Court freezes coal price fixing chain in Indiana and Illinois
United States district court in Chicago issued a temporary injunction stopping a coal price fixing contract. Crescent Coal and Mining Co and nine other Indiana firms along with ten individuals including Jane Shirkie Walter Bogie and Edward Shirkie are restrained. Charges previously indicted were dismissed for lack of federal jurisdiction.
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Kohlstaat
United States District Court At
Chicago
Mindois
Indiana Coal Companies
Crescent Coal and Mining Company
Brailletts Creek Coal Company
Wabash Valley Coal Company
Oak Pl) Coal and Mining Company
Coal Blut Mining Company
Parke County Coal Company
Glen Oak Coal and Mining
Two Killed and Three Crushed in Perth Amboy Coal Accident
Investigation underway after a coal conveyor at Perth Amboy New York apparently pulled five Polish laborers into the machine. One man was cut in two another lost both legs and a third his arms while the car they worked on was pushed beneath the appliance. The five men died or later died from their injuries.
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Perth Amboy
New York
Theft of jewels in St Petersburg valued at £25000
A bold theft in St Petersburg ends with thieves slipping away after a jeweler is duped into surrendering his finest gems. An imperial road carriage driven by a man in court livery feigned authority to procure jewels for grand duchess Xenia. The fraud was only discovered later and the culprits remain at large.
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St. Petersburg
Xenia
Araud
Big East car shops at Fort Wayne burned down
More than half the big east car shops of the Pennsylvania railroad company in Fort Wayne Indiana were destroyed by fire of unknown origin. Loss is reported at $150 009. The sheds lie between the tracks of the Pennsylvania company and the Findlay Fort Wayne and Western railroad, east of Walton avenue and south of Wayne trace.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Fort Wayne
Ind
Pennsylvania Company
Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western Railroad
Walton Avenue
Wayne Trace
Ex Vice Consul Killed in Pueblo incident
Herman Mowbray, son of William FE Mowbray of Veru Indiana, was killed at Pueblo Cole while working as yard foreman for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. He previously served as Vice Consul for the United States at St Johns New Brunswick and resigned due to ill health to move west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Mowbray
William FE. Mowbray
Veru
Ind
Pueblo
Cole
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Puebla
United States
St. Johns New Brunswick
Reward Raised in Gold Bar Heist at Union Station
The Pacific and Daimilion Express company reports no reward for the $23,000 gold bar stolen from its Union station office last week. The reward is now $2,006 for recovery and $100 for arrest and conviction of the thief. Big coal breaker burned at Duryea, Pa. The Old Forge breaker, operated by the Pennsylvania Coal Company, was destroyed. origin of the fire unknown and hundreds of workers laid off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacifie and Daimilion Express Company
Union Station
Dewoit
Pennsylvania Oul Company
Duryea Va
Major General Sir Hector MacDonald in Ceylon case noted
The London Evening News reports that Major General Sir Hector MacDonald faced charges in Ceylon for alleged immoral acts. The case details include a death by suicide attributed to the General, amid disputed accusations and official actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening News
Hector MacDonald
Ceylon
Russians Arrested in Naples Uncover Plot to Kill Czar
Documents found with the Russians detained at Naples reveal a plan by Russian Nihilists to assassinate the czar during an Italy visit. The discovery links a coordinated conspiracy to carry out the killing on foreign soil.
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Naples
Czar
Italy
President Ramsey sails for Europe amid family illness
President Ramsey of the Wabash railroad travels to Europe aboard the Kron Prince Wilhelm due to his daughter's illness in Cairo Egypt with typhoid fever. A Wabash passenger train derailed thirty miles west of St Louis injuring twelve slightly. three killed and six seriously hurt in a boiler explosion at Whitecliff Kentucky saw mill.
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President Ramsey
Wabach Railroad
Europe
Cairo
Egypt
St. Louis
Whitecliff
Drowned Drummers and Oarsmen in Arkansas Flood
J Roewood reports from Gavin on the Frisco railroad track where a skiff carrying four drummers and two black oarsmen was swept away. The boat overturned and all six drowned as they sought to cross flooded territory to reach Monta City Arkansas for a Memphis steamboat.
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Memphis
J. Roewood
Arkansas
Gavin
Hosa Floea
Mouna City
Ark
Changes in game laws limit rabbit hunting and licenses
The article summarizes recent General Assembly changes to state game laws. It notes bans on chasing rabbits with ferrets, new licensing with photo ID, seasons for wild ducks, and railroad transport restrictions on game. Non residents face higher license fees and required permits.
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General Assembly
Damputy
Croneral C. I Ladley
Navy
Coats
Promising Wheat Harvest Outlook For Indiana
State statistician reports no fly or winter freeze damage and predicts a record wheat crop. Acreage remains near average with shifts in several counties, and early forecasts suggest yields and total production well above last year, possibly around 40 million bushels if weather holds.
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Indiana
Indianapolis News
D. OF. Johnson
Tnediana
Vermilion
Wels
Grant
Bartholemesy
Adams
Scott
Poses
Whitley
Sullivan
Lascarr
Wabash
Condes
Warren
Boone, Jennings
Warrick
Jasper
Wike
Switzerland
Perry
Ripley
Owen
Indianapolis shooting leaves four wounded and two dead
In Indianapolis Al bert Wright shot and killed John Willis and Mrs Laura Jeffries at Mrs Coleman s home after pursuing Miss Garr. Frank Bow den and Mrs Lucy Coleman were wounded in the arms. Cora Carr and other visitors escaped. Wright fled after the gun failed.
