11 Dec 1897
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Newspaper
Naugatuck Daily News
Location
Naugatuck, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1897
Page
1
The store touts an ample Christmas assortment including handkerchiefs perfumery children's books and linen table linens. It advertises red brown and bleached damask fabrics with varied yard prices and notes Quilted linings and ladies shirt waists priced at 89 cents and 1.25 dollars respectively with ongoing stock.
The House passed the pension appropriation bill without amendment and adjourned until Monday with the bill at 141,368,388 dollars. Debates covered pension policy civil service reform and Dingley era finances. Several new bills were introduced including voter bribery penalties and free postal delivery for communities. fur seal protection was urged by Hitt with insufficient consensus. Hawaiian natives continue to press annexation views as senators consider the treaty within ten days. Kingston Ontario reports wreckers stripping the Rose Dale steamer after it grounded on East Charity shoals.
Bridgeport, Conn. Dec. 11 Charles Bonat showed emotion for the first time since his murder trial began. His composed demeanor cracked when his wife testified she conspired with officers to capture him and that he was at the Nichols house during the murder, admitting only that he was there. Detective Arnold corroborated, and Miss Nichols identified Bonat by his curly hair as the man who guided her through the house in search of money.
Richard Mansfield, the actor, was held in $600 bail to answer a court on a charge of assault and battery brought by John Metzger of Cleveland, who has served as Mansfield’s dresser for seven years.
A Cairo dispatch to The Daily Mail reports 600 British troops will take part in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan expedition's forward move. The action was delayed after Berber's capture last September to avoid the hot season amid ongoing campaign plans. In Havana, insurgents fired on an American planter's machinery, destroying boilers and banning cane grinding locally under threat of field arson.
A long dispatch from New York reports Commander Ballington Booth confirming willingness to meet General William Booth but urging no reference to disputes between the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America. Booth condemns any union as impracticable and emphasizes self-government within the VOA. He denies ties to schemes by Commissioner Booth Tucker and appeals to the press to set his position straight.
London reports indicate a brighter outlook for the Banffy bill in the Hungarian lower house to extend the Ausgleich for a year without Austrian action. In Baltimore, diamonds worth nearly $10,000 were stolen from Isaac B. Emerson's residence. the thief was captured during a struggle as he fled.
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