Founders' Week snubs spark fleet departure in Philadelphia
The U S battleships and revenue cutters left Philadelphia harbor after feeling slighted by the Founders Week Executive Committee. Rear Admiral Marix and staff were not invited to the Mayor's Banquet, causing criticism of the committee. Navy officers reported delays and neglect in invitations and escorts, and the fleet sailed away after seven days of festivities.
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New-York Times
Philadelphia
U. S
U.S
Marix
Ispham
Ellevue Stratford
Hicks
Grady
Department
Revenue Cutter Fleet
Stetson
New Hampshire
New York
North Carolina
Norfolk
Navy Yard
Reyburn
Admiral Arnold
The
Dolphin
City Hall
Pairmount Park
Schuylkill
Knights Templars
City Hall Plaza
Carnegie Aids Lutherans With Endowment Gift
Gov Johnson presented a 42500 check to the Minnesota Conference of the Swedish Lutheran Church for Gustavus Adolphus College at St Peter. Of the total, 32500 came from Andrew Carnegie and the rest from contributions Johnson solicited. The gift was kept secret until today drawing an eager crowd of ministers and lay members.
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ST. Paul
Gov.Johnson
Minnesota
Swedish “Lutheran Church
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter
St. Paul Auditorium
Andrew Carnegie
Gov. Johnson
Union leaders arrested in Chicago assault case
Three union labor officials were arrested in Chicago on October 10 for assaulting Joseph Leinhitz Schultz, a witness against Con Shea, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, in a conspiracy trial following the 1905 teamsters strike. Hammond, Miller, and Warren allegedly attacked Schultz near Fifth Avenue and Harrison Street, with Hammond wielding a revolver. Schultz was chased and knocked down under a railroad subway.
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Chicago
Joseph Leinhitz
Schultz
Hammond
Miller
Harrison Street
Thief Confesses Vault Robbery After Hidden Four Days
Edward Wieren, 19, confessed to stealing 700 dollars from the W and D Allen Manufacturing vault in Chicago. He hid inside the vault four days, attacked the door opener Henry Gibbs, fled with cash, and deposited 600 dollars in a Chicago bank before fleeing to Muskegon Michigan where police later traced him.
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Chicago
Edward Wieren
W. and D. Allen Manufacturing Company
Henry Gibbs
Wieren
Muskegon
Mich
Douglas’s Poverty Taints Lincoln Douglas Celebration
Chicago, Oct. 10. One of Stephen A. Douglas’s last acts was to write to Alderman Michael Kenna asking for transportation to Galesburg for the Lincoln Douglas debate semicentennial. Kenna could not secure a pass, keeping the impresive figure from attending last Wednesday. Douglas’s modest finances were known only to a few friends, masking a poignant end for the son of the famed orator.
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Chicago
Stephen A. Douglas
Michael Kenna
Galesburg
Douglas
America
Government Appeals in Hepburn Act Coal Case
The government docketed its appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the Pennsylvania coal transport rulings. Six railroads are named including Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, Erie, Delaware & Hudson, Lackawanna & Western, and New Jersey Central across twelve cases. Government seeks injunctions and mandamuses to enforce the commodities clause. Courts may hear the matter around the Christmas holidays.
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Washington
Governent
United States Circuit Court
Eiern District of Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the United States
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley
Erie
Delaware & Hudson
Lackawanna & Western
New Jersey Central
Women’s Foresters adjourns amid court push for action
In Detroit on October 1 the Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters ended its biennial convention sine die while High Chief Ranger Elizabeth Rodgers refused to install Rose P D Rittmann of Minneapolis. Miss Bessie Murphy installed Rittmann, triggering Rodgers to say she would pursue the dispute in Chicago courts.
