Congress debates tariff revisions and canal plans
Senators and representatives met at the Capitol to discuss farm relief and tariff revisions. They favored a thorough revision this session and delaying reforms on beer and tobacco taxes, with focus on the Nicaraguan canal and the shipping subsidy bill. Senator Frye pressed the shipping measure with business groups while the Spooner bill faced little support. Inventor Mosher dies at 70 in Chillicothe Ohio.
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Philippines
Committee
Senate
Frye
Spooner
Merchants’ Association, of
New York
Indiana Round-ups: Major cattle theft near Rensselaer
Report of a bold cattle theft six miles from Rensselaer where about 210 head were driven to waiting cars and shipped to Chicago. McCoy, a Rensselaer banker, learns his loss Tuesday afternoon, valued at over $8,000, as cattle buyers in Reynolds Monticello Monon and McCoysburg acted on orders from Monon.
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Logansport
Indiana
Rensselaer
Alfred McCay
Chicago
Monon Railroad
Reynolds
Monticello
Monon
McCoysburge
McCoy
McCoys Barge
Molders Union Pushes to Unionize Whitely Works
Muncie Indiana December 1. The Whitely Malleable Casting Co plans to continue boiler head work for new battleships but faces a union challenge. The local molders union demands removal of a no Knights of Labor sign and recognition of unions. The Muncie Trades Council offers financial aid and the national body may seek federal action to cancel non union contracts.
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Muncie
Ind
Whitely Malleable Casting Co
Molders’ Union
Knights of Labor
Miunete
Molders
Muncie Trades Council
Two Institutions Debate Separate Homes and Life Terms
Indiana report urges splitting the Indiana industrial school for girls from the women's prison and abolishing life imprisonment for women. Eight inmates remain on life terms, with sentences spanning 23, 20, and 17 years. The report proposes a 20 year maximum with potential good time. In Muncie, rumor claims Midland railway bought by Vanderbilt interests and to join Big Four Lake Erie systems. official denies the report.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Sarah F. Keely
Indiana Industrial School For Girls
Woman's Prison
Muncie
Chicago & Southeastern
The
Midland Railway
Take Shore
Vanderbilt
Big Four
Lake Erie
Ward
Midland
Brazil
Held Up and Robbed Near Lawrenceburg Indiana
Joe Morris of Cleveland Ohio was held up near Lawrenceburg and robbed of $6. $55 sewn in his coat lining went undiscovered as he traveled south. He notified police. In Wabash Indiana, S H Goodman and Nathan Daugherty sold three cows and a Jersey bull for 2000 dollars to C A Jamison of Peoria Illinois.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Joe Morris
Cleveland
Wabash, Ind
S. H. Goodman
Nathan Daugherty
This County
C. A. Jamison
Peoria
Ilinois
Roberts to Lead in South Africa Amid Reinforcement Tensions
London reports Lord Kitchener named to supreme command as Lord Roberts departs. Debate over reinforcements persists with estimates of 30 000 to 50 000 needed to prevent paralysis. Meanwhile Cape Colony posts strengthen military posts and prepare for possible attacks while aiding Boer farmers with low price seed and oats. In Ohio, Little Miami Traction Co plans an electric line linking Springfield Xenia Wilmington Lebanon Dayton Middletown Loveland Cincinnati.
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London
South Age
Lord Wolseley
Lord Roberts
Lord Kitchener
Lord
Kitcheners
Td Orpanizer
Columbus, O
Little Miami Traction Co
Xenia
Charles G. Christie
Cincinnati
John B. Martin
Nenia
Charles Orr
Cleveland
Rufus P. Tenney
Warren D Tiddle
R. L. Andrews
Springfield
Wilmington
Lebanon
Dayton
Middletown
Loveland
Record gold stock hits new US high in treasury vaults
Washington reports the largest stock of gold coin and bullion ever held in the United States. Total holdings reach 474,108,336 dollars, with about 245 million owned by the treasury and 230.8 million tied to gold certificates. Analysts anticipate a national gold reserve near 500 million.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Klondike
New Orleans
New York
New York Reserve
Dedication to Kruger by Senator Fabre in Paris
Senator Fabre called on Mr. Kruger in Paris and presented a copy of his Life of Washington. The dedication praises Kruger as the Grand Old Man and notes Vrance’s welcome, regretting not cooperating to found the United States of South Africa as in America.
