Desperate Dilemma Over Teamsters Strike Crisis
Chicago on May 2 reports the Employers' association pressed five leading team owners to resume deliveries to department stores or risk losing business. Detachments of strike breakers arrived from Detroit while unions reinforced picket lines blocking deliveries. A shooting incident near the Auditorium hotel involving a non union guard and guard Carter left Henry Schultze wounded. police dispersed the riot as traffic halted on Wabash Avenue lines.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Employers’ Association
Michigan Central
Detroit
Mich
State Street
Wabash Avenue
Union
Auditorium Hotel
Harrison Street
Edwin F. Daniels Coal Company
Carter
Henry Schultze
Schultze
Indiana Avenue
Eddie Smith Named Referee for Britt White Bout
Eddie Smith of Oakland has been chosen referee of the international boxing contest between Jimmy Britt and Jabez White, set for San Francisco next Friday night.
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San Francisco
Eddie Smith
Oakland
Jimmy Britt
Jabez White
Mass Shootings in Warsaw Stir City Amid Unrest
Reports from Warsaw on May 2 describe near 100 killed or wounded as Uhlans and infantry clashed with a large workmen’s demonstration on Zeleana street. Violence spread to Zilota and Sosnore streets with more deaths, plus a bomb at Vienna station killing three Cossacks and a policeman. Casualty figures remain uncertain.
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Warsaw
Zeleana Street
Zilota
Sosnore
Vienna
Foreman Killed in Dynamite Blast Near Muskogee
C M Monroe twenty three foreman for Phelps Nisbett Construction Co was killed instantly by a dynamite detonation two miles south of Muskogee Oklahoma Twelve charges of dynamite had been placed in a ditch a colored helper left the site Monroe lit the fuses and paused to inspect them when the blast occurred tearing off his left foot and damaging his left arm and head
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Muskogee
I. T
C. M. Monroe
Phelps-Nisbett Construction Company
Monroe
Thirteen Destitute Widows In Wilburton After Mine Disaster
May 2 Wilburton Oklahoma report that thirteen widows are left destitute as miners remain entombed in the McConnell mine. One widow, Mrs O Golden, is seventeen with a three year old and an infant five weeks old.
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Wilburton
L. T
McConnell
O. Golden
Sponsor Named for Confederate Veterans Reunion
Ardmore May 2 Miss Fay Burnitt of this city named chief Sponsor of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans for the Louisville reunion by Commander in Chief Tisdai.
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Ardmore
Patterson Murder Trial Ends Defense Preaches No Compromise
Abraham Levy for Nan Patterson closes a five hour defense argument arguing deliberate murder or death by own action. He cites powder stains on Caesar Youngs fingers to claim Young shot himself and opposes manslaughter or a public street attack as unlikely.
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Abraham Levy
Nan Patterson
Caesar Young
Levy
Young
Miss Ellen J. McKee Dies in Asheville
A telegram from Asheville, North Carolina, reports the death of Miss Ellen J. McKee of St Louis, the only daughter of her parents. The notice notes her prominent local ties and awaits further details on funeral arrangements.
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St. Louis
Asheville
N.C
Ellen J. McKee
Miss McKee Leaves for Ashville for Asthma Relief
The late William McKee founder of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat inherited a controlling interest in the paper. Miss McKee departed for Ashville March 31 seeking relief from asthma, a condition that had afflicted her for years and caused her death.
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William McKee
The
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Miss McKee
Ashville
Naptha Tank Car Leak Ignites Lantern Flares
A leak in a tank car carrying 60 000 gallons of naptha ignited a switchman lantern and caused an explosion. Two switch men were injured as a fire destroyed a dozen merchandise cars in Chicago on May 2.
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Chicago
Dutch Delegates Arrive for International Railway Congress
Thirteen delegates representing the State railway of Holland arrived in New York aboard the er Ryndham to attend the International Railway congress opening in Washington this week.
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New York
State Railway of Holland
Ryndham
International Railway Congress
Washington
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Syren Strands on Reef at Berehaven
Cork May 2. During a torpedo attack on Berehaven Monday night the torpedo boat destroyer Syren ran on a reef at the eastern harbor entrance and rests on the rocks with her back broken.
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Cork
Berehaven
Syren
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SWIFT
Ashland
Royal Blend
Howell Bros
Sellers
M. H. James
MNE
Alcia
City Drug Store
Franklin
AcEeare
Stevenson Machine
Bryan
Oliver Typewriter
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
Wor
Construction Company
Sponsor For Sons
Hill’s Cascaret
DR. N. M. McDougald
Emmel & Maloney
E. J. Jenkins
James & Nunn
Buchanan
S. W. Buchanan
Bryan Sham Laundry
Howe
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