Leach Street Railways in New Orleans Set Early Run
New Orleans on October 5 reports street car strike tensions. Mayor Capdeville demands cars operate by 10 am tomorrow, with possible franchise action. Concessions include 20 cents an hour raises for experienced motormen and conductors. Police readiness and potential troop call noted amid ongoing negotiations and sabotage fears.
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New Orleans
Capdeville
Gilmore
Gen
Police Board
Charles
Railway Company
Harmony Street
Canal Street
General Booth Addresses Crowded Academy of Music
New York reports three Salvation Army meetings led by General Booth with Colonel Lawley assisting. Despite heavy rain, about two thousand people attended 13, 3, and 8 o’clock services. A brass band played as the evangelist spoke over an hour at each session and a monster meeting is planned for Carnegie Hall tomorrow night with Mayor Low presiding.
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New York
Academy of Music
General Booth
Salvation Army
Eg Tama
Senital Booth
John Lawley
Carnegie Wal
Low
White House
New Orleans
Street Railways Company
Grand Army of the Republic
Washington
Cardinal Gibbons Sees No Way Out of Trouble
Baltimore October 5 Special Cardinal Gibbons voiced grave concern over the coal strike deadlock. He said he hoped for a settlement by the president but could offer no remedy as arbitration failed and government action lacked a clear path to peace amid looming winter hardships.
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Cardinal Gibbons
New Orleans
Baltimore
Bry
Soldiers Guard Glens Falls Amid Transit Strike Turmoil
National guard troops guard the Hudson Valley Electric Railroad facilities in Glens Falls after a mass sympathy protest leads to a four hour disturbance. Strikers and labor leaders paraded through main streets, cars were pelted with bricks, and Conductor Currier of Brooklyn was injured. Guards protected the power house and a bridge. rioting subsides as police held ground.
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Glens Falls
Hudson Valley Electric Railroad Company
National Guard
Sandy Hill
Bank Square
Cool’s
Currier
Brooklyn
Mott
King Leopold to Abdicate Soon Says Belgian Papers
Brussels October 5 Special Several Belgian newspapers report King Leopold has told his entourage he plans to abdicate soon. He is said to await the start of the large public works he initiated before relinquishing the throne.
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Brussels
Leopold
Dynamited A Rail Road Section Blown Up
A section of track on the Silver Creek branch of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad was blown up by dynamite at dawn. The blast shook nearby homes in New Philadelphia and Silver Creek. Fifty deputies met the workers’ train at the scene to escort them to the colliery.
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Tamaqua
Silver Creek
Philadelphia, and Reading
New Philadelphia
Encampment of Grand Army of the Republic Opens in Washington
The thirty sixth annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment begins in Washington tomorrow with auxiliary groups meeting through Saturday. Indigent veterans have tents on the White Lot and floors of the new government printing office used for shelter. Weather improves after rain while flags and bunting decorate main streets. Highlights include an automobile parade, Potomac regatta, and Camp Roosevelt dedication where Secretary John Hay will speak.
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Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
Weather Bureau
Pennsylvania Avenue
Potomac River
Camp Roosevelt
John Hay
Convention
Grand Army
Republic
Thursaey
Roosevelt
Tirana
Dale
Tragic Gas Incident Drowns Woman in Bathtub
Feorla Illinois October 5. Frank B Townsend a clerk at the Iowa Central railway home with his wife in a bathroom using a disconnected gas pipe from an instantaneous heater. Townsend survived while Mrs Townsend drowned in the bath water. The couple moved to Peoria from Marshalltown Iowa last May. Her body to be shipped back to Marshalltown for interment.
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Feorla
Frank B. Townsend
Hamilton Boulevard
Iowa Central Railway
White House coal conference yields no statement
A White House meeting on the coal strike adjourned after three hours with no public conclusions. Participants, including Secretaries Root Moody and Attorney General Knox, pledged to secrecy. The president aims to seek congressional action and moral suasion to end the dispute while considering urging Pennsylvania Governor Stone to probe the miners’ grievances.
