Roosevelt Reaches Coal Strike Settlement Arbitration Agreement
President Roosevelt and officials from labor and industry forge an arbitration plan to end the coal strike. The commission includes John M G Wilson F W Parker George Gray F E Clark Thomas H Watkins John S Spalding Bishop Spalding and Carroll D Wright with Spalding added as miners' representative. Porto Rican schools hailed as U S citizens in training as 20000 students gain education in 1200 public schools. Telegraphic briefs note conductor wage rise and other minor items.
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Alindet
Roosell
Root
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Sethe Fran
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JP. Morgan
Winers
Arbitration Commission
Bishop Spalding
Peoria
Roosevelt
Porto Rico
To Rico
Mu Aamerican
Porto-Rico
Story of the Coal Strike Ends With White House Conference
A historic labor clash in the anthracite region stretches from spring to October with miners seeking an eight hour day and union recognition. Presidents Mitchell and Roosevelt lead efforts while operators resist arbitration as conferences and threats of receivership loom, culminating in a White House meeting that signals an endgame.
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Washington
Mr. Mitchell
New York
Pennsylvania
Morgan
Robert R. Bacon
Boot
Sutton heirs to receive disputed $50,000 from Chicago case
Probate proceedings in Cook County pit Dowie, “the restorer,” against Sutton heirs over a $50,000 bequest left by Frederick Sutton in a 1902 will. Executor Speicher faces challenge as Ellen Eldridge sues. proceedings moved from Lake to Cook County court amid feeble mindedness and sound mind claims.
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Cutting
Chicago
Frederick Sutton
Elijah II
Speicher
Lake County
Cook County
Ellen Eldridge
Sutton
Yellow Bluff
New Zealand
New Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic
Gen Thomas Jamison Stewart of Norristown Pennsylvania has been elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic He served as adjutant general of Pennsylvania since 1895 and was a Civil War private later officer in the National Guard He has held multiple G A R posts and remains unmarried.
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Thomas Jamison Stewart
Norristown
Grand Army of the Republic
Pennsylvania
One Hundred
Pennsylvania Volunteers
National Guard
A. R
Grand Army
Stewart
Ireland
Outlook for Coal After Miners' Strike Ends
A Wilkesbarre report predicts 143000 miners report to duty within a day of strike end. Seventy five thousand tons daily can be mined and ready for shipment in two days, rising to 100000 or 125000 tons per day by week’s end. Coal moves to New York and Atlantic cities within thirty six hours of mine delivery as more cars arrive at shipping centers.
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Delaware and Hudson
Plymouth
Evangeli st Sam Small collapses on Vermont platform
Rev. Sam Small, the Georgia evangelist, collapsed on stage twice in a week while speaking in Vermont for a Heenge candidacy. He confessed publicly to his condition amid reports of his drinking. The New York Republic platform urges road and canal improvements, preserves protective principles, condemns monopolies, and favors Adirondack and Catekill lands preservation.
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Adirondack
Babcock
Wisconsin
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Reeto
Washington
Téd
Hull
Louisiana
Thomas B. Reed
Marion Butler
North
Caraling
Natio -Committee
Fia
Fox
Moon Eclipse Draws Thousands Across the Nation
Thousands of Americans witnessed the Thurasay total lunar eclipse with interest from the public, while astronomers noted it did not fully support prevailing dust-cloud theories. Observatories at Lake Geneva, Harvard, and Lick captured photographs as the moon glowed dimly during totality, with another such eclipse not due for eighteen years.
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Mount Pelee
Lake Geneva
Harvard
Lick
United States Coal Output Leads World in 1901
The United States Geological Survey estimates global coal production in 1901 at 866,165,540 short tons. The U S share was 33.86 percent, followed by Great Britain and Germany. Britain and dependencies produced 30.88 percent and Germany 19.42 percent, totaling 84.14 percent of world output.
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Austria-Hungary
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Itulsaa
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Record Mile on Motor Tandem Set by Norwood Riders
B A Gately and We H Penvier, professional riders from Norwood Massachusetts, on a motor tandem, set a world best mile on a straightaway course in 42245 seconds. The run occurred on a two section Norwood highway with a downhill grade.
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Nor‘wood
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Norwood
Mrs Blair heads St Louis fair board elected Indy president
Mrs James Lawrence Blair was chosen unanimously as president of the board of Indy managers for the world’s fair. A young, influential Missouri woman known for executive ability and efforts to educate young women, she is wife of the fair’s attorney. Packers merger formed.
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Lawrence Blair
Indy
Missouri
Blair
Packers
United States Packing Company and Merger Rumors
New Jersey forms a corporation named United States Packing Company with $1,000,000 capital in 10,000 shares. Chicago packers may join a planned merger as officials say the new entity is legitimate, not a trust. Only known figures are Horace Gould Frederick Howard Kenneth McLaren and J W Dekay. About 50,000 French miners have struck.
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United States Packing, Company
New Jersey
New York
Segard
Chicago Packers
United States Packing Company
Soran
Chicago
J. W. Dekay
North American Beef Company
Horace,d. Gould
Frederick K.’Howard
Kenneth M McLaren
Corporation Trust Company of New Jersey
Commission on Arbiters for Great Coal Strike Names Its Members
Gen John M Wilson born 1837 West Point 1890 engineers 1862 to lieutenant colonel 1901 retired. Bishop John L Spalding born 1840 Lebanon Ky studied in Europe later bishop of Peoria. Judge George Gray born 1840 New Castle Del attorney general 1879 85 US senator 1885 99 Paris Hague commissions. Edgar B Clark Cedar Rapids grand chief railway conductors. Edward Wheeler Parker Port Deposit Md 1860 statistician US Geological Survey editor of Engineering and Mining Journal. Thomas H Watkins Scranton Pa mining and commercial expert. Carroll D Wright labor commissioner and commission recorder.
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Wilmington
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Cedar Rapids
Thomas H. Watkins
Scranton
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Peoria
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Carroll D. Wright
John M. Wilson
West Point
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Lebanon
St Mary's College, Marytamlamd
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Delaware
Edgar B. Clark
Iowa
Order of
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National Civic Federation
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Goalie Tamil CO
Artificial Coal Plant Proposed in New York for Briquette Fuel
A New York group of coal dealers and capitalists considers establishing a briquette plant for artificial coal from peat and slack coal waste. Briquette, already a major European industry, uses charcoalized peat pressed into bricks that burn smokeless, hot, and strong. The note mentions Europe’s briquette production and explains the material and process. Also, the steamer Sierra arrived in San Francisco with 133,700,000 in English sovereigns.
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Australia
Engibes Soveraigns
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