Raleigh State Fair Opens October Seventeenth With Wild West Show
Raleigh announces the 1893 State Fair on October 17 with Zeb Vance to open. A Wake Forest vs Trinity football game and Boyden's Wild West Show highlight daily attractions including Indian scenes, jugglers, a Gettysburg cyclorama, and road making machinery demonstrations. Governor Carr endorses county road talks during the fair.
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Zeb. Vance
Z. B. Vanor
Vance
Wake Forest
Trinity Colleges
Boyden
Wild West
H Strage
Gettysburg
Terrile
Ict
North Carolina
Carr
Boards of County Commission
Raleigh
State News Highlights North Carolina Items
A sprawling digest notes Davidson College hazing expulsions, telegraph links between Wilmington and New Berne, frost in Watauga, and North Carolina gold value since 1864. It covers farm yields, fires in Durham, asylum crowding at Goldsboro, tobacco and corn records, census changes, court adjournments, and local incidents across numerous towns.
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S. Balkins
Durham
Davidson College
Wilmington
New Berne
Watauga
Goldsboro
Pamlico
North Carolina
Chicago
Greenville
High Point Enterprise
Greenville Reflector
Durham Sun
Alamance County
Blowing Rock
Boone Democrat
Whitaker
Asheboro
Charlotte News
Benjamin Burleyson
No. 10
Durham Recorder
Alamance Gleaner
Allen Baxley
Roberdell
Laurinburg
W. E. Higl
T. H. Pritchard
Charlotte Observer
New Berne Journal
Atlantic and Carolina Railroad
Express Company
United States
Salisbury
Concord
Stamper
Hess the
Fusgendar
Flood Damage Report From Gifu Japan
Vancouver reports flood devastation in Gifu Japan with 682 houses swept away 14025 flooded 238 killed and 30205 rendered homeless per advices via the Canadian Pacific steamship Enpon 2 India from Hong Kong and Yokohama.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canadian Pacificers Company
Enpon
India
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Gifu
Japan
Attempted murder in Atlanta shocks town on Henry Street
In Atlanta on Henry street Charlie Herring fired twice at his wife on the porch and then shot himself twice. Both are in critical condition after the desperate attempt fueled by ongoing hard feelings and a prior warning by Mrs. Herring that she would not be there when he returned.
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Atlanta
Charlie Herring
Henry Street
Herring
Memphis Appeal Avalanche Assigns for Creditors
The Memphis Appeal Avalanche filed for assignment today to satisfy creditors. Robert J. Morgan and Andrew Gwynn named as assignees authorized to sell the newspaper and its franchises to cover $81,000 in preferred claims. State National Bank held the AP franchise as collateral for $12,000 and is listed among preferred creditors. The paper will continue under the assignees' direction.
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Memphis Tenn
Memphis Appeal Avalanche
Robert J. Morgan
Andrew Gwynn
State National Bank
Associated Press
Theaper
Wild engine wreck in Savannah injures fireman
A Savannah Morning News report from Jessup, Georgia, says a V V & G engine No 329, left on a side track since Saturday, ran away at 3:35 this morning toward Waycross. It collided with the S F & W No 208 wrecking both engines and several freight cars. Fireman Lowery colored was seriously injured. Hustler Little had started the engine earlier to move a train on the east Tennessee Virginia & Georgia road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. N. McRary
Lenoir
New Berne Journal
California
Roxboro Courier
Henry Waller
Davie Times
Burlington News
J. L. Scott
Alamance Gleaner
Graham, N
LL Kernadie
Bro
J D. Kernodle
Grant Beardsley
Warrenton Record
Hillsboro Observer
Lemuel Lynch
Winston Republican
Robert Bangor
Wilkes County
Charlotte Democrat
Noah
Ocracoke
A. Williamson
Asheville
Washington Gazette
N. A. Purify
Purify
Edward M. Forbes
Beaufort
New Berne
Alamance County
Alamance Superior Court
Hendersonville
Saluda
Rutledge
Henry Rutledge
Alonzo Gray
Wilson
Rocky Mount
The
Phoenix
Winston Sentinel
White County
Prather
Hausertown
Winston
Leggetts
Edgecombe County
Tarboro
Scotland Neck
Greenville
Ayden
Pitt County
Daniel Gilchrist
Frank McKay
Laurinburg
Longap
Jordan Lyon
Monroe
Felts
Alleghany Star
Frank Greene
Hubbard
Charlotte News
Jesse Hall
Salisbury Road
John Lingle
Statesville
Clinton
A. S. Barrett
Barrett
Charlotte
Henry C. Davis
Hickory
N. C
Mt. Airy
J. N. Stallings
Low Gap
Stokes
Mount Airy Male Academy
Wesley Batten
Jerome
J. C. Battan
Green Cove Springs
Florida
Smithfield Herald
Col
K M Murchison
Orton
Cape Fear River
Wilmington
Wilmington Star
Jack Mills
Harry West
Cornland
Norfolk County
Carolina
Sally Brooks
Elizabeth City
Newton Enterprise
E. Gant
Clairmont
Smyre, Rhyne & Co
J. R Gaither
Gaither
Hickory Mercury
Isaac Sugg
James
Hobgood
King
Hoke
Young Sugg
Halifax County
Savannah
Jessup
Waycross
63Rd Mile Post
Lowery
Hustler Little
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Road
Fatal and injurious crash at Beill eve station in Michigan
At Beillevve station Michigan an Erie express collided with an idle Chicago Grand Trunk express injuring cashier Meredith and killing Mr and Mrs Newland and others. The Newlands were en route from Detroit to the World's Fair with Mrs Joy among the injured. Fireman Jennison suffered severe burns.
