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Newspaper
Wilson News
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1899
Page
8
Four masked robbers stopped the North Western mail near Chicago, seizing the operator in the tower and taking twenty five thousand dollars in cash after dropping a great load of dynamite. The gang fled by Bryan Tuesday as investigators scramble for clues.
Schedule listing for lines from Rocky Mount to Tarboro Washington and other hubs, with daily and Sunday exceptions, station stops, and returning times. Includes connections via Goldsboro Richmond lines, and notes on branches to Scotland Neck Parmele Plymouth Clinton Warsaw and Wet Points. Mentions Emerson as General Pass Agent and Meson as Traffic Manager.
Reports from The Hague confirm four thousand dead and hundreds injured on the island of Ceram in the Molucas after a massive earthquake. The disaster devastates Avachia and the southern coast, with tremors felt in Santa Rosa and Petaluma as the region reels from aftershocks.
The October list names top students in Mathematics Science English Latin Greek Bible History and more with notable finishes. A candy pulling social event highlighted by festive decor followed by a Guilford College visit and a 6 to 5 loss to Guilford in football. Next Saturday Bingham faces Horner School at home.
Paris dispatch reports Col Schneider, former military attaché to Austria Hungary, wounded in the side while being moved to a train after a duel with Capt Cuignet. Schneider said he returned from Switzerland and dueled over evidence in the Dreyfus case.
Advices from Petare report a people uprising against President Andrade. The government commander betrayed the president and will let the revolutionary army march on Caracas without battle. Andrade likely to retire to Maracaibo or Puerto Cabello. Tucacas has fallen to rebels.
An 19th century patent medicine advertisement claims Parker's Sarsaparilla cures headaches and sluggish bodies. It touts improved appetite, liver strength, blood purification, and overall vitality, calling it the blood maker and flesh builder. Sold by B. W. Hargrave.
Relief in six hours from distressing kidney and bladder disease by New Great South American Kidney Cure. It relieves bladder, kidney and back pain for men and women and curbs water retention almost instantly. Sold by E. F. Nadal, Druggist, Wilson, N.
Dispatches from Iloilo report rising anger as Tagalos hold Visayan leader Arnetta prisoner. Visayans threaten rebellion while Tagalos mass troops at Panay to quell uprisings amid tensions across the region. An advertisement notes Hart's Essence of Ginger for relief from colic cramps and diarrhea.
A Bucharest dispatch reports the Ottoman Sultan ordered several harem women drowned in the Bosphorus for involvement with the Young Turkish Party. The event is linked to political turmoil in Istanbul during October.
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