Mississippi Names Money to Fill Senator George Vacancy
Native Mississippian Money will fill the unexpired term of late Senator J Z George. He has served in Congress across multiple terms and was elected for a regular term starting March 4, 1899. Money, born August 22, 1839 in Mississippi, is a lawyer by training and has shown interest in Cuban affairs.
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Congress
McLaurin
Mississippi
Money
J. Z. George
George
Aving
Mr. Money
Washington
Be Es
Missippi
Southern progress review shows limited gains in south industry
The week's report notes modest revival in southern trade and plant activity, with gains in iron and steel, lumber, and finished goods. New ventures include several small capital injections such as a $20,000 brass plant at Lynchburg and a $250,000 Henry & McDonald Co. in Sisterville, plus multiple cotton, oil, and coal operations across Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama.
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Promit
Pittsburg
Lynchburg
Xington Brewing Co
Capital
Lexington
Mannington Crie Light Co
Liington
Huntsville
N. A
Winstop
N. C
Ala
McMinnville
Tenn
Itanooga
Luetgert Case Closure Likely This Week Near Chicago
Final arguments in the Luetgert case began and were expected to conclude by week’s end. Assistant State’s Attorney McFadden opened for the state as defense witnesses were unevenly present during the session near Chicago.
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Mcfen
Bold Bandits Hold Up Train Near Austin
Four men held up the southbound International and Great Northern Cannon Ball near Austin, Texas, at 5:30 pm. The conductor was shot but not fatally. a passenger was struck in the hand and another’s shirt collar was torn by a pistol ball. About $200 was taken. the robbers escaped, then abandoned the engine before officers recovered it at Duval four miles south.
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International and Great Northern
Austin
Tex
Duval
Burglars Murder Two Women in Camden Home
In Camden New Jersey an aged widow Emma Zane 78 and her daughter Sarah Shaw 45 were murdered early Tuesday by burglars in a suspected robbery. Eli Shaw the son and sole witness is ill with typhoid fever and could not aid police. The crime occurred between 430 and 5 am and the killers remain at large. A separate report notes 100 delegates pledged to sow five to twenty bushels of wheat this fall and paid seed wheat costs to a probate judge. the Dale meeting succeeded prompting Commissioner Culver to consider the plan in other counties.
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Camden
N. J
Emma Zane
Eli Zane
Sarah M. Shaw
Eli Shaw
Shaw
Dale
Culver
Miners Strike for Higher Pay at Soddy Coal Mines
About 500 miners at New Soddy Coal Company near Chattanooga walked out last Tuesday seeking raise. The Jellico strikes influenced regional activity. Soddy mines have boomed with orders, and company officials in Chattanooga plan talks to settle the dispute promptly.
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Soddy Creek Mines
Chattanooga
Soddy Coal Company
Jellico
Yellow fever toll rises as New Orleans health board reports
A New Orleans bulletin cites 40 new yellow fever cases and 4 deaths. The board of health says science can curb the disease, but public compliance remains weak. Totals listed include 616 cases, 65 deaths, 257 recovered, and 294 under treatment.
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New Orleans
Board of Health
Eight-Hour Law Paralyzed by Kansas Court Ruling
Judge Wells of the Kansas court of appeals holds that paying workers for more than eight hours exposes both contractor Billingsley and the Marshall county commissioners to prosecution. The decision effectively undermines the eight hour limit, with law professionals calling the ruling a dead letter.
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Judge Wells
Kansas Court of Appeals
Kansas
Billingsley
Marshall County
Railroads at War Again Lower Passenger Rates Declared
The Seaboard Air Line and major rivals led by the Southern Railway launch a rate war with a 3 1/3 percent fare cut and differential through and local tariffs. The move aims to equalize service and attract through sleeping car traffic between New York, Atlanta, and New Orleans, with rates effective October 25 and filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Seaboard
Southern Railway
Anderson
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Seaboard Air Line
New York
Atlanta
New Orleans
Chicago
St. Loui
Cincinnati
Trunk Line Association
Tammany Ratifies Nomination At Wigwam Meeting
Tammany Hall ratified its candidates for municipal offices in Greater New York at a Wigwam meeting on Thursday night. The hall was nearly full but a crowd gathered outside the headquarters of the regular democracy. Ex Governor Campbell of Ohio and Colonel William L. Brown sent regrets.
