Horrific tale of two shipwreck survivors feasting on flesh
Two men from the Norwegian bark Drot drifted at sea for days after a hurricane off Florida. Morrison Anderson and Goodman Thomas survived on raw fish and blood after their shipwreck, amid shark attacks and near-starvation. Thomas, the crew’s seventeen year old cabin boy, was among the survivors when rescued by the Woodruff at Charleston.
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Woodruff
Hamburg
Charleston
Morrison Anderson
Goodman Thomas
Drot
Straits of Florida
Baltimore
Anderson
Thomas
Thas
Pascagouls
Buenos Ayres
Record Breaker: Hes ter Reports Cotton Crop Totals
Secretary Hester’s annual report shows U.S. cotton receipts at ports 8,579,426 bales, down from 8,769,360 last year, overland to mills 1,346,623, up from 1,287,818, southern consumption 1,858,701, up from 1,192,821, totaling 11,274,840 bales for 1898-99, vs 11,199,904 last year and 8,757,963 the year before.
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Hester
United States
New Orleans
Milla
Salvation of Cotton Market Faith by Senator Morgan
Senator Morgan of Alabama predicts expansion will save cotton and plans a southern crusade to spread the gospel. He envisions Manila becoming the world's great cotton market, replacing Liverpool in the global trade.
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Morgan
Manila
Chicago Times- Herald
Washington
Alabama
South
Liverpool
Darien Riots Trial Rapid Verdicts In Georgia Court
In Darien Georgia a rapid court session resulted in guilty verdicts for Jones Green Moses Miller and Lawrence Baker and a mistrial for Josephine Bird. Abram Green was acquitted while several others faced trial as the grand jury began considering Henry Delegal on rape charges. The jury returned verdicts within minutes for most defendants, with court adjourning to Monday.
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Darien
Josephine Bird
Abram Green
Seabrook
Jones Green
Moses Miller
Lawrence Baker
Charles McDonald
Dave Petty
High Thompson
Moses Bailey
John ‘Thompson
John Thompson
Bill Jenkins
Henry Delegal
Byrne Takes Argoguia Stronghold in Negros Fight
A Manila dispatch reports the Sixth Infantry under Lieutenant Colonel Byrne captured Argoguia, a key rebel stronghold, after scaling a thousand foot hill under fire. About 400 native fighters were in the town. several Americans were hit, and many rebels wounded or captured with twenty-one killed.
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Argoguia
Manila
Negros
Byrne
Samoan Islands Chief Justice in Washington Report Arrival
Chief Justice W. L. Chambers arrived in Washington from the south to report to the President and the Secretary of State on recent happenings in the Samoan Islands and his role in the affairs there.
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Samoan Islands
W. L. Chambers
Washington
Blackburn Breaks Down For Health Rest Tour With Goebel
Ex-Senator Joe Blackburn collapses from ill health and must return to Versailles to rest. His brother James Blackburn, former U S marshal, will accompany Goebel on a mountain tour through Kentucky’s mountains.
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Goebel
Speial
Lexington
Joe
Blackburn
Versailles
James Blackburn
Kentucky
Mr. Goebel
Public debt decreases in August 1899 United States treasury
A Washing dispatch reports the monthly public debt statement showing cash in the treasury at the close of August 31, 1899, totaling 1,157,306,655 dollars. The debtless cash decreased by 4,281,116 dollars from the previous month.
Criticism of Grand Chief over Cleveland streetcar boycott
Birmingham Alabama division No 152 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers adopted resolutions condemning Grand Chief P M Arthur for riding street cars boycotted in Cleveland at a large Sunday meeting.
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Arthur
Birmingham
Ala
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
P.M. Arthur
Cleveland
Santo Domingo Rebel Leader Jiminez Heads for Port au Prince
A Cape Haytien dispatch states Juan Isidro Jiminez, a presidential aspirant, left Caimanera Sunday aboard the Georges Crioz for Baracoa. He plans to proceed to Port au Prince and then to Puerto Plata, where he is eagerly awaited.
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Cape Haytien
Juan Isidro Jiminez
Republic of Santo Domingo
Caimanera
Georges Crioz
Baracoa
Port Au Prince
Puerto Plata
Yellow Fever Declared in Key West by Florida Board
The Florida State Board of Health through Dr. Sweating confirmed yellow fever in Key West. Two individuals, Dennis L. Eagan, a customs house attache, and William M. Browder, a Treasury Department special agent, were diagnosed. Additional fever cases show similar symptoms as authorities prepare for rapid departures and implement safeguards.
