Notable World and Domestic Happenings of the Week
Sir Michael Herbert presented to the president as the new British ambassador. Supreme Court reconvenes for October term with no business beyond admitting new bar members. Henry J. West named District of Columbia commissioner. Venture steamer declared total loss near Tugwell Island per Port Townsend dispatch. Philippine Supreme Court Justice James F. Smith chosen to fill vacancy. Minnesota and the Dakotas report heavy snowfall. Guatemala coast hit by a tidal wave. Congressman John L. Shepard dies in Arkansas after long illness. Max Henry Fleischer dies in Chicago from a football injury six years old. Editor J. W. Kelley shoots Dr. Coyley in Butte over a woman.
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Michael Herbert
United States Supreme Court
Henry J. West
District of Columbia
John W. Ross
West
Tugwell Island
Port Simpson
N. P. Shaw , Co
Port Townsend
Max Henry Fleischer
Chicago
J. W. Kelley
Butte Inter-Mountain
Dr. Coyley
Butte
Fort Lawton bids open for seven buildings at post
Seattle reports Maj. Bingham opened bids for seven new officer quarters at Fort Lawton. A San Francisco bidder, T A Pettus, offered 100000 plus bid securities. Tacoma bidder W R Nichols offered 110000. Pettus claims the bid covered only building, not plumbing and heating. Washington will decide, with $7000 security on the bid.
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Seattle
Maj. Bingham
Fort Lawton
T A. Pettus
San Francisco
W. R. Nichols
Tacoma
Pettus
Washington
Coal Operators Demand Federal Action Against Miners
David Wilcox vice president and counsel for the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, and participant in Roosevelt’s Washington conference, asks the federal government to file against the miners’ organization for conspiratorial interference with interstate commerce. He is said to represent all coal operators and was chosen as spokesman. The letters were published locally and sent to the president, who has forwarded them to the attorney general.
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New York
David Wilcox
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company
Roosevelt
Washington
Rooesvelt
Wilcox
Ambassadors Favor Berlin Treaty Revision Over Dardanelles Clause
A Constantinople dispatch reports most ambassadors at an informal meeting in London urging serious consideration of revising Berlin treaty clauses on foreign warships passing the Dardanelles due to recent events.
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London
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Toronto Mayor Appeals Cardiff for Canada Coal Preference
London October 13. The Toronto mayor cabled Cardiff’s mayor urging coal mine operators to grant Canada preference to meet the emergency caused by the American coal strike.
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London
Toronto
Cardiff
Canada
Walla Walla Postoffice to Open Novem ber First
Washington state notes report the Walla Walla postoffice building slated for completion and use by November 1, with removal of the old office planned by that date. Also details expand the Walla Walla creamery plant to handle growing business.
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Walla Walla
Erie Company asks strikers to return to work in Pittston
The Erie Company posted notices at its Pittston collieries urging all striking employees to return. The firm promised ample protection to those who come back, seen as an early move by coal companies to break the strike under troop protection.
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Wilkesbarre
Erie Company
Pittston
Molineux Trial Begins Second Time in New York
The second trial of Roland B. Molineux for the 1898 murder of Mrs. Catharine J. Adams opened in the criminal branch of the New York Supreme Court with Justice Johns Lambert presiding after multiple delays and adjournments.
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New York
Roland B. Molineux
Catharine J. Adams
Supreme Court
Johns Lambert
Fredona
Richest gold strike reported near Kodiak Island
Dr S I Stone arriving in Seattle from Kodiak Island Alaska describes a vast gold discovery within thirty miles of Kodiak on Dry Island. Ten rock loads show fine gold in every specimen with rock running into the sea along the Kodiak to Unalaska mail route. Gold prospecting had been largely unrewarding until Ralph J Phillips found the Dry Island ledges this summer.
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Seattle
S. I. Stone
Kodiak Island
Alaska
Kodiak
Dry Island
Unalaska
Ralph J. Phillips
City Council Backs Motion to Take Undeveloped Coal Lands
Chicago residents report the city council unanimously adopted a resolution urging Congress to obtain control of undeveloped coal lands. The aim is to break the coal monopoly by introducing government competition.
