Revised tariff bill advances in House Ways and Means
The revised tariff bill is laid before the Ways and Means Committee with major changes in pearl buttons tin plate wool silk and lumber schedules. Reed questions how the deficit will be met Wilson says internal revenue taxes will cover it. The majority aims to report the bill in its present form.
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House
Reed
Washington
Ways and Means
Wilson
Ad Valorem
Brussels
Two Men Hanged for Danville Murder in Executions
In Danville Illinois Harvey Pate and Frank Stires were hanged at the county jail for the murder of farmer Henry Helmick during an attempted robbery. Ministers led the ceremony. both men confessed faith, offered prayers, and died within minutes after the rope released them.
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Danville
Ills
Henry Helmick
Helmick
Harvey Pate
Frank Stires
Pate
Stires
Race Between Locomotives Ends in Bold Challenge
Fred C. Winby of England arrives in New York and proposes a race from Chicago to New York between the New York Central locomotive 999 and the British James Toleman exhibit at the World's Fair. He invented the Toleman points.
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New York
Fred C. Winby
England
New York Central
Chicago
James Toleman
Winby
Toleman
Thirteenth Annual AFL Convention Opens in Chicago
The Thirteenth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor opens in Chicago with about one hundred delegates in attendance. President Samuel Gompers faces opposition from western members over his silver stance while eastern delegates back him. The convention features a sharp contest over the union label amid recent legal setbacks for the federation.
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The
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
the Americas Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Federation
Gompers
T. V. Powderly
Knights of Labor
Palmer comments on Hawaii policy and non intervention
Senator Palmer expressed that the president would address the Hawaiian situation by confronting conditions rather than theories. He predicted no war on Hawaiians and opposed backing the oligarchy that displaced the queen. He argued against a American protectorate and warned of capitalist exploitation in the islands.
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Washington
Palmer
Little Kingdom
United States
Solons at Work Again in National Legislature
Washington reports show a busy session with 25 senators present at start. Debates cover Hawaiian papers, the Chinese law funding, Shields statue unveiling, and bankruptcy legislation as well as rail land payments and federal election law issues. House actions include pension clarifications and Utah admission plans.
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Washington
Aitgeld
Illinois
Senate
Hoar
Doipu
House
Hawaii
Hill
Sherman
Mills
Vilas
Grosvenor
Ohio
Shields
Elections Committee
Morrill
General Corse
Touse
Dec
Oates
Bland
Torrey
St. Louis
Blount
Honolulu
Gray
Utah
Doings of Live Stock Men in Kansas City
The National Live Stock exchange met in Kansas City and proposed a permanent information bureau. It split the western stock growing region into six districts for data gathering and tabulation. Debates covered protecting commission men from damages when selling mortgaged stocks and a bill to make such sales a felony. The first case over mortgaged property sale would go to the supreme court if over $5,000. A blacklist was created to list noncompliant individuals. The convention adjourned.
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Kansas City
Wec
National Live Stock Exchange
Bureau of Information
National Exchange
Supreme Court
Ohio teacher attacked by student’s family after discipline
Portsmouth report says Mary Frizzles a Adams county schoolteacher near Twin Creek was whipped by a pupil. The next day the child’s family ambushed her with clubs and stones near Buena Vista, fracturing her skull and endangering her life. Her sister also suffered a similar attack years before. Great excitement.
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Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette
Portsmouth
Mary Frizzles
Adams County
Twin Creek
Buena Vista
Trainmen on L N road strike causes freight delays
Workers on the Louisville and Nashville line between Evansville and Nashville quit in protest of doubled up engineers on freight trains. The strike includes freight conductors and brakemen. In Nashville the Henderson division sees similar action with only mail trains moving.
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Louisville
Louisville and Nashville
Evansville
Nashville
Henderson Division
Fatal error of a wife in Tyndall death
London December 8 coroner’s jury finds Professor Tyndall died from a mistaken overdose given by his wife Mrs Tyndall who took chloral for magnesia. She admitted the mistake and he reportedly replied you have killed your John.
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London
Professor Tyndall
Tyndall
John
Beaten to Insensibility and Robbed at City Shoe Store
Three men entered Charles McDowell's shop at 206 West Lake Street Chicago last night beat him into unconsciousness and robbed him of 250 dollars. The crime occurred at the shoe store of McDowell. Police reports indicate the suspects fled the scene.
