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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1893
Page
2
The Southern Governors meet in Richmond to discuss immigration and promoting Southern resources to foreign capital. The piece notes slow population movement, foreign ignorance about the region, and hopes to attract Northern migrants and capital for cotton mills, urging wise action and measured expectations.
Paris reports President Carnot signed the release of M Turpin the inventor of melinite after his 1891 four year sentence for selling the secret to the Armstrong Gun Manufacturing Company. Turpin and three others faced fines and civil-rights penalties for the leak. Turpin’s supporters pressed for release since Defense ministers changes.
Garland Dasnie! wins the state championship in the individual shoot as Greensboro defeats Charlotte 102 to 92 in the team event. Nineteen entries compete. Mr. Wagoner of Washington DC earns the most prize money for the two days.
REPORTS describe Chinese imperial reception of a French railcar train and new electrical lights in a sacred space. A Salisbury Herald item details Engineer J. E. Brown killed after a freight wreck near Ayersville. the train derailed in a deep cut and caused extensive loss.
Reports from Indiana indicate heavy damage and loss of life from last night’s storm and continuing effects this morning. Southern Associated Press dispatches note widespread destruction across multiple counties with ongoing rescue and relief efforts underway.
Cure claims cover a wide range of blood and skin diseases including tetter salt rheum eczema erysipelas boils carbuncles enlarged glands tumors and scrofula. It promises year round effectiveness and a money back guarantee praising rapid flesh and strength building for pale scrofulous children with a focus on low cost distribution through reliable dealers.
New York Herald reports George Sheffield, a self described Massachusetts Yankee, unveiled a sugar and potash powered engine claiming to propel a 5000 ton vessel at 35 mph. He predicts a three and a half day transatlantic crossing and has formed the American Rapid Motor Company with $1,000,000 capital. A small boat tests planned on the East River.
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