Miners Win A Big Victory In Wage Strike Report
Washington March 23 The strike commission issues an eighty seven page report dated March 18 recommending a general 10 percent wage increase with a sliding scale tied to coal prices and a five cent price step triggers. It urges arbitration for disputes and details a joint conciliation board plan while declining to award union recognition.
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Washington
New York
Third Judicial Circuit
United States
Coal and Iron Police
Board of Conciliation
Par
Perete
River Flood Recedes as Memphis Sees Tents for Refugees
The Mississippi River at Memphis is falling and the worst flood is believed over. Mayor Williams has accepted the war secretary’s offer to supply 500 tents for refugees, to be shipped from Jeffersonville, Indiana. Rail lines west of Memphis remain underwater.
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Memphis
Tenn
Williams
Secretary of War
Jeffersonville
Ind
Let's Get Married: Roy Proposes and They Wed in Chicago
Roy Kroesen proposed to Mattie Bristol at 3 p m and they married at 6 10 p m in a rush schedule ending with a supper and a call to relatives. The 19 year old bride is the daughter of Ir Bristol of 6710 Perry avenue. The groom is two years older.
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Roy
Mattie
Chicago
Roy Kroesen
Mattie Bristol
Mr. Kroesen
Miss Bristol
Wentworth Avenue
James Libbey
F. W. Bristol
Englewood
Ir. W. Bristol
Perry Avenue
Mormons Make Plea for Sanity Inquiry Pardon
Officials of the Mormon church plan a strong appeal to Governor Odell for the pardon of William Hooper Young, serving a life sentence at Sing Sing. Lawyer Hart will present a petition requesting a commission to examine Young’s sanity.
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Odell
New York
Wiliam Hooper Young
Sing Sing
Hart
Young
Mrs Maybrick to be released in 1904 in Britain
London reports say Florence Maybrick will be freed next year after life imprisonment for poisoning her husband. Home Office authorization allows her to testify in suing over land in Kentucky Virginia and West Virginia delaying trials pending her release. The case has long strained Anglo American relations and drawn sympathy for the American defendant.
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London
Florence Maybrick
Home Office
Washington
Kentucky
Virginia
West Virginia
Home
Akers-Douglas
America
Maybrick
Atlantic
Herbert
Htgaon
MISS ASTOR ENGAGED TO ROMANIAN MINISTER
Vienna reports the engagement of Pauline Astor to M Bratianu the Romanian foreign minister. Rumors allege a Bucharest scandal and Bratianu sought crown prince intervention. Other accounts claim Bratianu's debt and speculation on Astor fortune.
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Vienna
Roumanian
Wiener Journal
M. Sratiano
Pauline Astor
Bucharest
Miss Astor
Bratiano
Roumania
Astor
South Bend Watch Co Opens $1.6 Million Factory
Clem ent Studebaker Jr., president of the South Bend Watch Company, pressed the button to start a new $1,600,000 factory in South Bend Indiana. The plant will employ 1,500 watchmakers and produce 1,200 watches daily.
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Studebakers
South Bend
Ind
Clement Studebaker, Jr
South Bend Watch Company
Reading Company Stores Coal For Winter
In Philadelphia on March 24 the Reading company reports reduced coal traffic allowing filling of storage bins. Weekly shipments on the Reading main line fall from 10 000 to 7 000 cars, while chestnut pea and buckwheat are stored. strong demand for anthracite continues to move westward.
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Reading Company
Philadelphia
Reading Main
Six Miners Die in Athens Gas Explosion
Springfield reports six miners were killed and one injured after a gas explosion at a mine near Athens in Menard County. Nine men were present. two escaped as crews tried to reopen a blocked entry to vent gas. Names of the dead and the lone injured were listed among the victims.
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Springfield
Ill
Athens
Menard County
John Rogers
Fred Impre
Gorndoref
James Patrick
August Noel
David Myers
Carl Joerjnich
Frantic Fiskedale Mother Kills Four Children Then Self
In Fiskedale Massachusetts a 34 year old mother Mrs Peter Burke killed her four children Lily 6 William 5 Louise 14 May 6 months and then cut her own throat before setting the house on fire The community learned of the tragedy after two boys reported smoke and neighbors fought the blaze The motive appears mental derangement with the father and relatives shocked by the brutal act
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Massachusetts
Southampton
Mass
Fiskedale
Peter Burke
Lily
William
Louise
May
Mrs. Burke
Shhildren
Peace in Uruguay Tablegram Reports Mutual Commissions
A Montevideo telegram from Rear Admiral Sumner reports peace seems assured with mutual commissions being formed to settle distates in Uruguay. No further details are provided.
