Mob unrest and killings sweep Mississippi towns
A Jackson Mississippi dispatch reports militias marching on alleged black demonstrators near Scooba and Wahalak after a Christmas mob search killed three black men and burned two houses. Separately in Kentucky a feud ends in the death of Hiram Mullins and his son after a two hundred shot house siege.
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Meridian
Miss
Evening Star
Scooba
Wahalak
John Brien
Calvin Nicholson
Ishman Minnice
Robert Simpson
Lexington
Hiram Mullins
William
Charles
Bud Little
John Brewer
Little
Mullins
Littles
Mullines
Hoshere
India Wants Home Rule at Indian National Congress
Da dabhi Naoroji, ex-British MP, urged Indians as British subjects to govern themselves. He noted the Toers gained self-government while India did not and called for a large patriotic fund to educate Indians about rights and to campaign in England. Over 10 000 delegates attended amid uproar.
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Calcutta
Indian National Congress
Dadabhi Naoroji
Toers
India
England
Dadabh Naoroji
Ness Surrenders After Jail Escape Row ar Columbus
Edward Ness, one of nine Hamilton County jail escapees, surrendered in Cincinnati. He said he preferred to serve his thirteen month sentence in the penitentiary rather than live as a hunted man. Four of the nine prisoners are still at large.
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Cincinnati
Edward Ness
Hamlton County
Iibverty
Supreme Court to pursue contempt case linked to Tennessee lynching
The supreme court will proceed to prosecute a contempt case arising from a lynching in Tennessee. The report notes 875,554 pupils in Philippine schools and mentions James Bryce declining a British peerage as ambassador-designate. L. B. Hicks, recently released from a Bakersfield tomb, is hospitalized but not ill, resting.
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Supreme Court
Tennessee
Philippine Islands
James Bryce
Great Britain
United
Tramp Pays $50 Meal After 600 Mile Walk Bet
A Barron Wisconsin man Frank Gineen walked 600 miles from Barron to Franklin Indiana in 30 days to win a $1,000 wager with his uncle Edward Green. A tramp who begged a meal at Dr A F Wright’s Nineveh home paid $50 for the meal.
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Columbus
Ind
A. F. Wright
Nineveh
Barron
Franklin
Navy
Engineer Brown Locates Long Missing Fireman Eisenbeil
Eighteen years after a circus train run to Streator, Burlington engineer Harrys Brown finds fireman William Eisenbeil in Michigan. Eisenbeil, who vanished after leaving the engine at Ottawa, quit his job in a saloon to avoid discharge and never claimed his wages, which remain in Burlington’s paymaster office.
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Bloomington
Harrys Brown
William Eisenbell
Burlington Road
Streator
Ottawa
Eisenbeil
Brown
Michigan
Hisenbeil
Burlington
Cuba Is Still Restless In Santa Clara Province
Secretary Taft reports from Havana that Cuba faces unsettled conditions with lawless bands pillaging in Santa Clara. General Bell orders a substantial reinforcement of United States troops to suppress the disorder, marking the first Gov. Magoon note since the second occupation that U S forces must act directly rather than rely on Cuban curales.
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Washington
Taft
Magoon
Havana
Cuba
Santa Clara
Bell
United States
Ada Holmes Dies After Street Shooting on Wedding Day
Ada Holmes, in town to marry Herman Johnson, was killed on Sheldon Street as Alex Konolla fired into a crowd. Konolla, shot and placed under arrest, is described as insane. The tragedy occurred Saturday in Houghton Michigan.
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Houghton, Mich
Ada Holmes
Miss Holmes
Houghton
Herman Johnson
Sheldon Street
Alex Konella
Hungarian coal miner's boots travel to Hungary by express
Terre Haute Indiana December 27 Econo mon Berkman a Hungarian coal miner was sent by express a pair of rubber boots to his father in Hungary. The boots cost eight dollars and the express charges were three dollars forty cents. After import duty the total will be eighteen dollars. Berkman says his father will be the most talked of man in the region for such boots have never been seen there.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Berkman
Express
Hungary
Miraculous Escape After Rail Spread Wreck Near Defiance
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train traveling 70 mph derailed three miles east of Defiance Ohio when rails spread. One coach and two sleepers left the track, the combination coach toppled into a ditch. Only three passengers were hurt and not seriously.
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Defiance
Baltimore and Ohio
Here
Nobel Prize Documents Arrive From Copenhagen for Roosevelt
Documents related to the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Roosevelt arrived in New York on the Danish steamer United States. Captain Wulff supervised their care on the vessel, under the U.S. minister at Copenhagen, and they will be sent on to Washington.
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New York
Roosevelt
United States
Copenhagen
Wulff
Washington
Cleaning a Loaded Revolver Claims Brother
In oilfield town on December 27 Ernest Terrell was accidentally killed by his brother Joseph while cleaning a revolver. The incident occurred in their home and authorities are investigating the accidental shooting.
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Jll
Ernest Terrell
Joseph
Smith Named Commissioner of Corporations by Roosevelt
Herbert Knox Smith, a 37 year old Yale educated New Englander and Hartford lawyer, is slated to succeed James R. Garfield as commissioner of corporations when Garfield becomes interior secretary. Smith has served three years as assistant commissioner and is noted as a YMCA worker.
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Herbert Knox Smith
Roosevelt
James R. Garfield
Mr. Smith
Yale
Hartford
Garfeld
Hill's Railway Sued Over Stock Increase Plan
Minnesota seeks permanent injunction against Great Northern Railway and executives to halt a proposed $60 million capital stock increase without railroad and warehouse commission consent. Attorney General argues prior increases lacked state approval and would raise annual charges, impacting Minnesota patrons.