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Detroit
Women's Catholic Order of Foresters
Elizabeth Rodgers
Irigh
Rose PD. Rittmann
Minneapolis
Mrs. Rodgers
Mrs. Rittmann
Chicago
Philadelphia murder suicide after duping wife
Frederick Wissman a traveling salesman shot his wife at a hotel in Philadelphia after telephoning detectives he would kill her then killed himself. Mrs Wissman wounded and likely to recover, Wissman 45, previously sought in New Jersey for passing bad checks. Police suspect he acted to prevent wife informing on him. motive unclear.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
City Hall
Frederick Wissman
Twelfth and Cambria Streets
Wissman
Detective Bureau
North Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Newark
Edward Katz
South Twelfth Street
Katherine Burke Wissman
Frederick C.wissman
Katz
Appellate Division Upholds Union Only Labor Contract
The Second Department in Brooklyn sustains a Printing Company labor pact to hire only union men. Kissam Mills and Driscoll, employees, contested the contract as coerced but the court ruled the agreement valid and binding, upholding Judge Marean’s ruling and the unions’ actions.
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Supreme Court
Second Department
Brooklyn
William Kissam
William F. Mills
George H. Driscoll
United States Printing Company
Kissam
Mills
Driscoll
Printing Company
Marean
Alfred
Charles Steckler
Appellate Division
Coroner Acritelli Salary Dispute Heads to Receiver
Albert M. Yuzzolino as receiver in bankruptcy sought the Coroner Peter P. Acritelli’s salary of 500 dollars a month. Acritelli had assigned salary to Louis Mouquin for October 1907 loans and payments to Mouquin covered June to August. Judge Adams ruled the coroner currently holds no money for the receiver, but may request an examination order if desired.
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Albert M. Yuzzolino
Peter P. Acritelli
Elizabeth Street
Acritelli
Louis Mouquin
Louis Mouquin For Loans Made In October, 1907, Amounting To $2.40. Mr. Mouquin
Mouquin
Adams
Tug Runs Ashore with Navy Officers at White Point
A government naval tug ran ashore at White Point near the entrance to the Bremerton navy yard. Distress whistles drew a steamer that rescued naval officers and their wives stranded on the beach. The tug was subsequently pulled off undamaged by the naval tug Paw.
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Seattle
Wash
Sep
White Point
Brisone Navy Yard
Paw
Winter distress plan eyed by New York charity leaders
City charity workers meet to discuss plans for a harsher winter with rising destitution. Edmond Kelly promotes labor colonies while officials push municipal lodging houses at Twenty fifth Street and First Avenue to shelter up to 1000. Officials aim to avoid attracting professional vagrants while bolstering existing charitable machinery.
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Hebbard
Department of Charities
R. W. Bruere
Association For Improving
Edmond Kelly
Charles L. Brace
Children’s Aid Society
Orlando F. Lewis
Charity Organization Society
Emergencia
New York
Atlantic
Twenty-fifth Street
East River
First Avenue
Association For
Vagrant Reform Plans Probed by Commission
An investigation outlines options for relegating vagrants to colonies where they perform work in agriculture and meat production. Officials envision self-sustaining inmates under supervision, with experiments cited from Switzerland Holland and Belgium as models for reducing vagrancy by relocating offenders to farm labor programs.
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T Sioner
Tate
Switzmany
Hollami
Royal Commission of
Englin
Unemployed urged to work on new rapid transit sub-station
A proposed five month construction project plans a large power sub-station on the south side of Eighth Street near Brooklyn, to support rapid transit lines. The facility will be tall with mezzanine space, housing transformers and batteries, while the old Thirty-ninth Street station is slated for widening and a new underground cable setup for transits.
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Sid Eighth
Fir Brooklyn
Ital
STANDARD OIL CODE STOLEN AT OKIN WAREHOUSES
The secret code of the Stinda pany was reported lost in Okin May 1. W A Ledbetter, general counsel for Waters Piercy Oil Oklahoma, said a valise containing the code was stolen by a thief believed to be a 13 year old boy. A copy of the code was also taken.
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Millskogef
Okin
Get
Stinda Pany
Pacoveret
Av. Wise
W. A
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