Debs and Gompers testify on strikes and arbitration
President Debs of the ARU told strike commissioners he did not favor compulsory arbitration and questioned universal acceptance of such a method. Samuel Gompers outlined AFL aims, defended strikes as tools to spotlight poverty and supported the rail strike as justifiable while critiquing the commission’s inquiry. He warned the Briggs House conference could not unify all unions for a general sympathy strike and remained skeptical of the investigation’s value.
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Curiaco
Debs
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Federation
Briggs House
Wright Confirms Pullman Car Annual Pass
Chicago August 27 United States Labor Commissioner Carroll D Wright confirms he holds an annual Pullman car pass and uses it freely He says Pullman gave the pass and that Pullman is a personal friend dating from his first Pullman investigation and continues to be a warm ally.
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Wright
Chicago
United States Labor
Carroll D. Wright
Special Labor Commission
Cleveland
Mr. Pullman
Pullman
Will Build Carshops In Hiawatha Kansas
A company of ex-employer Pullman workers backed by Chicago capitalists organizes to build cars and general manufacturing shops at Hiawatha Kansas. Local men take 50000 in stock while Chicago capitalists supply 200000. The company will operate on a cooperative plan.
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Kansas City
Star
Hiawatha
Kan
Pullman
Ezeta Under Arrest Aboard Bennington in San Francisco
United States Marshals boarded the gunboat Bennington to arrest General Antonio Ezeta and fellow refugees. Consul Calderon, Deputy Marshals, and Navy officers coordinated at Mare Island. the tug carried them to the Bennington, which then headed to San Francisco Bay and moored at the Golden Gate. The prisoners remain aboard pending shore arrangements.
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United States
Bennington
San Francisco
Antonio Ezeta
United States District Court
Navy de Sohne
Department of
Calderon
Baldwin
Stoney
Mare Island Naval Station
Thomas
Navy Department
Marshal Baldwin
San Francisco Bay
Golden Gate
Judge Hanecy Refuses Leave to File Against Pullman
Attorney General Maloney failed to obtain leave to file information in quo warranto against the Pullman Palace Car Co before Judge Hanecy. The judge would not hear the motion and Maloney said he would seek another judge to challenge the Pullman charter.
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Pullman Company
Cuscaco
Maloney
Hanecy
Pullman Palace Car Company
Rankin
Haneey
Franks mined tragedy claims thirty seven lives in Cr ee de mine
A gas fire and a shaft disaster at the Amethyst mine in Creede Colo kills four miners directly and leaves thirty seven others dead at the Franklin mine near Seattle nearly all workers were caught in brest 62 and succumbed to smoke and fumes. Rescue crews recovered bodies along the sixth north level with many workers found in the gangway faces down in mud.
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Creede
Colo
Amethest
Franklin
Seattle
Wash
Brest
Oregon Improvement Company
Washington
Brests
Brest 62
M. D. Story
Frightful boiler explosion in Frankfort saw mill
Two men killed and six injured in a boiler explosion at Peltramo's saw mill Frankfort Indiana on August 27. The blast wrecked the mill and several nearby residences with flying debris injuring occupants. Victims identified as John Vermillion and William Jackson.
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Frankfort
Ind
Peltramo
John Vermillion
William Jackson
Florida's Lemon Crop Expands Boosting Imports
New York reports Florida expects its lemon harvest to reach 200000 boxes this year, about four times last season's total, signaling a strong lift to fruit imports.
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Florida
New York
Killed a railway detective in Deerfield hold up
Two masked men stopped a northbound freight on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line near Deerfield after the train halted for water. A road detective was fatally shot in the caboose as the bandits took the conductor’s watch and fled into darkness. No clues to their identities were found.
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Chicago
Curiaco
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road
Deerfield
Cook
Lake Counties
Larzen
Miners Die in Gilberton Gas Explosion Near Ashland
An explosion at Gilberton colliery near Ashland Pennsylvania killed two men Frank McCormack fire boss and Lewis Ball driver and injured eleven others. A coal fall released gas and flames swept gangways igniting with naked lamps. Rescue teams rushed responders erected a temporary hospital and moved wounded to hospitals.
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Ashland
Gilberton
Frank McCormack
Lewis Ball
Syrup of Figs Promoted as Gentle Laxative Remedy
An advertisement extols Farap of Biss as a pure liquid laxative benefiting the body and easing headaches fevers and constipation. It claims the remedy acts on the kidneys and bowels without weakening them, is free from objectionable substances, and is sold as Syrup of Figs by the California Fig Syrup company with a 98 cent bottle price.
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Avivu
California
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ARIVE
TRA Passenger
E. B. McIntyre
Yankton
B. A. Bobb
M. D
Security Bank
Mitchell
South Dakota
Houses and Hearths
Elegant Household Monthly
Homes and Hearths Publishing CO
Ezeta
MEI
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
St, Paulo
Northern Pacific General Freight Department
Duluth
Superior
West Superior
Northern Pacific Railroad
Hudson
Pop
Franklyn
Lvania
Dallas
Tex
Paris
Albert Jackson
Cedar County
Wasu Hineton
Senate
Alexandria
NEW Advertisery
Rein
Se Parker
Liscus
Gues
Nakes
Chas. E. Hires Co
Philad
Ana
Thinagura
Thinacuka CO
Broadway
West
John C. West Company
Ill
L. O. Gale
C. West
L. O.gale
Snuggist
S.D
Lunn & CO
Muncations
Munn & Co
Scientific American
New House
Address CO
New Yorke
Wiltse
Cea
L. C. Gale
Winsor
Insurance
Kershaw’s Meat Market
Mitchell, South Dakota
Mrs. Maue
WeSt Thing Street
Boston
Allen & CO
E. T. Hazeltine
Warren
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