Steels Refuses Postoffice Choice Amid Wabash Row
In Dec position, Congressman Steele defies eleven candidates for the Wabash postoffice and aims to push Maj Wood’s selection. Some candidates urge a mass convention vote. a partial Republican committee vote favored a convention next Saturday. Steele vows to ignore the convention’s choice.
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Wasasa
Mr. Steele
Wal Wood
Wabash Postoffice
Republican Committee
Maj Steele
Mr. Wood
Congresseman Steele
Counterfeiting Ring Busted In City Boarding House
M R Halsimes and Oliver Justice, tinworkers, were arrested at their boarding house on December 28 charged with counterfeiting. Spurious half dollars found on them matched coins troubling the police. The coins and chemicals and stolen goods were found, but no dies. They claim the money came from Middletown Tin Plate Company for work.
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Anpeerson
M. R. Halsimes
Oliver Justice
Todaay
Middletown Tin Plate Company
Toughs Attack Christmas Church in Perkinville
An unidentified gang crashed a Christmas church service in Perkinville on December 28 and stirred panic with drunken, boisterous conduct. A few men resisted and were assaulted. The same group had previously disrupted a local school meeting. Authorities plan arrests.
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Anperson
Perkineville
Pottsdam Fire Destroys Windsor Hotel and 15 Establishments
A blaze in Pottsdam New York destroyed the Windsor Hotel four saloons two clothing stores three restaurants one grocery two livery stables and two barber shops causing an estimated 100000 in damage with partial insurance coverage. The article also notes European tensions surrounding Germany and Cuba in a brief political aside.
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Portsdam
N. Y
Windsor Hotel
Bedford and Washington Announce Jackson Bout at Washington
Sparring contest arranged between Bill Jackson, a well known local figure, and a color agent from St Louis. The bout set for Washington next Thursday night with an exhibition promised to follow.
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Reprorp, Inc
Bedford
Washington Sports
Bill Jackson
St.Louie
Washington
Gold Democrats Rally Mentioned in Boston and St Louis Gleanings
The Gold Democrats are described amid party disharmony as the Young Men's Democratic Club of Boston hosts Ger Becker while Mrs Buckner attends a Radicent party in a different city. The piece portrays Democrats split over repentance and power, citing Pipcrats and a mountain top metaphor.
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Boston
Ger. Becker
Hoodoo legend surrounds burned Columbia block site
In Anderson Indiana the Columbia block, destroyed by fire with an $80 000 loss, prompts a town meeting on rebuilding. It follows a long history of prior fires on the same site and a curse tied to a deceased woman who died after cursing her brother and the property.
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Columbia
Anderson
T. Doxey
Indiana
Doxey
Rey
Caesie
Foster
W. R. Ray
United States Army
Ray
San Francisco
Maj. Doxey
Hettie Bernard Chase
Chicago
Dancers Fatal Fight at Hawk's Nest
A shooting and stabbing during a colored dance near Hagle Mines in Hawk's Nest West Virginia left Cal Harlow dead and a man known as Red Noas fatally injured. Several others were hurt in the disturbance reported December 27.
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Hawk's Nest
W. Va
Hagle Mines
Cal Harlow
Red Noas
Editor declines Cabinet post in Lewiston Journal
In Best Massachusetts December 28 an editor writes that he would not accept a Cabinet portfolio if offered. He states his stance in an opinion destined for the Lewiston Journal.
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Best
Mass
Lewiston Journal
Dingley
Three Friends In Custody Voyage From Key West
The steamer Three Friends departed Key West for Jacksonville with a customs officer aboard, taking charge of the weasel.
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Key West
Fla
Jacksonville
Young couple wed in Letcher County’s Children’s Wedding
Willie Hall of Baker aged 16 and Miss Nannie Holbrook aged 13 wed at Bilvia near Walaut Ky marking the county’s youngest marriage. Hall a sing dancer danced for nearly an hour after vows as about three hundred mountain people witnessed the ceremony dubbed the children’s wedding.
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Walaut
Willie Hall
Baker
Bilvia
Here
Nannie Holbrook
Letcher County
Hall
Inquest For Miller Aged 40 Under Laurel Hilllines
Deputy Coroner Mark Doney held an inquest at Laurel Hilllines into John Miller aged 40. Miller, widowed twice in a year, had just married Mrs Augusta Kilinsky whose first husband died in the same mine last year. Miller helped carry the injured man home.
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Mark Doney
Laurel Hilllines
John Miller
Augusta Kilinsky
Miller
Found His Son After Sixteen Years of Search
Ellis Stewart, a Black man from the city, returned from Louisville where he sought his son Joseph. His wife died in the Louisville Insane Asylum when Joseph was four, and he was raised by Mrs. Marie Taylor. Stewart learned Joseph, now 26, works at Wong & Co Tobacco factory and will visit home soon.
