War spreads from railroad strike across Gould System
Denver and Rio Grande operators warn a vote favoring a strike will ripple to 15,000 telegraphers on Gould lines. President Perham sides with Skegges over Western Union duty. Illinois Central stockholders adjourn after clashes over proxy credentials and director votes in Chicago.
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Morning Journal Special
Denver
Denver and
Rio Grande
H. B. Perham
National
The
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Skeggs
Charles W. Sehlacks
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Perham
Skeges
Western Union
J. M. Walker
Walker
Salt Lake
Union Pacific Railroad
Railroad Orders May Amalgamate In Unity Meeting
Over two hundred railroad employees from conductors and brakemen unions gathered in New York on October 16 for a joint meeting. They discussed a possible amalgamation of the two organizations and a united push for higher wages. W. T. Brown, chairing the session, refused to disclose objectives.
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New York
Othe Unten
Marine
Order of Railway Conductors
Brotherhood of Railway ‘Pratanien
Vile le
Nell
T. Brown
Honeymoon Arrest After Telegraphed Message
Hot Springs Arkansas reports a secret marriage of Lilly Ammerman to Daniel Hrennen following a telegram from St Louis. Hrennen was arrested awaiting the father’s arrival who allegedly ordered the arrest. The couple planned to resume their journey to Mesion City.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Qet
Bt Louk
Daniel Hrennen
Mise
Lilly Ammerman
Adolphus Suech
Drewer
Nelldown
Natning
Mesion City
National Convention Date and Trial Delays Noted
Wahington date October 16. The Republican National Committee plans to fix the time and place for the national convention likely next Monday. Heitman says Steve Adams trial for the murder of Julie Tyter may be moved to the next term as Charence Derroan leads the Pettibone defense with trial set for October 28. Judge Woods designates October 24 for Adams' trial.
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Wahington
Qet
Republican National Committee
Illinois Central stockholders meet in bid to control votes
The stockholders clash over meeting control with factional demands and calls for a vote on amendments. Attendees shout for an adjournment to 9 am as leaders from Cromwell to Harriman claim confident stances and warn outcomes could go to the courts.
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Ilinois Central
New York City
Cromwell
Arrest of New York Police Commissioner Sparks Civil Suit
New York Police Commissioner Bingham was arrested after papers were served in a civil suit demanding 25000 dollars. Former Police Commissioner James Reynolds, present at headquarters, was ejected after protesting his forced retirement from the department. The commissioner furnishes bail.
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New York
Bingham
James 4G.teynolds
Root Comes Home Praising Diaz
Secretary Root returns from a Mexico visit and praises President Diaz and Mexico's efforts to educate the Indian. He notes many Americans in Mexico, adds the trip yielded numerous gifts, including a pottery vase for President Roosevelt, and says he paid duties on all items without complaint.
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San Antonio
Texas
Mexico
United States
Root
Roosevelt
Nevada admirer backs Hegewisch champion
A Fly Nevada dispatch reports promoter Tex Ricard offers to honor Reno gambler John J. May’s $20,000 bet that Battling Nelson can reach 20 rounds with Joe Gans. Ricard also offers a $25,000 purse for the match if held at Ely on New Year’s Day.
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Salt Lake City
The
Herald
Fly
Nev
Tex” Ricard
John J. May
Reno
Battling Nelson
Joe Gans
Ely
Mother of the Second Mrs Magill on Stand
Rosa Graham testifies in Decatur trial of Fred and Fay Graham Magill over the death of Mrs Pet Magill. She says Fay promised to care for Marguerite, Fay’s friend and Magill daughter, after Pet Magill’s death. Defense offers seven letters alleged as forged to show Pet Magill’s suffering. Marguerite Mittle testifies the letters are by her mother.
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Decatur, Otis
Qet
Rosa Graham
Fay Graham Magill
Fred
Pet Magill
Fred Magill
Magill
Fay
Mis
Marguerite Mitell
Marguerite
Powder Mill Disaster in Indiana Leaves Many Believed Dead
Victims of a catastrophic powder mill wreck in Indiana are feared dead as 38 bodies are reportedly found blown to fragments. Recovery may be impossible, with many victims expected never to be recovered.
