Governor Furnishes Deputies To Cripple Creek Miners
In Dexweek Colorado Governor Waite deploys a thousand armed deputies to Cripple Creek where miners may lay down arms as state troops near. The plan favors militia first Patience and warrants then arrests. Deputies will not directly settle the dispute.
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Dexweek
Cripple Creek
el Paso
Waite
Sheriff Bowers
Colorado Springs
Brooks
Lorenz
Bower
Alexander McIntosh
McIntosh
Gov. Waite
Dividend Checks for World's Fair Stock Hit $790000 Total
World's Fair stockholders will receive a ten per cent dividend by Saturday mail. In Chicago the largest check of $245,596.25 goes to the city on its $5,000,000 stock. Other large payments include $123,613 to the Field Columbian Museum. Checks total 22,021 with amounts from $1 to $245,596.29.
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Curcaco
Higinbotham
Chicago
Exposition Company
Hyde Park
Field Columbian Museum
Senate Fixes Tobacco Schedule In Tariff Bill Passage
Senate approves changes to tobacco duties in the tariff bill after debate. Paragraphs set rates for wrapper and filler leaf, stemmed and unstemmed, with amendments by Mr. Jones and support from the finance committee. The tobacco schedule ends with cigars cigarettes cheroots and paper cigars at four dollars per pound plus twenty five percent ad valorem.
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House
Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
Jones
Dem
Ark
Platt
Rep
Conn
Vest
One Husband Too Many for Mrs Dowd Higgins
Mrs Dowd Higgins discovers her former husband Patrick Dowd alive after twenty seven years while she remains married to Thomas Higgins. Dowd demands belongings from Higgins, and both men seek legal counsel as Mrs Higgins plans divorce for desertion amid her happiness with Higgins. Dowd claims residence in Montana and correspondence with his sons, while the family faces disruption and possible legal action.
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Newark
N. J
Patrick Dowd
Thomas Higgins
Bloomfield
Higgins
Dowd
Custer County
Mont
Montana
Troops Ordered to Cambridge as Labor Unrest Grows
Gov. McKinley called out militia after miners disrupt railroad traffic in the Cambridge district. Fourteenth and Eighth Regiments, seven Seventeenth and Battery C of Zanesville, plus Columbus Battery H, are mobilized to restore order amid train interference and threats.
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Zanesville
Cambridge
Mineral Siding
Jasre Mason
Fourteenth
Columbus
McKinley
Bellaire
St. Clairsville Junction
Belmont County
Indefinite Shut Down Follows McKeesport Strike Turmoil
Chaos grips McKeesport after a walkout halts the tube works. No new workers or deputies reported. machinery idle and river pumps stopped. Proclamation bans Cree sun dance at Great Falls. Scotch-Irish Congress gathers in Des Moines as delegates arrive. Coal and Iron police deploy to mines in Punxsutawney amid rising tensions. Prince Bismarck continues to weaken in Berlin.
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McKeesport
Braddock
Scotch-Irish Congress
Des Mores
Hawkeye
Scotch-Irish Society of America
Union
Congress
Governor Considers Martial Law After Knightsville Killing
Gov. Matthews discussed with ex-Supreme Judge Elliott the right to declare martial law in the strike district after a Knightsville engineer was killed. He sent a telegram to judge Briggs at Sullivan giving till Thursday to appoint deputy sheriffs to enforce warrants or martial law would be declared, with troops prepared to act without civil orders.
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Inpiabapolis
Ind
Matthews
Knightsville
Elliott
Briggs
Sullivan
Sullivan County
Youghlogheny Gas Coal Co. Guards Start Up Works
Sheriff dispatches 70 deputies to Carlton to guard the Youghlogheny Gas Coal Co. works amid a coal strike. Location at the Allegheny Westmoreland Washington county junction near Monongahela City, a miner operator clash zone.
