BILLARP'S LETTER ON CALAMITIES AND CALMING FAITH
A Atlanta Constitution excerpt by Billarp urges reflection on recent disasters in Minnesota and Rio Grande floods. He contrasts grim scenes with Peachtree Street life, argues the worst of the financial crisis may pass, and advocates gratitude, ethical living, and steady faith over politics while noting tariff and industry impacts on cotton, wool, and quinine.
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Minnesota
Rio Granda
Peachtree Street
Alanti
Bal‘imo
Dixie
South
England
Casaimere
Eluhea
Jankete
Powere & Wightman
Recera
Hunrer
Job
Jacob
Esau
Mississippi
Atlanta Constitution
Big fires and big debts dominate telegraph news
Fire destroys the Arch Fair building on Sixty third street in Chicago causing an $80,000 loss. London buyers Morgan Co purchased $2.2 million in Chesapeake and Ohio bond issues, easing floating debt. Reports detail labor strikes, political nominations, ship collisions, and imperial tensions from Paris to Samoa.
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Chicago
Sixty-third Street
Wall Street
N. Y
J. S. Morgan & Co
London
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
London Dailyews
Paris
Madagascar
Fall River
Indianapolis
Knights of Pythias
Kerner Lodge
No. 6
Indiana Zeitung Bond
Colorado
Denver
Supreme Court
John Campbell
Colorado Springs
A. W. MclIntyre
Alamosi
J. B. Rush
Greeley
A. B. McLaffney
Harry L. Mullinix
Trinidad
Portia
St. Johns
N. F
Halifax
New York
City Island
Dora M. French
Bangor
Maine
Cutty Hawk Light
Vineyard Haven Sound
French
New Bedford
Mass
New York State
Saratoga
Charles B. Matthews
Buffalo
Robert C. Howson
Penn Yenn
Thaddeus B. Weekman
New York City
Court of Appeals
London Times
Shanghai
Kimichim
Washington Notes on Treasury Officials and Japan Treaty
Treasury and War Department clerks head home to back Breckinridge in seventh Kentucky district primaries. Lt. Michael A. O'Brien named military attache to Tokyo. navy may seek similar post. Carlisle drafts rules for bonded warehouse manufacture under the new tariff, notably tobacco, promising 10,000 jobs. Guiteras reports yellow fever cases on the Tyzack and other illnesses aboard. A treaty between Corea and Japan seeks to clarify relations amid China tensions. Carlisle and Miller hear druggists on alcohol use in medicines under section 61.
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Treasury and War Departments
Government Printing Office
Washington
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Kentucky
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Uhl
Department of State
Michael A. O’brien
Fifth Infantry
Tokio
Japan
Schofield
O’brien
China
Navy
Carlisle
Europe
John Guiteras
Wyman
Marine Hospital Service
Tyzack
Havana
Cape Charles
Wilson
Pool
Corea
Corean
Seoul
Otori
Miller
Treasury Department
Department
Gov Stone Involved In Mississippi Warrant Coinage Controversy
The Jackson Mississippi case centers on Governor John M Stone Auditor W W Stone and Treasurer Evans charged with feloniously issuing money in semblance of United States notes. The United States marshal took Stone’s surrender as officers debate legality of state warrants issued to defray deficits.
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Jackson
Miss
United States
John M. Stone
W. W. Stone
Evans
Campbell
Mississippi
United States Supreme Court
Stone
Eure
Frank Burkitt
St. Louis Bank Note Company
Governor State
Hazen
Civil Service Division
Treasury Department
Lawler is Commander, Grand Army Veterans Elect Him
Pittsburg pa special reports Col Thomas G Lawler of Rockford Ill elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic over Col Ivan N Walker of Indianapolis Ind by a majority of eleven in a total vote of 649 The result ends Pennsylvania eastern control and signals a shift toward western and southern delegates with Lawler narrowly leading as the roll is called The encampment adjourns after two days and vows to seek veteran preferences in government appointments and to unite north and south in one country
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Pittsburg
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Opera House
Montana
Helena
Anaconda
New York Herald
Paris
Bright
Russia
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Peck
Judge Rose
Committee On Platform
United States
Old Time Telegrapher’s Association
Society of the United States Military Telegraph Correspondents
Baltimore
Grand Army
Order
Thomas G. Lawler
Rockford
Ivan N. Walker
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Illinois
Sawyer
Pennsylvania
Louis E. Wagner
Chicago
Lawler
Walker
A. P. Burchfield
Charles H. Shale
New Orleans
O. W. Weeks
Marion
T. H. Hagerty
St. Louis
Charles W. Gerwig
Virginia
North Carolina
August Hagen
Tennessee
H.W. Veasey
Arkansas
A. D. Thomas
Georgia
Joseph H. Thibodeau
Alabama
G. H. Patrick
Eigth
Boys In Blue
Mason and Dixon
Dalton Ohio Devastated by Fire After Tramp Origin Suspected
An Ohio town nine miles north of Massillox, Dalton, was almost wiped out by a fire in a stable early Monday. Origin uncertain but suspected to involve tramps taking shelter there. Loss estimated at $200,000, Royal Insurance the heaviest. Post office and contents destroyed. Citizens crushed by destruction of business blocks and homes, leaving homeless women and children.
