Miners on Stand Call Mine Inspectors in Strike Test
At the anthracite strike commission the miners announce fears that informing inspectors about dangerous mine places could cost them their jobs, since company representatives often accompany inspectors. Fireman witness describes low pay and 12 hour shifts with no relief on some Sundays. The Hazleton area conditions are labeled deplorable by a local priest, who notes crowded churches and high funeral debts.
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Scranton
Anthracite Strike Commission
Hazleton
Middle
Coxe
Commission
New York
W. W. Ross
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company
Metropolis
Jackson Ansbach
James V. Hussie
St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church
Hussie
Fourteen Die In Chicago Hotel Fire At Lincoln Hotel
Fire at the Lincoln Hotel on Madison Street trapped guests on the second floor. Some suffocated or burned as they could not escape. others jumped or fled as a faulty fire escape failed. About 30 reached safety, while three men fell to their deaths outside.
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Chicago
Lincoln Hotel
Madison
Ex-Speaker Reed in Critical Condition with Uraemia
Washington reports ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed remains critically ill after illness begun Tuesday. Bulletin notes uraemic coma earlier in the day, appendicitis subsiding, and that his mind is clear. Doctors Gardner Goodnow and Macdonald led consultations at the hotel.
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Washington
Thomas B. Reed
Gardner
Reed
Remembers His Emploes Bernard Baker to Distribute Large Sum
Bernard N. Baker former Atlantic Transport Company president now with International Mercantile Marine plans stock distributions totaling nearly 500000 among about 300 past employees in New York Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago St Louis and Minneapolis. Eligible workers with one year or more service receive 1000 in stock. those losing positions after January 1 get 2000 in stock plus additional sums for long-time staff.
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Bernard Baker
Atlantic Transport Co
Baltimore
Bernard N. Baker
Atlantic Transport Company
International Mercantile Marina Company
Baker
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Pension Appropriation Increases In House Bill
The House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved a pension appropriation totaling 139 million 847 thousand 600 dollars. The bill allocates 1339 million 47 thousand 600 dollars, an increase of 5 million 370 thousand dollars from the current year.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt amendments voted down and immigration bill debate
The House approved a $50,000 appropriation for the anthracite coal commission and adjourned to Friday. Debate centered on the commission's authority and salaries. Senate session opened with immigration law discussions and a substitute statehood proposal to admit Oklahoma and Indian territories as one state, with December 10 set as unfinished business date.
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Senate
de Graffenreid
Sheppard
Texas
Nelson
Committee On Territories
Oklahoma
Indian Territories
Quay
Steamer Progreso Explosion Kills and Mists Men
A harbor blast on the steamer Progreso at Fulton Iron Works Harbor View San Francisco left 12 men missing and many injured. The vessel then under conversion from coal to oil carrier suffered a tank explosion sending flames, wreckage, and men overboard, with three sailors disappearing in the smoke.
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San Francisco
Progreso
Fulton Iron Works
Harbor View
Audit Finds Misuse by Millville Secretary Howell
The Millville Building and Loan Association audit committee reports $165000 misappropriated by secretary B L Howell over the past fifteen years. They request the county prosecutor obtain his arrest and detectives pursue Howell in New York where he is believed to be.
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Howell
Ben
New York
Nto
Week's News Condensed From November 29
A weekly digest notes John J. Allen of Chicago, a railroad man, died in London with body to be sent home. Ky a Kemble College student died from injuries after a Marshall Mo football game. Currie Fertilizer plant in Lou taville burned with $60,000 loss insured. Adolf Lorenz awarded doctor of laws by Northwestern University. Italy to establish Genoa Buenos Aires wireless telegraphy. Ambassador Cambon recalled. US Chamber of Commerce to form in Berlin. Wis Central Railway telegraph operators receive $5 monthly raise. National Jewish Women convention opens in Baltimore. New Hampshire revising state constitution in Concord. Nelson and Frank Hamilton drowned skating at Millersburg Mich. U.S. public debt below September figure. Guthrie Oklahoma capitalists chartered to build 1000 mile Enid to San Diego railroad. Salem Wales linked to War Secretary Root. Knox urges higher judicial salaries. Lippincott Fryberger Dunlap arrested for New Holland post office robbery. Brookville factory destroyed by fire. Butler portrait unveiled in Boston. B&M orders 20 locomotives. Two trainmen killed in Chattanooga wreck. bodies cremated. Allentown fire damages Bittner Hunsicker Co. loss 150000. Vanderbilt descendant released from asylum. Ohio miners seek 20 cent coal raise. Two Detroit children burned to death. Two workers killed at Cranberry mine Hazleton. Roosevelt denies pardon to McKnight in Louisville bank embezzlement case.
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John J. Allen
Chicago
London
Bunce‘ Quarles
Boonyilia
Kemble ‘College
Marshall
Currie Fertilizer Company
Loutaville
Adolf Lorenz
Vienna
Northwestern University
Genoa
Buenos Ayres
Cambon
France
Roosevelt
Wisconsin Central Railway
National Council of Jewish Women
Baltimore
New Hampshire
Concord
Nelson
Frank Hamilton
Millersburg
Mich
Secretary of the Treasury
Guthrie
Q O. T
Oklahoma
Enid
C. T
San Diego
Cal
Salem H. Wales
War Root
New York
Knox
Congress
John Lippincott
G. M. Fryberger
Albert Dunlap
Lancaster
New Holland
Brookville Manufacturing Company
Brookville
Ind
Benjamin F. Butler
State House
Boston
Boston and Maine Railroad
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Queen and Crescent
Chattanooga
Tenn
Allentown
Bittner, Hunsicker & Co
William Vanderbilt Allen
Commodore. Vanderbilt
Westport
Conn
Columbus
Ohio
Kinsley Bowers
Detroit
Elmer Kirschner
Gustave ‘Strack
Cranberry
Hazleton
J.M. ‘McKnight
Louisville
German National Bank of
Market report shows steady prices across Philadelphia commodities
Philadelphia market notes December 4 show steadiness in beef and pork values with pork family at 21 to 22 dollars, beef hams 19 to 20, eggs 27.5 cents per dozen, creamery butter 31 cents, live poultry hens 12.5 cents, dressed fowls 14 cents, and grains including wheat No 2 red at 76 to 76.5 cents, rye flour 3.20 to 3.25, corn yellow 66 cents, oats 37 cents, timothy hay 17.50 to 18 per hundred. Prices hold across mills and potatoes 63 to 65 cents per bushel.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New York
East Buffalo and East Liberty cattle markets mixed after steady to firm prices
Cattle and hogs showed mixed movement with steers steady to firm in Buffalo and East Liberty. Prime cattle ranged around $6.25 to $6.50 for steers, cows near $2.75 to $2.75, while hogs traded heavily around $6.50 to $6.60, and lambs and sheep varied with tops near $5.10 to $5.50 for lambs and ewes around $3.50.
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Buffalo
Dee
Keece
East Liberty
Iine
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Anthracite Coal Commission
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NEW Holland Coach Works
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Munn & Co
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Henry R. Bair
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Farl Township
Henry St. Bair
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Crosby
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Rochester, N. Y
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