English Strike Remains Unsettled in Britain News
London reports the Miners Federation will not return to work until a satisfactory government bill is enacted. After three days of talks, negotiations collapse and the government seeks a legislative minimum wage for underground coal workers. Premier Asquith warns of growing hardship and urges a joint district board to fix local minima with employer and worker representatives under independent chair. The federation says no resumption until a satisfactory bill passes.
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Miners’ Federation
London
Asquith
Eating Oysters Not Cruelty to Animals
New York March 15 state ment from London Medical School professor of physiology counters claims of cruelty in eating live oysters He argues oysters have nervous sensibility but it is unclear if they feel pain and that killing an oyster by eating it is quick and merciful
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New York
London Medical School
Alabama Oyster Commission
Georgia to Pay Tribute to the Battleship Maine
Governor Joseph M Brown issues proclamation calling flags at half mast on state buildings from 1 to 5 pm March 16 1912 to honor the Maine burial outside Havana harbor. Georgia National Guard units to assemble and fire a 4:30 pm salute and tap tribute.
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Maine
Havana Harbor
Joseph M. Brown
Brown
Havana
Sons of America
National Guard of
Denison
Costly books stolen and sold to Morgan
New York, March 16. London police investigate the theft of rare Peterborough Cathedral volumes. One volume was sold to J Pierpont Morgan for thousands of dollars, another to an American for over $5,000. John Tinkler is accused. warrant issued December 1910, traced to the United States. Many missing volumes may be traced to American libraries.
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New York
London
Peterborough
J. Pierpont Morgan
John Tinkler
Scotland Yard
Tinkler
United States
Miners Reply to Operators Offer In New York
The United Mine Workers of America in New York on March 15 reaffirmed demands for union recognition a 20 percent wage increase a shorter workday and other changes in reply to the operators counter proposal The operators proposal is declined and the miners do not declare willingness to compromise.
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New York
United Ming Workers of America
40 000 Voters May Be Struck From Chicago Registries
Chicago March 13 About 40 000 suspect notices were issued by the election board against persons whose names will be stricken from registry lists unless they show cause. A similar number of notices was expected to go out today. Registrationists will be revised tomorrow. If 80 000 names are struck, total registration will be a little over 450 009.
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Chicago
Election Board
Auto Speeding Expert Held In Pedestrian Death
R D Reid of Savannah an expert demonstrator for Case Company Atlanta was held without bond by the coroner's jury for trial on criminal negligence causing death of John J Fitzgerald near Meeting street after Reid allegedly drove at high speed swerving around a vehicle from which the victim had just jumped. E M Lynch and M J Foley are held on bond as witnesses.
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S&s
R. D. Reid
Savannah
Case Company
Atlanta
John J. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Reid
E. M. Lynch
M. J. Foley
$15 000 Stolen From Registered Mail Sack
Fifteen thousand dollars in currency was taken from a registered mail pouch on the Arizona and New Mexico railroad at Clifton Arizona Tuesday. The money was consigned from Faso to the Detroit Copper Company at Morenci Arizona. The pouch was missing at Clifton and later found in the San Francisco river with only the money package missing.
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el Paso
Arizona and New Mexico
Clifton
Arizona
Faso
Détroit Copper Company
Morenci
Ariz
San Francisco
Temperance Medals Promised By Nashville Merchant
Nashville Tenn March 15 A wholesale grocer and banker T H Palmer of Martin pioneer temperance advocate plans to award gold medals for young temperance workers in Weakley County. Last fall Mrs Farmer offered to give a gold medal to boys delivering pamphlets on temperance to schools.
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Nashville
Tenn
Maren
Weakley County
T.H. Palmer
Martin
Tennessee
Farmer
Deadlock in coal talks. strike risk after March 31
United Mine Workers and anthracite operators end talks in New York in a stalemate. Miners demand 20 percent wage rise, union recognition, and shorter hours. operators seek a three year extension. If no deal by midnight March 31, 180,000 miners in Pennsylvania may quit. No strike set, but policy committee meets March 25. potential action hinges on Cleveland meeting March 24.
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White
Untitl
Cleveland
Willlso
Western Union files reply to postal suit
The Western Union Telegraph Company today answered the interstate commerce commission proceeding brought by the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company denying Postal rights to demand the larger Western Union facilities. The Postal, a common carrier, seeks fair division of rates for messages handed to Western Union for transfer to plates where Postal has no offices. It cites alleged unfairness in charging full focal rates plus extra words for messages transferred to Western Union. Western Union argues it would be an unjust burden to place its large facilities at its competitor’s disposal.
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Washington
Western Union Telegraph Company Today
Interstate Commerce
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Postal Company
Western Union
Postal
Als
Audi Communications
Blizzard Sweeps Over Chicago In March Snowstorm
Chicago reports a heavy wet snowstorm that raged overnight and into morning with visibility under 100 yards. Street traffic, steam and elevated railways moved cautiously during rush hours while telegraph lines struggled under winter conditions. The storm, described as near blizzard, was expected to extend to the eastern seaboard tonight.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Tonlaht
Russian dancers demand payment before second act
New Orleans on March 15 reports the czar of Russia's royal dancers and musicians staged one performance after patching financial differences. A clash followed when the theater manager refused more money, musicians tried to take their music, and stage hands threw them out. Police prevented other company members from removing property under advance payments.
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New Orleans
Russia
Meningitis Quarantine Declared in Local Town
Town authorities held an urgent meeting yesterday and announced a meningitis quarantine. Officials cited a recent Arkansas outbreak and urged residents to take precautions.