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Youghlogheny Gas Coal Co
Pursnures
Richards
Carlton
Allegheny
Westmoreland
Washington
Monongahela City
Monongahela River
Strikers Attack Little Mine in Illinois. Casualties Reported
Hundreds of miners from Bartonville and surrounding towns marched to Little brothers mine near Wesley City to force its closure. Dead Edward Blower of Bartonville. injured James Little and Petter Little among others. total property damage around $30,000. Chaos followed as armed workers visited the site. one mine owner’s fate called grave.
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Peoria
Little Brothers
Tazewell County
Wesley City
Bartonville
Edward Blower
James Little
Petter Little
Peter Little, Jr
William Dixon
Multiple Local and National Incidents Reported Across Cities
Mrs Barbara Hlazecak aged ninety hanged herself in Chicago. A fatal quarrel near Paducah Kentucky left a youth dead. Decatur Illinois faces widespread factory closures due to fuel shortages. Brazil weighs prosecuting revolution era highwaymen. Lieut Maney in St Paul acquitted of murder but found guilty of threats. Louisville’s G A R encampment fundraising hurdle stands at 75000 dollars. James Coile Lebanon Indiana declares insanity and requests restraint. Muncie Indiana faces a spate of attempted suicides. Coal shortages and low freight rates push steamers out of service. Motormine Thomas Butler saves a child in Cleveland Ohio. Mobile and Ohio railhead offers 1000 reward for train wreck culprits near Fish Lake. Coal strike prompts layoffs at Jackson Tennessee shops. Jackson water works blend wood with coal. Ottis Naskins duped for 5000 dollars near Pittsfield Illinois. a 1000 reward leads to arrest at Versailles Illinois with remaining funds recovered. Chadron Nebraska hosts a 100 mile cowboy race won by Ray Baldy in 12 hours 15 minutes.
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Young Cochran
Young Storey
Paduecah
Decatur
Ill
Brazil
St. Paul
Minn
Lieut
Maney
Louisville
James Coile
Lebanon
Ind
Muncie
Chicago
Cleveland
Thomas Butler
J. C. Clark
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Fish Lake
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Jackson
Tenn
Ottis Naskins
Pittsfield
Versailles
Chadron
Neb
Ray Baldy
Markets Across Cities Report Varied Grain and Livestock Prices
Cincinnati markets show fractional changes in FLOUR patent grades and wheat, corn, oats, and rice futures. Prices for cattle, hogs, and sheep vary by grade and region, with notable listings in Baltimore New York Pittsburgh Buffalo and Chicago, including prime and common cuts and yearling lambs.
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Sse
Corrn
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Ight
Cadaver Smuggling Saga Across the Rio Grande
An old railroad man recalls the tale of Larry Flaherty who died in Silao in 18%, and a group of brakemen and conductors who smuggled his body to Colorado. They used a series of transfers from coffin to sack to box and finally shipped the cadaver home, earning Tom Williams the moniker Cadaver Smuggler of the Rio Grande.
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Rio Grande
James Murray
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Mexico
Larry Flaherty
Silao
Larry
el Paso
Flaherty
Tom Williams
Paso del Norte
Tom
Imaginary Pain in Surgery Cited by Kansas City Doctor
Dr. W. C. Tousley of Kansas City told a St. Louis Globe-Democrat man that pain in surgery is often imaginary. He described an operation where pretending to soothe pain by tying a bandage and restraining the patient caused the patient to endure the procedure quietly until completion.
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W. C. Tousley
Kansas City
St. Louis
They Want Straight Eyes Japanese Eye Straightening Surgeons in Japan
A San Francisco speaker condemns Japanese efforts to abandon Mongolian features by cosmetic eye straightening. He cites a surgeon in Yokio whose quick, painless exterior corner procedure uses a blade and silk thread to create a straighter eyelid.
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BR. M. Henry
San Francisco
Yokio
Japan
Mirado
England Provides Harsh Coast Provisions For Shipwrecked Mariners
The description details supplies on St Paul island stored in a cave at the base of a west cliff. A stone cairn eleven and a half feet high marks the spot and is painted black to stand out against the sky visible from Gazelle basin. The text notes a man once sent to an Irish schoolmaster who advertised navigation lessons.
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England
St. Paul Island
Gazelle Basin
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