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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1898
Page
2
The passage notes Gladstone’s estate valued well under 800000 and remarks on the US undertaking major commissions with Spain Gabon Porto Rico and Canada. It highlights a new American industry the typewriter, alongside the telephone and bicycle, as rapidly expanding in the past twenty years with capital and employment growing far beyond 1880 levels.
In 1897 US exports to South Africa totaled 14 161 071 dollars while Britain and Germany sent 38 670 802 and 6 122 738 respectively. Consul General Stowe notes Germany imitates the US in goods and packing. British merchants mimic American ad styles. US exports rise in flour beef lard ham sugar cotton goods tobacco leather and oil with a 171 percent rise in bicycles, signaling growing demand in British colonies.
An expert at the United States Naval Observatory heads a department managing thoroughly tested navy chronometers. A temperature room, connected to the time service, conducts daily 11 to 11.40 o clock tests under hydro metric conditions, with weekly calculations from mean rates to the nearest quarter second. Temperature is recorded by chronometric and max min thermometers, heated by hot water and cooled by an ice refrigerator to keep within two degrees in six cold months.
Scientific American argues public schools have neglected physical health in favor of heavy mental curricula. It warns that excessive cramming harms delicate children, under unhealthy settings, risking nervous diseases and reduced lifelong usefulness. The piece cites ancient Greece and Rome as superior in integrating body training. It notes Americans are increasingly recognizing the harm of prioritizing mind over body.
Lena Stearns, a bright eighteen year old station agent at Dumphy's Glen, guards a cash box as a desperado and a second thief force entry. John Sturgis races to help, telegraph wires crackle with alarm, and an aurora lights the night as the depot showdown unfolds with Lena facing a pistol.
Readers praise the camp musician who found a worn accordion and stirred memories with old songs like Nellie Was a Lady and Hard Times Come No More. The improvised concert under the stars softened critics as melodies echoed from a beloved instrument.
Lena and John Sturgin thwart a robbery at the depot when two masked men threaten a girl and demand a key. Lena misdirects them while Sturgin and deputies close in. a rescue arrives with a train and posse. Lena credits a heavenly message for help.
The Carthage Mo Press reports inmates at the Jasper County Jail embracing patriotic tattooing. Prisoner Charles Little of Joplin tattoos with sewing needles and India ink, depicting shields flags eagles and soldiers on prisoners arms and chests as war sentiment replaces earlier love symbols.
In 614 Yemen and Egypt, a religious Egyptian viewed happiness and unity with divinities as attainable through prior preparations. The wife led the family line as mother of the children, savior, and liberator, as only a son could pray for the father’s soul. She received homage and obedience, and women held essential ritual status. The saying “gray mare was the better horse” reflects her respected role.
Advices from Havana note Paz y Libertad in Cienfuegos prints a manifesto with many signatures including Spaniards, calling for Cuban independence. Reports describe Spanish officers selling army stores, corrupt practices, and harsh treatment of civilians as a free-for-all. Interment figures show 16 821 deaths in Havana this year with rising daily rates. troops protest unpaid wages and poor rations, some deserting for insurgents. Over 5 000 soldiers discharged since a decree, Cuban patriotic clubs form in Havana, some banning non Cuban flags, and general Rego preaching a holy war against Americans from Havana and insurgent camps.
Fall River Massachusetts cotton mills The Chase Sagamore Wampanoag Weetamoa and Stafford shut down Saturday under an agreement by print cloth manufacturers to curtail production for four weeks.
A Santiago dispatch reports Senor Leonardo Roos, named civil governor of Santiago by General Shafter, received 475 dollars for twenty six days of service. General Wood ruled that Roos, deemed to have done nothing, was still entitled to pay until officially released.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe issues a circular abolishing the land department effective November 1. Lands owned by the Santa Fe except coal lands will pass to John J. Frost, the Kansas land commissioner. Frost holds about 60,000 acres across eighteen counties.
General Wood, military governor pro tem of Santiago, issues a ten section proclamation declaring rights and outlining municipal laws to be administered by Americans. It guarantees assembly, worship, open courts, due process, protection from self incrimination, double jeopardy, bail, habeas corpus, fair fines and punishments, protection against unreasonable searches, and free writing or printing subject to abuse. The declaration allows modifications by the commanding general to promote enlightened civilization.
A Washington dispatch reports Dr Brunner’s Havana mortality study for January 1 to October 18 showing 652 total deaths with yellow fever, typhoid, pernicious fever, and malarial fever spiking. Starvation directly caused 201 deaths, severe food shortage linked to overall high mortalities.
A telegram to the Navy Secretary from Manila reports Admiral Dewey noting the collier Nero arrived at Taku on the 16th with coal on fire and suggesting it be sent home. He did not address the political situation in the Philippines or any further ship captures.
Atlanta dispatch reports Governor Atkinson will appoint Robert L. Berner to succeed Judge John H. Candler as colonel of the Third Georgia regiment. Major R. E. B. Spence becomes lieutenant colonel, Marcus W. Beck is named senior major, with another appointee to be announced.
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