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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1897
Page
7
In a rural scene, Dame Purraway and her father confront the looming mortgage on their home. The professor Puckaber pledges a partnership to help raise funds, while Dame Purraway vows to use her pine lands knowledge to aid in securing a future for the family.
In a forest clearing Professor Puckaber and Partner Parraway uncover a hard gray phosphate deposit near the marsh. The find proves crucial for Partner Parraway’s father, settling mortgages and driving the new firm Puckaber & Parraway to wealth as a major fertilizer source for the Ashley Euphrates region.
Fire on the Mallory line steamer Loona en route from New York to Galveston caused many steerage deaths. Sixteen bodies were aboard on arrival in port Sunday night, including thirteen steerage passengers and three crew. Survivors were rescued by the City of Augusta. details remain scarce. Captain Wilder led the effort with First Mate Wallace and Second Mate Sweeny aboard.
The article notes that of 293 popes only eleven including the current pope have served over seventeen years. It cites Pius IX at thirty-two years and io XIII at nineteen, debunking the idea that popes reign for limited periods. Leo XIII’s vigor is attributed to frugal living and strict discipline.
A new prison measuring 45 by 186 feet and 123 feet high is to be built this year on the old Tombs site in New York City. The project is said to cost 720000 dollars and will require linking the foundation 100 feet due to the Tombs standing on the filled-in site of the old Collect pond.
Henry A. Robinson of Michigan in the agricultural department resigned to Assistant Secretary Wilson on Saturday. Robinson, a free silver advocate, said the administration should have the office. The $8,000 a year post is civil service protected. John Hyde of Nebraska is named to succeed him as editor of the department year book.
A Friday night blaze destroyed Bradham’s gunnery and the county dispensary stock, Shradham and Thomas stables, two warehouses, and vehicles. Two horses ran from the stable, were snagged on a railroad trestle, the night freight wrecked, engine pitched into Black River, three box cars wrecked. No lives lost. London dispatch notes possible six million pound war indemnity demand by Turkey.
A Vienna dispatch to the London Times reports the Austrian emperor and empress coping with the duchess d'Alencon's death in the Paris tragedy. The empress, devoted to her sister, is inconsolable and has cancelled a planned dinner for royal visitors at Gliatean Saint.
The Universal Postal Congress convened in Washington at the Corcoran Art Gallery. About sixty countries, mostly from the postal union, were represented. Delegates from Korea, China, and the Orange Free State attended despite being outside the union. Postmaster General Gary delivered the welcome address.
Ex Vice President Adini Stevenson General T GC Paine and Senator Edward O Wolcott heads of a board appointed by President McKinley sail from New York to Havre aboard La Touraine to confer with European leaders on an international bimetallic conference. They will go Paris London Berlin Vienna and other capitals.
Athens reports indicate Greece will steadily withdraw troops from Crete after a recall of officers and two companies of shapers. The powers contemplate mediation between Greece and Turkey while pressuring Greece to accept their control over its interests. Germany's minister only acknowledged receipt of Greece’s mediation note. The Porte supports negotiations but rejects an armistice to stop reorganization of Greek forces.
Rumors circulate that Tennessee Governor Taylor will resign in October to rejoin the lecture circuit. If he steps down, John Thompson, the Senate speaker, would succeed as governor. Reports suggest Taylor has arranged lyceum engagements with figures like Henry Watterson and General John B. Gordon, earning substantial lecture fees.
About 8,000 miners of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company signed a new contract in Birmingham, set to begin May 10, 1897 and run to July 1, 1898. The base cost mining price is 87 cents per ton, 24 cents less than now, with a sliding scale tied to No. 1 foundry pig iron at 7.60 per ton and coal price moves. The pact abolishes sub-contracts and addresses miners’ complaints. miners at Blocton Adger Johns and Sumter refused reductions pending the current contract’s end.
The South Carolina Board of Control met in Columbia to review dispensary affairs. Reporters sought access, but no vote occurred. The attorney general’s office questioned about a dozen witnesses, with several from the dispensary staff stating Chief Clerk Scruggs secured a key to the contraband room and kept a duplicate to open it at will.
Delegates from the North Georgia, the Macon and Georgia conferences of the African Methodist Episcopal church met in Macon on Wednesday. They proposed forming a new conference from the Macon and Georgia conferences due to large membership and a proposed division.
The American Society hosted 270 guests for former U S ambassador Bayard in a London farewell banquet. Attendees included Ambassador Bay, Mrs Hay, members of the American embassy, Lord Bishop Creighton, Baron Russell, the lord chief justice, and other dignitaries. Bayard received a standing reception and spoke of enduring US-UK friendship amid a notable absence of many Americans in London. The Mayflower leg was displayed in a redaction case as a centerpiece.
A report from the Illinois legislature describes a bribery attempt targeting a clerk mistaken for a representative. A. A. Hamilton, publisher of the West Chicago Journal and clerk of committees on live stock and dairy, said lobbyists offered seven thousand dollars to vote for the Humphrey bills. The measures would extend street railway franchises in Illinois for 60 years and assign control of routes and new franchises to appointed commissions rather than city boards.
Call, a former Florida senator, withdrew from the senatorial race Friday. Stockton of Jacksonville, a House member elected as an independent, led voting rounds with totals around 83 to 88 as ballots continued. Chipley climbed to 87 on Thursday, prompting Call's withdrawal as other names gathered small votes.
Assistant Treasurer Jordan was summoned from New York to answer questions on the recent heavy gold withdrawals. The president and Secretary Gage voiced concern that this may signal a planned raid by gold speculators on the treasury reserves.
The conference committees of the Senate and House reached agreement Friday on the Indian appropriation bill.
Governor Atkinson of Georgia spent Friday in Columbia as guest of Governor Ellerbe. They inspected the state penitentiary and its hosiery factory, and studied management details. The governors later toured Camden in Kershaw County to view state farms and discuss potential reforms.
Charles W. Spalding, head of the defunct Globe Sayings Bank, was arraigned in Chicago on twenty nine indictments mostly for embezzlement. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and was returned to his county jail cell.
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