Vienna Progress Newspaper Archives, Jan 29, 1895, p. 1

Georgia News Roundup on Mills and Factories Move

State brief highlights Savannahs half million for a new custom house and Elberton granite used in it. Athens businessmen plan to seek Southern mills and establish a furniture and shoe factory. Rome to host a large new cotton mill with town site, churches, and schools. Georgia volunteer troops totals listed with white and colored units.

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Savannah Elberton Athens Lowell Mass Rome Georgia Floyd

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Alabama Tax Reform Plan Reported by Joint Committee

A six member joint committee in Montgomery sunlit days of the legislature to craft a new tax system will present a comprehensive bill upon reconvening. The plan shifts tax collection to property in rem, assigns appraisers, changes tax year to October 1, includes a small franchise tax, and creates a state board of equalization with partisan representation. Revenue is projected to rise about 200,000 dollars over three to four years.

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Montgomery Ala Alabama County Board of Equalization Commissioner's Court Board of Equalization Treasury

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Brooklyn Street Car Riot Forces Fire Orders

Tensions in Brooklyn escalate as troops, attacked with missiles, fire on rioters after warnings. Sharpshooters target shooters from houses and windows while police and cars for non union men come under assault. A small battle Tuesday left two dead.

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Next Confederate Veterans Encampment Set for May in Houston

From New Orleans comes General Order No 131 announcing the Confederate veterans annual meeting will be held in Houston Texas on May 22 23 and 24 1895 as unanimously agreed by the general commanding and two department commanders. The State National Bank of Knoxville Tennessee declares a fourth dividend of 10 percent bringing total creditor payouts to 65 percent.

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Houston Texas New Orleans Birmingham Ala Tex Departmente J. B. Gorpox Georon Moorman

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Colonel Broughton Names Georgia County Presidents for Cotton Drive

Colonel W. A. Broughton appoints county presidents in Georgia for the American Cotton Growers Protective Association. Meetings set for March to sign articles of agreement and choose delegates for state and national meetings, with four counties lacking cotton production. List of county presidents includes Appling to Worth counties and several with no cotton raised.

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Georgia American Cotton Growers’ Protective Association W. A. Broughton Broughton Glynn Rabun Towns Union Jackson Miss Atlanta New Orleans National Association Paulding William Gray Hiram Pickens J. R. Allen Talking Rock Pierce W. M. Brown Blackshear Pike J. T. Barrett Zebulon Polk D. L. Ledbetter Cedartown Pulaski J. P. Brown Hawkinsville Putnam W. L. Turner Eatonton Quitman William Harrison Georgetown Randolph I. A. Martin Shellman Richmond James Barrett Augusta Rochdale W. L. Peek Conyers Schley J. R. Williams Ellaville Screven E. M. Parker Sylvania Spalding D. J. Bailey, Jr Griffin Stewart Boyette Lumpkin Sumter E. C. Speer Talbot R. Leonard Talbotton Taliaferro John Johnson Upson B. G. McKenny Thomaston Walker Gordon Lee Chickamauga Walton M. F. Hurst Social Circle Ware W. A. McDonald Waresboro Warren Johnson Warrenton Washington A. J. Holmes Davisboro Wayne J. W. Bennett Jesup Webster Bell Preston White C. L. Franklin Parks Whitfield J. A. Longley Dalton Wilcox A. B. McRae Seville Wilkes J. W. Armstrong Wilkinson J. P. Bloodworth Goron Worth T. L. Sumner Sumner Bryan County Camden County Charlton Chatham Clinch Dade Effingham Fannin Liberty McIntosh

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Sugar Trust Wins Supreme Court Case On Monopoly

The United States case against E C Knight Company and partners over the Sherman law was decided in favor of the sugar interests. The court ruled on whether a manufacturing monopoly could be directly suppressed by Congress, addressing contracts and stock exchanges among American Sugar Refining and linked firms.

