Controversy and resignations rock Winthrop police
In Winthrop a police feud erupts as ex Chief Tewksbury resigns amid accusations of derailed leadership. The Selectmen refuse to explain actions as new officers, including John R. Neal, are named while Chief Tewksbury defends rules and reports. The town hall scene grows tense over who leads the force.
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Lewis
Tewksbury
Neal
John R. Neal
Winthrop
Mr. Neal
Jeremiah C. Blake
William A. McNeill
Edward J. Wood
East Boston Court Acquits Officers in New Winthrop Case
Judge Cleary in the East Boston Court yesterday acquitted all hands in the New Winthrop Hotel case. He indicated his opinion after the ruling and would have arrested Pollock if he had been an officer. Officers Wood and Lamb were acquitted of assault on Pollock, and Pollock was acquitted of assault on Officer Lamb.
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Herbert W. Tewksbury
New Winthrop Hotel
Lamb
Wood
East Boston Court
Tewksbury
Cleary
East Boston
Pollock
Wpasault
Forest Fires Ravage Upper Midwest Pine Forests
Heavy rain cleared smoke and cooled the region as fires devastated Ontonagon Dickinson Houghton counties in Michigan and parts of Wisconsin. Estimated 700 million feet of white pine and hemlock scorched. Surviving residents evacuated to Superior and Duluth as search efforts for the dead continue.
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Mich
Lake Superior
Ontonagon County
Dickinson
Houghton
Ontonagon
Michigan
Florence
Marinette
Wisconsin
West Superior
Wis
Minnesota
Superior
Duluth
Curtis
Cushing
Pokegama Hinckley
Sandstone
Mission Creek
Rutledge
Mansfield
Milaca
Bashaw
Barronnette
Benoit
Cartwright
Fifield
Granite Lake
Grantsburg
Glidden
Marengo
Muscado
Shel Lake
South Range
Poplar
Spencer
High Bridge
Ashland Junction
Washburne
Ewen
Trout Creek
Diners dying from their burns in Minnesota fire disaster
A Mora special reports that many injured in the Pokegama fire are dying, with potential deaths over fifty. Rescue workers repair bridges and tracks as refugees search for safety. In Hinckley a large number of bodies are recovered, and the coroner lists 187 dead in Hinckley alone.
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ST. Cloud
Minn
Mora
Pokegama
Hinckley
Milaca
Wells Delong
Pine City
Mollie McNeil
St. Paul & Duluth
Miss McNeil
Robert Dowling
St. Paul
Dowling
Fall River and New Bedford Mill Dues Spark Boston Debate
Boston directors face a tough stand as labor costs and a hidden Manufacturers' Association influence loom over Fall River and New Bedford mills. Reports indicate a wage cut and shutdown were arranged earlier to clear surplus stock while prices rise, with managers pledging to maintain uniform market conditions despite possible resistance from workers.
Scouting the Woods for Bodies in Brookfield Creek
Duluth Minnesota reports a growing toll as searchers tally over 650 missing. Relief committees mobilize to locate remains amid devastating losses of families and settlers. A party of woodmen departed by canoe to scour remote cabins and lingering brush for victims in the forested stretch of twenty six miles.
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Brookfield
Duluth
Minn
Massive Fires Leave No Habitation Across Vast Track
A devastating blaze wipes out settlements over a wide area from one to fifteen miles across, leaving only a Miller section house. Seventy-two homes burned with about 560 residents displaced. At Brookdale seventy refugees died in a creek. Duluth relief efforts mobilized swiftly and widely.
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Miller
Brookdale
Hinckley
Duluth
Relief committee lists 450 bodies recovered in region
Pine City Minn Sept 4 The general executive committee in charge of relief works reports 450 bodies recovered to date with details Hinckley 271 Sandstone 77 Miller Sandstone Junction 15 between Skunk Lake and Miller 2 Pokegama 25 in lumber camps 50 total 450
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Pine City
Minn
Hinckley
Sandstone
Miller
Sandstone Junction
Skunk Lake
Pokegama
Forty Lumbermen Missing in Minnesota Fires
Fort Rush City Minnesota reports that Ed St John says fires wiped out his lumber camps near the area and forty men who worked there are missing with no word yet on their fate.
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Rush City
Minn
Ed St. John
U S Referee Role Clarified in China Japan Crisis
The State Department ordered all diplomatic and consular officers to use friendly offices to protect Chinese in Japan and Japanese in China. Good offices do not grant asylum at U S missions and U S officers will not act as consular reps for either country. Chinese and Japanese consuls have returned home. American officials hold practically their interests. A claim that two Japanese subjects sought asylum at Shanghai is denied.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Japan
China
Shanghai
Move for ex representative McLaughlin in ward 6 gathers delegates
Ward 6 supporters of ex representative Daniel J. McLaughlin held a meeting to form a ticket of delegates for his Senate bid in the third Suffolk district. They oppose Gilbride of Ward 8, arguing Ward 7 deserves the honor since Alderman Lomasney represents Ward 8 and Senator Fitzgerald from Ward 6 runs for Congress. McLaughlin, a five year House veteran, has not decided but may inform the committee today of his candidacy.
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Ward 6
Friends
Daniel J. McLaughlin
Ward 7
Senate
Suffolk
McLaughlin
Gilbride
Ward 8
Lomasney
Friends of
Congress
Fitzgerald
Mansfield Held On Charge Of Forgery
Frank A. Mansfield of Medford, brought back from Barrington, Ill., arraigned in Malden District Court on forging his wife’s name and held $300 for the grand jury. He had run an accident agency in Malden’s Carter building until last month when creditors seized the furniture. He then eloped with a young chef and later deserted his wife and three children, heading out West.
