Striking Transit Tensions Spur Police Help in City
Tr remains at mata today with back to work in 48 hours. union seeks waiver of an arbitration rule. Car damage rises as dozens of trolley cars are attacked or damaged by explosives and vandalism. Police report minor injuries from clashes with strikers and officers. 200 deputies to guard suburban routes as arbitrators press for a settlement.
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Mata
Behner
Exploreen
Wade Park Avenue
Superior Avenue
McGeofray
Wrirst
Cleveland & Southwestern
Lorain Avenue
Train wreck injures Ohioans near Sardinia Hillsboro
A Norfolk & Western passenger coach on the Sardinia to Hillsboro branch wrecked at Sand Bank two miles west of Columbus. Fifteen to twenty aboard, twelve injured, including Frank Caldwell of Washington D. C. and Mrs. George Cooper of Hillsboro with head injuries and a broken nose.
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Columbus, CO
Norfolk & Western
Sardinia
Hillsboro
Sand Bank
Here
Frank Caldwell
Washington D. H
George Cooper
Newlands Proposes National Commission for Resource Conservation
Senator Newlands of Nevada introduced a bill to create a fifteen member National commission to study the conservation and use of United States water resources. The panel would cover navigation irrigation municipal supply power flood prevention land reclamation and waste control and report annually to Congress.
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Washington
Newlands
Nevada
National Commission For the Conservation of
United States
Conigress
Ohio City Weighs Sites for Engineers Headquarters
Grand Chief Stone announced a twenty member committee led by M Flannery of New York to pick permanent headquarters for the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Possible sites include Cleveland Indianapolis and Detroit with Cleveland leading in early polling. The group also voted to admit engineers from all early drawn trains and to allow Cuban engineers to join.
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Columbus
International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
M. Flannery
New York
Cleveland
Birmingham
Ala
Indianapolis
Detroit
Cuba
Hood
France Faces Big Deficit Reported for 1909
Finance Minister Caillaux announced the 1909 budget shows a deficit of 8.8 million francs, with expenditures estimated at 794 million francs and revenue around 785 million francs. The shortfall highlights mounting fiscal pressures in France.
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France
M. Caillaux
Minis- Finance
Be Ig
Car kills Hamilton man in tragic street accident
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports Wesley Robinson a Hamilton Colorado bricklayer died after being struck by a wheel from a Heaton car in a street accident. The incident occurred in Hamilton Colorado on May 19.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton, CO
Wesley Robinson
Heaton
Deputies confront farmer’s son in deadly farm raid
In Reading, Ohio, a confrontation over a horse led to gunfire. Charles Jones Sr and son Charlie were killed. eight armed men with revolvers forced entry, wounding another son and injuring bystanders as deputies sought the horse and owed payment.
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Betzold
Jones
Dils
Reading
Laurie Dils
Jones Farm Agai
John Peters
Constable Peters
Harry Bobb
Charles Miller
George Bailey
Nat Hildebrand
John Keller
Andrew Dellerman
Joseph Uhrig
William McCork
Squire Dill
Jones Farmhouse
Mr. Jones
Country Club
Jones House
Ihlendorf
Tom Jones
Tom
Father’s Pasture
Otis Graham
Arlington Avenue
Lockland
Graham
OM Graham
Bailey
Father
Charles Jones, Sr
Charles Jones, Jr
Thomas Jones
Evelyn Thaw May Withdraw Suit for Annulment
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw weighs withdrawing her annulment suit against Harry K. Thaw as she and her lawyer keep their secret. Daniel O Rielly told the referee he might proceed with evidence next week or withdraw. A separate report notes Martin W. Littleton visited Thaw at the jail to discuss unpaid bills and rehabbing his sanity.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Daniel O’rielly
Robert E. Dye
Poughkeepsibe
N. Y
Martin W. Littleton
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Thaw
Littleton
Accident claims life of six year old in Honaker
Rural Honaker six year old son of Mrs. Emily Honaker of Ash Camp Creek east of Whitesburg accidentally shot himself in the forehead with a 12 gauge shotgun. The blast tore through the forehead in the tragic incident reported from Whiitsburg Kentucky.
