New York textile talks avert garment workers strike
Weekly events cover labor leaders in New York averting a 40 000 garment workers strike through arbitration. Other items note a Mokwani beer camp run by women led by Commander de Beers wife, Gypsy mentions in Kentucky, clashes between American sailors and Russian soldiers in New Chwang, and Rear Admiral Wildes taking command of the Asiatic squadron. A Boston court sentences Franklin J. Moses for larceny, a deadly dynamite blast kills three in Pennsylvania, and the American China Development Company seeks bonds for the Mankow Canton railway linking Canton and Pekin. Police arrest Edmond Palmer in Pittsburg. a Wabash wreck injures two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mokwani
de Beers
Beesham
Kentucky
Frankfort
Union
New Chwang
China
State Department
Conger
Pekin
Frank Wildes
Petsacola Mavy Yard
Navy
Demari
Keeling & Ridge
Connellsville
American-China Development Company
Mankow-Canton
Canton
Chicago
Pittsburg
Edmond Palmer
Des Plaines
Ashley
Ellisville
Palmer
Wabash
Limited
Lagro
Ind
John Brumbaugh
W. C. Humphrey
Multiple Fires and Trials Across States Leave Tragic Toll
News nuggets report Shulte Lumber mill fire in Glendora Mississippi and a fatal home blaze near Wiands North Carolina. Children perish in Coal City Pennsylvania fire. Marylands Democrats nominate Arthur Pue Gorman for US Senate. Ex Governor James B. McCreary is named for Kentucky Senate race. Divorces filed in Knoxville and Louisville court actions cite health and desertion. A Monongahela line crash near Shinnstown West Virginia injures six and wrecks engines and cars. Gas asphyxiation ends Philadelphia leader Charles C Creston. J D Choate at Colorado Sanitarium fasting thirty days. Sidman sued by wife Margaret over tandem riding. Goebel murder case in Kentucky judge denies continuance. Rio Grande Western rail collision near Roy Utah. fireman Frank Cowell dies. East St. Louis bank guard shoots at would-be robbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shulte Hardwood Lumber Company
Glendora
Miss
Roxie Johnson
Wiands
N. C
Maryland
Arthur Pue Gorman
United States Senate
Philip McKim
Coal City
James B. McCreary
Kentucky
United States
Deboe
John Banks
Knoxville
Tenn
Monongahela
Shinnstown
W. Va
Charles Caleb Creston
Philadelphia
Germantown
J. D. Choate
New York
Colorado Sanitarium
Boulder
Colo
Choate
Robert Sidman
St. Louis
Margaret
Cantrill
Frankfort
Jim Howard
Goebel
Rio Grande Western Road
Roy Station
Utah
Frank Cowell
Salt Lake
Carnegie offers Melrose library funds in public gift
Andrew Carnegie proposes a 25000 dollar donation to Melrose Mass for a public library under standard conditions. A list of varied 1910s headlines follows, including leadership changes at Columbia, a fur seal caught near Fort Hamilton, a Mass alderman’s death, and a gas-related tragedy in Fermtown Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
Melrose
Mass
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Seth Low
Fort Hamilton
New York Bay
Robert H. Jenkins
Board of Aldermen
Everett
New York
Willa S. Bennett
Grant
Washington
Alice Roosevelt
Manuy Cities
Margaret O'Connor
Joan
Annie Drummond
Fermen Town
Wood Street
Brushton
Pittsburg
Ono
Perry Belmont
Montague Lessler
First National Bank
Glassport
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Johnstown
J. B. Polk
Brevis Hotel
Baltimore
Polk
Chesapeake Brewing Company
Sparta
Parker
New Jersey
Hartford
Conn
Anton C. Chaves
Joseph
Mary Devida
Nineveh
Pennsylvania Mail
Annie Leary
Leo III
Church of Rome
Holy See
Fifth Avenue
Hannah Coggin
Notable 1900s Crime and Fire Mix From Western States
