Arbitration moves to end telegraphers strike
Telegraphers face settlement push as J P Morgan attends Western Union Directors meeting and signals arbitration. Russell confirms Morgan urged submitting the strike dispute to arbitration and that the executive committee will take up the matter next Tuesday.
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New York
Russell
Telegraphers
J. P. Morgan
Western Union
Morgan
Mr. Russell
Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Health officers to meet in Cincinnati on October 17
Dr. C. C. Probst announces a conference of health officers from southern Ohio municipalities with populations of 3,000 or under to be held in Cincinnati on October 17. The northern conference recently met in Cleveland.
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Columbus
Ohio
C. C. Probst
State Board of Health
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Mechanic Ramsey Dies After Dinner Laugh
Thomas Ramsey a Chicago UL expert machinist visited John and Mrs Richards and laughed at a remark during supper. His choking fit proved fatal, ending a friendly visit with a sudden death.
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Chicago
Thomas Ramsey
John Richards
Ramsay
Lockout Ordered by Major New York Fur Firms
New York September 13. In response to strikes in several shops sixty leading fur manufacturers announce a lockout of their workers tomorrow night. The measure affects seven thousand men employed in the fur industry.
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New York
Hill and Harriman Meet in Unlikely Accord on Pine Street
In New York on September 13, E. H. Harriman and J. J. Hill two rival railroad magnates were seen walking arm in arm down Pine Street. The meeting appeared accidental and public interest grew as observers noted their consistently pleasant personal relations despite business rivalry.
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New York
E. H. Harriman
J. J. Hill
Pine Street
Financial
Morgan to Lease Richmond Home for Episcopal Council
News states J Pierpont Morgan has leased a fashionable Richmond residence near the Jefferson hotel for the triennial Episcopal council session starting October 1. He will reside with his family and guests and pay five thousand dollars a month in rent as a lay delegate to the council.
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New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Richmond
Jefferson Hotel
Episcopal Council
Morgan
Wellman Gives Up His Airship Quest For North Pole
Walter Wellman, head of the Wellman-Chicago Record-Herald expedition, arrived at Thomsoe by the Frithjof from Spitzbergen. He announced he had abandoned for this year the attempt to reach the North Pole after a disastrous flight begun September 2. The airship drifted southeastward in a strong wind, and the balloon parts were separated and later recovered after a two day search.
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Trondhjem
Norway
Walter Wellman
Wellman-Chicago Record-Herald
Thomsoe
Frithjof
Spitzbergen
North Pole
Nebraska visitors seek Johnson speech in Nebraska
Governor John A. Johnson told a Nebraska party at the Minnesota capitol that he is not a presidential candidate and has no plans to become one. He declined three invitations to speak in Nebraska, addressing the group calmly and firmly.
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St. Paul
Minn
John A. Johnson
Johson
Nebraska
Conference Considers Measures to Avert Car Famine
Atlantic City Sept 13 car service committee of the American Railway Association discusses steps to prevent a repeat of last winter's car famine. Representatives from major trunk lines attend as conferees acknowledge a looming shortage of rolling stock but do not commit to any specific action.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Car Service Committee
American Railway Association
Farmer indicted for firing at Beckham car in Owensboro
Joe Buxer, a farmer, is indicted for discharging a pistol at an automobile carrying Mrs. J C W Beckham wife of Kentucky's governor and friends. The incident followed a highway dispute over speeding machines as the car paused at a bridge, with the horseman firing shots that caused the women to drop to the car floor.
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Owensboro
Joe Buxer
J. C. W. Beckham
Lusitania record voyages across years
The Atlantic Record lists ships and speeds for transatlantic crossings. Entries show in 1830 Great Western 144 days, 1846 Europa 11 days 3 hours, 1894 Lucania 5 days 7 hours 23 minutes, and 1907 Lusitania 5 days 54 minutes.
