Miners seek peaceful settlement amid wage talks and strikes
Central competitive field operators meet with United Mine Workers in Chicago to plan a wage scale call. Cotton mills in Connecticut and New England begin full operations after wage cuts. Telegraphers in Chicago vote to strike June 1 and July 1 unless wages rise and eight hour day is granted.
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Ind
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Indiana
United Mine Workers of America
Plainfield
Chicago
Ill
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Adams Street
Western Union Company
Postal Company
Denver
Weather Outlook Iowa and Illinois Showers Likely Soon
Iowa sees increasing clouds with possible showers late tonight or Tuesday. Illinois forecasts fair tonight then unsettled Tuesday, with cooler air in the extreme northeast. Sunrise 5 26. Sunset 6 21.
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Iowa
Sinois
Court enjoins fifteen saloon keepers in Davenport
Davenport election aftermath features Democratic gains and saloon debate. Civic Federation backed by Des Moines secured injunctions against fifteen saloon keepers while two wards elected Democratic aldermen amid a large Democratic plurality. Potential contest in fourth ward over 60 Democratic and 40 Republican ballots rejected as technical.
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Davenport
Civic Federation
Des Moines
George W. Scott
Charles Lindholm
Louis Wiese
Dan Keeler
Theodore Borgholtz
Dedication of Muscatine Congregational Church Captivates City
The beautiful new Congregational church in Muscatine is dedicated with Rev. William W. Newell of Chicago delivering the dedicatory address. The event highlights community pride amid recent local church-building growth. The Davenport association of Congregational churches gathers tonight with notable speakers and a public schedule.
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Muscatine
William W. Newell
Chicago
The
Congregational Building Society
Frank T. Lee
Topeka
Kan
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First Presbyterian Churches
H. D. Herr
J. C. H. Light
J. N. Elliott
New Congregational Church
Davenport Association of Congregational Churches
T. C. MacMillan
United States Circuit Court
National Council
Ida Vose Woodbury
Boston
Horace L. Strain
Iowa City
Malcomb Dana
Maquoketa
Wilson Denney
Cedar Rapids
Charles A. Moore
Davenport
A. N. Hitchcock
W. C. Wilcox
Milton L. Hutton
Marion
Falls to death from window at Auditorium Annex
Chicago April 6 John Alden Hossack 26 of Odell Ill died after jumping or falling from his room window to an air shaft eight stories below at the Auditorium Annex. He was grandson of abolitionist John Aiden Hossack known for his 19th century federal trial. He had traveled to Chicago from Odell to consult physicians over a threatened nervous breakdown.
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Odell
Auditorium Annex
Chicago
Ill
John Aiden Hossack
Canada
Mr. Hossack
Odell, Ill
Aunt Becky Young Civil War Nurse Dies in Des Moines
Des Moines reports the death at 3 o clock this morning of Aunt Becky Young famous nationwide as a civil war nurse. The same morning Major Bt Stukey a pension attorney and prominent grand army man also died.
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Becky Young
Des Moines
Bt Stuckey
Fire destroys Kelly Manufacturing lumber sheds in Iowa City
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the Kelly Manufacturing Company lumber sheds and dry kiln and contents in Iowa City last night. The loss is $4,000 with partial insurance.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Kelly Manufacturing Company
Japs Attack U S Mukden Consulate In Diplomatic Tension
Four Japanese entered the American consulate in Mukden and brutally attacked local staff in retaliation. The assailants were arrested and no apology has yet been offered, risking diplomatic action between powers.
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U. S. Mukden
Mukden
Tenements Over Seas Cause Deaths and Injuries
Multiple city disasters report from London and New York with fall of tenement houses. In Oxford Castle Street two old houses collapse injuring and killing German workers. Pearl Street fire in New York kills one woman and injures many as residents jump from windows. Ellsworth Iowa suffers widespread casualties after a Methodist hall explosion and panic with a gasoline lamp blast during a church event.
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London
Castle Street
Oxford
New York
Pearl Street
Ellsworth
Women's Society of the Methodist Church
Day in Pyrotechnic Stunt at Harlem YMCA
Chancellor Day of Syracuse University addressed a full house at the Harlem YMCA men’s meeting. He rejected claims of national stagnation, praising the world as good and worth living in while humorously noting he'd trade heaven for life on earth if unable to be here.
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New York
Chancellor Day
Syracuse University
Harlem
Day
Scandal Near Pittsburgh Ends in Double Death
Samuel L. Gardner a 59 year old civil engineer from McKee Rocks shot and killed Dorothy Bradney 16 then shot himself through the mouth dying later at a hospital. Gardner married with children. the high profile families and youth made the case sensational with alleged long infatuation.
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Pittsburg
Samuel L. Gardner
McKee Rocks
Dorothy Bradney
Gardner
Bradney
Bryan at Denver Arrives With Notable Delegation
William J. Bryan reached Denver at 10 30 a m accompanied from Colorado Springs by a reception committee led by former Senator Patterson. In a non partisan address to students at Denver University he spoke about unity and civic responsibility.
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Patterson
Denver
Colo
Colorado Springs
William J. Bryan
Denver University
Riots Erupt After Lisbon Election as Troops Fire
Lisbon reports intense rioting after general elections. No official casualty figures yet though observers describe streets red with blood. Ballot counting slows. no Republican candidate yet elected as troops confront mobs and fire.
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Lisbon
Senate Judiciary Committee Acts on Interstate Liquor Shipments
Washington April 6 The senate judiciary committee approved a bill to regulate interstate liquor shipments by ending fictitious consignor names and requiring clear consignor and consignee indications. The house passed Sterling employer liability bill unanimously. Democrats staged a journal roll call while voting with Republicans. The president sent John S Leech of Illinois as public printer to the senate.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Journal
Senate
John S. Leech
Illinois
Riot in Augusta Ends With Fatal Police Shooting
Police reserves battled a negro riot in Augusta Georgia. Mack Fryers, a black man, was fatally shot by officers during the disturbance.
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Augusta
Mack Fryers
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Seeks Annulment of Marriage
New York April 6 counsel for Evelyn Nesbit Thaw filed in the supreme court a suit for the annulment of her marriage on grounds that Thaw was insane at the time of the union. Justice Hendricks appointed Robert D. Deyo as referee to take evidence with three days allowed for testimony.
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New York
N. Y
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Supreme Court
Thaw
Hendricks
Robert D. Deyo
Nebraska delegation explains St Louis convention split
The Nebraska delegation, which bolted the populist national convention in St. Louis, has returned to Omaha and issued a statement. It claims the convention was financed by the Independence league founder to topple both Bryan and Watson.
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Omaha
Neb
St. Louis
Independence League
Bryan
Watson
Taft In Iowa For Short Time
Secretary of War Taft travels through Iowa making stops in Des Moines and Council Bluffs on his Omaha visit. He speaks tonight before the McKinley club in Omaha and addresses railroad workers, outlining his views on labor and capital and urging labor organization.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Chicago
Omaha
Mr. Mischler
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
William H. Taft
McKinley Club
Masonic Temple
Mr. Taft
Quarantine Ordered Against Cuba Excluding Havana District
The marine hospital and public health service issued an order establishing a quarantine beginning today against Cuba with an exception for the Havana metropolitan district. The measure aims to restrict movement and protect public health during the outbreak.
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Washington, D. C
The
Marine Hospital and Public Health Service Today
Havana
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