Notable Murders and Crimes Across Georgia and Nation
Georgia reports a prominent Northwest physician Dr J Stafford fatally shot after refusing to name his attacker. Other items include a coroner’s verdict in Chatham County, a fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl in Banks County, and a convicted Colum-bus case. Nationally, trials, politics, and a mine explosion in Cheswick Pa. plus legal and business notices fill the page.
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Georgia
J . Stafford
Spring Place
Northwest
Georwa
Gevara
William Brunson
Bacon
Chatham
Ben Dickerson
John Borrells
Banks County
Fred
NS Tacner
Covington
Shellmutt Bros
Walnut Grove
Lizzie Sgollers
Columbus
Americas
Interstate Association of Pittsburg
J QO Hrarch
South Georgia
Dixie Call
Rebels seize San Domingo as war widens
San Domingo hosts rebel occupation with General Seybo joining the revolt. Minister of War Cabrera is dead from wounds at Los Llanos where a bloody fight occurred. Los Llanos siege worsens prices for provisions and hurts the poor as details remain scarce.
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San Domingo
San Pedro Macols
Seybo
Cabrera
Los Llanos
Senate debates recess appointments and Panama canal ties
The Senate weighs appointments made during recesses and seeks more information on W D Crum as Charleston collector and Brigadier General Wood. A Mull of resolutions seeks correspondence on Isthmian canal talks with Colombia and Panama. Bills passed include Confederate grave marking, a John Paul Jones monument, and Brunswick lightship funding.
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Tillman
Crum
General Wood
Washington
Senate
Mr Morgan
W.D Crum
Charleston
Br. Tillman
Wood
Secretary of the Treasury
W D Crum
Charlestorm
Cram
Mir Morgan
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Moran
Mkintey
United States
Morgan
Spooner
Panama
Joh Paul Jones
Alabama
Brunswick
Greatest Mining Tragedy in Years Hits Pennsylvania Mines
A catastrophic explosion at the Hardwick mine in Cheswick traps hundreds of miners with only a doomed rescue effort visible. Balwyn Taylor is brought to the surface dead by hopes fading for others. Adolph Gunla and at least fifty-five more miners lie in peril as water and after-damp hinder efforts. Rescuers Selwyn Taylor and crew face extreme danger while advancing into the shaft as dawn nears.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Balwyn Taylor
W B McCullough
Cheswick
Ben
Associated Press
Hardwick
Allegheny Coal Company
Adolph Gunla
Tttle
Selwyn M Taylor
Taylor
Thomas Wood
Thera
Cunningham
Jack
Death Strikes From the Rear in Snowbound Crash
A rear collision near Garden Creek, 40 miles north of St Louis, on the Denver Express and a local train killed three passengers and left seven injured. The wreck burned two cars and the local engine. the sleeper on the Denver Express was crushed but not destroyed. Names of the dead and injured could not be confirmed as trains were delayed and snowbound.
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St Louis
Denver
Burlington Road
Garden Creek
Here
Missouri Kansas and Texas Road
Union Station
St. Charles
Redskins Seek White Scalps
In Musgokee Oklahoma January 25 runners report uprising by full blood Cherokees of the Keetoowah band seeking protection for whites in the county. Cherokees fled Pearmans Gap to Greenleaf mountains threatening to return. Snakes at Tat Rock drill soldiers and raid property. both sides gathering forces amid fear of bloodshed. The conflict echoes the 1896 uprising led by Snakes and Keetoowahs.
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Musgokee
Ind
Texanna
Keetoowah
Pearmans Gap
Greenleaf Mountains
Tat Rock
Esign
Wife’s Love Worth One Hundred Thousand Dollars Case
New York January 25 Holloway Coe of 668 Fifth avenue was arrested today on an order signed by Justice Gildersleeve in a suit by Charles W. Bailey, vice president of Bailey Banks & Halddlls jewelers of Philadelphia, to recover 100000 damages for alienation of Mrs Bailey’s affections. Bailey resides in Philadelphia. Mrs Bailey, widow of Dr Chauncey Kerr, has lived with her mother at the Fifth Avenue home. The suit is the third in Bailey’s actions for slander and alienation of affections, after earlier suits were discontinued.
