Raleigh and statewide notes haunt the press of 1897
A collage of North Carolina items reports Shale county and Salisbury hints. Entries cover education gains in Salisbury, Rev. L. G. Broughton's Roanoke revival, a 500 pound per hour steam sausage mill planned for Salisbury, and a surge of railroad and lumber activity in Robeson and Lumberton. Crime, weather shocks, earthquakes, a train assault, and local curiosities pepper the page with partisan notices and civic updates.
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Salisbury
John C. Scarborough
Chowan Baptist Femele University
Barnes Bros
Raleigh
A Girdle Round The World Brief Items
A miscellany notes Senator Pettigrew recovery from tongue paralysis in the Senate. Chicago city directory population estimate 1,828,000. Polk Place sale in Nashville for 15000 may lead to fresh auction. Schwein furth from Rockford plans a 2000 acre land move to form a Heaven. The American Railway Union is disbanded and Dabs plans a Bellamy inspired socialist group. Florida gator and moccasin haul reported. Keller at Pittsburg exams for Radcliffe. Spanish troops sick as yellow fever rises in Havana. a Havana mail coach attack killed all but three women and a child. Senate discusses Bryan and fusion claims and Bateman dispute.
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Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Philadelphia
Raleigh Dispatch
Richmond Times
Salisbury World
Gerry Shuping
Woodside
Charlotte
Court House
Monroe Enquirer
Alexander County
A. T. Marsh
Salisbury
South River
Yadkin
Winston
Salem
Richmond County
Rockingham Index
J. D. Abbott
Hope
Morganton
Marshall W. J. Patterson
Ray
Black
Hildebrand
Connelly Springs
Hickory
Patterson
United States Commissoner
O. F. McKesson
Ti i
J. &. Earnhardt
Cannonville
Concord
Tropics
Pettigrew
South Dakota
Senate
City Directory of
Chicago
Nashville
Chauncery Court
Polk Place
James Polk
Monertr
Schweinfurth
Messiah
Rockford, IL
Benton County
Ark
Blackburn
Illinois
American Railway Union
Eugene V. Dabs
Dabs
Bellamy
Washington State
Bronson
Fla
A. J. Lynn
Isaac Smith
A. W. Lynn
Joseph Melton
Bordley
Union County
Laura
Jennie
Walter Gardner
New St. Cornelius Church
N. Y. Times
Pittsburg
Ohio
Indiana
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Mine Workers’ Union
Boston
Seays
Arthur Gilman
Cambridge
Hellen Keller
Radcliffe College
Miss Keller
Radcliffe
Mr. Gilman
Havana
San Jose de Las Lajas
Jamaica
Weyler
Recall of Weyler Dominates Madrid Dispatch
Pall Mall Gazette cites Madrid correspondent predicting Weyler recall as fact soon. Generals Blanco and Macias to Cuba assume supreme command while Woodford arrives as United States minister. Martinez Campos to Cuba on separate mission. Castelar opposes autonomy and a sweeping Spanish withdrawal amid U S intervention threats.
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Londox
Pall Mall Gazette
Madrid
Stewart L. Woodford
United States
Spain
Weyler
Blanco
Macias
Jeny
Castelar
Idh & Os Mat
Executors Notice in County Probate Court
Notice announces a deadline for payment by executors with instruction to respond by a specified date. The fragment indicates a requirement to settle a claim or be barred from prompt payment, referencing a 26th day in a month and an August/ay date.
Murder of Indiana Master-at-Arms on Brooklyn Navy Yard
Thomas J. Kenny, Master-at-Arms aboard the battleship Indiana, was murdered on deck at the Brooklyn navy yard. Phillip F. Carter, who had been drinking and quarrelsome, stabbed Kenny with a bayonet after Kenny took a beer from him and reported a disturbance during beer quarters.
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New York
Thomas J. Kenny
Indiana
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Phillip F. Carter
Carter
Kenny
Simonton's Lease Decision Ends Long Legal Case
Greensboro June 30 Judge Simonton issues a decree in the Southern Railway v North Carolina Railroad case. The ruling finds the North Carolina Railroad had the right to lease and that the lease complied with the charter. Fraud questions are referred to Special Master Kerr Craige for testimony and report. Public officials and boards have set testimony deadlines. a restricting order remains in force.
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Greensboro
Southern Railway
North Carolina Railroad Et Als
Simonton
North Carolina Railroad
Kerr Craige
V. Walser
D. L. Russell
Board of Directors
Walser
Russell
National Review teases silver coinage breakthrough in US plan
The National Review says the next issue will reveal a monetary commission led by Senator Wolcott former VP Stevenson and General Paine arriving to present a joint US French plan to end 1873 silver experiments. England reportedly agrees to reopen India mints and boost silver use and legal tender to back notes and Bank of England reserve.
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London
National Review
United States Monetary Commission
Edward C. Wolcott
Adlai Stevenson
Chas. Jackson Paine
Commission
France
United States
England
India
Bank of England
Letter and Reply from 1897 Alliance Tannery
A June 26 1897 letter from Con W B Hararovz requests guidance on sending money to support Alliance Labor efforts for the Alliance shoe factory in Alliance. He notes no local lodge and asks for contact or possible participation through the Gosham No 400 lodge.
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Alliance Tannery
Gosham No
Con
W. B. Hararovz
Inquiries Referred to Ridgeway and N. O. T. Ivey
A letter lacking a mailing address was received. the office cannot answer directly and forwards the inquiry to John Graham, President, Ridgeway, and N. O. T. Ivey, 8, B. A. for publication by The Progressive Farmer. Other readers with similar questions are advised to send inquiries to the same contact.
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Proeression Farman
John Graham
Ridgeway
N. O
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