White Republican appeal grows in the South
A Washington notice reports John Capers of South Carolina named U.S. attorney for the district, seen as a move to build white Republican support in the South. The appointment faces Senate opposition from Tillman and McLaurin factions, with confirmation expected to trigger a partisan clash.
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Capers
South Carolina
Washington
South
White House
John ©. Capers
United States
District of
McKinley
Bryan
Department of Justice
Court of Claims
Cleveland
Olney
Miller
Free Silver
Democratic Party
West Virginia
Pritchard
North Carolida
McLaurin
Palmetto
Bishop Capers
Lathrop. Tillman
Caper
Lathrop
Tillman
Senate
Manila trial over commissary sergeant amid fraud charges
Report covers trial of Commissary Sergeant John Meston uncertain verdicts, arrest of Captain James C. Read, and alleged improper payments to officers. Names of contractors and officers cited include Burns, Major George B. Digress, Captain Tamas O Read, Captain Frank H. Gawton, and Colonel Woodruff. Details describe lavish entertainment at Hyans & Co and Pitts residence, champagne purchases, private carriages, and cock pit schemes in Manila. Methodist mission plans accompany the coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
John Meston
Verdiot
Meaton
James C. Read
Dyas Gh
George B.digress
Tamas
O. Read
Prank
H. Gawton
B. Tremaine
Woodruff
Hyans & Co
Harold , Pitt
Dmrest
Theachemé
Manilla
Larapeng
Pitt
Transporta
Warren
Methodist Episcopal Church
New Industries Reported Across Several States
Tradesman notes a wave of new plants and companies across the Southeast and Mid South including a $100,000 brick works at Parkersburg West Virginia and an $80,000 brick works at Texarkana Arkansas. Other entries mention a $150,000 canal and rice company at Jennings Louisiana a $60,000 coal and railway company at Bessemer Alabama and a $100,000 coal and iron company at Waldron Arkansas. Additional facilities span broom factories in Sherman Heights Tennessee buggy and carriage in Valdosta Georgia electric plants in Madison Florida Gainesville Georgia Port Arthur Texas and other sites including flour mills ice plants hardware and metal factories and several coal, oil and tobacco ventures.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Texarkana
Ark
Bristol, Tonn
Sherman Heights
Tenn
Valdosta
Canal and Rice Company
Jennings, la
Bolivar, Tenn
Bessemer
Ala
Coal and Iron Company
Waldron
Rockdale
Tex
Rockwood
Mullins
8. C
Ash Creek
Boyce, Iredell and Taylor
Meridian
Miss
Madison
Fla
Gainesville
Port Arthur
North Augusta
Strand
West Point
Chatham and Roopville
Mayaville
Bristol, Tenn
Elizabethton
Norfolk
Shreveport
Hitchcock
Wheeling
Birmingham
Jefferson
N. C
Pecan Gap
Valley Mills
Lonoke
Fayetteville
Bronson
High Springs
Zolfo
Atlanta
Moorefield
Montgomery
Chapel Hill
Cookeville
Supreme Court ruling limits union rights to entice apprentices
Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds AFL members may not entice factory apprentices into the Glass Workers Union. The case stems from an appeal by Glass Workers Union members against an Allegheny County court ruling restraining interference with a Tarentum glass manufacturer. The court dismissed the union appeal at their cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
American Federation of Labor
Glass Workers’ Union
Allegheny County
Tarentum
Supreme Court
Spooner Says No Modifications To Platt Terms
The Havana constitutional convention voted 18 to 10 against declaring opposition to the Platt Amendment citing clause wording and overall content. Senator Spooner argues Congress defined relations with Cuba and opposes any modification, noting the island’s interests align with U S terms. General Wood appoints Ernest Sterling as deputy island auditor, continuing civil duties.
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Havana
Washington
Senora Torres
Urritis
Hl Hstivador
Btevedores
Lucien Young
Young
el Estigador
Neely
Charles I. W. Neely
Brooner
Congress
United States
Cuba
Spooner
Senate’ Committee
War Department
Root
Island
Wood
General Wood
Ernest Sterling
Senor Sterling
Ladd
New Recruits Desert in Fourteenth Cavalry
Leavenworth dispatch reports dozens of brand new soldiers from the Fourteenth Cavalry Regiment have deserted after their first pay day. Most are young recruits from the regiment’s companies. about 160 men are believed missing as they left on departing trains.
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Unicago Tribune
Leavenworth
Kas
Fourteenth Cavalry Regiment
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Prauds
Southern Progress
Handicap Commission
Ante
Rhodes
Gen
Pass
Macon
Harry Bunns
Jacksony
Southern and Florida. Railway Co
Cordele
Hampton
Arve Macon
Ava
Sca
Duta c.Ly
Chatinnooga
Nashviliens
Loti
Loulé
Jacksonville
Acon
Palatko
Froiam
Gano
Kelly
Ske
Mallory Bros. Machinery CO
Macon, Ga
J. Hamilton Ayers, M. D
Atlanta Publishing House
Loyd Stbert
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