Labor and Industry Strife in Chicago Over Building Trades
The Building Trades Council and Contractors Association in Chicago clash over wage demands and material restrictions. About 40,000 workers may be affected as unions reject the arbitration and large firms refuse to join the Contractors' Association. The dispute follows tensions from earlier attempts to restrict material supplies and layoffs.
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Chicago
Building Trades Council
Contractors’ Association
Building Trades Unions
Joint Conference
Carpenters
Hodcarriers
Building Trades Union
Trade With Cuba Puerto Rico and Islands Grows Rapidly
Treasury statistics show December exports to Cuba exceeding two million dollars with imports from Cuba at thirteen hundred fifty five thousand. Exports to Hawaiian Islands surpass one million, and to Philippine Islands reach three hundred seventy nine thousand. For 1899, exports to these islands rise over 100 percent from 1898 while imports increase about 60 percent.
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United States
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Hawaiian Philippine and Samoan Islande
Treasury Bureaual
Hawaiian Islands
Philippine Islands
Jalanda
Industrial Notes on Labor Unions and Industry Growth
The piece reports on union strength across cities, including three non union carpenters in Aiken C I, nearly 100000 members in French railway unions, a Black Tobacco Workers union in St Louis, and 42 New York local engineers' associations tied to machinery groups. It notes new automobile manufacturers, large capitalizations, dozens of mills in the South, and a Keystone Watch case workers strike. It also discusses German employer alliances, labor strike tactics, and the Illinois Central stock purchase program for workers with defined payment rules and withdrawal consequences.
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Aiken
8. C
France
St. Louia
New York City
Adven Automobile
Soutlern
Key+stone Wateh Cuse Works
Philadelphia
New York
Riverside
New Jersey
Hagland
Germany
Tata
Illinois Central Railroad
Fish
New York Stock Exchange
New Industry for Treland Tobacco Prospect
A report from the Irish Agriculture Society shows tobacco could be grown in Donaghpatrick Meath. An experimental crop cured and sold by an Irish newspaper at 44d per ounce. production cost 4d per pound. If duty 29s 4d, tobacco would fetch 58d per pound, implying a profit of at least £264 per acre. Authorities oppose cultivation in the British Isles. An earlier Kent experiment by Faunce de Tulle was unfavored.
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Treland
Irish Agriculture, Crawhing Society
Donaghpal Inty Meath
Post
British Isles
Faunce de Tulle
Kent
Walter Raleigh
Australian Tonovation Teas During Divine Service
An Australian Tonovation describes dispensing tea during Priday afternoon service. The practice is discussed as lating nartuualy within the dissenting circles at Syb ory, N. 8 W. The costs of the Innovation are expected to be small and covered by congregation members taking turns supplying requisites.
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Sybory
Ag It
Molineux Sentenced to Die in Electric Chair
Roland Burnham Molineux, son of Gen. Edward L. Molineux, is condemned to die in Sing Sing for Katherine J. Adams murder. The defense failed as senior counsel Weeks did not secure a new trial. jurors reportedly doubted at times but remained firm. Wife is prostrate while prosecution costs soared to about $176,000 amid expert testimony. a California witness was summoned. Molineux reportedly said he wished to die by electric chair, a prophecy seen as fulfilled.
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Jen Holt
Thomas Dunn Mnetish
New Jersey
Sramatiat
Phyalelnn
Politiein
Hen Bolt
Geo. H. Morris
Hut Latuck
Wilson Heke
Englind
Ae the
Wong
Ko Maurier
Prilby
Boe
Ually
Roland Burnham Molineux
Sing Sing
Katherine J. Adams
Molineux
Barton
Weeks
Hdward L. Molineux
Hart
Katherine J. Adama
Harry
Comniab
Mia Ailama
United States
California
New York State
District of Columbia
Yes
Robert W. Buchan
John Wilson Gibbs
New York Athletic Club
Ghost lore rattles old Alexandria turnpike tale
In Alexandria Virginia an elderly Quantico man recalls his grandfather who claimed to have chased a ghost on a historic turnpike Ghostly episodes are linked to late night travelers and a legendary laughter that echoed through town, shaping local storytelling and superstition.
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Alexandria
Quantico
Doe Leteher
Murder Trial Test of Ghosts and a Long Court Fight
The case centers on Roland B. Molineux amid a murder charge that followed a prior assault indictment and a prolonged New York court saga. A grueling 1899 trial spanned months with 604 prospective jurors, 94 witnesses, and 209 exhibits.
Self immolations by Buddhist monks described in Milwaukee Germania
A Milwaukee Germania report recounts Buddhist monks on Patu resorting to self immolation as a path to Nirvana. It details two priests lighting fires, singing hymns, and dying, with families, bystanders, and cloister officials profiting from the event while relics are preserved at Wen-Chao.
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Te Tn
Patu
Wen-Chao
Milwaukee Germania
Sleep and repose in plants under chloroform exposure
A Norwegian experimenter studied plant sleep by exposing bulbs and twigs to chloroform vapor. Plants then showed remarkable developments, suggesting anesthesia mimics sleep and that plant vitality may exceed human recuperative power in certain trance-like states.
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Bilbe
Twiga
Laws of the Medes and Persians in Biblical Context
The piece explains references to the unchangeable laws of the Medes and Persians in Esther and Daniel. It notes that while a royal decree could not be altered after law, it could be neutralized or repealed through precedent and subsequent decrees, with Daniel and Esther illustrating these limits.
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Esther
Daniel
Dantel
Lady of the Stone Ace Recreated From Ancient Remains
From Germany comes a report of attempts to reconstruct the features of a Stone Age woman known as the Lady of the Lake. Prof Kollmann rebuilt her head with clay, using flesh-thickness studies from nearby skulls, portraying a modern looking young woman. Prof Merkel later replicated a man’s face from Rosdorf, noting strong resemblance to present-day peasants in that district.
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Garmany
Prebis
Torle
Kollmann
Rasle
Auvernier
Nousehatel
Thia
Witt & Amall
Merkel
Rosdorf
Goet
Ungen
New York Herald
Blond and Brunette Ratios in German Schoolchildren
The German Anthropological Society reports that among 6,000,000 examined children, 31.8 percent are blondes, 14 percent brunettes, and 54.2 percent mixed. Districts vary, with Oldenburg showing only four percent brunettes and stronger brunette influence in southern regions. Nearby Worms and Speyer exhibit features reminiscent of Italian or Roman statues.
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Germany
Yermer Nanber Nesry
Empire
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
Worma
Speyer
Italy
Bear at Sarandaga Park defies Candlemas forecast
The Sarandaga Park bear, hibernating for a month and refusing food, emerged five days after Candlemas, amid bets on winter's length. Onlookers saw Paige and the bear pose for a photo as the bear accepted cake. Some doubt the calendar or the bear’s weather forecasting role, noted by the New York Sun.
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Harry Paige
Sarandaga Park
Paige
Brain
Mahut
New York Sun
Trail of the Sleuth First Detective Exchange
A fragment from a humorous exchange in the New York Press features two detectives discussing a man who is mistaken for a woman. The first notes the neat place of work while the second recounts questioning the man about his presence and being told it was a “her cause.”
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Diagise
New York Press
Company for Winwen Tommy Janee dinner remark
Ohio State Journal reports a cryptic exchange about dinner. The piece mentions names Winwen Tommy Janee and Jimmy Brown in a dialog tied to a broader note on losses totaling 16 million dollars referenced as a tornadona incident in Missouri.
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Winwen
Tommy Janee
Jimmy Brown
Tommy Jones
Ohio State Journal
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