Chicago mobs assault police in savage stock yards turmoil
June 4 Chicago report details brutal clashes between rioters and police as 36 meat wagons and a caravan supplying downtown stores battled mobs. Wounded officers, exhausted drivers, and a large strike crowd filled streets near Sixteenth street, Michigan avenue, and Van Buren, with volleys fired and numerous arrests and injuries across several battlegrounds.
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Chicago
Union Stock Yards
George June
Anglo-American Packing Company
Sixteenth Street
Michigan Avenue
Quincy Street
Fifth Avenue
Miller
van Buren Street
St. Charles Air Line
Thirty-fifth Street
Grand Boulevard
Olice
Staton
Clark Street
Swift & Co
van Buren Stree
Ft & Co
South Park Avenue
St. Louis
Forty-fifth Street
Centre Avenue
Miss Toppan To Stand Trial For Murder This June
The State will try Jane Toppan on murder charges with a full trial planned for June 23. Witnesses from Chicago and Lowell, including Deacon Brigham, are summoned, and the defense may pursue an insanity plea. The case promises a major Barnstable County court proceeding with substantial costs and a vigorous legal contest.
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Jane Toppan
Harry Gordon
Chicago
Deacon Brigham
Lowell
Crane
Pines
le Baron Holmes
Parker
Hadeen
Barnstable County
Barnstale County
Miss Toppan
Subway Agreement Aimed At City Subway Plan Today
The metropolitan affairs committee will review a two track Ashington street subway bill. It fixes a 4% year lease length and 12. Later the bill may remove railroad commission control of rent and tenure. City, street railway, and business groups pressed for resolution amid speaker Myers dispute and session fatigue.
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Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Ashington Street
Myers
James R
Collins
Jones
Alfred Winsor
Boston
Elevated
Bailey
Fire in North Station Triggers Three Alarms in Boston
A heavy smoke pall over Boston's North Station area followed a roof tar incident that triggered three alarms and drew crowds. Fire teams battled a two hour blockage while a grass blaze in the runway also drew attention as confused pedestrians watched engines dash through Haymarket Square.
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Box 129
Eone
Boston
North Union Station
Haymarket Square
Boston & Maine
Delivery Drivers Win Chicago Strike Settlement
Chicago June 4. After hours of stoppage by 1300 men in the Department Store Delivery Drivers Union, a conference settled the strike. Wages were granted and stores pledged not to discriminate against union men and to provide uniforms where required. The agreement came from mutual concessions and Erick Job chaired the discussions. Theam Themer returned to work today.
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Packers
Teamsters
Frederick W. Job
State Board of Arbitration
State Street
Harrison
Rene
Chicago
Erick Job
State Board
Araoreem
Fair and cool local forecast for Thursday and Friday
Fair and cool conditions expected with light to fresh north to east winds. In Washington on June 4 the forecast notes New England will be fair Thursday and Friday with fresh north winds. Eastern New York should see fair weather Thursday with slight warming, Friday fair but cooler in the far south, and fresh north winds.
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Washington
New England
New York
Cuba Big Brother Cigarron sale prompts request
The ad copy touts a huge demand from New England merchants and businessmen for the Cuba Big Brother Cigarron linking high sales to a bargain price of five for ten cents. It ends by prompting the reader whether they have tried them yet.
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New England
Cuba
State police intensify probe in Miss Toppan case
The State police press on for more evidence after experts' report shook public belief in an asylum outcome. Attorney-General Parker vows a full trial to prove Miss Toppan guilty despite insanity pleas. defense counsel Murphy acknowledges readiness if a trial proceeds.
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Parker
Miss Toppan
James Stuart Murphy
Lowell
Rogers Declines Boston University Deanship
New Haven Conn June 4 Henry Wade Rogers of Yale University declined the offer to become dean of Boston University. Rogers former Northwestern University president and constitutional law professor at Yale said his plans lie in remaining at Yale for several years.
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New Haven
Conn
Eor Henry Wade Rogers
Valevo School
Boston University
eBay
Rae
Rogers
Northwestern University
Anston, Till
Yale
Boston
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Yates
Pteenig In
Adams Street
Packers and Teamsters
Subway
North Station
Fulton Street
Cleveland Theatre
John
J. M. Ward
Cleveland
Tremont Turkish Baths
Tremont Street
Tremont Theatre
Oxford
Lundin
Jan BE Toppan
LAW School
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