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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1881
Page
2
Gov Berrien denies spoon theft as columbus miss Baptist convention gathers in Raleigh. Officers and clergy plan meetings. A rail contract shifts from Wolf Creek to Paint Rock. Chicago election exposes a city ring amid national party clashes, with Mahone tangled between Conkling and Garfield.
In a heated Tar contest over municipal powers on Prohibition and anti Prohibition, Capt F S DeWolfe won as Prohibition candidate for mayor. A Senate speech by Dawes of Massachusetts described Northern persecutions in the South, including a Mississippian overseer fleeing to save his life after gin houses burned and workers maltreated. A grand jury investigation questioned the land ownership and the insured gin house, suggesting motives behind the incident.
A Augusta Ga dispatch reports Col J B Barbour president of the Virginia Midland Railroad Company J T Morehead vice president of the North Carolina Midland Railroad Company and Mr Cowan attorney of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company attended a conference with President Verdory of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad Mayor May and other leaders. They inspected the line and expressed satisfaction. The route will extend to Greenwood South Carolina fifty miles from Augusta and Genes to Spartanburg. Barbour and Cowan say the Virginia Midland backed by the B&O will connect with the Augusta and Knoxville at Spartanburg. This would create an independent east route from Augusta and a west route through Hendersonville Nashville to Knoxville.
The New York Herald argues investigations abroad could expose a Hayes era tainted by corruption across departments. It cites War Office, Interior, State, and especially the Post Office star route, amid calls for accountability and reform.
The text outlines increased post office route allowances, flagging ninety three routes mostly in the West and Southwest with profits suggesting corruption. It also summarizes the Prohibition Convention in Raleigh with officers, suggested business items, and theCentral executive committee’s resolutions, plus Cowpens centennial planning and notable attendees. The immigrant influx is noted with current totals and steamer delays.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue ruled in a fifth district of North Carolina case that funds in government custody belonging to a citizen cannot be levied or attached via state court proceedings. A depositor sought a compromise with the department, which declined. a state court mandate then blocked delivery. The department ordered the return of the draft, to be restored to the depositor, reflecting a good faith obligation to return money deposited under those terms.
Wasamexon April 17. Commissioner Raum of the Internal Revenue Bureau issued instructions reducing compensation for storekeepers and gaugers at small distilleries with daily capacity not exceeding twenty bushels from four to three dollars per day. The pay changes take effect May 1.
A Pittsburgh physician’s jest about Hop Bitters backfires when a patient uses it and recovers, while Missouri river floods cause about 2.5 million dollars in property losses from Sioux City to St. Louis, including Omaha, Council Bluffs and Kansas City.
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