05 Sep 1911
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1911
Page
1
A dispute arises as the Progressive League did not attempt to prevent reduced rates. The letter section details community concerns and calls for accountability regarding rate changes and the league’s response.
Monroe Progressive League directors met this morning to examine letters from Secretary Col. E W Anderson to railroad officials. They decided the correspondence proves the league did not seek to influence Labor Day celebrations or negate rail rates. The group says the letters, including one with Geo H Smith of Queen and Crescent, are verifiable from railroads and league files.
Monroe Labor Day celebration organizers seek excursion rates from all Louisiana points for September 4 events in Monroe. They ask Progressive League to liaise with Q and C Route and railroads but clarify it is not to be used for a political rally. The railroad replies it will authorize reduced rates for qualifying stations Tallulah to Gibbs.
Tonight and Wednesday expect generally cloudy skies with showers. A Monroe round trip ticket sale is noted for September 3rd with return by September 5th. GEO H SMITH references and labor matters plus Detroit Photo-Engravers union convention opens with delegates from 58 branches and talks on pension funds and education programs.
City School enrollment topped six hundred with two new classrooms easing crowding. Faculty includes Superintendent E L Neville and Principal W Hopkins among many teachers across grades and subjects. Parish High School reports 450 students and some turned away for lack of room. St Hyacinth Academy also opened well with strong faculty and expanded music and crafts offerings.
This brief item notes that the state began introducing rebuttal tests this morning, signaling the start of a legal or formal evaluation phase. The report emphasizes the procedural nature and timing of the testing sequence.
The Illinois Central chief President Markham declines to change course amid ongoing conference disputes. He reiterates a firm position and signals no concessions in the current discussions.
In Italy cholera deaths since January surpass thirty thousand as Italian authorities face violence amid fear and superstition. Residents blame officials for storage and allege poisons are used to kill the poor. The unrest underscores crisis conditions and mistrust of public health measures.
The Kimball Corrupt Practices Act enacted last session was tested in Ohio primaries across the state. Laws require filing within ten days after elections detailing money spent by candidates and party groups with a full accounting of expenditures. Results awaited in Cincinnati Toledo Columbus and other large cities as the law aims to bring political money moves into public view.
The International presidents of five shop crafts in San Francisco refuse to negotiate changes, arguing the par amount interest is traveling and shipping public. In Chicago, Federated Unions officials delay a strike decision on Illinois Central lines after a meeting, content to adjourn for lunch.
Hon. Arthur Drysdale a Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Nova Scotia was born in New Annan Colchester County on September 5 1857. He studied law at Windsor N S and was called to the bar in 1883 before moving to Halifax and rising in the legal profession. In 1891 he joined the Nova Scotia legislative assembly and after the general election was named Commissioner of Public Works and Mines. He has served on the bench since 1907.
A national convention of the National Farmers Union opens in Shawnee Oklahoma for a three day session with delegates from a 2,000,000 membership across more than half the states. Discussions include reciprocity with Canada parcel post immigration limits and stopping gambling in farm products. Sheriff John Taylor reports a horse theft arrest in Union parish.
The Italian government seeks to empower U S treaty authority to settle estates of foreigners dying in the United States without wills. California public officials oppose it, arguing no such power exists. The case channels the Japanese school issue and could redefine state sovereignty and federal treaty reach.
A brief notice outlines actions to break the Italian treaty and settle estate matters. Proceedings reference authorities and required filings, with deadlines implied for participants and heirs. The notice emphasizes legal steps and distribution of assets under applicable laws.
Referee Smith cites Gotch securing a decisive lock that ends the bout. Hackenschmidt cries out "Don't hurt my toe" then "Don't break my leg" and collapses with froth at the mouth, forced to the mat as the referee declares Gotch the winner.
Rev. O. E. Davis, superintendent of the British Guinea mission of the Seventh Day Adventists, was murdered in the interior while proselyting among natives near Georgetown on September 5.
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