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Great Northern
Minnesota
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Bryce to Constituents Signals Washington Ambassadorship
Aberdeen reports James Bryce will become British ambassador to Washington, forcing his resignation from South Aberdeen seat. Constituents express regret as Bryce’s scholarly reputation defined the intellectual Aberdeen vote. No successor plan announced, likely a literary-class choice.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
James Bryce
Mortimer Durand
Washington
Bryce
South
United Kingdom
Brooklyn express official shoots self in Williamsburg office
Benjamin Brown the financial manager of the American and United States Express companies shot himself in a Williamsburg Brooklyn office after sending the Williamsburg manager on an errand. He died soon after in hospital with no stated reason for the act. The incident was witnessed by pedestrians. Additional notices mention ongoing strike activity on the Southern Pacific Atlantic division and the death of David C. Webb, president of a Kansas City mercantile firm, aged 72.
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New York
Benjamin Brown
American
United States Express
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Brown
Atlantic
Lewis Phllips
New Orleans
David C. Webb
Kansas City
Webb
Lafayette
Two Debts They Must Pay Paris Case Libra
The court ruled Mine. Gould and Countess Boul de Castellane liable for jewelry debts. It found she bore joint responsibility for about 24 000 dollars in jewels bought from Mile. Vern Ninndof via a jeweler and roughly 5 000 dollars to the Pertogs for a jewelry bill totaling about 197 000 dollars if unpaid. Three experts were appointed to appraise the jewels.
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Paris
Gould
Boul de Castellane
M. Zelgier
Castellines
Mile
Vern Ninndof
Odessa
Count Bont
Mme Gould
Shahs Reserve Strength Failing Says Palace Report
Teheran dispatch reports the shah's reserve strength is gradually failing and he no longer rallies when given stimulants. The palace and officials indicate declining vitality amid aging leadership and ongoing political strain in Persia.
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Teheran
Persian
Henry Watterson and wife reach Barcelona for a month
Henry Watterson and Mrs Watterson of Louisville have arrived in Barcelona Spain and will stay a month. A Bloomington Illinois fire damaged Carlock ros stock $10 000 and Brand furniture stock $10 000. Harry Thaw’s Christmas dinner at Tombs prison New York was sent from a cafe by order of his wife.
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Henry Watterson
Chicago Markets Show Mixed Receipts in Dec 27 1908 Trading
Market activity remains uneven with cattle and sheep receipts around 9000 and 20000 respectively. Hog prices range from 6.10 to 6.35 for light loads, with mixed packers and shipping grades noted. cattle and sheep markets described as steady to strong amid ongoing arrivals and shipment figures.
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Texas
The North American Commission Company Ad Promises Fair Deal
An ad from Chicago Illinois by The North American Commission Company offers guaranteed fair treatment and dependable service for customers seeking prompt assistance in negotiations or purchases.
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The
North American Commission Company
Peonage Allegations Hover Over Southern Pacific Strike
Grand Master Shen plans to present peonage charges against Southern Pacific to Labor Commissioner Neill as engineers report trains moving with minimal disruption during the strike. A Los Angeles to Houston dispatch notes a locomotive firemen’s walkout with no major service outages across divisions, while a breach injures a conductor near El Paso and the Brotherhood vows to uphold contracts and keep trains running.
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Houston
Tex
Shen
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Tlabor Neill
Washington
Southern Pacific Railroad
Southern Prcifie
Kidnaped Southern Pacific Fireman Affects New Orleans Region
Report from New Orleans says masked men abducted a Southern Pacific fireman from his engine at Opelousas Louisiana. Despite the incident Southern Pacific notes no widespread trouble and plans to lift the freight embargo, resuming through freight to Louisiana and Texas. In Peoria Illinois the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen says Grand Master Hannahan may depart soon to oversee strike actions locally.
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Atlantic
Southern Pacific
Ines
San Antonio
Anso
Victoria
Texas
New Orleans
el Paso
Opelousas
RE. PR. Cushing
Cushing
Southern Paccific
Louisiana
Peoria
Ill
Dee
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
John J. Hannahan
Hanahan
Galesburg
Archduke Leopold Salvator seeks divorce from Wilhelmina Adamovic
A Vienna dispatch reports Archduke Leopold Salvator, who renounced his family rights and married Wilhelmina Adamovic, is pursuing a divorce after a separation near Geneva. He has summoned a Vienna lawyer to negotiate terms, and his wife agrees to the separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vienna
Archduke Leopold Salvator
Wilhelmina Adamovic
Post Office
Geneva
Painter Burt Haws Dies in Jamestown Exposition Tent Fire
Identification confirms Burt Haws a white painter from Chicago was killed in a camping tent fire on the Jamestown exposition grounds. Authorities believe the blaze began when a lighted pipe fell from his mouth as he slept on December 27 in Norfolk Virginia.
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Norfolk
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Burt Haws
Exposition Grounds
Chicago
Minnesota Attorney General to Seek Injunction on Rail Stock
E. T. Young, Minnesota attorney general, will file papers today in an injunction suit by the state to prevent the additional issue of 60 million dollars in stock by the Great Northern railway.
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St. Paul
Young
RN. A. Stone
Ramsey Couty District Court
Minneapolis
E. T. Young
Minnesota
Great Northern Railway
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Stewar
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Great Northern Railroad Company
State of
State Commission
Express Company
Wiewch
Shah Is
Seenee Tyre Ooren
John A. Babcock
Chicago, Ill
Fireman's Brotherhood
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Labor
Neil
Contioe
Lowisiana
Locomotive Brotherhood
Lobo
Kutz
Binger
TL Ee
Willis
Brotherhood of Locomothee Pherneers
Pireman
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