Teamsters Strike News In Chicago and Across City
Peace talk dominates in the teamsters strike with reports of a possible settlement as the national board meets in Chicago. Non union coal deliveries and protests by messenger boys fuel tension while public schools report coal strikes. Admiral Dewey’s condition improves after illness.
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The
Federation of Labor
Teamsters’ Union
Gompers
Organized Labor
Chicago
Teamsters
Teameters
Joint Council
International Brotherhood of Teamasters
National Board
Shen
Teammaters' Union
American Federation of Labor
Teamsters’ Brotherhood
Teamsters’ Board
Hendricke
Garpenter
Strike Succeeds in Porto Rico Labor Strike
President Gompers of the AFL received a telegram from labor leaders in Porto Rico stating the strike by 14,000 agricultural workers ended satisfactorily. A majority won a 30 percent wage hike and a nine hour day after weeks of unrest.
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Wrshington
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Porto Rico
Regular Army Officer Embezzlement Trial in Manila
A Philippine report states Lt. Otto B. Grimm of the signal corps was court-martialed for embezzling 1000 pesos from a civil fund for laborers. He was found guilty but suspended from promotion for failing to properly account for funds. In Paris, the motor boat Quand Meme vanished in a storm but reached Cagliari safely with five of seven starters abandoned. In Tacoma and Seattle scores, teams played baseball with Portland and San Francisco, and Oakland and Los Angeles posted results. The Standard Oil Co of New Jersey declared a quarterly dividend of 9 per share payable in June.
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Washington
Philippines
Oita B. Grimm
Signil Corps
Paris
Duke
Cagilar
Sardinia
Frontline Japanese Reinforcements Reported Amid Naval Movements
Eighty thousand Japanese reinforcements reach the front as Oyama concentrates forces toward Tounsiakou. Russian naval activity off Cape Varella noted. French waters deny Kamranah and Honkohe bay involvement. British steamer Sylvania confiscated at Naenenk. strikes disrupt Somannikoff works near Odensa. Japanese transports lost to mines near Pechili gulf. A 15 year old, Rol ly A Woten, stabs a man in Burke Idaho. suspect in custody.
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Gunshu
Oyama
Fakomen
Tounsiakou
Denlala
Paris
Japan
Kamranah Bay
Honkohe Bay
Rojestvensky
Hundred Delegates Attend Joint Good Roads Convention
The joint Good Roads Association and Oregon Development League opened at the Commercial Association parlors with remarks by T C Taylor and H J Bean. Delegates from Umatilla, La Grande, Echo, Pilot Rock, Milton and other towns heard speeches on road policy and infrastructure.
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Good Roads Association
Oregon Development League
A. Bennett
Oregon
Porenoon Seeton
J. H. Scott
Bate Good Roads Aasociation
Commercial Association
T. C. Taylor
Taylor
H. J. Bean
Good Roads
Judge Bean
Walter M. Pierce
State Good Reads Association
Marion County
Sceou
Umatilla County
Richardson
Tom Richardson
League
Pendleton
R W. Richardson
National Good Roads Association
J. B. Scott
State Good Roads Psociation
Thomas F. Ryan
Clackamas County
C. J. Trenchard
Cintnop
J. ©. Booth
Josephine
Hlumenstein
H. J. Bean and Commissionere Walker and Gilliland of This County. J. HB. Albert
Statem
W. K. Newell
B W. Haines
Washington County
A. Sennett
Tuttle
Clatsop
George Chandler
Travillion
Isk
Manger Pal Worthington
Madsen
A. Lowell
Irrigan
J B L. Smith
Hood River
Morrow County
Mr. Bennett
Echo
H. C. William O. D. Teel
L. A. Bateb
H. Gardner
John Sailing
Jenne Moore
Umatilla
D. C. Brownell
H.C. Means
Oliver Lynch
C. B E. Bowman
J. W. Gonser
Pilot Rock
T. PF. Gilliland
J. P. McManus
H. H. Gilbert
Milton
Union County
Meese
T. G. Halley
L. A. Estebh
BR. W. Richardson
Henry K. Fisher
Baker County
FE. W. Haines
State
Goo Roads Association
J. Smith
Jay Tuttle
Astoria
F E. W. Haines
Haines
Senator Haines
J. H. Albert
Salem
Trenchard
Clatsop County
Athena
Wston
Walla Walla
Opera House
R. W. Richardson
J. F. Campbell
South Milton
J. M. Basket
Freewater
Jack Pendegrast
Juniper
F. Guegan
Fulton
Ed Potts
Helix
Albert Hurley
Adama
Sam Yates
McKay
Frank Rack
J. W. Kimbrell
J. M. Ferguson
Railroads face calls for stronger anti abuse laws
Harvard railway expert Professor E P Ripley told the senate interstate commerce committee that secret rebates and discriminatory practices persist in the railroad system. He urged a comprehensive law to curb abuses, noting rising rates and vanished safeguards for shippers against extortion.
