Cotton acreage advised to limit and home supply urged
A Memphis Cotton Exchange resolution urges producers to favor home supplies in planting for next year and to keep cotton acreage from increasing beyond last year. The call extends to southern exchanges and newspapers to push the policy, amid broader debates on currency and trade. The article also notes a U S Supreme Court decision about silver coins, and reports Oklahoma population growth from 1894 to 1895 with property values rising.
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Memphis Co’ton Exchange
Hector D. Lane
South
Congress Passes Bond Section to Maintain Gold Reserve
The House approved a Ways and Means committee bill, 1705 to 186, to issue three percent bonds to sustain the gold reserve. Republicans largely supported the measure with Democrats, Populists, and New Jersey silverites opposing. Debate reflected concerns over government obligations and future revenues. The session adjourned for New Year’s with plans for a short break and return on January 6. The Senate saw Lodge defend the Monroe Doctrine amid Venezuela Britain tensions as reorganization talks began for committees.
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House
Odg
Messare
Osins
McLaurin
Riea
Ar Bury
Congress
Colorado
Pane
Russell
Crisp
Boutelle
Cazell
John
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Ork
Ieee
Tuesay
Conden
Noonan
Texas
Senate
Peffer
Kansas
United States
Great Britain
Lodge
Massachusetts
Mitchell
Oregon
Venezuela
Erzeroum
Kharpoot
Committee On Foreign Relations
Tion
Perkins
California
Committee On Finance
Berry
Dem
Scrat
Arkan
Morrill
Republican
Vermont
Sherman
Finance Committee
McKinley
Bonds Coming Expected Announcement This Week
New York bankers close to the administration anticipate a government bond issue to be announced by Thursday. The $100,000,000 loan may carry an option for $100,000,000 more with no syndicate guarantee. Formal allotment applications were being received by J P Morgan Co. The Evening Post reports a syndicate contract signed, with gold provision and 4 percent thirty year bonds, at roughly the last issue price.
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New York City
Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co
The
Evening Post
Theatre Bloodshed at Victor Camp Leaves Three Dead
A shooting affray at the Union theater in Victor Colorado near Cripple Creek left three men dead, theater manager George Smith, Tom Pasco, and George Ferguson, and two men wounded as shots rang out during a confrontation between Pasco and Smith. Several others were injured. chaos followed as saloons and dance halls stayed open amid fears of further trouble.
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Union
Victor
Cripple Creek
Col
Smith
Tom Pasco
George Smith
George Ferguson
Robert Smith
Fred Ellis
Pasco
Fire kills Hibbard family in Columbus home tragedy
A double blaze at 1298 Hast Longstreet Columbus destroys the residence of J H Hibbard. Mrs Hibbard and three children perish in the flames and smoke. Four sons under fifteen and a servant escape by leaping from a second story window. Natural gas fueled the blaze, likely starting from defective woodwork. Hibbard, secretary of the Central Ohio Natural Gas and Fuel Co, is linked by marriage to prominent Columbus families.
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J. H. Hibbard
Columbus
Ohio
John H. Hibbard
Longstreet
Hibbard
Allen
Miss Fay Hibbard
Grace Hibbard Lee
Barnesville
Palatka
Fla
Central Ohio Natural Gas and Fuel Company
Deshlers
Huntingtons
Rebels Advance on Havana Center Operation Guanajay
Report claims insurgents establish headquarters at Guanajay forty five miles from Havana as center of operations. Senor Navarro Reverter, minister of finance, denies the statement.
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Havans
Guanajay
Haynana
Senor Navarro Reverter
Five Men Selected. Venezuelan Commission Members Named
The president announced the five members of the Venezuelan commission: David J. Brewer of Kansas Andrew D White of New York Frederick R. Condert of New York Daniel C Gilman of Maryland and Richard H Alvey of Maryland. Brewer Gilman White and Alvey hold high judicial educational and diplomatic credentials. Condert leads the law firm Coudert Bros. and is noted for international law work.
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David J. Brewer
Kansas
Supreme Court of the
United States
Richard H. Alvey
Maryland
District’ of Columbia
Andrew D. White
New York
Frederick R. Condert
Daniel C. Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
Judge Brewer
Kansas Board of Education
Supreme Court of the United States
Eighth Circuit
Harrison
Yale College
Europe
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Baltimore
Gilman
Andrew Dickson White
Yale University
Germany
White
San Domingo
St. Petersburg
Richard Henry Alvey
Fourth Circuit
Waite
Gleveland
Supreme Court
Alvey
Fepréu
Frederick Condert
Coudert Bros
New York City
Behring Sea Commission
French Republic
Quadrilateral Duel Ends in Double Murder Near Donkey
In Wise county Virginia two men Wells and Osborn, once seen as good citizens, fought two outlaws Cox and Williams on a public road near Donkey after a Christmas dispute over a woman. The battle lasted over two hours. Wells and Osborn were killed, Cox wounded, and a deputy sheriff injured. Separately, Africa news reports increasing tensions as Kruger calls burghers to defend Transvaal amid Boer violence and British demands.
