Campaign Against Crimps Opens After Ship Agent Murder
Alfred Childs the shipper and boarding house fighter faces murder trial in the Tombs with backing from seamen societies and missions. Prosecution alleges self defense by Childs, while supporters plan a broad crusade against crimping and the boarding house system to curb brutal assaults on deep water sailors.
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Alfred Childs
Patrick Malone
Supreme Court
Seaman's Boarding House Association
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society For Seamen
Pike St
East River
Childs
A. R. Mansfield
W. C. Stitt
American Seamen's Friend
Foriety
West St
Sailors’ Home
Protestant Episcopal Church
Marketst
Malone
Pearl St
Army
Frank José
James W. McLaughlin
Louis S. Chanler
Clark H. Abbott
Legal Aid Society
Abbott
Boarding House Association
China
Benjamin F. Packard
Clifton
Staten Island
Palma Forces Wood to Reverse Judge Removals
Havana reports General Wood will rescind his order on the irremovability of Supreme Court judges appointed by him. President Palma challenged the curtailment of his powers, asserting independence in appointments and removals, and won a personal triumph that reshapes Cuban governance dynamics.
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Havana
Tribune
Wood
Supreme Court
Palma
Washington
Central Valley
New Cuban government teht orders join Platt framework
General Wood announces that all Cuban orders operate only under military occupation and that US immigration exclusion and contract labor laws are now part of Cuban law. Palma forms cabinet with Tamayo Zaldo Terry Diaz Yero Montes and Garcia Montes guiding public works education and finance as the island stabilizes. The Boston Knickerbocker Limited to Shore Line route advertised.
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Havana
United States
General Wood
Cuba
Palma
Maximo Gomez
Sefer Palma
Diego Tamayo
Sénier Tamayo
Revolutionary Board
Carlos Zaldo
Department of State and Justice
Sefior Zaldo
Juan Gualberto Gomez
Emilio Terry
Department of Agriculture
Sefior Terry
Manuel Luciano Diaz
Department of Public Works
Sefior Diaz
Matanzas
Eduardo Yero
Department of Instruction
Sefior Yero
Island
Garcia Montes
Department of Finance
Air Line Limited
Boston
Shore Line
Nning
Knickerbocker Limited
Nationwide coal strike threat voices in Hazleton convention
Wilkesbarre May 16 Special delegates at the Hazleton convention warned that a national coal strike could unfold if their resolution is followed. The analysis cites 156,500 miners affected across Pennsylvania and other states, with millions in wages and coal value at stake impacting railroad workers and related industries.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Hazleton
Pennsylvania
United States
Mitchell
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers’ Convention
50 000 Railroad Men Out Pushes Strike Fallout
News from Hazleton shows miners extend the strike forcing railroads to cut trains and lay up crews. The Philadelphia and Reading Railway and other coal carriers suspend thousands of workers and halt coal shipments across multiple divisions. President Baer travels to New York amid industry meetings as shipments stop.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
Hazleton
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Shamokin
Catawissa
Shenandoah Branch
Williamsport
Newbury Junction
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reading
Penn
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
New-York
Baer
New York
Hope to End Coal Strike Progress Through Arbitration Talks
The National Civic Federation weighs using its good offices and arbitration to resolve the anthracite coal strike. A tentative discussion with Ralph M. Easley, Senator Hanna, and Samuel Gompers explored possible settlement paths, with no decision yet and a delay before next steps. Easley left for New York at midnight.
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Washington
National Civic Federation
Ralph M. Easley
Federation
New York
Hanna
Samuel Gompers
Mr. Easley
Three Hundred Foreign Miners Ready to Work Coal
A Lithuanians and Poles committee claimed 300 non English speaking miners will petition to reopen mines near Scranton and expected to muster 3000 men Monday. Delaware and Lackawanna officials said mines would open for any certified miner, while United Mine Workers leaders doubt the plan and blame corporate influence. Separately Hazleton miners push for a nationwide strike to back regional action.
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Scranton
Penn
Phillips
Delaware and Lackawanna Company
United Mine Workers
Croker declares no interference with Nixon in Tammany affair
London May 16 Richard Croker defends retirement from New York politics and denies trying to boss Nixon or influence Van Wyck. He says he will visit New York only to see friends not to engage in politics and calls for party unity despite Nixon's resignation.
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Nixon
New York
London
Richard Croker
Tammany Society
England
New-York
Mr. Gladstone
Tammany
Croker
Mr. Croker
Robert A. van Wyck
van Wyck
Feitner
Society For Election
Freedman
Keenan
Whalen
Meyer
Feilner
McClellan
R. B. Roosevelt
Rioters on East Side Rampage Target Kosher Shops
Rioting continued on the East Side with women leading attacks on kosher meat shops while police faced water bags and vegetables hurled from windows. About a hundred people, mostly women, were fined 5 to 10 dollars and many could not pay, risking jail.
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Orchard St
Essex St
Cornell
Rivington St
Trust
James B. Reynolds
Low
Robert Hunter
University Settlement
Frederick A. King
Tribune
R “I
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Jack
Aws
San Francisco
Portland
West Shore
New-York Central
the Tribune Association
the Tribune
Wee Ewee
Bros LG
Civic Federation
Easley
Hanna and Gompers
Wyoming
Morning Telegraph
Advu
Cries Croker
MR. Reynolds
New Jersey Central
Delphia
York
Harrisburg
Pottsville
Pela
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