Anderson Chosen Crawfordsville District Judge Nominee
The president settled a long contest over Judge J. H. Bakers successor naming Anderson for the Crawfordsville district judgeship. Mr Fairbanks approved after being consulted before the announcement. A senator stated Anderson’s nomination would be satisfactory, having twice recommended him.
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J. H. Baker
Mr. Anderson
Journal
Washington
White House
United States
Indiana
Albert B. Anderson
Crawfordsville
Senator Fairbanks
Anderson
Fairbanks
Cortelyou
Senate
R. O. Hawkins
Lawson M. Harvey
Charles A. Dryer
Representative Holliday
E. G. Hogate
Appointee Albert B. Anderson Wins Indiana District Judge Seat
Official White House notice announces Albert B. Anderson of Crawfordsville as the chosen United States district judge for Indiana after a close White House review guided by Senator Fairbanks. Key advocates included Congressman Landis and E H Nebeker, with broad support from Crawfordsville and Lafayette leaders and a celebratory Crawfordsville dinner following the decision.
Who Mr Anderson Is A Crawfordsville Bar Pioneer
Albert Barnes Anderson born Feb 10 1857 at Clarkstown Boone county Indiana near Zionsville. Son of banker Dr Anderson he studied at Wabash College winning the 1879 Bald win oration and state intercollegiate contest. He later read law in Crawfordsville, formed a partnership with Benjamin Crane, and served seven years as Montgomery County prosecuting attorney.
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J. H. Baker
Crawfordsville
Albert Barnes Anderson
Clarkstown
Boone County
Indiana
Zionsville
Anderson
Anthony
Kan
Wabash College
Baldwin
Phi Kappa Psi College
McDonald & Butler
Hurley & Crane
Benjamin Crane
Montgomcome
Serge the
Montgomery and Anderson reconsidered in old and new districts
Tippecanoe county notes recount Mr Anderson being urged to seek the congressional nomination in both the old Eighth and new Ninth districts but declining due to personal friendship for C B Landis and business reasons. He married Rose Campbell in 1882 and has family ties across Indiana and Kansas, with his mother living in Crawfordsville.
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Tippecanoe County
Montgomery County
Mrnderson
C. B. Landis
Landis
Anderson
Rose C. Campbell
John L. Campbell
Wabash College
Albert Baker
Indianapolis
Benjamin Crane
Crawfordsville
H. N. Kirkpatrick
Anthony
Kan
Will
Texas
Julius
Escondido
Cal
Edwin
Pittsburg
Frank
Horton
Gambling room robbed in Pocatello with three masked men
Three unmasked robbers entered the Eagle Clubrooms in Pocatello Idaho last night and stole about 91.00 from about thirty five patrons. Two men fired into the ceiling and fled leaving two captured suspects as a second posse pursues the third member. None of the stolen funds were recovered.
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Pocatello, Ida
Eagle
Jekyll and Hyde Case Fifteen Years for Robber
Philadelphia dispatch reports George Dickinson alias Wescott, a burglar captured after a standoff with police, tried and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Police linked him to about sixty robberies, with legal proof in twenty five cases and about ten thousand dollars in loot recovered.
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Philadelphia
George Dickinson
Wescott
Dickinson
Stripes for a Brewer Guilty of Perjury in Boodle Case
Charles J. Denny millionaire brewer and Suburban Street Railway director was found guilty of perjury after a trial in St Louis. He received a two year penitentiary sentence. The case centered on a boodle scandal over a suburban bill and a $75,000 deposit at Lincoln Trust Company alleged to be paid for passage of the bill. Judge Krum defended the defendant’s character while Circuit Attorney Folk argued that Denny knew the money existed. The jury deliberated after noon.
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ST. Louis
Charles J. Denny
Suburban Street Railway Company
House of Delegates
Bill Doodle
Krum
Denny
Lincoln Trust Company
Circuit
Folk
Ex Speaker Reed Shows Slight Improvement in Critical Condition
Physicians report former Speaker Thomas B. Reed rests comfortably after a day of cautious recovery. A benign temperature, normal respiration at 36, steady pulse, and improving appendicular symptoms are noted, with saline solution and oxygen on hand but not yet used.
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Washington
Thomas B. Reed
Reed
Gardner
Ariington Hotel
Bishop
Coast Storm Brings Severe Wind Rain Snow Across East
A heavy Dec 5 storm battered New York and eastern states with wind rain and snow disrupting rail and ship traffic. Subways ferries and elevated lines delayed or halted. even the Stock Exchange opened with low attendance. Barges sank and crews were lost near Yonkers. Teutonic rode out the blizzard on approach to port. Telegraphs hampered. Western Union and Postal systems shaken.
