Rail Passes Across the United States to End
The Chicago Chronicle reports a plan to abolish all railroad passes and free transportation nationwide after January 1, 8000000 or more employees would be affected. A Chicago meeting of major rail systems urged a general St. Louis conference to approve the action for all roads west of Chicago, with passes ending except for official business.
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The
Chicago Chronicle
United States
Chicago
St. Louis
Insurgent to Free Sixteen U S Prisoners Including Gilmore
Manila dispatch reports the insurgents promise to release sixteen American prisoners, among them Lieut Gilmore. Two insurgent Majors met Gen MacArthur and obtained permission to pass the prisoners through American lines with a Filipino General. The visit aims to confer with the General, likely on peace, with no exchange requested.
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Manila Special
Lieut. Gilmore
Gen. MacArthur
Transvaal Unity Asserted by Reitz in Pretoria
Dispatch from Pretoria reports Secretary F W Reitz saying the Transvaal government the volkstrand and the people are united and that no foundation exists for reports of differences The decision was made in conjunction with the Orange Free State Great Labor Union reports delegates from 299 central labor organizations with 300 000 members in Greater New York meet to form a single central labor body, Brooklyn building trades board dissenting.
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Pretoria
Transvaal
F. W. Reitz
Volkstrand
Great Labor Union
Central Labor Organization
Greater
New York
Labor Lyceum
Labor
Board of Walking
The
Building Trades of
Brooklyn
Eight Persons Die as Adobe House Collapses Near Mora NM
An adobe house five miles from Mora New Mexico collapses in heavy rain, killing Manuel Cordova his wife and six children. Only a ten year old son outside the dwelling survives. The dirt roof, saturated by days of rain, toppled onto the occupants.
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Mora
N. M
Manuel Cordova
The Hoon Affair and Related Labor Stories
The Hoon Affair reports Private Hoon of Ohio was punished not for writing a letter but for forging officers signatures on a petition for promotion. British Government orders 1000 Kentucky mules for England to supply South Africa. In Stuyvesant New York two farmers Martin and Maynard Coons were killed by the Empire State Express. James Whitney of Columbus Ohio was burned in a Muskegon fire. Miners at Ducktown Tennessee strikes turned riotous as union tension rose over employment of union men.
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Hoon
Otis
Ohio
Martin Coons
Maynard Coons
Stuyvesant
N. Y
Empire State Express
Columbus
Muskegon, Mich
James Whitney
Columbus, Ohio
Multiple fires and deaths shock East coast regions
D. B. Murdock, a Pittsburg merchant, dies in Queenstown while Hyde Park, N. Y., suffers a $60,000 fire loss. Promised Land L I plant of American Fisheries burns, nearly $100,000 machinery. Westchester and New York factories damaged. several deaths in rail accidents. Massachusetts Prohibitionists nominate a full state ticket. A Fiskdale couple is killed by their son after liquor abuse. Philadelphia block destroyed by oil blaze. 1500 painters strike for eight hours at 35 cents.
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D. B. Murdock
Pittsburg
Queenstown
Samuel
Sexton
Hyde Park
Joseph M. Hurley
Lynn
Mass
American Fisheries Company
Promised Land
L. I
East 128Th Street
New York
A. S. Nichols
William A. E. Moore
Martin Mahon
Anthony
Prof
A. W. Anthony
Bates College
Androscoggin River
Lewiston
John Shepherd
Homer Robinson
Lehigh Valley
Berkshire
N. Y
Virginia
Charleston
Baird Station
Massachusetts
John W. Baer
Medford
John B. Lewis
Reading
Herbert B. Griffin
Winthrop
Franklin A. Palmer
Stockbridge
John King
Fiskdale
Peter
Richardson &Loss Asphalt
Philadelphia
Albert E. Lewis
Amalgamated Journeymen House Painters’ Association
Earthquakes, deaths and crimes fill early reports from across states
A western state tremor hits Penfield township Ohio while Henry Stockman and Alfred Stockman perish in Beanes City. Calamities include a Cincinnati judge's sudden death at 75, and a Hanford lecturer struck by vertigo. There are burglaries, stage holdups near Napa, frost damage in Illinois Michigan Wisconsin, and a deadly street clash in Carterville Illinois. Selections note editor deaths John Blanchard and J T Sargent, Hearst building plans at Berkeley, and a calfac butt of health quarantines.
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Penfield Township
Ohio
Henry
Alfred Stockman
Beanes City
O. T
Robert J. Burdette
Hanford
Cal
Melancthon Wade Oliver
Cincinnati
Twin Lakes
Wis
California
John Blanchard
Minneapolis Times
National Association of Harnessmakers
Chicago
John Bundhholzer
Phoebe Hearst
University of California At Berkeley
J. T. Sargent
Dakota Herald
Yankton
S. D
Calistoga
Lakeport
Napa
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Guthrie
Carterville
Ill
Davenport
N. C
John H. Weir
Blondin, Jr
New York City
Akron
Michael Owens
Richard Conroy
Philadelphia
Vallejo
Mare Island
William White
St. Louis
Alice Breinser
Eix
William G. Rose
Cleveland
Rose
John O. Dickey
Burlington Railroad
Holman Cycle Path
Bycamore
Meteor blaze and ballots mark Ohio notices and tragedies
An Ohio report describes a 500 pound meteor seen with blinding light and thunderous roar near Martin's Ferry. It notes Joseph J. G. of Steubenville nominated for Congress on the 299th ballot, plus Pillsbury’s death from stomach enlargement.