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Ths
Tammany Hall
Greater
New York
Regular Democracy
Campbell
Ohio
William L. Brown
Plan for International Federation of Railroad Brotherhoods
A Peoria conference of four railroad brotherhoods reached a plan for an international federation. The plan will be submitted to the trainmen telegraphers conductors and firemen lodges in the United States Canada and Mexico for approval, with returns due by January first.
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Peoria
Ill
United States
Canada
Mexico
Luetgert Trial Heartbreak as Father Bids Farewell
A Chicago dispatch reports Luetgert broke down in tears Wednesday afternoon when he said goodbye to his young sons as the defense argued amid accusations of police intimidation and perjury by state witnesses. Phalen led the defense, to be followed by Vincent who will close for Luetgert.
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Chicago
Luetgert
Phalen
Vincent
Dalton Car Breakers Plead Guilty in Landmark Court Day
The Dalton Georgia court saw eleven indictments and most defendants plead guilty. Leader Walter Bohannon confessed extensive robberies and testified on stolen goods, while Ralph Ellison faced unrelated charges and denied knowledge of any theft. Judge Fite postponed sentencing until all cases are disposed of.
Government by Injunction Attack by Colorado Judge
Judge Wilson of the Denver Court of Appeals issued an opinion Monday criticizing government by injunction. He, with Judges Thompson and Bissell concurring, argued against courts using extraordinary injunctive relief for every infringement of rights. He warned such a course could subvert fundamental legal principles.
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Wilson
Court of Appeals
Denver
Col
Thompson
Bissell
Father's Fearful Mistake Ends in Youths Death Near Norcross
John Branyan, a wealthy farmer near Hoyle post office two and a half miles from Norcross Georgia, shot and killed his sixteen year old son Sunday night about 9:30 oclock. He awoke to a suspected burglary, sat at the foot of his bed with a gun, and fired when a figure on the veranda did not halt, killing his son.
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John Branyan
Hoyle
Norcross
Branyan
Hoosier Democrats Win Indianapolis Mayor Election
Democrat Thomas Taggart defeats Republican W N Harding for mayor of Indianapolis by a large plurality. Republicans concede a victory margin from 3 000 to 5 000. Six councilmen at large chosen by 2 500 to 4 000. ward councilmen Republicans expect to win at most four of fifteen. Taggart flooded with telegrams from across the country.
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Indianapolis
Thomas Taggart
W.N. Harding
Ind
Taggart
Death Record Shows New Peak in Yellow Fever Deaths
A Wednesday tally reports nine deaths in twenty four hours the highest single day total since yellow fever began in New Orleans. Mobile adds seven new local cases and six more from Magazine Point while Galveston reports no new cases or deaths. The New Orleans Board of Health debates virulence and calls for other experts as Mobile notes recoveries and Galveston dismissals. The New Orleans council defies Dr. Guiteras and seeks alternative inspection.
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New Orleans
Board of Health
Mobile
Magazine Point
Ala
Guiteras
Galveston
Wyman
Texas
Evangeline Cisneros Summons Issued in Havana Edict
An official Havana Gazette edict by the military judge orders Evangeline Cisneros to serve a fifteen day jail term and directs all civil and military authorities to arrest her and send her to Havana jail if captured. Reports say she arrived in New York Wednesday aboard the Ward Line steamer Seneca.
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Havana
Evangelina Cisneros
New York
Ward Line
Seneca
Venerable Groom-to-Be Engaged to Wealthy Bride in Boston
Benjamin F. Hunt an eighty eight year old former Rochester resident plans to wed Mrs. Julia A. Sherman of Watertown aged about ninety. The ceremony is set for the 20th. Hunt lives in Boston with a son while the bride is said to bring a fortune surpassing $1,000,000.
