Bryan is Emory graduate chosen U S senator
Jacksonville Fla December 25 Governor Broward appointed William James Bryan of this city to the United States Senate to succeed the deceased Stephen R Mallory for the term ending March 4 1909. Bryan 31 a prominent attorney and county solicitor for Duval County educated at Emory College born October 1876 in Orange County Florida son of John M Bryan longtime state political figure. He studied at Emory in Georgia and earned BA in 1898 then law degrees in Washington and See. He began practice in Jacksonville and since 1902 has been county solicitor of the criminal court of record of Duval County. Active in Democratic politics, he is a member of the law firm Bryan and partner. He is connected with state educational boards and committees and announced his candidacy for the Senate two months ago.
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Bryan
Royal Schools
Emory College
Oxford
Washington and See University
Jacksonville
Criminal Court of Record
Davan
Offic
An ’ Bryan
Bitur
Nathan F. Bryan
State Educational Board of Control
Democratic State Executive Committee
Duncan A. Fietcher
United States
Mallory
Bold Pawnbroker Robbery Stuns Macon Police
In Macon Georgia during the holidays a bold burglary struck the McCrea pawnbroker shop. A thief gained entry through a front window breaking double glass and escaped with over 300 in pistols watches clothing and shoes. No arrests or traces were found, and investigators expect multiple persons may be implicated.
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Macon
Sam Wescott
McCrea
Old Citizen Seeks Wife in Bullock County
Samuel Jackson Ming, a Bullock County elder from Indian Creek, appeals in the Bullock County Breeze for a wife. At 75 or 80, he promises a life without chores as long as he can care for a companion, open to widow, old maid, or young girl, rich or poor, in Union Springs.
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Union Springs
Ala
Samuel Jackson Ming
Bullock County
Indian Creek
He Wanted Red Stockings Arrest Reveals Postal Clerk Theft
New York December 25 Edward Donlan a postal substation clerk at the Grand Central hotel will spend Christmas in jail before bail. Postal inspectors accuse him of stealing mail readdressing several packages to a young New York woman. They say he confessed to readdressing a package containing a pair of brilliant red stockings.
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New York
Edward Donlan
Grand Central Hotel
Game One
Donlan
Contet
Dehian
Red Christmas tragedy in Tennessee sparks murders and suicides
In Philadelphia a man Georgy A. Green 38 fatally wounds Miss Edith Wonderly 22 then shoots himself with both in hospital doctors hope for Wonderly life. Green separated from his wife and wrote a letter blaming her mother affinity for denying love. Northern city district witnessed the shooting and failed statements from the wounded pair. In Tennessee multiple Christmas week killings report across Newport Del Rio Strahl Isabella and Harris with jealous husbands, drunken confrontations and a post office shooting.
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Philadelphia
Georgy A. Green
Edith Wonderly
Agai
Green
Miss Wonderly
Water board must go after Ashokan dam ruling
New York December 7. Investigations into the Ashokan dam contract lead to potential removal of the city water board by Mayor McClellan unless resignations occur. The accounts commission faults the awards to MacArthur Brothers Co. over John Pierce Co. amid waste charges and an inquiry is ordered. Dutch cabinet resigns amid army budget defeat in The Hague. General Charles S. Smith to be retired from the U.S. Army.
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New York
Commissioners of Accounts
Board of Water Commissioners
McClellan
John P. Mitchell
Philip B. Gaynor
Edward Simmons
Charles N. Chadwick
Realgne
the Hague
Council of Ministers
Ning
Iakely
Lack of Turkey Causes Murder in Pottsville
Pottsville Pa December 25 Stanilus Coteash boarding house boss was shot and killed after a quarrel with Frank Cashmore a boarder over a missing Christmas turkey. Cashmore fled upstairs and returned with a gun, shooting Coteash as he mounted the stairs. Cashmore surrendered to police.
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Pottsville
Stanilus Coteash
Frank
Cashmore
Coteash
Firemen Honor Former Macon Fire Chief With Gold Watch
In Macon on Christmas night former Fire Chief L. M. Jones was surprised by the fire department when Attorney R. Douglass Feagan presented a costly gold watch as a token of respect and esteem. Jones, a caller at headquarters, expressed touching remarks as he accepted the gift.
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Macon
L. M. Jones
Jones
R. Douglass Feagan
Man Leaps From Train Near Cumberland
An unidentified deranged man about 45, likely foreign, jumped from a Baltimore and Ohio train ten miles from Cumberland. Ground to pieces, head missing, body found. ticket shows Chicago to Philadelphia.
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Cumberland
Baltimore and Ohio
Chicago
Philadelphia
Tried to Kill His Own Father in Georgia
Flowery Branch Ga December 26 Special Lew Hawkins son of Hon D Hawkins of Flowery Branch is in jail at Gainesville jailed by Sheriff W A Crow on four warrants including a charge of attempting to murder his own father W W D Hawkins a prominent local business man and former state legislator was a livery stable proprietor here and two years ago ran in the Democratic primary for sheriff It is believed he may be held for slander or related charges in this case
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Flowery Branch
Lew Hawkins
Hon
D. Hawkins
Jal
Gainesville
W. A. Crow
Hall County
Macguit
Mumier
W.W. D. Hewkina
T. E. Young
John Watts
Ole Watts
W. J. Little
Wetta
Meyers
Father shoots wife at Christmas dinner in Hyde Park
Dr Walter R Amesbury of Milford killed his wife Anna during Christmas dinner at 220 Metropolitan Ave Hyde Park Massachusetts. Police say he fired two shots in her right side and claimed the act was accidental. The couple’s sons Ira and Walter Jr helped subdue him until officers arrived. Dr Amesbury formerly a British Army surgeon aged 43.