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Chicago
Charles McDowell
West Lake Street
McDowell
Anarchist Vaillant Bombs French Chamber of Deputies
In Paris on a Saturday VAillant threw a bomb into the chamber wounding nearly 110 people. The attacker lost his own nose. Dupuy, president of the chamber, urged continued business as surgeons tended to injured deputies and accompanying guests.
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Paris
Vaillant
Chamber of Deputies
M. Dupuy
Ae Marcha
Dupuy
Chamber
Ives Wins First Night Billiards Game Against Slosson
New York December 12 Ives takes the opening billiards game against Slosson by a score of 600 to 500.
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Ives
New York
Slosson
Bank Robbery in Broad Daylight at South Bend
Sixteen thousand dollars were stolen from the South Bend National Bank in broad daylight as crowds filled the street. Chief Rose and officers surmise a four or more man gang, with clues including a chisel and a back-door entry, but no motive or final amount confirmed at noon. A suspect, Frank Smith, linked to prior swindles, has been identified in a photo and seen near the bank during the crime.
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Sovata Bend
Ind
South Bend National Bank
Indiana
Benjamin Rose
Rose
Myrin Campbell
Brown
Campbell
Michigan Street
South Bend Ind
South Bend
Frank Smith
Red Austin
George W. Swyxart
Smith
Nan
Postoffice lists over fifty alleged mail frauds in midwest
Postoffice Inspector Stuart in Chicago reports Washington has provided a list of more than fifty concerns operating like the Guarantee Investment company of Chicago. These firms are deemed unworthy of United States mail privileges and postmasters are told not to deliver registered letters or money orders to them. Names include Equitable Investment Council Bluffs Perpetual Maturity Bond Keokuk Reserve Fund Creston Missouri Loan Omaha Savings and Investment American Bond Lincoln Nebraska Hull Illinois and others.
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Chicago
Postoffice
Stuart
Washington
Guarantee Investment Company of
Equitable Investment Company
Council Bluffs
Perpetual
Same City
Iowa Guarantee Investment Company
Keokuk
Hreserve Fund Investment Company
Creston
Missouri Loan and Investment Company
Omaha
Nebraska Savings and Investment Company
American Bond Investment Company
National Guarantee Investment Company
Lincoln Neb
Guarantee Investment Company
Hull
Ils
New Orleans Lynching Case Costs City Five Thousand
The mother of Antonio Pagnetto, among Italians lynched by a mob, won $5000 in damages against New Orleans. No appeal will be filed. Six other docketed cases will be tried by the same jury, risking further losses totaling about 35000 for Mafia lynching suits.
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New Orleans
Antonio Pagnetto
Death notices from Warsaw Times list prominent figures
A compiled death record lists many notable individuals across the United States and Canada. Names include Quincy A. Hossler of Warsaw Indiana, Ephriam Green of Rockford Illinois, W. W. Harper of Burlington Iowa, Ex Senator David M. Read of Bridgeport Connecticut, and others such as Mrs Florence E Davis, Dr R G Bogug, Simon Hirsh, John Spinning, William Sparks, Benjamin E Eichner, Elizabeth Barnett, Judge J K Hubk, General Joshua J Guppy, Daniel H Richards, Lansing B Mizner, Royal W Merrill.
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Quincy A. Hossler
Warsaw Times
Warsaw
Ind
Ephriam Green
Rockford
Ills
W. W. Harper
Burlington
David M. Read
Bridgeport
Conn
Florence E. Davis
Bloomington
Lls
R. G. BoGug
Chicago
Simon Hirsh
New York
John Spinning
William Sparks
Hercules
Benjamin E. Eicher
Noble
Elizabeth Barnett
de Witt County
Clinton
J. KR. Hubk
Nebraska
Omaha
Joshua J. Guppyy
Portage
Wis
Daniel H. Richards
Cedar Rapids
Lansing
B. Mizner
Central America
Benecia
Cal
Royal W. Merrill
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Lewis & Black
East Side Square
Black Dog
Shiloh
Chiloh
Bradshaw & Thoma
Margaret Johnson
Christ Child
Bluebird
D. Lothrop
Boston
Muss
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