Rock Island opens general office in Butte with new agent
The Rock Island railroad will open a general office in Butte appointing M. M. Potter as agent. Potter, a freight agent for the Milwaukee Line for years, returned from Chicago after consultations with railroad officers. His appointment was made on August 25 and became effective September 1.
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Rock Island Railroad
Butte
M. M. Potter
Rock Island
Montana
Salt Lake City
Portland
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Albert Lea
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Kansas City
el Paso
Denver
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Rio Grande
Potter
Milwaukee
Helena
Nine Hour Day Proposed As Coal Strike Experiment
Commissioner of Labor Carroll D Wright urges a nine hour work day for six months amid the anthracite strike, citing employer employee distrust as a key cause. The report proposes immediate concession to the shorter shift as a just temporary remedy.
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Wright
New York
Hagleton
Kidnapping claim sparks court clash in Indiana tale
Washington Indiana reports a show owners arrest after a quarrel over money. Brandon accuses Mary Rogers of kidnapping the four year old girl while the woman says a stranger named Houston left the child with her years earlier. The case unfolds with police questioning and a jail stay for Rogers as investigators probe the child's origin and guardianship.
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Washington
Ind
Gorman Btandon
Mary Rogers
Brandon
Greenup
Arkansas
Lutise Row
Ark
Mississippi Valley
Houston
Rogers
Suit for His Tombstone By Indiana Man
Edward Wilson files a replevin suit in Lawrenceburg Indiana to recover possession of his own tomb stone. He had agreed with the Watson heirs for burial space and a personalized monument narrating his life story. After Watson’s death the heirs repudiated the agreement and would not allow removal of the stone.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Edward Wilson
J. S. Watson
Wilson
Watson Cemetery
Watson
Watsons
Jewish Population Estimates in New York City 1901 1901
The Kansas City Star cites The Jewish World figures on New York City Jews. It estimates 587,778 Jews in the city with Manhattan housing about one quarter of all residents and 7,997 Jewish burials in 1901. It notes 39,225 arrivals by 1901 and 12,600 births by August plus 70,000 in Brooklyn and ongoing immigration and births.
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The
Kansas City Star
Board of Health
Jewish World
New York City
Manhattan
New York
Brooklyn
Water power wheel driven by artesian well unique in America
St. Augustine Florida hosts a rare water power wheel turned by an artesian well supplying a Woodworking shop. The 16 foot wheel sits over a 644 inch diameter, 240 foot deep well. Insufficient power led to a second nearby well 8 inches in diameter to reinforce the system.
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St. Augustine
Fla
America
Eruption of Mont Pelee Mirrors May Devastation in Martinique
The latest Mont Pelee eruption in Martinique caused destruction similar to the May catastrophe. Officials report 1,060 killed and 1,500 injured as residents are evacuated from Morne Rouge and surrounding villages. Survivors in Fort de France describe the violence, with detonations heard as far as St. Kitts and Trinidad.
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Lee
Martinique
St. Pierre
Mont Pelee
Itarium
Caipote
Champs Doree
Ajoupa Bouillon
Marie Reine
Lorrain
Basse Pointe
Fort de France
Island
St. Kitts
St. Vincent
Trinidad
Lane Is Given The Plum California Democrats First Ballot
Franklin K. Lane city attorney of San Francisco was nominated for governor by the Democratic state convention on the first ballot with 445 votes to 193 for J. W. Coleman and 47 for Thomas O. Toland. Other nominations followed including John K. Law for chief justice by acclamation and expressions of sorrow over President McKinley’s death.
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Symons
Butte
Geneva
O. Toland
John K. Law of
Merced
Charles H. Holcomb
San Francisco
E. W. Lindsey
Fresno
Ll. Woodman
Sacramento
Supreme Court
H. Wilson
Santa Rosa
Isidore Dock. Weiler
Los Angeles
William McKinley
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Milwaukee Line
Carroll D. Wright
Commissioner of Labor
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Eired Child
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Him
NEW Yorker
People of
Flannelette
Rei
Nottingham
Feo ReMi
Tiraelen
Marn Ff
Ity
David
L. Irge
Fairbanks
Castile
Teres
W& i
Fairy
White
Hose
Dennison
Vici
E. P. Reed & Co
Peor
Pelee
Way
Castries, Island of St. Lucia
Bow
Mont Pe
Morne Rouge
Tee
Lane
California
Democrats
Conven
President McKinley
Cal
Franklin
K. Lane
San Fran
Cisco
Gover
F. CC. Farnsworth
Tulare
N. K. Bowden
Santa Clara
Alex Rosebrongts
Alameda
F. W. Hartley
W. A. Gett
Bacra
Mento
S. H. Brooks
McKinley
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