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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1894
Page
3
A garbled survey of North Carolina items reports an epidemic in Reidsville, county notables including E F Farr of Stanly, and scattered notes on arrests, fires, deaths, horse and cattle incidents, gold finds, and local incidents across towns from Asheville to Charlotte with dates, names, and places underscoring the era’s rough, patchy news flow.
Garryspure Pennsylvania January 17 Henry Heist was hanged for the murder of Emanuel Mann dated February 1, 1893. The execution occurred at 11 13 this morning. Maprip January 18 distress grows in Cadiz district due to unemployment driving hungry bands to loot stores and farms. Barboursville Kentucky January 16 fire destroys Fred Houson store and residence. Mrs Houson and two daughters perish. loss about 25000 dollars. Grand Rapids Michigan January 16 Berkey and Gay furniture firm cuts wages 25 percent across ranks. reason cited as lack of business. workers hold a meeting but take no action.
Rio Janeiro reports insurgent ships moved into position to engage the Nice hervy forts at dawn. The battle opened at daybreak and the ships were repulsed with heavy losses. The US cruiser New York has arrived in port.
A creditors meeting was held at Central Trust Co in New York on January 15 to address the railroad’s floating debt of about 4.5 million dollars. Twenty eight banks and financial institutions were authorized to act in concert to secure an emergency loan of 600 thousand dollars and determine steps to manage the debt.
A mob in Valley Park Missouri broke the jail lock and hanged John Buckner a Black man accused of assaulting a young white girl and a Black woman. Buckner was seized from the jail at dawn and left hanging from a railroad bridge, visible to Frisco Railroad passengers.
Small pox has broken out in Charity Hospital with eight hundred patients quarantined. No one may leave or enter without health department consent. The outbreak followed the admission of patient Smith who died last week and was not diagnosed until after transmission. Warden Robert Roberts is among the victims and has been moved to North Brother Island for care.
Abbeville Ga dispatch reports Lord Beresford alias Lascelles, a noted convict, escaped last night in citizen attire from a dress camp near Abbeville. He boarded a 9:40 train to Americus, sent baggage to Windsor Hotel, and was arrested in Americus by a policeman. He had been in a Jackson Street bawdy house with Leona Lee and asked that the house’s character not be published to protect his standing as a gentleman.
New York reports a fatal rear end collision on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad just west of the Hackensack river bridge. Eleven killed and twenty eight injured as the Dover express and the South Orange accommodation collide. The Dover express had left Dover at 7 30 am and stopped at Summit to load two passenger cars from Basking Ridge.
A South Orange passenger train collided with the Dover express near the Hackensack bridge in heavy fog, telescoping the rear cars of the Dover train. Most deaths occurred in the wrecked baggage car. many passengers injured while forward cars survived. The Dover express was about three minutes late.
The Dutch steamer Amsterdam, bound from Rotterdam, loses chief officer J Meyer and five crew when its port life-boat capsizes during a rescue attempt for the sinking American schooner Maggie E Well. The schooner is believed lost with all aboard.
Detectives probe a sensational diamond heist in Louisville on January 17 with losses around ten thousand dollars. Firms Ball & Co Tiffany & Co and others report thefts as a stranger named Kroneman, posing as a Nashville businessman, directed jewels to A Barth in New Albany. The shipments reached New Albany where a different Barth appeared with forged papers and claimed the goods, then disappeared with the jewels before detection.
Rog. Jan. 16. Excitement in Carrara as police and troops guard the city after an anarchist plot to loot and burn. Outsiders are repelled, shots fired with no confirmed injuries. Two attackers killed in a later clash. locals dispute the plot’s full scope while noting growing bandit activity.
Five men faced Hastings Court for burning the body of Thomas Smith after a lynching on September 20. Obern was acquitted while Davis Morris McDaniel and Varilla were convicted and fined. Vanilla received 100 and a year in jail. Grand jury has issued 44 indictments, touching several leading citizens and officials amid betting and gambling accusations.
The passage notes ee and John B Smith facing gambling charges. In Green's case, it is said the motive is spite work and friends expect acquittal. It remarks that several years have passed since a white man was convicted here for gambling, leading to a belief that the indicted parties may not suffer.
A Wheeling dispatch reports potters at La Belle and Wheeling potteries will face a general wage cut starting Monday. Twenty percent of wages may be withheld until tariff changes are known, with refunds or further deductions tied to tariff outcomes. Belmont Iron Works prepared to resume after six months idle. Glen Dale Mining Company miners strike over a 10 percent cut, affecting 150 workers.
Lawrence Pulliam, late cashier of the National Bank of Asheville, has been arrested. The location is unknown and bank authorities and friends hope to avoid a scandal by secrecy. The affair appears to be a defalcation with rumors and confusion surrounding his whereabouts.
The French steamer Equator carrying passengers and mail from Rio Janeiro collided with a dynamite blast in the safe room as officials transferred parcels. Two sailors were killed, one fatally injured, another wounded. Ostrich feather parcels scattered, wreckage visible amid plume debris. An inquiry opened by the port commissary in Bordeaux.
At Curstrer Georgia there lies a wreck at a rail junction one mile from town. Five injured passengers are taken to Dr Bavega’s hospital after a collision between a CN engine and the G O and N freight. The vestibule train claims the crossing rule was ignored while the CN train may have been speeding. The CN engineer disappeared after leaping from the freight engine.
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