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Great Western
Eeuropa
Lucania
Lusitania
Lusitania Sets New Faster Transatlantic Record
The Lusitania of Cunard reached Sandy Hook at eight fifty this morning from Queenstown in five days and 54 minutes, beating the Lucania’s previous Queenstown to New York record by six hours and 29 minutes. The new liner’s hourly speed did not surpass the Kaiser Wilhelm II and Deutschland on the New York Plymouth route. Spectators cheered as flags and bunting adorned the ship and whistles from harbor vessels blasted in farewell.
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New York
Lusitania
Cunard Line
Sandy Hook
Queenstown
Lucania
Kaiser Wilhelm IL
Deutschland
Plymouth
Lusitania Starts Maiden Voyage To Break Atlantic Record
The Lusitania, world’s largest steamship, departed Liverpool September 7 to challenge the Lucania’s Atlantic speed record of five days seven hours twenty three minutes. The Cunarder, 45 000 tons, 25 knots, carries 550 first class, 500 second class, 1300 third class passengers with a 900 crew.
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New York
Lusitania
Cunard Line
Liverpool
Atlantic
Lucania
Sienna
BBC
Cunard Turbine vs Reciprocating Engines On Lusitania Race Debate
The Cunard line debates turbine and reciprocating engines as the Lusitania, with 3250 passengers, debuts with four shafts and three bladed manganese bronze propellers. Lucania, earlier Liverpool lead, uses powerful reciprocating engines. England watches because of national pride and hopes to beat Germany’s record. Notables aboard include Mrs. Potter Palmer and Cyrus McCormick. Marylebone Cricket Club team aboard. Captains Watt and Barr command the vessels amid race denial claims.
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Cunard Line
Ocean Greyhounds
Lusitania
Lucania
Liverpool
England
Potter Palmer
Chicago
Robert Balfour
C. E. Barber
C. G
Dolan
Louis Hay
Robert Goelet
Countess Dunmore
Cyrus H. McCormick
Victoria Murray
Perkins
Marylebone Cricket Club
America
Bishop P. J. O'Reilly
Tim Lucania
Watt
Barr
Cunard
Taft Sails Bond Wins Republican Primary in Ohio
Taft sails from Seattle on the Minnesota with Secretary Taft and officials aboard. In Columbus Bond, Liberal candidate for mayor, defeats 4 rivals in the GOP primary with about 7,000 of 13,000 votes cast. Antisaloon League backs McCune and Foraker adherents back Axline. Turner also a liberal. D. W. P. Badger expected to be renominated Democrat.
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Columbus
C. A. Bond
Breweries and Saloon Organization
Antisaloon League
E. le McCune
Foraker People
General Axline
E. C. Turner
Bond
D. W. P. Badger
Supreme Castle elects officers at Huntington meeting
The Supreme Castle of the United States Knights of the Golden Eagle elected officers at Huntington. Named were Supreme Chief Eli Manchester of New Haven Connecticut and Supreme Vice Chief Charles Grim of Columbus Ohio among others. The group announced the next annual meeting will be held in Washington DC.
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Huntington
W. Va
United States
Knights of the Golden Eagle
Washington
D.C
Eli Manchester
New Haven
Garretts
Smith
Delaware
J. M. Chappell
Pensylvania
Harry Reinicke
Pennsylvania
Great Council of Red Men Adjourns Sine Die At Norfolk Meeting
The Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men adjourned sine die in Norfolk on September 13, delaying decisions on reducing official appropriations and state representation and raising per capita tax. A move to ban orphan homes by state councils and create a single national home failed after Kentucky objected. Judge William H. Boyde of Delaware was named to the board of appeals for three years.