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Commercial Tribune
Whitesburg
Honaker
Emily Honaker
Ash Camp Creek
Here
Three Ohio Boys Drowned In Sandusky Bay
The overturned sailboat found in Sandusky Bay indicates that Arnold Wiedmann William Schaefer and Fred Lambrecht drowned after a squall struck as they set out last night.
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Sandusky
Arnold Wiedemann
William Schaefer
Fred Lambrecht
Sandusky Bay
Death by Mistake for Venezuelan Refugee in New York Hotel
Eduard De Braso, cousin of President Castro and wealthy coffee planter, died after taking a medicine he believed harmless in a New York hotel. His wife is seriously ill but expected to recover. A drug clerk is held on homicide charges for allegedly mislabeling asperteina with atrophine in the prescription.
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Castro
New York
Venezuela
Eduard de Braso
Europe
de Braso
Morris Schwarz
Currency bill likely to be deferred to next session
Washington May 19. Many members expect no currency legislation this session as conferees struggle to reconcile the Aldrich Vreeland bills. Leaders urge delaying action until next session, arguing the current bills survive until Congress ends. Banking interests oppose the Vreeland plan citing asset currency concerns.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Aldrich-Vreeland
Senate Committee On Finance
Vreeland
Man Found Severely Wounded After Ether Suicidal Attempt
Charles Gardner of West Naghten street was found in the yard of the South Side Lumber Company at 1929 South High street, faint from blood loss after slitting his throat five inches long. He had disappeared Saturday night after swallowing ether, was exposed to mud and rain for 48 hours, and revived late Monday before his injuries. Doctors say he will die.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus, CO
Charles Gardner
West Naghten Street
South Side Lumber Company
South High Street
Cotton Exchange Men Subpoenaed
New York May 19 Members of the former Board of Managers and the Revision Committee of the New York Cotton Exchange were subpoenaed to appear before the Federal Grand Jury on May 27. They are expected to be examined about methods of fixing grades of cotton deliverable on the Exchange. The New York Exchange fixes grade differences semiannually while the New Orleans Exchange follows daily spot differences.
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New York
New York Cotton Exchange
the Exchange
Federal Grand Jury
Grand Jury
Exchange
New Orleans
Employment Day Called by National Prosperity Plan
St Louis May 19 The Executive Committee of the National Prosperity Association issued a call for manufacturers jobbing and commercial concerns to observe June 1 as Employment Day They will be urged to rehire laid off workers and restart factory operations.
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ST. Louis
National Prosperity Association
Educational Director Resigns From Hamilton YMCA
Alphaeus J. Crane, two years as educational director at the Hamilton YMCA, submitted his resignation effective June. He came from Detroit and will seek work in a larger town.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Alphaeus
J. Crane
Hamilton Y. M. C. A
Detroit
Five Indiana Breweries Targeted in Legal Suits
Attorney General James Bingham files five separate suits in Marion County Superior Court against Indianapolis Brewing, Terre Haute Brewing, Capital City Brewing, Home Brewing, and American Brewing. He seeks dissolution or temporary receivers, injunctions, and an accounting of assets, alleging they exceed corporate powers by leasing saloon buildings and engaging in real estate. The actions coincide with related Federal Court litigation.
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Indianapolis
Marion County Superior Court
James Bingham
Indianapolis Brewing Company
Terre Haute Brewing Company
Capital City Brewing Company
The
Home Brewing Company
American Brewing Company
Steel Workers Adopt Radical Wage Agreement in Secret Session
Youngstown Ohio May 19. Although sessions were secret a reliable source reports the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers adopted a wage agreement after four days of discussion. The plan allows lodges in nonunion mills and is seen as strengthening the union. It marks the most radical policy change in a third century of the association.
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Youngstown, CO
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel ,and Tin Workers
Re-Elect Senator McEnery Baton Rouge May 18
United States Senator Samuel Dougl lass McEnery was elected to succeed himself by the Louisiana Legislature in a unanimous vote of both Senate and House. His term will expire March 3, 1909, and the two chambers will meet tomorrow at noon to compare and announce the vote.
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Ohio City
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Crawford
Will
Falmouth
Edith Hill
George 5. Hill
Batavia
Brother Tom
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Squire Dils
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Peters
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Squire- Dill
Acre
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Bond
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Ohio
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Postum Co
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