North Carolina issues and state notes across many towns
State press items report Rocky Mount investing $100000 in buildings, deaths at Caledonia farm, new Gastonia cotton plant, 179 marriage licenses in Chatham, and ongoing mill and railroad developments. Other notes include firings, fires, drownings, and local political shifts across Greensboro, Asheville, Durham, and Winston-Salem with dates and local personages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Calhoun
Rocky Mount
Mary G. Gudger
J. C. L. Gudger
Asheville
Weldon
Caledonia Farm
Gastonia
Chatham County
Gingham Mills
Charlotte
Senator Vance
Buncombe
Gombroon
Charles N. Vance
Salisbury
Gay
H. G. Hill
Maxton
H. B. Hill
Business
Poughkeepsie
New York
Wilkesboro
McDowell County
South
Alleghany Star
Allen Tolliver
J. S. Goodman
Winston
Kansas City
Missouri
Winston Free Press
Wm. Alphin
Chinquepin
Jones County
William Gaston Lewis
T. J. Jerome
Pemberton & Jerome
Albemarle
North Carolina
Columbia
D. C
Monroe
Raleigh Chronicle
J. D. Capps
Johmson County
R. G. Pearson
Burdighera
Italy
Sylphia Jinnett
Pieville Township
Wayne County
Goldsboro
John D. Battle
Petrel
U. S. Coast Survey
Tarboro
R. W. Allison
Louisiana
Concord Standard
Global dispatches from December 30 reported multiple incidents
Gibbons defeated Bowen in forty eight rounds in New Orleans. Milwaukee quarry explosion killed two, many injured. Mexican troops revolted in Brownsville joining Garzas outlaws. John Sims hanged in Alabama. New York Central awarded a one million dollar block signal contract. Fire losses from Savannah to Plainfield and Germantown. Numerous train derailments, bank robberies, and a fatal drowning in New Jersey. Memorial plans in New Orleans for Chief Hennessy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Gibbons
Bowen
Milwaukee
Brownsville
Texas
Garzas
Suusuta
Miss
John Sims
Bob
Butler
Ala
New York
New York Central
Ranway
N. J
Main Street
Savannah
Colley & Sons
Jour
Plainfield
Upton
Philadelphia
Samuel West
Germantown
Daizell
Norfolk
Hopkins
Rhuwand
H. V. Parker
General Merchandise
Nicholson & Williams
B. F
D. W. Durham
Altoona
Clearfield Hotel
Macon
Georgia Southern
Cordele
Montreal
McMahon
Barrett
Grand Trunk
Solomon Reinberg
Byrnes
Hamilton, O
Milan
San Francisco
Cal
C. P. Huntington
Southern Pacific Company
Little Rock
Ark
Fordyce
Bory Park
Sargent Briscoe
Sargent
Wreck on Union Pacific Near La Granogg Oregon
Fast mail train wrecked near La Granog Oregon in the night. Engineer R T Law and fireman George Miller killed along with a tramp Zuminski. Another tramp Seymer fatally injured. Rails spread on a curve, causing second engine and mail baggage cars to plunge into the river. Passengers unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Granog
Oregon
Union Pacific Railway
R. T. Law
Geo. Miller
Zuminski
Seymer
Panic at Gateshed County theatre ends in many deaths
A malicious act sparked a theatre blaze in Durham causing a mass panic. A man dropped a lighted match on sawdust floor and a shout of fire led to a fatal crush. At least ten people died including nine children, with many others injured as doors became blocked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Berne
Leinster Duffy
W. H. Hooten
W. A. McIntosh
Frank Duffy
High Point
Chas. Knapp
Lonpox
Gateshed County
Durham
Fatal Collision Near Chillicothe Marks Multiple Deaths
A Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad wreck seven miles east of Chillicothe Mo at 3 am follows a train orders mistake. Four trainmen died and two were fatally wounded. The dead include engineers Busbee Hannal and those named Barry Price Gillmore and Brakeman Gilmore. eleven cattle cars wrecked and cattle roasted as the wreck burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston Sentinel
Pleas Head
Stokes County
Norfolk
Richmond Dispatch
Seaboard Air Line
Portsmouth
Atlanta
Asheville
Haywood Street
Norwood
Thomas Ritchie
Yadkin
Ritchie
Southport
Lewis Augustus Galloway
Treasury Department
N. C
Frank Whitley
Ohio
Washington
Lincoln
Forge
Grip
Carolina Central
Carolina Central Railroad
Quakers Or Friends
New Garden
Guilford County
Ministers and
Friends
North Carolina
F. S. Blair
Greensboro Record
Charlotte News
J. W. Smith
Alamance Gleaner
J. H. Blackman
W. P. Williamson
Haw River
G. W. Pickett
Cedar Cliff
Graham Crawford
Mount Airy
Bob Griffith
Walter
Bob
St. Louis
Post Dispatch
Chillicothe
Hannibal and St. Joseph
Here
Busbee
Barry
Price
Mike B. Gilmore
Crank Calls At Vanderbilt Mansion Prompt Custody
A well dressed German youth rang the Fifth Avenue doorbell at Cornelius Vanderbilt's home claiming to want brains analyzed to explain Vanderbilt's fortune. Police took him to station. a Yorkville court held him for examination as to his mental condition. He carried a Lingman card and a YMCA membership card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Vanderbilt Pease
Vanderbilt
John J. Lingman
East Eleventh Street
Young Men's Christian Association
Yorkeville
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State News
Statesville
Robert Henry
Bostain’s Bridge
Jones
Southern Pines
Moore County
W.E. Grimsley
Greene County
Ora Cashion
Herald
Edgecombe
Oxford Ledger
N. Penick
Oxford Female Seminary
Levi Rogers
Chicago Herald
Davis
Thomas B Keogh
Department of Forestry
J. T. Lamb
Cronly
Wilmington Star
Presbyterian
Barnum Springs
Burlington News
Squire W. A. Hall
Maywood & Morton’s
Thomas C. Moore
Franklin County
Concord Times
Carthage Blade
W. F. Watton
Dunn
Mr. Watson
First Baptist Church
Nelson
Henderson Gold Leaf
Thad Manning
Henderson
H. Minning
North East River
Wilmington Messenger
Lenoir
Reddick Freeman
Jim
Jenkins
Reuben Swanson
Swanson
Greensboro
J. H. Harris
Harris
Majolica Siding
John L. Wimberley
Goldsboro Argus
Columbus
William H. Bailey
J. Brownrigg
Cuba
Robertson
Hornet Nest
State Teachers’ Assembly
Morehead City
Assembly
Murfreesboro
Boykins
Seaboard
Roanoke
Tar River
Lumberton Robsonian
W. A. McKinnon
Rockingham
A. M. Long
Caudle
T. J. Guthrie
Lexington Dispatch
A. F. Young
Maggie Atkins
Rowan County
Washington Gazette
D. T
Taylor
Harry Merry
Chancellorsville
Oxford
South Appalachiaa
Raleigh and Gaston
James Norwood
W.T. Herrin
Roanokeews
Durham Sun
G. W. Farrington
H. C. Jones
Globe
Superior Court
A. P. Rheinhardt
Spivey
Charlotte Street
Morganton
A. E. Wilson
North Toe River
Sally Mitchell
Pennsylvania
Montana
Nebo
David C Hennessy
Menripton
Epes Station
Alabama
Harrisburg
Penn
Henrietta Harrison
Blackberry Avenue
Beatrice
Neb
Union Pacific
Ellendale
N. D
H.O. Barratti
Uniontown
Fairchance
Frank Cooley
Fayette County
Fairdhance
Cooley
Wis
Shoemaker's Stone
Wauwatoosa
Albert Butlitz
William Walker
John Ralaskky
San Antonio
Buda
Chicago
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