Bailey to Lead House Opposition Remains Uncertain
Washington reports interest in Joe Bailey for House minority leader as Bailey resists joining the race while Bankhead Sulzer DeArmond and Richardson vie for support. Republicans clash over a monetary reform bill amid Western opposition and treasury bond powers. An Cleveland dispatch says Hanna likely to retire from RNC chair if McKinley agrees. Indictments follow lynching in Dexter and tax charges against Osage cattlemen in Pawnee County.
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Washington
Joe Bailey
House
Bailey
Bankhead
Sulzer
New York
DeArmond
Missouri
Alabama
Richardson
Tennessee
Caucus
Atlantic City
Secretary of the Treasury
Cleveland
Hanna
Republican National Committee
McKinley
Outcry Over Trust Traffic Plan Faces Antitrust Hurdles
New York reports a covert traffic pool among railroad giants led by Morgan and Vanderbilt. The scheme, integrating Baltimore and Ohio with Pennsylvania and Central interests, aims to fix rates and control westbound freight. Officials plan to deny the existence of any traffic association while dismantling the Joint Traffic Association. Meanwhile, a Kansas City tragedy ends a noted cattleman’s life. The era’s finance and law clash as revenue funds gain from fines.
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New York
Baltimore and Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania and Central
Erie
Delaware
Lackawanna and Western
Ontario and Western
Reading
Joint Traffic Association
United States Supreme Court
Pome at Vassar attempted suicide in stockyards office
In Vassar Kansas a man at the A J Gillespie Commission office shot himself in the head amid financial troubles and is not expected to live. Also reports a Warsaw post office robbery with $1000 in stamps and $400 in cash, and a Galveston jury convict Mose Cage of assault to murder with a two year penitentiary sentence. A Denton Texas man was seriously injured when kicked by a horse near Ponder.
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Vassar
Kas
A. J. Gillespie Commission Company
Postoffice
Warsaw
Ind
Galveston
Mose Cage
Denton
Tex
Reuben Ferguson
Ponder
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Webster's
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U.S. Supreme Court
C. Merriam Co., Publishers
Springfield
Mass
U.S. A
Franklin Bros
John B. Mike
Texas
Baily
Dexter
William Hoff
Bloomfield
William
John Demint
Huff
Andy Melton
Perry
O. T
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Pawnee County
Galesburg
Ills
Mattie Anderson
Bath
Carney
State Revenue Fund
Jefferson City
Crow
Pitts
Chicago
National Republican Committee
Kansas City
Peter Peterson
Hymen’s
Purcellnills Elevator
Purcell
Paul M. Baylor
Bryan, Texas
Todaro
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J. L. Hearne
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