Labor Federation Pushes Chinese Exclusion and Child Labor Return
Pittsburg delegates at the American Federation of Labor session adopted resolutions urging exclusion of Chinese Japanese and Korean labor and a return to child labor policies. President Gompers reported on the injunction tax fight and support for strikers while considering actions against the Brewery Workers union dispute with engineers and firemen.
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Pittsburg
American Federation of Labor
Lhe Werk
Gompers
Jta
Internate Woman's Labor League
Brewery Workers’ Union
New Boston witness named in Geary death case
Boston reports a nurse, Miss Sarasa Elizabeth Griffith, who attended Susanna Geary as she died, has been found as a new witness for the prosecution. Police say her statements will aid the cases against Dr. Percy McLeod William Hunt and Lewis Crawford, and that she is no part of the alleged crime.
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Susanna Geary
Boston
Sarasa Elizabeth Griffith
Geary
Percy McLeod
William Hunt
Lewis Crawford
Miss Griffith
Valuable Shipment of Horses From Rancho de Paso
Sacramento Calif Nov 23 Four special trains on passenger schedules carry to New York a million dollar shipment of four hundred horses from Rancho de Paso. John Mackay Haggin ranch superintendent and General Agent W H Sheddan of Illinois Central railroad rode in the last car of the fourth special. Transportation costs run about 60000 with one foreman per Arab and two grooms per car.
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Sacramento
Calif
New York
Rancho de Paso
John Mackay
Haggin Ranch
W. H. Sheddan
Llsinoia Central Railroad
British Ministers Knighted for American Marriage Names
The Hon Allan Johnston British minister to Denmark and Arthur James Herbert British minister to Norway, both married to Americans, have been promoted to Knight Commander of the Victorian Order. Johnston is the fourth son of the 1st Baron Dewentz and married Antoinette Pinchot in 1892. Herbert married Helen A Gamell of Providence R I. King Charles visits Paris awaiting Lisbon trip with gala events and military honors.
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London
Allan Johnston
Denmark
Arthur James Herbert
Norway
Johnstone
Baron Dewentz
Antoinette Pinchot
New Yous
Herbert
Helen A. Gammel
Providence
R. 1
Portugal
France
Paris
Charles
Lisbon
Dauphne
M. Lonchet
Royvier
Foreign Office
Widow’s Daughter Reveals Details Of Mrs Todd Will
Mrs Rosalie Tousey, sole survivor of Mrs Margaret Todd, says she last saw her mother June 5 1905 before Europe trip. She notes a new will made about 18 months earlier and disputes a 1902 will and Lockwood custody claim, while reporting papers stolen from the music room desk.
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Margaret Todd
New York
Rosalie Tousey
Philadelphia
Europe
Ingersoll
Lockwood
Cargo of red wood taints food on Werra crew suffers
In the South Atlantic the German bark Werra, becalmed, sent a distress signal for provisions. Four sailors rowed to the Koreanna, exhausted by fumes from sap laden red wood in the cargo which tainted food and spoiled water. Twenty two crewmen had survived six weeks on rain water and salt pork.
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New York
South Atlantic Ocean
Calcutta
South America
Army Surgeon Hoff Reports Russia Manchuria War Losses
Army Surgeon John R Hoff of the U S Army reports from Washington that his official war statistics show 27 killed in battle and 8 850 dead from disease in the Manchuria theater excluding Port Arthur This rate equals about two battle deaths per sickness death and is described as the best record yet in any war.
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Washington
John R. Hoff
United States Army
Manchuria
Japan
Hoff
Tsease
Port Arthur
Two Million Dollars in Coin to Sail for Orient
Nearly two million dollars in currency will be loaded aboard the Pacific mail liner China for the Orient, with three quarters in 50 tons of Mexican dollars valued at 1.5 million aboard the Col na under guard. The large shipment of coin is a historic send, with most of the silver consigned to Snang hal and the China also carrying freight and numerous passengers.
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Orient
San Francisco
Pacific Mail
China
Col Na
Snanghal
Ch'na Fts
Explorer's widow arrives in New York to write about expedition
Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard reached New York from the earlier sighting and planned a trip to Williamstown Massachusetts to visit a family friend. She will rest briefly then begin drafting her account of her husband’s expedition and death and says she has new data that may illuminate the tragedy.
