Turpentine and Grains From All Regions State News
State news items report diverse agricultural yields and accidents across counties. Dur ham man Mr A Hatchetts injured attempting to jump from a moving train. A large bear killed near Beaufort and white oak stump remains unproven for sprouting draw wide attention.
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A. Hatchetts
Durham
Yadkinville
Hickory Mercury
Pink Albright
Catawba County
Fayetteville
Herald
G. W. Harville
Robert Jones
Wilmington
Rutherford County
Wilmington Messenger
Seventh Street
The
Biblical Recorder
Raleigh
Read Springs
J. D. Moore
Caldwell County
Gastonia
McLauchlin
Chronicle
Andy Marley
Wilkes County
Double Branch
Polk County
Cincinnati
Tryon
Elizabeth City
Scotland Neck
Leaufort Herald
Mess
Jno
Mason
Alonzo Hill
Beaufort
Neuse
Pitt County
Nelly
John Moore
Colt
Monroe Eequirer
Stevens’ Mill
Uaion County
Dapa Caion
Green Whittenton
Pender
Vender
Duplin
Cumberland
Sanford Express
B Barney Williams
Warrenton, Gazette
Horrible catastrophe at Polish mining shaft kills many
In Pirrspera Pennsylvania a mine disaster leaves about seventy dead with many bodies unaccounted due to Polish workers. Rescue efforts continue as officials plan to drill through a river wall separating twin mines to reach trapped men.
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Pirrspera
Clear Springs
Conl
Reacuers
Henry to Speak on More Money in Monroe Saturday
W R Henry will speak at Monroe on Saturday July 11 1896 on the topics More Money or The People Against Plutocracy. The speaker invites every citizen to hear him for the best interests of family and home. J Z Green Chairman Union Co P P Ex Com.
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Monroe
J.Z Green
Union Co. P. P. Ex
Brabster West Letter on Silver, Grover Cleveland and Railways
Correspondence recounts harsh political clash over silver and gold, naming Grover Cleveland, Whitney, Lamont, and Teller. It accuses European financiers of railroad deals, warns of legal consequences for conspirators, and urges Southern Democrats to resist silver foes while noting Cleveland’s James River fishing and potential next moves.
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Washington, D.C
Hanna
McKinley
Grover Cleveland
James River
Salt Creek
Teller
Whitney
Hill
Chicago
New York State
New York
Cleveland
Limont
United States
Commonwealth
Lamont
Ganga
Washington Post
Grover
Hillsboro Alliance tannery and shoe factory progress
Rev N B Cobb reports rapid progress at the Hillsboro Alliance plant including a two story steam tannery nearing completion, 32 vats in place, two steam engines, and a 125 worker shoe operation. The site spans 146 acres with barracks offices and dormitories, aiming to turn hides into leather and shoes and to spur cooperative industry in the East.
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Hillsboro
N. B. Cobb
Farmers’ Alliance
North Carolina
Alliance
Hillaboro
T. Ivey
N. C
Elkin
Occoneechee Mountains
Ka. F. Hileman
State Alliance
Debt of gratitude praised for bulldozing gold standard stance
Branster West notes that refusal to yield on the gold standard spurred a popular uprising. He remarks that some would raise a subscription to buy a coffin like Li Hung Chang’s, as a tribute to the man’s bulldozing, pig headed method. He promises more on this next week.
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Jonesboro
Mebane
Efland
Bon Mebane
Burlington News
Roberson Freeman
Reidsville
Burlington Coitia Co
Roxboro
W. D. Owens
Handy Joyner
Stony Creek Township
Curtis Howell
Goldsboro
F. Craig
Craig
Mes. T. W. Mewborn & Co
Li Hung Chang
Branster West
Butler Speaks at Opera House on the Money Question
A mass meeting of Free Silver advocates gathered at the opera house to select delegates for the National Silver Convention in St Louis on July 22. U S Senator Butler spoke for three hours arguing for free coinage of silver, denouncing Democrats and predicting betrayal if Chicago adopts free silver. The audience included Democrats, Populists, Silver party members, and Republicans, many applauding and extending thanks to Butler despite party loyalties.
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Opera House
St. Louis
B. F. Keith
T.W. Wood
Silver Party
Mescra
R. H. Beery
J. W. Taylor
Ms. Louis
U. S
Butler
John Sherman
Republican Party
National Democratic Party
Chicago
Raleigh
Charles L. Gaekill
Evening Dispatch
Gaskill
North Carolina
Wilmington Messenger
People’s Party
Senator Butler Pushes Postal Telegraph Bill in Senate
Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina urges a postal telegraph or telephone in every post office and free rural delivery at cost. He calls current management unconstitutional and cites Sumner’s 1884 speech on the postal system as connective logic from pony to telegraph.
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Marion Butler
North Carolina
Senate
United States
Postoffice Department
Sumner
House Committee On Post Offices
Railroeda
Congress of the
San Francisco Star
Not By Any Means at State Convention
Notes of the State Convention recount that the Means financial substitute did not reflect sound money strength. The piece argues sound money advocates largely yielded to free coiners, with limited contest except in a few counties.
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Charlotte Observer
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State News
Brevard
Virgie A. Gillespie
Virgo
L. J. Young
Danbury
Webster Herald
A. B. Allison
Jackson County
Scotland
North Wilkesboro
R C. Lowe
Rowland
Carolinas
Limberton
Fair Gilif
Herman Wilson
Cove Creek
Watauga County
Wilson
Lenoir
Stanly
Greensboro
Asheville
Western North Carolina
Lindley Loan & Investment Company
Charlotte
J. N. Howie
Providence Township
Mecklenburg
Tarboro Southerner
John Smith
Caledonia
Washington City
Mias Cornelius
Iredell
Rockingham
Haw River
George Freeland
Ilarris
Durham Sun
W. R. Henry
Brabster West
Correspond
American Federation of Labor
Western Union Telegraph Company
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