Christmas Brings Cheer as Atlanta Aids Poor
Christmas deer is distributed to hundreds of Atlanta's poor by the Atlanta lodge of the Benevolent Association. Children gather around a city firehouse tree and are made happy. Reports note quiet streets and a restrained holiday mood with no arrests for disorder.
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Atlanta
Bika
Lttle
Department of the Gulf
George J. Cannaul
Pope Barrow
Savannah
Qe Adams
Rce
Postalelegraph Company
New York
Robert F Shedden
Mutual Life
Wreck Kills Sixty Eight In Duquesne Limited Disaster
Connellsville Pa December 24 The Duquesne Limited wreck near here leaves sixty eight dead and nine injured with many unidentified foreigners. Morgues guard doors as crowds gather around mortuaries. Robberies surface among victims and valuables vanish while coroner's jury reviews the disaster and investigators probe the gondola car and loaded timber cause.
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Connclisvilg
DuQuesne Limited
Baltimore and Ohio
Here
Connellsville
Packell
Une
Him Grove Cemetery
First National Bank
Arthur Nagen
Fayette County
Connelisible
Nickel Plate Railroad
JF. Irvin
B &O
Irvin
Laula Hilgot
Wood letter defends Bellairs amid Havana rumors
General Leonard Wood in a letter to Dr Horace Fletcher rejects claims that he interfered with Bellairs or favored him. He recalls Bellairs’s Havana service, transfer to the Philippines, and his belief in military government, denying personal ties or political motives and calling rumors unfounded and childish.
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New York
Commercal Advertiser
Leonard Wood
Horace Fletcher
Edgar G. Bellairs
Catro
Havana
Bellairs
China
Philippines
Redlairs
Civ
Taft
Cuba
Sun Man
Deputy Sheriff Kills Man in Powell's Station Standoff
Knoxville Tenn December 24 Deputy Sheriff L R May shot and killed Lee Lewin at Powell's Station in the county at eight o'clock tonight The shooting stems from a long standing grudge dating back several years tied to trouble at a local election polling place.
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Banan
Tenn
Fall Creek Church
James Ings
Rice Ekelt
Uch
Sher
Puckett
Knoxville
L. R May
Lee Lewin
Powell's Station
Tragedy at Kleins Ends Two Lives in Feud
In Kleins on the Southern railway an inquest awaits after Joe Hogg and Ben Jenkins were killed in a school entertainment dispute. Jenkins shot Hogg four times and Hogg then faced a shotgun blast. Hogg died in the night. Jenkins’ family has hired Hon. Duncan Bellinger to attend the inquest.
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Columbia
Kleins
Southern Railway
Joe Hogg
Ben Jenkins
Hogg
Jenkins
Duncan Bellinger
Kieing
Griffin Against Money Sharks in Griffin Georgia
Griffin city council fixed the license charges for all business for the coming year. Alderman Greesham urged refusing all loan office licenses but failed. Instead loans licenses set at 500 dollars with written applications to the council. Seven saloons received licenses at 500 dollars each.
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Griffin
Money Sharks
Councl
Greesham
Allicenses
Plucky steward rescues victims from steam and flames
A damaged report describes a brave steward leaping into a burning car as steam blew from an escape valve. He tore his coat into shreds, plugged the pipe, shut off the steam, and carried injured passengers to safety before collapsing from exhaustion.
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Ward
Colombian election result delayed until February
Special correspondent reports December 6 voting seen as Reyes elected in Colombia, but official result to be known in February. unrest rises in Cauca Antioquia Bolivar with calls for Reyes return to seek peace. government probes constitutional reforms and Panama stance amid placards attacking Roosevelt policy.
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General Reyes
Cauca
Antioquia
Bolivar
Reyes
Marroquin
Colombia
Bogota
Galveston
Beaupre
Washington
Cartegena
Department of Bolivar
Panama
Roosevelt
Fire claims two clerks and a laborer in Birmingham blaze
A December fire on Morris avenue in the Birmingham Grain Company building, caused by a defective flue, trapped Charles Carper and Clarence Stamp on an upper floor while Ransom Turner died in the wreckage. The blaze spread to hay on the third floor, with Hor ntuttler's wholesale house suffering minor damage and total losses pegged at about 15 000 dollars.
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Birmingham
Birmingham Grain Company
Morris Avenue
Charles Carper
Clarence Stamp
Ransom ‘Turner
Fromen
Turner
Wholesale Commission House
H H. Horntuttler
Alliance Reg Gn
Negro killed by sky rocket during Christmas merrymaking
December 24 report from Columbia states Sam Agnew, a about sixteen, was struck by a missile from a sky rocket and killed almost instantly on Main Street while standing on the sidewalk. The accident halted fireworks displays for the night.
