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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1893
Page
1
The Senate and House clash over the anti option bill with votes and amendments planned for next week. Capitol notes report on appropriations for survey funds and the executive departments while discussing naval and public building costs and the Navajo land dispute.
Hugh F. Dempsey district master workman of Knights of Labor was found guilty of poisoning nonunion men at Homestead. He showed emotion in court and his attorney pledged a motion for a new trial. A Pittsburgh special notes the reaction outside the courtroom.
The Washington Bottings report James G Blaine died at 11 o clock Friday morning after a restless night. His death was peaceful and he remained conscious until moments before death as his family and nurses attended. Presidents Harrison and cabinet members were notified and offices closed in mourning. Blaine’s career included speaker of the Maine House, congressman, secretary of state, and a candidate for the presidency.
Remains of Justice L Q C Lamar lie in state at Vineville home before Friday's grand procession and church service at Mulberry Street Methodist. Mourners include widow Mrs Lamar, U S Supreme Court officers, state officials, and many Georgia visitors. Interment at Riverside Cemetery ends the solemn rites.
The House committee on post offices and post roads completed the post offices appropriation for the year ending June 30, 1804. The bill totals 89,869,857 dollars, up 3,538,081 from the current year, with a prior-posted estimate of 85,203,243 and an added 196,614 for social facilities on trunk lines including the fast mail service between Springfield and New Orleans via New York Washington and Atlanta.
The weekly review notes continued cold disrupting river navigation and trade, yet reports 33 new industries formed or expanded. Listings include Covington and Elanger Company in Kentucky with 100000 capital, Louisville Suburban Land for Louisville with 40000, a 350000 coal company at Southport NC, mills and electric plants across several states, and various factories and foundries announced in Georgia Alabama North Carolina and Texas.
Charleston is cut off from telegraphic communication with the world except south to Savannah and Jacksonville. Western Union lines from Florence to Charleston are down, delaying travel on the South Carolina railway as wreckers clear blown poles. Postal Telegraph wires are prostrate and repairs may take a week or ten days. Mills for the Senate. The Texas legislature met at Austin to ballot for United States senator Roger Q Mills and J Nugent were candidates.
Telegraphic items note the Rothschilds syndicate borrowing 10,000,000 in gold in the United States for Austria currency reform. Also reported are fires in Sioux Falls and Fort Hamilton, a Nevada senate re-election, a Spain queen regent visit, and political shifts in Wisconsin and Vermont.
Nashville dispatch reports Governor Turney sent a message to the legislature urging an intermediate court to ease the crowded supreme court and higher salaries for supreme judges. He favors removing or enlarging the penitentiary, buying coal fields to employ convicts, reducing oil inspector fees, and initiating state road work programs to improve statewide labor efficiency.
The weekly Bradstreet summary notes severe cold and snow delaying shipments by rail and water, with higher prices for produce, hides, wool, sugar, and shoes. Cotton, wheat, corn, oats, pork, and lard show declines. traffic and naval stores output falter. Regional notes cite Birmingham, Memphis, New Orleans, and Atlanta, with mixed trade in textiles and iron. Dan says domestic trade remains high but exports drop, imports surge, and congress actions affect markets. Business confidence stays strong. 290 failures last week versus 274 a year ago.
Cairo dispatch reports the British cabinet has ordered a larger garrison in Egypt. The Khedive was informed Tuesday morning, with Lord Cromer confident the native Egyptian army will stay loyal alongside the occupying force. In France, press reaction portrays Britain's Egyptian policy as a firm occupation stance and calls to vindicate French rights.
A Vienna cablegram reports 130 miners died in the Forthseritt mine disaster Bohemia with after damp suffocation likely. The mine is being cleared slowly as authorities vow to recover the bodies amid heartrending scenes at the shaft mouth.
The Macon Telegraph sold Tuesday for 7800 dollars to attorney R. W. Patterson for bondholders. sale awaits superior court confirmation. Charleston treasurer W. L. Campbell of Summerville died at 62 after long service. WWI era veteran. Wheeling WV Republicans elect mayor Caldwell. council stance unclear. Union City jailed prisoners escape. triple births reported in Johnson City. Legislature debates Mrs Jefferson Davis annuity and Tillman liquor appointment. bonds deal in Charleston. Negro colony heads to Cherokee Strip. fertilizer tag sales compared in Alabama. Catholic priest excommunications and a constitutional convention outlook feature in regional dispatches.
The South Carolina railroad commission applies all powers under the new railbed law to fix joint fertilizer rates from Columbia and Charleston to Port Royal and Western Carolina lines. Previously under Richmond and Danville and then Georgia Central control, rates rose from 2.40 to 8.70 per ton. The commission now sets joint rates between 2.75 and 2.80 per ton.
A Chattanooga dispatch reports in a small Burch Street house the feeble old Black man known as Old Bill Lewis who aided in the Andrews Raiders raid. He is described as frail and aged and tied to the famous aborted run that ended with a death in the engine area.
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