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Chicago
Congress
Seattle Market Prices Reported for Farm Commodities
Local Seattle dealers list current offers for delivery in round lots on the dock or car. Grain oats 21.25 per ton. barley 21. wheat 21. chicken feed 22. bran 15. shorts 16. Hay Puget Sound 8.10. eastern Washington 12.50. alfalfa 9.50. Eggs strictly fresh ranch 31 32c per dozen. Poultry live hens 13c per lb. old roosters 8 9c. ducks 12 44 13c. spring chickens 16 17c. geese 8 10c per lb. Live stock beef cattle cows 3 14c. steers 4 4 0c. sheep 3 34c. hogs 7 4c. calves 5 7c. spring lambs 0 ge. Butter native creamery 28c east ern 26c. Cheese native 12 42 13c. California 12 14c. Wool Western Washington clean 13c. dirty 10 11c. Eastern Washington 8 10c. Hides pelts and tallow heavy salted steers over 60 lbs 8c. medium 7 4c. light under 50 lbs 7c. cows all weights 7c. calf 8c. stags and bulls 5c. green hides 1c less. dry hides 12c. dry culls 10c. summer deer 20 25c. winter deer dry 14 20c. good butcher tallow 4 4éc. grease 13c 2c.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
California
Operators Agree on Arbitration Commission for Coal Strike
Washington October 14 coal operators propose a five member commission appointed by the president to settle disputes between coal companies and workers including nonunionized mine staff. The plan aims for a three year agreement and calls miners to return to work when the commission is constituted.
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Washington
United States
Army
Navy
Wastern
Pennsylvania
Leopold to Abdicate Amid Family and Civil Unrest
Berlin reports German officials weigh Belgian rumors that King Leopold may abdicate soon. An official says the king, aged and frail, suffers from social disturbances in Brussels and relentless gossip, affecting his health and plans to visit the United States.
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Berlin
Blegium
France
Foreign Office
Leopold
Brussels
United States
Wright to retire as labor commissioner in two years
Washington reports Carroll D. Wright will leave the labor bureau after eighteen years heading the bureau. He is currently involved in investigations and will retire after two more years to devote time to Clark College duties in Worcester Massachusetts. He recently became president of Clark College.
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Washington
Carroll D. Wright
Wright
Bureau of Labor
Labor Bureau
Clark College
Worcester
Mass
Lewiston? Exposition directors seek half million aid
Portland Oregon October 13 The directors of the Lewis and Clark Exposition propose to hold a 1905 fair in Portland and have decided to request a state appropriation of 500000.
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Portland
Ore
State of
Oregon
Miners Endorse Arbitration Plan After White House Outline
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on October 14 President John Mitchell declined comment after seeing a White House synopsis stating operators accept arbitration. A full copy followed but Mitchell did not view it. Reporters spoke through his bedroom transom and noted miners officials are expected to accept the plan despite possible objections. The three district presidents are at home and unavailable for comment.
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Wilcksbarre
John Mitchell
White House
England pushes cotton self sufficiency as imports shrink
London reports a bold campaign by English manufacturers to source more raw cotton from British soil. The British Cotton Growing Association, led by Mr Newton of Oldham, lobbies colonial governors and offices to expand cotton production in colonies amid a US supply shortage and fears of an American cotton trust.
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London
England
America
Lancashire
Newton of
Oldham
Colonial Office
Foreign Office
St Louis Big Boss on Trial in Missouri Circuit Court
Edward Butler a St Louis politician and millionaire faced trial in Columbia circuit court before Judge Hockaday. He is accused of offering Dr Chapman of the St Louis board of health a bribe to vote for a bill authorizing garbage collection.
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Columbia
Edward Butler
St. Louis
Hockaday
Dr. Chapman
St. Louis Board of Health
Belgium Mining Strike Expands Across Pits for Higher Wages
Brussels October 14 report says three large Belgian pits began a wage strike and miners nationwide are ready to quit if demands are not met or a settlement reached promptly. The strike could become general across the country.
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Brussels
Belgium
Train Held Up Near Lincoln by Masked Bandits
Three masked men stopped Burlington train No. 41 the Pacific Coast Express four miles from Lincoln as it neared two oclock. They used explosives on the express car, wrecked the safe and rifled it, making off with about $1500.
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Lincoln Neb
Burlington
Lincoln
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