Mitchell denies miners union illegality in Wilkesbarre
President Mitchell, arriving from New York, refused to speak for publication and said the miners union is not illegal, likening it to other labor unions. He canceled a Boston engagement due to business pressure as strike leaders seek AFL support.
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Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
New York
Wilcox
Delaware & Hudson Co
Roosevelt
Boston
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Lawrence convention coverage shows Sparks clash with Bruce faction
Lawrence papers relay a split Democratic convention with Sparks delegates late to entry and contesting motions while Bruce supporters push to ballot. The Tribune and Telegram allege planned manipulation, while the Sun notes regular convention backed Bruce and Sparks margins failed to present.
Lawrence Democrats face test in Fifth District race
The Lawrence convention amid disputes over chairman O Sullivan led to Bruce being nominated for Congress with Sparks pressing for fairness. Bruce claims 65 votes to Sparks 68, while predicting 70 if all delegates voted. Massachusetts ballot law commissioners will determine the rightful Democratic candidate for the Fifth district as 47 new names join the voting list including Ward 9 with nine additions.
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Lawrence
the Tribune
Sparks
O'Sullivan
Bruce
Lawrence Sun
Congress
Massachusetts
City
Alexander B. Bruce
Lowell
John T. Sparks
Mr. Sparke
Congressional Committee
Lawrence Eagle
A. B. Bruce
Butler Ames
Colonel Ames
Panera
Homer Albers
Brookline
Arthur Lincoln
Hingham
Henry V. Cunningham
Boston
Ward 9
Erne to Meet Britt in 2½ Round Boxing Match
Buffalo reports Frank Erne has signed to fight Jim Britt of Yosemite Athletic Club in a 2½ round contest. Reverend Bowley Green of Portland, ex Worthen Street Baptist pastor, plans to attend the Christian Endeavor society convention in Boston next week and visit the city.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Frank Erne
Jim" Kennedy
Yosemite Athletic Club
San Francisco
Jimmy” Britt
Bowley Green
Portland
Worthen Street Baptist Church
Christian Endeavor Society
Boston
American Generals in London Fooded by British Hospitality
American generals Corbin and Young travel in England from Oct 11 to 18 awaiting departure. They attend a Buckingham Palace luncheon and meet Earl Roberts, Gen. French at Aldershot, and visit Woolwich. Ambassador Choate and Gen. Wood arrive. Reginald Ward hosts an American chaired charity dinner praising cooperation with Britons.
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London
England
Young
Associated Press
Earl Roberts
Woolwich
French
Aldershot
Buckingham Palace
Germany
William
Gen. Wood
Ambassador Choate
Dramatic and Musical Benevolent Fund
Charles Dickens
Reginald Ward
New York
Long
Edmund Talbot
Edward Lawson
Sydney Grundy
Marquis de Villalobor
Simeon Stuart
Marquis of Queensberry
Ward
Coal Shipped From Lykens Valley Colly Yet Quiet
Twenty five cars of anthracite coal mined and broken this week at the Lykens Valley Coal Co. colliery were shipped from Lykens yesterday with no demonstration as the cars were started. The breakers at Lykens and Williamstown operate without interference.
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Harrisburg
Lykens
Eastman Remanded in Murder Case in Nashua
Charles C Eastman, accused of a brutal assault on his wife in Nashua, was remanded to Manchester jail to await trial at the January term of the superior court. The brief hearing ended with his return to custody.
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Nashua
N. H
Charles C. Eastman
Manchester
Pension changes issued Sept 22 list recipients and increases
Washington October 11 The following are the pension changes from the Sept 22 issue Originals Austin S Maynard Winchester 6 Patrick Bohan dead Lynn 12 John B Coombs Abington 12 increases Frank M Alley Lynn 8 Henry K Gould Plymouth 8 Orlando D Clark Westboro 24 widows Mary Augusta Pratt East Weymouth 12 Hannah A Peabody Westminster 12 Emily A Gifford New Bedford 12
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Washington
Austin S. Maynard
Winchester
Patrick Bohan
Lynn
John B. Coombs
Abington
Frank M. Alley
Henry K. Gould
Plymouth
Orlando D. Clark
Westboro
Mary Augusta Pratt
East Weymouth
Hannah A. Peabody
Westminster
Emily A. Gifford
New Bedford
Dimon Estate Sale Or Rent Of Oaklands Property
The late Col Dimon estate offers for sale or rent the house and land at 223 Parkview Avenue Oaklands. Attorney for the estate is C H Conant. Also notices seek a Protestant girl for general housework at 225 Branch Street and a Hollis Centre property with 5 acres and running water priced at 2900, with seller preferring a blacksmith buyer. A piano style organ for sale and a distribution job offer in Chicago are noted among miscellaneous notices.
