End of Strike Near in Chicago Garment Row
Joy swept 49000 striking garment workers as city council named a conference committee with Mayor Busse and University of Chicago sociologist Merriam. Labor leaders predicted a rapid settlement and a parade planned for week end, while Flood and Nestor aided mothers by distributing about 100 dollars for milk.
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Chicago
Loop
Fitzpatrick
John Fitzpatrick
Chicago Federation of Labor
Busse
Francis D. Connery
Charles E. Merriam
Jimmett T. Flood
American Federation of Labor
Horan
Milton Avenue
West Oak Street
Miss Agnes Nestor
Woman's Trade Union League
Mr. Flood
Miss Nestor
Nebraska Population Report From Thirteenth Census
Washington reports Nebraskas population at 1 192 214, up 125 914 or 11 8 percent from 1 066 300 in 1900. The text notes 1890 to 1900 inlandcrease by 7 390 or seven percent. Maryland shows 1 294 460, up 106 406 or five percent from 1 185 044 in 1900.
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Washington
Nebraskas
Mary
Taft Urges Deep Cuts in 1911 Government Estimates
Washington, Nov. 30. President Taft told cabinet officers after reviewing the final draft of the 1911 fiscal year estimates that further deep cuts are needed. Departments had already trimmed to rock bottom figures, but Taft pointed to areas where pruning could go further. The conference also discussed the rivers and harbors bill, with Representative Alexander stating it would carry about 30 million dollars in appropriations and no park barrel provisions.
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Washington
Taft
Treasury
Alexander
New York
House Committee On
Bixby
Army
District of Columbia
Congress
Chief of Engineers
Rebels Ditch Train Reported for Madero Rally
Reports from Chihuahua and surrounding areas describe revolutionists stopping a passenger train on the Chihuahua & Pacific line. Cars were wrecked and three Mexican women killed. about 100 rebels held passengers 24 hours before release. Authorities plan heightened vigilance as inauguration nears and troops are readied in Chihuahua.
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Torreon
Mexico
Chihuahua
Chihuahua & Pacific
Madera
Revolutionista
Fresno
Mexico & Northwestern
Parra
HI Paso
Tex
George Rutedge
Juarez di Velon
Mexico Northwestern Railway
Nho
Nueva Casas Grandes
Paarton
Cruces
Nueva Cagas Grandes
Discuss Fraud at Meeting in Washington
Collector Loeb of New York met with Secretary MacVeagh to discuss customs frauds in New York. Attending were J. H. Kraeke M. P. Andrew and J. W. Wheatley, focusing on undervaluations and the government’s response to recent wooden frauds unearthed. A New York court decision raised a new aspect by saying the government lacked authority to attach foreign owned goods seized in raids.
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Washington
Loeb
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
J. H. Kraeke
Port of
M. P. Andrew
J. W. Wheatley
300 Lost in Caspian Gale
In Astrakhan Russia on November 30 a Caspian gale caused a landing stage to break from its moorings and drift away with 300 Persian dock workers aboard. Many ships were sunk at Caspian coast towns and seven towns flooded. Hundreds fled to haystacks as intense cold worsened the disaster.
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Astrakhan
Russia
Caspian Sea
Caspian Coast
Medal of Honor for Marine John Fitzgerald at Navy Yard
Washington reports John Fitzgerald, formerly a private in the Marine Corps and now a New York customs house employee, has been awarded the Medal of Honor and a $100 gratuity by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Winthrop. Fitzgerald earned the honor in the Spanish American War at Cuba for signaling to the USS Dolphin under fire during the bombardment, while under the command of General Elliott’s forces.
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Washington
John Fitzgerald
New York Custom House
United States Marine Corps
Winthrop
Witzgerald
Cuba
U.S. S. Dolphin
Kiliott
Man burns to death in jail after escape attempt
In Binghamton on November 30 Derris Hitt, a Morris, New York farmer, held in jail for alleged lunacy, set fire to his bed to avoid commitment to an asylum. He died from the flames as guards fought the blaze.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Derris Hitt
Morris
Suicide of Hastings trader over mounting debts
Hastings Neb Nov 29 Will M Reed a stock dealer for nearly 17 years shot himself in his hotel room ending his life after suffering heavy losses and leaving a debt still owed to his brother in a farewell letter.
