05 Dec 1893
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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1893
Page
1
A lyrical fragment portrays Bard Tove and Heart at sea with a perilous voyage toward joy and a faint cry for rescue. The scene shifts to a dramatic rescue as lightning strikes reveal a path to safety. The tale ends with a hopeful union and vows of enduring love.
Eugene Cleveland faces betrayal and a debt trap after losing a large sum entrusted by the bank president. His uncle and the wife of a rival seek to leverage money for power while Eugene battles loyalty to his love and a perilous secret.
The aeronaut Samuel A King, famed for a Lake Michigan escape, proposes airborne war use. He offers a group of captive balloons on a metal boat with compressed hydrogen for observation up to 6,000 feet and 100 mile radius, with potential to drop bombs over fleets. He circulated his plan to ex Secretary Tracy during tensions with Chili and Britain.
A dialogue from a later edition recalls a promise about marriage and reveals a humorous exchange between Benedict and his wife. The column notes variations and a Washington Star quip about summer heat and winter cold.
The Georgia House defeated a measure to admit women to the Rock College normal school and approved a range of bills including coroner physician appointments and road improvements. The Senate adjourned for a chaplain's funeral then passed bills on railroad wage liability, county offices, and Savannah charter changes as part of a busy session.
Governor Tillman releases a tabulated report on the dispensary for the first quarter. Summary shows county purchases 185 928 95 dollars remittances 99 883 98 dollars county sales 166 043 56 dollars stock on hand 43 826 43 dollars county dispensary expenses 19 890 04 dollars total state dispensary expenses to November 1 72 566 36 dollars of which 28 278 58 was for constabulary and over 15 000 for freight and bottles and flasks 70 251 22 dollars whisky purchases state cash on hand 7 514 55 dollars due by dispensers 82 953 50 dollars bills payable 61 027 32 dollars total profits 32 198 16 dollars
A roundup says President Peixeto of Brazil may be assassinated. Major M. C. Kiser, Atlanta businessman and elder statesman, dies. A three masted schooner found ashore near Cheatham Massachusetts with no crew seen. Mail and Express bought by William Phelps. North east cold wave threatens subzero temps from Helena to Milwaukee. A deadly rail crash near Limitro station kills 43 and injures 180, many immigrants. Brunswick reports no yellow fever cases. refugees arriving. quarantine disputes. Jeffersonian Democrats set December 8 county convention in Birmingham. Knights of Labor leader James R Sovereign arrives in Philadelphia amid low enthusiasm. Perry Oklahoma Athletic Club offers $30,000 purse to Corbett and Mitchell if fight moves there. Oklahoma law penalizes prize fighting. Milwaukee brewery proposes a $100,000 amphitheater. Nashville talks wages with Louisville and Nashville rail over restored pay. Nashville industrial upturn noted with shops reopening and mills restarting. Bloomington coal shaft sees 110 workers strike over 21 percent wage cut. talks with Vice President Stevenson fail.
The Southern Associated Press met two days in Augusta Georgia and voted to stand by current contracts. Officers elected include E P Howell as president J H Estill as vice president Patrick Walsh as treasurer and acting general manager F P Glass as secretary B P Howell T T Stockton J H Estill as executive committee. Directors chosen include E P Howell W P Pichard J C Hemphill J F Rule and others. A deadly fire at Beaver Pennsylvania damaged the Merrill house near the government dam, burning six men to death and injuring several others. The disaster occurred at the levee construction site two miles below Beaver.
Cincinnati dispatch reports Bishop H M Turner of Atlanta presiding as the national colored convention opens with over five hundred delegates registered. Temporary chair W H Councill and secretary J H Willis lead a large, orderly assembly as Turner outlines radical reforms including mob-law rejection, harsher rape penalties, and partial African emigration backed by a call for funds from the national debt to support emigration plans.
Chicago dispatch reports William Ackerman's auditor's view of the Columbian exposition finances. Average daily receipts were 67 096 dollars with 22 405 dollars in expenses. Total receipts 28 151 168 dollars. expenditures 25 540 537 dollars. balance 2 610 630 dollars. After deducting in sight obligations totaling 748 147 dollars the net assets stand at 1 862 483 dollars.
At a Monday meeting in Philadelphia the Knights of Labor accepted Powderly’s resignation by a near unanimous vote. J. H. Sovereign of Iowa narrowly won the successor post over James Campbell of Pittsburgh and T. B. McGuire. The general executive board filled with A. French Boston H. B. Martin Minnesota and J. L. Kenny Omaha, all anti Powderlyites.
The ex isting cold wave in Chicago marks the harshest November in twenty-one years. By 11 PM Friday the temperature hovered at four above zero, then fell six degrees to two below zero by 4 AM. St Paul reports five to twenty five below, with similar readings from North Dakota and Manitoba, including 24 below in Sank Rapids and 25 below in Fargo.
W F Wrightmire calls a March 20 conference in St Louis to organize a new party. He helped start the people's party in 1890 at Cincinnati and has since split with Governor Lewelling. Breidenthaler heard from Governor Waite of Colorado about the movement.
A Brunswick special reports the government quarantine is removed allowing free entry without certificates. Surveillance on outgoing goods continues, railroads resume regular schedules, Mallory line steamships restart immediately, and no new fever cases among refugees. The city is described as practically safe.
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