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United States E. C. Knight Company Court of Appeals Third Circuit Supreme Court of the United States Circuit District of Pennsylvania American Sugar Refining Company Franklin Sugar Company Spreckels Sugar Refining Company Delaware Sugar House American Company John E. Searles Circuit Court Fuller

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Spanish Officials Relieve Borden as Fernandina Vice Consul

Madrid dispatch directs consular purge over filibuster probe at Fernandina. Senor Petiente as consular general and Senor Rosenda Torras as vice consul arrive to relieve N B Borden, who submits gracefully as Spain shifts its local diplomatic staff amid the probe.

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Madrid Spain Washington Fernandina N. B. Borden Senor Petiente Savannah Senor Rosenda Torras Brunswick Borden Fernandias

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Congressional Hawaii debate frames Senate and House actions

The session opened with minister Thurston of Hawaii in view and a renewed clash over Hawaii. Lodge offered resolutions backing a warship at Honolulu and a cable to San Francisco. The House set February 16 to honor Senator Vance and passed navy punishment and ship registry measures.

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Thurston Hawaii Senate Frye Ledge Speedily Hawaiian Islands Sandwich Islands United States Lodge Blackburn House Henderson Vance North Carolina Reed Maine Barkentine James H. Hamlin McMillin Michigan Stockbridge Palmer Missouri Jones Smith New Jersey Hale Hoar Candler

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House actions and debates on coast survey and Hawaiian issue

In the House on Monday Mr. Outhwaite named J D Richardson speaker pro tem during Speaker Crisp's absence. A resolution directed interior to estimate surveying costs for Cherokee Creek and Seminole lands. A special order for public buildings in several cities was presented. The rail pooling bill gained Senate favor with a pending amendment on ICC rates. Petitions from Alabama, and Colorado resolutions on Pacific debt were discussed. Dingley criticized Carlisle's Behring Sea response as a failure, warning of seal herd extinction within years and fiscal losses.

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House Outhwaite Ohio J. D. Richardson Tennessee Crisp Asheville N. C McRea Arkansas Secretary of the Interior Indian Territory Bontelle Maine Catchings Committee On Rules Chicago Newport Brocton Mass Patterson N. J South Omaha Pottsville Cumberland Senate Butler South Carolina Chandler Interstate Commerce Commission Allen Nebraska Alabama Congress Wolcott Colorado Carlisle Dingley Paris Carlile Treasury

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Avalanche Buries Italian Soldiers Near Bardonericia

Telegraphic briefs report an avalanche over Bardonericia Italy burying eighteen Italian soldiers. Other items note Peixoto and allies under accusation in Rio de Janeiro, a fatal boiler explosion at a Texas sawmill killing four colored men, new gun plant machinery arriving for South Boston Iron Works, a cave discovery in Mexico with Spanish coins, an assignment of G H Ramsey & Co in Jackson Tennessee, and fraud and embezzlement issues at Russell Mills in Chiltonville Massachusetts with Augustus Potter implicated.

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Manuel Hilton Alto Texas Tobe Richards Alex Lewis Will Lewis Abner Lee Alexander Hamilton Richard Lofton Noah Miller Boston South Boston Iron Works Middlesboro San Luis Potosi Mexico G. H. Ramsey & Co Jackson Tenn E. A. Brooks Madison County Augustus Potter Russell Mills Chiltonville Mass Potter

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Bradstreet Trade Report Sees Little New Improvement

Bradstreet's weekly business briefing notes limited improvement across commerce. Demand shows modest gains for Bessemer pig iron steel billets woolens rubber goods shoes and leaf tobacco while prices slip for print cloths London wool sales drop 5 percent and southern pig iron prices fall. Merchants report low profits in cotton and woolen goods with slow mercantile collections in the Carolinas Georgia and other southern states amid unseasonable weather and widespread price declines. The sole bright spot is cotton factories declaring semi annual dividends with fair orders.

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Bradstreet Bessemer London Central Middle States South Carolina Georgia South Baltimore

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Public Duty of Brooklyn Car Company Outlined by Justice Gaynor

Justice Gaynor of the supreme court orders that the Brooklyn Heights railroad must operate cars in sufficient numbers on Fulton street Putnam avenue Green and Gates and Tompkins avenues. He states the railroad is a public corporation with duties to the public beyond private stockholder interests and may be compelled to run cars to fully accommodate riders.