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State Board of Health
Key West
Florida State Board of Health
Sweating
Dennis L. Eagan
Custom House
William M. Browder
Treasury Department
Halstead Hustled as Editor Lectured on Philippines in Cincinnati
Noted editor Murat Halstead spoke to the Economia Club in Wine Street Congregational church on the Philippines. An anti imperialist crowd clashed after questions, with threats and uproar, Halstead exiting quietly through a side door amid overturned chairs and noise.
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Philippines
Murat Halstead
Cincinnati
Economia Club
Wine Street Congregational Church
Audienes
Halstead
Otis
Mr. Halstead
WILL RESTORE WAGES SOON ANNULLED WAGES AT SOUTHERN
Chattanooga dispatch notes the Southern railway will restore the 10 percent wage cut across all departments including trainmen office staff and officials. Earlier shop workers had their cut reinstated and engineers received a small increase. President Spencer plans to restore the full 10 percent about September 10.
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Southern
Chattanooga
The
Southern Railway
Spencer
Largest Lumber Order Ties Record With Africa Road Plan
A Kansas City special reports a 500 million foot order of southern yellow pine, the largest single sale in lumber history, for Cecil Rhodes's Cape to Cairo road proposal in Africa. Negotiations reportedly closed, with twenty mills across Texas and Louisiana railroads contracted to supply the wood.
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Cooll Rhodes
Kansas City
Ceecil Rhodes
Cape To Cairo
Africa
Kansas City Star
Texas
Louisiana
Women Petition Queen Victoria to End War with Boers
A Netherlands Woman's Disarmament league petition presented to Queen Victoria urges avoiding war with the Boers. It appeals to her sense of womanhood and motherhood and warns that war would cast a frightful blot upon her reign.
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Netherlands Woman's Disarmament League
Queen Victoria
Pensions Increase Report Shows Large Roll Growth
The annual report by Commissioner H Gray Evans details 40,229 names added to the pension roll and 43,186 dropped, 84,845 by death. Pension expenditures reached 188,855,052 dollars, while the roll’s total value stood at 131,617,691 dollars, a new high by 649,405 dollars. The roll comprises 768,451 surviving soldiers, 237,415 widows and dependent relatives, and 653 nurses.
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Evans
H. Gray Evans
Rebels Ordered to Advance on Imus
The report from Manila says Aguinaldo ordered rebel generals in Onyite to close in on Imus and attempt its capture. Troops concentrate around the town from the lake country with 700 men on the One Marinas road and an equal force in Auabo.
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Aguinaldo
Imus
Manila
Onyite
Figuero Out Jiminez Victor Figueroa Revolution Ends In Victory
Rebel forces capture towns and sweep across the island as President Figueroa resigns. Ministers stay in place until provisional government forms. Port figures report Santo Domingo quiet, gunboat Restauracion ashore, US cruiser New Orleans and French Cecille in port. Santiago and other towns declare for the revolution. battles and surrenders unfold with negotiations and new local officials. Secretary Root observes cannon tests at Sandy Hook with General Miles.
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Santo Domingo
Figuero
Restauracion
Macori
United States
New Orleans
Cecille
Santiago
Moca
la Vega
Porto Plata
San Francisco de Marconis
Bani
Associated Press
General Garrido
Prina
Senor Despradel
Puerto Plata
Garrido
Santiago de Sos Caballeros
Revolutionary Army
Cordero
Villavirda
Carrido
Imbert
Billancuva
Revolutionary Party
Dairymen of Georgia to Hold Annual Meeting at Grantville
Georgia Dairymen’s association announces its sixth annual meeting to be held in Grantville on October 12 and 13. Secretary M L Duggan sends prospectus and premium list detailing $500 in premiums for top dairyman product displays. The program is being arranged with features of strong interest to members.
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Grantville
M. L. Duggan
Georgia Dairymen's Association
Spain Calls 6000 Men as Regent Taps 1899 Class
Advices from Madrid report the Queen Regent has signed a decree calling 6,000 men of the 1899 class for military service. Thirty-five Spanish troops, survivors of the Baler garrison in Luzon, arrived in Barcelona Friday and were warmly welcomed by the crowd.
