Decatur Wins Courthouse Battle in DeKalb County
The Georgia house and senate battled over removing the DeKalb county courthouse from Decatur to Stone Mountain. Decatur won 85 to 60 after a mislaid newspaper delayed the vote, securing the county site amid a tense session and protests from Stone Mountain supporters. Senate actions followed with judiciary appointments and university hearings.
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DeKalb County
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Effingham County Court
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Warren County Court
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JH. Wv. Hammond
William H. Felton
Cartersville
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House
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Berner
Hammond
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German Forces Seize Forts at Kiao-Chau Amid China Crisis
Shanghai reports German commander Jained’ troops captured the forts near Kiao-Chau after a three hour ultimatum. German sailors saluted the flag as the Chinese defended with 1,500 troops. China may view it as war, while Germany contemplates permanence. American and British ships monitor from Kino Chan. Rumors connect Li Hongzhang to the Yeu-Chu-Fu murders. Austria seeks satisfaction from Turkey over Messina insult and railway disputes.
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Seamen Indicted in Norfolk Murder Case Involving Captain Whitman
A federal grand jury in Norfolk Virginia handed true bills against John Anderson for murder of Captain John W Whitman and Mate William Wallace Saunders, plus counts involving vessel destruction and accessories after the murders. Other defendants include William Horsburgh, John Lind and Manuel Barrial in related indictments tied to the Olive Pecker case. Dreyfus case in Paris raises claims that papers were forged to blackmail Alfred Dreyfus and his wife.
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Alfred Dreyfus
France
Dreyfus
Germany
Fever at Fort Barrancas report reaches Pensacola
A Washington dispatch says yellow fever has appeared at Fort Barrancas near Pensacola Florida but war department officials deem the season late and not dangerous. One soldier died at the post with no further details provided to Adjutant General Beck.
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Amason Allare
Washington
Fort Barrancas
Pensacola
Fla
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Beck
Train Wreck and Fire on Memphis Line Leaves One Dead
A derailed Memphis Line passenger train on the Kansas City Fort Scott and Memphis route near Williford Arkansas plunged into Spring River and caught fire. One passenger died shortly after, about thirty others were seriously injured though most were rescued. The crash was the line’s first serious accident, with engineer and crew organizing rescue amid darkness and flames.
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Memphis
Birmingham
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Reacue
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J, EB. Lockwood
Hoover
Interior Secretary Bliss reports year with 166 million in estimates
Secretary Bliss releases annual Interior Department figures showing 166,539,419 in appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1897. He notes 200,000 pension claims pending adjudication, with 40 to 60 percent expected to be admitted, potentially swelling the pension rolls before payments reduce them. The Indian population totals about 177,178 on 177 reservations covering 88,404,887 acres, with 4,545 accepting allotments totaling 644,147 acres. Bliss cautions opening the Wichita reservation to whites would aid development but warns unsettled rights require Dawes commission review to avoid distress.
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Bliss
Congress
United States
New York
Wichita
Oklahoma
Dawes Commission
Prairie Fire Ravages Texas Ranges In Three Counties
A massive prairie fire swept through Lubbock Hale and Crosby counties in Texas destroying wide tracts of range land. The blaze began east of Crosby county and roared eastward, aided by strong winds. The fire raged ten miles wide and covered about 400 square miles, killing cattle and burning three thousand sheep in one flock. Many farmers lost their winter feed.
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Lubbock
Hale
Crosby
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Quarantine Ends Full for Alabama Citizens Free Mobility
All quarantine restrictions in Alabama ended last Sunday at noon as six state authorities lifted limits. Most counties are free to go and return, with only one or two counties near Montgomery still partly quarantined. Beginning Monday trains from Montgomery to Mobile and New Orleans resumed pre quarantine schedules as other routes had already.
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New Orleans
Tennessee Railroads to Fight Tax Assessment
Chairman Thompson of the Tennessee state railroad commission says railroad attorneys will file a bill attacking the constitutionality of the state railroads assessment. The valuation rose by 30 million dollars, lifting state and county taxes by about 500 thousand. Railroads will also seek to enjoin tax collection.
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Thompson
Tennessee State Railroad, Commission
London Fire Devours Historic District in Four Hour Blaze
London suffered its largest fire in a century on Friday in a six story block near Aldgate, fed by Christmas goods and dress materials. Winds drove the flames for hours, 150 warehouses gutted, damage estimated near 5 million pounds, 800 telephone wires cut, with extensive disruption to the surrounding district and fire crews battling until night.
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Red Grass Street
Old Street
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Itia O
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Bradford Avenue
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Australian Avenue
Paula Alley
Cripple Gate Church Yard
Woodstrait Square
Monkwell Atreat
Fore Street
Decided Against Couper in Civil Service Fight
Judges Pardes and Newman ruled that equity cannot intervene in Major J. M. Couper’s challenge to his postmaster status. The U S court upheld Major Smyth, directing that civil service disputes be settled by the Civil Service Commission in Washington. Couper must await commission action to resume duties if protected.
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Newman
J. M. Couper
Atlanta
United States Court
Major Smyth
Major Couper
Pardés
Court of Equity
Civil Service Commission
Washington
Gouper
James M. Cooper
Pardee
Smyth
Couper
Blodgatt
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Poatmatter
Supreme Court of the United States
Major Cooper
Train Robbers to Pen Fifty and Forty-Five Years
In the diatriot court at Austin Texas L W Fisher and Felix Walff pleaded guilty to robbing the Inter national and Great Northern train at McNeill on October 14 and were sentenced to fifty and forty five years respectively in the state penitentiary They expected light sentences for pleading guilty and four charges were filed The other two train robbers are still untried
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Austin
Tex
L. W. Fisher
Felix Walff
International
Great Northern
McNeill
State
Pensacola Fever Contained After Citywide House Inspection
A Pen sacola dispatch reports no new fever cases among contacts of Goldberg. Citywide inspection completed Saturday night found 123 total sicknesses, mostly old infirm cases. All detainees in contact groups to be released soon.
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Pensacola
Fla
Goldberg
Georgia convention plans and court martial notes
Reports from Washington describe preparations for a court martial trial on Captain Oberlin Cartarlin Woon, while Georgia hosts the Colton Growers convention in Atlanta on December 14. A Shaker colony proposes land purchases in Georgia, and DeKalb seeks bids for a new courthouse.
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Atlanta
Washington Dispatch
Oberlin M. Cartarlins Woon
Ganural Dieber
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