Bonfield Burglary Suspects Arraigned In Bond Theft Case
Four men tied to a Chicago burglary ring are under heavy bond after grand jury disclosures. W F Shaw Henry Plessner C D Taylor and Otis Corbett face tomorrow’s hearings. Shaw linked to stolen Kellogg bonds and a loan collateral scheme, with testing statements from Banfield painting a broad organized gang.
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Chicago
Cutting
W. F. Shaw
Henry Plessner
C. D. Taylor
Otis Corbett
Corbett
Shaw
Rock Island
Banfield
Sawyer Cutting
Indianapolis
Kellogg
Taylor
Plessner
Pilssner
Armory
Kellogg, Johnson & Bliss
Cam,reo & Co
Sawyer
Cann, Wimpole Co
Henry W. King & Co
Thanks From Confederate Maryland Association to Gen Agnus
A letter of thanks from the Confederate Association of Maryland to Gen Felix Agnus praises his efforts to secure Pikesville Arsenal as a home for disabled Confederate soldiers. Bradley T. Johnson signs as president, praising Union soldiers and requesting blessings for their aid. The item reflects wartime sympathies and postwar reconciliation language.
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Baltimore
Felix Agnus
The
American
Confederate ‘Association of Maryland
Pikesville Arsenal
Etter
Confederates of
Sidney
Thompson
Farragut
Army of the
United States
Black Douglas
Holy Land
McClellan
Hooker
Meade
Grant
Bradley T. Johnson
Association of Maryland
Steamer Alvo Arrives with Wrecked Crews in New York
The Alvo arrived from Fortune Island bearing Captain F G Gladulich and twelve Austrian seamen from the Elias wrecked December 2. It also carried Capt. Carter and eight seamen of the Florence wrecked December 10, from Fortune Island to Boston. Captain W H Merritt of the Bath schooner David W Hunt was aboard, his vessel wrecked in a hurricane November 25 east by south of Hatteras and abandoned November 30. The crew were rescued by the Jessie T Matheson and landed at Inagua. the captain went to Fortune Island.
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New York
Alvo
Fortune Island
F. G. Gladulich
Elias
Oran
Aivo
Carter
Florence
Boaton
W. H. Merritt
David W. Hunt
Bath
Hatteras
Jessie T. Matheson
Cape Haytien
Inagua
Nassau
Hyacinth Rescues Shipwrecked Crews near Malden Island
Hyacinth arrived from Tahig and rescued twenty four shipwrecked sailors from Hermann and Virgo vessels on Malden's Island. The captain, mates, and crew of Virgo perished when their boat capsized during a storm. Hermann's crew all escaped.
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San Francisco
Cal
Honolulu
Tahig
Malden’s Island
Hermann
Virgo
Cook
Internal Revenue Receipts and Lynching Rumors Reported
Internal revenue receipts for the first five months of the fiscal year ending June 30 1889 total 53 091 736 dollars, rising over last year by 1 231 186. Spirits led gains while fermented products and oleomargarine showed small changes. In Illinois a white man Clinton Garrett died after a confrontation with a black man John Price who fled. a posse surged to capture Price and a crowd roughened a man named Toni who aided Price.
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Washington
St. Louis
Republic
Shawneetown
Illinois
Clinton Garrett
John Price
Price
George Francis
Carr
Garret
Toni
Fatal Boiler Explosion at Hastings Saw Mill
Boulder Col December report details a boiler explosion at Hastings' saw mill near Gold Hill on Saturday. Four men died or were fatally injured including Mcdonald A Barnard and two unnamed workers Nodlett and Niles. one victim identified as Mike Bar.
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Boulder
Col
Hastings
Gold Hill
Mcdonald
A. Barnard
Nodlett
Niles
Mike
Buck and Bradley The Former Gives Up His Cabinet Bid
Gen A F Buck of Atlanta quits pursuit of a cabinet post in Washington after ten days of lobbying. He blames the Angier brothers and Ed Angier for thwarting his Georgia prospects. Buck faces opposition from W C Bradley and conservative Georgia Democrats while Senator Sherman remains neutral. Buck’s vow to share patronage with Georgia Democrats signals a concluded bid and disillusionment with the process.
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Washington
A. F. Buck
Atlanta
Possible
Buck
Sherman
Indianapolis
Harrison
Newspaper Row
Angier Brothers
Georgia Persimmons
Angie
Georgia
W. C.radley
Kentuckian
Bradley
Senator Sherman
Senator Colquitt
Gordon
Handsomest Nashville Office Building Destroyed by Fire
A fire at Baxter Court in Nashville at 9 30 tonight razed the citys handsomest office building. Originating in the engine room, the blaze caused about 100000 in losses with 60000 building value. Lawyers Ed Baxter and others lost libraries and papers. Judge Matt W Allen was severely burned. Insurance stood at 50000. R G Dan Co Hermitage Insurance Banner and Riddle Co offices damaged by water.