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Uruguay
Washington
Sumner
Montevideo
Markets Report From Sioux City and Major Cities
Sioux City live stock prices show hogs at 7.00 to 7.50, cattle from 2.00 to 6.00, with mixed markets. Chicago quotations indicate hogs 7.15 to 7.70, cattle and sheep steady to higher. Omaha and Kansas City round out regional shifts with hogs strengthening and cattle steady, calves and sheep varying by class.
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Sioux City
Chicago
South
Omaha
Kansas City
Texas
Grain and Provisions Market Notes From Chicago and Minneapolis
Grain prices in Chicago on March 24 show flour dull, wheat No. 2 spring 68 75c, No. 2 red 71 71 1 2c, corn No. 2 42c, oats No. 2 2 1 2c, barley 42 53c, flax seed No. 1 1.11, Provisions with mess pork 18.00 18.05, lard 10.10 10.20, short rib sides 9.70 9.90, dry salted shoulders 8.75 8.87, whisky 1.30. Butter steady creamery 1.74c, dairy 1.42c. Eyes easy at market. Cheese steady 13 13 4c. Minneapolis notes wheat May 73c on track, hard ice northern 75c, No 2 northern 73 3 4c. Duluth reports wheat to arrive No. 1 hard 74c, No. 1 northern 73 3 4c, May 3c, July ?.
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Chicago
Senate Ratifies The Cuban Treaty In Senate Session
The Senate ratified the Cuban reciprocity treaty by a 50 to 16 vote after a day of executive sessions and debates. Senators Foster Berry Carmack Simmons spoke for and against the pact with proposed amendments on sugar duties and imports. Final adjournment followed the rousing vote and a note the president had no further communications.
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Washington
Senate
Foster
Louisiana
Cuba
Berry
Carmack
Simmons
North Carolina
Committee On Foreign Relations
United States
Cullom
Nelson
Burton
Bacon
Senator McEnery
McEnery
Newlands
Union
Yeas
Aldrich
Alger
Allee
Allison
Ankeny
Ball
Beveridge
Blackburn
Burnham
Burrows
Clark
Wyoming
Cockrell
Depew
Diet
Rich
Dolliver
Dryd Elkins
Fai
Foraker
Ates
Fulton
Gallinger
Gamble
Gorman
Han’ Na
Hansbrough
Heyburn
Hopkin Kean
Latimer
Lodge
Long
McComas
McCreapy
McCumber
Overmai
Penrose
Perkins
Smoot
F Spooner
Stewart
Stone
Warren
Wetmore
Batley
Bard
Bate
Bemack
Glark
Mallory
Martin
Money
Morgan
Pettis
Talia
Ferro
Kearns
Hale
Gibson
Millard
Proctor
Clarke
Arkansas
Scott
Quay
McLaurin
Dillingham
Clapp
Tillman
Kittridge
Platt
New York
Patterson
Connecticut
Hawl
Teller
Mitchell
Clay
Biba Quarles
Culbertson
Hoar
Allison and
Colombia
White House
Cuba and United States Ratify Reciprocal Trade Treaty
The Cuban Reciprocity Treaty, ratified by the Senate, preserves duty free entry for preexisting free goods while applying a 20 percent reduction on other Cuban imports and U S products entering Cuba. Tobacco faces no Cuban concessions. The pact lasts five years with possible extensions and denouncement options.
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Senate
Washington
United States
Cuba
Palma Gratified by U S Senate Ratification of Cuban Treaty
President Palma expressed gratification at the U S senate ratification of the Cuban reciprocity treaty. He noted a possible house action and welcomed Roosevelt’s autumn session plan to allow discussion and action. Businessmen in Havana see renewed hope for favorable rates and duties. The treaty hinges on U S sovereignty over the Isle of Pines.
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Havana
Palma
Associated Press
United States Senate
House
Roosevelt
Senate
United States
Isle of Pines
Don’t Favor It Colombian States Oppose Canal Treaty
March 21 report from Colon says opposition grows among Colombian supporters of the Panama route after the Hay Herran treaty ratification by the U S Senate. Indications from Bolivar department and other regions point to strong congressional opposition when congress meets in late May. Influential figures at Carthagena sign a memory adverse to the treaty.
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Colon
Hay-Herran
United States
Senate
Panama
Department of Bolivar
Congress
Carthagena
Masonic Scandal Exposes Draper Admission in New York
Revelations after Shang Draper was found to be a Mason generate shock in the grand lodge as authorities move toward suspensions and expulsions. Draper already a Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason joined Mt. Zion chapter as a broker in November in the first class.
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Draper
New York
Shang Draper
Crandall
Grand Lodge
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Mt. Zion
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Anthracite Strike Commission
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Garnest
National Dressmakers’ Association
Carolyn Angford
Duluth
Fred G. Elms
Mme. Baker
BIG Watch Factory
Grain Markets
Minneapolis
Northern
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