Des Moines girl burned as burglars raid Chicothe store
Fire at Nellie Tionahot’s home follows a Chicothe burglary where burglars dynamited the safe in Yaoreos Sheerer's general store and escaped with $15 cash. Ottumwa police pursue suspects linked to the raid after a trail to the Black Hawk bridge.
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Lodeafaceehede
Nellie Tionahot
Andrew Jonalne
Des Moines
Burelars
Yaoreos Sheerer
Chicothe
Black Hawk Bridge
Ottumwa
J. R. Kitterman
Burstars
Deep River Township
Powesheik County
Waterloo, Pella & Southwestern
Chariton
A. Harris
Roy Ratcliff
Thompson’s Bend
Ratcliff
Great Western Railway Company
Howard
G. W. Howard
Timothy
Duybuque
Dyersville
Great Order of ‘Trappist
O. M. Beach
Fuayette
Hawkeye
General Strike Call by Telegraphers Roils Markets
President S J Small urged a general strike of commercial telegraphers with a $2,000,000 fund expected in two months and talks of arbitration with Samuel Gompers. Chicago additions were few and New York saw little impact as railway telegraphers were spared. Roosevelt declined direct intervention and Labor Commissioner Neill was referred. Operators at Armour & Co in Chicago and East St. Louis quit their keys.
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S. J. Small
Chicago
New York
Small
Samuel Gompers
S. J. Smal
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Boards of Trade and Commercial Bodies
Roosevelt
Neill
Armour & Co
East St. Louis
Wisconsin capitol graft probe and rail fraud actions
Report from the capitol investigation commission urged criminal and civil action against all involved in the Pennsylvania capitol frauds. Wisconsin railroad commission condemns Marathon County Railroad practices. Boston official J Warren Hastings arrested for $3000 embezzlement. Standard Oil tank explosion at Brodhead triggers tank destruction and town panic. Milwaukee Electric Railway franchise suit filed by the state. A fake $ fine payment arrives at Washington treasury from Poledo Mississippi. A factory accident injures Elizabeth Gallighan in St Louis. Attorney General Bonaparte pledges to prosecute wealthy violators. Burlington Railroad fined $200 for eight hour telegraph law violation. Burlington man drowns. Governor Proctor’s wife nearly dies. Absecon tax hike targets bachelors. Somerset fire destroys much of Princess Anne business district. Adirondack steamer catches fire. all 500 passengers rescued. Fred Nye dies after trolley collision. Southern Pacific boilermaker strike ends. Averill Harriman suffers heat exhaustion in Omaha. Louis Batu, escaped asylum patient, remains at large.
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Pennsylvania
Capitol
Capitol Investigation Commission
Gov
Stuart
Marathon County Railroad Company
W. D. Connor
Wisconsin Railroad Commission
J. Warren Hastings
United States
Boston
Standard Oil Company
Brodhead
Wis
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company
Milwaukee
BP. L. Gilbert
Wisconsin
Standard Oil, Company
Lanis
Chicago
Treasury Department
Washington
Poledo
Elizabeth Gallighan
St. Louis
Bonaparte
Wall’ Street
Burlington Railroad Company
Crall
Chillicothe
Vermont Association of Boston
South Hero Island
Lake Champlain
George Couture
Burlington
Fletcher D. Proctor
Vermont
Henry Alexander
Absecon
N. J
Princess Anne
Somerset
Maryland
Adirondack
Roseton
Fred Nye
Bil” Nye
New York Sunday World
Southern Pacle Railway
Averill Harriman
J. H. Harriman
Omaha
Louis
Batu
Midietown
Cabinet divides on Taft anti trust drive and navy overhaul
Washington August 18 reports of a cabinet split over vigorous anti trust and anti rebate enforcement. Root and Cortelyou oppose the hard line while Taft and Metcalf face restructuring plans. navy department overhaul eyed with Metcalf likely to depart. Newberry suggested to head the department if so.
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Washington, D. C
Donaparte
Root
Cortelyou
Department of Justice
Art
Taft
Wall Street
Mr. Taft
Metcalf
Navy Department
Newberry
Michigan
Small in New York Chief of Telegraphers Shifts HQ
In New York on August 18 the expected arrival of President Small and the move of strike leadership from Chicago to New York drew idle east coast telegraphers. Uncertain when Small will arrive, union men hope he can improve the strikers’ position. Some firms refused demands, operators left for nonunion staff, while Western Union and Postal Telegraph report minimal disruption as press and wire services normalize.
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New York
Small
Chicago
Wall Street
Fig
Western Union
Western Union Adds Twenty-Five Operators in Chicago
Chicago August 18 Western Union increased its Chicago main office staff by twenty-five with new hires arriving from New York at 5 pm. Several former workers who had been on strike sought to reclaim their old positions during the day.
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Alexander Crow, Jr
Aamill
Philadelphia
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Western Bar Iron Association
Pittsburg
Board of Conciliation
Lipman
Beloit
Wig
J. Ogden Armoury
Chicago
Count Seckentorf
Ramseys
N. J
New York
Robert Fitzsimmons
Western Union
Auto Jurisdiction Worries Over Conduit Road Dispute
Washington August 19 Secretary Taft after a conference on conflicting federal and Maryland state interests in exclusive jurisdiction over the conduit road between the capital and Great Falls Md directed Mayor Crosby to confer with the justice department. The issue has national importance to American motorists.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Maryland
Iterala
Great Falls
Crosby
Washington Aqueduct
Department of Justice
Lightning kills Major Miller during storm in St. Joseph Missouri
A violent morning thunderstorm struck St. Joseph as the Missouri National Guard arranged for Governor Folk to review the brigade. Major Miller of Battery A, St. Louis, was struck by lightning and killed. The storm surged unexpectedly, causing fatalities and disrupting the event.
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St. Joseph
Missouri National Guard
Folk
Battery A
St. Louis
Esas
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