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Ellis Stewart
Louisville
Joseph
Congress Street
Stewart
Taylor
Wong & Co. Tobacco Factory
Indiana steel castings plant to start operations
Montpelier Dec 28 The Indiana steel castings company will begin operations the first of the year and employ 100 men. The finely equipped plant has sufficient orders to run for a year. A receiver was appointed earlier due to stockholder dissension. matters were settled yesterday. The mill will be operated by Receiver Fr. Neal of the city.
Celebration for Buckner Palmer Supporters in Dudley Township
In Dudley township Kansas fifty residents celebrated Christmas with a dinner at the schoolhouse after a November tally of eleven votes in favor of Palmer and Buckner. Buckner supporters sent a ten gallon whiskey cask and a $50 check to County Clerk to gift to local Democrats. The event featured turkey venison quail eggnog punch and dancing for all ages.
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Topeka
Kan
Childern
Dudley Township
Hackel County
Kansas
Friends
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Kentucky
Aix
Palmer
Buckner
Unite States
National Democracy
Dudley Democrata
Haven't Lost Anything Etwoop Industry Payroll Rise
A Dec 28 report shows 4,000 plus workers across city industries with a payroll over 150000 dollars per month. The comparison to last year indicates more employment and a slightly higher total payroll across industries and shops in the city.
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Etwoop, Inc
Three Miners Shot In Deaths At Hinton Quarrel
In a drunken dispute at Hinton West Virginia John Legg was killed and his brother Richard died soon after. James Moore fired a revolver wounding Legg and was shot in the head by Richard Legg while dying. Legg had been shot in the lung but prevented further harm.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Minera
Hinton
John Legg
Richard
James Moore
Man and Woman Rescued From Icy Garfield Park
Snowy skating at Garfield Park ends in panic as the ice cracks and a man and woman are pulled from water. Aided by three men and many bystanders, the pair are rescued though the woman is briefly unconscious. No identities published.
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MoraNnaPotis
Garfield Park
Anderson Gun Club Holds Record Meeting in Anderson
The Anderson Gun Club annual meeting in Anderson closed with record attendance and top scores. Notable shooters included Dr Britton Partington of Indianapolis William Carr Lafayette Burdock Proctor Union City Bert Call Elwood and C Farlow Frankton.
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Anderson, Inc
Anderson Gun Club
Dr. Britton “Partington
Indianapolis
William Carr
Lafayette
Burdock and Proctor
Union City
Bert Call
Elwood
C. Farlow
Frankton
Washington gold Democrat's view on civil service policy
A Treasury Department official tells Courier-Journal that after McKinley’s election a gold Democrat fears Republicans may snub civil service reform. He warns against keeping officials for politics and labels the spoils approach as flawed. The outlook mirrors officeholders' limited horizon in Washington.
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Sayé
Washington
Treasury Department
Courier-Journal
Congress
McKinley
Cour. Journal
Williams shoots wife in Henshaw murder case
In Caseyville Kentucky on December 28 five miles from here at Henshaw a man identified as Williams fatally wounded his wife with a pistol shot to the left side below the heart. The incident is described in a terse court-house style report.
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Caseyville
Henshaw
Here
Ong. Williams
Mra. Will
Terre Haute
Nathaniel M. Couikehack
Indiana Happenings A Patchwork Of Death And Fire Across Towns
Reports from Kokomo Terre Haute Valparaiso Jeffersonville Wabash Anderson Winamac Ladoga and Anderson describe deaths fires and burglaries. Incidents include a saloon keeper shot dead a wife suspected of immorality two counterfeit arrests a church day observance and a damaged saw mill site amid rumors of a hotel stop.
First Lectures Stir Public Doubt Over Lecturing
The Cour Journal notes lecturer Bryan doubts his vocation after his initial talk Ati. Hi found similar doubt as Sautor Hi resigned, while Mr Gesu pressed on. The piece contrasts curiosity seekers paying 50 cents to hear the popular lecturer with those seeking untruth and questions the fate of a well advertised Populist speaker.
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Bryanne
Ati
Sautor Hi
Gesu
Siiy
Bryan
How McKinley Spent Sunday
President elect McKinley spent most of the day at his home in informal calls. He attended quarterly communion services at the First Methodist Church in the morning with his Cleveland niece, Duncan. In the afternoon he took a drive and enjoyed a walkabout with his mother.
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McKinley
Conroy
Edisuo Pal Church
Duncan
Cleveland
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