Pistol Duel Ends Fatal Standoff at Jeffersonville Party
A drunken quarrel at W H Goliff’s Jeffersonville home sparked a bloodbath as Griffin drew a pistol, Califf fired, and Griffin and Califf died. O L Jones was wounded, a young girl and Mrs Emma Califf struck, while numerous guests fled in panic. Police likely none to arrest.
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Jeffersonville
W. H. Goliff
Griffin
Penett
Ann
Will Hooter
Grifli
Hooten
Grifin
Califf
Gall
Califa
O. Li. Jones
Mary Pattis
Emma Galiff
Galiff
Wreck Causes Deaths On Chicago and Eastern Illinois Train
A collision near Clinton Indiana between Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Train No 8 from Chicago and an extra train at 9 am Thursday killed three railway workers and injured about six others. Victims identified as engineer J D Rausch firemen G L Brewer and F Deiter. Both engines wrecked baggage car derailed and mail car demolished. Passengers were not harmed.
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Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Chicago
Clinton
Ind
J. D. Rausch
G. L. Brewer
Miss Frances Willard Remains In Chicago After Change
Chicago dispatch reports Miss Frances Willard did not sail for England on the 24th though passage was engaged on the steamer St Genis. A change in her plans at Buffalo keeps her in Chicago for some time as the Chicago Woman's Club plans a reception in her honor on Saturday.
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Windy City
Chicago
Frances W. Willard
England
St. Genis
Buffalo
Nhe
Chicago Woman's Club Gays
Southern bankers in Atlanta endorse elastic currency plan
The Atlantic clearing house led a small Atlanta convention of southern bankers last Wednesday to craft a plan for currency reform. The “southern plan” aims to expand money supply for the south and west while easing banking burdens in the north and east. Delegates urged government action to end banks’ direct involvement in lending on commodities like cotton and iron, with a proposed uniform banking system and federal oversight.
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Atlanta
Atlantic Clearing House
Bankpra
J. §. Carr
North Gardlina
Busineas
Double Execution at Jeffersonville Ga for Murder
Grady Reynolds and Bud Brooks were hanged at Jeffersonville Georgia Friday for the murder of Belton merchant M.0 Hunt. They rode to the gallows in white robes, spoke to the crowd, and faced the trap in a private execution witnessed by the murdered man’s three brothers. Brooks died quickly. Reynolds lingered thirty minutes before death.
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Grady Reynolds
Bud Brooks
Jeffersonville
M. 0
Hunt
Belton
Brooks
Reynolds
Rebved
Fromander Reynolds
Bud
Brooka
Brazleton
Venath
Currency Bill 18 Ready and McKinsetts Recommendations
Washington dispatch reports the house banking and currency committee held an animated session. A bill covering the president's recommendations and Secretary Gage's bill, plus the Indianapolis monetary commission proposal, will be taken up after holidays. The senate passed a navy report bill on Admiral Porter and a Yukon Alaska railroad right of way proposal was introduced. A holiday recess resolution till January 5 was adopted as the house began consideration of the appropriation bill.
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McKinsetts
Washington
House
Gage
Indianapolis’ Monetary Commission
Chanidler
New Hampshire
Senate
Navy
Washington City
David B. Porter
Alaska
Yukon River
Watheaday
Dingley
Ways and Menia
Minister in Monticello Serves Five Days for Wife Beating
Rev. David T. Howell of the Protestant Episcopal church is serving a five day term in the county jail after being fined five dollars in default. He chose imprisonment over a $5 fine following a conviction for choking and beating his wife.
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Monticello
David T. Howell
Protestant Episcopal Church
Luetgert's Second Trial Opens in Chicago Courthouse
After two weeks for jurors, Adolph Luetgert's second murder trial began in Chicago before Judge Gary. The crowded courtroom filled with spectators eager to hear the case against the sausage maker accused of murdering his wife by boiling her in caustic potash.
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Adolph L. Luetgert
Chicago
Gary
Acquittal for Collins in Florida embezzlement case
Jacksonville dispatch reports ex state treasurer OG B Collins was acquitted Friday of embezzling fifty two thousand dollars. He did not deny being short of the sum but claimed no intent to defraud. The Banka where state funds were deposited failed.