Salvadoran President Seeks Peace Message from Knox
Dr Manuel Araujo president of Salvador joins a growing list of Latin American leaders in meeting Secretary of State Knox who promotes universal peace across Latin nations.
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Manuel Araujo
Salvador
Genas
Spain rejects France Morocco proposal as futile frontier tweak
Paris reports Spain flatly rejects France request for territorial compensation in Morocco. Spain offers only a frontier rectification with no gain for France. The Temps notes ambiguity about next steps in negotiations amid the impasse. A separate ad seeks cash or trade for an E M F 30 automobile from Atlanta, Rockmart address.
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Paris
Morocco
France
Spain
Atlanta
Rockmart
Remarkable Change Shown By New Star
Cambridge, Mass., March 15. Photographs from Harvard observatory show a remarkable change in the new star in Gemini. Spectra indicate the hydrogen band has brightened and enlarged since the prior night, signaling more hydrogen presence. This rare opportunity to observe a changing new star mirrors the 1898 event, with the star visible to the naked eye near Castor and Pollux as Gemini crosses the evening sky.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Observatory
Gemini
Castor
Pollux
Bouquets and speeches mark Western Union banquet in Atlanta
Belvedere Erdoka Western Union general manager, hosted a Capital City Club banquet with Southern division head H Worthen and W J Gentry. About thirty prominent Atlanta citizens attended. Brooks, district manager, praised southern district growth and efficiency after a year under Worthen. Gentry, Howell, Edwards, York, Carroll and many others were present.
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Erdoka
Western Union
Telegraph and Cable
Worthen
W. , Gentry
New York
Brooks
Atlanta
B. Brooks
W.T. Gentry
H. C. Worthen
J. J. Hoefman
J. P. Edwards
G.M. York
T. W. Carroll
J. M. Stephens
J. Is. Scofield
Albert Howell, Jr
Eugene Black
H. ©. W. Palmer
W. L. Peel
C. I. Ryan
Whmer L. Moore
Jos
H. McCord
H. M. Atkinson
A. 8
Atkinson
B. J. Wallis
Ed T. Brown
L. H. Heck
J. Epps Brown
J. M. BH. Hoxsey
J. R.A. Hobson
J. C. Gentry
F. A. Gentry
T. D G. Webb
John W. Grant
Madison Bell
A. M
Earnings of American Ch iea Company Rise 10.4 Percent
New Orleans reports show for the year ending January 31, 1912 the company’s earnings applicable to dividends on stocks totaling 2,343,088. Directors meeting in Jersey City elected J. J. Gannon chairman G. H. Davis president and executive chairman George Bullock and William von Phul as vice presidents Miss Madge McGrath re elected secretary H. E. Slade elected treasurer.
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American Chiea Company
Jersey City
J. J. Gannon
G. H. Davis
George Bullock
William von Phul
Madge McGrath
H. E. Slade
Tennessee Nominees in Nashville County Primaries
Winners in yesterday's democratic county primaries were A. B. Noll for criminal judge Peter Crouch for trustee Jesse Webb for tax assessor and Charles Longhurst for sheriff The prohibition law enforcement element lost in the judge's race by 3060 and in the sheriff's race by 900 The lines in the sheriff race were not strictly drawn either way.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
A. B. Noll
Peter Crouch
Jesse Webb
Charles Longhurst
Day in Congress Debates Rail and Labor Bills
In session at 2 p.m. grain dealers urged railroads be binders on bills of lading while Vice President Schwerin opposed Bristow’s measure to bar railroad interests in steamship companies. Adjournment at 5 15 p.m. until Saturday. Debate on free sugar resumes. Sabath introduces another workmen compensation bill as employers liability plan faces critique. Commerce committee to favorably report Sims on abolishing the commerce court. Adjourned 6 17 p.m. until noon Saturday.
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Interstate Commerce Committee
Schwerin
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Bristow
Sabath
Employers’ Liability Commission
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Simsonl
Commerce Court
Parks Battle Over Control Of City Fields Heads To Council
Councilman C. G. Mason accuses the police and park commissions of overstepping prerogatives as they report favorably on a petition for a Negro baseball park on University Avenue in Pittsburg settlement. Mason plans to push an ordinance reserving control of parks and public grounds to the park commission rather than the mayor and council.
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G. Mason
University Avenue
Pittsburg
Mason
Park Commission
Locomotive Engineers Meet With Eastern Railroads
In New York on March 15 representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the forty eighth eastern railroads held a two hour session on demand for increased wages. They adjourned to meet again March 26 with J Stuart Erie vice president presiding. Warren S Stone grand chief spoke for the engineers. Figures cited show 3,103 fewer eastern railroad workers employed in 1911 than 1910, while wages rose by 48,976,216 though gross earnings gained 22,595,121 and net earnings improved 40.
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New York
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
J. Stuart
Erie
Warren S. Btone
Stuart
Eastern Railroads
Bumper Cuban tobacco crop forecast this year
New York reports Cuban tobacco crop will exceed the previous record by about 75,000 bales. Favorable weather and farmer activity push expected output to over 700,000 bales, from 350,000 last season. The record remains 625,000 bales in 1900.
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New York
Cuba
Havana
Getting Out of Mexico
Toredo Texas March 15 There was a slight decrease in the passenger list from Mexican points through here today about 125 passengers coming in this forenoon Very few of the 1300 persons who arrived at Saltillo in the past two years refugees have left there yet The impression of the passengers here today was that the situation had improved.
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Toredo
Texas
Saltillo
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