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Fabre
Washington
Paris
Kruger
Vrance
Franklin
United States of South Africa
United States of America
German Losses in China Rise Despite Denials
Berlin reports large German losses in China from typhoid and climate related disease with official dispatches noting daily deaths. Volunteers for the China reserves grow scarcer as fever inroads continue, while Shanghai dispatches announce the Hui-Shang as the first steamer of the new German Yangtze line between J Chang Fu and Han Kow.
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Berlin
China
Shanghai
J-Chang-Fu
Han Kow
Firm Seeks Bankruptcy Declaration for Moser & Son
New York creditors of the dry goods firm Moser & Son, recently assigned, petition courts to declare the firm bankrupt. The claims total 2601.61 dollars with listed indebtedness from Albert Friedlander Feitz Weller Co Julius Loewenthal and Garland Bros. The names and amounts are documented in the filing.
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Columbus
New York
Moser & Son
Albert Friedlander
Feitz
Weller & Co
Julius Loewenthal
Eugene, George
Max Garland
Garland Bros
Monument design chosen for late Vice President Hobart
The Paterson New Jersey competition shortlisted Philip Martin as the winner. The bronze monument depicts Hobart with a gavel, leaning forward as if listening to a speaker, about nine feet tall on a pedestal before the city hall.
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New York
Tlobart
Paterson
N. J
Philip Martin
Hobart
House Military Affairs Committee Reviews Army Bill
Washington December 1 The house committee on military affairs began consideration of the army bill Friday based on a war department prepared measure. No decision was reached due to lack of a quorum but sentiment favors the maximum number of men requested by the war department.
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Aldrich
Allison
Platt
Wayne and
Dalzell
House Committee of Ways and Means
Treasury
Washington
House Committee On Military Affairs
War Department
Was
Mills Convicted of Assault With Intent to Murder
Noblesville Indiana December 1 Thomas Mills found guilty of assault and battery with intent to murder his brother in law Edward Bradfield and sentenced to from two to 14 years in the Michigan City penitentiary.
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Noblesville
Ind
Thomas Mills
Edward Bradfield
Michigan City
Robbers Loot Panhandle Station in Monon Dealing Blow
In Monon Indiana on December 1 robbers entered the Panhandle station at Mone Dicello and demolished the safe securing 500 dollars in money and carrying away valuables.
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Monon
Ind
Panhandle
Mondicello
Fatal accident claims David Harty in Losantville
David Harty aged 36 was crushed when a line shaft entangled him. His neck broke and he died from injuries. He leaves a widow and two children.
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Losantville
Ind
David Harty
Man in Elkhart Shoots Self Over Drinking Habit
Elkhart Indiana December 1 Joseph Armstrong aged 32 died by suicide while sober after failing to quit drinking. The man shot himself, ending his struggle with alcohol in his home.
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Elkhart
Ind
Joseph Armstrong
Bank bookkeeper Lea arrives to face fraud charge
Nashville, December 1. W. W. Lea, once bookkeeper at the First National Bank, charged with defrauding the bank of $58,000 in connection with Thomas Brady, reached the city Friday night under detectives. Lea had departed in August.
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Nashville
Tenn
W. W. Lea
First National Bank
Thomas Brady
Lea
Mrs McKinley Gifts Doll for Ohio Booth at Suffrage Bazaar
Mrs. McKinley has presented a beautiful doll for the Ohio booth at the national suffrage bazaar set for Madison Square Garden in New York City next week. The event aims to promote suffrage and features participants from multiple states.
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Washington
The Northampton Bank Robbery cleared up
Northampton Mass December 1 The mystery of the 1876 Northampton bank robbery is solved Robert J Clapp now a millionaire confesses he helped James Dunlap Bob Scott Red Leary and Shang Draper in the plan The gang made nearly 12 million Leary and Draper escaped without serving a sentence Dunlap and Scott were imprisoned 15 years Scott died in prison 1882 Dunlap pardoned in 1892 by Gov Russell of Massachusetts The revelation ends years of intrigue
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Northampton
Mass
Robert J. Clapp
James Dunlap
Bob Scott
Red” Leary
Shang” Draper
Clapp
Pelly River
Alaska
Dunlapart Scott
Leary
Draper
Robery
Mild Smallpox Epidemic Report From Winona
Winona Minnesota December 1 Secretary Bracken of the state board of health says the city faces a mild smallpox outbreak with over 300 cases concentrated in the Fourth ward home to a large Polish community. Schools churches and saloons in the ward may close and remain shut until health officials permit reopening enforced quarantine in the infected district.
