Grevy resigns as France's president amid crisis
Paris sees the French Republic shaken as President Grevy resigns after decisive votes in the chamber and senate. He leaves office with a sad heart and promises no responsibility for future events. Crowds fill the streets while police regulate traffic near the deputies’ building. In Kansas City a land office appointment rumor is denied by Judge Phillips who says he did not consent to any vacancy.
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Grevy
Republic
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Kansas City
Phillips
Sparks
Lamar
L. Q. C. Lamar
Land Commissioner's
Washington
Jomn FE. Phiirs
Evening Journal to Merge with Evening Herald
On authority the Evening Journal will consolidate with the Evening Herald forming the Herald Journal. Col Lounsberry becomes editor, D E Woodbridge city editor, Miles Bunnell business manager. A stock company with 350000 capital will own both papers and the Herald valued at 30000 with the Journal at 15000.
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Evening Journal
Evening Herald
Nierald-Journal
Journal
Herald
Col. Lounsberry
Herald-Journal
D. E. Woodbridge
Miles Bunnell
Supreme Court Grants Writ in Nebraska City Council Contempt
The Supreme Court decided to grant the habeas corpus returnable on December 12 in a contempt case from Lincoln Nebraska. It concerns the liberty of the mayor and eleven city council members confined in Omaha jails for defying a federal court injunction in a probe of malfeasance in office against police Judge Albert F Parsons.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Lincoln
Nebraska
Omaha
Albert F. Parsons
Pardons Granted and Notable Local Court Actions
President grants pardons for Frank Phillips jailed in 1885 for counterfeiting and Columbus Houching sentenced to seven years in Indiana peniten tiary. Denials issued for several pardon applications. Wheeler of New Haven bound for trial on bank fraud. Thompson dies, veteran LeRoy editor and postmaster nominee. Doran couple convicted of neighborhood thefts. Kirkham and Olmstead block fire in Springfield causing $10,000 loss.
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Washington
Frank Phillips
Michigan House of Correction
Columbus Houching
Indiana
Ma con Jeff Davis fund project collapses after letter
A Macon Georgia community initiative to launch a popular subscription Jeff Davis fund has fallen through. The effort, once buoyed by press and public support, was abandoned after a letter from Mrs. Davis to Col. W. I. Ross.
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Augusta
Macon
Jeff Davis
Local letter praises donation yet deflects praise from donors
In Kimball a committee leader asks to thank donors while declining to accept a moneyed obligation, noting education and freedom hold greater value. A three inch snow falls as an alarm from L D Barden’s two story store prompts quick fire department response. smoke from a chimney subsides.
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Con
Kimball
L. D. Barden
Chicago Clerk Turns to Theft to Fuel Whisky Habit
Percy Connors a 30 year old clerk at Gossage Co State street dry goods house walked into the central police station and asked to be locked up claiming years of systematic theft from his employers. He said his $10 weekly salary was too small and liquor cravings drove him to steal small sums while keeping his job.
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CuteaGco
Percy Connors
Central Police
Gossage & Co
State Street
Connors
Bankrupt Cornwall MP Borlase Faces Debt Burden
William Copeland Borlase, MP for St Austell division, under secretary of the local government board, was examined in bankruptcy court. Liabilities total £42,653, assets £6,371, with his financial troubles linked to a fixed income to Mme de Quiros and coercive demands in France, Spain, and Wales.
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Loonpdon
William Copeland Borlase
St Austelle
Cornwall
Local Government Board
Mme. de Quiros
France
Spain
Wales
Trafalgar Square
Harper trial features Briggs Swift and multilevel fraud ties
In Cincinnati, December proceedings in the Harper case continue with witnesses Swift Chatfield Kineon and Gahr. They corroborate choices on certificates and letters to Irwin Green & Co and Kershaw & Co, while detailing a $600000 draft package and Harper as financial manager of EK. L Harper & Co and Riverside Iron and Steelworks, which had no assets, were used to obtain funds. Richard Smith of the Commercial Gazette testifies next.
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Cincinnati
Harper
Briggs Swift
Ife
Hopkins
Baldwin
W. Chatfield
Irwin, Green & Co
Kershaw & Co
Sol. Kineon
Swift and Chatfield
al Gahr
America
Riverside Iron and Steelworks
Gahr
Wiltshire
Chicago
EK. L. Harper & Co
Geo. E. Mathews
Swifts
Mr. Ives
New York
Riverside Company
Richard Smith
The
Commercial Gazette
Delegation heads to Washington for convention site
Final preparations are completed as a large delegation of noted citizens departs for Washington to secure the location of the Republican National Convention. Other dispatches report witness rebuttals in Arensdorf case, Tyner transferring records to J E Jenkins, and a marriage involving Magdalena Schwartz and Andrew Robinson increasing local wealth.
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Minneapolis
Dec
Washington
Bismarck
Tyner
J. E. Jenkins
Territorial
Jenkins
Ringrose
Aberdeen
Bralnerd
Magelena Schwartz
Andrew Robinson
Dakota
Robinson
Mammoth panther killed near Washburn shown at exhibit
Great excitement follows the killing of a giant panther about fifty miles north of BismaRCK near Washburn. The eight foot long beast is now on display in the city. An assembly of Knights of Labor was organized in Uismarck by Grand Lecturer Trevellick.
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Bismarck
Washburn
Knights of Labor
Uismarck
Trevellick
Senate swears in Aldrich as balance shifts in Washington
In Wash In GT on, the senate will swear new members two at a time and with Aldrich’s oath Republicans gain a majority to influence proceedings. Democrats urge absentees to attend while several names are listed as absent. In Chicago Hyde Park plebiscite ends injunction as officials plan quo warranto to block expansion.
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Washington
Senate
Aldrich
George Slurst
Blodgett
Nampton
Gibson
Colquitt
Salisbury
CimcaGco
Dee
Hyde Park
Chicago
France at Versailles Elects Carnot President in Turbulent Vote
In a second trial the ballot by senators and deputies at Versailles shows De Freycinet leading 21 to 108. The chamber condemns President Grevy's resignation message. Floquet withdraws as president of the chamber. Reinforcements arrive. Cardi Carnot is elected president of France with 600 votes. other candidates retire.
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Paris
Versailles
Grevy
M. Floquet
Chamber of Deputies
M. Cardi Carnot
France
The Cutting Case Revived in Mexican Tensions
Washington officials report unexpected Mexican excitement over the cutting case. The State Department had warned Mexico to abandon its claim to extra territorial jurisdiction. Secretary Bayard asserts the action serves international lines and should prevent serious trouble, aiming to avoid resentment.
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Washington
State Department
Mexico
Bayard
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