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Col Dimon
Col. Dimon
Parkview Avenue
Oaklands
C.H. Conant
Atty
Ott
Branch Street
Hollie Z H
Hollis
Govecome
F. A
Merstreet
Reon
Critor Ai Mishoal
Blanchard
Chicago
Ganvassing
Express Train Held Up and Safe Blown in Lincoln
Five masked men halted the Burlington St Louis Pacific Coast Express five miles from Lincoln Nebraska. They forced the engineer and fireman to the express car and dynamited the safe, injuring no one. Messenger William T Upton escaped unharmed as robbers fled into a corn field after rifling the safe. Police and Division Supt Bignell went to the scene at daylight.
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Lincoln
Neb
Southwest
William T. Upton
Bignell
Fatal at Last In Chicago Football Tragedy
Max Henry Fleischer died from a head injury suffered in a school football game six years earlier. Though 15 at the time, he pressed to join the team and was kicked on the head. His skull was trepanned to reveal brain disease, causing years of severe headaches and fainting.
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O'Sullivan
Lowell
Chicago
Max Henry Fleischer
Fleischer
American Asiatic firm absorbs Philippine steamship line
New York officials report that the American Asiatic Steamship Company, formed by backers of the China Development Company, has absorbed the Philippine Transportation and Construction Co. The Philippine arm will continue locally while the main business is fully integrated. The former line operated a monthly service to the Philippines and possessed 19 steel steamers and barges of 4000 tons each, moved from lakes and the Erie Canal to island routes. The Gibraltar, the new company's first ship, plans to sail from New York on October 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Journal of Commerce
American- Asiatic Steamship Company
China Development Company
Philippine Steamship Line
Philippine Transportation and Construction Co
Philippine
Pe Philippines
Lakes
Erie Canal
Philippines
Philippine Archipelago
Gibraltar
Bishop Bonacum Wins Ouster Battle at Alma
Lincoln Neb Oct 11 The Nebraska supreme court ruled in favor of Bishop Bonacum in his suit to remove Rev Harrington from parish property in Alma. The court reversed a lower court writ denial, holding church governing authority may enjoin a deposed clergyman from using church property. This marks the third Bonacum victory against priests.
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Lincoln, Neb
Supreme Court
Bonacum
Father Harrington
Alma
MONEY FOR BOERS AT ULSTER MEETING
In Utrecht Hollar 11, a Boer generals meeting denied claims that Kruger stole state funds. Instead, Kruger was said to have contributed personal money to the Boer cause. De Wet noted the audience issue with Emperor William and said they would seek British help if invited. Six thousand six hundred dollars were subscribed at the gathering.
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Utrecht
Hollar Oet
de Wet
Mayor appeals to Cardiff on Canadian coal preference
London dispatch reports the mayor of Toronto cabled Cardiff's mayor urging coal mine operators to grant Canada preference to ease the labour dispute caused by the American coal strike. The message seeks rapid action to balance supply and avert disruption.
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London
Toronto
Cardiff
Canada
Americanists Open 13th Congress in New York
In New York the Americanists open their 13th International congress on October 20 at the American Museum of Natural History. Duke de Loubat arrives from Paris to preside as sessions explore native American races including origin distribution language and customs with international delegates from Europe and South America attending.
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New York
Duke de Loubat
Society of Americanists
Paris
American Museum of Natural History
America
Old World
State Department
Europe
South America
Juan B. Ambrosetti
Museum of Natural History
Buenos Aires
la Plata
United States
Luxembourg
Brussels
Madrid
Copenhagen
Berlin
Turin
Huelva
Stockholm
Mexico
Morris K. Jessup
Freight Trains Crash in Wabash Bridge Kill Two
An east bound Big Four freight train rear ended another on the Wabash river bridge in Terre Haute Indiana last night. Two men died and six were seriously injured. Deceased include conductor Matthew Hennessey of Mattoon Illinois and an unknown poultry handler. The injured comprise John Hardee and Frank Kankey of Mattoon, L C Leach, Samuel Cox, Frank M Webster of Terre Haute, and Jerry McCarty.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Wabash River
Matthew Hennessey
Mattoon
John Hardee
Fankey
Homeward Bound Davis Freed Under First Offender Act
Henry Shackleford Davis a Brooklyn lawyer charged with obtaining money by a worthless check was released from Brixton prison under the first offender act and bound over in a small sum to appear if called within six months Newton Cranes his defender pleaded extenuating circumstances and mental derangement from an accident Davis sailed for New York aboard the Minnehaha later in the day promising to settle debts and be sent home on the first steamer.