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Nashville
Tenn
Baxter Court
Ed, Baxter
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
R.G. Dan & Co
Two Alabama killings report deadly family feud and pursuit
In Gadsden Jesse J. Taylor was shot dead by his nephew Wick Craze while trying to prevent a dispute with a man named Lancaster. Craze fled and a sheriff's posse pursues him. In Heflin Tanner Bryant was killed by his father-in-law after an attempted intrusion to see his wife, Chambers surrendered.
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Birmingham
Ala
Gadsden
Age-Herald
Jesse J. Taylor
Wick Craze
Taylor
Lancaster
Heflin
A's
Tanner Bryant
Bryant
Chambers
Lutterell kills Moyer in Chickasaw Nation feud
Denison Tex Dec 24 Dudley Lutterell shot and killed Jim Moyer and mortally wounded John Christian at Harneyville Chickasaw Nation yesterday. Moyer and Christian were leading cattlemen and merchants. The feud traces to the Christian Juzean dispute with Alex Juzean Sam Christian Bud Lutterell and three others killed. Steve Bonsell, sentenced to hang at Fort Smith Ark, is among the gang. Lutterell escaped.
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Denison
Tex
Dudley Lutterell
Jim Moyer
John Christian
Harneyville
Moyer
Christian
Fort Smith, Ark
Lutterell
Vicksburg Marshal Shoots Breakers At Jail Doors
In Vicksburg Mississippi at midnight City Marshal McMahon shot A G Clay and Newton Doolen as they tried to break into the jail to free a prisoner named Green awaiting trial today for liquor selling. Both men were badly wounded.
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Vicksburg
Miss
McMahon
A.G. Clay
Newton Doolen
Green
Unrest on Thames Embankment Dispersed by Police
London reports a midnight meeting of unemployed workers addressed by MP Robert Cunningham Graham on the Thames embankment. A procession from Kennington was attacked by police and dispersed, with reports of severe struggles between officers and paraders.
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London
Robert Cunningham Graham
Thames Embankment
Kennington
Haytien Republic Surrendered to U S Command
Secretary Whit ney received a cable from Rear Admiral Luce in Kingston Jamaica stating that the American steamer Haytien Republic, seized at Port au Prince by Haitian authorities, has been surrendered to him upon demand.
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Washington
Whitney
Luce
United States
Galena
Kingston
Jamaica
Port-Au-Prince
Relief fund appeal for East Africa sick and wounded
Berlin reports an appeal for funds to aid the sick and wounded in East Africa. Empress Augusta and Dowager Empress Augusta have donated 250 pounds to the Iman Lady Society for relief work. German soldiers are actively assisting in organization efforts.
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Berlin
East Africa
Augusta
Iman Lady Society
The Departments Closed for Christmas Week
Washington December 24 all the departments closed at noon today and government business will be suspended until Wednesday morning President and Mrs Cleveland will spend Christmas quietly at the White House.
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Washington
Cleveland
White House
Boulangist Meeting Denied Hearing in Pontoise
Paris reporters say De Raulede and fellow Chamber of Deputies members went to address a Boulangist meeting at Pontoise tonight but were denied a hearing amid several violent scrimmages.
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Paris
de Raulede
Chamber of Deputies
Aten
Pontoise
Bank Failure Readies Control by Comptroller
A Bank of December 34 is seized with assets and liabilities undetermined as the comptroller assumes control. Details on the bank’s condition and immediate actions remain unavailable.
Base Ball in Australia All America Triumphs in Melbourne
In Melbourne today the All America team defeated Chicago 15 to 13. The game showcased strong hitting and solid defense as both sides produced a high scoring affair in front of local spectators.
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Australia
Melbourne
All America
Chicago
They Want Their Wages Revolt in Constantinople Arsenal
In Constantinople on December 24 sailors and mariners at the arsenal revolted over unpaid wages. Leaders were arrested. No bloodshed reported.
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Constantinople
Train collision at Bardstown Junction kills two
Louisville dispatch reports passenger train No. 23 from Knoxville line collided with No. 5 at Bardstown Junction at 9 am. Two killed Mary Perkins and Willie Houston. Thirteen seriously injured including engineer McPherson and fireman Charles King. Front train engines and coaches demolished, rear train passengers bruised and scalded.
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LouisvilLe
Louisia
Nashville
Telesco Passener
Knoxville
Bardstown Junction
Mary Perkins
Old Deposit
Willie Houston
Water Creek
Laure County
McPherson
Charles King
E. R. Dickerson
Boston
Berthal Flownbacker
King
The Kate Adams Burning and Loss of Life
Memphis dispatch reports clerk William Donohue survived the Kate Adams disaster after the steamer burned. He says Clerk George Corbett may have been rescued downstream. Drowning toll ranges up to sixty, with many on lower decks perishing. Boat and cargo valued at 145000. The Kate Adams once held a Helena to Memphis speed record and carried President Cleveland and wife during a 1883 visit.