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Masa
Walter R. Amesbury
Milford
Amy
Anna
Roanoke College
Danville
Jennie Rees
Walter R. Amesbury, Jr
Ira Amesbury
Rees
Dr. Amesbury
Amesbury
Beatoke College
Armiesbury
Hel
Jamaica
Boy shoots neighbor while target shooting in Georgia
In Oxford Georgia on December 25 a 12 year old, Lia Williams, son of merchant W C Williams, accidentally shot Claud Dial, 10, son of planter B D Dial, while aiming at a target with a portor rifle. The bullet pierced the left arm but is not expected to be serious.
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Oxford
Lia Willams
W. C. Williams
Claud Dial
B.D. Dial
Man Dies Escaping Christmas Gifts in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh, Jackson Stilley, 58, a longtime West Elizabeth resident, slipped while trying to hide presents from younger family members. He fell down a stairway late Christmas night and broke his neck, authorities report.
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Fittsburg
Jackson Stilley
Weat Elizabeth, Néer
Brooks Shot by Cunningham in Lexington Georgia
Ex sheriff George W Cunningham shot George W Brooks in the back and head in Lexington Georgia on December 26. Brooks was seriously wounded while Cunningham was badly hurt. Both men were prominent citizens and several shots were fired during the incident.
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Géo. Broo
Lexington
George W. Gunningham
George W. Brooks
Cunningham
Brooks
Ty Cunningham
Rice
Burned to death before mother in Wilkes County tragedy
Mrs. Lucy Marshall from Washington Georgia dies in a kitchen fire while burning a clogged chimney. Her mother, aged 84, witnesses the horror as the blaze engulfs her daughter. Interment held at Ebenezer church. Survived by her mother and four brothers.
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Washington, Ga
Washington
Lucy Marshall
Anna
Marshall
Wes
Christmas Festivities End in Wreck and Death
Baton Rouge on Christmas day reports one man burned to death and three shot with one fatally injured as a Yazoo Mississippi Valley freight wreck occurs. Officer Dan Flynn says the shooting was accidental. injuries are not life threatening. Victim Charles Emo of Carbondale Illinois dies after being crushed between two railroad cars. A young negro girl, Vernie Dorsey, perishes when her dress catches fire.
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Baton Rouge
Gilbert Lockwood
Michael Pollard
Fred Kauffman
Dan Flynn
Charles Emo
Carbondale
Carbondale, II
Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley Railroad
Vernie Dorsey
Two Killed in Christmas Day Violence at Savannah
Christmas in Savannah Georgia saw two killings one by a white man and another by a black man. W J Nixon killed Joe Bryan after insults about white women sparked the clash. The day remained holiday with varied drunkenness and saloons open. In Rome Georgia a negro was bitten by a tarantula while handling bananas at an Italian restaurant worker's supply. the wound was cauterized. National Wool Growers convenes in Helena Montana January 4 16 and 18 with up to 2000 attendees and a concurrent sheep show featuring leading industry exhibitors.
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Savannah
Christman
Thia
W. J. Nixon
Joe Bryan
Rome
John Jones
E. Florence
Helena
Mont
National Wool Growers’ Association
Shot in buggy with officer slain in Georgia
Waycross Ga December 28 Will Waddell colored was shot and killed today while in custody of Deputy Sheriff C E Cason en route to the city on a charge of aiding fired the shot that killed Wallace Dyall yesterday Dyall after falling drew his revolver and fired at the negroes two were killed by his shots Waddell rode in a buggy with the officer Day broke as Cason observed a rear attack from behind the buggy the brains of the negro splashed upon the officer
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Will ‘Waddell
C.E. Cason
Wallace Dyall
Dyall
Fred
Waddell
Caron
Gring
Alever
Crisp farmer killed by son at Crisp Farm
Cordele Georgia December 5 Suecdl Duncan Bheffield extiinent ferrier was shot and killed by his son at their home southwest of here the son had been drinking and the tragedy follows a Christmas party incident near here in which both were intoxicated and an additional shooting wounded Washington Polley age 30 in Morgan Higher district
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Cordele, Ga
Duncan Bheffield
Ferrier
Thair Homer
Mike
Annmarie Eeste
Chrisiauin Frolie
Bergent, Hy
Morgan Higher
Washington Polley
Thaw's Christmas gifts in Tombs home sentence
Refers to Thaw in the Tombs giving gifts to inmates including cigars for keepers and handkerchiefs for matrons and prisoners. Also notes Macon Georgia Christmas scenes with patrol counts and a cattle shipwreck near New York, plus a dying East Macon resident, George Byrd.
Roosevelt sustains doctor to command hospital ship
Washington December 26 President Roosevelt supports Surgeon General Presley M. Rixey in a controversy over the navy medical bureau and the assignment of a medical officer to command a hospital ship. Rixey argues hospital ships should be medical command, not sailing masters, and cites a long-standing practice and the Army navy board’s recommendation. Admiral Brownson resigns after protests, turning duties to Captain Winslow, with Brownson declining to comment.
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Bureau of Medicine of the Navy
Presley M. Rixey
Navy
Willard H. Brownson
Bureau of Navigation
Admiral Brownson
Rixey
Tita
Army
Tha
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Geneva
Hague
Hne
Russia
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Magdalena Bay
Brownson
Bureau of Medicine
Stfaira
McR
Winslow
Acci
Weather forecast across states for Thursday and Friday
The forecast covers multiple states with fair conditions in Georgia Virginia North Carolina and Eastern Florida. West Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana expect increasing cloudiness and southeast to south winds. Texas Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky West Virginia show fair weather with some showers and colder or warmer periods in limited areas.
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Georgia
Virginia
North Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
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