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Pound Gap
Wise County
Virginia
Bill Wells
Gus Osborn
Jim Cox
Abel Williams
Wells
Osborn
Cox
Janing
Pretoria
Transvaal
Africa
British South Africa Company
Jamieson
Lobengula
Kruger
Joseph Chamberlain
Kroger
Outrages in Kharput and Armenian Relief Fund Items
Trustworthy reports from Kharput state 138 towns and villages desolated 5064 houses burned and 12708 persons killed during recent outrages. In Italy a severe earthquake west of Ciciana near Nola caused house collapses and casualties.
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Om Gonstantinopic
Ily “Guthie
Tie Vidilof
Kharput
Barnuur
England
Pine Vilayet
Khar
Ciciana
Nola
Caserta
Italy
Growth of the South Signals Broad Industrial Expansion
The Tradesman reports a strong southern industrial week with iron production high, coal output large, and steady prices. Cotton sales are moderate, mills operate fully, and several new industries were chartered, including mills, foundries, sugar refineries, and electric power plants across North Carolina to Texas plus Virginia and Florida. Local business remains active through year-end settlements.
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South
High Point
N. C
Brass
Martinsburg
W.va
Land Company
Barnwell
5. C
Equitable Coal Company
Dallas
Texas
Capital
Nelson Coal and Coke Company
Fairmont
W. Va
National Candy Company
New Orleans
Grand Ridge
Fla
Commercial Lumber Company
Gilmer
Hillsboro
Charleston
Fair Figures From Atlanta Exposition Show Cash Income
Officials report total attendance near 7.29 million with 817,928 paid admissions and 434,935 passes plus wagon gate entries. Paid admissions yielded about 854,073 dollars with concession receipts around 115,654 dollars. Exposition company total receipts likely near 1.25 million dollars, expenditures under that, despite a three million dollar estimate for the event.
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C. M. Felder
8. M. Inman
Cotton States Exposition Ends Amid Farewells in Atlanta
Crowds thronged the grounds for a final look as the Cotton States and International Exposition closed at midnight. Guards remained at posts to the last moment, permits were sought to remove goods, and President Collier warned the national work would continue, with lasting impact anticipated.
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Cotton States
International
Atlanta
Usta
Collier
Women Should Know About Everyday Comforts
A column offers household tips and old fashioned remedies. Advice covers skin protection with alcohol on the neck, asbestos mats under table linens, new elephant hide shopping bags as gifts, lightly scented gowns with a Japanese lily taper, a white fur like manusion, chestnut graham bread paste for snacks, rice as a meat accompaniment for children, and Terterine salve praised by a reader as a cure for salt rheum.
Will Punish Perjurers in Land Conspiracy Case
Government plans to prosecute witnesses who swore falsely in the James Addison Peralta Reavis land swindle, alleging 13 000 000 acres in New Mexico valued at 75 000 000. Attorney General Harmon may deploy Edward B Whitley and Joshua E Lodge to aid United States District Attorney Foote. Glove firm Dixon Wilkins of Mayfield has assigned with liabilities around 60 000 dollars.
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San Francisco
James Addison Peralta-Reavis
New Mexico
Harmon
Edward B. Whitley
Joshua E. Lodge
Washington
United States
Foote
Dixon & Wilkins
Mayfield, N
Yearly Business Failures Rise to Thirteen Thousand Thirteen
Bradstreet reports 1895 closed with 13,013 business failures nationwide, up from prior years. Christmas week trade was quiet as holidays and stock-taking slow activity, while New York Boston Baltimore and Chicago forecast cautious demand early in 1896. Prices rose for coke Mohair wheat Indian corn and sugar. leather hides lumber wool coffee and print cloths held steady. Fractional drops touched refined petroleum cotton pork flour iron and steel as funds moved eastward to meet currency needs.
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Bradstreet
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Chicago
Northwest
Middle States
New England
Pacific
Mine Explosion Kills 21 in Silesia Wrangel
A coal mine blast in Wrangel Prussian Silesia last Tuesday caused many deaths and injuries. Twenty one workers died, seventy were rescued, and seventeen more are missing.
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Silesian
Wrangel
Prussian Silesia
Eugene Field Estate Faces Probate Administration
The estate of the late Eugene Field, valued at 25000 in personal property, was brought to Chicago probate court by the widow seeking letters of administration. His home, estimated at 10000 to 20000, was previously conveyed to his wife. An order from Judges Lorton and Clarke calls for resignations of U S commissioners of eastern and middle Tennessee. The Knoxville clerk mailed the order last Tuesday, with expected political fallout as taxes are redistributed.
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Supreme Court of Pes
United States
James E. Morgan
Jersey City and
Bergen
Morgan
State Supreme Court
Eugene Field
Chicago
Lorton and Clarke
Middle Ten Nesses
Knoxville
H. H. Taylor
Will
W. G. Lloyd
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Cleveland
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Benfield
A.B. Calhoun
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Lroyd
Bridge Works
Justinl
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