroad
Sen
Newark
Pennsylvania
Roberts
Dean
Washington
Senate Committee On Inter- State Commerce
Cullom
United States
Geo. B. Roberts
Pennsylvania Railroad
Aot
Chauncey M. Dépew
New York Central
Ingalls
Chesapeake & Ohio
Congress
W. A
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