Hepburn Norton dispute dominates stalled congressional day
A House and Senate session yielded no public business as lawmakers centered on a personal clash between Hepburn of Ohio and Norton. The day included remarks by Chaplain Couden on the president’s death and debate over a Durham public building bill, plus a postal savings bank proposal and an immigration bill postponement. The week also saw procedural reshuffling of Democratic committee assignments and notes on the Dawes commission.
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House
Hepburn
Hio
Norton
Couden
Congressman Fleming
Georgia
Fleming
He Hepburn
Gorman
Chaplain Milburn
Senate
McKinley
Durham
N. C
Butler
North Carolina
Wilson
Washington
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
Lodge
Massachusetts
Cleveland
Allen
Nebraska
Dawes Indian Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Indian Committees
Congress
Committee On Appropriations
Fairbanks
Custom Service
Customs and Immigration Cera
Bloodshed Flares Again In Twiggs County Feud
Dispatches from Jeffersonville report renewed hostility between Califf and Griffin families. A fatal shooting tied to the feud sparked calls for law enforcement action. W H Calif Sr sought charges against Giltman Carroll but Carroll vanished, possibly to appear at Twiggs Superior Court in April if indicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonville
Califf
Griffin
Clarence Jones
Pettis
R. L. Califf
Short Griffin
W. H. Calif, Sr
Giltman Carroll
Justice of the Peace
Carroll
Twiggs Superior Court
Nominations by President McKinley to Senate
President McKinley sent nominations to the Senate for associate justice of the Supreme Court Joseph McKenna of California. comptroller of the currency Charles Dawes of Illinois. pension agent John W. Nesbitt of Pennsylvania. chief justice and associate justices for the Court of Private Land Claims with several reappointments. Other federal posts include U S attorneys Lewis Miles and Robert Dozier and marshal Henry Dockery. pre-recess reappointments also forwarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph McKenna
Supreme Court
McKinley
Senate
California
Supreme Court of the United States, Treasury
Charles 8. Dawes
Ofllinois
John W. Nesbitt
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Court of Private Land Claims
Jos
Colorado
Lewis Miles
United States
Iowa
Robert Dozier
District of
Idaho
Henry ©. Dockery
North Carolina
Populists caucus adopts anti civil service and currency resolutions
A Washington National hotel caucus of populist members adopted resolutions resisting civil service changes to keep partisan filling of offices, opposing removal of greenbacks and treasury notes, and opposing bank note schemes. The group also urged early action on recognizing Cuba's independence.
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House of Representatives
National Hotel
Washington
Treasury
Cuban
Government Receives 8.5 Million in Union Pacific Purchase
A reorganization committee pays 8.5 million dollars to the United States treasury in New York by check for the Union Pacific railroad purchase. The payment is recorded as part of the federal settlement and reflects the government’s receipt of funds from the deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Union Pacific Railroad
Reorganization Committee
New York
Fall River Mills Posts Wage Reduction Notices
Advices from Fall River Mass say notices posted Tuesday announce wage cuts to begin January 3 1898 with details to follow. The manufacturers committee recommends an across the board decrease of 11 1 19 per cent for all departments and equal reduction for administrative salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River Mills
Fall River
Mass
Manufacturers’ Committee
Twenty two sailors missing from wrecked steamer Cleveland
A San Francisco report says the overdue steamer Cleveland foundered off Vancouver Island near Barclay Sound twelve miles north of Cape Beale. Twenty two men launched in small boats and are believed lost while two passengers, W L Deittrick and Frank Gerthan, are among the missing. The captain and several crew reached shore. vessel valued at 75000 with little insurance. Built 1865 and formerly Sirius, Atlantic liner between Halifax and Queenstown.
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San Francisco
Cleveland
Seattle
Hall
Charles Nelson
Vancouver Island
Barclay Sound
Cape Beale
W. L. Deittrick
Frank Gerthan
Halifax
Queenstown
Sirius
Actor William Terriss Murdered Outside Adelphi Theatre
London reports the death of actor William Terriss, real name William Lewin, stabbed at the Adelphi stage door as he left a cab. A suspected foreigner in a cloak was seized by bystanders and taken to Bow Street police. motive unknown. Terriss died after fifteen minutes despite medical help from Charing Cross hospital.
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London
William Terriss
Adelphi
Terriss
Charing Cross Hospital
Bow Street
Archer
William Lewin
National Women Plan George Washington Memorial Building
A secret Washington meeting of prominent American women discussed raising 250000 for a memorial building to house university administrative offices. February 23 could become a national offering day with public school children contributing 1 cent each. Attendees included Mrs. I. S. Boyd of Georgia Mrs. Hope S. Campbell of North Carolina Mrs. M. K. McNeill of South Carolina and Mrs. Alice B. Castleman of Louisville Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National University
I. 8. Boyd
Georgia
Hope
Campbell
North Carolina
M. K. McNeill
South Carolina
Alice B. Castleman
Louisville
Must Pay Indians Railroad Ties Seized for Royalty
Indian police seize over half a million railroad ties on the Missouri Kansas and Texas line to force payment of more than $60,000 royalty to the Choctaw nation for timber used in the ties. Similar seizures expected on the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf road to enforce analogous claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
South Canadian
Red Rivers
Oklahoma and
Gulf Road
Treaty Ratified by King George in Turkey Greece Peace
Athens dispatch reports King George ratifies the Turkey Greece peace treaty and will send the document by special steamer to Constantinople. A later message adds the sultan has also ratified the treaty of peace.
