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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
7
A special Virden Illinois report details a deadly clash when a Chicago and Alton train with imported black workers arrived to face 1500 miners. Seven killed and eighteen wounded, with shots fired from stockade and trains. guards and detectives among the dead.
A Washington dispatch reports General Graham testifying before the war investigating commission on Camp Alger. He says tent proximity caused outbreak sickness, with medical officers agreeing. He cites lack of bathing water and men eating non prescribed food as harmful factors.
Report from Tacoma says the Northern Pacific Steamship Company plans to place six British steamers under the American flag. The ships, operating to China and Japan from Tacoma, include the transports Arizona Theoma Olympia Columbia and Argyle, with Arizona sold to the government last July.
President McKinley and party left Omaha aboard the Burlington Flyer amid large delegations including Senators Allen and Thurston Mayor Moores Governor Holcomb and many others. At each station along the route crowds surged and cheered as the train moved east toward Burlington with the president drawing wild applause and lifting his hat to cheering townspeople.
Reports from Virden Illinois say the town remains calm with the militia restraining violence after a deadly miners strike. Battery B of the First Illinois Artillery arrived from Pana and strikers stay defiant amid mine operations with imported workers. The toll from Wednesday’s fighting stands at fourteen dead and about twenty injureds, with the coroner’s inquest adjourned until Friday and leaders preparing to present the matter to the grand jury.
Adjutant General Ewart of Illinois National Guard mustered four companies of the Sons of Veterans for service at Virden. Adjutant General Reece returned to Springfield from Virden reporting deputies firing on the train. Bodies showed wounds indicating shots from the train and tower.
Surgeon General Wyman of the Marine Hospital Service will tour southern fever-fighting districts for a week to ten days. He will visit Cincinnati Chattanooga Atlanta Mobile New Orleans and other points to confer with state and local health authorities. Amite City Tangipipoha parish La quarantine amid fever reports with 26 new cases in Franklin Parish on Thursday and no deaths.
Battleships Oregon and Town departed New York on sealed orders from Washington. Rumors place Manila as a possible destination, with Honolulu and Alunila suggested as alternative objectives.
President McKinley arrives in Chicago by Illinois Central train and attends a four day itinerary filled with receptions and events. The National Peace Jubilee opens with a large Thanksgiving service at the Auditorium featuring speeches by a rabbi a priest a clergyman and Booker T. Washington. Crowd enthusiasm is high as the president responds from his box and crowds fill the venue and surrounding area.
Augusta district mills in the Southern Cotton Manufacturers Association plan a wage reduction of 8 to 13 percent in November two weeks after the new schedule is submitted. President Charles Estes says Augusta mills will still pay above the regional average, though the move is met with reluctance. Six mills in Augusta plus Aiken and Langley Manufacturing in South Carolina employ about $1 million in payrolls.
Mrs George of Canton Ohio was held to answer to the common pleas court after a Wednesday preliminary hearing. The justice of the peace said circumstantial evidence justifies keeping her for higher court investigation in a murder in the first degree case. bail not allowed.
A Virden Illinois report states that after a union miners meeting the Chicago Virden Coal company managers Lak ons Louleks Yorke and others were charged with murder by union miner Virgil Bishop following a violent incident Wednesday.
Santiago advices say the Cuban assembly will meet in Santa Cruz on October 20 to elect a president and cabinet but travel delays may push the vote to the end of the month. El Cubano predicts ticket: Maximo Gomez for president with Maso, Mendez Capote, Guerra, Lanaza, Calixto Garcia and Varona as key ministers.
A Washington dispatch reports Georgia flood victims will receive army rations to meet basic needs. The plan follows a Georgia secretary of state and a representative’s request to the War Department with a Justice Department review. Solicitor General Richards notes no direct statutory authority but no prohibition and argues executive power may authorize relief.
The week opened with threats over Pashoda and closed with Paris shaken by revolution. The fate of Fashoda hinges on Major Marchand’s report from Khartoum as Salisbury remains unmoved, signaling evacuation to avert war between Britain and France.
In Charleston a U S district court opinion by Judge Brawley holds that all Yale ship crew members share in prize money from the sale of the ship. The Rite cost the government $125,000 and Captain Wise of the Yale will receive $9,000.
Zebulon Georgia jury finds Tom Langford not guilty of murder after a night deliberation. Sheriff Milner holds a warrant and Langford remains detained under another bond as he faces separate legal action.
Attorney William Patton of the Chicago Virden Coal Company in Virden Illinois says no further attempt will be made to land the Alabama Negroes whose coming caused many deaths. He indicates an effort to fix responsibility on the Illinois governor is under consideration and that the company intends to press the matter.
A cablegram from the postal commission to the Porto Rico post office says there are no provisions for bonding postal representatives on the island. With Spanish occupation of San Juan continuing, no American postal station can be established there at present.
Paris briefings report a military plot to change government officials without overthrowing the regime. Generals Boisdeffre and Pelliux named by sources, with General Chanoine as minister of war. Brisson vows action as rumors link to imperialist factions and ciphered dispatches.
A Charleston dispatch reports nearly three quarters of enlisted men at Sullivan’s Island are incapacitated by fever. Colonel Rawles expresses concern as Typhoid and Malaria spread since summer. About 400 men confined to quarters with low mortality in the garrison hospital.
Washington dispatch reports Major General Francia V. Greene ordered to Savannah Georgia to report to General Fitzhugh Lee and command a division of the Cuban occupation army. Greene previously played a prominent role in the battle of Manila.
A telegram from Virden warned that Chicago Virden Coal operator Lukens might land imported black workers in Pana Illinois after a riot. Governor Tanner ordered Captain Harris to place guards at coal mines and rail lines, with miners volunteering to aid if needed.
Aboard the Mohegan, 200 passengers and crew left London for New York Thursday. only 31 saved after grounding off Lisurd between the Maunclos and the low lands. Coast guard reports drowning, bodies washing ashore including a woman found lashed to a plank with both legs severed. Details remain scarce.
Spain has lodged a formal protest through the French legation, handed to the U.S. Department of State by First Secretary Briday, asserting both nations seek timely negotiations. The document notes U.S. constitutional limits require Senate ratification before sovereignty over the islands can be assumed.
The Liberal of Madrid reports in its Friday issue that Captain General Blanc will soon return to Spain. Officials say Blanco will not be the last Spaniard to command in Cuba due to strained relations with the government.
The Saxton will, made last April and found later, leaves all property to Mrs. M. C. Barber, sister of the deceased, with after her death the estate to go to Barber's five children. A friend estimates the estate could total around 200,000.
A Paris special reports anti revisionist papers denying a military plot against the government as invention. Gauleia describes the affair as a conspiracy without conspirators, yet the declaring papers insist on the exactness of their information.
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