General Upheaval in Chicago Strikes Spread Next
Chicago May 21 New week opens with both sides fixed in the labor dispute as teamsters threaten a citywide strike escalation. Express firms refuse reinstatement while lumbermen prepare to deliver to all houses, prompting union plans to walk out if nonunion drivers act. Industrial unrest looms across Chicago.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Express Companies
Express
Shes
Leriis
Lumbermen'’s Association
Rotl
Wilkesbarre Millinery Fire Feared $300000 Loss
May 21 Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania suffers a major blaze in the Wells building on the public square. The fire began in the Isaac Long dry goods millinery department and burned for hours before containment. A second basement fire followed an hour later, elevating total damage.
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Wilkesbarre
Isaac Long
Wells Building
Public Square
World diamond production totals by region
London reports that India produced ten million carats, Brazil twelve million, and Africa fifty seven million. The entire uncut diamond stock would form a block about fourteen feet by nine with an estimated value of five hundred forty million dollars.
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London
India
Brazil
Africa
Browns Fall to Las Vegas Blues in Muddy Tilt
The Albuquerque Browns lost 10 to 4 to the Las Vegas Blues in Las Vegas under poor weather and a muddy field. Key catcher Roy McDonald was hurt by rain and rain delays, leaving the Browns outplayed and off form for the exhibition.
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Albuquerque Browns
Las Vegas
Las Vegas Blues
Meadow City
Browns
Roy McDonald
Japanese Start Serious Labor War in Hawaii
Honolulu May 21. Lahaina Maui. white population including the military are prisoners in the courthouse surrounded by striking Japanese laborers. One Japanese was killed and two wounded as plantation police fought during an attack on a plantation mill. The island's 2300 Japanese laborers are on strike with a violent mood. Kinau steamship sent thirty guards and forty Honolulu volunteers to the scene. Strike began a week ago with demands including discharge of the head overseer.
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Honolulu
Lahaina
Maui
Kinau
Nation
Company F
Colonel Wallace Taylor Wounded in Philippine Engagement
Manila May 21 Colonel Wallace Payler of the constabulary was seriously wounded in an engagement with the insurgents on the island of Samar. One private was killed and ten wounded in the fight. Many Pulipanes were killed. Desultory fighting continues in the islands south of Polo Laijanes.
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Manila
Wallace Payler
Constabulary
Samar
Polo
Magtaon
Presbyterians Honor John Knox in 400th Anniversary Observance
Winona Lake Ind May 21 The assembly sermon by Moderator James D Moffatt opened a day of religious services marking the 400th anniversary of John Knox The sermon sparked discussion of a possible union with the Cumberland branch urging outreach to them and suggesting modern hymns or psalms adapted with Jesus Christ in place of older translations
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Winona Lake
Ind
James D. Moffatt
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church
John Knox
Cumberland
Moffatt
Jesus Christ
Imperial manifesto creates a permanent council of defense in Russia
The imperial edict orders a preliminary commission led by Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevitch to coordinate war and navy ministries. The new council will supersede the council of war and is intended as a permanent state organ, reducing ministerial influence and reshaping military command. لندن reports Baltic squadron decay and Russian vulnerability to Germany as the war drags on.
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St. Petersburg
Council of Nations Council of Defense
Nicholas Nicholaevitch
Council of War
Far East
Grand Duke
Linevitch
Russia
Germany
London
The
Times
Baltic
Stava
Ministry of Marine
Great Britain
China Sea
Togo
Cesar
Chicago Faces Race War Tensions as Strike Sparks Violent Clashes
Chicago residents near Twenty ninth and Dearborn st confronted by escalating white and Black clashes after the Cartsom murder and a coal driver Gray's knifing. City police and mobs clash as Bernstein, a bartender, is fatally shot and a watchman Poske is wounded amid renewed street violence.