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Memphis
Tenn
William Donohue
Kate Adams
George Corbett
Donohue
Arkansas
Corbett
Friars Point
Helena
President Cleveland
West Memphis
South Carolina Legislature Adjourns After 23 Days
The South Carolina Legislature adjourned sine die after a 23 day session in Columbia. Key acts included restoring railroad rate regulation, cutting Confederate pensions to 30 dollars, validating railroad aid town bonds, accepting Thomas Clemson's bequest for an agricultural college, and punishing primary election fraud. The tax levy for the year was set at 5 mills.未
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Columbia
D. C
State Railroad Commission
Supreme Court
Thos. G. Clemson
John C. Calhoun
Calhoun
Fort Hill
Agricultural College
Sixty Three Descendants Cheer His Declining Years
Frederick Hyatt, born December 11, 1799 in Wilmington Delaware, is among Pierce County Wisconsin's oldest residents in his 89th year. A late life forebear of frontiersman days, he lived in Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois and finally Prescott Wisconsin. He built many early Prescott structures and taught craft through the years. He married, raised twelve children, and served as a long standing Methodist church member for seventy years. His descendants include sixty three, with twelve children and twenty nine grandchildren amid wartime losses of two sons. He now lives with son in law D. S. Cheney. his memories span nine decades in Prescott.
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Prescott, Wis
St. Paul Globe
Frederick Hyatt
Pierce County
Wilmington
Del
Washington
Columbia
Lancaster County
Elizabeth Killips
Erie
Illinois
Morris
Pennsylvania
Prescott
Stillwater
Eleanor Redman
Cheney
Preston
Wisconsin
Weldon
Lest Overboard Off Hatteras In gale takes captain
Charleston dispatch reports a schooner sailing from New York on the 18th blew off course in a heavy gale off Hatteras on the night of the 2th. Captain Henry Petty was lost overboard while aiding to take in the mainsail. First officer A Grantwick survived.
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Charleston
A. Grantwick
New York
Hatteras
Henry Petty
Report Denies Fire at Milwaukie Lumber Mill
MILWAUKEE Dec 24 There is no truth in rumors of a large fire at Serege tema. Telegrams asserted a boiler explosion at a lumber mill caused injuries and a $10 000 loss but officials say a small boiler exploded injuring a few and destroying a boiler shed with total loss around 10000 dollars.
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Milwavebe
Serege Tema
French Senate debate on rights of fishermen highlighted
In Ardennes second ballot for the Chamber of Deputies Lenard 30609 ahead of Duffray 28794. Admiral Veron urged stopping Newfoundland cod bait sales and English lobster factories encroaching on French rights. Gablet said France would press for Utrecht treaty rights and negotiate with Britain to curb English fisheries while developing French ones. Vacquieres and Boulangists contest Seine seat. Senate approves interior navy education and opera funding. Panama Canal shares rise.
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Gablet
France
Utricht
Newfoundland
England
Senate
Aris
Vacquerie
Department of the Seine
Chamber of Deputies
Department of Interior, Navy, Education and Art
Panama Canal
President Harrison's Washington Household Provisions
The Sentinel outlines what Mrs. Harrison will face upon arrival in Washington. It notes Cabinet officers receive horses and carriages at government expense, while the President must supply his own. It describes a fully furnished White House, private staff, and separate budgets for furnishings and living costs, with an emphasis on private pay for servants and the steward’s role in managing upkeep.
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the Sentinel
White House
Grant
United States
Gen. Harrison
Washington
Cleveland
Albert Hawkins
Mr. Harrison
Albert
Harrison
Waukee Sentinel
Sunday Horse Racing Stopped in Prussia
In Prussia on Sundays and holidays, Emperor's request halted horse racing. Separate notes report Washington bond offerings totaling 302,900 with 210,450 accepted at 105. A separate item from Loxpox notes Mr John B. continues to be ill.
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Besrlin
Prussia
Washington
John B
Ea Alam
Queen's Speech outlines imperial crises and domestic reforms
The Queen's Speech discusses fisheries disputes with the United States, African conflicts, and Egyptian restoration, plus sugar bounty abolition, colonial governance, and localgovernment measures. It notes naval blockades against slave trade, Afghan and Zulu uprisings, a Pope address, and political turmoil in Zanzibar and Tunisia. The session prorogues to January 31 with thanks to Parliament for fiscal measures.