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Ohio
Dalton
Massillox
Royal Insurance’ Company
The Festive Boll Worm Observed in Jasper County
Commissioner Nesbitt reports a letter from School Commissioner Newton stating boll worm appears in Jasper a area causing serious damage to cotton. Farmers suffer heavy losses with percentages up to 75 percent in some fields and complete yield loss in isolated spots.
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Georgia
Nesbitt
Newton
Jasper County
Fertilizer Bulletin highlights state fertilizer use and boll worm losses
The annual fertilizer bulletin from the Department of Agriculture notes water melon guidance, lists plant food percentages, discusses cotton seed products, and includes the state chemist report. It records fertilizer inspection totals rising from 48,648 tons in 1874 to 315,612 tons in the past year, and warns of boll worm damage in Georgia with Jasper, Oglethorpe, and Oconee counties hardest hit. The note also mentions the Cunarder Lucania lowering its eastward transatlantic time by over two hours, from five days ten hours forty seven minutes to five days eight hours twenty five minutes.
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Department of Agriculture
Nesbitt
Col
J. M. Smith
Oglethorpe
Oconee County
W. H. Malone
Monticello
Jasper County
Jasper
Oconee
Georgia
Lucania
New York
Queenstown
Campania
Southern Specials Chronicle Rapid Southward Progress and Disasters
Decree in Sampson & Co versus Camperdon Cotton Mills orders sale of the Greenville mill on October 31. Southside stables in Fort Worth burn with 26 horses, 36 vehicles, and feed valued at $25,000, sustained as incendiary. Counterfeit bust arrests in Manning. seven molds seized. Possible extra session in Jackson to fix election laws amid Tillman senate bid challenges. Governor Stone and Treasurer Evans released on bond in Mississippi. North Memphis tornado damages three lumber mills with fatalities and injuries. Corn and cotton ruined along the tornado path.
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Charleston
S. C
Simonton
O. H. Sampson & Co
Camperdon Cotton Mills
Greenville
Southside
Fort Worth
Texas
Joe Henry Lloyd
Charles L. Wilson
Manning
D. C
Charles L. Emanuel
Emanuel
Columbia
8. C
Tillman
Senate
United States
Jackson
Miss
Stone
Andi Stone
Evans
Secret Service Bureau
Treasury Department
Moseley
Memphis
Tenn
Conan
Northen
Tam Worth
New York
N. Y
South
Jack the Ripper
Africa
Humanity
Kansas
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Franklin Park
N. J
Governoe OF
Gronara
Plates Given Up At Olney Request In Mississippi
Mississippi officials handed over printing plates used for special warrants at Attorney General Olney's request to district attorney Lee for use as evidence in the forthcoming Jackson trial against the St Louis Bank Notes Company. Plates to be returned after the trial.
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Olney
Jackson, Miss
United States Treasury Department
United States District Court
Jackson
Lee
Auditor of Public Accounts
St. Louis Bank Notes Company
Burns
Mississippi
United States
Southern Governor Defends South Against English Critique
Governor Northen defends Southern governance against English meddling over lynching claims. He rebukes the English committee and urges self reliance, accusing outsiders of hypocritical bias and calling for inquiry into broader Northern and international violence while contrasting Southern laws and order.
