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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1892
Page
1
In Idaho and Washington a Senate session weighs elections and public works while the House confirms Alex Craig as the Pennsylvanian winner after a heated contest. The urgency deficiency bill passes while pension business stalls as members adjourn after a twilight session.
Seven stores and the Richmond and Danville railroad ticket office in Lexington were robbed overnight. No safes were forced and only small sums were taken from money drawers. No clues have been found to identify the thieves.
Wepon reports Roanoke area landowners shifting to rice due to flood safety. Planting method mirrors cotton with drills three feet apart, 15 to 20 stalks per hill after hoeing. One bushel seeds an acre, planting around April 20, harvest by September, with straw as forage and potential sale for paper.
President travels to Virginia Beach aboard the private car Izaak Walton with Mrs. Harrison and aides. Lillie Johnson remains jailed ill as bail decision delays court action. In San Francisco the City of New York reports Guatemala election tensions with Barrillas delaying transfer of power.
New York February 26 At noon today 178 negro emigrants from the southwest bound for Liberia were evicted from the Eighth Avenue mission run by Rev Stephen Merritt. Health officers ordered the eviction fearing a possible epidemic. The mission secured temporary housing in several tenements and will care for the stranded group until further action.
The Richmond Terminal plan will be issued on March 1. The Richmond locomotive works received a $57 105 payment for machinery on the Texas. the Adams steamer will join the Pacific Station on March 22. the Portsmouth training ship arrived at Barbadoes. Three hundred World's Fair staffers struck for a two cent hourly wage rise. Nominations were sent for navy chaplains Frederick Sherman and William Reaney. Bourgeois abandons ministry plans. Loubet to form a government. Lamont recovers and travels south. Ways and Means backs a hearing on the bagging question. Senate confirms Henry Smith and Maj. John Claus. Gladstone arrives in Paris for a short stay. Weekly business failures total 270 in U S and Canada. Britain to join a conference urged by Washington and Paris. A Gillespie minister's extortion letter case ends with police involvement and a tarred verdict.
Berlin reports roar with rioting around Unter den Linden as police clash with crowds overnight. Troops on standby and many arrested mark a rising crisis as critics claim the Emperor's Brandenburg speech provoked a civil clash. London dispatch notes Berlin fears crack in the empire and a bitter government opposition struggle.
The report describes Brackett, a drunken man, killing Pollard after a violent dispute sparked by a prior knife wound and a drunken confrontation. Witnesses numbered near a dozen, with Brackett briefly arrested and then re arrested after escaping custody. Preliminary trial occurred before O C Thompson and J C Willis, resulting in jail time. The incident is said to cost Lincoln county at least $500 in whiskey related harms.
The Feb 26 hearing before the Senate judiciary committee featured John R Dorfusos of New York arguing against the measure. He warned Congress cannot fix commodity prices and that passage would hand wheat and other crops to foreign merchants, harming farmers.
Grain blockade expands in Kansas with Burlington refusing to receive more grain. Orders issued Monday halt shipments to Kansas City as 50 to 60 cars arrive daily while the railroad can move only about 25 cars.
The World reports a new Cuban revolution is in preparation with active actions in multiple cities and on the island. Leaders are said to be near completion of plans and the first blow could occur within a few days.
Against Free Silver, Cuarceston South Carolina February 26. The chamber of commerce adopted a resolution urging state Senators and Congressmen to use all influence to defeat the bill for free coinage of silver. It asserts that boards of trade must be backed by sound currency.
North Carolina postoffices have been established at Cotton Wood in Mecklenburg county with Alpheus M. Rea as postmaster and Harris' Mine in Jackson county with George Springer Jr appointed. Special mail service to Ferrell's in Nash county has been discontinued due to post office abolition.
Lexington pastor Rev. T A Boone of the Methodist church has studied biblical prophecies and says the second coming will occur in 1597, five years away, based on his interpretation.
The state v George H Wylde ended in a Guilty verdict by Greensboro jury after about twenty minutes. He received a five year penitentiary sentence. a new trial was denied. An appeal to the Supreme Court was granted with bond set at $1000.
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