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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
13
A consular report from Switzerland notes rivalry with the United States in exporting watches and watch parts to Japan. In 1897 American exports were nearly three times Swiss, signaling progress in high grade delicate manufacture despite Old World training.
An expert cites that over 15 million dollars is spent annually in the United States on golf. The figure excludes private course ownership and club investments, which are said to exceed 10 million dollars and involve thousands of clubs nationwide.
The Christian Register notes colleges and preparatory schools are resuming growth after a recent low mood. Enrolments show a rebound as the coming academic year begins, and endowments are restoring toward former levels, signaling a more flourishing era for American higher education.
The piece contemplates how English support of Columbus might have reshaped history. It asks whether South and Central America would remain under British crown and whether the United States could exist, pondering a world where England’s colonial reach changed the course of the hemisphere.
A electric plow concept places the motor on the plow itself and uses a traveling anchor chain to pull furrows. Current feeds via two field wires and trolley wheels, with simple boundary poles supplying power from a central plant and anchor cars with reels for mobility across fields.
Poetic excerpt by George Macdonald reflecting on misfortune and renewal. The verse pairs sighs and rains with love as a transformative force. It contrasts summer and winter symbols to claim that sincerity and strong love mend wrongs and alter fate.
In Lower Guinea a tigress boards the bark Town and threatens Louisa and Brand. The captain's plan to shoot the cub is overturned. Brand defeats the mother by using an anchor to drag the tigress underwater, saving the couple. The captain apologizes for doubting Brand's bravery.
Isloner provides details for evacuation with U S possession expected October 18. Spanish commission agrees to this date and evacuation completion by or before that day. United States troops to occupy San Juan and flag to be raised at noon October 18. Joint commission adjourned without day. War department regards dispatch as gratifying and settling possession contention.
Comptroller Dawes ordered the Tioga National Bank of Oswego to close its doors and halt deposits after a prior examination found a large defalcation by assistant cashier Eli W. Stone. Stone died at his home shortly after being confronted and confessed guilt to examiner Vanbrocklin.
War department reports many soldiers seek discharge claiming the war is over. Officials state the war will end only after a peace treaty is signed and ratified by the Senate. Discharges will be granted only for sickness or disability with approval by colonels and higher officers.
A Rome cable says Great Britain Russia France and Italy reject the Porte's changes to the Crete evacuation ultimatum. The quartet notes all Turkish soldiers must leave Crete by the deadline and rejects the sultan's plan to defend three fortified holds with garrisons for Mohammedan and Ottoman flags.
Tom Langford last of the Desk gang faces murder charges in Zebulon Georgia for the killing of Sheriff Gwynn two years prior. His defense lists attorneys Thomas E. Watson G D Dominick and H N Woodward. Langford has been jailed in Zebulon since arrest in Arkansas in July 1897.
The wartime investigating commission reviewed Alger's papers and found Miles favored Isle of Pines occupation and operations before Santiago, while Alger disapproved. The testimony noted tense authority between Miles and Shafter at Tampa, and a plan for Wheeler to lead if Shafter fell ill. Dr Hoff testified on camp sanitation and supply shortages at Camp Thomas Chickamauga.
A major blaze in Macon Georgia gutted the Winn Johnson candy and cracker factory and the I C Burke & Co oil and paint store early Thursday. Losses include stock and buildings totaling about 122000 with additional damages estimated at 2000.
Griffin Ga dispatch reports private Henry Dickson of Company B third regiment was shot near Locust Grove while resisting arrest by Camp Northen detail. He was perhaps fatally wounded as he attempted to attack a soldier.
James Hill, collector of internal revenue in Jackson Mississippi, writes to Jacson Lyons register of the treasury in Washington asking aid for several thousand colored residents unable to work due to yellow fever quarantine. He notes white residents have fled and 4000 to 4500 colored people remain, with 2000 to 3000 needing charity feeding.
A Manila rumor claims Macabulos, head of five northern provinces, has risen against Aguinaldo with fighting reported between factions. It also cites General Rios from Iloilo sending emissaries to sway natives to favor Spain retaining the islands.
Washington dispatch reports Major General Fitzhugh Lee telegrammed Major General Greene that Mrs Lee is critically ill and could not discuss business. Greene was asked to take command of the First Division, Seventh Army Corps, and left Washington Saturday night for duty.
The fourth day in Macon featured the Living Flag and pageants as part of the Diamond Jubilee carnival. Augusta plans a winter military camp with water mains and electric line extensions from Arknet springs to the camp site. The Georgia Division of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans funds Winnie Davis grave monument. Bibb county gears up for a hot prohibition contest with petitions for an election around December 10. In politics, Mathew W. Gross is expected to win the next senate seat in the twenty-ninth district amid a Democratic lead, while county returns and official majorities for state officers reflect a close statewide result. War department orders designate winter army camp sites near Atlanta with movement beginning later this month.
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