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Norfolk
Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men
Bridgeport
Conn
Great Council
Kentucky
William H. Boyde
Delaware
Creat Board of Appeals
Barton Heads G. A. R. This Year
Saratoga New York September 13 Charles G Barton of Nevada Missouri a former congressman was elected Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at its forty first annual encampment Other officers elected include Lewis C Griffith William M Scott Dr Lane Tannyhill Bishop Samuel Fallows The next encampment will meet in Toledo Ohio with dates to be fixed by the National Council of Administration The morning session opened with the officers report and the commander in chief Brown address and afternoon committees reports and pension increases for veterans widows to 12 a month were endorsed
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Saratoga
N. Y
Charles G. Barton
Nevada
Congress
Grand Army of the Republic
Lewis C. Griffith
Troy
William M. Scott
Atlanta
Lane Tannyhill
Baltimore
Samuel Fallows
Chicago
Toledo
Ohio
National Council of Administration
Brown
Committee On
Miller visited by wife in Lebanon Jail
Will Miller received a two hour visit from his wife Celia at Lebanon jail following the Franklin tragedy. Justice of the peace W. M. Cowig had postponed the preliminary hearing to Friday. The mood was somber as Miller, aided by affection for his son Little Will, was calmed to avoid further mental distress.
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Democrat-Sun
Lebanon
Will Miller
Celia
Franklin
W. M. Cowig
Celia Miller
Little Will
Will
Langdon
Miller
German United Brethren conference to meet in Xenia
The animal conference of the German United Brethren churches in the Ohio district will be held at Otterbein church at Xenia avenue and Quitman street for one week beginning next Monday. Bishop Gebhart of Chicago will attend among other distinguished clergymen.
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Dayton
Animal Conference
German United Brethren Churches of the Ohio District
Otterbein Church
Xenia Avenue
Quitman Street
Gebhart
Chicago
General Booth Sails for Campaign Across Canada and U.S.
Thousands of Salvation Army members gathered at a London railway station to bid farewell as General Booth left for Liverpool to board for Quebec. He will launch a joint Canada and United States campaign starting there.
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London
Salvation Army
General Booth
Liverpool
Quebec
Canada
United States
Electric Sleep Method Aims to Replace Chloroform
Paris dispatch reports Professor Stiphane Leduc of Nantes University School of Medicine has discovered an electric sleep technique. The method is claimed to replace chloroform and other anesthetics in all surgical operations.
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New York
Stiphane Leduc
School of Medicine
Nantes
Paris
Longworths Arrive in San Francisco from Honolulu
Congressman Nicholas Longworth and Mrs Longworth arrive in San Francisco aboard the Sierra from Honolulu. The visit follows their recent travel schedule with no further details available in the readable portion.
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San Francisco
Cal
Nicholas Longworth
Longworth
Honolulu
Coal Dust Explosion In Wyoming Mine Injures Forty
Rock Springs Wyoming September 13 Forty men were injured twenty of them seriously by a coal dust explosion at the mouth of a Union Pacific Coal Co mine None of the injured are expected to die
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Rock Springs
Wyoming
Union Pacific Coal Co
Burglars Captured in Gallipolis
William Roberts and James Betz alleged railroad burglars were captured last night by Detectives McGovern and Galway of the K and M and Baltimore and Ohio railroads. A large stash of railroad tools was found at Betz home near Gallipolis. Betz confessed and both men were jailed.
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Gallipolis
William Roberts
James Betz
McGovern and Galway
Baltimore & Ohio
Betz
Roberts
Probate Court Asked to Appoint Administrator for Hoagland Estate
Florence and H. N. Clendenin petition the probate court to appoint an administrator for the estate of Sarah Hoagland and to cite Taylor Hoagland to appear and accept or reject the appointment. The applicants are creditors of the estate.
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Florence
H. N. Clendenin
Probate Court
Sarah Hoagland
Taylor Hoagland
The Democrat Leads Hamilton News Scene
The Democrat remains the foremost news leader in Hamilton, delivering local updates, community coverage, and key announcements. Its reporting emphasizes regional events, public notices, and city developments shaping Hamilton.
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Hamilton
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