Paris Dies of Consumption Two Decades Ago
The Shiner Gazette reports 46 988 deaths in Paris during 1890 with 12 814 due to consumption. Of those, 37.2 percent were ages 1 to 20 and 60.2 percent were ages 20 to 40. A Decatur Alabama geologist claims gold and phosphate traces nearby but withholds exact locality. In Logan County Ohio workmen uncover a mastodon skeleton near Round Prairie, damaging a tusk.
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Paris
Alabama
Decatur
Round Prairie
Logan County
Monastic Castle Restored Amidst Boers and Pompeii Frescoes
Oswald d Aur méné, a Belgian artist, has offered a home at a centuries old convent castle once owned by royalty. M d Aur mèn e is wealthily restoring splendor and installing modern comforts. Frescoes dating before Pompeii adorn walls. the Berlin Museum director is present and Kaiser reportedly bids £100,000 for the fund. European staffs study Boer model corps, hindered by horse shortages except Russia which reports over 10 million war‑fit horses in its census.
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Oswald d’Aurmene
Mr. Kruger
M. d’Aurmene
Ara Tévius
Pompeii
Berlin Museum
Russia
Pension Rejection Dooms 70-Year-Old Vet to Death
Lorney L Salley of Indiana sought a $40 pension increase after irregularities in his affairs were found. His pension was canceled, leading him to brood and refuse food for weeks until he died on Thanksgiving Day. Meanwhile Paul and Mrs Reicke tend a Sierra Nevada signal station watching for fires from a peak, guarding the railroad sheds.
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Lorney L. Salley
Ind
Nuotees
Paul Reicke
California
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Rocky Wilds
Boers’ Farms Targeted for Sale to English Settlers
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent in Johannesburg proposes forming a company to buy Boer farms cheaply and resell to English settlers. He argues Boer prisoners will return to burned homesteads and few livestock, leaving them destitute and reliant on selling land.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Johannesburg
Time lock law leaves church with bond dispute
Rev. David Conway foresaw death and left 5000 to the Mount Joy Presbyterian Church but signed an order for 8700 in bonds. Time locks prevented delivery. Conway died that evening. The banker’s legal ruling decides whether the bonds join the estate or pass to the church.
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Mount Joy
David Conway
Conway
Indiana mob lynches two alleged killers in jail yard
A mob of about 1000 frenzied residents in Rockport Indiana lynched two black men, Jim Henderson and Bud Rowland, after they murdered Hollie Simons a white barber. The crowd overwhelmed sheriff and deputies broke into the jail and hanged the men amid gunfire and threats to others.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Rockport
Jim Henderson
Bud Rowland
Hollie Simons
Rowland
Clemens
Union County
Kentucky
Anderson
Court House
Henderson
DeBruler
Simmons
Walter Evans
Simmon
Hollie Simmons
Winslow
Brabant's Horse Clash Near Sea Strom Survives Heavy Losses
A Brabant's Horse party of mainly raw recruits faced a superior Boer force near Sea Strom in the Orange River Colony on December 3. Four were killed, sixteen wounded, and one hundred twenty prisoners were taken during the engagement.
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Allwalworth
Brabant
Seastrom
Orange River Colony
Prisoners Freed as Boer Forces Split Across Regions
War office dispatch from Lord Kitchener reports five officers and 316 men released from Magaliesberg prison. Boers surround and capture 120 of Brabant's 8 Horse at Scheepers Nek. Vreyheid fight costs 100 Boer dead and wounded. British losses 6 killed, 19 wounded, 30 missing.
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London
War Office
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Brabant
Vreyheid
Lord Kitchiner
Magaliesberg
Rustenberg
Nooitgedacht
Clements
Tragedy at Squaw Island Sail Ends in Deaths
The steamer Manhattan arrives with bodies of Mrs. Shields and her niece Mrs. Mary Davis, found lashed in an overturned yawl after a squall. Lighthouse keepers W. H. Shields and William McCauley were aboard. Lucien Morden drowns. Two men rescued are badly frozen with possible amputations.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Manitowoc
Manhattan
W. H. Shields
William McCauley
Squaw Island
Lucien Morden
Montague
Mich
Holy Family's
Working a Gold Mine in Llano Texas
Llano Texas December 17 Colonel Schriver resumes work in his gold mine five miles east of town. Operations halted last May. Public interest rises as mining activity resumes in Llano County, with optimism about future prospects.