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Mansfield
Frank A. Mansfield
Medford
Barrington
Ill
Malden
Carter Building
Johnson Lowers State Record at Syracuse Cycling Meet
On September 4 in Syracuse, John S Johnson, riding for the Syracuse Athletic Association, won the second day of the cycling tournament and broke the state half mile flying start record with 59.45 seconds amid gusty winds. Class A stars included F. W. Fisher of Syracuse and A. Gardiner of Chicago.
Tariff talk warns of factory unrest and wage discord
A statement argues tariff legislation is favorable but insufficient to settle issues. It calls for harmony between the manufacturer and workers, noting operatives refuse to return at the new price and implying continued labor strife until agreement is reached.
Labor tensions halt Fall River yarn mill start
In Fall River on September 4 the Globe yarn mills failed to start their plant as machinery slowed then stopped before 7 am. Most spinners avoided entry and boarders delayed unless wages align with New Bedford and Taunton rates. Unions face political infighting as leaders reportedly back rival candidates Simpkins and Downey, shaping operatives through a textile workers excursion that distributes Simpkins’s labor record amid criticism.
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Fall River
Globe Yarn Mills
New Bedford
Taunton
Whitehead
Reilly
Weavers’ Union
Simpkins
Downey
James Heap
United Textile Workers
Stevens to retire from Congress due to poor health
Moses T. Stevens of North Andover announces he will not seek re election in the Fifty fourth Congress. He cites failing health and heavy post office disputes in Lowell Lawrence and Andover as factors in his decision. Ex governor and local leaders consider possible successors including George W Fifield and John P Sweeney.
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North Andover
Moses T. Stevens
Fifth
Fisher H. Pearson
Democratic
Lowell
Stevens
H. Pearson
Democratic City Committee
Mass
D. Stevens
Democratic Party of
Massachusetts
Conness
House of Representatives
Grover Cleveland
Bay State
Lawrence
Andover
Committee On Ways and Means
Crisp
Congressman O'Neil
George W. Fifield
Mr. Stevens
Mr. Fifield
Donovan
John P. Sweeney
Joseph M. Bradley
Strikers Hold Conference as New Bedford Tie Deepens
New Bedford conference committee including leaders of spinners loom fixers and carders unions discussed the strike. They favor continued curtailment of production while manufacturers may share the view but avoid full policy. An appeal from the web drawers and twisters union seeks subscriptions to aid in the wage battle. D J Lyon spoke on socialism at Howland Chapel drawing a large striker audience. Engine beds at Wamsutta Mills to be repaired by Providence crews, mills closed at least three weeks. Police investigated a reported prize fight among strikers near South Dartmouth.
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Francis A. Foster
Dry Goods Commission
Franklin Street
Border City
Fall River
Mr. Foster
Boston
New York
Chicago
New Bedford
New England
John Slater
Gheorge Waring
Benjamin Bingham
James Gatenby
D. J. Lyon
Labor Advocate
Howland Chapel
Wamsutta
Providence
Gardiner
South
Dartmouth
Crowd Fights for a Drink in Quarrel at Beer Keg
A crowd of 260 men clashed in a chaotic scene as they vied for a turn to drink from a keg of beer. No money exchanged hands and police left as quietly as they arrived, ending the disturbance without arrests.
Everett Common Council Votes Funds for High School Rooms
At a meeting last evening the Everett Common Council appropriated 1200 to fit up two rooms in the high school to accommodate new pupils. A land parcel on Elm street near the West End depot was moved to the park commissioners for use as a public park. The Mayor's veto of the Shute library was laid on the table until the next meeting.
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Everett Common Council
Elm Street
West End
Park Commissioners
Shute
Man Fatally Injured When Legs Amputated at Yard
In Woonsocket R I Sept 4 Martin Thompson 32 was sleeping beneath cars on a side track when a switching engine coupled to the cars pulled them away His legs were severed and he died from the injuries sustained at the New York and New England yard
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Woonsocket
R. L
Martin Thompson
New York & New England Yard
Thompson
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Manchester, N. H
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Littell and Elder
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Rowley
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Pine Lake
Finlayson
Sand Lake
Westerland
Ed Greenfield
Pine County
Boutwell
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Hoar
Felton
Harvard
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Shenandoah
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St. Andrew
Rumford
Warne
P. F. Williams
Unitarian
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Main Street
Newton
Grove
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Warden
B. B. Johnson
F. M. Stone
Lorenzo Noble
Timothy Leary
Ephraim Stearns
Pryor Fulton
O. Upham
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J. P. Murphy
G. W. Warren
Rutter
Fisher, Jones, Harris
Stickney
Connors
River Mills
Manufacturers’ Association
Post
THE
Boston Directors
Fall River Mills
Alphonso S. Covell
William F. Draper
Edmund W. Converse
Rodman P. Snelling
Cyrus Washburn
Eben A. Draper
George A. Draper
J. Frank Howland
Moses W. Richardson
B. R. Weld
Samuel W. Rodman
Jacob Edwards
Frank W. Prescott
Draper
New Bedford Corporation
4 Post
Richardson, Smith & Chase
Richardson
Sagamore Mills
Sagamore Corporation
U.S
Sherman
Sumner
Wilson
Everett
M’laughlin
Tremont St
Washington St
City Hall
Douglas HanDewen
Lars
Manufac’g Company
Wiles
Summer St
A. H
Atwood CO
North Streat
American Tool & Machine Co
Kingston St
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