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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1894
Page
3
A collage of brief reports from counties including Rutherford, Catawba, Stanly and surrounding areas. Highlights include crop issues and weather, thefts and crimes, deaths and accidents, mining interests, fires, and local court notices involving residents, merchants, and workers.
Prairie Island Indian reservation submerged as four Indians drown while attempting to move cattle in canoes. In Spokane Washington high water washes away seven houses and eight people drown. Tracks of Union Pacific and Great Northern railroads under water and business suspended. Langley and Langley hotel area flooded with additional drownings. Over two thousand bogus ballots reported in Gravesend election. Justice Sutterland sentenced to prison.
The Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company uses old railroad ties as fuel for both freight and passenger engines. Coal speculator opposition hinders confiscation of another load as men manually pull up ties for burning.
The Puget Sound region is almost cut off from the east as Canadian Pacific Great Northern Pacific and Union Pacific are blocked by floodwaters. The Fraser River is higher than in twenty years on the first named road. Nearby the high waters are receding and no further damage is expected.
Geneses New York May 29 a heavy white frost in the Genesee Valley damaged fruits berries and early vegetables in exposed spots Oswego New York May 29 frost harmed crops across Oswego county Pittsburgh New York May 29 frost last night feared to cause great crop damage with temperatures down to 40 degrees
Erie forge and several furnaces closed yesterday amid coal shortages. By Sunday about twenty more ration manufactures may halt until coal is secured. Anthracite coal used on freight trains of the Philadelphia and Erie Road causes hour delays between here and Kana, with the Western New York and Pennsylvania Road also testing the fuel.
In Burquixeton North Carolina on May 29 Bob Madkins an ex convict was arrested on a farm by Mayor W A Hall and Dr J R Stockard Jr. He confessed to attacking Miss Mary Phillips and she identified him. He described the crime and flight path, contradicting earlier search directions.
Working for 8. H Webb failed to return for balance, prompting a large Sunday gathering of about 2000 people. Talk of lynching arose but was deterred by prudent counsel. Capt. Parker urged restraint and explained consequences, as the suspect was sent to Graham jail for speedy trial. later Madkins was moved to Raleigh to avert further violence.
In Yellow Creek Ohio on May 29 striking miners seized a train and caused disturbances. The sheriff captured the mob leader. several arrests followed and officers routed the crowd. Reports from Wenonpa and Campgen note gunfire, obstructed tracks, and the governor calling up two military companies for protection amid feared attacks by Ohio strikers.
May 381 reports governors consent to act on a committee of arbitration to settle miner and coal operator troubles. Pennsylvania’s Robert E. Pattison, Ohio’s Willeam McKinsey, Indiana’s Claude Matthews, Iowa’s Jackson, and West Virginia’s McCorkle named. Illinois governor Altgeld refused. A formal board will hear all diffferences and their decision may be final.
A three month old heiress born February 24 and saved by a medical team and a Rob incubator now in swaddling clothes under nurse care. Florence Hedden Granger died in childbirth. Dr. Carleton and W F Ford Surgical Instrument Co aided with inventor William Robinson delivering incubator care. The child nears christening as she gains strength under constant watch.
An excursion train bound for Andersonville from Columbia extension of the Central Railroad wrecked at Holt's four miles east of Leary Georgia. The rear coach left the track and rolled down an embankment injuring about forty people with several deaths anticipated. Wounded were taken to Albany and Albany Bennies restaurant slept rooms used as a makeshift hospital.
About forty injured and several fatally, with many suffering broken limbs and internal injuries after an excursion train bound for Andersonville derails on a notoriously bad track. John Smith of Bleffton and Andy Jones of Edison are named among the injured.
Marshfield dispatch reports a Wisconsin Central Rail accident at 3:15 am when Train No 26 passed an open switch, wrecked, and cars caught fire. Eight killed and fifteen to twenty injured. four already identified including the engineer, fireman, and a Tweedy brother, with four more missing presumed buried in wreckage.
In Indianapolis on May 28, the Federal Court convicted F A Coffin and P B Coffin on all forty seven counts for aiding and abetting Theodore Haughey in the Indianapolis National Bank ring. A B Reed was found guilty on counts 37 to 46 for falsifying bank books.
The May 30 debate in GoTon centers on placing sugar on the free list as part of the tariff bill. Republican strategy aims to unite the party, but several senators oppose expanding free sugar, risking a split that could still allow the bill to pass. Leaders warn Louisiana votes are pivotal, while Allen Kyle and other figures maneuver to influence the final roll call.
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