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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1896
Page
2
A dispatched summary from Ha nyuenya details diplomatic denials and forecasts the president’s planned Washington departure for Gary Gable to spend the summer. It notes expected cabinet retreats from the capital, and includes health updates from the Marine Hospital Service and consular reports showing rising smallpox and yellow fever deaths in distant postings.
A Cleveland Press special from Akron reports Erkine Ti Batcook and Akron Bolting Co appointed W A Long receiver for Falls Rivet Rod Machine Co of Oguyahoga Falls Ohio. The firm owes about 875000 with assets around 616000 including real estate and patents. Bonds totaling 800000 due December 20 1898 and a 260000 bond are noted. Several notes recently protested linked to the collapse.
At Norfolk Virginia Judge Nathan Goff orders the sale of the Norfolk and Western Railroad. Special masters George B H Bowden and Charles Sharp are appointed to conduct the sale with bids due on dates to be set. Minimum bid set at 23 000 000 with a 100 000 cash or certified check deposit and a 850 000 cash or check deposit from the winning bidder, or 750 000 in bonds.
McKinley nomination ratified in Canton Ohio with pomp and ceremony on Saturday. Crowds from Cleveland and eastern Ohio crowded the city from morning until evening. Delegations continued arriving as speakers addressed from a stand at a large vacant lot beside the McKinley residence.
In Austin two Democratic conventions met with factions: the sound money wing and the regular Democrats. Delegates were chosen to Chicago and a state convention set for August 26 in Waco to nominate officers. The split platform urged party reorganization and rejected Democratic executive committee actions.
Bradatroots reviews a generally flat general trade week with no broad revival until after election. Intermittent gains in some hubs like Wool stocks to interior holders and modest demand for hardware, cloth ing, shoes, and dry goods in various cities. 218 business failures reported nationwide, down from 265 last week and 116 a year ago, with dull conditions prevailing across most sectors and prices pressured in cotton goods, rubber, iron, steel, tobacco, petroleum, and staples.
Five hundred delegates from two-thirds of Colorado counties gathered in Denver for the first state convention of the national Silver Party. They adopted a platform calling for silver, pledged allegiance to no other party or presidential candidate, and elected delegates to the national convention in St Louis July 22. Senator Henry M Teller is endorsed for the presidency.
The New York Recorder reports Dr. J. D. Castillo of the Cuban junta is in Baltimore preparing an expedition to Cuba. A steamer will carry what is described as one of the largest forces, including 2,500 rifles 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition 2,000 machetes and three tons of dynamite for Macao's camp.
A Washington dispatch warns that yellow fever may become epidemic in Cuba, with 41 cases and four deaths in Sagua la Grande and inspections stepped up. The Havana reports show 1,698 cases and about a 30 percent fatality, prompting new precautions to prevent the disease’s entry into the United States. Sanitary inspectors are deployed to Cuban ports and patrolling cutters to intercept ships and filibustering vessels.
The New York state Democratic convention opened in Saratoga with Chairman Hinckley and Mayor John Boyd Thatcher leading. Speakers urged sustaining a monetary system with gold and silver, opposed permanent gold or silver monoculture, and favored redeemable paper currency while retiring debt to avoid contracting circulation.
A blaze starting in a millinery store on Point Pleasant W Va Friday evening swept through multiple downtown establishments including the Horf opera house Harper Bros furniture Rayburns office Dr Pats dwelling and office Bickles dwelling Pilon Bros hardware and Davis ment market fund Steinbachs barbershop all destroyed. Total loss 100000 with limited insurance.
The Indiana Democratic convention in Indianapolis drew 1747 delegates, with 75 percent from the reform wing. Robert C. Bell was unanimously elected president. Sterling Holt presided. Electors at large named Jason Brown Sey mour and John B. Stoll South Bend. Gooding Hancock and Howard Logansport for contingent. Delegates Voorhees Williamsport and Turpie to the U. S. Senate race. The platform supports bimetallism with 16 to 1 coinage, opposing greenbacks, and calls for stable money including gold silver and paper. They back Governor Mathews for president.
San Francisco crowd watches as former world champion Jim Corbett fails to KO Tom Sharkey in four rounds. The bout ends in a draw after ten thousand spectators witness steady exchange and a tiring Corbett leaning against the ropes. Sharkey rises from navy yard blue jacket to threaten a championship challenge.
The National Sunday Schools hold their thirteenth annual convention in Tremont Temple Boston with a praise service led by Rev Dwight L Moody. B F Twoobs of Chicago opens the executive committee session and Rev William Randolph of Missouri is named chairman. George O Lorimer offers welcome as delegates gather for evangelizing work. Samuel Blake of Toronto responds.
Mr Arton, a prominent figure linked to the Panama canal scandal, is sentenced in Paris to six years at hard labor for complicity in fraudulent transactions and ordered to repay the misappropriated funds to the company.
An extensive cave-in and explosion trapped over 100 miners in the Newton Coal Company shaft near Pittston nine miles from Wilkes-Barre. Rescue teams from Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys pushed to clear debris as officials reported uncertain numbers and limited outside updates.
Gov. Atkinson has ordered the attorney general to sue the Bank of Quitman and the Merchants and Farmers Bank of Quitman. The action targets taxes collected for the state in 1896 by Tax Collector M. Franklin Jones and placed in the banks to cover his personal debts. Reports say Jones was short on general and special taxes, with alleged loans and forged or misused checks to balance accounts.
More than 1.5 million spindles to stop for at least four weeks in July and August as Massachusetts operators agree. In Lawrence 2,000 workers will lose jobs starting July 26. The Pacific Cotton Mill says the move aims to relieve the cotton goods trade slump. Lonsdale Company and Knight Mills in Providence will close cotton mills on alternate weeks in July and August affecting about 3,000 operatives.
In Campaign Tll Illinois Circuit Court Judge Wright declared the state law mandating the national flag over every schoolhouse during school hours unconstitutional and void. He quashed indictments against Governor Altgeld, University of Illinois trustees, and city school officials for violations of the measure.
A dialogue excerpt from the Indianapolis Journal depicts a colored man arguing with a policeman about unpaid leaf-raking work. The street scene exposes attitudes toward labor, payment, and social norms in a tense urban encounter.
An OCR fragment shows a crowded, dubious ad page listing patent medicines and products. It mentions Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion, biliousness, malaria, rheumatism, and kidney issues, plus various spellings and prices. It also references Dobbin’s Floating-Soap, a Worcester Pocket Dictionary offer, Dr Knox’s Restoronen, Mary Elongouros, Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething, and other assorted claims with inconsistent typography and errors.
At a Royal Society reception a new production method for illustrated magazines and newspapers was demonstrated. Sensitized papers move through motorized rollers with negative cylinders that print optically, followed by development and fixing baths, yielding ready to bind sheets. A typesetting machine prepares line negatives for automatic printing, promising monthly illustrated issues.
Personal letters to Mrs Pinkham describe relief from female troubles including womb and ovarian issues. Anna Ivor of Pittsford Mills Rutland County Vermont reports severe pain, weakness, and backache eased after three bottles, with renewed health and strength.
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