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Madrid
Baler
Luzon
Barcelona
Dreyfus Breaks Down In Court As Confession Claims Surface
The Rennes reports describe Dreyfus weeping in court as details of his interrogation and alleged confession resurface. Captain Lebrun Renault and witnesses insist the confession exists but fail to clarify why it was not shared with President Casimir Perier or the cassation court. The prisoner’s wife’s courage is praised as he attributes his life to her support.
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Rennes
Dreyfus
Generate Aye
Devil's Island
Lebrun-Renault
Forseinetti
du Paty de Clam
Dorseinetti
Mme. Dreyfus
Tenra
Court of Cassation
Casimir- Perier
Camille
Thirty Seven True Bills in McIntosh Grand Jury
The McIntosh grand jury returned thirty seven true bills on Thursday afternoon while twenty two cases yielded no bills. The release rate undercuts venue change appeals and suggests lack of prejudice against the negro defendants. Judge Twiggs noted readiness to try riot defendants in grouped numbers, with prosecution proposing group selection.
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McIntosh
McIntosh Grand Jury
Darien
Twiggs
Charlton
Georgia Governor Proclaims Labor Day Holiday
Governor Candler issued an official proclamation bearing the state seal urging all employers to close on September 4 Labor Day so labor and its friends may enjoy the day. The measure follows a visit by a committee from the Atlanta Federation of Trades which was received cordially.
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Candler
Georgia
Atlanta Federation of Trades
Morgan backs Bryan foe in Alabama senator speech
A Birmingham dispatch reports United States Senator John T. Morgan declared against Bryan's renomination at Maplesville. Morgan supported Bryan's opponent John W. Tomlinson, while Tomlinson spoke for Bryan’s expansion plan. Morgan called Bryan the only logical Democratic nominee for 1900.
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Alabama
Nebraaken
Birmingham
Ala
United States
John T. Morgan
Bryan
John W. Tomlinson
Maplesville
Morgan
Chicago Platform Reaffirmed as Bryan Renomination Demanded
A Zanesville dispatch reports Ohio Democrats at the convention supporting William Jennings Bryan and free silver. John KR McLean won the gubernatorial nomination on the first ballot with 402 votes, Kilbourne 227, Haskell 55, Sherwood 27, Seward 25, Lewis 6. McLean’s nomination was unanimous. The platform reaffirms Chicago 1896, calls for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, condemns imperialism, supports Bryan renomination, and endorses a strong navy while opposing entangling alliances and a large standing army.
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Zanesville
Anya
Bryan
Free Silver
John KR
McLean
Kilbourne
Haskell
Sherwood
Seward
Lewis
Judge Mooney
Ailver
Chicago
William J. Bryan
Washington
Jefferson
Jackson
Lincoln
Grant
United States of America
Congress
Spain
Bunker Hill
England
Wagers On Cotton Crop Bet Placed In Galveston
In Galveston Texas on Thursday Major R G Lowe vice president of The Galveston Dallas News and Thomas Taylor a leading cotton man posted a $500 per side wager Lowe bets the 1899 1900 Texas cotton crop will be 500000 bales below the 1898 1899 crop Taylor believes it will not.
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Galveston
Texas
R. G. Lowe
Galveston-Dallas News
Thomas Taylor
Lowe
Taylor
Royal Dragoons Readied for Transvaal Action
A London dispatch reports the first royal dragoons under Lt Colonel Burn-Murdoch are ordered to be in readiness for possible hostilities in the Transvaal. The regiment famed at Waterloo Balaklava and Sebastopol has not left England since the Crimea.
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Transvaal
London
Aldershot
First
Royal Dragoons
Lietenant
Burn-Murdoch
Waterloo
Balaklava
Sebastopol
England
Boiler blast at Copemish kills three at factory
A boiler explosion at Chapman and Sargent’s bowl factory in Copemish Michigan on Friday afternoon killed three workers and fatally injured four others. The accident leaves a stunned community seeking details as investigators inspect the scene.
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Chapman & Sargent
Copemish
Mich
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Jiminez
San Domingo
Florida
Jiminez Victor
Root
Sandy Hook
Miles
Dairymen OF
Withover
Dreyfus Woops
Wlean
Ohio
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