Arbitration Moves In Rail Strike Impasse
Friday morning reports show engineers firemen and brakemen still hesitant to strike, seeking arbitration and public support. Switchmen debate cautious steps while Arthur and Sargeant travel to New Orleans. mass meeting called for Saturday to voice labor sympathy as unions and companies weigh next moves.
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Cara
Panhandle
SUN
Sweeney
Brotherhoods
Union Station
Arthur
Sargeant
New York
New Orleans
Knights of Labor
Criminal Court Room
Calumet Mine Fire in No 3 Shuts In Workers
A blaze erupts in Calumet and Hecla mine No 3 trapping up to twenty miners in a remote level. Couriers scour levels to evacuate. relatives await news as rescue efforts press on. Fire began Thursday night. cause unknown.
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Detroit
Mich
Calumet
Calumet and
Hecla
Footpad Rumor Fades as Coroner Points to Rally Crowd
Old man Jacob Walters near Washington and Benton streets lay unconscious from a head wound. Coroner Wagner blamed the injury on a rally crowd riding east on Washington Street, with witnesses claiming Walters was trampled, then later cleared by evidence and new testimony. The case centers on a Cumberland mounted club and later witnesses who avoided subpoenas.
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Jacob Walters
Dorth
Washington
Bentonsts
N. Priest
Wagner
Walters
Cumberland
East
Washington-st
Bill Jones Glass Eating Show At Second Baptist Church
A sensational entertainment at Second Baptist on Michigan Street featured Bill Jones the glass eater under Busy Bees No 6. The nauseating yet popular act drew a colored crowd despite delays and staged mishaps. Proceeds benefited the church with a post concert chicken feast aroma filling the basement as spectators enjoyed the bizarre dining of glass items and lamp chimneys.
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Sun Office
Bill Jones
Busy Bee Club No
Second Baptist Church
Michigan St
China
Busy Bees
N. B
Bill
Bill Rank
Hitch
Gates of
Paradise
Jim
Razor Jim
Zella Rebullion
Cain
Abel
Mr. Jones
Zella Zebullion
Tanner
Bennie and Marcus and Why They Made That Friendly Visit
A detailed account of Ben Butterworth and Mark Hanna’s visit to Gen. Hazedzou and the push to block Foraker’s cabinet ambitions, tracing their Chicago convention actions, political loyalties, and possible deal to back McKinley or Sherman. Also notes Hanna’s vendetta against Foraker and a later report on Foraker’s standing in Ohio politics.
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Ben Butterworth
Mark Hanna
Hazedzou
Foraker
Joseph Benson
Ohio
Chicago
Gov. Foraker
Sherman
Shermen
Cleveland
Hauna
Lis
Bisine
Lawrence Barrett
Toraker
Hanna
National Republican Committee
Cel. A. L. Conger
Conger
Harrison
Senate
Indianapols
Columbus
Butterworth
Indianapolis
Persiale
McKinley
Gen
Vagrant Clerk and City Cases Heard in Court
William Delehant, Englishman, appeared before Mayor Denny in the police court charged with vagrancy. Found in an empty house, he was released due to his respectable bearing. John O’Conner faced a charge of associating with felon Al Kerr but was fined after the city proved only a single meeting. J J Moore’s theft case for eight turkeys was dismissed for lack of prosecution. Aug Brobo was fined five dollars for firing a natural gas register on Eighth Street.