A roundup of tragic incidents and legal notes spanning 1900 era journals: a Curtis & Co. Chicago coffin maker plant fire causes $240,000 loss. Seaton hanged at Seattle for killing his uncle. Sheriff Ricker fatally wounded in a Casper fight with escaped prisoners. Lima family suffocated by natural gas. two-year-old Walter Bell burns to death in Amanda Ohio. Wilby and Hoffman recaptured after jail escape in Billings with Kilby fatally shot. William Condon dies after being shot by a St. Louis detective. Northwestern Medical College sale for 40,600 to Valparaiso Normal and Chicago Eclectic. two Utah lake drownings near Provo. J W Cheek dies by morphine suicide. I H Cooper retires to focus on New York business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis & Co
Chicago
William HI
Seaton
Seattle
Daniel Richards
Casper
Wyo
W. C. Ricker
John Sullivan
Lima
Ohio
Walter Bell
Amanda
Alonzo Wilby
Roy Hoffman
Billlings
Mont
Kilby
William Condon
St. Louis
Tie
Northwestern Medical College
H. Cooper
Siegel, Cooper & Co
New York
Multistate Crime Roundup From 1900s Headlines
Henry Siegel announces. Jerry Healey arrested in Greeley for vagrancy proved to be the missing heir to a Fall River estate. Stewart Fife in North Yakima charged with Savannah merchant Frank W. Richardson murder. Knickerbocker Ice Company executive convicted in Racine for tax evasion. Bernard Michel found dead in St Paul office. Local court rulings on jury trials and picketing. National Stock Yards Bank robbed near East St Louis. Anna Clark dies after train trestle jump in Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Siegel
Jerry Healey
Greeley
Colo
Fall River
Mass
Stewart Fife
North Yakima
Wash
Frank W. Richardson
Savannah
Fife
Knickerbocker Ice Company
Chicago
Racine
Wisconsin
National Stock Yards ‘Bank
East St. Louis
Cincinnati
Anna Clark
Frank H. Peavey
Minneapolis
Shawnee
Kane
Carl Fishner
Mary L. Wallace
Rich Hill
Custer County
Neb
Cole
Jim Younger
Minnesota State Board of Pardons
Northfield
Clyde Moore
C. L. Wiltberger
Winfield
Irian
Newhouse
Idaho Springs
Powder Gang
Philip Yoder
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Louisville
Ohio
Central Congregational Church
Topeka
Ian
C. M. Sheldon
Circuit Court
Toledo
Rutherford B. Hayes
Adelaide Smith
Fremont
Mayes
Joseph Deutsch
Cleveland
Johnson
John G. Sadlier
Springfield Foundry Company
Indianapolis Frog and Switch Company
Springfield
John W. Kenney
Henry C. Tatum
Commercial Travelers’ Association
St. Louis
Smith Ditler
First National Bank of
Diller
Liberty
Philippines
Columbus Barracks
Twenty-second Street
Colorado State Bank
Grand Junction
Hanover National Bank of New York
Colorado Sugar Company
New York Bank
Fire devastates Theater Vendome in Nashville Tenn
Dated items report a theater fire gutting the Theater Vendome in Nashville causing an estimated $50,000 loss due to a live wire falling on drapery. The dispatch also notes drownings in Georgia and West Virginia boiler explosions with multiple fatalities, Texas livestock losses, boll weevil cotton destruction, a Franklin County duel, a train wreck in Gray West Virginia, and an assault on a passenger train passenger in Mississippi.
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Nashville
Tenn
John Lee
Columbus, Ga
Frank Starvey
William Bussey
Matthew Dixon
South Pennsylvania Oil Company
Harry Rhoden
Doddridge County
W. Va
Merrick Frick
del Ash
Texas
San Antonio
East Texas
Central
Coast District
Franklin County
Mass
C. P. Shell
Robert Thomas
Thomas
Norfolk and Western Express
Columbus
Ohio
Norfolk
Gray
O. E. Painter
Washington
Beaumont
Lexington
Rt Bg
New Orleans
Meridian
Miss
Ile Wa
Chinese court returns to Pekin amid oriental splendor display
A large pageant marks the capital’s entrance as a bark capsizes near Corunna with twenty three drowned. In South Africa the Boers ambush Scots Grays near Bronkhorstspruit leaving six British dead and ten wounded. A collision off Aveiro sinks British and Spanish coal ships with eighteen and one crewmen drowned. Prof Rudolph Virchow suffers a thigh fracture but recovers. A French bark sinks the Walla Walla off Cape Mendocino. twenty seven of 144 aboard are missing. A London review reports Boer losses at 18,820 and British losses at 9,118 killed or captured with many diseased and invalided.
