War Tax Reductions Reported by Senate Finance Committee
Senator Aldrich heads a plan to repeal or scale back war taxes from the 1898 act, trimming about 40 million in revenue. The substitute bill lowers duties on cigars, beer, tobacco, and snuff, reduces conveyance taxes, and imposes new charges on life insurance, with targeted relief for most taxpayers. Governor Dockery backs the death penalty for kidnapping for ransom.
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Aldrich
Senate Committee On Finance
Wartate
House
Treasury Department
House of Representatives
Internal Revenue
Life Insurance
Senate Committee
Diplomats Demand Strict Compliance After Queen Victoria’s Death
A Paris dispatch from Shanghai reports diplomats unanimously notify Chinese plenipotentiaries that military arrangements depend on China’s prompt execution of commitments. They seek death penalties for four Chinese officials. Due to Queen Victoria’s death, Pekin negotiations pause as nations fire minute guns in her honor.
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Guna
Havas
Paris
Shanghai
China
Queen Victoria
Pekin
Brunswick and Birmingham rail route convention in Brunswick
A large Georgia gathering of business leaders from over a third of the state met in Brunswick for the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad convention. About five hundred delegates from southern and middle western Georgia attended and pledged priority rights of way depot facilities and funding.
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Jonel Machen
Georgia
Brunswick
Birmingham
Thorn
Machen
Pierre
Body Found in McDannel's Pond After Boy's Disappearance
Otis Ward, a four teen son of 0 M Ward, vanished New Year from Victory Georgia. A bloody shirt and the boy's body were recovered from McDannel's pond. A local Negro man Ike Williams was arrested in Bowden and held in Carrollton jail.
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Otis
0. M. Ward
McDannel
Victory
Ike Williams
Bowden
Carrollton
Creek Uprising Grows Threat of Attack on Bristow
A Muskogee special reports 600 armed Creeks two miles from Bristow preparing to attack. Marshal Bennett and Agent Shoen mobilize deputies to the scene as a protective measure. The Bristow mayor orders full mobilization to guard the town.
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Muscogee
I. T
Marshal Bennett
Bristow
Shoenfelt
England to Send Warships in Chinese Waters Clash With Russia
Portsmouth dispatch reports Britain has ordered battleships Ocean and Canopus to hurry from the Mediterranean to Chinese waters amid a diluting dispute with Russia over the Elliot and Londa islands, signaling potential trouble.
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Russia
Portsmouth
England
Ocean
Canopus
Mediterranean
Elliot and
Londe Islands
Cotton Sale Tops Georgia Market as Smith Sells 2000 Bales
Athens dispatch reports Hon. James M. Smith disposes of his cotton crop of 2000 bales for 100000 dollars to Colonel Charles 8 Webb of Inman & Co. A Chattanooga chamber of commerce vote endorses the mail subsidy. Cordele’s Tommey & Co warehouse burns, 65 bales lost, insurance small.
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James M. Smith
Athens
Charles 8. Webb
Inman & Co
Georgia
Tommey & Co
Cordele
Six Charged With Murder in Mississippi Tragedy Sequel
Six persons are under arrest at Carthage Mississippi charged with the murder of the Gamble family near Conway about a year ago. Mrs Gamble and her three children were killed and their home burned. A mob hanged a Black man named Joe Leflore at the scene, who confessed to involvement and implicated others.
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Mississippi
Carthage
Miss
Gamble
Conway
Joe Leflore
Southern progress in new industries this week
The Tradesman reports a surge of new ventures by January 26 including brick and tile plants at Cartersville and Thomaston Georgia, chemical works in Louisville Kentucky, a $50,000 hat factory in Chattanooga, coal mines in Birmingham Alabama Richmond Virginia and Glen Jean West Virginia, multiple mills and factories across Georgia and Texas, electric light plants in Louisiana and Mississippi, and a tobacco manufacturing company in Richmond Virginia among others.
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Cartersville
Thomaston
Louisville
Chattanooga
Birmingham
Ala
Richmond
Glen Jean
W. Va
Bankaville
Blossom
Texas
Cedartown
Gainesville
Paris
Minden
Magnolia
Miss
Jonesboro
Tenn
Florence
Lexington
Banksville
Winder
Clinton, Ky
Fordtown
Laurel Bloomy
Lancaster
Tex
Elberton
New Bern
N. C
Henderson
Esta Point
Mobile
Maxton
N.C
Escatawpa
Conroe
Columbus
Nacogdoches
Huntington
Tennessee Masons In Session Report Progress In Nashville
The grand council of Tennessee Masons met in Nashville on Monday for its annual session. Reports from the grand master and grand recorder show excellent progress during the past year.
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Tennessee Masons
Nashville
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Southern Progress
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