Dewey Arrives in Chicago for Three Day Welcome
Admiral George Dewey arrived in Chicago amid cannon salutes and cheering crowds. He will be the city guest for three days of events including receptions, a lakefront illumination, a civic ball, and formal escorts through downtown. The parade of honor included Mayor Harrsion, Charles Plamondon, and Dewey’s son, with police regiments and naval officers assisting.
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Chicago
George Dewey
Jacksonville
Dewey
Caldwell
Crawford
Harrson
Charles Plamondon
George Goodwin Dewey
Grand Central Depot
Fifth Avenue
Harrison Streets
Harrison Street
Auditorium Annex
Lake Michigan
Washington
Admiral Dewey
Woman’s Reception Committee
Bryan Latrop
Carter H. Harrison
Charles A. Plamondon
B. F. Alsop
First Cavalry
I. N. G. Guard of Honor
Illinois Naval Reserve Veterans’ Association
Harrison
Chicago Committee
Jackson Boulevard
Signal Corps
Michigan Avenue
Forest fires devastate Ames and Mich towns along Wisconsin line
Fire raged along the Wisconsin and Michigan railway north of Fisher and along the Milwaukee road north of Ellis Junction. The town of Ames Michigan was nearly wiped out with losses exceeding $30,000. Cedar stock at Nathan Michigan was also destroyed as crews rescued residents to Pembine. A special train attempted to reach stricken villages while dry conditions threatened further spread northward.
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Marinette
Wis
Fisher
Mich
Wisconsin and Michigan
Ames
Nathan
Wisconsin and
Michigan
Pembine
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Road
Ellis Junction
N H Fitch Very Sick in Pittsburgh Home
Nathaniel H Fitch an elderly veteran of the railways at eighty six years lies ill at his Douglass Avenue home. He served over fifty years in railway work including a milling business and as Pennsylvania Company agent at Maples before moving to duties at the Pittsburgh freight house.
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Nathaniel H. Fitch
Douglass Avenue
Pittsburg
Fitch
Pennsylvania Company
Maples
Ninety Two Confirmands At Epiphany Church Chicago
Bishop Anderson confirmed a class of ninety two at the Church of Epiphany on Ashland Boulevard and Adams Street in Chicago. Among the confirmands were two young men, Brainard and Henry Aikins, sons of Mr and Mrs Henry Aikins formerly residents of the city. Brathard, the eldest, was a former pressman at the Stews paper Union and now works for the Chicago house of that company.
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Ashland Boulevard
Adams Street
Chicago
Anderson
Brainard
Henry Aikins
Brathard
Stewspaper Union
Captain Hooper Dead in California Coast Flash
Captain C. L. Hooper of the United States Marine Service died in Oakland California from a complication of disorders. He commanded cutters including the Corwin Bear and Bush and had long served on the coast in various leadership roles.
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Oakland
Cala
C. L. Hooper
United States Marine Service
Corwin
Bear
Bush
Daybreak of nationwide eight hour strike wave
Reports from Buffalo and Philadelphia reveal widespread labor action as workers seek an eight hour day and wage increases. In Buffalo 150 Nickel Plate shopmen struck in solidarity with Central strikers while in Philadelphia about 3,000 Allied Building Trades Council members quit work.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Central
Philadelphia
Joseph B. Allen
Allied Building Trades Council
Building Trades
Northwest strike halts wood trades in Minneapolis area
In Minneapolis on May 1 over eleven hundred union wood workers representing sash and door, bar fixture, and show case factories in St Paul and Minneapolis voted to strike. The action follows a wage scale dispute and non union labor, with manufacturers agreeing to the scale but not discharging non union workers. The strike will be fully effective in St Paul the next day as building trades unions bar non labeled stock, potentially widening the dispute.
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Minneapolis, Minn
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Freight Handlers Strike in Ludington Michigan
Two hundred freight handlers for the Perre Marquette railroad walked out over pay. The grain handlers would not accept a 30 cent an hour raise, ten cents more than last year, while freight truckers seek the same rate as before. All workers are members of the American Federation of Labor.
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Ludington
Mich
Perre Marquette Railroad
American Federation of Labor
Strike Hangs Fire In Buffalo As We
Word reaches headquarters that shopmen of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western have walked out in sympathy with New York Central men. Mr. Fish estimates 550 added to the strike. A striker meeting gathers with over 1,000 in attendance as the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen meet in Buffalo. Indications are that trainmen will take no action today.
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Buffalo
Delaware
Lackawanna
Weaterfi
New York Central
Fish
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Bast Buffalo
Trade unions press for wage rises and shorter hours
Workers from carpenters to painters push for higher pay and shorter shifts. Carpenters seek 35 cents per hour, plumbers 50 cents, painters a 40 cent rate with a Saturday half holiday, all in proportion to an eight hour day. No reliable count of striking workers is available.
Wage increases granted to Youngstown tradesmen
In Youngstown Ohio on May 1 a wage increase ranging from 25 to 50 cents per day was granted to journeymen plumbers tinners slaters and carpenters. The unions demanded the rise and the ultimatum expired with the agreement affecting about 1000 workers.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Mass strikes in Pittsburg over wages and hours
About 1500 workers, 1000 bricklayers and 500 carriers, walked out in Pittsburg today demanding higher wages and shorter hours. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners scale was signed by the Master Builders association and all workers returned to work.
