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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
5
A compact roster lists lawyers and offices in Vienna Georgia with notes on practice areas and meeting times. Entries include Ataw Fleming Henderson Wooten and others, detailing offices in Stovall's building Cotton street and Masonic building, with dates and contact numbers.
Multiple physicians advertise practice across Macon Southwestern Oconee Southern and Brunswick Circuits and state and federal courts. Listings note Vienna and Byromville offices with day and night calls, addresses near drug store and Kelly Walton’s store. The notices include Beret pak Free in office work and a store burn notice with temporary relocation.
Thompson and Bazemore dissolve the firm by mutual consent with H B Thompson retiring and O B Bazemore continuing the business. Bazemore will collect all accounts and pay all indebtedness as of January 16, 1901.
Reports from Muscogee Oklahoma Territory warn of a full blood uprising among Creek and Choctaw nations west of Shufaula and near South McAlister. Deputized riders arrest two light horsemen who threaten reprisals. Claims of deposed governors and armed bands organizing to attack towns and white settlers prompt calls for immediate federal troop deployment from Fort Reno to Marietta. The situation risks widespread violence and murder if troops are not sent promptly.
Public sale notices in Georgia from Dooly and surrounding counties state guardians selling property for ward maintenance and support, with dates set for February 1901. Included are parcels in Cordele and Vienna, plus estate administration discharges and a stock law election result in Unadilla.
The Virginia General Assembly convened in Richmond Wednesday at noon in an extraordinary session. Only two senators and twelve representatives did not respond to roll call, and both branches proceeded to business. The governor's message was read, the people's condolences to Britain over the queen's death were offered, and bills on a constitutional convention and several local matters were introduced.
In Griffin Georgia Judge Rea gan issued an order that the high court ruling in the prohibition contest declared the Griffith sale election valid for whisky. By Tuesday over $4500 was paid for licenses and a saloon opened, with nine more to follow in days.
Advices from Tien Tsin, China, say two deserters from American troops with an American flag have deployed depredations in the surrounding countryside and have extorted from villagers. Both were captured. one escaped and remains at large. It is probable they will be shot. Three Sikhs found guilty of similar acts were taken to the scene and given fifty lashes each.
In Georgia Dooly County court notices concern Mrs. Alice Edmonson seeking discharge as administratrix of W M Edmonson estate on the first Monday in February 1901. J T Hill seeks permanent letters for J J Vogle estate, with appearance required to show cause why letters should not be granted. J D Hanarove issues citations for J A Cross and L M Altman to be discharged from D E Altman estate on the first Monday in April next. Appraisers for B A Wood twelve months support report to be passed upon on the first Monday in February next.
Petition from Elias Williams Charley Orvsa Richard Lewis Eb McKenzie and Nelson Maynor of Dooly County Georgia requests incorporation of the Union Benevolent Society a charitable body to bury the dead and tend the sick for twenty years with renewal. Filed January 16 1901 in the office of J Frank Powell Clerk Superior Court Dooly County Georgia.
Governor Longino of Mississippi offered a reward of 8000 dollars for the arrest of Jordan H Gibson a contractor from Hansport Indiana under indictment by the Jackson grand jury for offering a bribe related to opening bids for a new state bond. Gibson was arrested and released on 5000 dollar bond and later indicted in Jackson. He forfeited his bond by failing to appear for trial.
The Supreme Court of Missoni on Wednesday overruled a motion for a hearing in the case where The St Louis Star sought a writ of mandamus to compel the Associated Press to furnish its report. The Star had petitioned to force AP to disclose coverage materials.
A transcription of market items and prices across beverages, coffee, syrups, grains, meats, dairy, nuts, and produce. Includes cotton market close, with various per hundredweight and per bushel quotes for beans, grains, hay, corn, oats, potatoes, onions, cabbage, dried fruit, and live poultry.
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