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Beillevve
Mich
Chicago Grand Trunk Railroad
Erie Express
Meredith
Chicago and Grand Trunk Road
Henry A Newland
Henry A. Newland & Co
Detroit
Train Wreckers Foiled in Missouri Raid
In St. Joseph Missouri a robbery attempt on a passenger train was thwarted. Two robbers were killed, three captured, and a fourth fled after a policing action near Francis about one and a half miles from the city. Names given include Hugo Engle Ed Kohier Fredericks Hurst Garve and Gleits.
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St. Joseph
Nansa
Council Bluffs
Francis
Hugo Engle
Ed. Kohier
Fredericks
Hurst
Garve
Gleits
Joseph
Omaha Express
Roy's Branch
Broder
Brown
Hoh
Bold Train Robbery Ends with Shootout and Arrests
In a dramatic at night assault near the lighted place a gang led by Kohler and Gretz boarded the engine threatening engineer Wright and fireman Wise with death to force dynamite to open the express car. A fierce exchange left Kohler mortally wounded and several suspects jailed while officers and bystanders suffered no serious injuries.
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Gleitz
Kohler
Wright
Wise
Gretz
Engle
Fredericks
Garve
Hurst
Heded Engle
Henry Gleitz
Drunken tramp wounds brokers at Cuicano Board of Trade
A drunken man fired several shots in the Cuicano Illinois board of trade gallery injuring traders. Amin M Bennett secretary of the Board of Trade Insurance Army was shot in the neck and the crowd hit others including Roswell from Western Union. Bennett may survive. The assailant was captured and offered no motive.
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Cuicano
Ill
Board of Trade
Amin M. Bennett
An In Insurance Company
Dunham
Amin Bennett
Board of Trade Insurance Army
Bennett
Roswell
Western Union
Fever at Brunswick Reports Five New Yellow Fever Cases
Five new yellow fever cases are reported in Brunswick Georgia bringing total under treatment to nineteen. The list includes Mrs Lorentzson and her daughter in law Callie Mitchell and notes several older patients discharged. Authorities caution many mild cases go undiagnosed and expect few fatalities with cold weather. Savannah Health Board bans entry without health certificates and inspects rail lines to restrict infected travel.
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Brunswick
Lorentzson
Wm. Anderson
Callie Mitchell
C H. Smith
Archie H. Smith
Faget
Horne
East Tennessee Railroad
East Tennessee
Jenkin
Jos. W. Smith
Savannah
Health Board
Cholera Fears Rise in Italian Port Leghorn
A telegram from Leghorn Italy reports cholera increasing alarmingly with twenty six new cases in a day and fifty six still under treatment. The message notes a cholera struck vessel Vincenzo Flori refused entry to Brazil with 20 to 30 deaths daily and bodies discarded at sea.
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Washington
V. A
State Department
Leghorn
Italy
Rosenthal
U.S
New York
Black
Hogarth
Santos
Vincenzo Flori
Genoa
Rio
Brazil
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L'Allegro Club
State News
Farmer’s Alliance Warehouse
Jno
Atlanta, Ga
Sao A
Wild Engine
the Board of Trade
Europe
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