Ice Dealers Refuse Arbitration in Cincinnati Strike
Ice dealers and their workers failed to reach arbitration over a heat driven strike in Cincinnati. Negotiations at the Mayor's office ended with a drawn agreement to be presented to each side, while crews prepared for a possible broader impact including coal and bartender unions if icy supplies are enforced by nonunion plants.
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Cincinnati
Cullen
Joseph Adams
Ice Delivery Company
John W. Franz
Mulvihill Ice Company
L. ©. McArthur
George Simonton
John Ryan
William Behraudeback
Henry Husemeyer
Fred Garver
William Berger
Dave Evans
John C. Bennett
John Corbett
John E. Bruner
M. Silvernagel
Henry Brokamp
Frank Kopp
Cash
Carnegie Gift to Vanderbilt Spark Controversy
Atlanta reports Bishop W A Candler of the Methodist Church denounces Andrew Carnegie's $1,000,000 gift to Vanderbilt University as an agnostic money bid to control denominational properties and influence pending litigation. He calls the offer an impudent proposal and accuses Carnegie of seeking to destroy existing denominational medical efforts to build a Carnegieized institution.
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Atlanta
Andrew Carnegie
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
W. A. Candler
Methodist -Episcopal Church
South
Candler
Nee
University of the South
Carnegie
Runaway Prisoner Writes Warden From Indiana
William Pickard, a prisoner who walked away from the Dayton State Hospital farm about a week ago, sent a letter to Warden Thomas from Anderson Indiana. He claims mistreatment by the Dayton farm official and says he will return to finish his term. he was admitted November 2 1912 for a one year sentence in Clark County for grand larceny.
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Columbus, Jug
William Pickard
Penitentiary
Dayton State Hospital
Fickard
Thomas
Dayton
Anderson
Ind
Pickard
Clark County
Would Force Warden to Admit Visitor to Ohio Penitentiary
Attorney James Nicholson sues County Court to compel Warden Thomas to admit him to visit Ownie Hayslip, a life prisoner for second degree murder. The action arises from disputes over parole processing switching from attorney hand to the Board of Administration, a change penitentiary officials favor.
Affinity Warned by Phone Operator in Orlob Divorce Suit
In New York on June 18 special report outlines how a hallway telephone operator advised an escape plan in Harold and Lela Orlob's divorce suit. Maids testified Mrs. Orlob received visits from Edmund Slakus and used the operator to warn when the husband returned.
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Cial
Harold Orlob
Lela
Orlobs
Orlob
Edmund Slakus
Lizzie George
Slakus
Sailed Victims of Fog Crash Aboard Olympia
Captain John Andrew Doggett of Portland and five crewmen perished when the Gloucester fishing schooner Olympia was rammed in dense fog off Sable Island by the Sagamore. Eight survivors, including Captain Doggett’s son Frank, were rescued as the vessel sank within minutes.
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Boston
John Andrew Doggett
Portland
Gloucester
Olympia
Sable Island
Warren Line
Sagamore
Liverpool
Doggett
Frank
John
Odd Fellows Grand Lodge elects two new officers and notes flood relief
At the Toledo Grand Lodge session W A Pond of Columbus joined the Board of Trustees and N Jackson of Youngstown became custodian of the secret journal. Grand Secretary Lyman reported $21 714 52 raised for flood victims and relief work across the state. A Post Offices Association banquet for 35 members followed.
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Commercial Tribune
Toledo
Odd Fellows Grand Lodge
W. A. Pond
Columbus
N. Jackson
Youngstown
Secret Journal
Lyman
Post Offices Association of the
Secor
Springfield Train Robbery Ot Springfield Police Hunt For Robbers
Springfield police pursued two suspects in the Diamond Special hold up near Glenarm ten miles south of the city. A 16 year old and a 20 year old were arrested. a $1000 reward was posted by Illinois Central President Charles Markham for the capture of the bandits.
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Commercial Tribune
Springfield
Ill
Illinois’ Central
Glenarm
Jessé Leslie
James Connelly
Leslie
St. Louis
Chicago
Connelly
Mester
Laurel Street
Charles Markham
Ihonis Central
Express Company
Evelyn Nesbit Returns to Stage in London Hippodrome
The article notes Mrs. Harry Thaw known as Evelyn Nesbit appears with partner Mr. Clifford in the Hippodrome Revue in London The piece recalls her dramatic past with the Thaw White affair and her claim of insufficient earnings as a sculptor while her husband's family ranks among America's wealthiest. Clifford is credited as the revue’s dancing teacher and originator of the turkey trot and grizzly bear.
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Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit
London
United States
Mr. Clifford
Tiny Chicago mother bears seven children from triplets
Mrs. Rose Scala, weight under ninety pounds, is mother to seven children after triplets born eleven days ago. Dr. J. M. Abello says both mother and three newborns are in excellent health as of today, with the combined weight of the triplets at fifteen pounds.
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Chicago
Rose Scala
Theresa
Rose
Messenger Boy Charged With First Degree Murder
Charles Bell a 19 year old messenger boy was charged with first degree murder after confessing to shooting George Howard a fellow messenger over a straw hat dispute. Robert Austin known as Peppers also charged with first degree murder for providing the revolver. Bell fled on a bicycle after the shooting and returned after being arrested yesterday claiming his conscience brought him back.
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Kansas City
Charles Bell
George Howard
Robert Austin
Peppers
Bell
Denver
Cheyenne
Pueblo
Gypsy Row Toledo Convention Faces Arrests
In Toledo a gypsy camp near the fairgrounds reports treason and anarchy as George and John Nicholls are jailed on assault charges for attacking Prince John Williams, son of the aged tribe king. Williams reportedly cut his brother with a knife and the prince sought aid from Knight Templar and Masons to arrest the Nicholls brothers.
