Typhoid Outbreak at Greensboro Normal School
Typhoid fever has struck Greensboro and affects mainly the Normal School. Most patients are improving after removing the water source. A Granville-born Miss Davis is in grave condition with gangrene, and a few others remain seriously ill. Spring water used by day pupils prevented spread, while boarding pupils drank well water linked to cases.
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Raleid
N. C. Deteniver
H. Tex
Greensboro
Davis
Granville
Forney
Three Swindlers In The State Reported At Three Towns
Sharpers operating in Durham Raleigh and Enfield are linked to a swindle by Murphy Coe brokers who vanished. C M Alexander who ran the office is missing amid reports of his mother’s death and a separate charity scam by Ed Roycroft posing as a help seeker. William Simmons alias the third rogue targeted Enfield with a tailoring scheme taking 300 dollars in advance. Authorities warn residents and seek the fugitives.
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C. M. Alexander
Hood
Ed Roycroft
Durham-Wake Line
William Simmons
Enfield
North Carolina tobacco growers call convention in Raleigh
The North Carolina Tobacco Growers Association calls a January 7 1899 meeting in Raleigh to organize county associations and send delegates to a January 17 1900 convention. Virginia South Carolina and Tennessee planters are invited to join and discuss production markets co op factories and prices.
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Tobacco Growers
North Carolina
J. Bryan Grimes
Pres
N C. Tobacco Grower's Association
Two men hanged in Valdosta for murder of country storekeeper
On December 15 in Valdosta Jim Golding and Wash Powell were hanged for the murder of Vickers, a local country storekeeper. They maintained innocence to the end as Vickers' body was found in a well days after the crime.
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Valdosta Ga
Jim Golding
Wash Powell
Vickers
Madrid Chamber Rejects Navy Undersecretary Abolition Move
Madrid December 15 The Chamber of Deputies rejected by 101 to 100 a motion to abolish the under secretaryship of the navy and other posts at the ministry of marine. The narrow vote signals a potential ministerial crisis.
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Madrid
Chamber of Deputies
Navy
Ministry of Marine
National Republican Committee Meets in Washington
The National Republican Committee met at the Arlington Hotel in Washington this morning Delegations from New York Philadelphia Chicago and St Louis will be heard after credential examinations.
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Washington
National Republican Committee
Arlington Hotel
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Tax cut proposal and telegraph revenue note
House measures include Kitchin plan to cut snuff and tobacco tax from 12 to 2 cents per pound and require telegraph companies to pay the revenue stamp. The state offers 350 reward for Florens Terry, a fugitive. A mob in Jones Louisiana renamed a black man as a telegraph pole after an assault on a white woman.
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Washington
House
Kitchin
Compcsing
Jones
Arkansas
Bryan Sees McKinley Message As Trusts War Plan
William J. Bryan, back from a hunting trip, says President McKinley’s message reflects party history. He accuses McKinley of fostering trusts and waging conquest to assert might. Bryan criticizes the gold standard currency plan and says the House currency bill should be defeated.
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Austin
William J. Bryan
McKinley
Wall Street
Bryan
Tenement Fire in Brooklyn S Victims Suffocated
A tenement house in Brooklyn burned early this morning. Mrs. Doscher and Mrs. Susan Smythe suffocated. Four others were seriously injured.
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Brooklyn
Second Presbyterian Church Names New Pastor
Norfolk December 15 The Second Presbyterian church has called Rev. J. Ernest Thacker of Alexandria as pastor to succeed the late Rev. W S Lacy D D Major March with 125 men pursues Aguinaldo over desolate mountains reaching Cervantes within twenty hours of the Filipino chief
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Norfolk
Second Presbyterian Church
J. Ernest Thacker
Alexandria
W.S. Lacy
D. D
Aguinaldo
Cervantes
Land for Sale in Great Swamp Township Tracts
The undersigned offers two tracts of land in Great Swamp Township near Fremont. One tract 125 acres and the other 128 acres with 50 cleared on each. Suitable for cotton, corn, tobacco and crops. Inspection invited. Terms require half cash and balance in six years from Dec 1, 1899.
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Great Swamp Township
Fremont
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Murphy & Coe
Raleigh
Spain
Minent
Florens Terry
McKinsey
Dr. Leco
Ayep
J.C. Ayer CO
Lowell
Mass
Wnirddays
McCales
Igenis
Sven
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Star Saloon
T. Nmoirgal
Munn & Co
Scientific American
Munn & GO
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New York City
FE. I. Nadal
Wilson
Parker
King OF
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Jno
F. Bruton
Frank W. Bagnes
W. E. Warren
First National Bank of Isan
Joan F. BruTon
W. J. Davis
Frank W. Barnes
George Hackney, James E., Wooparp
Jonas Oettinger, W. E. Warren
H. G. Connor
J. €. Hales
Serranch & CO
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