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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
6
Illinois Supreme Court rules city ordinances regulating department store business unconstitutional. Prohibitions target meat lards vegetables and provisions sold with dry goods in the same building, and ban spirits and malt liquors in stores selling dry goods.
London reports Buller casualty list for Colenso with 1145 killed and 746 wounded and 227 missing, about 40 prisoners. Royal letters authorize a January 7 church collection for sick and wounded soldiers families. Navy pledges 700 men. Distress grows in Orange Free State amid grain shortages.
Joplin Missouri reports a surge of thefts with the New York store robbed for 1200 dollars in silks and satins. It marks the third robbery in four months and seven since the shop opened eight years ago. Additional petty thefts include about 20 overcoats taken from various sites including a courthouse and saloons.
The Sentinel notes a Christmas postal card from Robert Fritz formerly of Fulton Market now visiting Geneva Switzerland. The item touts Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cents as a health aid and advertises a new delivery wagon by G J Grosshaus on East Main Street with a pitch on what a woman should demand from a man.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood formally assumed the governor general’s office in Havana at nine o’clock yesterday morning and moved to dismiss the advisory cabinet. Gen. Chaffee gains promotion and speculation swirls about staff abolition and reassignments across Matanzas Santa Clara and Havana Pinar del Rio. A civil government experiment is anticipated in the Santiago department under Wood’s supervision. In Boston the same day Congressman Boutelle of Maine fell ill with a brain-congestion suspected from indigestion, while Senator James K. Jones predicted brighter prospects for Democrats in 1897 with Bryan as the likely presidential candidate.
Gen James M Lewis a Missouri attorney ex vice president of the police board and former adjutant general died at his home in St Louis from peritonitis aged 41 after a short illness. The governor has been flooded with letters urging an extra legislative session in January to enact franchise taxation.
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