Explosion at Dupont Powder Mills Wipes Town
Fontenet Indiana reports 38 killed 600 injured and 750000 in losses from yesterday morning’s Dupont Powder Mills blast. A worker cited a hot box as the likely cause with sparks igniting loose powder and martial law imposed as militia arrive to secure the scene.
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Dupont
William Sharrow
Indianapolis
Levitt
Terre Haute
Dupont Sends Aid After Fontanet Blast
Alfred G. Dupont vice president of Dupont Powder privately married in New York. He canceled his moonlit motor trip and wired 5 000 dollars to Governor Hanly of Indianapolis for immediate relief of Fontanet sufferers. Dupont planned to supervise relief work with Frank L. Connable.
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Dupont
Wilmington
Del
Alfred G. Dupont
Dupont Powder Company
A. Bradford Maddox
New York
Fontenet
Drupont
Hanly
Indianapolis
Hie Wa
Dunont
Fontanet
Frank L. Connable
Wilson Candidate for Chief of Mine Workers
William B. Wilson, International secretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, announced his candidacy for UMWA president to succeed John Mitchell at a banquet in Clearfield Pennsylvania. Wilson was elected to Congress from Pennsylvania's fifteenth district and will take his seat in December.
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Clearfield
William B. Wilson
United Mine Workers of American
John Mitchell
Wilson
Pennsylvania
Brokers Caught in Copper Slump
Following United Copper's collapse, the New York stock exchange firm Gross and Kleberg suspended. Known as the Heinge Interests brokers, officials offered no full statement and blamed repudiation of orders by customers for the troubles. The suspension halted trading activity at the firm.
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Morning Journal
New York
Copper Stocks Rally Ends With Suspension of Heinze Group
Gross and Kleberg aided a pool to support the Heinze group and bought heavily of copper shares as metal stocks fell. A representative said the Heinz people refused delivery, forcing the firm to suspend. Liabilities could not be determined tonight.
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Gross
Kleberg
Heinze Group
Heinz
Premature blast kills one in Missoula work camp accident
One man died and three were seriously injured in an accidental explosion near McDougal's railroad construction camp along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line in Missoula Montana. The injured included Charley Nelson with a torn scalp and internal injuries Ed Anderson with a scalp wound and Lee Patterson who suffered a scalp laceration and internal injuries.
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Missoula
Mont
McDougal
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road
Carl Klasson
Minneapolis
Charley Nelson
Ed. Anderson
Lee Patterson
Twenty Rumored Die in Elisworth Coal Mine Disaster
Pittsburg Oct 16 Indefinite rumor says twenty lives were lost in a coal mine explosion at Elisworth Pa The report gives no official confirmation and details are sparse awaiting word from authorities and mine officials.
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Pittsburg
Elisworth
Attack on Japanese in San Francisco shocks Tokio
A Morning Journal dispatch reports a mob attack in San Francisco injuring a Japanese and destroying property. The foreign office has no official details yet and says such acts reflect irresponsible individuals not the nation’s sentiment. The incident mars the welcome given to Seattle exposition delegates Burke and Backus.
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Morning Journal
Tokio
San Francisco
Foreign Office
America
Japan
Messrs
Thomas Burke
M. F. Backus
Seattle Exposition
Lean Bear Swims to Safety near Roosevelt camping area
Morning Journal reports President Roosevelt hunting near Stamboul La. observing a large bear near Bear Lake. Dogs trailed the animal but it swam to safety, eluding hunters as camp reassures the group a successful outcome remains possible.
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Morning Journal
Stamboul
Roosevelt
Mississippi
Holman
Bear Lake
Stambou
Brutus Jackson
Brain
Jean
Lilly
Newellton
Standard Oil Attorneys Prepare Bold Defense in Dissolution Suit
Standard Oil lawyers plan an elaborate defense to the federal government’s dissolution suit. They say testimony will be presented later in bulk, and no cross-examination of key executives is yet sought. The United States has focused on profits and competitive intelligence across the country and abroad.