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John Willis
Laura Jeffries
Frank Bowden
Lucy Coleman
Albert Wright
Wright
Rural routes expanded for Kokomo and Wilkinson
W. L. Schwartz named Postmaster at Milltown. David Parker, once released from Evansville asylum, reportedly attacked a child in Busseron with a club and is to be recommitted. Werman A. Mowbry, foreman at the Pueblo steel works, burned to death by furnace blast and flame.
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Kokomo
Wilkinson
W. L. Schwartz
Milltown
David Parker
Busseron
William Roley
Parker
Evansville
Sylum
Werman A. Mowbry
Penu
Pueblo
Colo
Widow of Buffalo Millionaire Faces Tortured Inquest
The widow Mrs Turdick of Buffalo testified at an inquest into her husband’s murder. Correspondent Pennell’s letters to her were read and her relationship with the lawyer who died in an automobile accident was disclosed amid the tense proceedings.
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Turdick
Pennell
Hawyer
Rural Delivery Expansion Sets Ambitious Route Growth
Congress allocated SP0080 for rural delivery in the next fiscal year starting July 1, with 74,000 new routes planned. By July 1 existing routes will total roughly 14,000, rising to about 60,000 by year end and 15,000,000 residents will receive daily doorstep mail. The Post Office touts the rural carriers as backbone citizens, noting only 37 terminations among 14,095 in the last year and a high efficiency record across the service.
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Congress
Department
Postoffice Department
Grey
American Republic
Sidiry
Taset
Eintire Cowley
Science in House Cleaning Aims at Germ Free Carpets and Walls
A Chicago health department report discusses a new carpet and upholstery cleaning method that sucks dust and germs from surfaces into an exhaust cylinder for destruction. The procedure uses a vacuum rotor and tubes to remove material from carpets drapes and curtains, claimed to combat diseases spread by dust. A Texas wreck in Kyle injured nine people.
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Ms Be
Kyle
Texas
National Packing Company Formed to Consolidate Packers
Chicago Tuesday saw the creation of the National Packing Company uniting seven major firms including Swift & Co Armour & Co and Nelson Morris & Co under a directorship led by Jesse Lyman ex president of G H W Hammond. capitalization tops 70 million with acquisitions of Omaha Packing Hammond Hutchinson Anglo American and others.
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National Packing Company
Ole Management
Chicago
Packers’ Trust
Swift & Co. Armour & Co
Nelson Morris & Co
Jesse Lyman
G. H W. Hammond Packing Company
Morris, Swift and Armour
Omaha Packing Company
Omaha
Hammond Packing Company
Omaah
St. Joseph
G. H. Hammond Company
Railways, labor strikes, and legal twists in early 1900s notes
The report details railroad developments from new observation cars on the Lake Shore to Pere Marquette and Northwestern expansions. It covers Western state tax proposals on railroads, miner protests and the coal strike commissions awarding wage gains and reduced hours, including arbitration provisions and child labor relaxations. It closes with the Maybrick case and its verdict in England.
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Pere Marquette Road
Western Railroads
Elkins
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northwestern Railway
Clinton
Iowa
Canadian Northern Railway Company
Port Garry Park
Winnipeg
Hudson Bay Company
Western Railroad
Western
Nebraska
Labor Leaders Comended as Riots Denounced in Coal Strike Report
The Roosevelt commission on the anthracite strike urges a 10 percent wage rise with a sliding scale, shorter hours, and arbitration to settle disputes. It condemns lawlessness and discrimination, absolves national union leaders, and fixes awards through March 31, 1906. Safety and social conditions in mines are deemed satisfactory.
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Mitchell
Miners’ Union
Gary Stone
Venn-sylvania
Baer
Gray Commission
Roosevelt
Cribes
Mrs Maybrick to Be Freed In 1904 After Conviction
Florence Maybrick the American woman convicted in Liverpool in 1559 for poisoning her husband James Maybrick faces release in 1904. The Flaming Office says her lawyers will seek postponement of ongoing land dispute suits in Kentucky Virginia and West Virginia while she approaches freedom.
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Florence Maybrick
Worman
Liverpool
James Maybrick
Aigburth
Flame Office
Washington
Kentucky
Virginia
West Virginia
Florence Elizabeth Chandler
William G. Chandler
Decision by Strike Commission outlines terms and costs
The commission's features set a Nov 1 1902 to Apr 1 1906 period with a 10 percent wage rise for contract miners engineers firemen and pump men a sliding scale based on coal selling price eight hour shifts weekly rest pay continuity. It enforces compulsory investigation but not arbitration and limits coal police while criticizing boycotts and union recognition. Costs are listed totaling 99 100 000 with allocations to operators miners and transport.
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Coal and Iron
Board of Concilation
Coal and Iron Police
Mitchell
Prose Bits and Puns Mark Early 20th Century News
Fragmented quips touch on censorship liberty in Russia and press freedom under the czar, a 92 year old man courting an 85 year old bride, Supreme Court quarrels, contempt penalties, Chicago coal barons in doubt, and President Wrang of St Louis expo tours comparing to Morgan Miles Buffalo Bill and Sousa.
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American Can Company
Russia
Mississippi
Nicholas
Grip
Supreme Court
Michigan
Chicago
Europe
Wrancie
St. Louis Exposition
J. Pierpont Morgan
Gen. Miles
Buffalo Bill
John Philip Sousa
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Democrat
Lanwiched
Ramaey Suissa
Negro
Shoota
Buffalo
Edwin. L.burdick
Beef Kings United
Armour, Swift and
Morris
Maybrick
Wirral
Brothers of
Mayrick
England
Charles Russell
Strike Commission
Boyecott
Mrs. Maybrick
Mobile
Ala
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