Investigation Reveals Profligate Justice in Northern Alabama
Special dispatch reports a sweeping Department of Justice investigation into the northern district of Alabama exposing inflated witness fees, lax oversight by US commissioners, and schemes by deputy marshals to boost case profits. The report cites forged payrolls, subdeputies, informers, and jail witnesses, calling for prosecutions and reform to curb abuses and waste.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Leigh Chalmers
Chalmers
Department of Justice
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Norhern
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United States Circuit
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Marshal’s
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United States
Sshijiee
States Circuit Court
Revere
Agiigias
Wctert Charison
Attalla
Briggs
Anniston
He Iunter
Cooper
Russellsville
C M. McCulloch
Huntsvilles
J. B
Hartsells
G. H. Smith
Florence
Lalinde
Gan
Anthony Gray
C. E. Willborn
Charles BE. Willborn
Willborn
Whlborn
John van Orden
S. Dist
Betts, J
Circuit Court
Senate in turmoil over sugar trust tariff fight and seigniorage
Washington dispatch notes a bitter Senate battle as Democrats clash with Republicans over tariff and sugar protections. Havemeyer leads sugar trust lobbying while seigniorage bill looms. debates hinge on committee actions and calendar battles amid market rumors.
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Washington
House
Senate
Louisiana
Gorman
Smith
Brice
West
Committee On Finance
Allison
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Stewart
Harris
Tennessee
Sugar Trust
Havemeyer
Trust
Governor Carr appoints visitors to State university
Raleigh March 6. Governor Carr appoints Rufus A. Coughton Rev J L Stuart David G Worth William T Faircloth and R T Gray to the board of visitors. Repairs and refitting of university buildings are noted as extensive with attendance and scholarship rising. Also reported: Joseph Moore and William Littleton captured in Salisbury. George Brown arrested in Florida for wrecking a freight train at Pine Bluff after a switch tamper incident. Brown jailed at Carthage NC.
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Raleigh
Carr
The
State University
Rufus A. Coughton
Rev. J. L. Stuart
David G. Worth
Wiliam T. Faircloth
R. T. Gray
Salisbury
Joseph Moore
William Littleton
Alexander County
Seaboard Air Line
Florida
George Brown
Pine Bluff
Brown
Carthage
N.C
Virginian Baseball League Forms in Richmond
The state baseball league was partially organized at a meeting in Richmond on March 6. Cities including Richmond Manchester Norfolk Petersburg Staunton and Roanoke will be included. The season opens about April 1 and lasts five months. A further meeting in Petersburg next Wednesday will finalize arrangements and a schedule.
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Virginian Baseball League
Richmond
Manchester
Norfolk
Petersburg
Staunton
Roanoke
Millionaire rose from poverty to wealth and eccentric boss
The World profiles C. B. Rouss a Confederate veteran turned multimillionaire Chicago style broker who live frugally on a six to one dollar daily wage for salesmen he employs men who occasionally spree locked in store recovery and later granted liberty after dissipation. The piece also covers Rev. Dr. Tom Dixon claiming federal government failures and dangers from tall building foundations in Chicago.
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New York
Cc. B. Rouss
Stonewall Jackson
Reuss
Virginia
M. Rouss
Winchester
Garts
Thomas Dixon
Congress
Congressional Committee
Senate
Victoria
Westminster Bridge
Dixon
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