Mrs Lease Voices Populist Reform and Money Talk
The program features Mrs. Lease of Kansas delivering a forceful Populist speech on monetary reform and government power. She argues Congress should regulate money, tariffs, and railways to aid the many, not a few, and lauds anti-bank sentiment amid praise for home rule. General Weaver and the ticket receive cheers, with a Terre Haute telegram boosting campaign events.
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Senator Vance Silent on North Carolina Farmers Demand
The letter from Senator Vance, written while sick at home, criticizes Alliance leaders and claims he failed to advocate for farmers. The piece questions his past pledges to back Alliance demands and notes his silence in the Senate after reelection, urging farmers to doubt his advice.
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North Carolina
Washington
Ocala
Senate
Wages versus farm prices argued by Tribune editorials
The letter attacks Carnegie’s wage reductions for steel workers arguing real wages rise only in 1892 while farm prices fall, totaling a 15 percent drop from 1589 to 1892. It condemns trusts and combines, urges readers to read think vote, and notes farmers are poorer despite low costs.
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Whitelaw Reid
The
New York Tribune
Carnegie
Tribune
United States
State News Snippets From North South and East
A collage of brief notes from North South and East states reports farm yields bad cotton outlook and weather effects plus violent incidents including a North Carolina suicide a Rowan county fatal goring by a plowing ox and a Henderson shooting. Local crimes robberies train crashes fires and rail delays also appear with assorted court and prison notes.
Multiple 1900s era incidents reported across cities
A sweeping digest from Sept 27 28 reports political renomination in Massachusetts, a major city fire in New Orleans destroying 31 cats with 50 000 dollars loss, a Raleigh U S Court suit over a lumber deal, a U S Army officer’s suicide in Washington, illnesses and assaults in Texas and Mississippi, a Bordentown child murder case, a Virginia prison escape, a Tennessee railroad sale to Walter H Webb and Mississippi Valley Construction, and a Gallatin to Scottsville line transfer to a new company.
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Russell
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Adelle
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Asheville
United States
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North Carolina
Washington
W. P. Canady
Dans
Texas
Corsicana
Roger Q. Mills
Jackson
Miss
J. K. Allman
Durant Democrat
Victor Hamilton
Hamilton
Allman
Trenton
N. J
Bordentown
Here
Miller
Nashville, Tenn
Chesapeake and Nashville Railroad
Walter H. Webb
New York
Scott Cummings
Memphis
Gallatin
Tennessee
Scotsville
Kentucky
Cholera Reports Across Ports Sept 28
Seventeen cholera cases reported in Charlottesburg with slight attacks. Havre records four new cases and three deaths. CuERBouRG notes three cases as cholera spreads. Trans Atlantic line updates departures from Havre due to cholera prevalence in the port.
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Havre
Cuerbourg
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Trans Atlantic
Wholesale infanticide car ried on in San Francisco
A man posing as Dr Henry C Beale his wife Nelson Haven and Hattie E Graham were arrested in San Francisco charged with murder by malpractice in the death of Mary Carroll of Petaluma county. Beale fled after posting 10000 bail. The Examiner reports Beale ran a private hospital for ten months with about fifty patients and forty infants born alive were killed or disposed of by chloroform drowning or cremation.
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Cal
Henry C. Beale
Nelson Haven
Hattie E. Graham
Mary Carroll
Petaluma County
Beale
Montrose
Fear of Lynchings Reported in Ocala
A telegraph from Ocala, Florida, reports fears of a lynching after Charles Shafer was shot and killed by York Ballard. Ballard and his brother waited near Shafer’s house, Ballard attacking as Shafer rode by. Ballard claims self defense, but Shafer’s body lay in the wagon bed. Shafer was about fifty. Ballard twenty five.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Ocala
Charles Shafer
York Ballard
Ballard
Shafer
Cotton Crop Conditions Across States This Year
The crop reports from several states note reduced acreage and lower yields due to unfavourable weather. In Georgia and the Augusta district, reductions range 20 to 40 percent with less fertilizer used. North Carolina Eastern regions see poor conditions from lack of rain, while Alabama reports 10 to 20 percent declines overall. Mississippi and other areas cite late maturation and rust bollworms, with merchants predicting yields around 70 percent of last year.
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Raueiey
N. C
North Carolina
State Agricultural Bureau
Carolina
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Mosile
Bold Roslyn Bank Robbery Stuns Washington
Sept 25 Tacoma reports a daring Roslyn mine cash heist on pay day. Three robbers looted the cafe and vault, wounding Cashier Abernathy and assistants, then fled on horses with guards firing in pursuit. A second clash near Roslyn left one wounded as a 125 man posse closes in.
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Dama. Shi Co
Rosl
Obituary Note For Albert Owens Of Minnesota Farm
Obituary fragment reports Albert Owens a young farmer near Kolanerong or City Minnesota who suffered prostration and spent hundreds of dollars seeking recovery. A previous death notice was once published but he later revived and was said to feel better now.
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Minn
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