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Jacksonville
OG. B. Collins
Florida
Banka
Glass Work to Resume Nationwide Trade Restart Planned
A Pittsburg dispatch reports window glass factories across the United States will resume when furnaces reach operating heat. The restart is expected in about three weeks and will bring work back for about 15 000 men.
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Pittsburg
United States
Bloodshed Fears in Twiggs County Feud Over Califf Grifin Family
Dispatches from Jeffersonville Georgia report renewed hostilities in the long running Califf and Griffin feud. Amid a deadly quarrel the elder Califf seeks to pin the shooting on Gilman Carrell, while Carrell remains missing and may appear at the April Twiggs superior court if indicted.
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Twiges County
Jeffersonville
Califf
Grifin
Grif Tink
Griffin
Clarence
Calif
Pettis
Carroll
Twiggs Superior Court
Nominations by President McKinley for Supreme Court and officials
President McKinley sent nominations to the Senate naming Justice Joseph McKenna of California as associate justice of the Supreme Court. Charles Dawes of Illinois as comptroller of the currency. John W Nesbitt of Pennsylvania as pension agent at Pittsburg. A panel of private land claims judges and several reappointments with terms expiring December 31, 1897. Also named were attorneys Lewis Miles and Robert Dozier and Marshal Henry Dockery.
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Joseph McKenna
Supreme Court
McKinley
Senate
California
Supreme Court of the United States
Treasury
Charles Dawes
Illinois
Tuterlor
Tohn W. Nesbitt
Penn
Rabe
Pittsing Court
Jod, BR
Populists Caucus Endorses Civil Service, Money and Cuba Stand
A Washington National Hotel gathering of populist House members adopted resolutions resisting civil service partisan fills, opposing draining greenbacks and treasury notes, opposing expanded bank power to issue notes, and urging early consideration of a joint resolution recognizing Cuban independence.
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House
T'nsa
House of Representatives
National Hotel
Washington
Treasury
Big check given on Union Pacific purchase
United States received 8.6 million dollars via check deposited in the New York sub-treasury through the reorganizaton committee. Payment accounted for the Union Pacific railroad purchase. Delivered Thursday in New York.
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Sam
Educational Test Proposed in Nat uralization Laws
Washington dispatch reports a plan to reform naturalization laws along the lines of the immigration education test bill. The measure, favorably reported by the house immigration bill, will be debated after the holidays with some opposition but a recognized need for essential changes. It would require all immigrants to read and write in English or another language.
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Uncle Sam
Washington Dispatch
Train robbers caught for Mexico trial death penalty
Wells Fargo Express special officers and U S marshals captured five of the train robbers in eastern Arizona after the attempted Sunset Flyer robbery at Stein's Pass a week earlier. They will be carried to New Mexico for trial where the death penalty applies to train robbery.
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Mexico
Wells-Fargo Express Company
United States
Arizona
Southern Pacific
Stein's Pass
New Mexico
Uniform Quarantine Debate Moves to Atlanta Convention
Delegates from various cities push for federal uniform quarantine rules to protect health while minimizing trade disruption. The Atlanta chamber agreed to a resolution urging Congress to enact nationwide quarantine standards. The meeting also discussed tariffs, flour regulation, and interstate railroad pooling under ICC oversight, with pooling adopted by two thirds. The group then visited the White House at 2:30 PM.
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Washington
Atlanta, Ga
Chamber of Commerce
Bullock
Collier
Congress
Elliott
Philadelphia
Eckert
Chicago
Thurber
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Vallandingham
St. Louis
Wast
National Board of Trade
Hexeraea
White House
McMillan Files Senate Candidacy Announcement in Tennessee
Hon Benton McMillan of Tennessee announced his candidacy for the U S Senate in a public message to legislators following inquiries from Tennessee papers. The announcement referenced a potential special session if Governor Taylor called one.
