Union Men Vote to Strike Yet Again
A wave of union workers votes to strike in Philadelphia mills as others fail to operate on Monday amid ongoing labor actions.
08 Mar 1910
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Newspaper
Fayetteville Daily
Location
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1910
Page
1
A wave of union workers votes to strike in Philadelphia mills as others fail to operate on Monday amid ongoing labor actions.
Philadelphia on March 8 reports the third day of a sympathetic strike as car workers gain accessions. Trouble erupts at Nineteenth and Huntingtoun avenue park where dynamite on a Tioga car triggers a jet clash with police. twenty passengers escape injury though two arrests occur.
L J Hill a San Jose aeronaut tangled in wreckage of a collapsed dirigible balloon fell 150 feet Sunday before a crowd of several thousand spectators at the local racetrack. He was not injured by the fall.
Washington March 15 by a vote of 15 to 11 the house committee on Interstate and foreign commerce struck from the administration railroad bill the provisions giving railroads control over competing lines by stock ownership. One provision would allow firms owning over 60 percent of rival stock to buy the rest and would legalize past stock purchases. The measures were urged by the president.
Fifty bodies recovered from the Wellington avalanche wreckage, with 45 sent to Everett and Seattle. Rapid debris clearing progresses as rotaries are released and blasting powder aids snow removal. Sixteen survivors from a marathon for purses of 145 dollars are noted amid injuries and hospital stays.
United States senator elect Leroy Percy of Mississippi arrives in New Orleans from Greenville in ill health after the Jackson campaign that secured his senate win over Vardaman. He plans to travel to Washington by ocean via New York, hoping a voyage will restore his condition.
Chicago March 8 women guests are barred from wearing hats at a Taft banquet on March 17. Irish Fellowship committee cites space limits noting one hatred guest consumes more room, explaining the decision to ban hats despite discomfort for women with expensive headpieces.
In San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon a new world dance record was set lasting fourteen hours and forty one minutes. Six contestants participated in the marathon event breaking the previous hold.
A neighborhood pup named Fido disappears after the back gate is found open. Mr. Dash searches the alley with a brickbat, while residents on three floors of a snug East End building recall the cordial, sociable evenings sharing the yard and veranda. The mystery remains unsolved, as residents note the event in a humorous, local-paper tone.
The Orlando Reporter-Star claims Orlando successfully expels English sparrows from the city, with birds allegedly boarding freight trains and refusing to disembark when trains stop in Orlando. The piece implies sparrows are widespread elsewhere and pose a nuisance in transit hubs.
Senior political figure Thomas C. Platt, longtime leader of the old guard, dies in New York City following a rapid onset illness identified as Bright's disease. The death removes a veteran force from the machinery of state power.
Former New York Senator Thomas Platt, age 76, a dominant 25 year GOP leader and centerpiece of New York politics, died at his West Eleventh Street residence from Bright's disease. He leaves three sons and planned services in Owego. He was born July 15, 1838 in Owego and retired from the Senate March 4, 1909 after over 60 years in public life.
Kansas City report states Dr Bennett Clark Hyde is a prisoner in Jackson County Hospital ward charged with first degree murder of Col Thomas H Swope and Chrisman Swope, manslaughter of Col Moss Hunton, and attempts to poison eight others of the Swope household. Committed to jail without food until 10 o clock Tuesday morning by Judge Latshaw.
The Queen, known as the First Lady, private bungalow on the Norfolk coast faces intrusive sightseers. To deter trespassers a board reading Private Property Please was erected.
The Retail Merchants Association met at the Court House to resume the monthly sales day program delayed by bad weather. Officials plan an April kickoff with a premium list to outdo prior promotions, aiming to boost county prosperity through town and neighboring communities.
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