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Brooklyn, N. Y Gaynor Supreme Court Joseph Loader Brooklyn Heights Railroad Fulton Street Putnam Avenue Green and Gates Tompkins Avenue Supreme Court of the United States Brooklyn

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Mexico-Tensions Rise as Diaz Presses Claims on Central America

After a stormy cabinet meeting in Mexico City Diaz informed Guatemala that Mexico would not concede. Central American reps supported Mexico’s demands, while crowds in Mexico City cheered for war. Mexico has about 12,000 troops on the border and officers recalled to duty.

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Desperado Bill Cook Pleads Not Guilty in Fort Smith

Bill Cook was arraigned before Judge Parker in Fort Smith Arkansas on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to three counts. He faces two robbery charges and one count of taking government money.

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Nelson as Senator Knute Nelson Elected by Minnesota Legislature

Minnesota lawmakers in joint session elected Governor Knute Nelson to the U S Senate for six years starting March 4. Vote tallies showed Nelson 102, Washburn 3, with several others named in support or opposition as the body affirmed the result and adjourned.

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Minnesota W. D. Washourn Washourn John Lind Knute Nelson Nelson Washburn S. G. Comstock J. T. McCleary Ignatius Donnelly William Mitchell van Zant

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Growth of the South Reflects Mixed Industrial Upturn

Weekly report shows rising general business, steady money collections, and home growth easing capital flight to the north and west. Birmingham plans steel mills, cotton mills expand at Montgomery Piedmont and Tucaloosa, with new factories and electrical works across the region and several brick, canning, tobacco, and shoe plants announced.

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South Birmingham Rolling Mills Birmingham DeBardeleben Stel Company Beseem R Ala Alabama Georgia Louis Ana Ami Txas Colabia N. C Weldon Warshalla Montgomery Als Willard Piedmont Tucaloors Carterville Cesarown Paris Trx Iaton Ronge Jonesdale Ark Charlotte Columbia Mis Lewisburg Tenn Springdale Alt Waynesville N.C Clevland Jampa Fla Alz Alexiandria Clue T.x Memphis Teon Cuatanvage Finn

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BILLARP S LETTER ON Happiness and Married Life

The piece reflects on happiness as a balance of health peace and competence and argues most misery stems from ill matched marriages. An Atlanta observer recalls conversations with Robert McCay and describes a winter retreat with family and friends including Mrs Grady and Miss Annie while recounting sea voyage misadventures and social life at Cumberland Island.

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Tom Moore Aveeca Pope Baltimore Europe Germany France Sodom Bob Robert McCay Robert Charles McCay Berlin Leipsic Strassburg Florence Rome Christendom Piedmont Ony Ben Atlanta Fenale Cumberland Island Virginia Annie Lucy Cobb Ruth Gulf Henry Grady, Jr Groupers St. Louis Rm Cipree Cape Tam Henry Esting Ain Prema Tim Hug Atlanta Constitution

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Georgia News Roundup on Mills and Factories Move

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Alabama Tax Reform Plan Reported by Joint Committee

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Brooklyn Street Car Riot Forces Fire Orders

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Next Confederate Veterans Encampment Set for May in Houston

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Colonel Broughton Names Georgia County Presidents for Cotton Drive

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Sugar Trust Wins Supreme Court Case On Monopoly

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Spanish Officials Relieve Borden as Fernandina Vice Consul

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Congressional Hawaii debate frames Senate and House actions

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House actions and debates on coast survey and Hawaiian issue

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Avalanche Buries Italian Soldiers Near Bardonericia

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Bradstreet Trade Report Sees Little New Improvement

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Public Duty of Brooklyn Car Company Outlined by Justice Gaynor

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Mexico-Tensions Rise as Diaz Presses Claims on Central America

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Desperado Bill Cook Pleads Not Guilty in Fort Smith

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Nelson as Senator Knute Nelson Elected by Minnesota Legislature

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Growth of the South Reflects Mixed Industrial Upturn

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BILLARP S LETTER ON Happiness and Married Life

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