18 Sep 1892
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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1892
Page
1
A garbled legal and advertising fragment describes a real estate sale note for Wake County with parcels near Salisbury Street and a Tavern tract, plus a probate reference. It also includes an unrelated testimonial advertisement for kidney and blood health cures promising lasting relief, mentioning Hot Springs and Atlanta.
Charlotte hosts a monumental welcome for President Stevenson with 15,000 spectators in Independence Square. A two mile procession, four brass bands, and a packed auditorium of 6,000 marked the day. Tibbet introduced Stevenson who delivered a forceful speech on the force bill. Ewing and Robbins spoke on home rule.
Reports yesterday of sixteen suspected cholera cases at the reception hospital were denied as baseless by Emmons Clarke secretary of the board of health. The bulletin states no new cases since the last bulletin, five total deaths to date, and one patient Maury Connerty reported in the hospital.
Telegraphic reports from Gainesville to Boston and Halifax describe cholera spreading in parts of Germany and Europe. Quarantine orders were issued for ships and ports, with warnings to U S ports. London and Paris coverage notes rising cases and political caution as Mexico marks Independence Day in Montery.
In Winston County North Carolina the Republican county convention dissolved into chaos as black delegates demanded ticket recognition. Charley Reynolds led a white-supremacist faction, while black speakers warned of defeating the ticket if denied. Republicans nominated a ticket at the courthouse. blacks formed a rival slate at the opera house headed by J S Fitts, leveraging twelve hundred voters to influence party balance. Albany case opens as Peck and stenographer charged with destroying documents from the labor statistics report.
A Palerno report warns Sicily is overrun with brigands who seize landowners and merchants for ransom while torturing peasants and beheading and cannibalizing children. Farmers lose horses and cattle as estates near Palerno fear attacks, with owners guarded by private bands.
From Washington to London and Cincinnati reports on possible immigration curbs due to cholera in Europe. Secretary Fos to confer with President Harrison on suspending immigration. Treasury may decide whether steerage passengers can return to the U.S. as panics over ships ease.
Secretary Probst of Ohio's health board received a report that 300 immigrants passed through West Virginia without health certificates. He sent telegrams to railroad managers barring entry without certificates starting next day. A separate note describes emigrants from Bremen arriving at Cincinnati's Grand Central depot en route to St Louis and Louisville with no sickness detected.
The Sullivan benefit at Madison Square Garden drew about 6000 attendees. A string of preliminaries featured Callin Green Skelly Hogan McAuliffe and Nelson. Sullivan thanked the crowd for support and praised the champion while Corbett received loud acclaim for his gracious remarks and pledge to uphold the title.
Workers from Philadelphia begin milling work while Hungarian workers meet near the riverbank pledging to resume by week’s end. Debates at Weaker, with Green and Stroud, touch on democracy and party loyalties. Ireland ends government proclamations, welcomed as law restores order and eases prosecutions that pushed irish patriots to America.
Harper Gilmore a well connected Macon youth is a fugitive and double murderer after a confrontation at the Sandersville livery stable. He shot Balaam Pittman and Dan Pittman, killing one and wounding the other, then fled as authorities press pursuit. Reports also note bank statements, a boiler explosion killing seven, and brief updates on Mrs. Harrison, Senator Sparks, and Kemp's Balsam advertisements.
Under power from a deed of trust by A W Shaffer Walter Clark as trustee will sell Sept 27 at 12m at Raleigh court house door for cash the land in southwest Raleigh on Cannon Street near properties of R S Tucker D G Fowle C B Root and others seven acres more or less except parcels already sold as referenced in deed from N C Life Insurance Co with Wake County Register of Deeds records.
Notice announces a summons and warrant of attachment in the Wake County North Carolina case W A Myatt against Jno D Page. The plaintiff seeks $142.40 plus interest from 1879 and 1885 on two notes. The hearing is set for September 27, 1892, at 1 o'clock in Raleigh, with the defendant required to appear and answer.
The Chowan Baptist Female Institute outlines studies in Literature Science Elocution Music Art Stenography and Typewriting under dedicated departments. The fall session begins on Wednesday September 17 with moderate charges based on work grade and health expenses noted from last year.
Court orders sale of portions of Mary A Morehead deceased estate. Interested buyers must apply to the undersigned. If offers justify marketing, sale will occur after due advertisement of time and place. Also advertising a Tyler Desk Co oak roll desk offered FOB St Louis at 21 and 23 dollars net cash.
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