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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1893
Page
3
Despite sleet and travel hardship 25 of 35 Sub-Alliances attended the February gathering. Delegates backed the order, read the president’s address, and supported its aims without partisan action. State Senator John W. Atwater spoke, earning broad approval for his Senate record.
State Alliance leaders urge sub lodges to unite after a heated campaign, read obligations, boost membership, improve meetings, and maintain the Business Agency Fund. They warn against factional attacks and stress cooperation, charity, and renewed activity across North Carolina.
The Lutheran Observer compares a newspaper to a hotel table offering diverse literary viands for all readers. It argues readers should sample varied articles rather than reject the paper for one type. If a reader dismisses it for not matching their taste, they miss the broader value.
News briefs list multiple local events with named towns and persons. Six tobacco factories planned or operating. notable deaths include Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Wills. Car accidents, fires, and unusual incidents are noted along with a range of local developments and small-town updates.
Reports from Georgia to Texas recount a policeman shot and dying, a mill destroyed by fire with massive job losses, and political obstruction in Washington. Ongoing cholera fears in Marseilles plus flood isolation in Greenland and Queensland leave communities isolated, unemployed, or in turmoil as rescues fail and missing sailors drown.
In Cuartestron South Carolina a Richmond and Danville Railroad locomotive was seized by an Aiken County sheriff under a governor Tillman circular. Richmond and Danville attorneys obtained a contempt rule against the sheriff, with a temporary injunction set and a March 8 Greenville court appearance.
Wreck at Williams station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Connellsville Pennsylvania leaves two dead and three fatally injured. The line may be blocked at least twenty four hours. Cumberland incident reports engine 1365 in wreckage with several injuries and missing crew.
An elderly former whiskey pool member now in Curiaco Illinois is expected to testify before Congress on the Whiskey Trust inquiry. He has collected letters, telegrams, and documents detailing internal revenue frauds since 1865 involving many prominent politicians. The evidence reportedly includes an attempted destruction of records or property.
December 10, 1888. two men planned to blow the Schufeldt distillery storeroom housing 1400 barrels of spirits using two dynamite bombs. One man, a rival official, and a trusted employee were to throw the bombs. Fear halted the plan. the chief threw the shorter fuse bomb, the other failed. One man pursued a $20,000 contract payoff, which was never paid.
A Memphis dispatch reports four thousand residents in Concordia and Catahoula parishes in northern Louisiana face starvation after last year’s floods ruined crops and delayed planting. Zestful aid meetings are urged by Memphis Vicksburg and New Orleans exchanges with New Orleans Board of Trade donating $5,000 to relief efforts.
A snowbound freight train on the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg line was struck by a fast snow plow near McConnellsville killing George Aikin of Oneonta and Thomas Kevaney of Rome and injuring Conductor Wright. In Schenectady Helper Engine 129 derailed into a creek after rails spread east of the city. Coates and Fitzsimmons escaped. A Toltec Colorado wreck on the Denver Rio Grande after a snow slide injured eight people.
The Big Four No 12 train wrecked by a broken rail one mile east of Pana Illinois at 11 10 last night. Baggageman Charles Ressles of Indianapolis killed and thirty one passengers injured. Fire followed the crash, with several cars destroyed and many passengers burned or injured including Mrs Laughlin who lost her husband and four children. Brown's Iron Bitters is advertised.
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