Congress Opens With Finance and Ro b erts Case On Deck
Washington opens with a packed agenda as the House considers the Roberta of Utah case and then moves to the gold standard provisions. The mint and debt reports show November receipts at 46.57 million and debt decline of 6.09 million, with minor coinage activity noted.
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Washington
Dec
Congress
Spain
Roberta
Utah
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Bailey
Mint
United States
Antitrust League Plans Chicago Meeting December 11
Executive committee members will meet in Chicago December 11 to set the date for the antitrust conference. Julius Runge has completed arrangements for reorganizing the Galveston City railroad in New York December 2.
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Chicago
The
Antitrust League
New York
Julius Runge
Galveston City Railroad
Trance Belief Delays Burial in New Albany
The body of Henry Morgan lies at his West street home while undertaker Shrader refuses burial amid doctors split over whether he is dead or in a trance. The family, destitute after long illness, seeks help as neighbors offer none.
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New Albany
Ind
Henry Morgan
West Street
Shrader
Morgan
Believed Goebel or Taylor Will Be Given the Certificate
Reports from Frankfort indicate the Kentucky gubernatorial canvass postponement to Monday cooled tempers. Voters watch for a certificate to either Goebel or Taylor as legislators may be drawn into the outcome. In Lexington Owens, a former foe of Goebel, is nominated by a fusion bloc to succeed the late Settle.
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Goebel
Taylor
Frankfort
Kentucky
Lexington
W. C. Owens
Col. Breckinridge
Licks
Settle
Bayambang Surrenders After Tank/Forced Restraint
Manila dispatch reports General Conon surrendered 500 officers and men with rifles along with several Americans and 70 Spanish prisoners to Lieutenant Moore and 50 men of the Fourth Cavalry at Bayambang in Nueva Vizcaya province.
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Manila
Conon
Bayambang
Nueva Vizcaya
Moore
Three prisoners escape from Denton county jail
Three inmates overpowered jailer William Hawkins in Denton Texas and escaped. They locked him in a cell before fleeing and remain at large as of December 2.
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Denton, Tex
William Hawkins
Denver sewer excavation halts work at Thirty Fourth Wning Ave
A cavern opened during sewer excavation on Thirty Four th Wing Avenue in Denver causing a temporary halt in work and prompting site safety checks and a review of trenching procedures.
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Denver
Thirty-fourth Wning Avenue
Jaber
Ft. Worth
Colorado Resorts
Rendh Et. Worth
A. A. Glisson
Notable Deaths and Local Notices Across Cities
The report lists judges and officials injured in Marshall Texas and notes recoveries of three bodies. It also mentions Diaz's electric streetcar initiative in Mexico City, Elgin Illinois wage restores at the Watch Company, and a Victoria governor’s eerie encounter with a swag man, ending with a humorous Melbourne Australia paragraph.
Funeral Sophia: Reading woman famed for funeral attendance
A Reading resident known as Funeral Sophia, celebrated for attending up to 6 000 funerals in thirty years, is taken to the county almshouse. She earned the nickname for her mania to be at funerals and her habit of mingling with mourners and joining after ceremonies as a self invited guest.
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Pennsylvania
Sophia Christian
Sophia
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Hobart
Texarkana
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Cotton Belt Railroad
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Houston
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Fifth Ward
McKinley
Kemper, Tex
Father
Lincoln
Hastings
Nebraska
C. E. Bentley
Gas Company
Fort Wayne
A. H. Myers
National Gas Company
Dallas
Garland
Duluth
Minn
Jacob Schneider
Mount Olive, Ills
Mount Olive
Virden
Charles Potter
Charles Potter, Jr
Plainfield
N. J
Madison County
Yee
By Express
Ladies’ Scissors
Gabriel Max
Chamisso
Dorothy
Fruit Picture
Naval
Razor
India
Lion Coffee
Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Ohio
Owens
Case
Village Mills
Caldwell
Ed Guyton
Cape Charles
Onancocooke
Acomi County
Cuero, Tex
Arthur Brown
Henry Nelson
George Holtz
C. A. Carbon
Judge Case Hurt
Marshall, Tex
J. M. Case
Marshall Bar
Mexico
City of Mexico
Diaz
Elgin, Ills
Elgin National Watch Company
Lord Brassey and
the Swagman
Victoria
Watts River
Wood Fellowship
Lord Brassey
Melbourne
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Colorado
Polots
Denver Road
Fort Worth
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