Hazleton Strikers Refuse, Push to End Sliding Scale
Hazleton and Shenandoah reports describe miners seeking to abolish the sliding scale and continue wage advances until April while willing to arbitrate disputes if operators reject the convention’s terms. The union plans to keep closures until a resolution. railroads plan a New York meeting to discuss the dispute. General Gobin orders troops to Panther Creek Valley as strikers mobilize and work looks tense in Coaldale and nearby towns.
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Hazleton
Scranton
New York
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Shenandoah
Gobin
McAdoo
Panther Creek Valley
Philadelphia and
Reading Road
Famaqua
Coaldale
Oneida
Panther Creek
Boundary Line Dispute Shifts in Mt. Baker District
Do minion surveyors abandon work locating the international boundary in Whatcom county. Field notes place the 49th parallel within a quarter mile of prior position. If confirmed, several American mining claims would lie on the Canadian side triggering intergovernmental negotiations.
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New Whatcom
Wash
Dominion
International Boundary Line
Mt. Baker
Whatcom County
Whisky Trust In Trouble In New York
Vice Chancellor Emery at Newark granted a rule directing the Distilling Company of America to show cause why a receiver should not be appointed and why the annual meeting scheduled for Wednesday should not be indefinitely postponed. Returnable at 4 p m today. Grounds allege irregularities by certain stockholders in securing control of a large stock block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Emery
Newark
Distilling Company of America
Ferrill to Plead Insanity in Lane Murder Trial
Rosslyn H. Ferrill stood trial in Marysville Ohio for the Aug. 10 express messenger Charles Lane murder and robbery. He confessed in writing detailing the shooting and crime to fund his upcoming marriage to Miss Lillian Costlow of Columbus. The defense will be insanity.
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Ferrilll
Marysville
Rosslyn HH
Ferrill
Adams Express
Charles Lane
Lane
Lillian Costlow
Columbus
Mark Twain Returns to New York for Winter Visit
After nine years away, author Mark Twain arrived in New York aboard the Minnehaha with his wife and daughters. Friends greeted them at the pier and escorted the party to the Hotel Arlington. Twain said he would stay in New York for the winter. He planned to return to Hartford in the spring.
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Mark Twain
New York
M. Clemens
Arlington
Mr. Clemens
Hartford
Secretary Long Plans Westward Speech Tour
An Oct recount from Washington notes Secretary Long intends a Westward speaking journey. The report highlights several expected stops and topics to be addressed during the campaign.
Goebel Brother Testimony Highlights Georgetown Trial Day
Georgetown Ky October 16 The Youtsey trial resumed with Goebel brother of the murdered man testifying. He described a conversation where Youtsey claimed Governor Taylor ordered Goebel's killing and that Berry Howard Dick Coombs and Jim Howard were admitted to Powers office on the morning of the shooting.
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Goeber
Georgetown
Youtsey
Henny
Arthur Goebel
Taylor
Goebel
Berry Howard
Dick Coombs
Jim Howard
Powers
Missionary and businessman indemnity claims from China Boxers
The state department has received several claims by American missionaries and business people for compensation for losses in China during the Boxer uprising. The department has notified claimants and provided the filing circular, but has not yet decided the method of collecting indemnities.
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Washington
State Department
China
Uprising In San Domingo Suppressed
Government forces report rebels surrounded and seeking guards before surrender. San Domingo and nearby districts are quiet as the revolutionary movement is deemed suppressed with numerous arrests and manifestos captured.
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San Domingo
Get No Sight of Peary Steamer Windward
The sealing steamer Kate reports from Cumberland Inlet that the Windward has not been seen or heard of. Hope of its return this fall is practically abandoned.
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Peary
St. Johns
Kate
Cumberland Inlet
Chicago Grain and Provisions Market News Report
Chicago grain and provisions trade on October 15 shows a weak session with lower prices across futures. Wheat and corn closed down, oats largely unchanged, while pork, lard, ribs, and cash grain quotations reflect modest declines and varied stock levels across cattle hogs and sheep markets.
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Chicago
Dee
Kansas City Market Report Cattle Calves Hogs and Sheep
Cattle receipts 11 500 natives and 4 500 Texans with 1 200 calves. Desirable killing and feeding cattle steady. native steers 4.60 to 5.80. stockers and feeders 3.00 to 4.55. butchers cows and heifers 3.00 to 4.00. feeders 2.40 to 3.00. Hogs receipts 5 000 slow trade 5 to 10 cents lower. heavy and mixed 4.90 to 5.00. light 4.80 to 5.00. pigs 4.35 to 4.70. Sheep receipts 1 300 quiet with better grades. lambs 4.60 to 5.00. lambs and muttons 3.50 to 4.00. stockers and feeders 3.25 to 4.10. culls 2.50 to 3.25.
