Mediation Bid Averts Rail Strike Impasse in 1916
New York August 9 1916 federal mediation board offered to mediate between 400000 railway workers and railroads as the threat of a general strike loomed with a vote already taken by workers. Railroads maintain contingency terms while unions weigh acceptance and potential presidential involvement.
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Associated Press
New York
United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation
Wilson
United States
United States Board of Mediation
A. B. Garretson
Conductors’ Brotherhood
G. W. W. Hanger
National Conference of Railroad Managers
Garretson
Federal Board
Hanger
Martin A. Knapp
W. L. Chambers
Brotherhoods
Lee
Brotherhood
Warren S. Stone
Mr. Garritson
The
Order of Railroad Conductors
Death Toll Soars as Storm Ravages Cabin Creek Area
A cloudburst swept Cabin Creek and Coal River valleys causing extensive destruction and a rising death toll. Officials estimated 11 to 150 dead, with property damage at least one million dollars. Gov Hatfield ordered National Guard to flood zone as rescue trains prepare.
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Cabin Creek
Coal
West Virginia National Guard
Kanawha City
Hatfield
Virginia Power Company
Chesapeake & Ohio
Acme
Randy
Miami
Sharon
Dawes
Rayford
Eskdale
Coal River
Madison
Deaths from Belt Drive Shaft Incident at Stone Mill
Claude Phillips died at Bloomington Indiana after his sleeve fouled a pulley and he was drawn into a line drive shaft at the Bloomington Bedford Stone company mill. His right arm and left leg were torn off before workers could rescue him, and he died at a hospital shortly after.
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Associated Press
Bloomington
Ind
Claude Phillips
Bloomington- Bedford Stone Company
Indianapolis Telephone to Buy Danville Consolidated
Danville Indiana August 9 The Indianapolis Telephone company negotiates the purchase of the Danville Consolidated Telephone company's property. An option expiring September 1 reportedly held by the Indianapolis company on controlling stockholders' interest totals well over $100,000. Local officers would not confirm or deny the report.
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Associated Press
Danville
Ind
Indianapolis Telephone Company
Danville Consolidated Telephone Company
Indianapolis Company
Wedding Romance Halted by Wreck
Miss Laura Per due and Wilbur Hansen, both of Logansport, planned to wed in St. Joe Michigan but a Vandalia wreck and interurban schedule confusion delayed them. They reached South Bend late and married at a friend’s home in Elk Hart as the groom worked for Logansport Casting.
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Laura Perdue
Wilbur Hansen
Logansport
James Larkin
St. Joe. Mich
South Bend
Elkhart
Logansport Casting Company
Hughes Critiques U S Policy in Mexico Speech
Charles E Hughes spoke in St Paul condemning the administrations preparedness policy and the arms embargo on Mexico. He urged stronger border protection and said any American soldier killed in Mexico is due to lax policy. He called the punitive expedition ineffective and stressed industrial preparation for postwar competition. He then headed to Grand Forks and Fargo for further stops.
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St. Paul, Minn
Charles E. Hughes
America
Hughes
Mexico
Grand Forks
N. D
Fargo
Helena
Mont
Durand Letter Casts Light On Census Directorship
In Minneapolis on August 9 Charles B Hughes read to a large crowd a Durand letter in which he said Durand told Secretary Redfield he would resign but wished to stay, and Redfield replied the administration planned a change. The message was delivered during an open air parade grounds speech.
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Redfield
Minneapolis
Charles B Hughes
E. Dana Durand
Durand
Mr. Redfield
Hanly Plans Nationwide Campaign Train Tour
Prohibition campaign committee authorized a special train to take J Frank Hanly and Ira Landrith across the nation. The start date is not fixed but expected around September 12. The committee also aims to raise 250000 to 500000 dollars, create a literature department with a thousand field workers, and boost campaign literature distribution. A telegram was sent to the Woman's Party convention at Colorado Springs about Hanly's suffrage stance. The group pledged aid in favorable congressional districts.
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Indianapolis
Ind
J. Frank Hanly
Ira Landrith
Prohibition National Campaign Committee
Hanly
Landrith
Stewart
Woman's Party
Colorado Springs
Texas Democrats reject prohibition amendment plank
At the Texas Democratic convention in Houston on August 9, delegates rejected a resolution to pass a prohibitive amendment. The plank failed by a vote of 524 to 299, shaping the party’s platform.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Total Abstinence Advocated by Catholic Society Leader
Secretary Daniels told the 46th annual Catholic Total Abstinence society of America meeting in Washington that the day is coming when total abstinence will prevail in America. He spoke at the Aug 9 gathering and outlined prospects for the movement nationwide.
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Washington
Daniels
Catholic Total Abstinence Society of America
America
Italians Capture Gorizia and Push on Trieste
Italian forces seize Gorizia near the Adriatic then advance toward Trieste as Russian and Austro German lines clash in Galicia and Poland. British and French losses are heavy near the Somme while Turkish Armenian towns Mush and Bitlis fall under pressure from Turkish forces.
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Austria
Gilizia
Triest
Galicia
Lemberg
Stanislau
France
Somme
Gorizia
Adriatic Sea
Rome
Letchitzky
Tysmienitsa
Tysmi
Enitsa
Koropice
Velesniovo
Niznioff-Monasterzy
Halicz
Tymienitsa
Stokovoheia
Berlin
Nizioff- Tymienitsa-Ottynia
Carpathians
Jablonitsa
Vorochi
Tarazov
Delatyn
Somme River
Pozieres
Hemwood
Verdun
Thiaumont
Fleury
Vaux- Chapitre
Chenois
Constantinople
St. Petersburg
Bitlis
Mush
Armenia
Two Men Convicted of Vagrancy in Police Court
John Slavin and Patrick McCarty were found guilty of vagrancy in police court yesterday afternoon and each man received a sixty day sentence at the state penal farm.
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John Slavin
Patrick McCarty
State
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Bouvagt
Tin
Federal Board AT Work
Federal Board of Mediation and Conciliation
National Conference Committee of the Railways
Federal Board of Mediation
Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Danville Telephone Holdings
ST. Joe
U.S
Nation
Department OF Literature
Br Associated Press
Petrograd
Russia
London
War Office
Varskon
Amijsk
Sznesk
Senesk
Khermanghan
Khanazan
Bulletin
Germany
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