Open Shop Declared as Brewers End Negotiations
Brewers announced an open shop after rejecting a union wage proposal, saying workers refused fair terms and that negotiations are finished. At Franklin Brewery about sixty union men joined a strike, centering on firemen and engineers jurisdiction, amid broader labor unrest in Columbus.
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Commercial Tribune
Brewers
Aest
C. Norman Jones
Columb
Columbus
American Federation of Labor
Franklin Brewery Company
International Organization of Brewery Workers
Painters and Decorators’ Union
Railroad Employed Meet Managers Over Settlement Hope
Chicago April 2 The Western railroads and their conductors and trainmen resume talks after a break in conferences. A first renewed session is expected tomorrow with union leaders stating negotiations have reopened. A reported offers of a 12 percent raise remains unconfirmed.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Western Railroads
Messrs
Knapp and Neill
Morrissey
Engineers Refuse Wage Increase on Mobile and Ohio
Special dispatch reports the general Wage Adjustment Committee for engineers on Mobile and Ohio Road from Mobile to St. Louis rejected a proposed 10 to 15 percent wage increase.
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Commercial Tribune
Mobile
Ala
Mobile & Ohio Road
St. Louis
City Council Votes to Put Street Railway Franchises to Voters
Cleveland officials approve a report from the Street Railway Committee recommending that street railway franchises, fare levels, and related issues be decided by public vote. Only one council member dissented in the April 2 meeting.
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Commercial Tribune
Cleveland
Special Street Railway Committee
Meeree
GRAFT IN PANAMA 13 CHARGE MADE BY CONGRESSMAN
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports Congressman Rainey of Illinois returning from the Panama Isthmus with allegations of graft in the commissary department. He cites inflated meals, profiteering stewards, overpriced shoes, and poor food handling as systemic abuses. He predicts a five year finish for the canal project if work continues, and describes widespread complaints about meat and storage practices.
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Panama
Commercia Tribune
New York
Mt ‘Rainey
Timnois
Panama ‘Catal
Commissary Department
Commissianat
Rainey
Commissionat
United States
Thaw lunacy hearing hears new alienist views
New York April 2 The lunacy commission hearing into Harry K Thaw ends a long day with experts divided The prosecution says Thaw cannot understand his condition while the defense argues he has rational capacity Dr Allan Hamilton testifies Thaw has paranoia and delusions of grandeur as the panel prepares to report to Justice Fitzgerald before Thursday verdicts.
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Blackburn
Isthmian Canal Commission
New York
Panama
Kentucky
Canal Commission
Commercial Tribune
Harry K. Thaw
Justice Fitzgerald
Jerome
Commission
Thaw
Delphi M. Delmas
Delmas
Allan McLane Hamilton
Harry Thaw
Hamilton
Stanford White
Austin Flint
Flint
Republicans Capture Chicago Mayoralty by Plurality
In Chicago Frederick A. Busse won the mayoral race over Edward F. Dunne by 13 121 votes. Traction reform and municipal ownership dominated the contest as Busse’s Republicans swept a bitter campaign with a large turnout and a shift toward city control of streetcar lines.
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Chicago
Frederick A. Busse
Edward F. Dunne
Commercial Tribune
Bysse
Rod
Eese Eee
Pagne
Dunne
Republican Party
William Randolph Hearst
New York
Busse
Hearst
Roosevelt Denies Harriman Letter Claim of Fund Raising
President Roosevelt repudiates a published claim that E H Harriman helped raise 250000 for the 1904 Republican campaign. He says the statement is a deliberate untruth and makes public letters to Representative Sherman showing Harriman pressed for political favors and a Depew Ambassador appointment amid New York railroad politics.
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E. H. Harriman
Sidney Webster
New York
Stuyvesant Fish
Illinois Central Railroad
Harriman
Sherman
Burton
Webster
Depew
France
Washington
Mr. Depew
Odell
Hyde
Blame for Riot Put On Rowodies
Captain Samuel P. Lyon of Company D Twenty fifth Infantry testified before the Senate Military Affairs Committee in the Brownsville investigation that negro soldiers were not guilty of shooting up the town. He blamed the riot on the rougher element of Brownsville citizens, with no conclusive new evidence. The examination is unlikely to finish before April 6.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Samuel P. Lyon
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Brownsville
Lyon
Witn
Fire Devastates San Francisco Power House District
Special Dispatch reports a large fire at the Twenty second and George streets power plant in San Francisco causing blackouts citywide. Five men were injured with one expected to die. Loss estimated at 2 500 000.
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Commercial Tribunes
San Francisco
Twenty-second
George Streets
Neste
Chand ler Says Eddy Trust Is a Trick by Jailers
Former Senator William E. Chandler counsel for plaintiffs in the Glover Eddy suit claims the new trust for Mrs. Eddy’s property is a trick devised by her jailers to dodge receivership. He says defendants exploited her delusions and incompetency for selfish ends.
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Fernald
Eddy
Frank 8. Streeter
Commercial Tribune
Washington
United States
William E. Chandler
Glover- Eddy
Late
Peary Secures 200000 For North Pole Expedition
Commander Robert E Peary has the $200000 needed for the forthcoming northern voyage and plans to depart by late June. The Roosevelt is undergoing repairs as preparations proceed and Peary believes a normal 1908 summer will help him reach his goal.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Robert E. Peary
Roosevelt
B and O Passenger Train Derails Near Dillon Falls
Baltimore and Ohio westbound train No. 7 from Washington to Chicago derailed at Dillon Falls, five miles west of Zanesville, while rounding a curve. The dining car and two rear coaches left tracks but did not overturn. no injuries reported. One coach perched on the Licking River bank was saved from going into the river, considered miraculous.
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Commercial Tribune
Zanesville
Baltimore & Ohio
Washington
Chicago
Dillon Falls
Here
Licking River
Three Dead in Knife Battle at Italian Labor Camp
Ashland Kentucky dispatch reports three men killed and a woman gravely wounded after a clash involving knives and pistols at an Italian labor camp on the Guyan River eighteen miles from Ashland. The deceased are Tony Solario Frank Pirelli and an unidentified Italian. Bettie Sodario, a cousin of Solario, is wounded.
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Kentucky
Guyan River
Tony Solario
Frank Pirelli
Bettie Sodario
Tony
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