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Chicago
Texas Fed
Texas Grasn
Texas Bulls
Ight
Texas
Kansas City
South Omaha Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Cattle receipts at South Omaha on Oct 15 totaled 5400 with lower demand. Native beef steers fetched 4.25 to 5.60, western steers 4.00 to 4.60, Texas steers 3.00 to 3.90, cows and heifers 3.10 to 3.75, stockers and feeders 3.25 to 4.65, calves 3.00 to 6.00, Paulb stags 2.50 to 4.00. Hog receipts 8400 with prices around 4.70 to 4.85 for heavies, 4.90 to 4.54 for mixed, 3.50 to 4.60 for pigs. General tone notes slow demand and mixed trading.
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South Omaha
Texas
Deliberate switch failure causes Chicago wreck kill and injuries
An open switch at South Chicago is believed to have been deliberately moved, derailing the New York and Boston express on the Lake Shore line. Fireman W J Jerough and an unknown tramp were killed, engineer Lewis Reynolds fatally injured, with three others seriously hurt as two mail and two express cars piled up in a fog shrouded wreck.
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Chicago
Eighty-Fifth Street
New York
Boston
Lake Shore Road
W. J. Jerough
Lewis Reynolds
No End to the Dead in Galveston After Storm
Five weeks after the great hurricane Galveston reports ongoing corpse recoveries averaging over twenty daily. Officials believe hundreds remain buried in wreckage as workers sift debris. Salvage teams survey West Bay for possible removal of the British steamship Roma through San Luis Pass.
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Galveston
West Bay
San Luis Pass
Rescue Report Confirms Shields Group Safe With Details Pending
General MacArthur offers to provide full particulars once obtainable. Dispatches from Manila indicate Captain Shields and 48 men of FP Company Twenty-ninth US Volunteer Infantry, plus two corporals, and an American dylan were handed over to General Luther R. Hare by Marinduque insurgents. Reports note casualties among insurgents and allied forces.
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Washington
Captain Shields
Aval
Manila
Marindique
United States Volunteer Infantry
Dylan
Luther R. Hare
MacArthur
Humane Society closes 24th annual convention
Pittsburg October 73 The 24th annual convention of the American Humane society closed with officers elected President Hon James M Brown Toledo secretary Francis H Rowley Baton treasurer William A Fuller Chicago and a long list of vice presidents from across the country. Time and place of the next meeting left to the executive committee.
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Uumane Society
Pittsburg
American Iumane Society
James MM
Brown
Toledo
Francis HH. Rowley
Baton
William A. Fuller
Chicago
Carl Browne's Flying Machine Stone Laying At Socialist Colony
At Freedom Labor Exchange colony near Fort Scott Kansas a crowd of about 200 witnessed the corner-stone laying for a flying machine factory based on the Carl Dryden Browne patent. Guests from abroad attended the event and were hosted by the colony for the day.
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Carl Browne
Fort Scott
Kan
Carl Dryden Browne
Freedom Labor Exchange Colony
Wreck Victim Identified in Purcell Freight Disaster
Vincennes Ind Oct 16 wreckers found the body of Robert B Jerusalem a merchant of this city in the debris of the Purcell freight wreck on the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad He left on that train for Princeton on business His wife is with a theatrical company in New York He was worth 50000 dollars.
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Vincennes
Ind
Purcell
Evansville and
Terre Haute
Robert B. Jerusalem
Princeton
New York
Fire at Sullivan department store devastates city
In Sullivan Indiana on October 16 a major blaze caused by a toppled candle in Burton Bros department store basement gutted the building. The fire locked in the elevator shaft and ignited the People's theater stage, marking one of the city’s worst fires.
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Sullivan
Ind
Sullivan, Ind
Burton Bros
People’s Theater
Supreme Court to Hear Neely and Related Cases
United States Supreme Court grants government motion to advance Neely cases from New York federal court challenging habeas corpus denial. The docket also includes Goetz tobacco tariff and Peke diamonds cases from Illinois and Chicago. The ruling tests constitutional reach over new territorial possessions.
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United” States
Supreme ‘Cou T
Washington
Supreme Court
Neely
Fed Capi Court of
New York
Wallace
Goetz
United States Court of
Federal Court of
Illinois
Peke
South Dakota
Philippines
Chicago
United States
Kansas Millers Denounce Minneapolis Wheat Claims
The Kansas State Millers' association in Topeka denounces Minneapolis millers for disparaging Kansas wheat. A Topeka Capital report confirmed hundreds of carloads of Kansas wheat were shipped to Minneapolis, and Kansas millers plan to condemn the claim while urging farmers to support Kansas mills and ship surplus wheat to Europe via gulf ports.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas State Millers’ Association
Minneapolis Millers
Minneapolis
Kansas Millers’ Association
Kansas Millers
Kansas
Kansas Mills
Europe
Gulf Ports
Investigation of Child Labor in Des Moines Under Way
Des Moines reports an investigation into child labor after a complaint alleged extensive child work at a local institution. Labor Commissioner Wennerstrump ordered inquiry to gather concrete data for potential statutory action to regulate the practice. Names of firms withheld.
