Detroit street car strike over discharge of leaders
Detroit on April 22 saw a street car strike after the company discharged several conductors and drivers who were forming a union. About 200 of 250 workers quit, halting Grand River six miles and Michigan Trumbull Gratiot Crosstown lines nine miles, plus Chene street line. City center transport collapsed and residents walked as police kept order.
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Detroit
Mich
City Railway Company
Grand River
Michigan
Trumbull
Gratiot Avenue
Crosstown
Chene Street
Coke Region Troubles Two Outbreaks Quelled by Militia
In ScoTrpaLe Pennsylvania on April 22 the coroner's verdict angered labor leaders over the Morewood riot victims. Two Fayette county outbreaks led to militia and deputies restoring order after deputies attempted evictions at Leith works met by a mob of armed women. A deputy arrested twenty six leaders at West Lessenring. their wives later joined the train, forcing side tracks as authorities planned Uniontown jail transport. The railroad may become involved in the dispute.
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Morewood
Coke
Loar
Fayette County
Company C
McCormick
Joe Hartman
Andy Dundhko
Leith Works
Chick
West Lessenring
Uniontown
Pennsylvania Railroad
May Day unrest across Europe and yellow fever report
Reports from Europe describe anarchist organized May Day demonstrations with 80000 pamphlets delivered to Paris soldiers and widespread labor meetings in Austria Hungary and Spain ahead of peaceful protests. Separately a Pensacola ship Curlew carrying yellow fever cases led to quarantine. St Petersburg Jews ordered to leave by May 1 threatening ruin for many families.
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Yellow Foyer
Washington
Hamilton
Marine Hospital Service
Hargis
Pensacola
Lorida
Curlew
Rio
St. Petersburg
Vienna
Russia
Honored by Mexicans as President Harrison Visits El Paso
President Harrison's train reached El Paso from San Antonio after a 600 mile ride. Mexican residents lined adobe huts along the Rio Grande canyon and workers cheered as the presidential party received wreaths and flowers at Del Rio. Mrs. Harrison and companions visited Juarez across the river while artillery salutes rang out on both sides.
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FE Paso
Paso
Tex
Mexico
United States
Harrison
el Paso
San Antonio
Rio Grande
del Rio
Juarez
Baldwin Not Guilty as Supreme Court Reverses Murder Verdict
The Iowa Supreme Court set aside the lower court verdict in the Lawson J. Baldwin murder case. After a thirty hour jury deliberation, Baldwin was found not guilty. previously, in 1885, he had been convicted and sentenced to ten years. The high court’s reversal allows Baldwin to go free.
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Iowa Supreme Court
Farming Lp
Iowa
Lawson J. Baldwin
Mattie Redbaugh
Baldwin
Supreme Court
Clarkson sells interest in Des Moines Register property
A document filed in Des Moines, Iowa, shows John S. Clarkson conveying a half interest in the Iowa State Register building and in the newspaper itself to his brother Richard P. Clarkson for 35000 dollars. The report also notes other early 20th century regional items including railroad and civic news from Pierre to Yankton and Bismarck to Indianapolis.
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines
Iowa
John S. Clarkson
Richard P. Clarkson
Iowa State Register
Presidential welcome travels from Atlanta to Memphis
The presidential party journeyed from Atlanta to Birmingham and Memphis amid hearty public receptions. Crowds greeted the president at each stop. in Birmingham a military parade escorted the party, and in Memphis Mayor Clapp greeted them at the Merchants Exchange where a public address and reception followed. A later note mentions Spain’s Cortes debating Sunday labor restrictions.
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Ala
Atlanta
Birmingham
Georgia Pacific Railroad
Platiora
Memphis
Tenn
Kansas City
R. C. Graves
Harrison
Clapp
Merchants Exchange
United States
Exchange
Wanamaker
Rusk
Louisville
Nashville
Little Rock
Swift's Specific Healed Lip Cancer Without Scar
Enos Yount of Bradford Ohio recalls a severe lip cancer that resisted top doctors, spread further, and finally vanished after using Swift's Specific. He asserts the poison left his blood and the cancer never returned in four years. He offers to answer inquiries and notes a free book on blood and skin diseases from The Swift Specific Co.
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Enos Yount
Bradford
Ohio
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Swift Specifc CO
Atlanta
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