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Loxpon
Dec
United States
United States Senate
Egypt
Suakim
Zanzibar
Africa
Germany
Black Mountain
Afghanistan
Isha- Khan
South Africa
House of Commons
England
Fire Alarm Confusion Sparks Broad Street Chase
A 1 30 pm alarm from box 15 caused a Broad Street scramble as multiple fire companies roared toward the bell tower. Officers and drivers blamed miscommunications and a faulty electric gong, while two civilians, Silas Eubanks and John Morris, were hurt but not seriously. The grass in a park across Second Avenue burned briefly from firecrackers, with no major damage.
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Fifteenth Street
Third Avenue
Broad Street
Hook and Ladder Company
Tenth
George Burrus
C. D. Adams
Bell Tower
Telegraph Pole
Georgia Home Building
Silas Eubanks
John Morris
Eubanks
Garrett
Second Avenue
Rass
Smith
Dave Blascoer
Tacomrtrany
Lewis
No. 5
Drambo
No.4
Eleventh Street
Frank Reese
Leon Strauss
Broad and
Tenth Streets
Strauss
D. Adams
Hook and Ladder
The Bugbear of American Protection and English Trade
The article argues protectionist policy raises duties on machinery and materials to offset cheaper English imports. It cites historical tariff rates from 1876 to 1887, noting how England's exports to the U S rose while American duties protected domestic production. It claims tariffs shield both English manufacturers and U S industry from foreign competition.
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England
United States
Germany
France
German Language Becomes School Standard in Schleswig
Bern December 24 Herr Von Gosslen sanctioned a Schleswig Governor order requiring German to be used in elementary schools from April first with exceptions for religious instruction. The dispatch notes a separate report of a Russian Consul's arrest in Vienna for alleged involvement in a theatre explosive plot linked to Nihilist activity.
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Bern
Herr von Gosslen
Schleswig
Vienna
the Tagblatt
Malta
Duchess of Edinburgh
Mountain-area magazine explosion kills one boy in Ohio
A Mount Pleasant Ohio powder magazine blast yesterday leveled several buildings and injured many workers near a tunnel project led by Miller and McMann. Charles Glick, a 14 year old, was blown apart after breaking the magazine lock and entering with companions. Seventeen workers were badly hurt, and a panic spread through the nearby settlement. The blast left thousands of pounds of dynamite frozen and failed to detonate fully, sparing the tunnel entry and surrounding homes from greater destruction.
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Wheeling
Pleasant
Ohio
Charles Glick
Glick
W. Va
Mount Pleasant
Long Run
Jefferson County
Martin's Ferry
Miller & McMann
New York
Commissary
General Boarding
General Boarding House
Ben Mulhern
Christmas Eve Crowds Fill The Streets In Holiday Throng
On Christmas Eve crowds flood the streets in a moving mass of people of all ages and backgrounds. Shoppers seek mementos for relatives and sweethearts while children gather fireworks for tonight. The day ends peaceful with orderly crowds and a quiet police report as firecrackers light up the night.
Ohio Methodist Preachers Protest Inauguration Display
The Columbus Methodist Preachers' Association protested the nearly one hundred thousand dollars spent for an inauguration ball and pageantry. They urged high official disdain for European court follies, saying the expenditure conflicts with Republican simplicity and undermines presidential ideals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Methodist Preachers’ Association of
Methodist Preachers of
Fire destroys Marion stores. losses insured
A Marion blaze yesterday destroyed buildings housing Gregory & Son H Hart Jr D J Ballara saddlery A V Wech grocery Union telegraph office Morton’s photographic studio. All merchants saved stock. No loss estimates yet. figures partly covered by insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Marion
Gregory & Son
H. Hart
D. J. Ballara
A. Vv. Wech
Union Telegraph Office
Morton
Pho- Union
Phc
Orton
Hart
Turkey Buzzard Dies After Streetcar Accident
A street car struck a buzzard at the corner of Second Avenue and Sixteenth Street, fatally injuring it. A man then seized the dead bird and fled, smiling, but soon realized his error. The bird died in the street while the man imagined a festive scene.
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Buzzard
Second Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Bazezard
Mekey
A Christmas Sociable Hosted by Girara Heman Club
The Girara Heman Social Club held a Christmas sociable with entertainment by Messrs Wesley Clark Johnson and an appreciative audience. The event featured tasteful decor and ladies in attendance, with a committee including Ciendon and Mike Caridy organizing arrangements and viewing selections.
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Girara Heman
Wesley
Clark Johnson
Royal
Naif Tasee
cCiendon
Mike Caridy
Ania Salen Eee Bens’ Howe
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Highbury
Austin
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Lonpox
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Loxton
Henry A. Blake
Queensland
O'Kelley
Dublin
James J.o’kelley
Sirza
Swakim
Handoub
Osman Digna
Washinoton
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