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Winona
Minn
Bracken
State Board of Health
Fourth Ward
Board of Health
Ferry Boat Capsized Killing Four In Spokane River
In Spokane Washington a ferry carrying 18 construction workers capsized while crossing the river two miles downstream from the Great Northern bridge. The crowd surged to the bow and the vessel swamped in swift currents. Five reached shore but four men were swept away and drowned.
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Spokane
Wash
Dee
Spokane River
Great Northern
New Bridge
Eighteen Dead in San Francisco Glass Plant Disaster
Five more persons died Friday morning after the Thursday glass works accident, bringing the death toll to fifteen with more expected to die. Crowds gathered at the morgue as the coroner's jury prepared to view the bodies. Hospitals overflowed with the maimed while doctors and nurses labored to treat the injured.
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San Francisco
New York Bankruptcy Case Files Show Major Creditor
Lewis Season good of Cincinnati is identified as the largest secured creditor in the case of Charles Freedman a New York cloak maker who filed for bankruptcy on Friday with liabilities totaling 73876 and assets including real estate valued at 30000 in the filing reported from New York dated December 1.
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New York
Lewis Seasongood
Cincinnati
Charles
Freedman
Football accident ends in lethal injuries on Chicago gridiron
Thomas Kelly, 148 years old, suffered internal injuries after being thrown during a scrubs game in Chicago. doctors fear the injuries may prove fatal as the incident is reported from the local field.
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Chicago
Thomas Kelly
Scrubs
Presidential Postmasters Nominated for Senate Review
The president will submit sixty nominations for presidential post offices to the Senate for confirmation in the first week of the new congressional session.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Noted Minneapolis figure shot by police during arrest
Minneapolis dispatch reports Thomas White, a well known local character, was shot and killed by Police Sgt. White as he resisted arrest. The incident occurred December 1 in Minneapolis, prompting an investigation by authorities.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Thos. White
White
Oscar Wilde Dead Reported In Paris
A Paris dispatch reports Oscar Wilde died of meningitis in an obscure Latin quarter house. He had lived briefly under the name Manmoth, underwent a major operation in October, and died at 2 am Friday at Maison du Pierier in the presence of Lord Alfred Douglas with rumors he may have taken his own life.
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Dublin
Evening Mail
Paris
Oscar Wilde
Wilde
Rue Des Beaux Arts
Manmoth
Maison du Pierier
Lord Alfred Douglas
Great Live Stock Show Opens at Dexter Park
Chicago hosts one of the nation s greatest live stock shows at the Dexter Park pavilion with over 10 000 pedigreed animals received and expected to grow. The display value exceeds 2 000 000 with 600 classes and prizes totaling 75 000. Hundreds of stockmen arrive from across the United States and Canada as judging begins Monday with a formal opening that morning.
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Chicago
Dexter Park
United States
Canada
Son
Antarctic expedition aims for next autumn launch of Discovery
London reports the Royal Society announced the National Antarctic expedition will begin next autumn. Construction of the vessel Discovery has already started at Dundee.
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London
Royal Society
Discovery
Dundee
Wisconsin Representative Babescek Named for Ways and Means
The note indicates Representative Babescek of Wisconsin will be appointed to the Ways and Means Committee, likely succeeding Delliver who resigns and may retire from the Insular Affairs Committee.
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Washington
Des
Babescek
Wisconsin
Gos
Delliver
Committee On
Market and grain prices across cities report
Cincinnati Chicago and Indianapolis market summaries show flour and grain price ranges, with wheat corn oats and rye values. Livestock quotes include hogs cattle sheep lambs and veal prices across several exchanges, plus a note on a locomotive world clone line closing.
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Cincinnati
Oye
Chicago
Tayge
Indianapolis
Ind
East Tuffalo
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Hee. L
Capitol
Appropriations
Free
Lodeer
Foreign Relations
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State
Naval Affairs
Inventor Mosher
Chillicothe, O
All Mosher
Mosher
Banker McCoy
McCoysburg
the Molders’ Union
Supreme Command
England
South Africa
Morning Post
Cape
Cape Colony
Bloemfontein
Orange River
Pretoria
Daily Mail
Treasuries
Fatal Gridiron Sport
Presidential Postmasters
the Antarctic Expedition
Telliver’s
Markus
Sealine’ Ee
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