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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1907
Page
14
California faced widespread labor gaps as San Francisco reconstruction expands state wide. The appeal calls for thousands of teams with drivers, and many regions report shortages in agriculture lumber and railroad construction with wages from 3.50 to 5.50 a day and high demand for female operatives in factories.
Kiowa Comanche Apache Caddo and Wichita tribes in southwest Oklahoma will begin industrial work experience this year at Lawton and Anadarko Indian schools. Indian Commissioner Leupp awarded steam laundry contracts to be run by Indian pupils with bids opened in February and work expected to start by April.
Roosevelt stalls a Senate bid to halt forest preservation by creating Western timber reserves. The piece notes cabinet changes with Cor telyou becoming Treasury secretary and Garfield moving to Interior, plus Shonts resigning as Isthmian Canal Commission head. It mentions London’s Newgate Court opening and Nicaraguan forces taking Honduran towns as context.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, nephew of King Edward, faces opposition over a marriage to a titled woman. He may win both his bride and the Servian crown, amid royal tensions and rank considerations. In New York, Frank Furlong, 21, who killed his aunt Margaret Keeler in 1904, was executed in Sing Sing’s electric chair, a year older than fellow convic t George Granger.
Census Bureau preliminary figures show Chicago leading divorce increases over twenty years with large rises also in Cincinnati Kansas City and Indianapolis. New York data are incomplete due to poor records though overall filings from 1886 to 1903 reach about 1.4 million with an estimated seven million divorces granted by then.
Illinois farmer Thomas Baldwin killed Charles Kennedy and his wife at their home three miles northwest of Arrow Smith. He then murdered Mrs. Eisman and daughter Cora Eisman after an attack on Cora, Baldwin’s niece by marriage. He planned the crime and used two revolvers. Police report mental instability.
Burlington orders ninety locomotives with seventy five for freight and fifteen for passenger service. Gould line workers strike to force wage action. government sales of Southern Pacific lands totaling about six million acres planned by July. American Railway Association proposes Chicago clearing house for freight cars covering 2,000,000 cars under Arthur Hale.
Discrepancy in the Chicago United States subtreasury grew into a major theft mystery as $173000 vanished. Officials said a carefully planned clique of federal employees orchestrated the loss, with investigations led by John E Wilkie and Captain Porter as Roosevelt requests a full audit of all subtreasuries.
The 1905 mortality in the United States reached 45 533 deaths in the registration area, with a death rate of 16.2 per thousand. Nephritis tuberculosis and cancer show rising death rates while old age and bronchitis decline. The report covers 10 states and revised figures for 1901–1904.
The Panama Canal project shifts to military management as John F Stevens leaves the canal commission. Major General Goethals and other army engineers will oversee construction. Senator Blackburn joins the commission as Stevens reportedly moves to a private contractor post. The storming of San Marcos de Colon in Honduras is reported as Nicaraguan forces advance.
The report surveys union activity and wage issues in 1905 across Hungary New Jersey Germany Canada and the United States. It notes eight hour demands shifts in pay from four to four thirty a day in Vallejo Boston and San Francisco and talks of union formation by theatrical stage workers Kingston independent workers in Ontario and various trades including carpenters blacksmiths and hodcarriers. It mentions campaigns for school attendance child labor actions and a New Zealand housing loan program for workers with wage details and eligibility.
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