State News Highlights From 1891 North Carolina
Tobacco commerce, floods of grip and distilleries in Caswell, church and school changes, murders, fires, deaths, and local court actions across North Carolina towns including Mecklen burg, Thomasville, Durham, Raleigh, and Goldsboro. Distillers, mines, and rail news mix with society notices and a flood of obituaries.
Mechanicsville strike over wage cut by 150 girls
The entire slate of nation and local items covers wage protests at a shirt factory in Mechanicsville New York where 150 girls walked out against a five percent pay reduction. The item also tracks political appointments and a spate of accidents, crimes, and public notices across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ays
Mechanicsville
N. Y
John Haggart
Ontario
J. A. Onimet
Martin Lautz
Poestenkill
Influenza Ravages Europe Wide With New Italy Hospital
Paris, Jan 19 report says influenza causes real ravages in Lens and Marseilles with heavy mortality in Bilbao Spain also severe. A special hospital for influenza opened in Florence. The Empress of Austria and Khedive Egypt figures ill. James Gordon Bennett to Cairo via Abyssinia. Prof Cornil cites Pfeiffer germ finding as promising but unproven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Lens
Marseilles
Bilbao
Spain
Florence
Italy
Austria
Egypt
James Gordon Bennett
Cairo
Abyssinia
Cornil
Paris School of Medicine
Pfeiffer
Man Fraud Case Ends as Wife Freed from Asylum
Mrs. J. Pandrews, fraudulently placed in a private insane asylum near Detroit by her husband who eloped with Miss McGregor, has been released in Musrecor Michigan. She is sane but overwhelmed by grief after her husband squandered her fortune and left her penniless with two young children. Andrews and Miss McGregor are said to be in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarboro
James A. Caston
Mecklenburg
Bryan & Co
Mann & Co
Jonesboro
R L. Walker
Graham
David T. Bostam
Concord
R. T. Vann
Edenton
Baptist
Scotland Neck
Richmond
Danville
Walter Clark
Roanoke
Tillery
John G. Powell
John
Forester & Son
North Wilkesboro
Clinton
Egypt
W. F. Buchanan
Charlotte
Robert Murphy
Walnut Cove
A. H. Joyce
Danbury
Granville County
Tarboro Southerner
Surry County
Piedmont
Mabry
Ridgeway
Littleton
William Brooks
Mattie Pearson
R. P. Troy
Warrenton
Baltimore
Wilmington
N. C
H. F. Manning
Halifax County
Fargo, Oak
Jeremiah Bowles
Iredell County
Ann Gatling
Greensboro
J. J. Phoenix
Janust
Asheville
E. L. Holmes
Asheville Tobacco Association
Kentucky
L. Banks Holt
Junius Harden
First National Bank of Wilmington
Bowden
A. W. Miller
First Presbyterian Church
Wayne County
Hickory Press
W. H. Wroten
Lexington
Durham
Rocky Mount Argonaut
Bunn & Barlow
J. D. Thompson
J. T. Starnes
John Wilson
Sydney Burton
Wilson
Bullock & Mitchell
W. M. Morris
Blowing Rock
Hudson
Lenoir
Langley
W. E. Edmundson
State University
California
Methodist Church
Snow Hill
Abernathy
Newton Enterprise
Old North State Mining and Manufacturing Company
Nash County
North Carolina
Lewis Brice
John Hamilton
New Berne
South River
C. Holfhouser
Rockwell
Rowan County
J. A. Brown
A. J Shaw
Elkton
Bladen County
C. Chaney
B. H. Thompson
Idalia
Beaufort County
H. T. Rives
W. A. Shoffner
Rankin Anderson
Aurora
Burlington
Swannanoa
Western North Carolina Railroad
R. F. Boyd
Boydton
Asheboro
Worth Manufacturing Company
Berta Worth
John M. Worth
Raleigh Chronicle
George W. Woodall
Apex
Ile
Shiloh
Salisbury Heral