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Washington
E. P. Ripley
Harvard
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Union Men Tender Murder Case In Chicago
Charles J. Casey, business agent of Carriage and Wagon Workers Union No. 4, waived examination after being charged as a forewarer in the slugging death of non-union worker Charles J. Carlstron. Other union officers Miller Newman Helden Novak arrested. all held for grand jury or hearing May 25. Gilhooley Feeley Looney held pending coroner's inquest. Gilhooley made a practical confession.
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Chicago
Charles J. Casey
Carriage and Wagon Workers’ Union No. 4
Charles J. Carlstron
Charles Gilhooley
Edward Feeley
Mark Looney
Carlstron
Gilhooley
Chicago grain markets and Reno mining stampede
May wheat opened 95 percent and closed 95. Corn opened 49 percent and closed 50. Onate opened 10 percent and closed 0 percent. In Reno a sensational strike at White Horse near Reno excites mining men with claims wealth rivaling Tonopah and Goldfield, triggering a stampede.
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Clark Grain Commision Company
East Court Street
Chicago
Onate
Reno
White Horse
Tonopah
Drunk man goes on murder spree in San Diego
W L Robinson, 40, a housecleaner and gardener, drank heavily and killed four people in a Tenement near Second and A streets, including Mrs Stewart and her son Willie, H W Chase the care center worker, and Harry Doddridge the Internal Revenue Collector, before killing himself. He had lived in the area four years after squandering about 40 000 over ten years in the east.
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San Diego
Cal
W. L. Robinson
Robinson
Bowen delivered to President Taft after Venezuela post loss
Herbert W. Bowen, recently relieved as minister to Venezuela amid charges against First Assistant Secretary Loomis, was formally reported to the president this morning. He met the president briefly and then turned the matter over to Secretary Taft. Bowen immediately proceeded to the War Department.
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Washington
Herbert W. Bowen
Venezuela
Loomis
Taft
Bowen
War Department
Jury Disagrees in Dentist Murder Trial
In Mankato Minnesota on May 15 the jury in the case of Dr. Geo Koch charged with murdering Dr Louis Gebhardt at New Ulm on November 1 1904 disagreed at noon and was discharged. This marks the second trial with a third trial now unlikely.
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Will Probaly
Mankato
Minn
Geo. Koch
Louis A. Gebhardt
New Ulm
Fifty Injured in Celluloid Plant Explosion Fire
An explosion at the French celluloid company plant during a fire injures about fifty people, with some possibly fatally harmed. Fire chief and several firefighters were hurt as a large crowd near the fire lines was overcome by fumes.
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Vienna
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FROST
Husdan
Singapore
Cape Varella
Honkoke Bay
Tokio
Sylvania
Naenenk
Asebo
Haw
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Cardiff
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Somannikoff
Odensa
Cheefoo
Gulf of Pechili
Port Arthur
Rolly A. Woten
John McAuliff
Burke
Idaho
McAuliffe
Woten
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Seeton
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Ripley
Harvard University
C. J. Carlstron
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