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Northen
New York World
New York
W. J. Nonrues
Atlanta
Southern Cotton Mills Expand and Resume Operations
New factories rise and extensions proceed across the region. Hoopers Mills at Mount Island North Carolina restart after enlargements. Newton North Carolina mills resume tomorrow after summer additions. Cabarrus Cotton Mills Concord increases capital by 30000 dollars with thirty new looms and 3000 spindles pending new buildings. Oates Hosiery Mill Charlotte expands to double capacity. Canton Georgia to build a new cotton mill and Barnesville Georgia to establish underwear mill with 15000 dollars capital. Anniston Alabama Manufacturing Company resumes full-time production of brown sheets and shirting.
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Hooper’s
Mount Island
N. C
Newton
Cabarrus Cotton Mills
Concord
Oates
Charlotte
N.C
Canton
Barnesville
Anniston
Ala
Poisoned Melons Fatal to Son and Neighbors Near Dykesville
A sensational tragedy in Dykesville Louisiana involved Clinton Thompson who poisoned melons to stop thefts from his crop. His son Felix, neighbor George Bridges's son, and Jacob Muir were found dead. Bridges shot Thompson after learning his father was the killer. The murderer escaped.
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Dykesville
Clinton Thompson
Felix
George Bridges
Jacob Muir
Thompson
Bridges
Rise of Corea Rebels Threatens Fuesan
A London Times special from Shan ghia reports that the entire population of southern Corea has risen against the Japanese. Rebels, many armed, may attack Fuesan as two thousand Japanese troops reach the area, signaling intensifying conflict.
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London Times
Shanghia
Fuesan
Corea
Acquittal in Murder Trial and Multiple World Dispatches
Acquittal of N Henson in Wert murder case. Alabama Press Association adjourns after five days in Montgomery. Rome ministry pick to China named H R Whitehouse. Scotch miners strike ends with wage talks. Chicago defense rests without calling witnesses. Myra Holt Allen Gunn and Lew Bell convicted of first degree murder in Manchester Tennessee. Fire at Wunderlich lumber yard Elmhurst Wisconsin, causing heavy losses. German farmer Bernard Toker shot dead by Frank Morris near Connellsville Pennsylvania in a robbery motive case.
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H. R. Whitehouse
United States
Rome
Italy
China
Edinburgh
Congress
Board of Conciliation
Chicago
American Railway Union
Myra Holt
Allen Gunn
Lew Bell
Manchester
Tenn
Gunn
Bell
LaFayette Dickson
Tullahoma
Wunderligh Brothers
Elm Hurst
Wis
Bernard Toker
Frank Morris
Morris
Toker
Rich Hill
Connellsville
Growth of the South Industrial Report Amid Weekly Progress
The past week shows steady progress in the southern economy. Iron outputs rise while pig iron stocks stay flat and prices remain low. Georgia runs the lone U S cotton tie mill active, building expands across southern cities, and numerous new industries form including an oil mill in Temple Texas and a fire extinguisher firm in New Orleans.
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South
United States
Georgia
Temple
Tex
New Orleans
Capital
Georgia Pebble Phosphate Co
Atlanta
Immigration Aid Association
Eureka Manufacturing Company
Houston
Garrigus Boiler Company
Louisville
Currence Milling Company
Parsons
West Virginia
Tomlin-Harris Machine Company
Cordele
Wellsburg
MceMechien
W. V2
Newport News
DeLand
Fla
Moundsville
W. Va
Titusville
Pla
Abbeville
Little Rock
Ark
Birmingham
Ala
Athens
Cotton Report Shows Decline In National Condition
The September cotton condition report from the Agriculture Department in Washington notes a 5.9 point drop from August, with state averages led by Virginia 100 and Mississippi 85. The fall is blamed on excessive rainfall causing weed growth, fruit development lag, shedding, rotting, and rust across the belt.
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Agricultural Department
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
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Billarp
Willam
North Georgia
Sericatural College
the University
Dahlonega
U. S. Army
Secretary of War
Noard ‘Trustees
Telegraphic News
Auckland
N. Z
Samoa
Curacoa
Buzzard
Asana
Malictoa
Gov. Stone
Yice
Southern
Pence
Laference
Walcott
Cornelius Watson
Samuel Tyzack
Lamont
International Typographical Union
de Cassagnac
M. Paul de Cassagnac
France
Matin
Southern Cotton Mills
Chattanooga
N. Henson
Citizens’ Bank and Trust Company
J. B. Wert
Alabama Press Association
Montgomery
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