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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1895
Page
3
A long, lecturing exposition argues that money supply must track world population and production. It claims price levels depend on the balance between currency in circulation and labor plus commodities, criticizing legislative power for mismanaging money creation and warning of broad economic ruin without reform.
A sprawling set of brief items notes economic moves and deaths across the state. Tarboro, Laurinburg, Wilmington, Gastonia, New Bern, and others report lodge rumors, accidents, deaths of Jos. J. Trolinger and R. C. Brown, a big gold find, bank offers, a guardhouse theft, and market shifts.
Nashville prisoners escape by sawing bars. dynamite blast kills three colored workers at a new penitentiary. Florida orange crop destruction drives box prices up seventy cents. elderly couple suffocated by gas in New York home. grand jury clears State's Attorney Kern. miner magnate Jonas Walker dying in destitute circumstances. B and O buys Monongahela branch. Paris fire kills eight in France laundry. Phillips Malls tragedy in Dovetas details emerge. Parkhurst and Lexow clash over police reorganization. Cory Lambert execution stay sought in Camden. Semple heads to Trenton and possibly Washington for Supreme Court case
Washington reports a Cabinet sourced plan to push a $1 per barrel beer and malt liquor tax after Congress reopens. The move aims to curb a looming Treasury deficit, with Carlisle backing the proposal as essential revenue. Republicans counter that receipts in sugar, spirits, and income taxes remain uncertain for the coming six months.
A Mexico City quake at 10 53 PM Sunday sent residents fleeing. The Arben Thea tre stampede followed by thousands in streets and prayers for deliverance. Belem prison and guard efforts faced chaos as pandemonium spread. A repeat shock is anticipated in a few days.
A Boston letter details massacres of Armenians in Eastern Turkey with 15 000 killed across 35 villages. Reports describe systematic slaughter, rape, and desecration by Turkish and Kurdish forces under orders to exterminate Armenians. A confirming cablegram to Gladstone via the Boston Armenian community is noted.
Newark report: two young girls Annie and Florence aged three and five were burned to death in bunk rooms aboard a Morris Canal canal boat after a lamp explosion. Captain John Glover, father of the children, and his wife had left for a Bethel church meeting. The lamp sparked a fire that killed the children and a dog left aboard. The door was locked, and the incident occurred around 9 o'clock last night.
Paris reports the colonies minister received a dispatch that natives attacked Colonel Monteil's French expedition in Congo country. Eighteen members of the party, all white men, are known to have been killed. The distressing news was received with sincere sorrow.
In Lancaster Kentucky on January 1 a three story Muller Hotel fire killed E A Pascoe his mother in law Mrs Listera and his young child. The blaze started around five o'clock and the building was filled with smoke. Pascoe and his wife escaped, but he and his family perished as flames and smoke overwhelmed them. The property loss is about 15000 dollars.
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