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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1895
Page
1
Reverend Dr. Talmage speaks at the New York Academy of Music addressing hundreds of young men from various callings. He urges self-control, moral discipline, study, and industry, urging readers to guard the soul parlor, pursue physical health, truthful newspapers, prudent mentors, and purposeful work for a virtuous life.
A speaker urges young men to study biographical heroes and pursue monumental future gains in science and medicine. He envisions vast breakthroughs, from anesthesia to aerial navigation, predicting a coming century of gospelized progress and urging readiness for leadership in the new era.
All mills at Olneyville Rhode Island have shut down except sample work for the next season. About nine thousand operatives are idle due to a strike and lockout. A mass meeting on Merino Flats drew twelve hundred attendees with speakers urging continued action until the old price list is restored and noting support from other mill centers.
Dispatches say Spanish authorities censor reports to the United States about Cuba. Interior provinces report insurgent bands roaming the eastern end, threatening garrisons and approaching within six miles of Santiago as Spanish troops fear the rebels.
The receivers of the Pennsylvania Steel Company under reorganization offered the Maryland Steel Company properties at public auction in Philadelphia. Effingham B. Morris, chairman of the reorganization committee, purchased the property for $2,000,000, the amount of the bonded indebtedness, Morris being the sole bidder.
The National Zeitung Berlin reports the emperor has accepted Baron von Goltz resignation as admiral and commander in chief of the German navy. Lager beer challenges English ale and stout in global markets.
Bill Arp muses on mortality and legacy after the deaths of two friends, praising enduring good deeds over bad. He recalls Campbell Wallace of Atlanta and Mrs. Ann Sparks, lauding their kindness, resilience, and influence. He writes of aging, loneliness, family, and home life with affection and humor, noting how nature’s bounty uplifts during sorrow.
Governor Turney issued a call for an extraordinary session of the general assembly starting May 27 for twenty days. Six subjects are listed: penitentiary reform and leases, an appropriation bill, revenue measure, banking regulation, a levee district for overflowed lands in four counties, and to amend registration laws. He declines including a constitutional convention or centennial appropriation and questions legislature power to fund a centennial.
Three thousand workers at Pencoyil Iron Works in West Manyaunk Pa receive a ten percent wage increase, lifting pay for a large local workforce.
Secretary Gresham recovers as the Charleston cruiser report reaches Nagasaki. The Morgan Belmont syndicate boosts the treasury gold reserve to 97.043 million dollars while Carlisle faces a heavy travel schedule. A wave of repeal advocacy targets the federal income tax amid Cotton Acreage reports and railroad commissioners convene in Washington. Also noted are Carlisle speeches in Memphis and Kentucky, cotton imports in China, and rising Japanese labor costs affecting U.S. cotton markets.
The Order of Railway Conductors met in Atlanta Georgia for its twenty fifth biennial convention with nearly three hundred fifty delegates and over six hundred visiting conductors in attendance. M J Lund opened the meeting and Governor Atkinson welcomed the group as organization was perfected and business began. The convention drew about two thousand delegates and visitors, filling hotels and boarding houses in the city.
Fifteen damage suits were begun at Chicago Thursday against the city by railroad companies and individuals who lost property during the American Railway Union strike. The Pan Handle Railroad Company seeks 750000 for burned cars and other property, Jones and Laughlin of Pittsburgh files for 4500.
Charles J. Searcy was arraigned at Stafford Courthouse on Wednesday for his role in the Aquia creek train robbery. He pled guilty, the jury fixed eight years in the penitentiary, and he was sentenced immediately to begin confinement.
A Pratt City Alabama blaze left forty four families homeless. The mayor called a large meeting to organize aid for the fire victims and citizens showed strong support for relief efforts.
A Boise dispatch reports a Denver via Boise route from Butte to Reno will be built. Philadelphia and New York capitalists are finalizing arrangements while Denver business leaders agree to a 100000 dollar bonus to spur the project.
Shareholders favor the plan to reduce capital stock to two million dollars with between eighty and ninety percent giving consent. The move places the firm in a stronger financial position and a dividend is expected in June.
Delegates from leading French credit banks met in Paris on May 11 and 13 to set terms for a Chinese loan. The Bank of Paris leads the committee with plans to open the market. A St. Petersburg report cites a Japanese source predicting Japan will withdraw garri sons from Corea in about seven months.
The general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church met in Dallas Texas with over 100 delegates from across the South. The report notes spiritual critique stating that the devil pays little heed to indifferent church members.
Hornpipe won the ninth Brooklyn Handicap at Gravesend, narrowly beating Lazzarone by a neck with Sir Walter third. Ramapo and Dr Rice faded, Taral rode Dr Rice, and crowd favorites shifted as Lazzarone surged from the rear to challenge late. Turpentine Operators Organize: The Turpentine Operators Protective Association formed in Savannah to manage member factorage amid unrest over product handling.
News from New York reports Havemeyer and Searles, leaders of the sugar trust, allying with Rockefeller to gain control of the Northern Pacific Railway. The railroad is soon to be reorganized by the second and third bondholders.
One thousand workers at James Lees & Sons woolen mills in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, were put off last week when 300 striking hands demanded higher wages. The dispute failed to win concessions, and the employees will return to work at the previous pay rates.
Delegates at the Massillon district miners convention decide to maintain the 60 cent wage suspension for the state rather than a district settlement and plan a mass meeting to ratify or reject the decision. Separately, reports say 200000 cattle waiting in Texas and New Mexico will be moved to Wyoming and Montana feeding grounds as Union Pacific and Denver and Gulf rail lines prepare to begin transfers.
Governor Altgeld vetoes the Miller frontage gas bill in the house and vetoes the Crawford and elevated street railway bills in the senate. Cholera on Pescadora island kills 1300 in one month. epidemic now subsiding after high early toll.
In West Bingham Pennsylvania five men died and three were fatally injured when an eighty horsepower boiler exploded. The blast occurred at a local facility in Potter County. Investigation and emergency responders attended the scene as authorities assessed the cause and total casualties.
Russia France and Germany plan to boost naval strength in the China Sea while Lebanon Pennsylvania expands its metalworking output and employs hundreds more workers. Spain sends large troop reinforcements to Cuba, prompting questions about Madrid's motives amid a Cuba revolt.
A Columbia dispatch reports Governor Evans's proclamation on states rights and federal interference. He denounces Judge Goffin and proclaims a civil conflict between a white civilization and a black flag, urging white supremacy and a constitutional convention led by white men, with appeals to public vigilance and lawful rights. The Columbia State comments on the manifesto's origin and implications, noting Tillman's influence and opposition to electoral fraud.
Silverites of Missouri plan a call for a national silver league convention to be held in St Louis in March 1896. Local silver men back the move with Western support, including California white metal advocates dismayed by General A. J. Warner of Ohio during his California visit.
A Monterey special reports the La Fama cotton mills near the city were destroyed by fire. The largest in northern Mexico, the loss is estimated at 125000 dollars. The mills were owned by Monterey capitalists.
A transcription of Atlanta market figures lists prices for roasted coffee, sugars, syrups, teas, rice, salt, dairy, cheese, matches, soda, oysters, powder, flour, grains, meal, corn, oats, rye, barley, hay, timothy, peas, grits, eggs, butter, poultry, dressed fowl, Irish potatoes, onions, cabbage, honey, onions, provisions, and cotton. Local market notes show middling cotton closed nominally at 6.
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