Metal Trades Face Potential General Strike Over Wages
New York on June 13 reports the Metal Trades Association raising 500000 to back its wage and hour fight. Leaders warn 650000 AFL metal workers may strike nationwide, with goals to win an eight hour day in government contracts and possibly private work. OConnell in Toronto calls the $5000000 claim a grandstand play to scare workers back.
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New York
Metal Trades’ Association
American Federation of Labor
C. W. Booth
Grand Lodge of the
International Association
Booth
Gompers
Federation
Congress
Machinists
O'Connell
Toronto
Ont
W. J. Chalmers
International Association of Machinists
Annexation bid for Tuxedo district faces veto risk
Council plans to introduce a new ordinance to annex Tuxedo north of Washington Street and east of the Hell railroad. Ward 9 Democrat Perrott opposes. Mayor Taggart vetoed a similar measure last year over timing and funding concerns.
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Washington St
Negiley
Annexation Debate Reflects City Services and Costs
Mr Negley argues against annexation citing no extra police or fire protection for outlying wards while taxes rise. He says Tuxedo seeks city status mainly to enable permanent street and sidewalk work under city charter provisions, describing the boundary as Walnurst to the Belt railroad and surrounding streets.
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Negley
Tuxedo
Boston Bishop Mallalieu protests YMCA reception in art museum
Boston businessmen oppose a YMCA reception at the Museum of Fine Arts citing mixed company concerns and the presence of nude statuary. They urge caution about art exposing the human form and compare to immodest works once hidden by Vatican practice.
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Fea
Christian and Evangelizements
Boston Art Museum
Museum of Fine Arts
Greece
Rome
Naples
America
Vatican
State board reports degeneracy cases in Indiana
The State board of charities found two women with the same name in Parke County records, one discharged from the Central insane hospital and sent to the Parke county poor farm. The other was once at the poor farm and later married a feeble minded man, producing a child with serious disabilities. The reports highlight imports from eastern cities and suggest laws to curb degenerate conditions and restrict confinement to the Fort Wayne school for weak minded women.
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State Board of Charities
Parke County
Central Insane Hospital
Butler
Indiana
New York
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Boy Drowns Girl at Cleveland Pier
Teresa Stenanzhik seven-year-old, found dead after being grabbed by a stranger boy near Wason Street pier in Cleveland. Report says she was choked and tossed into the water as companions fled to tell parents. The body was recovered.
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Stenanzhik
Wason-st. Pier
Tle
Teren
Glassmakers Hold Prices Meeting in Denison Hotel
Glass manufacturers met in room 370 at the Denison hotel on Thursday to discuss prices and trade conditions. Attendees included R. E. Breed of Marion G. W. Yost of Bellaire O H. M. Camp of Rochester Pa J. J. Meyer of Sharpsburg Pa I B Olear of St Louis G. M. Levis of Walton Jr John M. Levis of Chicago C H Beach A Hamilton and W C L Wibby of Pittsburg and B Y Park of Wheeling W Va. The same firms met at the Denison two weeks earlier.
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Denison Hotel
Mob Says 12 Negroes Must Die in Louisiana Slaying
Reuters report from Shreveport and Memphis details the murder of planter John C. Foster near Shreveport and the capture of 17 Black suspects. Edwards allegedly fired the fatal shot and is to be burned at the stake while plans to lynch 13 others proceed, with Prophet Smith blamed for inciting the violence. Gov McMillin and wife travel to the scene amid this crisis.
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Kinnebrew
Foster
Edwards
Prophet Smith
Texas
Louisiana
Smith
Memphis
Tenn
Sgenton McMillin
Koster Plantation
Slight Hope For General Knefier In Illness
General Frederick Knefier, near death from Brights disease for a week, shows a faint rally Thursday morning. He is weaker than before, but able to converse rationally with his nurse. He had wished to see doors hung at the monument, a project he supported as a regent.
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Frederick Knefier
Bright
Knefler
Gen. Kneffer
Counterfeiter Fred Cook Seized After Virginia Ave Chase
Fred Cook was arrested by Secret Service officer Halls on a counterfeiting charge following a chase down Virginia Avenue last week. At the jail he threatened self harm, appeared insane to guards, but Captain Halls said he was feigning. Cook was removed from the cell and warned of harsher punishment, then rehoused and pledges to behave.
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Fred Cook
Secret Service
Halls
Virginia Ave
Peared
Capt. Halls
Cook
Twentieth Century Medicine Candy Cathartic Ad
An old advertisement touts Twentieth Century Medicine Casearets Candy Cathartic as superior to ancient and liquid physics, highlighting druggists offering 10c 25c and 50c sizes.
Dustless Oats Ad and Used Piano Sale This Week
Local ad lists Janes Dustless Oats for horses and an upright piano sale this week. Carlin and Lennox announce hours 5 to 9 at the Market location, with a $100 piano price.
