17 Nov 1891
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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1891
Page
1
Reports from Rio Grande note Brazil's Congress may be dissolved as pro and anti government factions clash locally. Brazil’s government denies secession plans while declaring elections expected after a constitutional crisis. Troop movements and defense preparations rise as unrest spreads through the capital Alegre and neighboring provinces.
Special to State Chronicle reports Trinity football crushed Furman University 96 to 0 in Columbia. Students celebrated with bells, whistles, a bonfire, and moonlit football. Prof Bandy and Mr O W Carr spoke as players performed another game. Next Trinity faces the University of Virginia on Saturday the 28th.
Revenue agents had captured two moonshine distilleries near Simeon Utley who named owners George Utley James Rice and Jake McAllister. Simeon Utley was killed on a country road. coroner's inquest returned death by unknown parties. Authorities pursue leads as sensational case unsettles Holly Springs.
Beamer, Carroll County Virginia treasurer for years, killed himself after being pressed to reconcile his accounts. He was about fifty and died instantly in Hillsville near Mt Airy after attempting to borrow funds to square the books. The amount behind cited ranges from 900 to 4000 dollars.
Report lists results from Belmont and Gloucester tracks on November 16 with multiple races. Winners include Double Cross Alderman Mae Toano Blitzen Perlid Dago Grafton Reteration Cen sor Oberlin Lita Rustic plus noted second and third place finishers and race times.
George Dwyer, a young Polish clerk, convicted of murdering Mannie McTadden at Cape Charles City on October 16. He clubbed the woman to death while she slept and stole $400 from the store, narrowly escaping lynching. He faces a hanging sentence.
The Western North Carolina Conference voted to pay Missionary Wilson in Japan and build a church at a total of 1250 dollars. Reports from district presiding elders across the conference noted progress, new churches, parsonages, revivals, and varied collection totals, with 23034.22 overall and 8000 members in some districts.
A petition will be sent to Governor Holt asking to commute the death sentence of Downs, convicted for the burglary of John Wadsworth's residence. Execution is set for December 3. The largely signed petition omits jurors names and also omits Wadsworth, Judge Meares, and Solicitor Brown.
Memorial services in the New York Academy of Music paid tribute to Charles Stewart Parnell. Chauncey Depew praised the Irish leader, praising constitutional methods and Home Rule while notes of regret arrived from across the nation. Governor Thomas M. Holt declared November 26 as a day of general thanksgiving for the state of North Carolina.
The passage calls for daily duty of gratitude to God and declares a Commonwealth duty to render united praise and thanksgiving to the Great Ruler of the Universe on stated occasions for daily blessings and mercies.
Popular novelty show Sun's Phantasma will appear at Metropolitan Hall tomorrow night with strong audience appeal. Press and crowds praise the act and seats can be secured at Bobbitt's drugstore. regular admission is 4.
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