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Llano
Texas
Colonel Schriver
Llano County
Pennsylvania Cities See League Tensions in Labor War
Report notes widespread tense battles over union labor timing across multiple Pennsylvanian cities. Public discourse centers on efforts to push or delay union action amid political and economic pressures.
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Pennsylvania
Political plans shaping next election outcomes emerge
Washington dispatch outlines two census based reform bills. Hopkins seeks to preserve current house and electoral counts, while Burleigh aims to raise representation by thirty and give Republicans a net ten electoral votes. Debate centers on population bases 206,866 and 192,676 with partisan implications across Illinois, New York, Texas, and other states.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Representative Hopkins
Illinois
Census Committee
House
Hopkins
Burleigh
Maine
Louisiana
Minnesota
New Jersey
New York
West Virginia
Texas
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Nebraska
Ohio
Virginia
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Iowa
Harrison seeks court of inquiry after discharge
Russell B. Harrison, son of the former president, asked for a court of inquiry over reflections on his record by Brigadier General Davis, former military governor of Porto Rico. Adjutant General Corbin proceeded with discharge, citing Davis's reflections as a factor in not revoking the order.
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Washington, D. C
Russell B. Harrison
Harrison
Davis
Porto Rico
Corbin
Receiver Appointed for Chosen Friends in Indiana
In Indianapolis on December 15, Attorney General Taylor Auditor Hart and Supreme Recorder T B Linn requested a receiver for the Order of Chosen Friends alleging insolvency. The superior court named Cyrus J Clark as receiver who instructed banks nationwide to hold all funds of the order on deposit intact.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Taylor
Hart
Supreme Recorder
T. B. Linn
Order of Chosen Friends
Chosen Friends
Cyrus J. Clark
Clark
Gang of Robbers Captured Near Bridgeport
The gang that robbed Dor schuck's bank at Shanesville Ohio was captured on the Cleveland Lorraine and Wheeling Railroad Massillon accommodation near Bridgeport. Two out of the six were caught after a gunfight. four escaped with a posse in pursuit. Officer Meister boarded the train at Wheeling Creek and confronted the group in the ladies coach. A desperado fired, chaos followed as passengers sought escape while the train moved. One captured robber held 360 dollars in cash including pennies.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Dorschuck
Shanesville
Ohio
Bridgeport
Massillon
Cleveland
Lorraine
Meister
Robols
Wheling Creek
Production of Gold and Silver in 1899 Reported
Washington reports final figures from the director of mints showing gold production at 71,053,400 dollars and silver at 32,858,700 dollars for 1899. The gold output was the highest in U S history and silver rose modestly to 54,764,000 ounces with an average London price of 60 cents per ounce.
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Washington
Director of Mints
United States
London
Fatal Hunting Accident Near Paris Texas
In Saunders creek area fifteen miles northwest of Paris Tom Timberlake died after his brother in law Bob Ridgeway discharged a hammerless shotgun while dividing game. The shot entered Timberlake’s left leg below the knee causing mangling and eventual amputation before he died that night.
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Paris
Texas
Tom Timberlake
Saunders Creek
Bob Ridgeway
Ridgeway
Timberlake
Fire Destroys Fredonia Normal School Seven Die
From the Fredonia State Normal and Training School fire in Dunkirk New York seven people perished including six female students and the janitor P J Morris Irene Jones Bessie Hathaway Ruth Thomas Cora Storms Mae Williams Maud Fizzell. One body recovered from the ruins is believed to be Miss Storms.
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Dunkirk
N. Y
Fredonia State Normal and Training School
P. J. Morris
Irene Jones
Bessie Hathaway
Ruth Thomas
Cora Storms
Mae Williams
Maud Fizzell
Miss Storms
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Shiner
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