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Pekin
Lezero
Corunna
Spain
Bronkhorstspruit
Pretoria
Alfonso
Vilelva
Aveiro
Portugal
Rudolph Virchow
Berlin
Walla Walla
Cape Mendocino
South Africa
London
Lave
Roosevelt Consents to Review Schley Inquiry Findings
President Roosevelt agrees to examine the Schley court of inquiry findings after a recent conference with Admiral Schley. other items note Marconi patent disputes, a damages settlement in a diplomatic case, looming Cuban government setup, Alaska weather deaths, timber land deals in Nova Scotia, and Cuba troop withdrawal details after transferring power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Schley Court of Inquiry
Trof. E. Stone Wiswins
Marconi
Lenz
Frank G. Lenz
House of Representatives
Dawson
Alaska
Amur
Henry Patten
Albany
J. Dobson Good
New York
F.C. Smith
Seward Webb
Sherbrooke
Gaspereau River
Queens County
Nova Scotia
Cuba
Senate adjourns in respect amid Sewell death
The United States Senate met after a two week recess but did no business due to the death of Senator William J. Sewell of New Jersey. The Senate and House offered resolutions and adjourned, with tributes to Sewell and prayers for Senator Berry’s recovery. House debate on the Hepburn canal bill continued, focusing on route choice between Panama and Nicaragua and possible presidential authority, while Carries of Minnesota and others proposed amendments. The final vote on the Hepburn bill favored the Panama route, with limited opposition remaining among a few members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
William J. Sewell
New Jersey
William Milburn
Senator Sewell
Berry
Arkansas
Senate
Kean
Sewell
House
New Jesey
Messrs. Smith
Town
Weeks
Michigan
Loudenslager
Jenkins
Wisconsin
Judiciary
House of Representatives
Panama Company
United States
Cannon
Hiinois
Reeves
Sane
Committee On Appropriations
Committee On
Committee On Rivers and Harbors
Hepburn
Canton
Panama
Lepburn
Congress
Morris
Minnesota
Seveunel
Colombia
Walker Commission
Nicaragua
Phe
Mr. Burton
Chins
Chalsnuna Fitz
Tee
Rivera
Herbers
Connecticut
Bojertives
Steeuers
Pacoima
Trease
Fleteler
Mingsota
Lassiter
Vircta
Bishop
Pees Ur
Northwest
Pax Morris
Duluth
Mer. Phetcher
Washington Notes on Navy, Seats, and Exclusion Bill
The seat once held by S. Sewell is reassigned to New York sailors. The Naval Register shows 22 percent ship strength with Rixey under construction. Advocates push a Chinese exclusion bill to bar Mongolians. Filipino oath violators to be punished by Gen. Chatf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
S. Sewell
New York
Naval Register
Ued Matsoe
Navy
Rixey
Foor
Chitterbee
United States
Chatffee
Do Animals Reason In Truthful Tests At London Talk
Lord Avebury discussed animal intelligence in London praising Dan the poodle for learning to distinguish cards labeled Food Tea Water and fetch correctly. He contrasted this with the processional caterpillar noted by the London Chronicle as very low in intelligence after a scientist used a thread experiment to trap them circling a flowerpot for days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Avebury
London Institution
Dan
London Chronicle
Ile
Discovery Claims Kidney Cure by Local Man
Detroit man Benjamin Major of Jane and Hurlbut avenues reports a remedy that ends his long battle with kidney and bladder troubles after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says his cure is complete and cites increasing reports of remarkable cures from the same medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Benjamin Major
Jane and
Hurlbut Avenue
Major
Dodd
Time Fleeting, Man Wonders About Stationary Work
A comic exchange between a stern person and a cheerful citizen notes time’s swift passing and the oddity of time standing still. The humorous micromoment ends with a quip about staying employed if time didn’t move. Washington Star referenced in dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
We Have a Deaf Member and Her Duties
A Baltimore American excerpt presents a Woman's Club remark about a deaf and dumb member. Miss Gabbeigh tells Mr Duggleby the member is not disadvantaged as she makes all motions. Harold Duggleby smiles audibly, understanding the remark.
An Experienced Horseman Comic Exchange
A humorous exchange from New York Weekly features Minks asking why six horses are kept and Winks replying that six ensures two sound horses are always ready for driving. The wry joke highlights practicality and wit between the two characters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minks
New York Weekly
An Inquiry in Suburbanite-Pashington History
Suburbanite-Pashington is praised as one of the most successful men in our town in a terse, quip filled note from City Friend-Yes? questioning if he managed to get out, as discussed in a Puck period gag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pashington
Puck
Putnam Paceless Dyes Promise Uniform Color for All Fibers
An old newspaper fragment touts Putnam Paceless Dyes claiming all goods color fibers in one boiling. It cites druggist sales and a testimonial style note. The text also references Piso's Cure for Consumption and a pancake flour brand with unclear origin identifiers.
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Bessemer Herald
Sherman & Hand, Publishers
Bessemer
City of
David Palin
Hlinvis National Bank
Camden Point
Bank of
Southern
His Majesty's Dockyard
Portsmouth
England
St. Jacobs Oil
Arthur Creswell
Rabbets
Grafton Street
Mile End
Landport
Vogeler
St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd
E. Borden
P Street
Washington, D. C