Georgia Notes From Around the State
Georgia brief items report Savannah streetcar wars with two rides for a penny and a Tennessee editor role for Sam Jones. A Macon Atlanta line aims to connect to Chattanooga Philadelphia and New York with affordable conversation. Georgia Southern and Florida bonds near completion and Atlanta exposition plans include a large negro exhibit and a premium chime of bells. The state treasurer holds 19031.03 for possible claims and a five cent cotton discussion calls for farmer action in Macon on October 24 to seek advance financing to hold cotton and aid creditors.
Curious Arab wedding game where groom hunts brides
A Chicago Herald report describes a wedding custom among Arabs in which the groom enters a dim room to pick his bride from veiled female relatives. If wrong, he chases and unveils another maiden, often running until daylight as he repeats the search.
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Chicago Herald
How to Avoid Seasickness on Ocean Voyages
Practical guidance from the St Louis Globe-Democrat advising travelers to prepare for seasickness with weeks of outdoor exercise and moderate meals. It suggests choosing a middle state room, lying flat after meals, and avoiding rich foods and sternward leaning during symptoms.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Curious Form of Gold Soluble in Water Described
A German publication reports a curious gold form fully soluble in water with basic acetate of cerium. The solutions appear violet red when concentrated and carmine red when diluted. A 1 500 000th gold solution remains distinctly rose red, obtained by precipitating a dilute cerous salt solution with gold using potash or soda lye and hot acetic acid, or by boiling mixed cerous acetate, gold chloride, and sodium hydroxide. The red solution yields a violet red precipitate containing all gold and some basic cerous acetate, which dries to a bronze glittering mass soluble in water.
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New York Sun
Moustache First Test in Life Column
A witty fragment reveals a speaker declaring a new moustache as a joke about affection. The line contrasts emotional intensity with a self mockery, suggesting a light, humorous tone from a period-era comic dialogue.
Witbooi Surrenders in Damaraland Protectorate Deal
Brief telegrams report Witbooi surrender and willingness to submit to a German protectorate, amid other items. Vic tor L. Ochoa case advances in Texas. Northern Pacific receiver outcome. Curtis congressional petitions in New York. Moyune reaches Yokohama in 33 days. hat trimming duties case to Jan 8. Nihilist raid at St Petersburg. Hathaway mills strike tension. King Alexander visit to Potsdam with political implications. fatal lumber yard accident in Muskegon. Bev eridge a true bill in Chicago over lottery-bail scheme. Harrisburg steel mills enjoy unprecedented output with rails and Bessemer steel production surging.
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Berlin
Walfish Bay
Africa
Damaraland
Witbooi
A. Larrazola
Victor L. Ochoa
Ft. Stockton
Texas
Ochoa
Milwaukee
Jenkins
Ives Et al
T. J. Oakes
Northern Pacific
Cary
Oakes
Ogdensburg
N. Y
N. M. Curtis
Congress
England
Yokohama
Cardiff
Dallas
United States
Philadelphia
Technological Institute
St. Petersburg
Russia
Hathaway and Acushnet
New Bedford
Mass
Alexander
King of
Servia
Potsdam
Germany
Buda Pesth
William
Thayer Lumber Company
Muskegon
Mich
John Ellens
Federal Grand Jury
Chicago
John L. Beveridge
F. D. Arnold
Samuel M. Biddison
State Mutual Life Insurance Company
Hayne
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Steel Works
Bessemer
China Peace Overture Rejected by Japan Declared Insufficient
The Central News in London claims China sought peace with Japan but Japan rejected the proposals as inadequate. It notes China might still accept them, while Japanese parliament convenes for a seven day session at Hiroshima. Pekin palace reportedly split between pro peace and pro war factions led by the Emperor and Empress Dowager respectively.
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Central News
London
China
Japan
Central Newis
Hiroshima
Count Kusumoto
M. Shimada
Pekin
Ung- Tungho
Olohopu
Board of War
Prince Kung
Li Hung Chang
The Czar Dying at St. Petersburg
Reports from St Petersburg say the czar's condition worsens with greater debility and heart weakness. The imperial household and court physicians monitor his health as rumors of succession begin to surface.
