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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
2
A patchwork of editorials and gossip traces fund totals, newspaper moves, Christmas anecdotes, and national party maneuvering. Mentions Lawton fund at 41405 45, Campbell boom, Dyer County Herald, Johnson City Carnival, and McKinley era plans including ship subsidy talks and political plotting.
A man alleged to be Samuel L. Renfro of Elizabethton Tenn was found unconscious from illuminating gas in a Raines law hotel at Sixth Avenue and Twenty Fifth Street New York. Taken to New York Hospital he died shortly after. He registered as G Brown and gave no address. Several letters from Elizabethton addressed to Renfro were found on him.
General Gatacre enforces a reconcentrado policy in Cape Colony requiring males over twelve living outside towns to move at least twelve miles from camps or concentrate under military supervision. Pension applications surge from soldiers of the recent Spanish war, driven by pension attorneys. Goodman pardoned for manslaughter after eight years post killing. Dubois predicts free silver gains if the Transvaal war lasts longer. Danforth reports Southern Democrats skew toward anti trust and anti imperialism over free silver.
Relief is now being furnished to 2,451,000 famine sufferers in India. Congress will be asked to appropriate 50,000 dollars to stamp out smallpox in Indian Territory and South Dakota. Also noted are political inquiries, legal suits, canal company incorporation, and military orders affecting Cuba and the Philippines.
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