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Ohio
Martin’s Ferry
Joseph J. G
Steubenville
Sixteenth
Charles Alfred Pillsbury
Northwest
Flouring Mills Center
Minneapolis
Toledo Wheel
Siam
America
Southern Pacific
Porterville
Formosa
Cal
San Francisco
Yokohama
Lizzie Prue
Waverly
Iowa
Bert Ralston
Montpelier
Multiple Regional Labor and Crime News Across States
Reports from Tennessee Georgia and Virginia note strikers at Ducktown copper mines and ore roasting. Southern hosiery yarn spinners form an association and adopt an advanced price schedule. Georgia agricultural dept to campaign against oleomargarine. H B Battle a negro preacher killed in Thomson. Four mills in four states plan 10 percent flour price hike on Oct 1. Texas cotton crop to be 2 million bales below last year. East Tennessee sends the most soldiers per capita. Mrs Baker seeks aid in Boston. she is widow of Lake City postmaster Nash Finley, hanged in Pulaski Virginia for highway robbery and attempted murder.
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Ducktown
Tenn
Agricultural Department of Georgia
Thomson
H. B. Battle
Battle
Tennessee
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
Texas
East Tennessee
United States
Baker
Boston
Lake City
Nash Finley
Pulaski
Finley
Virginia
Government to redeem mutilated currency under Treasury ruling
The Comptroller of the Treasury decides finders of mutilated paper currency are entitled to redemption by the Government. The U S cruiser Boston is out of commission at Mare Island navy yard California with crew discharged or transferred.
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Comptroller of the Treasury
United States
Boston
Mare Island Navy Yard
California
Washington
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Chambers
Samoa
White House
John George Leigh
England
Leigh
Mataafa
Post Office Department
Congress
Bermuda Cyclone Causes Wide Damage But No Fatalities
A cyclone swept Bermuda with houses unroofed and property damaged including fruit and cedar trees. France faced hostile Dreyfus verdict criticism amid boycott threats to the Paris exposition. Advices report thirty two killed in a panic at a synagogue in Kalisch Poland as a lamp toppled. Rivers Salsach Ema and Traun flood Upper Austria, disrupting roads and travel.
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Bermuda
Dreyfus
Paris
Kalisch
Poland
Salsach
Ema
Traunhee
Upper Austria
Gom
Consular News and Arctic Doctoring Abroad
The report notes Dr Edward Bedloe of Philadelphia, U S consul at Canton, cleared of Chinese charges and likely to regain a Canton post or receive a new consular role. It also cites unconfirmed German land-claims in Brazil linked to colonization efforts and mentions Walter Wellman’s London surgery to repair a leg injury from his arctic journey with a second operation anticipated.
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Inchi
Bhensee
Edward Bedloe
Philadelphia
United States
Canton
State Department
Brazil
Walter Wellman
London
Mr. Wellman
America
Rail and railways and Alaskan dispatches collide in 1898 notes
The Missouri Pacific and Burlington announce freight rate hikes from Omaha to Memphis and Kansas City respectively. Earthquakes rattle Skagway. Yaqui Chief Tetabiate is tortured by rebels in Sonora. UC professors return from Alaska studying Bering Sea botany. Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop joins the Third Order. Alaska railroad schemes surface with NYC investors. Jessie party disaster reports surface, and the steamer Cleveland faces libel over coal fuel disputes at Seattle.
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Missouri Pacific
Omaha
Ohio River
Memphis
Burlington
Kansas City
Skagway
Sonora
Tetabiate
University of California
Alaska
Bering Sea
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Parsons Lathrop
New York
Chiapas
San Geronimo
Tehauntepec
Jessie
Kuskowim
St. Michaels
Homig
Romig
Bethel
Cleveland
Seattle
Dutch Harbor
Market Reports Chicago to New York Grain and Livestock Prices
Regional market figures list cattle hogs and sheep prices for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. Wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes and pork prices are shown with variety and grade ranges across cities.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Dreyfus Accepts Pardon and Plans England Stay
Paris officials announce in principle a pardon for Captain Alfred Dreyfus who agrees to drop his appeal of the court martial verdict. He will travel with Mme Dreyfus to England to rest and recover. his health remains precarious and death is feared within years. Labori and Mme Dreyfus had recently sought accommodations in Folkestone. The same moment, M Scheurer-Kestner, a Dreyfus champion and former Senate vice president, dies after typhoid fever worsened by the case.
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Paria
Dreyfus
England
Mme. Dreyfus
Maitre Labori
Folkest
Blockade of Fort Chabrol Nets High Daily Cost
Paris dispatch notes debate over the cost of maintaining the anti Semitic fort blockade. Around 300 men are on duty protecting Fort Chabrol, including 150 republican guards and 50 line troops. The figure of daily expense and who pays it draws French taxpayer scrutiny.
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Paris
Fort Chabrol
Siege Cost of Paris Police Corps Tops Five Hundred Daily
The text notes 120 police and detectives on duty around the clock. Total daily cost is 9560 francs about $500. After thirty eight days the Guerin siege has cost taxpayers about $19,000. Government indemnity to damaged businesses is expected to add to the total.
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M. Jules Guerin
Frosty Chicago Fall Festival Likely Abandoned
A Chicago correspondent reports internal talks indicate the fall festival will be abandoned. Labor groups demand Truax resign as head and a union built corner stone be installed, otherwise they suspend opposition until after the ceremonies and festival conclude.
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Chicago
Truax
Peirce
Schley Berthold Fight Over Navy Position
Friends of Hear Admiral Schley urged the President to reassign him from the South Atlantic station, saying the current post is secondary and a shelving of Schley. They denounced Navy Department treatment and pressed for a more important assignment. General Ansaid that no order would move Schley to his desired post.
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South Atlantic
Bciley
Ley
Bch
Navy Department
Schley
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Nicholas
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Bloemfontein
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Louisville
South Africa
Ducktown, Tenn
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Southern
Guerin
Querin
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