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New York
Elevated
Ninth Avenue
The
Stock Exchange
Yonkers
White Star
Teutonic
Buffalo Day Express
New York Central Railroad
Ossining
Jersey Meadows
West Hackensack Bridge
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Western Union
Postal Companies
New England
Hudson Valley
Snowstorm cripples city with ferry traffic halt and deaths
A fierce early December snowstorm paralyzed telegraph links between city and Pittsburg and badly crippled suburban transit. One man, George Chiverton, died in a wagon trolley crash in West Philadelphia, with two others injured. The storm dumped eight inches in the anthracite region, while the Virginia Rulon schooner sank near Assateague and several other vessels were driven ashore or lost in the gale along the coast from Hatteras to Norfolk, with crew fatalities reported aboard the Wesley M Oler and Ida Lawrence distress cases.
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Pittsburg
George Chiverton
Philadelphia
Asone
Maritime Exchange
Virginia Rulon
Assateague
Delaware
Hatteras
N. C
Weather Bureau
Wesley M. Oler
Hatteras Inlet
Norfolk
Koln
Bremen
Baltimore
Capes
William D. Hilton
Melville Phillips
Underwriter
Oler
Nassau
Ida Lawrence
Reed's condition worsens with nausea in Washington
At 2 a.m. Mr. Reed remained under care in a Washington hotel as doctors Bishop and Gardner monitored a new development after an earlier nausea attack. Bishop said he would not leave if the patient showed alarming signs and returned to the bedside. no further news came from the sick room.
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Washington
Reed
Dr. Bishop
Gardner
Bishop
Ralph illness improves after hotel hemorrhage incident
In St Louis on December 5, Julian Ralph remains in improving condition after a Tuesday evening hemorrhage at the Southern Hotel. Dr Behrens expects recovery to allow a Monday departure for New York, as numerous inquiries arrive nationwide about his illness.
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ST. Louis
Julian Ralph
Southern
Behrens
New York
Ralph
Winter storm brings heavy snow and wrecks to New England
Boston reports eight inches of snow across the region with swift northeast winds up to forty miles per hour. A schooner wrecked on Gloucester breakwater and a Boston fishing boat escaped danger. a South Ashburnham wreck killed one brakeman and fatally injured another. Norfolk gale damages houses and telegraph lines. Arethusa coal transport clears Cape region. In Newport News Hampton Roads storm claims one life and sinks several boats.
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Boston
Gulf
New England
Dog Bar
Gloucester
James R. Clark
Manchester
Mass
South Ashburnham
Norfolk
Arethusa
Newport News
Hampton Roads
Minch
Wick County
Mrs Carrie Nation Jailed For Disturbing The Peace In Topeka
Topeka Kansas December Mrs Carrie Nation is jailed on a charge of disturbing the peace after she was forcibly ejected from several drug stores and a prominent hotel. A mob trailed her and doors were slammed as she moved through the city amid tense, chaotic scenes.
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Topeka
Kan
Carrie Nation
Snow and windstorm hits eastern Pennsylvania
A snow and windstorm across eastern Pennsylvania eased by late afternoon. Philadelphia reports about four inches of snow with the day’s damage driven mainly by gusty winds that battered the region. No further details available in the fragment.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Changes in the Army Soldiers in the Philippines Ordered Home
The War Department ordered exchange of fifteen Philippine regiments with equal US troops. Home units will relieve Philippine forces, with first departures from San Francisco on February 1. Units to leave include regiments and batteries across Forts Meade, Clark, Sam Houston, Grant, and others, plus coast artillery and infantry reorganizations.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Philippines
San Francisco
Fort Wayne
Fort Brady
Michigan
Fort Porter
New York
Fort D. A. Russell
Wyoming
Fort Logan
Colorado
Whipple Barracks
Arizona
Plattsburg
N. Y
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Brown
Fort Wingate
Fort McIntosh
Eagle Pass
Texas
Vancouver Barracks
Boise Barracks
Idaho
Fort Wright
Fort Lawton
Cavalry
Department of Dakota
Department of Texas
Department of Colorado
Artillery
Coast Artillery
Field Artillery
Officers Assigned to Regiments in Army Promotions
Washington reports Captain Edward T. Winston is detailed as professor of military science at Gordon Institute in Barneaville Georgia. Infantry officers recently promoted have been assigned to regiments as follows.