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Self
Hastings, Neb
Will M. Reed
Tolstoys son accuses Tschertkoff of Tolstoi death
Count Leo Tolstoi accuses his late father’s literary agent Count Tschertkoff of being the worst enemy in educated Russia and directly responsible for the tragedy at Yasnaya Polyana. He claims the agent’s malign influence caused his father’s premature death and family separations.
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St. Petersburg
Leo Tolstoi
Count Tschertkoff
Count Tolstoi
Tschertkof
Russia
Yasnaya Poliana
Leo
Yasnaya Polana
Tscherikoff
NITRO BURNS GARY FIRE TIED TRAFFIC IN GARY IND
In Gary Indiana on November 30 two thousand pounds of nitroglycerin burned inside the Nitrator building of Aetna Powder company Firefighters and townspeople joined forces to prevent an explosion that could have endangered Gary steel mills and the plant Rest of the town and railroad traffic were affected as trainmen and passengers refused to pass the blaze
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Gary
Ind
Aetna Powder Company
Traff
Gary Steel Mills
Rival Pupil Fight Plans Nipped by Police in Denver
About 300 students from manual training and East Denver high schools gathered at Cheesman Park in Capitol Hill to settle old scores. Police in a patrol car arrived, dozens of leaders were arrested and later released.
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Denver
Col
Navy
Manual Training
Safe with $16,000 is found in Muskogee
An iron safe containing 316,000 stolen from the Wel's-Fargo Express company substation in Muskogee was recovered. The safe was located under a porch of an abandoned house and had not been opened.
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Muskogee
Okla
Wel's-Fargo Express Company
Gypsy Queen Stella Cortez Downs Dies in California
Stella Cortez Downs, queen of the Gonzalez gypsy tribe in Spain, died at 45 in Santa Monica. She came to Southern California 15 years ago seeking a colony for about 4,000 tribe members, later marrying Thomas J. Downs of Sawtelle and abandoning her plans.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Stella Cortez Downs
Gonzalez
Spain
Mrs. Downs
California
Thomas J. Downs
Sawtelle
Bomb wrecks panic murder kidnaping sequel in Sicilian quarter
A Black Hand bomb exploded on Elizabeth Street in New York injuring no one seriously and wrecking five stores. The blast struck the Heila Trina Cria saloon at 285 Elizabeth Street, amid Sicilian community leaders meeting there. Investigators linked the attack to a five year old kidnapping case involving Lieutenant Petrosino.
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New York
New York City
Elizabeth Street
Petrosino
Italy
Francesco le Barbera
Peitro
le Barbera
Prince and
Houston Streets
East Side
Heila Trina Cria
Nucelo Bros
Barba Carmella
Bella Trina Cria
AID DIES AT DETROIT ACCOUNT OF SCANDAL EXPERT
A. B. Spear once implicated in the Chadwick swindles and a former Oberlin banker died in Detroit of peritonitis from typhoid fever. He had been paroled in February and worked as a Bell Telephone auditor after moving from New York last August with his wife and 16 year old son. His death ends a secret identity kept until now.
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Detroit
Mich
A. B. Spear
Oberlin
Chadwick
Spear
Bell Telephone Company
New York
Court Dodges Gerrymander in Kentucky Appeal
Washington November 29 The Supreme Court of the United States dismissed for want of jurisdiction the appeal from an attack on an alleged congressional district gerrymander in Kentucky.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Kentucky
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Wille
J. B. Rockafellow
D. O. Herbert
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Max Emmert
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C. G. Clark
University of Iowa
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Ch.i. D. Finley
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Gillespia Building
A. S. Mullins
W.C. Heers
Smiley
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G. R. Miller
Gillescia
J. A. Giffen
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W. M. Bailey
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