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Columbia
Sam Agnew
No Respect for the Dead in Chicago Grand Jury Report
Chicago December 24 grand jury criticizes persons who disturb funeral processions. It targets “irresponsible organizations” creating disorder, desecrating bodies, and evading court subpoenas. Calls for January grand jury inquiry into current conditions.
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Chicago
Grand Jury
Chifford
James W Nye
Beatey Shot From Ambush Near Bartow Florida
Colonel John Beatey, general manager of Green Bay Phosphate, was fired upon while driving to his mines near Bartow. His wife Mrs Beatey sustained serious injuries to the face and breast from multiple shots. Beatey himself escaped unharmed. A negro suspect, captured later, was to be identified by Col Beatey the next morning. posses scoured the woods all day.
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Southern
John Bibb
Birmingham
Union
Clear Creek Falls
Winston County
John Wilson
Sherrif Crear
Walker County
Robert Bennifeld
Gintown
Ala
Joe Wheeler
Congress
Wyam Richardson
Southern Railway
Mississippi
Biitigham
Columbia
John Beatey
Florida
T i
Col. Beatey
Morndog
Colombian Army Invasion Rumors Quieted In Isthmus
Rear Admiral Glass reports no signs of Colombian troop movements after scouts from Boston to Real Santa Maria and Yaviza found the district quiet. Admiral Coghlan notes a trail from San Blas to Colon but no troops seen. General Reyes urges patience as note is prepared for Secretary Hay. Marines for Panama and 150 men land at Colon proceed by rail to Bas Obispo.
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Washington
Glass
Navy Department
Panama
Boston
Real Santa Maria
Yaviza
Atlanta
Coghlan
San Blas
Colon
Reyes
General Reyes
Hay
State Department
Herran
Marroquin
Simpson
Puerto Plata
San Domingo
Charlestown Navy Yard
Readinesa
United States Crass
Prairie
Bas Obiapo Station
Leaken Fells among Thieves at Savannah Post Office
Assistant District Attorney W B Leaken was jostled at the Savannah post office and later missed his traveling money at Central Station on December 24. A letter returned his transportation fare but not the money, with an unsigned Christmas wish.
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Joey Leaken
Savanna
Leaken
Rome
Savannah
W BR. Leaken
Central Station
Macon
Sagennan
Son of Longstreet Impostor Arrested in Boston
Boston police hold a 24 year old who claims to be Harry Weat and the son of General Longstreet. He is accused of stealing rifles and a revolver from naval cadets headquarters and has been posing in cadet uniforms borrowed from a U S naval officer in Charleston. He has been seen at hotel cafes and resorts and has borrowed money widely.
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Boston
Mass
Harry Weat
Nystreet
Naval Cadets Headquarters
Aited States
Charleston
Epg Mill Ry Resorts
Dreyfus Seeks New Trial After Revision Commission Ruling
Paris reports Captain Dreyfus will gain a civilian retrial after a revision commission unanimously ordered reexamination. The case, tied to wartime treason accusations, would move to the criminal branch of the court of cassation with full opportunity for Dreyfus to present new evidence and seek vindication and restoration to his army rank.
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Paris
Dreyfus
Andre
Commission of Revision
Court of Cassation
Drefyus
Revision Commission
Ministry of Justice
Targe
Coqse
Rennes
Drevfus
France
Maribella
Blair
Henry
Wreck at Morris leaves two dead, injuries improving
No further deaths reported from the Louisville and Nashville Railroad head end collision at Morris. The death toll holds at two. All injured are improving, though Mail Clerk W Barro of Clarksville sustains dangerous injuries.
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Birmingham
Ala
Louisville and Nashille
Morris
W Barro
Clarkaville
Macon Telex Manager Sick at Home
Special report from Macon Georgia notes W. H. M Weaver, manager of the Southern Bell Telephone Exchange, is seriously ill at his home 212 Spring street. Weaver, previously resident of Atlanta, had continued working despite a lingering complaint and is expected to be up within ten days.
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Weaver
Macon
W. H. M Weaver
Southern Bell Telephone Exchange
Spring Street
Atlanta
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Robbey
Oglethorpe County
Leo R. Freenan
Richard Wagner
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Oll the
Dreyfus Commission
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Ted
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Japan
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Colonel Tyler
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D. W Hills
Hilgot
Benjamin Nichols
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Clifford Smyth
Carolina City
Beatey
Admiral Glass
United States
Longstreet
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