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Morning Journal Special
New York
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Oil Trust
Trust
William G. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Frank B. Kellogg
United States
Los Angeles
Cal
Oet
Oscar Lawlor
Villareal
Magon
Rivera
de Lara
Mexico
Republic
Lawlor
Arizona
Consumers Oil Company Withdraws from Texas Mills Sold
Houston, Texas Oct 16 The Consumers Oil company reported from Austin that it has withdrawn from Texas in name only. Its Texas and Arkansas mills, three in each state, were sold to Louis C. Eble of Chicago. Mills located at Houston Waco Greenville Texas and Little Rock Forest City Pine Bluff Ark.
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Houston
Texas
Consumers’ Oil Company
Austin
Arkansas
Louis C. Eble
Chicago
Waco
Greenville
Little Rock
Forest City
Pine Luff
Ark
Five workmen drown as scow overturns in Joliet channel
Five laborers perish when the scow overturns in the Illinois and Michigan canal near Joliet. Twenty four men were aboard. several escaped by leaping or clinging to debris as water filled the vessel.
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Chicago
Hlineis
Michigan Channel
Joliet
Packy McFarland Knocks Out Gallagan in Ninth Round
Packy McFarland of Chicago defeats Joe Gallagan of Indianapolis in the ninth round of a ten round bout held in Indianapolis. The bout ends with McFarland securing a knockout and the victory.
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Packy Mcbarhind
Indianapolis
Ind
Packy McFarland
Chicago
Joe Gallagan
Cotton Market in New Orleans Quiet with Unchanged Prices
Cotton spot in New Orleans on Oct 16 remained quiet and nominal with prices unchanged at middling 11 1/2 cents.
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New Orleans
Reclamation Leaders Named In Western Irrigation
Secretary Wilson reorganizes irrigation and drainage work at the office of experiment stations appointing Sam Fortier as chief of irrigation investigations and C G Elliott as chief of drainage investigations. The program aims to open five million acres in the west to settlement by 1960 and to drain two million acres mainly east of the Mississippi.
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Morning Journal
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Office of Experiment Stations
Sam Fortier
Berkeley
Cal
C. G. Elliott
Mindesippi River
Mexican consul at El Paso removed after smuggling probe
Francisco Mallen, Mexican consul for thirteen years in El Paso, is ordered to transfer to Consul Lomeli of Torredo. The action follows a Joaqures smuggling operation that led to the fugitive mayor Montemayor, removals of department heads, a general death by own action, and several arrests.
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EB Paso
Francisco Mallen
Lomeli
Toredo
Juares
Montemayor
E Rivcarde Mojas
Werli
Boxers Driven Ten Mountains In China Engagement
Pekin dispatch reports imperial Chinese troops from Yangtse valley cantonments moved into the mountains near Kwang Tung to rout anti mission insurgents. In a clash at Chung Yi seventy Boxers were killed.
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Mornin Journal
Pekin
Yangtse Kiang Valley
Nan Kangsien
Kwang Tung
Chung Yi
Cable firms fail to locate quake effects
New York report finds all telephone and cable lines through the Americas operating smoothly after an earthquake inquiry. West Indies and Central and South America lines showed no disruption and no offices reported disturbances. Observers in London noted a severe quake near the Isle of Wight beginning midafternoon and lasting over four hours.
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New York
Americas
West Indies
Central
South America
Channel Isle
London
Observatory of the
Isle of Wight
Episcopal Convention Deliberations Open Pulpit and Arctic Work
Richmond Va Oct 16 The house of deputies debated open pulpit matters a proposed change to the prayer book title page and constitution a joint committee report for the 1910 triennial in Cincinnati and discussions on church work in the tropics Alaska and the Arctic regions during today’s general convention sessions.
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Episcopal Convention
Richmond
House of Deputies
Cincinnati
Hangman Busy in Allogia
Police statistics published today regarding terrorism in September show thirty four executions two hundred seven murdered including seventy three officials and one hundred seventy two wounded in affrays The figures exclude casualties in anti Jewish riots at Odessa Rostov and Simferopol Police also report one hundred sixty six attacks by armed men on estates buildings or officials and the discovery of thirty four stores of bombs and explosives.
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St. Petersburg
Odessa
Rostov
Simferopol
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Weloek
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