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Newspaper
Wilson News
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1899
Page
1
A dramatic courtroom scene ends with the audience acclaiming the defense counsel as he stands firm against intense questioning. A sensational moment follows a dynamite box being sent to Labori’s room, provoking a furious prodding of witnesses.
In Rennes Labori presses Mercier over a secret dossier as Dreyfus defends the army. Bombs threaten Labori. Esterhazy and Picquart clash, Gonse denies malfeasance. Separately, Ocracoke Island is wrecked with 33 houses and two churches destroyed and two dead after a gale.
In Beaufort North Carolina August 22 during a Friday storm sixteen fishermen camping on Swan Island near the Neuse mouth fled to small boats as the island overflowed. All boats except one capsized and fourteen men drowned leaving families in Cartaret county. Reports say the schooner Mystery captained by David Jones with a crew of three was lost off Harbor Island with the captain and crew drowned and the vessel a total loss of its salt cargo.
London reports the Transvaal government’s reply unsatisfactory and Chamberlain has drafted an ultimatum to Kruger demanding immediate action on the franchise grievance. It warns that noncompliance will trigger war.
Paris reports an infantry detachment attacking Guerin's house with cavalry driving crowds away. Censorship of press prevents fuller dispatches from the scene.
Filipino forces in Cavite province show continued fighting spirit. Rebels reportedly moved through Manila lines with food and goods, with five thousand crossing into rebel areas in three days and forty five tons of rice taken in ten days. American withdrawals left areas half cleared.
Raleigh August 23 A marriage in Wake county between Smith and Pope triggered a brutal sequence. Pope beat his daughter in law after the ceremony, fought Smith with a knife, and later beat his bride, tying her to a tree. Officers pursued Pope who fired on them. he surrendered in Raleigh. He faces multiple charges.
In Etowah county Alabama Sallie Ward and Joseph Ward were killed in a family fight. Joseph had just finished a penitentiary term and killed Sallie with a churn striking her in the head. John Ward attempted to intervene and the three dragged into a road duel. Joseph was shot dead and John is badly wounded.
A New York Central wreck near Syracuse results in a long train piled up with the engineer and fireman badly injured. Section foreman Long remains under the engine as several brakemen suffer severe injuries in one of the era’s most severe freshet caused wrecks.
The Department of Justice has received further complaints of whipping of Federal prisoners at the North Carolina penitentiary. Previous complaints led to an order to stop sending convicts there, with renewed concerns possibly prompting removal. The Treasury reports NC has been paid about $13,000 for wartime troop equipment.
Reports from southern Russia say a rumor of the world’s approaching end has caused panic among the uneducated. Workmen flee Kharkov in large numbers to spend their last days in villages. factory owners urge police to halt emigration to protect business.
The bodies of Josephine Engel and John Landower were found in a Harlem vacant lot with bullet wounds to the heart. Landower was 35, Engel 15. They shared a home. he was married, she single, and they had eloped.
In Hilversum the mob stoned troops, cavalry charged with drawn swords, and infantry fired on rioters, killing one and wounding two. Quiet was restored about midnight as disturbances continued into the night.
Thomas Vance Holt of Smithfield North Carolina sues the Southern Railway for 60000 alleging negligence after his leg was crushed when a hand hold gave way as he descended from a rear car and the train passed over him. The injury occurred about a year ago while in the railway’s employ. The complaint was filed August 22 in the local court.
The Dewey Committee adopted a resolution requesting Admiral Dewey to arrive in New York on September 28 instead of the 29th.
In London and Cape Town reports on August 23 indicate volunteers from many regiments volunteer for service in the Cape amid looming Transvaal conflict. Mafeking’s horse regiment mobilizes fast with hundreds of recruits joining Vivian’s camp. A Boer league of about three hundred is said to form on the border. A Birmingham firm detains an order for fourteen million Mauser cartridges for delivery to South Africa with secrecy on the destination.
In Urbana Ohio on August 23 the coroner held an inquest into the death of two negro thieves shot by a policeman ten miles south of the city. Key had stolen harness from Mayor Johnson and was pursued by the officer who engaged the thieves after they fired. The officer fled and returned with better aim.
In Englewood New Jersey on August 23 caretaker Peterson of the Creighton and Farrar Boarding School shot and killed a burglar after a fierce struggle. The burglar dropped his belongings and attacked Peterson with a pair of skates before being subdued.
London and Brussels banks report large inflows of money and stocks on French account as concerns about revolution rise. The deposits strengthen financial positions in both cities amid a shifting European scene.
It is reported that J B Fortune clerk of the United States District Court at Raleigh has been requested to resign by Judge Purnell and that Geo Green of the United States Court at New Bern will get the job which pays 3500 a year and that Green may also be made circuit clerk which pays 1000 more Senator Pritchard had Fortune put in but Purnell has never been satisfied.
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