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King George
Turkey
Greece
Athens
Kin George
Constantinole
Old Whisky Unearthed From 165 Barrels Lost Forty Years Ago
A Kansas City dispatch reports that the river steamboat Arabia sank in the Missouri near Parkville over forty years ago with 165 barrels of whisky. River men excavating on a Parkville sand bar found ten barrels well preserved and notified U.S. revenue authorities to take custody of the discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Missouri River
Parkville
United States Revenue
Sanguilly Accused of Treachery In Cuban Crisis
dispatches from Havana via Key West claim insurgent leader Sanguilly offered loyalty to General Blanco while Cuban peace negotiators sent by General Pando have not returned. Reports say several commissioners were executed by insurgents, including two hanged by Juan Delgado after peace propositions failed.
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Havana
Key West
Fla
Sanguilly
Blanco
Cuba
Cienfuegos
Sagua
McKinley
United States
New York
Tomas Estrada Palma
Spain
Juan Delgado
Comptroller Eckels Critiques McKinley Currency Plan
In St. Louis Comptroller James H. Eckels told the Commercial Club he supports McKinley’s currency recommendations but says the plan does not go far enough. He notes the greenbacks and Sherman notes totaling 858,000,000 are debts to be repaid, urging bolder action to reduce the country’s financial obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eckels
James H. Eckels
St. Louis
Commercial Club
McKinley
Congress
Labor Federation Meeting Opens in Nashville
The American Federation of Labor begins its seventeenth annual session in Nashville with over one hundred delegates and as many visitors. President Gompers delivers the annual address and Secretary Morrison reports higher receipts by 2852 dollars, extra organization spending, and 84280 new members enrolled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
American Federation of Labor
Tenn
Gompers
Morrison
Mob lynches alleged killers in Louisiana town
New Orleans dispatch reports two Negro men arrested for the murder of storekeeper Babin at St Gabriel La were lynched Monday night. Sheriff Brown evacuated the suspects by train to New Orleans but a mob halted the train six miles below Placquemine, seized the crew, and hanged the men in the woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Babin
St. Gabriel
Brown
Texas Pacific
Placquemine
Wne
Resolutions From Atlanta Cotton Growers Meet 1897
Interstate cotton growers at Atlanta December 14 1897 urge thorough organization from individual to interstate levels. They endorse the American Cotton Growers Protective Association, seek anti option and futures regulation, better handling to cut losses, and propose regional vice presidents and county presidents. They back H D Lane for president and urge support for the Stokes bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Hector D. Lane
Memphis
Congress
American Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
National Association
United States
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
South
West
Senate
First Cuban Tobacco Arrives in New York in Months
The Ward line steamer Orizaba arrived in New York on Tuesday with 391 bales of tobacco from Havana. This marks the first shipment of Cuban tobacco from that port in many months and is seen as a positive sign amid Spain’s liberalizing ministry and the captain-general of Cuba.
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Ward Line
Orizaba
New York
Havana
Cuba
May Rank With Holmes New York Barber Accused Murder
The body of Jennie Suhmer fourth wife of Charles Zanoli was exhumed in Astoria Queens to test for poison. Prosecutors suspect Zanoli murdered wives to cash life insurance policies. If proven, the case may put him on a pedestal beside Dr Holmes in killer notoriety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Suhmer
Charles Zanoli
Astoria
L. I
Zanoli
Dr. Holmes
Cotton Growers Act Meeting Forms Southern Association
Six southern states gathered in Atlanta at the Kimball house to organize a Southern Cotton Growers Association. Delegates backed reduced acreage to lift prices, endorsed the American Cotton Growers’ Protective Association, and pledged nonpartisan action to protect producers’ profits.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Southern Cotton Growers’ Association
South
American Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
Memphis
Kimball House
J. O. Willborn
Cotton Growers’ Association of
South Carolina
Farmers’ Alliance
E. Watson
Texas
Richard Cheatham
the Cotton Planters’ Journal
J. Williams Stokes
R. T. Nesbitt
I. 8. Culver
Alabama
W. J. Northen
R. J. Redding
State Experiment Station
Hunnicutt
The
State University
J. B. Steppe
Hector D. Lane
American National Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
M. T. Leach
Raleigh
N. C
Committee On
Willborn
American Cotton Growers’ Association
Emanuel church pastor under police protection after Durrant era
The San Francisco Examiner reports Rev J George Gibson former pastor of Emanuel Baptist is deemed in danger. Police warn and guard him at all hours and will assign an officer to attend every public service as attempts to cast suspicion fall away.
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The
San Francisco Examiner
Emanuel Baptist Church
J. George Gibson
Durrant
Gibson
Emanuel Church
Luetgert's Second Trial Starts Amid Crowded Chicago Court
The second trial of Adolph L. Luetgert, accused of murdering his wife by boiling her in caustic potash in a sausage vat, began in Chicago before Judge met. The crowded courtroom filled with curious spectators as jurors had been chosen.
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Adolph L. Luetgert
Chicago
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Orgian
Twiggs County
Populists Caucus
Uncle Sam
Union Pacific Purchase
Labor Federation Meeting
Mob
Louisiana
Merchant Babin
Holmes
the Cotton Growers Act
Luetgert
Sausage Maker
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