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Pittsburg
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Master Builders’ Association
Union Carpenters Quit in Omaha Strike
All city union carpenters idle as Omaha contractors halt work. The workers demand an eight hour day and wages rising from 35 to 40 cents per hour plus exclusive use of union label planing mill material.
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Omaha, Neb
Demands Refused Trigger Citywide Strike in Kansas City
Kansas City May 1 contractors and employers refused wage increases causing about 1000 workers to strike. The union includes tinners sheet-metal workers hod carriers plasters and quarry workers with likely plumbers and steam fitters to follow.
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Kansas City
East St. Louis Strike Grounds City Construction
Building operations in East St. Louis are at a standstill as about 1,000 union carpenters and other trades join a sympathy strike. Carpenters had demanded higher wages previously, which employers did not grant, prompting wider walkout across trades.
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St. Louis, Mo
East St. Louis
Ill
Akron strike halts Stirling Boiler works over 15 percent demand
Six hundred boiler men and moulders at Stirling Boiler works in Barberton, Ohio, launched a morning strike seeking a 15 percent wage increase after an ultimatum. An attempt to resume with non union workers is planned, risking further trouble. The firm holds several large orders for the Russian army.
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Akron
Ohio
Stirling
Barbarton
Coremakers Go Out in Springfield Strike Wave
Springfield Ohio May 1 core makers at the O S Kelly company walked out demanding a uniform schedule of 2.25 dollars per day. About 250 workers from Architectural Iron Works Grey Iron Foundry E W Ross Beldorf Metal Wheel and Armstrong Foundry also quit in solidarity.
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Springfield
Ohio
0. S. Kelly Company
Architectural Iron Works
Grey Iron Foundry Company
E. W. Ross Company
Betterdorf Metal Wheel Company
Armstrong Foundry Company
Strike on B and O disrupts rail work in Louisville
A Seymour Ind dispatch reports a large strike on the Baltimore and Ohio line from St Louis to Parkersburg. About 3000 workers refused to work for higher pay with section men at 115 a day and extras at 125. Trainmen may join in sympathy, leaving 900 idle track workers in Louisville.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
St. Louis
Parkersburg
W. Va
Closing Up Affairs in Fort Wayne Electric Case
C H Worden trustee in bankruptcy for the defunct Fort Wayne Electric states plans to close the affairs within thirty days. Arrangements are made to pay the final dividend about five percent on proved claims and fifteen percent on indebtedness.
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C. H. Worden
Fort Wayne Electric Corporation
Hasenfuss Convicted of Manslaughter After Nine Hour Deliberation
The jury found Mattie E Hasenfuss guilty of manslaughter in the poisoning case against Carl Westenfeld after a long night of deliberations. The 6 to 6 initial vote shifted to a manslaughter verdict to avoid a second trial. Attorney Morris plans a new trial request while Hasenfuss awaits legal action in jail.
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Mattie E. Hasenfuss
Carl Westenfeld
Joe Mason
O’rourke
Melching
Young
L. Morris
Attorney Doughman
W. G. Colerick
Samuel Zimmerman
Hasenfuss
Messrs
Zimmerman
Surfus
Madden
McDuffey
Bender
Edwards
Herrick
Gruber
Richards
Shutt
Dudgeon
Nead
Sentinel
Morris
Ykrs
Carl ‘Entarfteld
Guardians Seek Custody Of Five Year Old Child
The board of children's guardians applied for possession of a five year old and the child was placed in their custody at noon by order of Judge O Rourke.
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Board of Children’s Guardians
O’rourke
Fall at Goldstein store breaks M W Gay leg
M W Gay employed at Goldstein second hand store on West Main street fractured his leg in a cellar fall on Saturday. He stepped on a straw covered box that gave way. Dr E J Mc Oscar treated the injury and the patient cannot resume work for some time.
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M.W. Gay
Goldstein
West Main Street
Mr. Gay
E. J. Mc Oscar
Hartnett Insurance Agency Continues Under New Manager
Mrs. Murray Hartnett will continue the Hartnett agency after the death of her husband Charles B. Fitch resigning his position. The agency is a prominent city firm with all listed companies remaining with the agency under new management.
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Murray Hartnett
Hartnett Agency
Fitch Resigns as Indiana Insurance Dept Official
Charles B. Fitch of this city resigns as assistant chief clerk and actuary at the Indiana insurance department in Indianapolis. He will leave in May, return to Fort Wayne to run his own agency, citing higher profits, and his record includes efforts to weed out unsafe insurers doing business in Indiana.
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Charles B. Fitch
Indiana Insurance Department
Indianapolis
Fitch
Fort Wayne
State Department
Indianapolis Dispatches
Indiana
Mayor Harrison Appeals Citizens to Aid Settlement
Chicago April 28 Mayor Harrison urged Chicago residents to influence a settlement of widespread labor troubles affecting nearly all industries. He said arbitration efforts by city administration failed after contractors' association refused to appear before the arbitration board. He called for conservative contractors to withdraw from the contractors' council and ordered steps to suppress labor riots and protect non union workers on city buildings.
