No Agreement Reached at Miners Operators Conference
A joint conference of coal operators and miners from Illinois Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania adjourned without an agreement on wage scales to apply in 1906. Operators voted no on wage increases while miners pressed for a commission to investigate conditions and set a fair scale. The meeting at Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis adjourned sine die with resolutions telegraphed to President Roosevelt.
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Claypool
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Western T
Indianapolis
Dent
United States
Penns
United Mine Workers of
Pres- United States
Yivania
Toned
Point
America
J. H. Winder
S. Tllinois
L. Scroges
J. H
Winder
Roosevelt
Officers Elected for Blue and Gray Veterans Group
Atlanta March 30 formal organization of the Veterans Association of the Blue and Gray and their sons elected officers alternating between northern and southern veterans. Commander in chief General Julian Carr of Durham North Carolina adjutant general Captain A M Clark Southern Pines North Carolina senior vice commander Dr W H Cyrus Palatka Florida junior vice commander Cr B Mullitzgerald Georgia chaplain Rev E Henry Byrons Connecticut surgeon general Dr H A Petersburg Florida judge Murphy Lt advocate General W H Williams Abbeville Georgia. Serious collision Shreveport March 30 freight train on Louisiana and Arkansas railroad collided with a caboose near Hope Arkansas Engineer L E Dahlberg of Minden fatally injured J A Spellman fireman John Taler and Sam Ross trainmen seriously injured.
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Atlanta
Veterans’ Association of the Blue and Gray and Their Sons
Julian §. Carr
Durham
N. C
A. M. Clark
Southern Pines
W. H. Cyrus
Palata
Fla
Cr. B. Mullitzgerald
New Haven
BE. Henry Byrons
Conn
H. A. Petersburg
Murphy
W. H. Williams
Abbeville
Shreveport
Minden
Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad
Hope
Ark
L. E. Dahlberg
J. A Spellman
John Taler
Sam Ross
Apartment House Burns in Chicago Fire
Fire destroyed the McKinley apartment building at fifty ninth and Halstead streets causing about 150000 dollars in losses. Twenty seven families were left homeless as firemen rescued women and children who were later revived. A Blasingame Hotel guest from Texas was reported dead in a separate Atlanta LA fire. E. D. ts were slightly burned.
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Chicago
McKinley
Fifty-Ninth
Halstead Streets
Shrevepo
Origi Blasingame
Nam Tex
Blasingame
Atlanta
Sherman
E. D. Ts
Denial of Anthracite Strike Call Reports
Philadelphia and Reading President Kaer sent a message to John Mitchell denying newspapers' reports that his followers ordered to stop work in anthracite mines after April 1. Operators' HQ says no word of a strike order from Indianapolis and denies hiring strikebreakers.
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New York
Philadelphia
Kaer
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
John Mitchell
George F. Baer
Miners Seek Convention Action On Operators
Resolutions from operators in western Pennsylvania Indiana Ohio and Indiana urge the president to appoint a convention of miners and investigate conditions. Secretary Wilson reads the resolutions and delegates discuss tonnage stakes while Mitchell states no immediate message from the president is received.
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Indianapolis
Mitchell
United Oi America
Demeo
E National
Workers of
Genin
United States
Wilson
Pennsylaa Ois
Indiana
Ohio
Williams
Sion
Will Vance
Ing
W. D. Ryan
Illinois
Associated Press
Mes- Baer
President Roosevelt to receive wage-scale telegrams
Washington March 30 Roosevelt authorized publication of two telegrams. One from John K Winder of the Bituminous Coal Operators association proposes a commission to investigate wage matters in coal mines. The other from John Mitchell and Francis L Robbins counters that such a commission would misrepresent facts and notes half of western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois production supports a compromise wage scale.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John K. Winder
Mitchell
Robbins
Winder
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
British Claim Indemnity Over Nanchang and Wu Cheng Chi
London report from the Morning Post says the British government will claim 7,000 pounds indemnity for the Nanchang mariners and the opening of the port of Wu Cheng Chi.
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London
Morning Post
Shanghai
Nanchang
Wu Cheng Chi
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