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Washington
Edward T. Winston
Gordon Institute
Barneaville
Military Promotions and Assignments Listed
Major Charles R. Tyler to the Twenty-seventh, Captains Berry Hammond Ingram to several units, Lieutenants Kumpe Baker MacGregor Corey Pike assigned or ordered. Captain Rose to observation at Washington hospital. First Lieutenant Harrison on leave to join his company at Fort Snelling, Minn.
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Charles R. Tyler
Daniel G. Berry
Harold Hammond
Ralph E. Ingram
George E. Kumpe
Leonard T. Baker
G. R. D. MacGregor
Milo C. Corey
Rowland 8. Pike
Robert W. Rose
General Hospital
Washington Barracks
A. I. Harrison
Fort Snelling
Minn
House Proceedings Signal Shifts in Trade and Policy
Washington December five House members advanced bills on the private calendar. Key action adjudicated steel bloom import duties dating 1879 to 1882, about $350,000 at stake. a library architects’ $50,000 extra pay was defeated. a measure allowed certain officials to accept foreign gifts. Other items addressed unmailable crisis report imagery, Philippine island duty rate at 2% under new proposals, and Ohio River water depth efforts.
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Washington
House
Court of Claims
Smith Meyer & Peltz
Congressional Library
B. H. McCall
Eugene Wasdin
H. D. Geddings
Henry E. Alford
W. A. Taylor
H. W. Wiley
M. A. Carleton
John I. Shulte
Department of Agriculture
John A. Okerman
United States
Bramwell
Ohio River
Mutiny Aboard Leicester Castle Endangers Officers
The British ship Leicester Castle reports a September mutiny by three American sailors. Captain Peattie and second mate Nixon were wounded. Nixon died. Mutineers Hobbs Sears and Turner fled on a raft about 300 miles north of Pitcairn Island. Hobbs, Sears and Turner hailed from Illinois Idaho and Oregon before escaping.
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Queenstown
San Francisco
Peattie
W. A. Hobbs
Ernest Sears
Turner
Mr. Nixon
Pitcairn Island
Peattle
Hobbs
Nixon
Illinois
Sears
Idaho
James Turner
Portland
Ore
Emperor William’s Anti Socialist Address to Workers in Breslau
Emperor William denounced Socialists as agitators who terrorize and enslave workers to sow class hatred. He claimed workers must reject the party, praised Krupp’s memory, warned against leaders, and urged sending a simple workshop comrade to Parliament as a true working-class representative.
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Breslau
Prussia
William
Socialist Party
Essen
Herr Krupp
Opera Box Shares Listed for $100,000 Offer Refused
A Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company stockholder says $100,000 was offered and refused for title to shares represented by one box. Original value about $30,000. He notes prior sales for similar holdings around six percent annual yield and a box lease at a yearly rate.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company
Made a Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee
A member is appointed to the House Judiciary Subcommittee as it wrestles with anti trust bills. The move places the member at the center of ongoing legislative debate on competition and regulatory reform.
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House
House Subcommittee Advances Anti Trust Bill Publicity Plan
Washington dispatch reports Rep. Jesse Overstreet joins a judiciary subcommittee to draft anti trust legislation. The panel moves Littlefield’s publicity bill, demanding annual corporate disclosures to the Interstate Commerce Commission, including organization data, assets, earnings, taxes, and officers under oath. Also noted is a private pension bill by Rep. Hemenway for Col. Alfred Dale Owen of Mount Vernon, reflecting campaign-era politicking and personal financial strain.
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Journal
Washington
Jesse Overstreet
Indianapolis
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Littlefield
Overstreet
Powers
de Armond
Clayton
Ray Onel
Rct
Interetate-commerce Commission
Finncial
Percen Meekins
United States
Oasefal
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hemenway
Alfred Dale Owen
Mount Vernon
Ind
Colonel Owen
Indiana
Fine Farm
Goren
Campenel
Owen
Ee Aerar Sa Ape
Oweph Cy Everill
John Bilderback
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Congressman Landis
Co. J. Denny
Venezuela
Central and
South America
RooseveLt
Invanouy
Jalil
John Barrett
Japan
Vaval
Fort Meade
South Dakota
Fort Keogh
Montana
Fort Clark
Fort Grant
Fort Duquesne
Utah
Fort Huacuca
New Mexico
South Carolina
Isen
Fort Caswell
North Carolina
Fort Wadsworth
Fort William, Maine
Fort Sheridan, Tinois
Exas
the Presidio, San Francisco
Department of the Lakes
Department of the East
Department of the Columbia
Teilers
Opera Box
Metropolitan Opera Company
MR. Littlefields
Full Committee ON Judiciary
Griffith
Elisha Brown Storey
Brown County
Jacob P. Dunn
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