State News Highlights Banter and Bills Across Counties
A sprawling summary notes multiple North Carolina items from courthouses to farms. It mentions new licenses in the Supreme Court, barn fires, cotton and corn yields, pardons, church memberships, and local accidents. Names and places include Mecklenburg, Raleigh, Durham, Goldsboro, and Edenton along with judges, farmers, and public officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yoor County
Mecklenburg
Matthews
Mecklenburg County
Irlington Herald
Charlotte
Carolina
Daniels
North Carolina Supreme Court
I Anderson West
Farmington Township
Davie' Times
First Presbyterian Chuch
Charlotte Xena
James Thomas
New Berne
Albemarle
Smithfield
Goldsboro
Neuse River
James H. Jones
Raleigh
Jefferson Davis
National Capitol
Milton Gazette
Durham Sun
Ruffin Canaday
Mangum Street
Durham Recorder
Len Surls
Cumberland County
Sigman
Machpelah
Sinlair Davidson
Triangle
Lincolnton
Chicago
Charlotte Times
Yadkin Valley
Here
Philadelphia
Kinston Free Press
E. J. White, Jr
Boone
Inston Sentinel
Winston Ade
Scotchman
Multiple Global News Briefs From October Reports
Wall Street dull as stocks dip. A hotel rear in Berlin kills seven. Yorkshire miners return to work while cholera cases rise in Hampburn. Attorney General Olney appoints Solomon C. Weill as assistant U.S. attorney in North Carolina. Van Alen named for Italy ambassadorship. Thieves recover seventy thousand dollars in Mineral Range robbery. A riot at Cabin Creek Baptist association erupts in Jonesboro with deaths and injuries. Bank of Carroll fails in Hextinetox. Illinois Central strike ends. Yazoo and Mississippi Valley strike continues. Fatal train wrecks near Lyman. Cotton in Southwest Texas nearing harvest with 40% short crop. Iowa Gov race shocks as Balter bolts to support Joseph. Crops forecast poor due to weather. six to seven million bales projected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wall Street
Berlin
London
Yorkshire
HampBurn
Washington
Olney
Solomon C. Weill
United States
North Carolina
Washington, D. C
J.J. van Alen
Italy
Marquette
Jonesboro
Cabin Creek Baptist Association
Hextinetox
Tenn
Bank of Carroll
R. F. Truslow
Truslow
Memphis
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Chesapeake
Francisco
San Antonio
Texas
Drs Moines
Iowa
L R. Balter
Harrison County
Scott
Central Committee
Joseph
Balter
Iowa General Assembly
Insurgent Fleet Bombarding Rio in Ongoing Siege
From Rio de Janeiro dispatches dated October 1 report Admiral Mellos' insurgent squadron still in the bay with weakened fighting units. Desertions rise as shore artillery damages rebel ships. two landing attempts at Santos and Santa Catharina are repulsed. Loyal land forces hold, public opinion backs the government, and Mellos renewed bombardment continues, as famine prices bear on residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United Press
Rio Janeiro
Mellos
Bay of
Santos
Santa Catharina
Cotton Crop Estimates by Alfred B Shepperson
Alfred B Shepperson, author of Cotton Facts, provides expert opinion on the crop. He notes mature fruitage in many areas and fertile bottom land that will keep producing until killing frosts. Estimates depend on the timing of general southern frosts, with later frosts raising potential output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alfred B. Shepperson
Associated Press
Shepperson
Cotton
Mobile Under the Waves Rages Through Local Storm
A southeast gale hit MobiLE Alabama at 4 AM with speeds over fifty mph. The city flooded four feet in wholesale and retail districts, water reached Royal Street, and power and telegraph lines failed. Dredges and boats were lost, one man drowned near Union depot, and rescue operations saved two crewmen from Dredge No. 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Gulf
