Labor delegates urged to adopt resolutions in favor of labor bills
Samuel Compers, president of the American Federation of Labor, asks organized labor nationwide to adopt resolutions urging Congress to pass labor bills. The article pledges workers to use political and industrial activity to elect candidates who will safeguard workers' interests.
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New York
Samuel Compers
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Congress
The
United States
Telephone Pole Stops Train Plunge in Elizabeth Crash
In Elizabeth New Jersey on April 28 a collision between a freight and a passenger train near South Elizabeth Station left one man fatally injured and many others slightly hurt. A telephone pole near the track’s edge prevented a coach full of passengers from sliding over a 15 foot embankment, and Pennsylvanian railroad traffic was blocked for hours.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
South Elizabeth
Vessel Cut In Two Off Kentish Knock
The British torpedo boat destroyer Gala was cut in two and sunk off Kentish Knock in the North Sea after a collision with the scout Attentive. The Rubble was also involved and returned to Sherness with two water-filled compartments. Lieutenant Fletcher, Gala’s engineer, perished in his bunk. no other lives were lost.
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Harwich
Eng
Gala
Kentish Knock
North Sea
Rubble
Sherness
Fletcher
Rabbi Versanger Dies Suddenly In California Hotel
Rabbi Jacob Versanger of Temple Emanuel San Francisco died suddenly at Hotel del Monte from heart trouble. Born in Amsterdam in 1852 he came to America at 21 and served congregations in Philadelphia Providence Houston before moving to San Francisco in 1886 as rabbi.
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Houston
Monterey
Mex
Jacob Versanger
Temple Emanuel
San Francisco
Hotel del Monte
Versanger
America
Philadelphia
Providence
Tex
Amsterdam
Kurdish Population in Armenia Provinces Turns Violent
Reports from Tiflis say Kurdish communities near the Russian border have become aggressively active causing disorder and massacre. Armenian residents flee into Russian territory as tensions rise between Kurdish groups and Armenian populations.
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Tiflis
Russia
Break Out of Bastile From Grayson County Jail
Ed Cash Harry Fairless and Frank Trammell escaped from Grayson County jail after breaking a cell door lock with a steel rod. They fled with a rope made from blankets through the jail dining room. The trio, already noted criminals, had earlier escaped in January, with Henry Cato later taking his own life. Pursuit launched as authorities seek recapture.
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Sherman
Tex
Grayson County
Ed Cash
Grayson
Tarrant
Harry Fairless
Bob Trammell
Hatfield
Henry Cato
Alvin Frizzell
Cato
Collin County Line
Katy Exemption Denied From Equipment Order
The railroad commission refused Katy road 208 exemption from the safe equipment order. Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway won approval to issue and register 1,335,000 in additional bonds for the 304 mile line from Cleburne to Teague and Waxahachie to Houston, at 400 per mile. Katy sought 1,665,000.
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Katy
Austin
Mayfield
The
Railroad Commission
Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway
Cleburne
Teague
Waxahachie
Houston
Measles sweep at state Deaf and Dumb Institute
In the past three weeks the state Deaf and Dumb Institute reported 178 measles cases in Austin. One case was serious for a few days but all have largely recovered except seven still convalescing. Separately, Governor Campbell’s father Colonel T D Campbell is reported critically ill with pneumonia in Greenville Texas.
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Deaf and Dumb Institute
Austin
State Deaf and Dumb Institute
Campbell
Greenville
T. D. Campbell
Hildreth Suspended as Receiver of Land Office
Public notice reports the suspension of F. S. Hildreth, receiver of the Phoenix land office, last Thursday while an Inspector conducts a records investigation. Hildreth, a Spanish American War Rough Rider veteran, was appointed to the office by President Roosevelt.
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Phoenix
Ariz
F. S. Hildreth
Land Office
Hildredth
Rough Riders
Roosevelt
Boycotters Grow Sympathy Among Chinese Despite Action
Hongkong reports boycotters of Japanese merchants gain broad sympathy with startling rapidity. The viceroy wired Pekin that he had done all in his power to curb the agitation. Merchants were instructed not to send goods on Japanese boats.
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Hongkong
Japan
Pekin
Man hanged in Pittsburg for murder of English wife
William Mc Donald alias Smith of Gosport England was executed for the murder of his common law wife Mrs Bes sie Hystop in Pittsburg. He killed her with a razor on Sept 18 1907 after discovering letters from a man in England. In Washington the treasury secretary announced a new call of about 45 009 000 for national banks split between May 9 and May 23.
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Pittsburg
William McDonald
Smith
Gosport
Eng
Bessie Hystop
England
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Deranged man attacks wife then hangs self
In Johnstown Pennsylvania on April 28 Louis Fleckenstein, temporarily deranged, attacked his wife with a hatchet and then hanged himself.
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Johnstown
Louis Fleckenstein
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