Strike settled as commission handles coal dispute
Washington reports a six member commission with Carroll D Wright as recorder will hear issues between operators and miners in the anthracite fields. Brig Gen John M Wilson and others named to the panel are to oversee inquiry and passage of terms. The miners will be urged to resume immediately and operations expected next week.
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Washington
Carroll D. Wright
Mitchell
Miners’ Union
Root
White House
John M. Wilson
Washington, D. C
Engineer Corps
Military
Naval Service
United States
E. W. Parker
Parker
Coal Flivision
United States Geological Survey
Engineering and Mining Journal of
New York
George Gray
Wilmington
Del
United States Court
E E. Clark
Cedar Rapide
Order of Railway Conductors
Thomas W. Watkins
Scranton
John LE. Spalding
Peoria
Edict Sanctions $5,000,000 French Rail Loan
An October 15 edict authorizes raising a loan in France of five million dollars. Sheng, director of railroads, will negotiate through the Russian bank. The funds finance a railroad from Ching Ting Fu to Tai Yuen Fu.
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France
Shanghai
Sheng
Rusian Bank
Ching Ting Fu
Tai Yuen Fu
Fire setter jailed over lovesick rage near Loretto
Adolph Kadelboch was jailed in Minneapolis on October 20 for setting fires to barns and warehouses on farms near Loretto. He blamed failed romances, saying disappointed suitors and her parents plotted against him. Homes of Piper Spurzem Miller Thome were targeted before Kadelboch was captured near Thome farm. Farmers guarded properties all night as sheriffs withheld arrest details.
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Alianeapolis
Minn
Dreger
Adolph Kadelboch
Loretto
Charles Piper
Jacob Spurzem
Kadelboch
Leonard Miller
Charles Thome
Farn Kadelboch
Rockford
Kadeliboch
Hennepin County
Winterholter
Sherliff Dreger
PUPILS IN SCHOOLS
The annual report to the Interior shows 17 293 220 pupils in U S schools for year ended June 30 1901, up 278 520 from last year. Public funded by taxes accounts for 15 710 394, with 15 443 462 last year. Special institutions add nearly 500 000 pupils, totaling over seventeen and a quarter million nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commissioner of Education
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Tug Boat Fred Nellis Explosion Toll Near Arkansas
Two persons were killed one fatally and three slightly injured when the tugboat Fred Nellis of St. Louis partially wrecked after an explosion near Mound City Arkansas. The vessel carrying 11 aboard left Memphis bound for Thebes to help build a railroad bridge.
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Memphis
Tenn
Persol
Fred Nellis
St. Louis
Mound City
Arx
Nellis
Plaquemine
Thebes
Moond City
Austrian temperance bill aims to curb drunkenness
Vienna reports a government bill to combat drunkenness as Austria's first such measure. It envisions imprisonment for intoxicated public-place offenders after repeated offenses in six months and limits bottled spirits sales to licensed holders, with one license per 500 inhabitants.
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Vienna
Whch
Austria
Temperance Party
Steam Pipe Parted Causes Scalding at Benwood Plant
Eight men were scalded when a steam pipe fractured at the River aisle plant of National Tube Works in Benwood. Four carpenters and four laborers worked on a scaffold to install a partition in the doiler room of the new blast furnace when the 12 inch copper pipe broke, releasing steam that filled the room and put several workers in danger. Three or four men are reported to die.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Riveraisle
National Tube Works
Benwood
The Strike Declared of
The report notes a strike declared in New York dated October 20. Details are fragmentary but indicate labor action affecting workers and potential industry impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Negro Jim Buchanan Hanged After Guilty Plea in Hicks Family Murder
In Nacogdoches Texas on October 13 Jim Buchanan a colored man confessed to killing the Hicks family. He pled guilty in district court, waiving the 30 day wait and was executed within hours amid militia protection and intense public upheaval.
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Nacogdoches
Tex
Jim Buchanan
Hicks
Buchanan
Nategdoches
Spratley
Sherif Spradley
Farmer Hicks
Spradley
Peary Arctic Club Plans Dinner for Lieut Peary
New York hosts a Friday Peary Arctic club meeting that intends to honor Lieut Peary with a dinner when his health allows. Notables invited include Sir Clements Markham the duke of Abruzzi Alfred Harmsworth and James Gordon Bennett among Arctic explorers and patrons. Peary regrets not reaching the pole but notes discoveries include the globe s northernmost land.
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New York
Peary Arctic Club
Lieut. Peary
Clements Markham
Royal Geographical Society
Duke of
ZIEGLER ENDS TIES WITH BALDWIN POLAR EXPEDITION
New York report says after investigations and meetings led by Wm Ziegler who funded the Baldwin Ziegler polar expedition he severed business relations with Evelyn B Baldwin. He offered no specifics but will pursue a further attempt at reaching the north pole with another expedition.