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Commercial Tribune
Toledo
Fair Grounds
George
John Nicholls
Prince John Williams
John
Williams
Prince John
Knight Templar
Nicholls Brothers
Olmsted Suspended Amid Houston Inquiry
Washington June 18 Victor H Olmsted chief of the Bureau of Statistics at the Department of Agriculture was suspended by Secretary Houston pending an inquiry into charges of lack of discipline and poor administration. The Solicitor has begun an investigation and a transfer of the bureau to the Census Bureau was suggested as a possible outcome.
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Washington
Victor H. Olmsted
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Houston
Mr. Olmsted
Census Bureau
Two Wives Claim Body of Gilkyson in Philadelphia
Joseph R. Gilkyson 58 died in Jefferson Hospital Philadelphia after moving from New Jersey. Two women, Mrs Gilkyson of 235 South Forty-fifth Street Philadelphia and another in Camdens Robeson apartment, claim the body as possible legal wife. The body was turned over to Frederick Gilkyson, former Assistant Attorney General, while legal status is resolved. Gilkyson had ties to wealthy Trenton residents and headed the South Jersey division of the Public Service Corporation. He was sent from Camden to Trenton for burial by his brother.
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Commercial Tribune
Philadelphia
Joseph R. Gilkyson
New Jersey
Jefferson Hospital
Frederick Gilkyson
Trenton
Camden
South Jersey
Public Service Corporation Lines
New angle in lobby investigation ensnares Union Pacific
Senate lobby probe expands to Union Pacific chairman Robert S. Lovett after a New York statement linked lobbyists to securing railroad jobs to sway the Union Pacific Southern Pacific dissolution. The panel aired Oxnard Palmer beet sugar letters and questioned Frank C. Lowry about free sugar lobbying.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Washington
Senate
Norris
Overman Committee
Robert S. Lovett
New York
Union Pacific
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific
Overman
Charles B. Warren
Detroit
Michigan Sugar Company
Hamlin
Warren
Frank C. Lowry
Committee of Wholesale Grocers
Lowry
Federal Sugar Refining Company
Cummins
Knight Party Nominates Charter Reform Ticket
A Federated Associations faction launches a city charter campaign by naming fifteen Charter Commissioners and signaling a battle between reform groups and a rival ticket. The Joint City Charter Council approved candidates and prepares for extensive public meetings to inform voters before July 30.
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City Charter Council
Business Men’s Club
Chamber of Commerce
Federated Improvement Associations
The
City Club
Taxpayers’ Association
Inventor's Dynamo Could Bring Wireless Long-Distance Phones
London June 18 Special. The Evening Standard credits William Durtnall, an English engineer, with devising an electric generator that can produce heavy currents at 30 000 to 10 000 cycles per second. This breakthrough may enable wireless telephony over several hundred miles and overcome prior dynamo limits.
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London
The
Evening Standard
William Durtnall
Brave Americans Pay Toll of War on Jolo Island
Fourteen American soldiers died in four days of fighting on Jolo Island in the Philippines as General Pershing's forces subdued Moros. Among the dead were Captain T A Nichols of the Philippine Scouts and eleven scouts plus two regulars. The two regulars were Oliver Villiard and Luther Gerhart of Company M Eighth Infantry.
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Washington
Jolo Island
Philippines
Pershi
War Department
T. A. Nichols
Philippine Scouts
Regular Army
Nichols
John Nichols
Durham
Cal
Oliver Villiard
Company M
Eighth Infantry
Anna Villiard
Artie
R. L
Luther Gerhart
Henry R. Gerhart
Reading
They Will Wed St. Louis Heiress Amid Busch Opposition
Mrs. Julia M. Walsh of St. Louis says Adolphus Busch III and Mrs. Lambert of Charleston are engaged but not married. She reports no family opposition to the match despite rumors of age disparity, noting Busch is 22 and Mrs. Lambert 38 with three children.
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Springfield
Julia M. Walsh
St. Louis
Busch Familly
Adolphus Busch III
Lambert
Charleston
W. Va
Busch
Mrs. Lambert
Sentenced 10 Die On Second Trial For Noted Murder
Denver reports the second trial of Harold F. Henwood ended with a first degree murder verdict and death penalty for the killing of George E. Copeland in a hotel barroom. Henwood admitted the shooting claiming self-defense as motive tied to letters from Mrs. John W Springer. Springer testified for Henwood in the second trial. Copeland and Atkinson were bystanders. Von Phul died. The case followed a Colorado Supreme Court reversal and remand.
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Denver
Col
Harold F. Henwood
George E. Copeland
Henwood
Copeland
Sylvester von Phul
St. Louis
James W. Atkinson
Atkinson
von Phul
Colorado Supreme Court
Supreme Court
John W Springer
Springer
Courtship Champagne Honeymoon Sparks Divorce Suit
John Barry Sears faces divorce from Mrs. Jesse Anders Sears. He admits heavy drinking during courtship and honeymoon in California and on a train trip, recounting his wife asleep on a window sill with an empty champagne bottle. He cites a rival and a champagne party at Congress Hotel with six guests including Trixie Friganza.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
John Barry Sears
Jessie Anders Sears
Sears
Congress Hotel
Miss Anderson
Trixie Friganza
Woman seeks deputy sheriff post in New York
Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt asked Sheriff Harburger to appoint her deputy but he explained New York law prohibits women from voting, so only men can be deputies.
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New York
Reginald Vanderbilt
Harburger
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