Royal Street
Ida Low
St. Francis Street
Heroine
Mobile and
Ohio
Crescent City
Point Clear
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Biloxi
Court House
Christ Church
Sam
Union Depot
Government Street
Pensacola Storm Sweeps Shore Lines Destructively
Pensacola Florida reports the worst storm in twenty years began yesterday morning and intensified through the day. Winds peaked at sixty six miles per hour with torrential rain. extensive property damage occurred along the bayfront and wharves. No deaths reported though ships and buildings were driven onto the beach and into the bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Fla
Bay Front
Baylen Street
Warren & Co
Josephine
Wilhelm
Isabella
Lo Bay
Storm Ravages Gulf Coast Killing and Damage Report
A New Orleans dispatch reports a Gulf coast storm causing massive loss of life and widespread destruction. Death toll ranges up to 1500 with many buried or washed ashore, while property damage includes ruined crops, wrecked piers, and ships. Aid efforts mobilize with Red Cross, city clubs, and relief shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Point A la Hache
Grand Prairie
Ant
Bellaire
John Dymond
Neptune
Grand Isle
Cheniere
Biloxi
Louisville & Nashville
Mobile
Gulf
Louisiana
Deer Island
Louisiana Marsh
Ship Island
Rosella Smith
Carpenter
Cook
Annie E. B
Chandeleur Island
Mississippi City
Handsboro
Pass Christain
Ocean Springs
H. Leinhard
J. T. Diddle Company
Red Cross Society
Commercial Club
Canning
Factorien Aa
Uch
Rai
Trains Stalled by Washouts Delays Hit City Rail
The mail train on the Pensacola and Atlantic road from here to Jacksonville could not pass Bohemia and turned back. The 35 pm Louisville and Nashville train faced washouts and returned. Only the 4:35 pm northbound train reached the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola and
Jacksonville
Bohemia
Bay Shore
Louisville
Nashville
Also Mentioned on This Page
State News
Charlotte Observer
J. E. King
Orele
First National Bank
W. M. Maynard
Maynard
Catawba County
Lincolnton Courier
Chatham Record
Richard Cotton
Cape Fear
Chatham
Greensboro
Outon Walker Avenue
Messers North & Watson
Charlotte News
J.C Creswell
Mooresville
Durham Globe
Fred A. Green
Durham
Green
The
Globe
James Washington
Stem
H. T. Moore
D. Booth
T. L Booth
J. J. Bryan
Oxford Ledger
Atlanta & North Carolina Railroad
C. E. Foy
Enoch Wadsworth
S. W. Latham
Craven
W.L Kennedy
W. W. Carraway
Lenoir
W. T. Dortch
State Road Congress
John W. Hill
Trent River
Hill
Jeff Odom
Springhope
Rocky Mount Argonaut
Warrenton
Thomas Lynch
C. H. Harris
Lynch
Strudwick
Post Office Department
Wilson Mirror
Wadesboro
Anson County
W. P. Fife
Virginia
Wanesboro
Winston Sentinel
Hawkins
Wilkesboro
Wilkes County
Miles Simmons
Bachelor’s Creek
Journal Office
New Berne Journal
Father Francis
A. Tankesley
Bishop Haid
Agnes Manning
New Catholic Church
J.C. Shutt
Sentinel
James Prather
A. F. Landreth
John Hill
Wilburn Walker
Eli Hinson
Surface Hill
Hinson
Rockingham
Richmond
Robeson
John M. Patterson
Laurinburg
James H. Barefoot
Joseph Jordan
Messrs. McMillan & Robbins
T. C. Hawkins
Atlanta Ga
A. J. Arrington
Posiee
Neil McIntosh
Foster’s Creek
Madison County
Arrington
McIntosh
Dock Walker
Shelby Aurora
High Point Enterprise
D. H. Parnell
Curtis M. Brooks
Mulberry Township
Brooks
Department of Agriculture
Atlantic States
Gulf States
Rio
Alabama
Gulf Coast
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