Government to seek law for minimum wage in coal mines
London March 15 The coal strike talks fail after three days of joint conferences and legislative action is to be pursued to establish a statutory minimum wage for underground coal workers. Premier Asquith said government has done all it can and the dispute remains unresolved with ongoing stoppages causing increasing distress. A district joint board with employer and worker representatives may fix local minima under government guidance. The miners federation says no return to work until a satisfactory bill passes.
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Miners’ Federation
London
Asquith
Auquith
Eguarde
Eating Oysters Not Cruelty To Animals
New York March 15. Critics of feeding live oysters argue cruelty but a London professor counters that oysters possess nervous structures and uncertain pain. He notes that eating an oyster is a quick, merciful method of killing.
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New York
London Medical School
Alabama
Georgia to Honor Maine Burial With Half Mast Flags
Governor Brown issues proclamation for March 15 1912 from 2 to 5 p.m. flags to fly at half mast on state capitol buildings and executive mansion. Georgia National Guard to assemble at armories and fire a salute with taps at about 4 30 p m in tribute to the battleship Maine and American dead.
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Georgia
Maine
Havana Harbor
Joseph M. Brown
Brown
Havana
Freeten
Rapitol
National Guard of Georgia
Gorgia
Denison
Jo8shph M. Brown
Costly books stolen and sold to Morgan
New York, March 15. London investigators link a theft at Peterborough Cathedral Library to American buyers. One rare volume went to J. Pierpont Morgan for a sum well over a thousand dollars. another to an unnamed American for over $5,000. Englishman John Tinkler is accused. warrant sworn December 1910, but apprehension delayed until February 20. It is believed many missing volumes will surface in 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 Declined
New York March 16 United Mine Workers of America rejects the operators counter proposal demanding union recognition a 20 percent wage rise a shorter workday and other changes The miners give no clear indication of willingness to compromise in their reply to the operators proposal
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
Names Struck From Voter Registry Expected This Month
Chicago March 18 About 40 000 suspect notices issued by the election board against persons whose names will be stricken from the registry unless they show cause. Registration stats to be revised tomorrow. If 80 000 names are stricken, total registration will exceed 450 000.
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Chicago
Election Board
Auto Speeder Held for Killing Pedestrian
R B Reid of Savannah expert demonstrator for Case Company Atlanta was held without bond by the coroner s jury for trial on criminal negligence in the death of John J Fitzgerald near Mestin g street Charleston S C March 18 Reid s companions E M Lynch and M J Foley are held under bond as witnesses Reid allegedly drove at high speed before swerving around a vehicle from which the victim had just jumped
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Charleston
R. B. Reid
Savannah
Case Company
Atlanta
John J. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Reid
E. M. Lynch
M. J. Foley
Mesting Street
Fifteen Thousand Stolen From Registered Mail Sack
El Paso March 15 Fifteen thousand dollars in currency was taken from the registered mail pouch on the Arizona and New Mexico railroad at Clifton Arizona Tuesday information received here today. The money was consigned from Faso to the Detroit Copper Company at Morenci Ariz. When the train reached Clifton the registered pouch was missing. Later it was 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
Ciifton
San Francisco
Temperance Medals Promised by Local Merchant
Nashville report notes T H Farmer of Martin pledges gold medals to young temperance orators in Weakley County as schools close for term break. Farmer, a wholesale grocer and banker, is a pioneer temperance advocate in West Tennessee and offered the prizes last fall to encourage boy speakers on temperance restorations.
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Nashville
Tenn
Weakley County
T. H. Farmer
Martin
Wweat
Tennessee
Deadlock in coal talks as miners demand wage rise
United Mine Workers and coal operators in New York failed to resolve disputes over a 20 percent wage increase, union recognition, and a shorter workday. Negotiations concluded with no compromise ahead of a March 31 deadline, risking a general strike by April 1 if no new agreement is reached.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
Cox
Pennsylvania
John White
George T. Baer
White
Cleveland
Western Union Replies to Postal Suit in Intercity Case
Washington March 16 Western Union Telegraph Company filed an answer to a proceeding before the Interstate Commerce Commission brought by the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company. The Postal asserts it has a right to use Western Union facilities for messages sent to towns where Postal has no offices. Western Union denies the claim and argues it would be an unjust burden to permit Postal to use its large facilities for a competitor.
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Washington
Western Union Telegraph Company Today
Interstate Commerce Commission
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Postal
Western Union
Ita
Blizzard Grips Chicago as March Snow Rages
Chicago on March 15 faced a crippling snowstorm that approached blizzard strength, with visibility under 100 yards and heavy wet snow disrupting streets, elevated railways, and telegraph service. The storm was expected to last through the day and reach the eastern seaboard tonight.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Russian Dancers Demand Pay Before Performance
New Orleans on March 15 reports the czar of Russela's royal dancers and musicians clashed with a theater manager over pay after a single performance. Musicians tried to reclaim their music and were ejected by guards. police intervened to prevent further property attachment for advances. A meningitis quarantine was declared in Bernice, Louisiana, on March 16 with town officials meeting urgently.
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New Orleans
Russela
Royal Dancers
Campar
Bernice
Salvadoran Executive Meets Knox in Peace Drive
Dr. Manuel Araujo, president of Salvador, joins other Central American leaders in seeking Secretary Knox's support for a universal peace initiative among Latin nations as Knox amplifies a regional gospel of harmony.
