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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1900
Page
1
A garbled dispatch reports Qing era skirmishes near Peking with references to Boxers, Japanese seizure of rice and silver, and American bullion holdings at Tiet Tain. The fragmented text mentions 6,000,000 bushels of rice valued at $9,000,000 and bullion worth $500,000.
Reports from Yokohama and Shanghai detail Russian forces flooding into Manchuria with tens of thousands of Cossacks. Civilians resist as imperial executions remove taungli yamen members and British forces clash with Boxers near Peking while legation positions face Boxer undermining.
Reported during the past week by The Tradesman the wool end date Sept 1 highlights new industries across states. Entries include a 800,000 brewery in Charlotte North Carolina and electric power works in West Virginia, plus mills, mines, foundries, and factories across Georgia Kentucky Alabama Tennessee North Carolina and others.
Aug 30 reports claim Captain Crenshaw died after minimal care at a general hospital while wounded. Colonel Girard says Crenshaw had constant nursing and full attention and calls the charges unfounded. Surgeon General Sternberg says no department complaint has reached him on Captain Crow's alleged ill treatment. Enoch Moss, a Black man, was executed at Bastrop for killing Neal Lane with bullshot in July.
In Ware County Georgia Aug 81 Nelson and Thomas quarrelled leading to Thomas slashing Nelson with a rusty pocketknife. Nelson died ten days later after symptoms included paralysis and strange behavior. doctors found a knife blade imbedded in Nelsons brain.
Dustin Georgia residents report a violent incident on the east riverbank where Jordan A Outlaw allegedly assaulted his daughter. The father fled after his wife obtained a warrant accusing him, and the family warned he would kill them if told. Outlaw remains at large as authorities pursue him.
Avansta Ga Sept 1 William R DeLoach a telephone lineman climbed an 80 foot Broad street pole to fix wires. A live crosswire sparked and he was shocked as he touched the wire with his leg then fell about 40 to 80 feet to the asphalt dying from the incident.
Savannah Sept 1 Anderson Young a negro has been arrested for the murder of Ida Carter and for an assault with intent to murder his wife who was shot during the melee The quarrel started over root medicine purchased from a herb doctor He took the medicine when she tried to recover it and fired The Carter woman was killed and his wife was shot twice
A Savannah dispatch reports the store of W. G. Sutton burned and clerk D I Haymans cremated after both slept above the shop. The telegraph operator escaped. Haymans died in the blaze from which he could not flee.
A fleeing Black man led a mob of about 50 armed individuals in Atlanta near a Sunday liquor row. Police stopped the confrontation after cries to kill or lynch surged as the fugitive brandished a knife. The unnamed man said the clash arose from a dispute over paying for whisky at a speakeasy.
Savannah Aug 30 The Central of Georgia Railway Company directors declare a 4 per cent dividend on first preferred inc loan bonds payable Oct 1. There are 4 million such bonds. dividend totals 340,000 from last fiscal year earnings. Board withdraws 60,000 of 5 per cent bonds for improvements and betterments. A sale of 100,000 worth of first preferred bonds to a Savannah account occurred in New York at 43 1/3 to 44 cents.
Rouse a white man from Sylvanis was arrested in Savannah charged with criminally assaulting Bessié Lewis, a 17 year old white girl from Cyclone Screven county. The girl, sent to Savannah for medical treatment, traveled with a black woman who was paid for board. After a ride together, the man allegedly assaulted her. both elist were arrest ed and Rouse admitted attempting an assault.
In West Point Georgia on August 30 Tom Rawls, a black passenger on an excursion train from Montgomery to Atlanta, leaped from the moving train and landed in mud, injuring his neck while attempting to flee deputy sheriffs. The incident followed reports of alleged criminal activity aboard the train. Savannah timber trade expands as pine ships head to foreign ports.
A letter from Lord Russell to Mrs Maybrick, found by Dr Clark Bell during a visit to Aylesbury prison, reinforces his belief in her innocence and calls for her release. The discovery is sent to Sir Matthew White Ridley. Bell's trip also yielded an audience with Maybrick’s mother. This may prolong her incarceration amid leniency trends.
In Coluitius Ohio a Forty sixth volunteer infantry unit joined a committee of survivors of the Thirtieth Louisiana at Washington near Columbia. Flags captured at Bara courthouse near Atlantis were returned from the shire capitol reliquary. Judge David Pugh spoke and handed the flags to consuls Shepherd Harris John Lanitry and Jumiex Brown. Governor Nash attended the exercises.
The Cotton Exchange rule requires brokers and commission houses to charge non members a ten dollar per hundred bales commission for round turn in buying and selling contracts of 100 bales. In Lexispona Georgia a committee of black citizens pressed for the immediate trial of a jailed negro rapist.
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