20 Jul 1904
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1904
Page
1
Unclear text reports ongoing labor unrest in Chicago and St Paul with picket lines at Swift plant and nonunion protests. Talks among union leaders and allied trades aim to arbitrate a settlement as violence and interference surface around the packers yards.
Oyster Bay July 20 The president rested today with no visitors at Sagamore and officials denied sending a secret agent to Chicago to probe the beef strike Secretary Loeb says commerce dispatches agents to strikes. If the strike widens President Roosevelt may act as in the coal dispute. Resume at two plants St Louis area July 26 East St Louis and Crowed Beef Co resume slaughter of 600 cattle as strike continues. Murder in New York Woman found dead in East Eleventh Street apartment with throat wounds on July 20 after she was last seen alive Monday.
The Albany cruiser at Pier 1 in Bremerton navy yard will undergo repairs estimated at 167000 dollars. Work will extend at least six months, possibly eight, including rebuilding the officer and crew quarters and inser bottom, new gun battery mounts, and replacement of military masts.
To Organize Luther League in Fort Dodge Iowa a two day convention of Lutheran young people began today with good attendance The thief purpose of the meeting is to raise a state Luther league.
San Francisco July 20 strikers agreed to cut demands by 60 percent and signed a two year agreement. Workers returned to work immediately under the new terms.
Paris reports Russia may disavow an officer seizure if Britain stays quiet. Ports at Port Said show seized vessels and crews held under guard. French fleet called to depart for the Orient. London, Cherbourg, and St. Petersburg discuss British protests and Russian right to search. Bond markets waver as war talk rises.
La Grande July 20 The knife and ring fakir from the Dixie Carnival company saw his outfit burn last night as a gas explosion inside the tent caused a fire and small panic. The entire tent with rings clothing and a roll of greenbacks was destroyed amid crowding spectators.
Moscow Idaho July 20 Traveling Guard Oliver Robbins arrived from Hols yesterday and left the morning with Povnesiv for the Idaho state prison to which Shy was sentenced for the remainder of his natural life for the murder of Marshal John Hays of Troy Idaho on the 27th of last January.
Charles Wands of Kiteknat Development Co reports securing 2 800 000 cubic feet of water from the Klickitat River with intake west of Bickleton. A 10 foot top width canal, 60 foot bottom, eight foot depth, will serve about 300 000 acres including 50 000 near Mabton. Estimated cost is 2 million dollars. construction to start spring and finish in about 14 months.
Seattle July 20 members of the local butchers union await an organizer from the International Butchers Union who is believed en route to Seattle to start another boycott campaign against the Browin Packing Company. An effort at a Weather Central Labor Union meeting weeks ago touched on similar union actions.
The central body urged a formal boycott against a firm forming an open shop that hires men regardless of union status. The failure of the union strategy is attributed to the local meat cutters' union not endorsing the plan.
Rome July 20 A new encyclical letter to all bishops outlines laymen duties to the church. It will press obedience to ecclesiastical authority and reject innovations without consent. It calls lay leaders to consistent private conduct as examples of Christian living.
The Carey Act of August 18 1894 under which Northwest arid lands were to receive 1 000 000 acres for reclamation will expire August 18 by statutory limitation after 100 years. Oregon has contracted about 600 000 acres with irrigation plans now under construction. Blain W Taylor chief clerk of the post office department resigns to take effect in one month. Merritt O Chance of Mingle will succeed him.
Extensive alterations are underway on the telephone system with aerial cables laid from Main to Lee and from Miln and Court to Jackson. Four hundred feet of cable trenches, new 40 foot poles replacing oil poles, and three hundred feet of trenching from central to Garden and Court streets are part of preparations for a remodel by August 30. Outside manager Mr Hatley directs workers including Peter Anderson from Spokane.
Fragmentary text mentions an employers organization and a legal action against a union label. Judge Sloss is cited, and issues concern the registered trade mark of a union label. Details are garbled and names and context are uncertain.
A parade in inetonad on July 20 featured a breezy, clear day. Seventy five lodges lined up for the event as a grand lodge prepares to elect a grand secretary and conduct other important business at 2 o clock.
London July 20. It is learned that Mrs. Maybrick is not free but is under a leave of absence with conditions to be withdrawn if she agrees to go to America. She will sail for New York after meeting her mother in France.
Jefferson City Mo July 20 The third session of the democratic state convention adopted a platform denouncing fraud and bribery while calling for stricter laws to punish officials and to recover franchises obtained improperly The Des Moines summary notes the Republican stand patter ticket headed by W B Martin with no opposition.
In Marysville California on July 20 Claude Hawkins a boy of idleness was arrested after allegedly murdering and robbing George Mosse that night. He surrendered the money taken from Mosse but claimed no strangers committed the crime. Hawkins’ home is in Alameda County Me is a cigarette feud. Mosse was exile from Guatemala.
A fire stirred by fumigation colors in a San Francisco lodging house this morning caused the death of lodger Thomas Lester and property loss valued at 16000 dollars.
The revenue cutter Manning ran aground at Pigeon Point this morning near San Francisco. Lifesaving crews and tugs rushed to the scene as rescue operations began.
The Panama Jone commission today announced the appointment of James Marborge Keedy, of New York, as prosecuting attorney for the canal zone.
Martha Sabin, a Chicago diamond thief, jumped for pall the morning in Stockton California, fleeing after stealing about $6000 worth of diamonds and jewelry. Authorities describe the incident as a bold theft with items reportedly recovered in part.
Five thousand terpentora were locked out today by the Muster Carpenters' Association in New York. The dispute stems from an alleged violation of the arbitration agreement, triggering the workforce shutdown.
Florence Maybrick left Truro for France as a free woman fifteen years after her notorious London trial. King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, aided her pardon amid a high profile poisoning case involving arsenic and her late husband, physician Dr. Maybrick. She inherits large Kentuck estates and plans a stay in France before coming to America to recuperate.
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