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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
5
The widespread telegraphers strike spreads across major cities, with Western Union and Postal officials reporting advances toward restored service while union leaders push for arbitration and a minimum weekly wage. New York sees renewed demands and mediator Reagan offers help as Ottawa and Omaha show pivotal upheaval.
Denver accord ends labor dispute on the Colorado and Southern railway. Yardmen and switchmen receive a one cent per hour raise after arbitration, resolving the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen dispute. An additional six tenths of a cent per hour was discussed for other workers.
A morning communication from many Associated Press operators requests a revised wage and hours scale. The proposed changes would raise Annual costs by over 200000 dollars and would be passed to newspapers through weekly assessments. The AP general manager cannot act without board approval, which cannot convene by the evening deadline. He is open to meeting with operator representatives to discuss hours and pay for a future board recommendation.
In Chicago the Associated Press room halted work at 7:30 after Louisville sent Good night We are out signaling a telegraph strike. Operators quit, leaving only one to finish a brief item as unity spreads.
Mrs Minnie Houdeshell, wife of a trackman living in a tent beside the tracks three miles west of Ethel, Mo, saved the eastbound California limited passenger train on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line. After heavy rains caused a bridge abutment to crumble into the river she kindled a fire on the west approach to warn the train and woke her husband to guide the locomotive past the wrecked span.
Chicago Aug 14 The government will attach refineries and other property of Standard Oil Company of Indiana at Whiting under the 29,240,000 fine assessed by Judge Landis after next Tuesday. Lawyers failed to obtain a writ of superseders from Judge Groesscup allowing a stay.
Federal court in St Paul fined the Wisconsin Central $17,000 and two officials $3,000 for freight rebates to Spencer Grain, after a April 17 conviction on seventeen counts. Omaha road case sentences were deferred pending penalty- clause arguments under the Elkins Act.
The Chicago and Alton will not be prosecuted by the U S government over rebating linked to the Standard 61 fine of 29 240 000 issued by Judge Landis. The U S district attorney Compel Them to Answer announced the decision. New York district attorney filed a petition to compel E H Harriman and John Kuhn to answer questions when they appear in court on October 21.
President Roosevelt aims to complete his railroad and corporation program this congress season and end agitation by gaining cooperation of rail and corporate interests. He seeks a national license law to place interstate railroads under federal control, reducing state jurisdiction chaos.
Chicago Aug 15 J J Hill of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy declined comment on an alleged encounter with F H McGuigan Great Northern vice president. Hill stated the railroad question in its relations to the public needs the rest cure and needs it badly.
In Tangier on August 1 a clash broke out as 800 Moors attacked Casa Blanca. French marines defending the city fought for hours with heavy losses to the attackers, who left about 400 dead and 100 captured.
Appleton Wis Aug 15 Reginald Heber Weller coadjutior bishop of Fond du Lac Episcopal diocese visited Oneida Indian reservation. Over 100 Indians in gaudy war robes escorted him as squaws joined in the procession. He confirmed seventy five at the parish hall.
Dean Schnailer Mathews of the University of Chicago Divinity School told the Chautauqua assembly that antique methods keep good men from the ministry. He urged ministers be men of affairs and churches to modernize, warning churches have become high class culture clubs. He attacked self complacent Christians, tainted money, and commercialism in science, literature, and religion.
Mother Marie de Zion, head of the Carmelite Sisters, says the mother house will move from Paris to Marshalltown Iowa. Convents and schools will be established westward as persecutions in France force the relocation. Some sisters who taught in Paris have already come to America. she stays in Paris to save property, avoiding confiscation.
New York August 15. Mrs Julia Watt Morris Curtiss heiress to the Pinkney fortune faces guardianship actions amid claims she has spent huge sums in the last year. Her son Louis Morris may sue in Connecticut while Curtiss denies spending 1900 daily, asserting restraint on access to funds.
Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch, a leading suffragist, sues the Hoffman House alleging a hotel can refuse service to women unaccompanied by men. The suit follows an incident at the roof garden where a waiter refused to take their order and staff cited a house regulation.
Ten laborers were injured and one killed when a gas tank exploded at the intersection of Seventy-first street and Chicago avenue in Chicago on August 15. Emergency crews responded to the scene and transported the injured to area hospitals.
President Roosevelt holds a secret conference at Oyster Bay this afternoon with Secretaries Taft Root and Meyer. Taft reports his mother's condition improved and plans a trip to the Pacific coast tomorrow. A reporter suggests he resign to run, which Taft laughs off.
Thomas H. Whalen, a mining operator in Idaho, used horses, a railway velocipede, an electric launch, and a high power automobile to cover 110 miles in just over eight hours from Wallace to Spokane to reach his dying sister in Ohio. He coordinated help via Caer d'Alene and Harrison, changing mounts every ten miles and using a launch across the lake and a fast auto run. telegrams said the sister was sinking, then she rallied and physicians expected recovery.
Cogma Hamilton, author of Duke's Son, describes Americans in London from the Savoy hotel in a popular weekly journal. He notes the women’s fashion, the men’s Broadway garb, and their use of French terms and a straw in a long glass as curiosities.
District Attorney Jerome announced the arrest of Hunchakist ring leaders by the detective bureau. Kiassaak Jelalian confessed after a six hour exam that he directed murders of Father Kasper Varlan and a rug merchant in Union Square. An Armenian detective Petrogino aided the case and police found poisoned weapons and explosives.
The Chicago Board of Trade directed its president to seek President Roosevelt's personal influence for a settlement of the telegraphers' strike. President Sager telegraphed Roosevelt urging immediate settlement to avert a national catastrophe.
Cleveland August 15. John D Rockefeller warns President Roosevelt’s anti trust push will trigger nationwide financial disaster. After golf he asserts government policy toward large business combines leads to chaos and low mood, claiming confidence is the key to prosperity and noting offers of 7 percent on large securities would vanish without confidence.
Davenport Iowa August 15 Twenty factory managers and superintendents along with parents were arrested on a war rant from the Alfred Shepherd Commission of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for employing children under fourteen. Employers were fined five dollars and costs while parents paid one dollar and costs.
In San Francisco on August 14 in United States Commissioner Heacock's court room twenty four Chinese deserters from the German ship Tolosan pleaded to avoid repatriation. The Chinese consul called their case hopeless as despair spread. twelve of the most unruly were chained together and all were handcuffed in pairs before being taken back to the vessel.
The Korean supreme court sentences Yi Sang Sel to hang while Yi Wi Chow and Yi Ghun Been receive life terms for a Hague delegation to represent Korea. Japanese troops attacked Chemulpo, killing five and wounding five as they rearm a Korean garrison. Prince Yi, nephew to the Korean emperor, condemns traitorous Koreans aiding Japan and seeks Roosevelt for an audience, which is declined.
Rose Com bitt tells Alderman Atkinson she came from Italy six weeks ago with John Genezetta of Arcibald funding her trip. He is an old widower. She refused to marry him upon arrival and her brother repaid the expense. Genezetta's friends allegedly persecuted her, with women arrested for court.
Leonard Fox abducted his daughter from his wife after hiding in a Mason City cornfield for hours. The chase failed and the child was taken into the field with Fox, who then disappeared with the girl. The couple had previously agreed to share custody but soon quarrelled again.
Dispatches from San Sebastian report Queen Victoria, wife of King Alfonso, is in a delicate state of health after giving birth to a son on May 10. The Spanish royals are currently travelers in Pamplona.
Fierce fighting rages near Casablanca as Moors clash with French troops. The attack began Thursday with determined tribesmen, and after hard fighting the Moors were driven back with heavy losses by Algerian tirailleurs under General Drude. The battle resumes despite heavy fire.
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