A. H. A. Williams
Congress
Fifth District
Washington
Durham Sun
Joseph Jackson
Durham ‘Foundry
Wood
Henry Wilkerson
George Miller
Patrick H. Winston
J. D. Bryan
Lamberton
MecCorkle
J. M. Kendrick
Charlotte News
Thaddeus D. Love
Beth Car Church
A. McFayden
Confederate Veteran’s Association
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
Dan Bivins
Stanly News
Dan
Concord Standard
D. L. Gore
United States Revenue
Gallatin
Manchester
Mass
Fred F. Owens
Gore
Gabrielson
Colfax
Lottie Stills
Goldsboro
Alice Pender
W. G Lewis
W. G. Lewis
Argus
Alleghany County
Mack Walker
Tra Anderson
Grimsley Halsey
Walker
D. W. Fuller
Messrs. Fuller
Hyman
Smithfield
Jas. H. Pou
Carolina Central Railroad
Hinman
First Presbyterian Church of
Winston Sentinel
Thomas Pena
Z. T. Bell
Davidson County
Georgia
Katie Mashburn
Murphy
Bell
Kate
Kate Mashburn
Sidney Burton
Union Eaty
Lumberton Robesonian
Robinson
Wake County
Leslie Norment
Britt
Weldon
Thomas H. Clark
Panacea Springs
Atlantic Coast Line
Washington Gazette
F. Gallagher
J. P. Clark
McCluer
J. B. Wynne
Salisbury
R& D
Here
San Antonio
Tex
J. J. Sweeney
Galveston, Harrisburg and
New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad
House of Refuge
Bangor
Maine
Kennebec
Philadelphia
New York
Penobscot
Charleston
Westoa
Calhoun County
Abe Garretson
Marion Boyce
Garretson
Trenton
N. J
Peter Anderson
Anderson
Constantinople
Trieste
Abbas
Alexandria
Vienna
Warsaw
Ind
B. F. Bevier
Goshen
Bevier
Grand Army of the Republic
Lonpoy
Jan
Barton
Royal Engineers
Miler
Brooklyn
Lewes Assizes
Burgess Hill
Kent
Jackson
Miss
Grand
Southern Express Company
Louisiana Lottery
Express Company
Christman
Musrecor
Mich
J. Pandrews
Detroit
Miss McGregor
Jacksonville
Illinois
Andrews
France
Eye Injury Leads to $5,000 Verdict Against Pond Tool
In Union County Court, Joseph W. Robinson won a $5,000 damages verdict against Pond Machine Tool Company of Plainfield. A flying steel particle from a casting struck his eye while co workers knocked chips. The case may go to the Supreme Court. attorney W H Davis represented the plaintiff and Senator Edwards the defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillipsburg
Supreme Court
Pond Company
Senator Edwards
Jersey City
Missouri University Loss Destroys Main Building
Blackened walls and smoking ruins mark the fire that consumed Missouri State University’s main building in Columbia. Fire erupted in the library early last evening, fanned by high winds, destroying the structure with an estimated loss of 300000 dollars. Insurance covers 130000 on the house and 10000 on the library. the library’s 40000 volumes were lost while the law library museum and records were saved. cause attributed to a disconnected electric wire in the library east wing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Missouri State University
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State News
Norfolk
Bettie
Germany
Capt. Snow
Willie Love
Thomson
E. P. Albright
J. L. Scott
W. J. Stockard
Menpuis
Tenn
Shelby
Betthlenger
Penn
Wilson D. Snyder
Treasury Department
Boston
Hyde Park Avenue
Forest Hill Street
Burrato
Castelo
N.Y
San Francisco
Tracy
East
Florence J. Waterman
Marion Hedpeth
St. Louis
Crawfordsville
Nicholson Crossing
St. Peterspurg
Kineston
Burr Eaton
Ellenville
Ulster County
M. D. Bradford
Edward Porter
Jacobus Elting
Eee Europe
The
Pond Machine Tool Company
Missouri University
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