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Newspaper
Wilson News
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1899
Page
3
The article notes Mayer Van Wyck to be welcomed by officers in New York on September 23. A parade is planned with Mayor Wyck traveling by bay at seven o'clock Friday morning. The G A R is unlikely to participate in the land parade per committee assignments.
During noon recess at the Flenner School in West Kansas a playhouse of rails and straw was ignited with a match. Six children died and two were severely burned, with uncertain chances of survival.
Mrs Harris Chenery wife of a wealthy Larchmont man leaped from the fourth story of the Majestic Hotel in New York while under treatment for a nervous condition. She eluded her nurse and was killed.
London police report the ring leader of a bank highwaymen gang that robbed a messenger of sixty thousand dollars on September 12 has been arrested. The bank messenger was subdued by a thief wearing a uniform similar to police attire.
The Austrian cabinet resigned on Saturday as officials weigh if the emperor will appoint a new ministry. Language ordinances to be repealed regardless of which party takes power. In Harrisburg, the Twenty-eighth regiment sails for the Philippines from Philadelphia's docks.
There is no information from the naval expedition to Subig Bay. The Filipinos have not surrendered the American prisoners nor sent an officer to meet Oris as promised. Rebel officers who conferred with MacArthur have not been heard from since returning to their lines.
Coroner's jury finds Miss Julia Morrison premiditated the killing of Frank Leiden during a stage performance of Mr Plaster of Paris. Leiden, stage manager and lead, shot on stage. Morrison’s husband James of St Louis arrested for instigating the shooting amid a crowd at the jail.
Condensed timetable for the Southern Railway serving Charlotte to Atlanta Washington New Orleans and other points. Lists through Pullman sleepers dining cars and connections at Greensboro Spartanburg Salisbury Statesville and Greensboro with multiple No. trains 8 11 12 16 35 37 38 and 62. Includes freight rider service and station agents Frank S Cannon and John M Culp with travel offices in Washington and Atlanta.
The Kearsarge left its anchorage and crossed the starting line at 10 30 AM for the official trial in Boston.
Berlin dispatch reports growing discontent in Samoa as Samoans complain of deception. Three governments are urged to act quickly to prevent another outbreak.
Miss Tolazel Gidney of New York, who came to condole with the family of Miss Harper, died in a fire started by an overturned lamp at her hosts' home in Fishkill Landing early this morning.
Opparto September 25 reports four fresh plague cases bringing the total to 74 since the outbreak began, with thirty deaths among the cases.
A vintage advertisement urges readers to stem sluggish health with Parker's Sarsaparilla the king of blood purifiers. It promises improved appetite liver function and life giving elements in the blood and claims it builds strength. Sold by B W Hargrave.
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