Debs Indicted and Political Plans in South Dakota
Judge Palmer questions the core of a matter as E. V. Debs and twenty-five others are indicted by a Milwaukee jury. The document shows a Republican state ticket for South Dakota with names like Gamble Pickler Sheldon Herried Thorson Hippie Crawford Crane Lockhart Wheeler Brennan Johnston Conklin Kelsey Spangler Ball Atwood Barber Bennett and others. The piece also discusses tariff policy, immigration limits, and silver and gold as money, plus party unity and protections for labor and capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Robt. J. Gamble
Yankton
J. A. Pickler
Faulk
C. H. Sheldon
Day
C. N. Herried
McPherson
Thos. Thorson
Lincoln
J. E. Hipple
Hutchinson
Kirk G. Phillips
Lawerence
W. H. Helwig
Geo
A. Thomas
Benj. Morse
M. L. Bosa
John Cook
Milo S. Kern
Cattrell
Geo. B. Kelsey
Timon J. Spangler
J.B. Ball
R. J. Atwood
W. A. Barber
B. H. Bennett
Jos
How Spiders Move by Diagonal Limb Action
Nature reports H. H. Dixon studying insect and spider locomotion through instantaneous photographs. He observes that limbs move in diagonal patterns. In insects the first and third legs on one side move with the second on the other, while antennae align with the first leg. In spiders with eight legs, the first and third on one side move with the second and fourth on the other.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Dixon
Express car holdup nets up to two hundred thousand
A seven man gang dynamited an Atlantic coast express car on the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac line and rifled safes carrying an estimated 150000 to 200000 dollars. The robbers fled after blowing the car doors, then ditching the engine at Quantico. Adams Express Company officials and witnesses described a bold, well planned raid with masked assailants and a dramatic escape.
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New York
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Pennsylvania
Jersey City
Adams Express Company
New York City
Atlantic Coast Division
J. M. Shackleford
Quantico Station
Potomac River
Virginia
Express
California Train Robbers Netted Vast Booty in Heist
Sacramento dispatch reports the Central Overland robbery yielded over 50,000 in booty from four sacks of coin between the city and Davidsville. Robbers secured three sacks of gold and one containing the white metal. The incident, dated October 15, highlights the bold railway heist carried out by two criminals who evaded capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Sacramento
Davidsville
Settlers For Minnesota To Move 6000 Polish Slavonian Families
One of Minnesota's largest immigration efforts is under way led by Frank Grygla of the Great Northern. About 6000 Polish and Slavonian families will be directed from Pennsylvania coke regions and eastern cities under the Polish Alliance. Many will settle on railroad and government lands in northern Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sla
Pau
Minnesota
Frank Grygla
Great Northern Railway
Pennsylvania
Polish Alliance
New Stamp Issue Surges as Post Offices See Record Demand
Washington reports the new postage stamp issue is selling fast with daily ordinary stamp usage averaging 20 million across the nation for about a week. Increased orders come from political centers led by New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Chicago. Tammany Hall alone requests 225000 stamped envelopes. Navy dry dock at Port Royal, South Carolina, near completion within a month with dredging of the channel contracted to Rittenhouse Moore Co of Mobile to ready the dock for large battleships and likely removal of the entrance dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WashingTon
Washington Post Office
Post Office Department
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Chicago
Tammany Hall
Navy Dry Docks
Navy Dry Dock
Port Royal
S. C
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Rittenhouse, Moore & Co
Mobile
Ala
Officials Arrested for Gambling in Capital City
Des Moines Indiana October 16 police, judge, fire chief and alderman were arrested on gambling charges for buying pools on races. Bonds posted to appear October 22. Warrants issued by Alexander Haste for federation of churches. Traverse City Michigan October 16 Alva Bradley sank near Fox Island eight fathoms deep. seven crew members and a woman saved by steamer Douglas.
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Des Moines
Capital City
Fred Johnson
Frank Phillips
John Monarch
Alderman McElderry
Alexander Haste
Federation of Churches
Traverse City
Mich
Alva Bradley
Cleveland
Fox Island
North Manitou
Douglas
Bradley
Milwaukee
Major Downey Dead in Wyoming City
Major Owen D. Downey aged 80 died at his son Colonel S W Downey's home in Laraniz Wyoming He was a West Virginia pioneer and held many trusted state posts He had lived in Wyoming about 18 years. case notes: Louis Dinay convicted of murder in Diamond Louisiana based on his son's testimony the victim Adolph Clark an elderly orange grower disappeared and was found dead in the river
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Major Downey
Laraniz
Owen D. Downey
S. W. Downey
West Virginia
Wyoming
Diamond
Louis Dinay
Adolph Clark
Clark
Oakes Cleared by Court In Northern Pacific Ruling
Milwaukee Oct 16 Judge Jenkins confirms Master Carey report exonerating Receiver Oakes. The decision details four questions about directors gains in Manitoba and Rocky Fork deals and affirms Oakes did not know of unlawful gains. It praises his conduct and finds no negligence in Chicago and Northern Pacific lease deal. Mine sale rumors in Huron not authenticated. mine idle two years.