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Tennessee
Tix
Washington
Benton McMillan
Senate
Taylor
River Mills to Cut Wages Under Proposed Plan
Notices posted in Fall River Mass announce wage reductions to begin January 8 1898. Manufacturers' committee votes to cut wages across all departments by 11 1 19 percent and to reduce salaries of all administrative officers by a similar amount.
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Fall River
Mass
Manufacturers’ Committee
Daudet Dies In Paris At Eight O Clock
A Paris dispatch reports author Alphonsa Daudet died at 8 o clock Thursday night while dining with his family. He was in good spirits when he fainted, doctors were called but he died almost immediately. Alphonso Daudet was born in Nimes on May 18 1840.
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Paris
Alphonsa Daudet
Alphonse Déudet
Nimes
Twenty two Sailors Missing After Cleveland Wreck Off Vancouver Island
A San Francisco dispatch reports the steamer Cleveland sailed December 4 for Beattie and was wrecked on Barclay Sound twelve miles north of Cape Beale. Twenty two men left in boats, none heard from. captain and senior crew survived. Passengers Deitrick and Gerthan among the missing. Vessel and cargo valued at 75000 with little insurance. Built 1866, formerly Sirius running Halifax to Queenstown.
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San Francisco
Beattie
Hall
Charles, Nelson
Vancouver Island
Barclay Sound
Cape Benlé
Ohist Enineer
Cleveland
W. Ai. Deittrick
Frank Gerthan
Halifax
Queenstown
Sirius
Actor Torriss fatally stabbed entering Adelphi theatre
London Thursday night saw actor William Torriss stabbed just as he reached the Adelphi stage door. He died fifteen minutes later at Charing Cross hospital. The assailant, described as a foreigner in a long cloak, was seized by onlookers and is held at Bow Street police station. motive unknown and real name William Lewin.
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London
William Torriss
Sotor
Adelphi
Torriss
Ware
Charing Cross Hospital
Terriss
Thenésausin
Bowatreet
Archer
Terrigs
Hhis
William Lewin
Meeting of American women on GW memorial fund
A secret Washington meeting discussed raising 250000 for a George Washington memorial building to house university offices in the proposed national university. February 28 Washington's birthday was proposed as a national offering day with schoolchildren contributing one cent each. attendees included Mrs. I S Boyd Georgia Mrs Hope Campbell North Carolina Mrs M K McNeill South Carolina and Mrs Alice B Castleman Louisville Kentucky.
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Washington Tuasdty
National University
Washington
I. 8. Boyd
Gaorpi
Hope
Campbell
North Carolina
M. K. McNeill
South Carolina
Alice B. Castleman
Louisville, Ky
Must Pay Indians Royalty Ties Seized Across Railways
Indian police seize half a million railroad ties along 115 miles of the Missouri Kansas and Texas lines between South Canadian and Red rivers to enforce a royalty payment of more than $60,000 due the Choctaw nation for timber used in the ties. Equally large seizures are planned along the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf road to press similar claims.
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Missouri, Kansas
Texas
South Canadian
Red Rivers
Oklahoma and
Gulf Road
Treaty 18 Ratified by King George in Turkey Greece pact
A dispatch from Athens reports that the peace treaty between Turkey and Greece has been ratified by King George and will be sent by special steamer to Constantinople. A later dispatch notes that the Sultan has ratified the treaty as well.
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George
Turkey
Greece
Athens
Constantinople
Preached Against Crime Moves Clergy in South Carolina
In Columbia and Florence the Episcopal diocese urged unity to curb murder fever. Bishop Capers preached in Orangeburg condemning concealed weapons and urging clergy to lead lawfulness amid rising crime concerns.
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Columbia
Hiligon Gapers
Florence
Capers
Orangeburg
China Canuckles to Germany Kino-Oboi Pact Amid Dispatch Claims
A Shanghai dispatch reports China will acquiesce in Germany retaining Kino-Oboi while Russia and France aid. The message suggests German haste reveals plans to England and Japan, potentially undermining allied objectives and signaling policy shifts.
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Shanghai
China
Germany
Russia
France
Peitatha
England
Japan
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Luetgert
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Populists Caucus
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Wmillan
M. Daudet
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