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Manuel Araujo
Salvador
Cona
Knox
Proposal of France rejected by Spain
Paris reports Spain flatly rejects France's demand for territorial compensation in Morocco. Spain offers only frontier adjustments that leave France no gains. The Tempo notes that if this is Spain's final position, next steps in negotiations remain unclear.
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France
Spain
Paris
Morocco
Tempo
For Sale E M F 30 Car in Rockmart Georgia
Cash sale offers for an E M F 30 in good condition. Seller will accept a trade for a city of Atlanta lot or house and lot and pay the difference. Car is fully equipped, sale due to illness. Respond to Box 324 Rockmart Ga.
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Atlanta
Rockmart
Remarkable Change Shown By New Star
Cambridge March 15 comparison of photographs from a ward observatory shows a striking change in the new star in Gemini. The hydrogen spectral band altered significantly from dark to bright edges and larger size, indicating more hydrogen. Only once before, in 1908, did a new star offer such observable change. The star is naked eye visible near Castor and Pollux as Gemini passes near the zenith after 7 pm.
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Cambridge
Masa
Bward
Gemini
Vastor
Pollux
Bumper Cuban Tobacco Crop Anticipated This Year
New York reports from experts just back from Cuba indicate this season's tobacco crop will surpass all prior records. Favorable weather has encouraged farmers inland to boost growth and yield. Havana predicts output exceeding 706000 bales, with last year at 350000 and the all time peak at 625000 bales in 1900.
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New York
Cuba
Havana
Passengers Cross Border as Refugee Flows Slow
Toredo Texas March 15 There was a light decrease in the narengar Yat from Mexican points through here to say about 126 passengers coming in this foreno. Very few of the 1,200 persons who lived at Saltillo in the past two years as refugees have left there yet. The impression of the passengers here today was that the situation has improved.
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Mexico
Toredo
Texas
Saltillo
Banquet Honors Belvedere Brooks In Atlanta
Belvedere Brooks general manager of Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company attended a Capital City Club banquet hosted by H C Worthen and W J Gentry. Brooks, returning from a Southern district inspection, praised conditions, while Worthen noted gains under his year as Southern division manager. More than thirty prominent Atlanta citizens attended, with speeches from several guests before Brooks departed by private car for New York accompanied by Worthen who will return next Thursday.
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Belvedere Brooks
Western Union Télegraph and Cable Company
Capital City
H C. Worthen
Western Union
W.J. Gentry
Southern Bell
New York
Worthen
Brooks
Atlanta
B. Brooks
W. T. Gentry
H. C. Worthen
J. 3
Hoetman
J. P. Edwards
G. M. York
T. W.W. Carroll
J. M. Stephens
J. K. Scofield
Albert Howell
Eugene Black
H. BE. W. Palmer
W. Ts. Peel
C. J. Ryan
Wilmer L. Moore
Jos
H. McCord
H. M. Atkinson
Earnings Up 10.4% for American Cities Co in 1911
At the Jersey City stockholders meeting, directors reported 1911 earnings of 2,343,083 dollars applicable to dividends, a 10.4 percent rise from the prior year. J Gannon was re elected chairman, G H Davin president and exec chair, VP's George Bullock and William von Phul, secretary Miss Madge McGrath, and treasurer H E Slade. Tennessee nominees: Nashville voters chose A B Nell for criminal judge, Peter Crouch treasurer, Jesse Webb tax assessor, Charles Longhurst sheriff. prohibition law enforcement lost to the judge by 4,000 and to the sheriff by 99.
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New Orleans
American Cities Company
Jersey City
J. Gannon
G. H. Davin
George Bullock
Wiliam von Phul
Madge McGrath
H. E. Slade
Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
A. B. Nell
Peter Crouch
Jesse Webb
Charles Longhurst
Day in Congress Skirmishes On Railroads And Commerce
In session at 2 pm grain dealers urged interstate commerce rules to bind railroads to shipper bills. Pacific Malt Steamship’s Schwerin opposed Bristow plan to bar railroad stakes in steamship firms. Adjournment at 5 15 pm to Saturday. Debate over sugar relief continued. Sabath proposed a new workers compensation bill while opposing the employers liability plan. Interstate Commerce panel favored Sims bill to end commerce court. Adjourned 6 17 pm for noon Saturday.
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Interstate Commerce Committee
Schwerin
Pacific Malt Steamship Company
Bristow
Sabath
Employers' Lability Commission
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Sims Bil
Rommerce Court
Parks Debate Sparks City Council Clash Over Negro Baseball Park
The police committee backs a petition for a Negro baseball park on University Avenue in Fittaburg settlement south of the city. Councilman Mason plans to oppose the proposal, armed with an ordinance asserting the park commission, not the mayor and council, controls all parks and public grounds and issues permits.
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Paris
Copachmag
Mazon
University Avenue
Fittaburg
Mason
Park Commission
Locomotive Engineers Meet With 8 Eastern Roads
Representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the forty eight eastern railroads held a two hour conference in New York on March 16 over wage demands. J C Stuart Erie vice president and general manager presided while Warren B Stone led the engineers. Railroads asked for more time to study the proposal before replying. Figures cited showed fewer engineers in 1911 versus 1910 but higher wages, with gross earnings up and net earnings down. The meeting adjourned to reconvene in New York on March 25.
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New York
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Eastern Railroad
J. C. Stuart
Erie
Warren B. Stone
Stuart
Asre
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