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James Gray
Bernstein
Gray
Carlson
Charlier Poske
Twenty-third Street
Blewart Avenue
Poske
Safe thieves fail to crack post office stamp safe
In San Francisco a dawn burglary attempt on the stamp safe at the post office was halted by Watchman William O Connell who spotted a burglar drilling the safe. The robbers fled with 1400 dollars of stamps as the alarm sounded. the main cashier’s safe nearby held about 490000 dollars in cash and stamps.
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San Francisco
William O'Connell
Stamp Department
Attacks in Manchuria and Royal Scandal Reach Swiss Army
Reports describe Chinese front actions near Chiengigu and Ching Yangpao on May 19 with multiple infantry and cavalry units repulsed by patrols. In Berne, ex Archduke Leopold faces scandal after elopement and names change. Washington notes cable link Alaska to Port Liscom now active replacing land lines hindered by heavy snow.
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Tokio
Wei Yuan Paomen
Chiengigu
Ching Yangpao
Hangtu
Liao River
Kung Chuliang
Fakoman
Berne
Archduke Leopard
Louise
Giron
Leopold
Miles Adamodries
Herr Weeling
Washington
General Greeley
Valdez
Alaska
Port Liscom
Windstorm Wrecks Fort Worth Area Causing Deaths and Damage
A 70 mph windstorm struck Fort Worth at 6 30 PM injuring and killing train dispatcher John Young. The blowout roofs and structural damage spread to Mineral Wells churches banks and hotels with fifty dwellings damaged and telegraph lines down. The storm also damaged Handley and Terrill areas. fatalities outside Fort Worth remain unconfirmed.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Texas and Pacific
John Young
Texas Pacific
Mineral Wells
First National Bank
North Fort Worth
Grand Hotel
East Weatherford Street
Johnson House
West Bluff Street
Second Ward
Terrill
Handley
Here
Radium Price Soars as Supply Narrows in London
London reports radium prices climbing due to scarce supplies. Sir William Remesay notes twenty pounds per milligram, about 3 million dollars per ounce, pushing research work toward a standstill. An expert claims less than half an ounce has been produced since Curie’s discovery.
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London
Willian
Patrick Alleges He Is Persecuted in Texas Extradition Case
Governor Otero receives an affidavit by David Patrick a Roswell oil driller claiming wrongful arrest on perjury charges from the Bennett case in Um county Texas four years ago He says he faces grand jury indictment and will fight extradition A Roswell petition endorses his good reputation Similar papers go to Governor Lanham Patrick cites Pecos valley residency and financial inability to travel to Texas for acquittal
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David Patrick
Rosweil
Bennett
UM County
Texas
Patrick
Roswell
Lanham
Pecos Valley
Texas m
Frederick Mills Acquitted Of Killing Saunders
In Hillsboro New Mexico the district court found William F. Mills not guilty of murdering Daniel A. Saunders. An alibi placed Mills fifteen miles away within an hour of the killing near Percha river, after forty witnesses testified as the case unfolded in a midnight verdict.
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Correspondence Morning Journal
Hillsboro
N. M
Willam F. Mills
Daniel A. Saunders
Saunders
Mills
H. A. Wohlfford
Huey
Silas Alexander
Socorro
Parker
Samuel S Grant Passes Away Suddenl y
Samuel S Grant died at his Albuquerque home shortly after midnight from a sudden hemorrhage. He had lived in Albuquerque three to four years and worked in the local post office while pursuing health benefits in the climate. He leaves a wife and a young daughter, with funeral plans to be announced. His brother John H Grant, from Attica Indiana, arrived in the city recently to visit.
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Samuel & Grant
Givant
Albuquerque
Grant
Attica
Retreat of Russians on Harbin
AP dispatch from near Tiehlin reports the Russian retreat from the Shaho turning into a disorderly rout as Japanese forces under General Kuroki close in. The pursuit, aided by a sand storm, drives the Russians north while Japanese courtyards, villages, and officials greet Kuroki's army with orderly occupation.
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Associated Press
Kuroki
Tiehlin
Shaho
Manchuria
Mukden
Japan
I Kuroki
Shahe
Fushun
Hughes
Bildering
Hunho
Austin
Kuropatkin
Mukdenshun
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