Noted Georgia Physician Fatally Shot. Coroners Hear Details
Reports state Dr. Stafford of Spring Place was shot five times by an unknown assailant who refused to name the culprit. Other items note legal cases in Chatham and New Hanover, a murder verdict against Ben Dickerson, a shooting death in Banks, and various regional notices. Political and economic briefs cover bids for a federal building in Athens, the Iroquois theater inquiry, and shipyard market movements.
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Worgia
Stafford
Spring Place
Northwest
Wiliam Hamson
Macon
Chatham County
Ben Dickerson
Ysterday
John Sorrenz
Banks County
Slater
Turner
Covington
Shell- Qutt Bros
Walnut Grove
Lizzie
Shells Raining on San Domingo
Rebels occupy San Domingo town as General Seybo joins the movement. Minister of War Cabrera dies from a wound sustained at Los Lianos, where fierce fighting continues. Siege tightens, prices rise, and the poor suffer. further details are scarce.
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San Domingo
San Pedro Macois
Seybo
Cabrera
Los Lianos
Debates on Panama Canal and Crum Wood Appointments
Senate discussions center on appointment questions for W D Crum as Charleston collector and Brigadier General Wood as an army officer. It covers a Panama resolution, Tillman and Morgan remarks, a push for full correspondence, and bills enacted including Confederate graves marking, a John Paul Jones monument, and Brunswick light ship construction.
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Washington
Isthman Canal
Moraan
W. 'D. Crum
Charleston
D. C
Br. Till
Tillman
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Hale
Collector Crum
the Treasury
Treasury
Shaw
Crum
S. C
Bond
Aldrich
John Paul Jones
Coorge
Alabama
Brunswick
Greatest Mining Tragedy in Years Deepens Pennsylvania Toll
Pittsburgh miners face a catastrophic explosion at the Hardwick mine of Allegheny Coal Company. Rescue efforts faltered as water, afterdamp, and ice hindered recovery. 180 to 190 men feared dead. Selwyn Taylor and a rescue team struggle below as hopes fade. Adolph Gunla is alive but semi conscious.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Selwyn Taylor
Ams
W. B. McCullough
Cheswick
Hardwick
Allegheny Coal Company
Cheawick
Cage
Adolph Gunla
Uttle
Onti
Selwyn M. Taylor
Taylor
Avall
Thomas Wood
Cunningham
Jack
Death Strikes From the Rear on Burlington Line
At Garden Creek on the Burlington main line a Denver Express rear collision with a local passenger train killed three people and injured seven, with four seriously. The bridge, two local cars, and the local engine burned. the sleeper aboard the Denver Express was badly damaged but intact. A Missouri Kansas and Texas train bore the dead and injured, but delays and missing names hindered immediate details.
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St. Louia
Denver Express
Burlington Road
Garden Creek
Here
Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Road
Union Station
Charles
Denver
Redskin War Echoes Across Cherokee Nation
Full blood Cherokees threaten war against white settlers in Texanna County. Keetoowah band opposed allotment, fleeing Poor Man's Gap to Greenleaf mountains. Snakes gather at Flat Rock, report of cattle theft and officers’ intimidation. Runners ferry messages between factions amid fear of further violence. The 1896 uprising is recalled as context.
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Musgokee
Ind. T
Fom Texanna
Keetoowah
Poormans Gap
Greenleaf Mountains
Flat Rock
Wife's Affection Suit Says $100000 Damages
New York January 25 F Holloway Coe of 668 Fifth avenue arrested on an order by Justice Gildersleeve in a case brought by Charles W Bailey vice president of Bailey Banks and Biddle Philadelphia to recover 100000 damages for alienation of Mrs Bailey s affections Bail set at 26000 He alleges a conspiracy with others to claim he was an unfaithful husband Mrs Bailey married November 8 1900 has lived with her mother at the Fifth Avenue house She was widowed prior to marriage and lost a leg in a shooting accident in the Adirondacks The defendant is Mrs Bailey s brother and Hailey accuses him of alienating her affections The suit is the third filed by Bailey including a previous action for slander and another for alienating Mrs Bailey s affections dropped later
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New York
F. Holloway Coe
Fifth Avenue
Six Others Implicated by Verdict in Iroquois Fire
Chicago January 28 The Iroquois theater fire coroner jury found six men to await grand jury action. Carter H Harrison mayor William J Davis theater official George Williams building commissioner Edward Laughlin building inspector James E Cummings stage carpenter William McMullen light operator. Warranted arrests issued. mayor, fire marshal, and building commissioner later not jailed that night. Verdict cites building ordinance violations fire safety failures and inadequate asbestos curtain.
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Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
William J. Davis
George Williams
Edward Laughlin
Wiliams
William Ballers
James E. Cummings
Wiliam McMaltin
Traeger
Police Department
Will J. Davis
Harrison
Mustam
Carter H. Flarrison
Iroquois Theater
Williams
Musham
William Sailers
Sallers
McMullen
Cummings
Williama
Bryan has got the stage let him go
January 25 in Princeton N J Former President Cleveland responded to a request for comment on William J Bryan's claim that no Palmer-Huckner voter can be nominated by the Democrats He said Bryan has got the stage let him go and offered no further remark reflecting the era's party stakes
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Bryan
Cleveland
Princeton
N. 3
Associated Press
William J. Bryan
Baby Brother Baked in Oven by Sister in Wisconsin
LaCrosse Wisconsin January 25 A six year old girl alone with a baby brother placed him in a hot oven and baked him to death before the mother returned from chopping wood. The tragedy occurred as Mrs Edward Smith tended to household chores.
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Baby Brother
LaCrosse
Wis
Edward Smith
Came of War Soon 10 Open in the Orient
A brief item notes a forthcoming event titled Came of War Soon 10 Open in the Orient, with little additional context or details provided.
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Orient
Russia and Japan Near War as Tensions Escalate
Russia prepares to rush heavy reinforcements to the Far East while Japanese counterintelligence arrests spies in Tokyo. Paris and London report strained peace talks, Korea as neutral in possible war, and Port Arthur notes rail traffic blocking Manchurian routes.
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Russia
Far East
Japan
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