Desperado Cribb Wounded After Nichols Riot Shootout
Waycross Ga December 6 Special town Marshal White Holton and a small boy were killed and Lee Cribb badly wounded in a riot at Nicholls. Cribb fired at passersby and depot workers, smashing the Atlantic and Birmingham depot a bystander later shot him in the head with buckshot. Cribb survived his wound and was jailed in Douglas. Local fear of further trouble grows as relatives gather and tense scenes unfold.
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Waycross
White Holton
Esperado
Lee Cribb
Nicholls
Atlantic and
Birmingham
Lea Cribb
Cribb
Atlantic
RL. Ferguson
J. GO. Hart
Douglas
Crbb
Frimk
Read dies in Washington former House speaker Read
Thomas Brackett Read former speaker of the House of Representatives died at 12 10 AM in his Arlington hotel apartments Washington His death followed a severe illness with Brights disease and kidney failure. Mrs Reed and Miss Catherine Reed were at his bedside along with doctors and nurses. Funeral plans were not yet set. Read, born 1838 in Portland Maine, had a long career in Maine politics and national service, including as attorney general and later the House speaker from the forty-ninth to fifty-first Congresses.
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Washington
Thomas Brackett Read
House of Representatives
Arlington Hotel
Reed
Mr. Reed
United States Supreme Court
Capitol
Congress
Gardner
Stnte
I. L. McDonald
Philadelphia
Bulletina
Thomas Brackett Reed
Portland
Bowdoin
United States Navy
Sybil
Tennessee
Cumberland
Mississippi
United States
South
Judiciary Committee
Mir. Burger
Warner
Warner ’S Safe Cure Co
Rochester
Ben Franks of Adairsville Dies of Pneumonia
Ben IL Franks of Adairsville Ga dies at home from pneumonia. He leaves a wife and three children. The remains will be carried to Lavonia for burial. He was the father of C M Franks of our city.
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Ben IL. Franks
Adairsville
Jen L. Franks
Lavonia
C. M. Franks
Our City
Reed, House Leader, Remembered by Mark Twain Era
The obituary recalls James G. Reed a long Speaker who faced factional battles, earned the nickname czar, and later practiced law in New York. Mark Twain expressed sorrow at Reed’s death noting his noble character and impact on American politics and letters. Also mentions Kitty wreck report near Port Simon and Bocas del Toro.
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Kitty
Mobile
Ala
Mortensen
Port Simon
Rollender Reef
Bocas del ‘Oro
Young Reid As A Florist Opens In New York
In New York on December 6 Gnecall Whitelaw Held Jr and young Havemeyer launch The Rosemary Roseries Inc a florist business at 609 Fifth Avenue opposite Russell Sage residence. Quintard Meyer presides with Horace S Gould secretary and directors Percy Schenct and Joseph W Sidenberg Jr. The venture aims to be a serious ongoing enterprise not a novelty.
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New York
Gnecall— Whitelaw Held, Jr
France
Young “Havey" Havemeyer
Brown’ Drode
Fifth Avenue
Russell Bage
Rosemary Roseries, (Inc
Young Havemeyer and Reid
Quintard Meyer
Horace S. Gould
Percy Schenct
Joseph W. Sidenberg, Jr
Mr. Havemeyer
Society
Rosemary Roserles
Russell Sage
Noserare Osemary Roseries (Inc
Barrett Sure of the Place Nominates Barrett to Minister to Tapan
President Roosevelt authorized the nomination of John Barrett of Oregon as United States minister to Tapan to fill the vacancy after the death of Minister Alfred E Buck. In Macon Georgia Paul Offman from Baldwin county collided with a Macon Railway and Light Company car on Fourth Street near Plum Street. He suffered a bruised face and a cut on the neck. injuries not considered dangerous.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John Barrett
Oregon
United States
Tapan
Alfred E. Buck
Offman
Baldwin County
Macon
Paul Oifman
Macon Railway and Light Company
Fourth Street
Plum Street
Murder Shrouded in Mystery Near Birmingham Home
Coroner W D Paris of Jefferson county ruled Mrs Ann Hamner died from foul play after being found unconscious on a sidewalk outside her home. She was hospitalised and fed in a suspicious manner, with death attributed to a blow to the head and a possible fall from a window. Investigators found she was not in the house and was returning from her sister's residence when attacked. The case remains unsolved.
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Birmingham
Ala
W. D. Paris
Jefferson County
Ann Hamner
Mamner
Himner
California Dan Ryan Executed by Yaquis in Mexico
In Sonora at Torin on November 23, California Dan Ryan chief scout under General Torres was captured with George W. Wilson. Ryan was tried and killed by Yaquis, feet cut with dull saws while Wilson was spared. Ryan collapsed after being forced to walk beyond entrenchments, then the body was hung from a tree. Wilson was released to bury him.
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Wilson
Torres
Satilla River Reaches High Water In Waycross
Waycross Georgia reports Satilla River cresting at daylight after an eighteen hour high. Bridges two miles from Waycross remain safe but timber logs threaten. Atlantic and Birmingham Railway replaces the Watertown bridge, tracks washed out near Watertown with five to six feet of water. Mall deliveries continue between Waycross and Nicholls with no passenger service until washouts are repaired. Boats are used to transfer mail as work crews stay deployed, trains expected to run again next Thursday.
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Waycross
Satilla
Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad
Watertown
Atlantic and
Birmingham E
Pierce County
Hatilia
Nicholls
Matia
Bonnymean
Atlantic
Birndhgham
Alderman Elected in Newnan Georgia
Four aldermen and four city school board members were elected without opposition in Newnan. Aldermen: W J Diskin, Joseph T Kirby, M Salbride, W Askew. School board members: J Goodrum, J W Murrey, G B Bass, L M Farmer.
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Newnan
City School Board
W. J. Diskin
Toseph T. Kirby
M. Salbride
W. Askew
J. ¥. Goodrum
W. Murrey
G. B. Bass
L. M. Farmer
Littlefield Anti-Trust Bill Hearing Opens in House
Washington December 6 representa tive Littlefield s subcommittee of the judiciary committee holding its first meeting on anti trust legislation. General discussion followed. All new and pending bills will be referred to this subcommittee while the question is before the committee.
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Littlefield
Washington
Littlefeld
Judiciary Committee
House
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Grae
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Georgia
Hind
North American Review
Alaska
St. Louis
Cleveland
Beiford
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens
Riverdale
the Hudson
Associated Press
Clemens
Mr. Clemens
Jane
Young Reid
Havemeyer
Barrett
Atlanta Constitution
Mr. D G. Burger
Hudson
Quebec
Mr. Burger
Warer
Warner's
Safe Cure Company
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Satilla River
Edison Phonographs
Mous Agegres
Goren
Figo Soucha
Bat
Saratagae A Ee Ther Ay Co
Broad Se
Oldsmobile
Illustrated Bock
Olds Motor Works
Detroit
Mich
Atlanta
H. Johnson
Forsyth St
All Grocers
N. Forsyth St
OGS
Ares
Epee
Ay Wesehitchell Street
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