Strikers Seek Wider Support in Rail Labor Actions
Reports from Oakland to San Francisco describe union shopmen urging a general strike among Harriman employes except engineers and conductors. San Francisco notes engines failing and a push for strikebreakers while Canadian Grand Trunk Pacific machinists strike for a 15 cent hourly rise.
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San Francisco
Portland
Oakland
Cal
Harriman
John Scott
Striking Federation
Winnipeg
Grand Trunk Pacific
Eastern Canada
Perdita Steamer Burned and Sinks on Puget Sound
The steamer Perdita of Puget Sound Navigation burned between Ludlow and Gamble while on a regular run. The crew and 28 passengers were taken ashore before the vessel sank in 90 feet of water.
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Seattle
Perdita
Puget Sound Navigation Company
Ludlow
Gamble
Sound
Passefigtra
Strikers Release Report On Train Delays
The strikers issue a morning report noting Train No 17 three hours late, Train No 6 two and a half hours late, and engine 362 blowing off the left front cylinder head delaying the crew by an hour and a quarter while engine 205 took the train out.
Portland crowds await Taft visit Wednesday
Portland plans crowd control and Taft festivities as he arrives from Tacoma for a 6 PM parade banquet at the Commercial club and an address at the armory followed by a Knights of Columbus reception before departing for San Francisco.
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Portland
Taft
Tacoma
Commercial Club
Armory
Knights of Columbus
San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce
Olympia
Way Stations
Seattle
Richard Ballinger
Navy Yard
Bremerton
San Francisco Women at Polls Over Suffrage Question
All San Francisco is alert over the state amendment election with the key issue whether women gain equal suffrage and adoption of initiative referendum and recall. About two thousand women workers have been at the polls all morning protecting their interests and distributing suffrage literature.
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San Francisco
Aged Waecker Of Bank Free In Parole Row
John R. Walsh, once a Chicago bank wrecker, is released on parole from Leavenworth after long custody for 182 counts tied to 1905 bank failures. His wife has pressed for his release while Taft previously denied a pardon, citing law’s objective and unequal treatment.
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Washington
John R. Walsh
Chicago
Leavenworth
Kans
Walsh
Taft
Pair Found Dead on Santa Cruz Beach Sparks Murder Theory
A murdered elderly man and a young woman were found on a Santa Cruz beach. The couple remain unidentified. The man’s head was severed and the woman appears to have drowned. The woman is later identified as Mrs. John Costello who left home after an argument and said she planned to drown herself.
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Santa Cruz
Cal
John Costello
Turkers and Arabs Drive Italians Back at Tripoli
Turkish and Arab forces move from hills to the gates of Tripoli repelling Italian landings under protection of the fleet. Naples dispatches say 20 Italian transports head to Syracuse to join the Tripolitan division. Reports claim four ships sunk including two Italian cruisers and two destroyers.
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Tripoli
Chiasso
Switzerland
London
Naples
Syracuse
Benghas
Derna
Southwestern Medical association opens sixth annual meeting
The sixth annual meeting of the Southwestern Medical association begins in Oklahoma City with Dr. M. L. Perry of Parsons Kansas presiding. Several hundred members attend from Missouri Kansas Arkansas Texas and Oklahoma as three days of addresses and papers on professional topics unfold. Leading outsiders include Dr. A. R. Edwards of Chicago and Dr. R. M. Grim of the U S Public Health and Marine Hospital Service.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
The
Southwestern Medical Association
M. L. Perry
Parsons
Kas
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Tex
Oklahoma
A. R. Edwards
Chicago
R. M. Grim
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Servic
Revolt Against Portugal Fails as Rebels Captured
Lisbon October 10 royalists crush the uprising. Several hundred rebels are captured and government troops pursue Captain Conceiro who is entrenched near North Winheas after the revolt was driven to the frontier.
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Lisbon
Conceiro
Winheas
Attorney General Wickersham Opens Anthracite Trust Appeal
Attorney General Wickersham and associates opened the argument of the Anthracite Coal trust case before the United States Supreme Court. Chief Justice White ordered all railroad rate cases to be heard January 8, including the Oregon cases.
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Washington
Wickersham
United States Supreme Court
White
Indians Riot Against Mexico Sparks National Unrest
Chaos grows as Zapataists seize control of Morelos advancing on Puebla and Chiapas. Mexican government asks U.S. permission to move troops through American soil to reach Sinaloa while federal forces struggle with revolting Indians near Puebla and El Paso.
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Mexico City
Puebla
Morelos
United States
el Paso
Nogales
Sinaloa
Mexico
Chiapa Decourso
Van Factory Fire Aims for Bekins Storage Warehouse
Los Angeles Oct 10 Fire of mysterious origin burns the Bekins Van Company storage warehouse. The loss is reported at about 990000 with investigators examining the blaze and its cause.
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Los Angeles
Bekins van Company
Geach
Aviator Nears Kanta City in Kansas City Flight
Springfield Tl October 10 Aviator Rogers ascended at 8 44 am en route for Kansas City He followed the Chicago and Alton tracks as his course for the journey outlining a direct air route to the city.
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Springfield
Rogers
Kansas City
Chicago & Alton
Premature Explosion Kills Two At Kansas City Depot
An explosion during excavation for the new railroad station in Kansas City fatally wounds two workers and injures five others. The $15,000,000 project suffers heavy property loss as crews assess the scene.
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Kansas City
McNamara brothers await costly Los Angeles trial
The McNamara brothers John J. and James B. face trial for alleged complicity in the Los Angeles Times dynamiting on October 1, 1910, with 700 witnesses, an estimated cost of 900000 dollars, and venue not changed. Clarence Darrow leads defense. John D. Fredericks prosecutes. Indictment covers the death of Times employee J Weasley Reeves. other indictments await trial.
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Los Angeles Times
John D. Fredericks
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
Darrow
James
Western Federation of Miners
Steunenberg
Idaho
McNamara Brothers
Los Angels Times
Times
Orte E. McManigal
American Federation of Labor
J. Weasley Reeves
the Times
Reeves
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James V. Martin
American Press Association
California
Waecker
Bank Free
Physicians of the Southwest
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Jim
Penman
R. J. Campbell
May
Dr. Aked
Rockefeller Church
New York
Portugal
Stoke
Kanta City
John J. and
James B. McNamara
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
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