Tri District UMW Convention Opens in Shamokin
Shamokin Pennsylvania hosts 695 delegates from 185 500 union miners as the tri district convention of the United Mine Workers opens. President Mitchell is elected chairman. After adjournment, the wage scale committee meets in his Windsor hotel room aiming to push for an eight hour day wage increases from 10 to 29 percent and union recognition in their report.
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Shamokin
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Windsor Hotel
Larceny Charge Against Milwaukee Capitalist
Milwaukee December 15 Judge Brazee in municipal court took under advisement the case of Charles F Pfister charged in an indictment with larceny as bailee in the amount of 14000 dollars after a day of argument on the motion to dismiss The state argued mainly about the meaning of the word bailee
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Milwaukee
Charles F. Pfister
Brazee
Illegal to ship liquor C O D Iowa recover money
Iowa supreme court rules C O D liquor shipments violate the mulct law and purchasers may recover amounts paid. In Hamilton v Schlitz Brewing Milwaukee the court orders $5,000 returned for beer shipped C O D. Separate notes cite education commissioner’s 1905 fiscal year data and National League measures to maintain order at its annual meeting.
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Des Moines
Iowa
New York
National League of Baseball Clubs
Theeague
Old Flag House at 239 Arch Street Sold by Subscription
Philadelphia reports the two story brick Old Flag House at 239 Arch Street, famed as Betsy Ross's flag design site, has been bought for the government by popular subscription. Evansville, Indiana notes a switch engine derailment in yards, colliding with a four story Indiana Store Co building, killing the engineer and fireman.
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Philadelphia
Arch Street
Betsy Ross
Evansville
Ind
Illinois Central Railroad
Indiana Store Company
Provident Society Chief Appeals on Equitable Links
Edward W W Scott, president of Provident Saving and Life Assurance, urged the investigating committee to rule certain statements about his ties to Equitable Life Assurance as foreign to the inquiry. Counsel displayed letters from 1901 showing balances of 57,993 due to Equitable and Scott's limited admissions. Scott also described using 25,000 of Provident funds to buy stock, later held by a trust with a remaining debt to the lender.
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New York
Insurance Investigating
Edward W.W. Scott
Provident Saving and Life Assurance Society
W. W. Armstrong
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Charles E. Hughes
Scott
Equitabilife Assurance Society
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Provident Society
Mr. Scott
The
Equitable
Hughes
Equitable Society
Beef Trust Case Immune From Prosecution
Three jurors, two carpenters and a real estate dealer, are seated as the government and Packers lawyers clash in the beef trust trial before Judge Humphreys. It is reported the defense seeks to show Garfield carried statements from the commission probe, arguing Packers’ immunity from criminal prosecution. Weld and his assistant Durand are cited as witnesses for the defense under subpoena.
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Chicago
Humphreys
James K. Weld
J. A.durand
Garfield
Beef Trust
Indictments in rebate cases target railways and agents
Eight indictments were returned by the federal grand jury in Philadelphia against shippers freight agents and common carriers in rebate cases brought by U S District Attorney J Whitaker Thompson The charges name Great Northern Railway company F Campbell L W Lake and the Mutual Transit company as rebate givers and Wood family members as recipients Also cited are Paul J Diver and multiple counts involve shipments from Philadelphia to Winnipeg Minneapolis and related transactions A large number of witnesses testified Immunity from punishment was granted to principals who testified
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Philadelphia
Federal Grand Jury
United States District
J. Whitaker Thompson
Great Northern Railway Company
R. D. Wood & Co
Winnipeg
F. Campbell
Great Northern
L. W. Lake
New York
Mutual Transit Company
Wood Company
Walter Wood
George Wood
Stuart Wood
Richard Wood
Paul J. Diver
National Essence of Coffee Company
Minneapolis
Massive Mesaba ore lands sold to steel firm in Minnesota
One of the era’s largest mining deals closes with transfer of a half interest in the J. J. Hill unleased ore lands on the Western Mesaba range to United States Sree Corporation. Papers filed in Grand Rapids Itasca County reveal Walker lands on the west Mesaba total an estimated 100 to 300 million tons of ore about half Bessemer.
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Duluth
Mesaba Iron Range
J. J. Hill
Mesaba Range
United States Sree Corporation
Grand Rapids
Minn
Itasca County
Mesaba
Bessemer
Standing Army of Laborers Formed in Chicago
The Chicago Employers' Association proposed a standing army of laborers skilled and unskilled to fill striker vacancies nationwide. The plan covers every U.S. city with 60,000 or more people, with employment bureaus in those cities to register nonunion workers for use when needed.
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Chicago
Chicago Employers’ Association
United States
Wisconsin Assembly Rejects Cumulative Primary Plan
Madison dispatch reports the assembly refused to reconsider the cumulative primary election bill, ending a key objective of the extra session as Governor La Follette faced another slate of defeats. W. D. Connor led the fight, with Lenroot named as possible governor rival. the senate also moved to investigate insurance companies, focusing on Northwestern Mutual Life of Milwaukee.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly
la Follette
W. D. Connor
State Republican Committee
I. L. Lenroot
Superior
Senate
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Milwaukee
Navigation at Duluth closes after busy Great Lakes season
A busy season ends with the head navigation on the Great Lakes closing at Duluth Thursday night. The article notes the season's high activity and the closure of shipping routes as winter approaches.
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Great Lakes
Duluth
National Civic Service Reform League
Milwaukee
Sir Henry Irving
London
Louisiana Exceeds Contract Speed In Endurance Run
The battleship Louisiana completed a four hour endurance test along the New England coast, maintaining an average speed of 18.822 knots per hour well above the 18 knot contract requirement. Propeller revolutions averaged 127.6 per minute.
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Boston
Louisiana
New England
Archduke Otto Undergoes Tracheotomy Following Suffocation Fears
Vienna reports Archduke Otto has been seriously ill for months and underwent a tracheotomy last Monday due to dangerous suffocation attacks. He now breathes through a silver tube in the windpipe and remains in serious condition.
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Vienna
Archduke Otto
Naval Academy to crack down on hazing at Annapolis
The Navy plans a firm campaign to end hazing at the Naval Academy. Two midshipmen will be dismissed for hazing and failure to report hazing, with more suspensions to follow. Secretary Bonaparte called Rear Admiral James H. Sands to Washington for a morning conference as Congress considers a House investigation into academy conditions.
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Washington
Naval Academy
Ie Wing
Academy
Bonaparte
James H. Saunds
Annapolis
Hayvine
Sands
Navy Department
Representative Loud
Michigan
Trenmor Coffin, Jr
Jerome Pettus Kimbrough
Warren Abbe van Derveer
Miss Johnson Acquitted in Poison Claim Case
Owatonna Minnesota December 15 Miss Wilda Johnson was acquitted by a jury after being accused by the state of trying to kill widow Gertrude Lundstrom in a love rival plot. The verdict was returned at 6 p.m. after the case was given to the jury at 4 p.m. In Minneapolis December 15 Mrs Woltmann wife of Rev H L Woltmann assistant pastor Trinity Lutheran church was struck by a runaway horse at Seventh street and First avenue south at 5 20 p m and killed instantly after being thrown into a streetcar near Twentieth avenue north and First avenue south.
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Owatonna
Minn
Wilda Johnson
Gertrude Lundstrom
Miss Johnson
Minneapolis
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