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Des Moines
Wennerstrump
Towa
Patrick and Jones Face Forgery Charge in New York
Albert T. Patrick and Charles F. Jones, once closely linked to the late William M. Rice, appeared before Police Magistrate Crane charged with conspiring to forge Rice’s name on a $25,000 check drawn on S. M. Swenson & Sons. Both pleaded not guilty. A Galveston Sufferers bazaar opened at the Waldorf Astoria with General Miles hosting and Texas Governor Sayers speaking about the hurricane’s impact.
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New York
Albert T. Patrick
Charles F. Jones
William M. Rice
Crane
Willian M. Rice
Patrick
M. Swenson & Sons
Jones
Galveston
Waldorf-Astoria
Nelson A. Miles
Miles
Sayers
Texas
Dr. Longnecker Convicted
Terlon Ta October 16 report that Dr. Longnecker was convicted in a local court. Details are limited in the fragment but identify the conviction as the main action and location.
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Longnecker
Terlon, Ta
Uni Tith
Pierson Seeks Proof of Residence on Montana Land Lots 6 7
David J. Pierson for H E No 6052 claims continuous residence and cultivation of Lots 6 and 7 and EY SW Bac 0 Tp 6 8 2 12 W. Witnesses named include Charles Padley All Anderson Dillon Montana Louie Krager D Montana and Marcellus Die at 40 6t.
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United States Land Office
Helena
Montana
Justin B. Gowen
Dillon
L. J. Price
U, 8
Milton B. Hays
Marcellus Pyle
Polaris
Mont
Thomas Mulaney
Andrew Pyle
Gronae D. Greene
Register
United States Land ‘Office
Edward Romain
Jackson
Beaverhead County
Dillion
Monlans
Said
George Nt. Mellen Mary Romain
Charles Pinkerton
Albert Hatton
David J. Pierson
Charles Padley
All Anderson
Ot Dillon
Louie Krager
Marcellus
Grant
Beaverhead Co
Rec
Neynerm Roc
L. J. Prica
U.S
Estate of Erle J. Conger Probate Notice
Estate of Erle J. Conger deceased. Administrator invites all claimants to present claims with vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims should be directed to the administrator at his attorney's office in Bilton Montane for processing.
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Erle J. Conger
Conger
J. O.fepinester
Bilton
W. Conan
United States Land Office
Helena
Montana
Ernst A. Denicke
San Francisco
Cal
P. M. Collins
Mont
R. W
F. A. Vde & Co
P. “. Collins
Congress
General Land Office
Isaac van Camp
Idasco van Camp
Henry, R. Melton
Dillon
Beaverhead
Pailip H. Pompexter
Isaac van Vamp
Melton
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Chicago Grain and Provisions
Lake Shore
Devris of
Shields
General MacArthur
Frinceton
Honers
Hay
N. J
Patten
John Hay
Imboden
Leonard ‘H. ‘Imboden
Iowa
Mary O ‘Hay
American Christian Missionary Society
W. K. Homan
Society
Greater America
I. Z. Cahill
Porto Rico
Patrick and
Mase A
Carleton
Allie
Cooney
Ct” Becow
Frank
Erwin
Wm T Fifield
EC Foley
Pat Ivey
Breston
Lakin
RL Mellot
Merrit
Lelia Mover
Neonan
Jas
Newcomer
Jay H _ Otr
Anna Royal
Joe
Robinson
A Y Rammell
J_A Bulliver
John Selover
H K Steed
H K Steed Wm Black, Sam Bandas, DA Scavo
Same — Paylor
Cecil Varnes
Mre
EM Vaughn
Jas. Wilber
Gerace Lamont
J. W. Voeurr
Gen. Mgr
E. Hin
Bedrock, Salmon & Gibbonsville Stage Co
U. S. Mail
Salmon City
Shoupe
Gibbonsville
Ida
Leesburg
Blackbird
Forney
Yellow Jacket
Silvercreek
Prairie Basin, Sons
Salmon River
Red Rock
Care Stage Co
F. W. Vogler
Hed Rock
Stockmen’s Directory
Philip Lovell
Deak
Grong
D. Greny, Hogister
U.8
Helens
C. E. Glover
Oakland
Groner D. Greene
Department of the Interior
U. S
George D. Gaeenz
Ieee
Ana Zinlober
David Gibeoon
Tash
Dave Richois
Lenkersdorfer Wiliam S. Tash
Bannack, Montana
Gzoree D. Greene
Forest Reserve
George L. Ramsey
Mt. M
Georgee D. Gara
Otteginter
U_B. Land Office
Jere Collin
D. Garene
Hirst
Groraz D. Grrex, ‘Register
Adele Pierce
Liew
D. Grace
Te Firat
Eaproof
U.S.’ Land Office
Helene
William H. Johnson
Lima, Beaverhead Co
County
A. S
Mary 8. Johnson
Lima
Ment
Ontana
Toner Dd
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