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New York
Leonidas Hubbard
Williamstown
Mass
Polite man and the old torture era quip
A fragment notes how excessive politeness prompts suspicion of a hidden motive such as mining stock or life insurance. It also recalls that past torture relied on crude tools before the piano was invented in the next flat.
Narrow Escape of Four Hundred Girls at Parish School
A Parociaal School of St Ann's in Lawrence Mass reports four hundred girls escaped a fire with only one injured. Firemen held nets as girls jumped from a third story window under Sister Mary guidance. An overheated furnace caused the blaze. damage to the building was slight.
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Santas
Mery
Mary
Southern Educators Meet Opens Three Day Session
Nashville hosts the sixteenth annual Southern Educational Association meeting alongside the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Southern States. Governors, presidents, and chancellors prepare to welcome leaders from Greensboro, New Orleans, and Mississippi institutions.
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Nashville
Southern Educational Association
Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools
Charles D. McPresident
State Normal College
Greensboro
N. C
The
Educational Association
Brown Ayers
University of Tennessee
Cox
A. Mynders
Craigshead
Tulane University
New Orleans
Fulton
University of Mississippi
City store clerk accused for refusing Mrs prefix
A Montgomery local paper reported a white clerk discharged a negro woman for demanding the prefix Mrs. The incident sparked citywide indignation as locals seek the merchant involved and anticipate consequences for the establishment.
Will Arrest Congressman
Havana reports a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Dr Julian Betancourt a Liberal congressman from Pinar Del Rio province after a police discovery of arms ammunition and accoutrements in Cerro suburb. Liberals in rural districts express defiance against the government though Betancourt has not yet been arrested.
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Havana
Arcret
Cerro
Julian Betancourt
Uberal
Pinar del Rio
Judging From Experience
A quoted exchange suggests a harsh parental discipline metaphor. One voice asks what “gathered to his fathers” means and the other answers with a grim image of a father using a skate strap to summon a child to the wood shed.
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Willie
Arms Seized Near Havana In Anti-Government Raid
Police confiscated sixty Remington rifles in a raid on a house near San Juan de Martinez in Pinar del Rio province. About fifty antigovernment rioters were meeting and a dozen were captured. Colonel John Cruse, a noted Pinar del Rio figure, has been arrested and will be taken to Pinar del Rio for trial.
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Havana
Juan de Martinez
Pinar ¢ Rio
Johen Cruse
Pinar del Rio
Indians Ho at Sorow Dance in Victoria BC
The Neuchatalitz Indians hold a sorrow dance in Victoria on November 23 to mourn the overdue sealing schooner Fawn and its six white crewmen and 21 Indian crewmen who were believed lost after the voyage from the Bering Sea.
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Sorow
Victoria
B. C
Neuchatalitz
Bering Sea
Single Thought Bridges Two Souls on Furniture Cost
A compact adage notes harmony in couples as they share concerns over furniture costs. It claims mistakes stem from effortlessness, implying true unity shapes practical choices and budgets.
Death of Louisiana ex lieutenant governor A. H. Oliver
Private telegram from New Orleans reports the death of A. H. Oliver former lieutenant governor and speaker of the Louisiana house of representatives. Oliver, a Tallulah native, left Rochester a month ago for a private operation but could not rally from the shock. He was a major figure in Louisiana politics.
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New Orlezons
Governo
A. H. Oifer
Rochester
Mienfarder
Talluah
Louisiana
House of Representatives
Reid to Visit America and London for Holidays
Reid will spend Christmas in America after taking a department of state granted leave. Whitelaw Reid, the ambassador, will be in the United States for the holidays with Mrs. Reid and Miss Reid accompanying him. England will be left early in December.
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London
Whitelaw Aid
Department of State
America
England
Miss Reid
Rela
Count of Flanders Dies in Brussels Heir to Belgian Throne
The Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold and heir to the throne, died at 11 30 this morning in Brussels due to inflammation of the inspiratory organ. He was born in 1837.
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Brussels
Flanders
Leopold
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