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New York
Wm. Ziegler
Baldwin-Ziegler
Release of Miss Stone Prompt Demand on Turkey
Washington October 18 Representatives of missionary societies formally asked the State Department to demand repayment from Turkey for the ransom paid for the release of Miss Ellen Stone. The department has not yet assured itself on Turkey's liability, with Bulgaria also implicated and evidence favoring Bulgaria.
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Washington
State Department
Turkey
Mies Ellen Stone
Bulgaria
Protests Revenue Duty on Exemption for Family
Gen Harri son Gray Otis of Los Angeles arrived from Mexico with items exempt from duty under a treasury ruling. He was charged $48 duty on several articles and filed a protest with the treasury department.
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el Paso
Tex
Harrison
Gray Otis
Los Angeles
Cal
Mexico
Revenue
Treasury. Department
United States
Otis
Treasury Department
Pamice sees bid for rare item in auction
A fragmentary notice indicates a bid entered for an unusual artifact. The readable text mentions bidders and an auction setting, suggesting upcoming sale activity though specifics remain unclear.
Race riot erupts near Birmingham leaving multiple dead
Reports from Littleton Alabama say three white men and eight Black individuals were killed in a race riot. Sheriff Burgin mobilized a posse after a confrontation that began with a white woman being assaulted at a trestle. The town is swarmed by armed Negroes who have seized a coal company's powder magazine and fortified positions.
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Birmingham
Ala
Littleton
A. W. Burgin
Southern Railway
Burgin
Alx
S. F. W. Barnes
Rev. F. R. Skelton
W. F. Lane
M. J. Marshall
C. J. Sangster
Millionaires Race Track Planned in Jamaica Plains
A new 480 acre race track in Jamaica Plains Long Island is planned by a group of millionaire owners including August Belmont William C Whitney and Thomas T Hitchcock Jr The project costs about 800 per acre and aims to be ready when Morris Park stops racing.
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New York
Jamaica Plains
Long Island
August Belmont
William C. Whitney
Thomas T. Hitchcock, Jr
Morris Park
No decisive results from Vic toria battle in Venezuela
Washington reports Minister Bowen said the revolutionary army withdrew near Victoria and Valencia remained under government control. A later dispatch said the battle ended without a decisive result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Caracas
Bowen
Victoria
Valencia
Rotten timbers in church floor threaten collapse
In Omaha on October 20 the First Christian church audience of about 5% of the town gathered to hear Rev. Allen Wilson of Irvington Indiana barely escaped when rotten timbers in the floor gave way. The floor settled five inches but the crowd exited quietly and no one was hurt.
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Omaha
Neb
Allen Wilson
Irvington
Ind
Yellow fever and smallpox hit Colombian forces at Colon
Kingston report from the steamer Orinoco says yellow fever and smallpox have broken out among the Colombian government troops at Colon, with ten deaths daily from these diseases among the soldiers.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Colon
Colombia
Treasury reports detection of $10 1901 note counterfeit
Washington officials say a $10 United States note from the 1901 series is a lithographic counterfeit. The note uses two sheets sewn together with silk threads, appearing deceptive at first glance but failing upon examination.
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Washington
Treasury Department
United States
Ft. Will
Death by Own Action Clouded Younger Band Legacy
James Younger, once linked to the James gang, shot himself in his St Paul room after parole from Minnesota Penitentiary in July last year. A farewell Manila envelope and letters to a woman of noted connections accompanied the scene, with legal marriage obstacles cited as a stressor amid ill health and isolation. Coroner ruled no inquest. disposition of the body uncertain due to parole terms.
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St. Paul
Minn
James Younger
James
Younger
Jim Younger
Lassie
State Board of Pardons
State Penitentiary
Vatican-US diplomatic relations hoped from Manila talks
Rome dispatch says the Vatican hopes Taft Guidi talks in Manila will establish diplomatic relations with the United States. If that fails the pope hopes an envoy to Rome may ratify arrangements after Guidi negotiations conclude.
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London
Rome
Daily Telegraph
Vatican
Manila
Gov. Taft
Archbishop Guid
United States
Richard B McCoy Dies at 81 in Dublin Hartford County
Richard B McCoy of Dublin Hartford County Maryland dies at age 81. He served in the Maryland Legislature and participated in an 1861 extra session on state rights. An abolitionist who opposed negro suffrage, he was among a group that met with President Lincoln the night before his assassination.
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Baltimore
Richard B. McCoy
Dublin
Hartford County
McCoy
Maryland
Lincoln
Humble deed done in Christly love and service
Sermon by A N Kellogg notes Christ's presence in humble acts of service. It stresses serving the least of His brethren, meeting needs by the roadside, and resisting pride in grand sermons or pompous church life. The text cites biblical scenes from Elijah to Jesus to illustrate Christ found in ordinary mercy.
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A. N. Kellogg
Newspaper Co
Chicago
Christ
Jesus
Israel
God
Oliver
Heaven
David
Prince Henry
William
Germany
Partimeus
Moses
Elias
You
Mezntha
Seief
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Pamice
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Millionaires’ Race Track
Omaha, Neb
Minnesota
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Richard B. M’coy
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Alek
Fairyland
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