Summary of Worldwide Events From This Week
Flood damage grows in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Kaiser Wilhelm meets the Italian king in Venice. English scientist proposes coal gas without mining. Mexican rebels defeated. rebel losses exceed 1,000. Arizona governor spends a night in prison to study confinement. Robbers loot a Minneapolis theater safe, elk teeth valued at 3000 dollars stolen. Lowell mill workers strike again over settlement terms. John Mullin’s death reveals he had a claim to the Spanish throne. Cinder Cone volcanic activity near Hartville California. High eastern water losses total a million dollars. Mrs. Pankhurst jailed for window smashing. French brigands rob a bank near Chantilly. California tong war claims five Chinese deaths. Sugar trust evidence admitted in investigations.
Market Prices for Wheat and Farm Commodities
An itemized listing shows Bluestem wheat at 92c, club 88-89c, red Russian 87-88c, valley 88 8%c, and forty fold 89c. Included are millstuffs, corn, hay, oats, cranberries, potatoes, vegetables, onions, apples, butter, eggs, pork, veal, poultry, hops, wool, cattle, hogs, sheep and related prices with various grades and unit measures.
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Oregon
Valley
Burbanks
California
Onions—Association
Baldwin
British Miners Win On Minimum Wage Bill
After a month long strike, British miners win passage of a minimum wage principle for coal, with the bill passing Commons 213 to 4 and Lords reading. Leaders vow to continue pressure for a 5 shillings per day wage or district board terms, amid nationwide disruption.
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London
House of Commons
House of Lords
Lord Herschel
Asquith
Chicago Packers Freed of Trust Law Indictments
Chicago packers won a decade long trial as a U.S. district court jury found them not guilty of Sherman Act violations. District Attorney Wilkerson refused to comment on potential further beef industry investigations after the 19 hour deliberation and three ballots leading to acquittal.
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Chicago Packers
Chicago
United States
Carpenter
Wilkerson
Suffragettes to Jail in London Window-Smashing Trials
One hundred twenty six suffragettes were tried in the County of London sessions for window-smashing in London on March 1 and March 4. They received four to six months’ imprisonment, with some bound over for judgment if they offend again. Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Pethick jointly edited Votes for Women, and Mrs Mabel Tuke faced further charges at Bow Street. A Holloway inmate testified that stones and hammers were supplied from suffragist headquarters to break windows.
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London
County of
Bow Street
Holloway
France to Mobilize Secret Service Auto Unit
Paris cabinet holds a special session to strengthen and centralize the detective department and to form a division of secret service men in automobiles to combat a new auto bandit threat. A Europe‑wide alarm follows the Chan tilly bank robbery murders by a gang terrorizing French highways.
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Smeths
Paris
Europe
Chantilly
France
Five Men Go On Trial In Mass Alcohol Poison Deaths
The trial opens in Berlin for five men accused of causing 89 deaths at a homeless shelter last Christmas through the sale of wood alcohol substitutes. Indictments cite violation of the pure food law. harsher charges are blocked by technicalities.
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Berlin
Death of Berlin Reichstag member Herr Traeger at 82
Berlin tributes pour in for Reichstag veteran German radical party member and Oldenburg candidate Herr Gottfried Albert Traeger aged 82. A lawyer by training he sat in the Reichstag since 1874 and was known as Father of the House. He was a prolific poet and helped translate Robert Burns into German and wrote several plays.
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Herr Traeger
Berlin
Christian Gottfried Albert Traeger
Reichstag
Oldenburg
Radical Party
Robert Burns
Textile strike ends as Lawrence workers gain wage rise
The Lawrence textile strike, credited with pushing wage gains for about 275000 workers in New England, is declared off as mills in Lawrence close. More than 300000 may benefit from higher wages or shorter hours, while New Bedford demands 10 percent raise and warns of a 25000 to 80000 worker strike if denied.
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Boston
Lawrence
New England
New Bedford
Devolt
Manufacturers’ Association
Healthier marriages rule enacted by Chicago cathedral
Dean Walter T. Sumner of the Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul announced a new policy: starting Easter, marriages require a physician certified health check showing normal physical and mental condition and no incurable or communicable disease. The measure, approved by Bishop C. P. Anderson, aims to prevent marriages of those unfit to procreate.
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Chicago
Walter T. Sumner
Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul
C. P. Anderson
Dean Sumner
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul
Aberdeen mill strike eases as plant stays in operation
In Aberdeen Washington the I W W movement shows signs of collapse as hundreds of strikers surround the Aberdeen Lumber and Shingle plant yet the mill operates with a full crew. Harbor mills are expected to resume regular operations with all American workers earning a minimum of 2 25 dollars per day.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Aberdeen Lumber & Shingle Company
Harbor Mills
Troops Ordered to Unpack at Fort Leavenworth
Leavenworth Kansas Seventh Infantry, long held in readiness to move, may unpack as border tensions ease. Post organizations have been on alert for nearly two months, and the move implies Mexico's troubles have lessened for now.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Fort Leavenworth
Seventh Infantry
Mexico
Amundsen to lecture in Washington next June
Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, will visit the United States next June. His first North American lecture on the Antarctic expedition will be given before the National Geographic Society in Washington. President Henry Garrett received a cablegram from Captain Amundsen accepting the invitation.
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Washington, D. C
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
United States
National Geographical Society
Washington
Henry Garrett
Amundsen
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