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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1901
Page
4
Notice from The Procrnss apologizes for missing material due to mail loss by the publishing house. The issue will print without near local features this week, and regular features will resume next week. Signed Tira Eorror.
A short note describes a boarding house operated by Mrs Walker offering first class meals and lodging for gentlemen, located on 10th King Street. The fragment suggests a men only lodging or dining policy but ends abruptly.
Senator Hoar says he will reopen in the senate the issue of an $800000 payment by the government to the Methodist Church, South. It is alleged that $100000 covered attorney fees and the rest was to go to the church, with Hoar urging refund to the government.
Judge W C Benet signed an order directing grand jury presentment to magistrates in Anderson to issue warrants for men charged with false imprisonment and aggravated assault and battery. Benet will not hold court in Anderson in June, signaling a limit of authority.
Sailors aboard the revenue cutter Onandaga attacked the commanding officer and quartermaster Nil Olsen of Baltimore, leading to the arrest of several crew members. Norfolk, Virginia reports say eight sailors were rounded up by police the night before the ship sailed, by order of Captain Debart, fueling the mutiny attempt during the southern cruise.
Over 200 men from the Pensacola squadron were entertained by local citizens with a smoker on Thursday night. Captain Parkhill responded to the toast Man Behind the Guns, and cheers rang out when Schley was mentioned. Only enlisted men were invited from the ships.
Georgia State School Commissioner Glenn has drawn warrants totaling 800000 dollars for January salaries of public school teachers. This marks an unusual early payment, as salaries are typically issued later. The funds are in the treasury and will reach teachers sooner than usual.
In Little River County Arkansas at 11 30 Friday, Kirby Graves Bill Johnson and Henry Brooks, all Black, were killed in a related serious crime near Richmond. Johnson and Brooks were said to have caused fatal harm to Ed Evans white and Prank Hopson colored respectively according to the report.
A sea tale from Lloyds era recounts the iron clipper J. B. Oakes, missing 260 days after leaving Hong Kong for New York in 1896, reappearing near Sandy Hook. The voyage, plagued by typhoons and scurvy, left Captain Reed and his wife as sole steadies aboard, with the wife steering, nursing, and preserving morale while all but a few crew members succumbed to illness. The Kasbek rescued the stricken ship, and Lloyds awarded the skipper’s wife a medal for her heroism amid ferocious seas and dwindling rations.
A survey reports forty three zones located on the sea bottom deeper than three miles with about ten of those exceeding four miles in depth.
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