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London
Henry Shackleford Davis
Brooklyn
N. Y
Brixton
Newton Cranes
Dav
United States
Davis
New York
Atlantic Transport Line
Promoters Abandon $60 Million Southern Mills Combine
New York on October 11 reports promoters have abandoned plans to form a $60,000,000 combine of southern cotton mills after multiple attempts. Less than a quarter of mill owners expressed interest in joining the scheme.
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New York
Southern
Murder of German manager in Venezuela shocks Berlin
A Caracas despatch reports Adam Russell, German subject and manager of the Venezu la Pantation company, found murdered and robbed on a road. The government begins investigations and authorities charge revolutionists with the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Caracas
Venezuela
Adam Russell
Venezula Pantation Company
Temperance parade sways Lowell court with lenient rulings
In a Lowell courtroom Judge Fisher frees three of seven intoxicated defendants after probation officer Slittery's parade-linked plea. Others face fines or workhouse blocks. Delia Collier, fresh from delirium tremens, is sent to the workhouse for three months.
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Lowell
Marcella Bean
Mary Dudevoir
D. J. Donahue
George Lee
West Fourth Street
Chinaman
Harold Meehan
Fisher
Delia Collier
Terre Noire Strike Clashes Turn Fatal in France
Paris reports from St Etienne that a clash at Terre Noitre coal field left one striker dead and several wounded among gendarmes and strikers. Wagons overturned, depots attacked, and four more gendarmes wounded as the strike spreads to other coal fields.
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Paris
St. Etienne
Terre Noitre
Penned in by Flames on North Franklin Street
At Lynn on October 11 a cellar kitchen stove overheated and set fire to woodwork. John Craig acted quickly, woke George Wylie and then dragged out his wife and two children from the smoke filled house. Fire reached the second story before the department contained the blaze, keeping damage under $300.
Colored Odd Fellows meet in Traven closes five day session
Delegates to the national convention of the grand united order of Odd Fellows colored conclude a five day session in New Traven Conn deciding the next biennial meeting will be in Columbus Ohio Philadelphia to host a headquarters building for the order. Officers elected include Grand Master J. McHenry Jones Wheeling West Virginia deputy grand master Geo Temple St Louis grand secretary Jas H Meehan Philadelphia and grand treasurer R M Smith Hampton.
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New Traven
Conn
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
Columbus
Ohio
Philadelphia
Order
J. McHenry Jones
Wheeling
W. Va
Schooner Geo. M. Glover Hits Salem After Collision
The schooner Geo. M. Glover from New York to Boston arrived at Salem after being struck off Minot's light by an unknown three mast schooner. Two women aboard Miss Adamoody and Mrs K Libby. Libby took wheel as crew cleared wreckage. Bowprit, head rigging and mainsail damaged while cargo of cement partly bound for Salem merchants and Beverly.
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Salem
Geo. M. Glover
New York
Boston
Minot's
Glover
Adamoody
K. Libby
Beverly
Soldiers for New Orleans Sent to Preserve Order
Six militia companies will reach New Orleans by special train amid labor strife. Negotiations continue after wage proposals were rejected. The governor offered reinstatement and arbitration was discussed with labor leaders and the railway company resisting arbitration on wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Canada and Britain plan fast Atlantic steamship service
Sir Frederick Borden, visiting Boston, said Canada and Britain will jointly establish a fast Halifax to Liverpool steamship service with an annual subsidy of 1 125 000 dollars for ten years. He added Canada seeks no reciprocity with the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Sir Frederick Borden
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Liverpool
Canada
United States
House dynamited injures deputy's daughter near Minersville
In Pottsville Pennsylvania October 11 a house belonging to Albert Dry a deputy for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron near Minersville was blown up about midnight. His daughter was injured while a neighbor named Ditzel and two others are held under suspicion.
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Pottsville
Albert Dry
Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron
Minersville
Ditzel
House Fire on Hall Street Endangers Ernest Daigle Property
An alarm from box 28 at Hall and Aiken streets reported a morning fire in a Hall street home owned by Ernest Daigle. Children with matches started a bed blaze. a chemical extinguisher quickly doused it. Earlier, on New London street, a pile of leaves near the school house caught fire but was promptly halted by an incoming call to the fire station and chemical help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall and
Aiken Streets
Hall Street
Ernest Daigle
New London Street
Thompson Hardware Sells Elegant Gas Portables
The Thompson Hardware Co. received a refined line of gas portables. The new stock offers portable heating and cooking options with polished design and practical features for home use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson Hardware Co
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Williamstown
Eastman
Robbins Street
American-Asiatic Steamship Co
Botha
Kruger
Isn
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Southern Cotton Mills
Ayer
Marcelle Bean
Harold
Lee
Maria Shanley
John Murphy
Billerica
James A. Cunningham
Michael Rogers
Lynn House
ODD Fellows
New Haven
Fast Atlantic Service
Coal and Iron
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