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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1899
Page
7
A report on the August hurricane devastates Porto Rico, with vast agricultural and infrastructure losses. Analysts estimate up to seventy five million pesos in damage, while Americans provide relief. Soldiers rescue, rationing begins, and survivors endure widespread destruction to homes crops and transport networks.
After two days of speech making in St Louis governors and attorneys general adopted resolutions outlining necessary legislation to curb trusts and combines. The committee reported that capital should not be crushed but regulated and that government action can curtail what is seen as a growing evil. Resolutions praised Governor Say ers and noted a broader, nonpartisan objective to protect labor and national interests. Miners in Sebastian County Arkansas face a reign of terror amid ongoing strikes.
The Chicago firm Barrett Fornum & Co a wealthy board of trade concern failed on Thursday after selling short for seven days hoping wheat would rebound. The shortage is estimated between four and five million bushels of the December option amid the New York panic.
In Fayetteville Georgia Kerlin on trial for murder declares innocence in court on Thursday detailing his movements around April 13 to 18. He says he used his father's buggy to visit his son in law Linsey Butler, then bought cows and avoided the river route, mentioning threats of lynching and seeking advice to leave the community. The defense offers no witnesses, relying on alleged weaknesses in the state case.
A letter from former Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh to the Associated Press refutes rumors in Carter’s defense case. He states no retainers or contingent payments were ever agreed or paid, calling the claims “sheer and absolute falsehoods.” The missives address misstatements spread while MacVeagh was abroad.
Indiana Governor James A Mount asserts Major General John R Brooke alone caused extensive sickness at Chickamauga Park last summer while troops were encamped there He blames Brooke for failing to protect his men and says Tennessee and Georgia were unfairly blamed for conditions while trying to remedy them under military authority.
The Nebraska Republican state convention in Omaha was a harmonious gathering. M. B. Rease of Lincoln was nominated for supreme judge, with 8. G. McGilton of Omaha and William B. Bly of Ainaworth chosen as regents on the first ballot. The platform endorses President McKinley and his foreign policy, supports the gold standard, and opposes trusts aiming to stifle competition or fix prices.
A Baltimore dispatch reports Republican tensions in Maryland as Governor Lowndes, seeking reelection, calls for United States Senator George S Wellington to resign as chairman of the state central committee. Wellington is understood to comply immediately.
A Denver dispatch reports six passengers killed and five injured in a collision between the Phillips Judson excursion train from the east and the east bound fast freight on the Denver and Rio Grande near Reno siding Florence Colorado Saturday evening. The excursion had originated in Chicago and was handed to the D and RG at 2 p.m.
John M. Scoville, postmaster at Worth Georgia, was carried by United States Deputy Marshal George White to answer to a charge of embezzlement of post office funds. Postoffice Inspector Puller, on a routine inspection, found no prior indication of wrongdoing.
Fragmented OCR notes discuss diamonds and carbon used in drills from Bahia Brazil with travel by boat rail and mule to Sierra Lavras Diamantinas. Mentions Supreme Court decisions, Tyner remedies, and a reference to New York debt figures.
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