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Benjamin F. Hunt
Rochester
N. Y
Julia A. Sherman
Watertown
Mr. Hunt
Boston
Train Robbers Located Near Tulsa
Inspector Houck of the post office department reports the men who held up a Rock Island train are in hiding about twenty miles from Tulsa. Houk and other officers have left Tulsa to pursue them and expect to capture the desperadoes.
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Inspector Houck
Post Office Department
Rock Island
Tulsa
I. T. Houk
Quarantines Expanded Across Texas Over Galveston Fever
Texas authorities extend quarantines against Galveston with several counties including Beaumont and Bryan cutting off communications. The state board of health bars travel to Galveston and Houston while measures also cover San Antonio and related areas amid yellow fever reports.
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Texas
Galveston
Beaumont
County Board of Health
Houston
Bryan
Marshal Board Health
Veston
Heo
San Antonio
Dalton Court Hears Bohannon Gang Pleas And Ellison Conviction
In Dalton Georgia Tuesday and Wednesday Bohannon gang members including Walter Bohannon Tom Kinneman Jim Harris Sam Painter Eli Morris Ben Pearce Luke White and Ralph Ellison pleaded guilty to indictments Ellison testified for the prosecution as needed Drew Peeples and his father Tom Peeples were charged with stealing syrup from the Western and Atlantic depot in August 1896 Cleo Cumby also pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods Langston was sentenced to pay 750 and twelve months on the chain gang with conditional suspension.
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Dalton
Walter Behannon
Bohannon
Whitfield County
Walter Bohannon
Tom Kinneman
Bill Long
Ben Pearce
Ed Morris
Sam Painter
Jim Harris
Ralph Ellison
Fite
Bender
Jesse Langston
Murray County
Ellison
Tom Peeples
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Drew N. Peeples
New Orleans
Western and Atlantic
Drew Peeples
Drew
Tom
Cleo Cumby
Langston
Ex-Senator Robertson of South Carolina Dies in Columbia
Ex United States Senator T. J. Robertson of South Carolina dies in Columbia at age and years after paralysis. He served from July 22, 1868 to March 3, 1877, as a Republican during Reconstruction and chaired the manufacturers committee.
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United States
Robertson
Columbia
D. C
South Carolina
Butler
Senate
Committee of Manufacturers
Mrs Atkinson Denied Acquittal in Glenville Forgery Case
A mistrial was declared in Glenville West Virginia when the jury failed to reach a verdict in the forgery charge against Mrs Atkinson. Jurors stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction. The judge adjourned court amid disappointment from Mrs Atkinson and her supporters.
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Glenville
W. Va
Atkinson
Mrs. Atkinson
Southerners Recognized In McKinley Appointments
President McKinley issued several appointments on Wednesday naming Talbot J. Albert of Maryland as consul at Brunswick Germany and William A. Prickett of New Jersey as consul at Rheims France. He also appointed John B. Bethel for the Richmond Virginia district Jesse W. Elliott for Newport News Virginia district and William B. Shepard for the Apalachicola Florida district as collectors of customs.
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McKinley
United States
Talbot J. Albert
Maryland
Brunswick
Germany
William A. Prickett
New Jersey
Rheims
France
John 8. Bethel
Richmond
Jesse W. Elliott
Newport News
William B. Shepard
District of
Apalachicola
Fla
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee in Washington for cabinet changes
Lee met with Assistant Secretary Day at the state department after arriving Sunday night. Officials review the impact of cabinet changes, Weyler's withdrawal and succession by Sagasta, and related developments with General Weyler and Geneyl Blayco.
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Fitzhugh Lee
Washington
State Department
Day
Hannis Taylor
Spain
Weyler
Geneyl Blayco
Sagasta
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Colorado
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Evangelina
T. J. Robertson
Hawana
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