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St. Petersburg
Trade Topics in G D S Report of Business Week
R G Dun and Co reports retail trade still developing with mixed demand across industries. Wholesale activity stalls as retail prospects remain unclear and prices fall for farm staples while wages ease in some sectors. Foreign exchange pressure and strong imports contrast with weaker domestic demand and lower currency needs. Feeds into a cautious economic outlook with varying factory output and ongoing failures offset by resumed work in Fall River and New Bedford.
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BR. G. Dun & Co
R. G. Dun & Co
Fall River
New Bedford
United States
Canada
Rich Naul Highwaymen Rob Express Between Richmond and Washington
A north bound express between Richmond and Washington was held up by seven masked robbers at Aquia Creek. They forced the engineer and fireman from the locomotive and uncoupled the express car, rifling the safe and taking about $180000. Messengers B F Crutchfield and H Murray, both of Richmond, escaped unharmed.
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Richmond
Washington
Aquia Creek
Guantico
National Capital
B. F. Crutchfield
H. Murray
Express
British dollar coinage approved for Straits and Hong Kong
At a London directors meeting of the Chartered Bank of India Australia and China the chairman said the government sanctioned coinage of a British dollar for circulation in Straits settlements and Hong Kong. He noted silver price falls hurt eastern trade and reduced Mexican dollar exports, risking currency scarcity in eastern colonies.
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Chartered Bank of India
Australia
China
London
Straits Settlement
Hong Long
Japanese Troops Encamped Near Port Arthur In Shanghai Dispatch
The New York Herald special dispatch from Shanghai reports fifteen thousand Japanese troops under Field Marshal Oyama camped along Regent's Sword promontory north of Port Arthur. They await a favorable moment to advance while Japanese cruisers outside the port ready to intercept any retreat to sea.
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New York Fierald
Shanghai
Oyama
Regent's Sword Promontory
Port Arthur
Washington Notes and Personnel Changes in 1894
Secretary Carlisle seeks Olney’s view on enforcing the South Carolina dispensary law in US versus state officer disputes over liquor in bonded warehouses. Secretary Smith hints interior staff may vote in the forthcoming elections. The railway mail service allows clerks to vote if it doesn’t harm operations. Vincent Bounced’s resignation as West Virginia U.S. marshal prompts D. Garden’s appointment. Vincent’s 1893 tenure includes a political melee with one death and multiple injuries. Official year funding shows expenditures exceed receipts by $500,000 this week, and a list of districts reporting no transactions ends June 30, 1894, including Annapolis, Apalachicola, Atlanta, and several Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland ports.
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Carlisle
Olney
South Carolina
United States
Smith
Interior Department
Railway Mail Service
Vincent
District of West Virginia
D. Garden
Wayne
W. Va
Marshall
Bluefield
Huntington
Treasury
Commissioner of Customs
Secretary of the Treasury
Annapolis
Bold Bandits Hold Up a Train in California
Two masked men halted a coastbound overland train near Sacramento six miles from the city. They forced the engineer and fireman to the express car where Messenger Page opened the doors after a warning. Four bags of gold worth about 1500 dollars were stolen before the robbers escaped by uncoupling the engine and fleeing toward the city.
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California
Sacramento
Cal
Page
Bank Delists in Buffalo County After Sands Judgment
The Buffalo County National Bank shut Friday due to a $19,000 judgment against Sands clothing house, in which the bank held an interest, and two directors demanding their deposits. Sands clothing house also closed. no other firms affected. Assets and liabilities remain undetermined.
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Buffalo County
Neb
National Bank
Sands Clothing House
Union Debates Short Day Question in Louisville
Friday morning’s session of the International Typographical Union in Louisville focused on the short day issue. The original proposal set nine hours as a day’s work after September 1, but the motion was referred for a referendum.
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International Typographical Union
Louisville
Paper Mill Combination Brings Large Raleigh Mills Gain
The Raleigh North Carolina Paper Company, with mills at the falls of Neuse, has purchased the South Park paper mills in Lincolnton. The acquisition will be moved to immediately and place Raleigh mills among the largest in the south.
