Memory of Gonzales Monument Unveiled Heroes Honored
A granite monument 40 feet tall was unveiled in Columbia to commemorate Gonzales and the free press. The ceremony featured Bishop Capers, speeches by W A Clark and Mayor Gibbs, a hymn, and a benediction. Attendees included journalists, clergymen, Knights of Pythias, and local officials.
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Columbia
Knights of Pythias
William Capers
Carolina
W. A. Clark
Monument Association
Samuel M. Smith
Presbyterian Enauted
W. C. Lindsay
Wstar
The
First Baptist Church of Columbia
Sewer Gas Explosion Shakes Hotels In Calcago
A sewer gas explosion in the alley behind the Wellington hotel at Jackson Boulevard and Wabash Avenue lightly injures one boy. Windows at the Wellington and Stratford hotels are shattered and hundreds of dollars of wiring damaged after a teamster dumps coal into the electric light vault blocking a vent.
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Wellington
Stratford
Jackson Boulevard
Wabash Avenue
Local Broker Kiser Dies From Self Inflicted Shot
Anta December 14 report states C. Kiser, a broker, shot himself at his residence on East Har. He had been in poor health for some time and had recently expressed despair about his condition.
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Anta
C. Kiser
East Harrecover
Ex-Queen Liljouknalani Petition Presented to Senate
A petition by former Queen Liljouknalani seeks $16 000,080 in compensation. the document includes an autograph letter and favorable notes. In Louisiana, the steamer Robert A went down on the Red River near Grand Isle after entangled driftwood jammed the rudder. two men drowned and the vessel and car were lost.
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Liljouknalani
Senate
Fairbanks
Steches
Robert A
Grand Es Re
Point
Red River
Six Day Bike Race Kicks Off at Madison Square Garden
The six day cycling event began at midnight at Madison Square Garden New York drawing crowd estimates around 18 000. A few hours into the race several crashes occurred on the dangerous board track with Gougoltz of Italy sustaining a broken rib before being replaced by Vanoni while other riders struggled to keep pace and one team indicated retirement.
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Madison Square Garden Track
New York
Madison Square Garden
Gougoltz
At Was
Vanoni
Judge Felton rules Jamison not bond eligible in chain gang case
A Georgia case shows Judge Felton of Bibb County refusing to grant bond or order a jury trial for Jamison, who sought release while appealing to the Supreme Court of Georgia. Jamison obtained a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Speer asserting denial of legal rights under the fourteenth amendment.
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Felton
Bib Superior Court
Wacon’s
Recorder’s Court
Jamison
Supreme Court of Georgis
Millionaire's Trial Postponed in Standard Oil Case
New York December reports the postponement of the trial of Joan D Rockefeller H H Roger and other Standard Oil men over the Missouri trait ousting case. Service issues delay proceedings until January 4 with Romergs and others still awaiting proper subpoenas.
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New York
Joan D. Rockefeller
H H. Roger
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Traet
Missouri
Mr. Rockefeller
Frederick H. Sanborn
Romergs
Henry M. Flagler
John BD. Archibald
Wade Hempton
George Moffatt
Walter Jennings
Democrats Carry Boston Elect Fitzgerald Mayor in Tight Race
Boston December 14 Democrats won the city election as former Congressman John F Fitzgerald was elected mayor over three competitors. Fitzgerald’s plurality over nearest foe Louis A Frothingham Republican speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives was 8380.
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Boston
John F. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Louis A. Frothingham
Republian
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Baltic unrest deepens as empire faces civil war risk
The article reports widespread union appeals to workers in the Baltic provinces urging caution while warning against government overreach. It notes Count Witte's cabinet denying a return to reaction yet admitting ongoing anarchic conditions. A governor general was appointed with broad powers to restore order across all regional orders.
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Count Witte
Baltic
Polish clergy press for autonomy and reforms in Russian Poland
In Warsaw today 417 Catholic clergymen of Russian Poland met and resolved to demand autonomy for Poland with its own parliament a general secret ballot reinstatement of the Polish language in government offices abolition of capital punishment and full amnesty for political prisoners.
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Warsaw
Poland
Insurance man arrested in Rome for issuing bogus policies
G W Hallett a Rome insurance man with an office in the Magonie Temple building was arrested Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Bronca on a warrant charging him with issuing bogus life insurance policies. The warrant was sworn by a representative of the Georgia Cooperative.
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Rome
G. W. Hallett
Magonie Temple
Shriff Bronca
Georgia
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