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Chicago
Harrison
Contractors’ Association
Pilgrimage to Rome Leaves New York Priests by Trave
The North German Lloyd steamer Trave sailed today with a large Catholic priest pilgrimage to Rome. Sixty five priests aboard, fifty from Brooklyn and fifteen from St Louis. Brooklyn group led by Bishop O Donnell, St Louis group led by Archbishop Kain. Rev D S Phelan of the Western Watchman among St Louis pilgrims. About 2000 spectators gathered at Hoboken pier to bid farewell.
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New York
Trave
Naples
Rome
Brooklyn
St. Louis
O’donnell
Kain
D. S. Phelan
The
Western Watchman
Hoboken
Kentucky Brief Filed In Kentucky Governorship Contest
Washington April 28 brief filed in the Kentucky supreme court contest over the offices of governor and lieutenant governor. The document is signed by James P. Helm Helm Bruce and Kennedy Helm as counsel with ex-Gov Bradley Yost Willson Fairleigh Breckinridge and John Shelby listed as of counsel.
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Washington
William 8. Taylor
John Marshall
Supreme Court
Kentucky
James P. Helm
Helm Bruce
Kennedy Helm
W. C. Bradley
W. H. Yost
A. E. Willson
D. W. Fairleigh
W. C. P. Breckinridge
John Shelby
Nellie McDaniel Goes to Portland for Kin Match
Miss Nellie McDaniel traveled to Portland Oregon this week to marry or unite with John Kin in a preliminary step toward nuptials, reflecting a rural community’s social announcements and local marriage prospects.
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Nellie McDaniel
Portland
Ore
Borage
John Kin
Senate rejects Boers sympathy resolution in narrow vote
Washington April 30. The senate refused to consider a resolution expressing sympathy with the Boers by a 20 to 29 vote. The list of Yeas includes Allen Bate Berry Chandler Clay Hale Harris Heitfeldt Hoar Jones Arkansas Kenney McCum ber McEnery Martin Mason Pettigrow Ross Teller Turner West. The Nays feature Aldrich Allison Bard Carter Clark Wyoming Davis Fairbanks Foster Frye Gallinger Gear Hawley Jones Nevada Keane Lodge McComas Morgan Nelson Penrose Perkins Pettus Platt Colorado Platt New York Sewell Shoup Stewart Sullivan Warren Wolcott. President McKinley signs the Hawaiian bill into law.
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Washington
Senate
Yeas
Allen
Bate
Berry
Chandler
Clay
Hale
Harris
Heitfeldt
Hoar
Jones
Arkansas
Kenney
McCumber
McEnery
Martin
Mason
Pettigrew
Ross
Teller
Turner
West
Aldrich
Allison
Bard
Carter
Clark
Wyoming
Davis
Porto Rico bill conferees fail to agree
Washington April 30 The Porto Rico bill conferees could not reach agreement on the appointment of temporary officers in the island and decided to report a complete disagreement.
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Washington
Porto Rico
Hawaiian Bill Becomes Law Signed by President
Washington reports the president signed the Hawaiian bill at 12 40 today. The move formalizes the legislation granting statehood provisions and marks a milestone in territorial status.
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Washington
Public Printer Johnson Resigns in Washington
Washington April 30 Claud M Johnson chief of the bureau of engraving and printing has tendered his resignation to Secretary Gage. The report notes his departure accompanies changes in federal printing operations and potential leadership shifts at the bureau.
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Washington
Claud M. Johnson
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Gage
House acts on oleomargarine inquiry and polygamy amendment
In Washington the Ways and Means Committee recommends tabling the Tawney resolution seeking treasury data on oleomargarine materials. A minority report urges adoption. Action postponed for a week. A separate joint resolution to amend the constitution to disqualify polygamy is referred to the judiciary.
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Washington
House
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Committee On Ways and Means
Tawney
Secretary of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
Minnesota
Dolliver
Iowa
Babcock
Wisconsin
Corliss
Michigan
Congress
Committee On
Judiciary
Boy Run Over By Wagon. Otto Greener Injured
Otto Greener eight years old of 19 Eliza street was fatally threatened? injured on East Lewis street at eight oclock Monday. He rode a heavy log wagon and fell in front of the rear wheel which passed over his shoulder. Bruises are severe but no bones appear broken.
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Otto Greener
Eliza Street
Lewis Street
Anna Florence Doyle to wed Adolph F Wichman on May 8
Mr and Mrs Thomas Doyle announce the approaching marriage of their daughter Anna Florence to Adolph F Wichman. The ceremony will occur May 8 at the Episcopal residence in the early morning with close relatives present. A reception will follow at 237 Madison Street.
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Thomas Doyle
Anna Florence
Adolph F. Wichman
Madison Street
Ez Auditor L J Bobilya Resumes Sitting Up At Home
Ez Auditor L J Bobilya, long seriously ill at his Takeside home, has improved enough to sit up part of each day, signaling a recovery progress documented by family.
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L. J. Bobilya
Takeside
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