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Raleigh
N.C
Stamp Stolen by Washington Officials Shocks City
A major theft at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing involves hundreds of thousands of missing stamps, far beyond initial estimates. Authorities traced the plot to former stamp workers William B. Smith and George W. Longstreet, with others like William A. Beach and a man named Simmerslitz sought for questioning as detectives delay to establish full scope.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Department
William B. Smith
Plainfield
N. J
George
Smith
Beach
Firing on Mob Guards Jury Indicts Dolby
In Washington Courthouse Ohio Jasper Dolby a Negro who assaulted Mrs Mary C Bird of Parrotts station confessed and was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary A mob of about 1500 surrounded the jail as militia protected the prisoner Shots fired killed three and wounded ten when the doors were battered down during the ensuing clash
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Washington Courthouse
Ohio
Jasper Doiby
Mary C. Bird
Parrott’s Station
Dolby
Southern Railway files record $120 million mortgage in Knoxville
The consolidated mortgage deed of the Southern Railway Company covering road bed buildings and equipment across Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Alabama Georgia and the District of Columbia is filed in Knoxville. For 120 million dollars in favor of Central Trust Company of New York gold bonds at 5 percent run 100 years. The mortgage will be registered in 176 counties with Deputy Registrar J L Faulkner needing about two weeks to copy it. No prior Tennessee mortgage for so large an amount has been filed.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Southern Railway Co
Southern Railway Company
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
District of Columbia
Central Trust Company
New York
J. L. Faulkner
Richmond
Quantico
Murray
Western
Southern Railway
Washington
O Brien Reinstated for Embezzlement Case
The Tennessee supreme court in Knoxville reversed a lower court ruling and held M J O Brien ex supreme court chancellor of the Catholic Knights of America liable to criminal prosecution for embezzling 75000 from the order. The prior quashing hinged on a statute denying redress to corporations without a state charter abstract.
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Chattanooga
M. J. O’brien
Supreme Court
Catholic Knights of America
Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Knoxville
O’brien
Insane Mother's Fire Tragedy Ends in Deaths Near Elizabeth
Mrs Jennie Harrigan and her three children perished in a barn fire on their farm near Elizabeth New Jersey. The house also burned and the husband was away. Believed Mrs Harrigan attacked the house and barn in a fit of insanity, took the children to the barn and locked the door, perishing with them as flames closed in. The eldest child was six and the youngest fourteen months.
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Jennie Harrigan
Elizabeth
N. J
Solid Company Aims to Report 1894 Year Results
The American Cotton Oil Company plans to present at its November 1 1894 stockholders meeting in New York a year ending August 31 1894 showing about 250 000 of bonds paid off all interest charges and a percent dividend on preferred stock. It also notes a small surplus on common stock earned during the year.
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American Cotton Oil Company
New York
Split at Fall River Weavers Vote to Stay Away from Work
At a Fall River meeting on Saturday the weavers refused to return to work by 875 to 76 while the carders voted to resume duties 290 to 94 reflecting a labor dispute split between two crafts.
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Fall River
World Wire Briefs From Across The Globe
Daily world brief highlights note a new eight-dynamo electric plant rising in Meridian Mississippi after a prior fire left darkness. North and South Carolina general life insurance agents form a separate association in Raleigh. New Albany Kentucky post office robbed of 34,000 stamps and 500 cash. blindsided by a thief during dinner. Fall River weavers resist resuming work. Ybor City cigar factory workers strike over pay and conditions. The Co operative Loan and Investment Company is declared a lottery and blocked from mail. newspapers warned. Dr John D Kremien jailed ten years for murder by poisoning ex Philadelphia resident Forres. Omaha affadavit alleges Majors sought to steal bills to block maximum freight law. Gainesville Florida Odd Fellows Home opens for sick members worldwide. Cincinnati depositions reveal Amick Chemical sold to doctors nationwide. daily sample kits distributed for consumption cure.