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New York
E Holloway Coe
Fifth Avenue
Gildersleeve
Supreme Court
Charles W Baitley
Bailey, Banks & Halddla Company Jewelers
Philadelphia
Emma Coe
Fifrth Avenue
Bailey
Chauncey Kerr
Adirondacks
Mayor Harrison Held for Iroquois Horror
Chicago January 26 The Iroquois theater jury returned a verdict holding Mayor Carter H Harrison and several city officials for grand jury action. Building Commissioner William Williams Fire Marshal Musham and others were named in the verdict citing neglect and code violations related to the fire.
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Chicago
Carter H Harrison
William J. Davis
George Willams
Edward Loughlin
Williamea William Satlers
James E Cummings
William McMultin
Police Department
Aner
Will Je Davia
Harrison
Carter
Hi Iarrison
Willams
Misham
William Sailers
Sailers
McMullen
Traeger
Musham
Millmussee
Bryan Has Got The Stage Let Him Go It Cleveland
Former President Cleveland, asked by an Associated Press correspondent for comment on William J Bryan's statement that no Palmer-Buckner ticket voter can be nominated by the Democrats, smiled and said Bryan has got the stage and let him guess that a definite turn may follow.
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Bryan
Cleveland
Princeton
Associated Press
Wiliam J Bryans
Eas
Tragic Oven Death In LaCrosse Family
In LaCrosse Wisconsin on January 26 a sister reportedly placed a baby in an oven and baked it to death while the mother was chopping wood. The infant, unnamed, was left unattended and died before the mother returned. The case has unsettled the family and authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.
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Baby Brother
LaCrosse
Wis
Edward Smith
Ofother
Takin
Daily Telegraph
Cablergram Tae
London
Wail
Warsaw
Japan and Russia tensions flare over war and neutrality
News from London Warsaw and Paris report Japan preparing to rush reinforcements to the Far East amid arrests for treason and tightened Russo-Japanese peace talks. Dispatches discuss Korea China neutral stance and feared strategic control of the Korea Strait while Port Arthur notes reinforce limits and traffic disruption as war looms.
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Russia
Far East
Japan
Tokio
Takashima
Attouche
Zonc
Yokohamm
Concherva
Paris
Strait of Korea
Tusan
Strait
Korea
St Reatly
Istand
Tsu- Shima
China
Seoul
St Petersburg
Port Dalnt
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Southern
Garland Ferguson
New Hanover Superior Court
Shell Terry
North Carolina
Supreme Court of Mississippi
Itta Bena
Yazoo
Mississippi
Largan
Treasury Department
Federal
Athens
F C Brown & Son
Augasta
Grand Jury
Theater
JT R Sartoin
Chickamauga Ga
Minneapolis, Minn
South America
Nashua
Gosgin
Anguist Machen
Nis
Roosevelt
Hf Smith Wooley
Mormon Church
Boise City
Idaho
Interstate Association of National Guard Officers
St Augustine
Charles Dick
Middle West
Far Eastern
RIN
Tord Lansdowne
Germaiy
Africa
Fiji Islands
Ascot
Agnec Duch
Forr
Jgte Weber
Ethel Wheat
New Orleans
Cholen
Oakland
A&c
Afr Culberson
Bogota
Colombia
Juiletary Committee
Hale
Collector Crum
the Treasury
Shaw
Dr Crum
S& C
Slock
Wwe
Titman
Leonard Wood
Philippines
Tolman
Bond
Aldrich
Hare
Burlington Express
Redskins
Indian Territory
Carter Harrison
Orient
Evelia
Bresta
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