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Washington
White House
Root and Moody
Knox
Payne
Carrol D. Wright
United States
Cortelyou
Congress
Hesin
Legislative
Stone
Pennsylvania
Butt
Mitchell
Peett
Holman Threatens to Seek Injunction in Coal Strike
Bangor financier C Vey Holman owner of coal lands in Pennsylvania leased to the Philadelphia and Reading railroad plans to seek an injunction unless the strike ends. He argues the lease is a sale to the railroad and seeks a ruling on eminent domain involving actual landowners, operators, and government action.
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Oston
Mass
C. Vey
Holman
Bangor
Maine
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia and.Reading Railroad
Mr. Holman
Roosevelt
Tt Ia
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Centenarian John W. Jordan Dies En Route to Church
Atlanta’s oldest resident, John W. Jordan aged about 99 or 100, died yesterday while riding a street car to downtown. A lifelong Methodist Episcopal member for eighty years, he spoke of going to church that morning despite his son’s warning. Born in Oglethorpe County in 182? he lived in Lexington and Crawfordville before settling with his son at 391 Sea Board Avenue. He married Mahala Mercer in 1826, later moved to Lee County to farm, and his death interrupts a long life noted for longevity and devotion to church aid. Interment planned for Americus today.
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Trinity Church
John W. Jordan
Atlanta
Mr. Jordan
Robert J. Jordan
Seaboard Avenue
Jordan
Methodist Episcopal Church
Edgewood Avenue
Patterson
Americus
Oglethorpe County
Lexington
Thomas Jordan
Precilla Applewhite
Virginia
Madison County
Fort Lamar
Washington County
Carnesville
Crawfordville
Kendricks Campground
Wilkes County
Misa Mahala Mercer
Herman Mercer
Lee County
Casey Issues Strict Orders On Isthmus Transit
Rear Admiral Casey aboard the Wisconsin has barred Colombian military officers and arms across the isthmus without special permission. The move sparks tension with Colombia as General Salazar and U S naval command weigh how Washington will respond to protect free railroad transit and Colombia's sovereignty.
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Colon
Colombia
Casey
Manama
Wisconsin
Sarranguudia
Fpanpma
Calombia
Ostaber
Fie
Hers
Panama
Salazar
Fred Tran
Oss
Isthmus
Washington
Remains of Emile Zola Laid to Rest in Somber Ceremony
In Paris on October 5 the body of Emile Zola was laid to rest with orderly, sorrowful processions. Thousands of workers and families followed the coffin past guards and a military escort. Dreyfus attended, placing a wreath, as Mme Zola watched from the mortuary chamber after doctors forbade her from viewing the burial.
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Envi- Zola
Zola
Nin
Ceremor
Dreyfus
Mme. Zola
Plac
LaLance
Ing
Alsace
Threichstag
M. Monof
Debruxelles
Bowe
Legion of H
Francisco
Hundredth year man dies on streetcar in church trip
A series of terse local and world items note John W. Jordan dying in a streetcar en route to church in his hundredth year. Other items mention an interstate fair opening, a police capture, a fatal machinery accident in Comer, convicts dying, university enrollment, city court race, white primary registration, jail disturbance in Lincolnton, freight rate cases, and various national figures and events with sparse details.
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John W. Jordan
Forse
Ira T. Willard
Munder
Buaren
John Floyd
Strick
Comer
Yancey
Fulton County
State Farm
Macon
University of Georgia
Mecoa
Lincolnton
N. C
Miliia
Wilmington
M. C
Court of Equity
Mississippi
United Mine Workers
Alabama
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Ake
Hild
Madrid
Duke of
Veragua
Ory A
White House Gelwaen
Stone -In
Centennarian
Bo Geet Oa
Casey Saya
Pais
Chenicit
Olas Widon
Georgia
Nicholas
Ruseia
Elian
Constantinople
Martiazs
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