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Milwaukee
Jenkins
United States Circuit Court
Carey
Oakes
Northern Pacific Road
Messrs
Payne and Rouse
Cary
Mr. Oakes
Northern Pacific
Rocky Fork
Cooke City
Manitoba
Chicago
Thomas F. Oakee
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Wisconsin Central Lines
Hunauron, Mich
Huron
Atlantic Mining Company
Laidlaw’s Case Reversed in New Trial Order
New York October 15 The general term of the supreme court reversed a $25,000 damages award to William Laidlaw against Russell Sage for injuries from a dynamite explosion in Sage’s office two years ago. The court ordered a new trial.
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Laidlaw
New York
Supreme Court
William Laidlaw
Russell Sage
Henry A. Norcross
Sage
Punishment planned for pension examiners in Van Leuven frauds
Washington Oct 13 The pension bureau will pursue punishment for remaining members of the pension examiner boards tied to the Van Leuven frauds Indictments have been returned against several physicians One examiner Dr Pegg is dead another’s prosecution dropped due to age and possible mental decline Five boards were involved and about half a dozen more members face prosecution A report by Special Examiner Waite will be sent to the Justice Department urging indictments The Van Leuven cases are among the most significant under review though not as perjury heavy as the Buffalo file The total Van Leuven cases likely 700 to 800 with about one third investigated at least half believed fraudulent
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South Dakota
Yankton
Republican Party
Friends of Protection
Democratic Congress
Sugar Trust
America
Boards of Arbitration
Railway Commission
Union
Commonwealth
Washington
Pension Bureau
Board of
Pension Examiners
van Leuven
Pegg
Waite
Dubuque
Department of Justice
Department
Bown Moore
Buffalo
Murder and Robbery Near Grass Valley Claims Two Laborers
In Grass Valley California on October 13 two railroad laborers Dennis Scanlan and Joseph Kennedy were attacked by two unknown men while returning from work. Kennedy was bound and gagged as Scanlan confronted the attackers, receiving a hammer blow and dying almost immediately. Both men were robbed and Kennedy later freed himself to report the crime. No suspects or clues are known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grass Valley
Cal
Dennis Scanlan
Joseph Kennedy
Kennedy
Scanlan
Convict labor firms deny direct involvement in Stillwater contract
J B Tarbox of Tarbox Schlick Co and Union Shoe and Leather Co of Stillwater deny forming a firm for convict labor. Tarbox claims his firms employ about 200 convicts, supplying footwear for Northwest robbers, contradicting the morning report about a 100-convict Stillwater project. Local details include St Paul and Stillwater ties with prison labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
St. St. Patx
J. B. Tarbox
Stillwater
Tarbox
Northwest
Four Years For Embezzlement in Defiance Case
ToLepo Ohio Oct 13 The circuit court confirmed a four year penitentiary sentence for C E Bronson once a leading Defiance real estate and loan agent who was convicted in the common pleas court of embezzlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ToLepo
Defiance
C. E. Bronson
Common Pleas
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Judge Palmer
E. V. Debs
Kyle
Hartford
Levi P. Morton
Col. M. M. Price
Joe Kindelan
Joe
Mitchell Mail
China
Coffin & Stanton
Deadwood Independent
Omaha Bee
Kansas
O’gorman
O’grover
O’wilson
O'Brice
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
D. W. Reiger
Kansas City
American Association of Bankers
Baltimore
Reiger
Marshalltown
the County Ticket
Republican Platform
Quantico
Burns
London
John Burns
Battersea
England
United States
English Trades Union Congress
Denver Congress of Trades Unions
Unions OF Workingmen
State Department
Stephen Angell
France
Leipsic
Germany
HarriRisstro
W. H. Bryant
Steelton
Central Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal Conference
Anderson
Anna Innes
Steelton High School
Bryant
Frederick T. Day
Plankinton Bank
H. S. Fitzgerald
U.S
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