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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1902
Page
2
Train Nos 01 and 509 offer sleeping cars between Mankato and Chicago penne dining cars between Winona Stacy and Mankato Minneapolis. Trains 601 and SL provide sleeping cars between Minneapolis and Redfield South Dakota. For details contact agent H L Beecher and general agents A C Johnson W B Kniekern Winona Chicago G P A.
Three masked men wrecked Burlington train No 41 four miles from Lincoln using explosives on the express car. They rifled the safe and seized about 1500 dollars before aiding messenger to reopen the car quickly and neatly. Conductor C A Lyman and Engineer A L Clayburgy reported the stop on the hill between Lincoln and Woodlawn.
Military heads prepare to enforce order as negotiations fail between city officials, New Orleans Railway Company, and striking carmen. Local militia ready to respond, country parishes ordered to stand by, and a strong citizens committee forms to support the effort.
Reports detail a daring express train robbery near Lincoln with dynamited safe and $850,000 loss, plus multiple labor actions across cities including Chattanooga and New York. Other items cover preachers gathering in Philadelphia, naval trials on the Stewart destroyer, and political events in Cuba and Canada.
President Mitchell arrived at strike headquarters in Wilkes-Barre from New York and refused comment on his trip. He defended the miners union against a charge of illegality, while calls grow for AFL involvement. Separately, 25 bars of anthracite coal were shipped from Lykens Valley with no disturbance, and a deputy’s house near Minersville was dynamited injuring a daughter.
Washington reports the death of Congressman John L Shepherd of Texarkana Texas on a Saturday in Eureka Springs Arkansas after a long illness. The funeral is set for October 24 with notification sent to the Speaker of the House but no committee yet appointed. In Buffalo NY a separate note mentions the National Association of Bidet Furnive Workers and smelters electing vice president James McMahon of Struthers Ohio.
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