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Carlin & Lennox
Quarantine Guard Paid After Office Confrontation
Samuel McCrossan challenged Board of Health official Zearing over pay. He demanded 20 cents an hour, backed by a City Attorney letter. After disputes and apologies, McCrossan received a $1.50 daily voucher and left content.
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Zearing
Board of Health
Samuel McCrossan
McCrossan
Kern
Corn King George Phillips Misses Grain Convention
George Phillips of Chicago arrived in St Paul for a National grain growers cooperative association convention address but found the meeting adjourned for lack of interest with only 23 delegates. A banquet at the West hotel in Minneapolis was arranged for Thursday evening where Phillips would speak.
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King" George Phillips
Chicago
St. Paul
National Grain Growers’ Co-Operative Asso
West Hotel
Minneapolis
Phillips
Settlement Talks Sought Between Strikers and Labor Board
A committee of Standard wheel works strikers met with Labor Commissioner McCormack on Thursday to finalize their demands for presentation and to seek a settlement.
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Works
McCormack
Morality Wave Hits Wiggle Backers in Findlay Carnival
Findlay Ohio June 15 Many locally active groups opposed the wiggle at the Elks carnival last week now regret their stance as church and YMCA leaders report removals of support for new buildings. Presbyterians YMCA and Methodists face half their subscription lists depleted after donors withdraw large pledges.
Indianapolis Area Weather: Unsettled Showers Through Thursday
A forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity through 8 p m on June 14 calls for unsettled, cloudy weather with occasional showers and clearing by Thursday night. Readings: 7 am 70, noon 81, 2 pm 82. Indiana Illinois Michigan mostly cloudy with Ohio Kentucky shower activity. New pianos 16 and up at Wulschner's.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
Kentucky
Wulschner
Our Guarantee Is Gilt Edge Jewelry Ad
An advertisement for J. P. Mullally diamonds and jewelry at Monument place notes low expenses pass to buyers. It mentions cabinets priced at one dollar each and Bennett's at 3 and Wash.
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J. P. Mullally
Monument Place
West Baden gambling profits draw county eyes away
A West Baden hotel and resort operator, Ed Ballard, reportedly collects about 3600 daily from gambling, totaling around 35000 in two years. Locals say the activity thrives with little interference while nearby Orleans and Paoli face arrests, and county officials deny hush money allegations. The district prosecutor and the judge are named, with no affidavits or grand jury probes cited. The Sun’s special correspondent calls the article strong.
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Ballard
West Baden
Ed Ballard
West Baden Hotel and Health
Thomas Honan
Seymour
Jackson County
Thomas Buskirk
Intana
SUN
Orange County
Cocaine debate in court over jailed claimant Depoy
In Judge Leathers court William B. Depoy fights habeas corpus to avoid transfer to Dr Kidenharter. Depoy, declared insane after a battle with deputies, claims cocaine overdose from tooth pain influenced his mind. Doctors testified no cocaine traces. Depoy asserts past abuse and wartime eye injury while Mrs. Depoy seeks to prove habitual use.
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Depoy
Leathers
Flower Mission Receives 5000 Gift for Hospital Fund
The Flower Mission, led by President Mrs. John L. Griffiths, announced an anonymous $5,000 donation toward founding a hospital for incurable patients. They must raise 25,000 more by November 1, 1901, to qualify. The donor’s identity remains unknown, arranged through attorney John E. Scott.
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Flower Mission
John L. Griffiths
John E. Scott
The
American Bogy Slams U S Trade Rivalry and Legislation
Arthur Chamberlain, brother of Joseph Chamberlain, tells shareholders that American competition is a bogy of destructive tendencies. He argues modern law burdens English manufacturers more than foreign rivals, with railway charges, strikes, and Parliament interference hampering progress. The electrical industry has shifted to the United States due to local board mischief.
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United States
Name Office
War funds drive targets Central union stock raise cash
A local dealer in stocks and bonds says the $5,000,000 assessment on Central Union telephone stock aims to raise cash to fight independent companies, many in Indiana. He predicts rate cuts and broader business expansion, recalling a bill that came before.
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Central Union Telephone
Indiana
Indiana bill on telephone entry defeated in senate
The last legislature considered allowing telephone firms to enter any town under 20 000 in Indiana without local consent. Free road use was granted. Proponents charged the bill favored American Bell. The New Telephone Company of Indiana fought it vigorously and the measure was defeated in the senate.
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Indiana
American Bell Telephone Company
New Telephone Company of
Senate
Highland residents up in arms over esplanade delay
Highland-place residents lament stalled esplanade work as a promised summer oasis. Supt of parks Power blames Controller Johnson for funds not being transferable, noting council appropriations tied the Park board’s hands. Johnson counters that funds would have been included only if in the board’s estimate.
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Esplanade
McCarty-st
From Rheumatism Relief at Jackson Sanitarium Baths
Reader advisory notes relief from rheumatism found at Jackson Sanitarium mineral baths. Historic promotion of therapeutic mineral baths as remedy with local health claims and contact points for visitors seeking relief.
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Dat
Jackson Saniteriorm Mineral Baths
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