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Meridian
Miss
General Life Insurance Agents
North and
South Carolina
Raleigh
New Albany
Schindler
Fall River
Gonzalez & Moera
Ybor City
Fla
New York
Chicago
Co-operative Loan and Investment Company
Mississippi
Jackson
United States
Baltimore Dispatch
John D. Kremien
John Forres
Hermin Henbureh
Philadelphia
Omuahe
Neb
J. E. Goleman
Senate
Thomas J. Majors
Odd Fellows’ Home
National Sanitarium
Gainesville
Ple
Board of Trustees
Odd Fellows and Daughters of
Rebekah
Canada
Cincinnati
Amick
Reeves
Forty Passes Lost by Labor Leader Howard Found
Chicago dispatch reports George W. Howard vice president of the American Railway Union and Debs lieutenant lost forty annual passes across major railroads including a Pullman pass. The passes were recovered. the event sparked labor unrest memories of subsidies and criticisms of leaders perceived as betraying worker interests.
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Chicago
George W. Howard
American Railway Union
Debs
Howard
Carroll D. Wright
Richmond Telegram Reports Capture Of Express Robber
A Richmond dispatch says Governor O Ferall received a telegram claiming a suspected bandit in the $50,000 express robbery on a train south of the Potomac river was captured at Cumberland Maryland on Wednesday. A pistol cartridges and $1050 were found on him and authorities believe he is one of the robbers.
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Richmond
O’ferall
Potomac River
Cumberland
Lumbermen Organize at Brunswick Convention Elect Officers
Georgia and Florida lumbermen met in Brunswick on Monday to organize for restoring lumber prices to living rates. Hon. J. W. Bennett delivered the welcome address for the city as the industry seeks relief from two years of unprecedentedly low prices.
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Brunswick
Georgia
Florida
J. W. Bennett
Southern progress and regional tensions noted in diverse items
The column highlights Mississippi cotton seed price tensions tied to the cotton oil trust, a New York bishops meeting for a missionary bishop in Olympia, a $120 million Southern Railway mortgage filed in Knoxville, a new Port Royal dry dock project with dredging work by Rittenhouse Moore & Co., and the Alabama United Mine Workers electing officers. Additional notes cover a Richmond train robbery estimate of about $5,000 and a rumor of Western System headquarters possibly moving from Washington to Knoxville.
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Naval Dry
Port Royal
D. C
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Rittenhouse, Moore & Co
Mobile
Als
United Mine Workers of Alabama
Birmingham
John G. Smith
William Malley
J. B. Atkins
John Stitch
W. G. Cantley
Dick Hooper
H. B. Hamper
Hardin and Elrod Acquitted in Nashville Express Robbery Case
In Nashville Tennessee on Wednesday a jury found Charles Hardin Charlton Elrod Charles Taylor and James Norris not guilty on all counts for embezzling 35000 from Adams Express Company after a two week trial with numerous witnesses testifying.
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Express
Nashville
Tenn
Charles Hardin
Charlton Elrod
Charles Taylor
James Norris
Adams Express Company
Hardin
Embezzlement Guilty and Berlin Anger Over Portuguese Coast
Dispatch from Berlin warns of great concern over Lourenzo Marquez at Delagoa Bay and possible English expansion along the Indian Ocean coast of Portugal. Also in brief, Buchanan of Sonora Texas bank pleads guilty to embezzlement from the post office, sentenced to eighteen months. A witty Oxford math professor story ends with a dated joke about his imagined missing wife and absent mindedness.
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London Times
Berlin
Lourenzo Marquez
Delagoa Bay
England
Indian Ocean
Portugal
Buchanan
Sonora
Texas
United States
United States Post Office
Lank
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Savannah
Sam Jones
B. F. Haynes
Tennessee Methodist
Mr. Jones
Macon
Atlanta
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
George S. Hunt
Weather Bureau
Washington City
Morrill
Augusta
Roney
Solicitor Reeves
Floyd County
Treasury Department
Buckeye Bell Foundry
van Dusen & Tift
Collier
Bradford L. Gilbert
Gilbert
Manufacturers’ and Liberal Arts
John O. Waddell
State Agricultural Society
Col. Waddell
The
Georgia State Agricultural Society
Fair Grounds
Joan O. Wappreth
Cholly
National Capitol
Bureau of Engraving
Stew
O'Brien
Jan
Mr. Howard
Lord
Cotton Oil Trust
House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church
Olympia
Elrod
John Bull
Oxford
Tun
Uty
North Georgia
Dahlonega
U. S. Army
Secretary of War
Trustesq
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