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Wade
William Delehant
Denny
Manchester
Durham
Speane
John O’conner
al Kerr
Kerr
J. J. Moore
Arthur Jorsa
Aug Brobo
Arlington Natural Gas Company
Harvey M. LaFollette
Harrison
Indiana
James Haggerty
John Smith
Acme Milling Company
Indianapolis
Pfafflin’s Hall
Margaret Hughes
Anthony Hauser
Board of the Benevolent Institutions
State House
Camilla Urro Company
Tomlinson Hall
Dickenson
Steele
Jersey City
Pan Hoo Die
Union Railway Companies
Frank Shine
Willie Kretch
German Lutheran Church
Kretch
Shine
Hadley
Circuit Court
Douglass Whitaker
William Praffin
J. J.smith
William Hale
Ward 13
Sullivan
W.G. Kennedy
Orphan Asylum
Friday Kennady
Montreal
Canada
Charles Smith
Meridian St
Smith
White Caps a looming force in Ohio and Kansas cases
Nov 30 dispatches report the White Cap vigilante group threatening abusers in Fostoria and driving farmer Fred Smith from his home in Kingman County Kansas. Smith plans to return with armed supporters to protect his farm.
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Fostoria
White Cap
Foster
Tor Weir
White Caps
Ohio
Wichita
Kan
Fred Smith
Kingman County
Smith
Grief and fear as diphtheria strikes families
A Thanksgiving day in Bainbridge Ohio shadows a grief stricken family after two of John Basse’s children die and three more are sick with diphtheria. Across town a child dies in Minneapolis, and a rising health worry spreads as the disease grows in several localities.
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Almasementa
Imre Kiralfy
the Grand
Vernona Jarbeau
Harry Clark
Harry Standish
Martin O'Neil
John Basse
Dakota St
William Weiland
Lesington-ave
Resurrection Meeting Revives Indianapolis Passenger Agents
A postponed meeting of the local passenger agents will be held at the Bates house Saturday morning at 10 o'clock to revive the old Indianapolis association. The group aims to maintain rates, a cause that waned after last summer’s rate cuts.
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Bates House
Indianapolis Association
Mail thefts alarm Dominion as thieves elude Ottawa
Quebec dispatch reports a skilled gang has been stealing mail near the U S line, allegedly targeting registered letters and whole mails. Ottawa cites New York and Chicago operators as suspects, while police seek the culprits behind the rash of missing correspondence.
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Quebec
Dominion
U. S
Ottawa
New York
Chicago
Real estate transfers listed with numerous lot transfers
Real estate conveyances show Martin to Jacob and many other transfers in Drake's, Hendrick's, Bybee and several suburbs. Amounts range from 1.70 to 2,000 dollars with various lot and block descriptions in Brightwood, Marble Hill, Brookside, Stone, and Canfield areas.
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Realistate
S. Martin
C. J. Jacob
Martindale
Stitz
R. R. Rouse
J. H. Keeeere
Drake
H. L. White
E. L. Woolcott
B. T. Fietcher
Brightwood
Marshall
C. Michel
Qakhill
A Mathews
Wlott
Syrlin Maripheles S. Add
J.B. Renard
C. B. Willbafi
Stone
Noeai
A. Dynes
H. M. Harter
A. Moore
S. Add
J. W. McKernan
J. McVey
Sullivan
Shea
Canfield
C. C. Smith
Mary Stokes
Yandes
Als
M. ©. Gibson
Ee Ivory
McCarty
O’brien
Hervey Bates
R. Olsen
R. Greniind
Miller
Springdale
J. Kuhn
L. E
T.mehmner
Milter’s
H. Va
A. Bybee
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Brookside Ave
Isabel
Elmer Michaels
Floyd
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DePauw Glass Works Company
New Albany
Michaela
Michaels
Bennie and
Marcus
Horaker
Btterworth
Farerak
Castle Hall
C. J. Many
Indiana Brigade
H. B. Smith
Edward Stott
W. H. Fisher
J. G. Jeffers
J. H. Keller
Albert Siddow
Geo. B. Terhune
Sentinel
Indianapolis Lodge
London
Zanzibar
Skeplic
Ghir and
Jan- Bak
Tom
Bainbridge
Jack, the Ripper
Minneapolis
William Holland
Jack the Ripper
Munkacsy
Obrisi
Pilate
Plymouth
Vincennes
Ind
Princeton
Waltage
Caicago
Serable
Jack Glasscock
Brush
Fooster
Ramia
Jask
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