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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1903
Page
1
Fragmented report details deadly trains and crashes across states Indiana Kentucky Maryland and Texas. Descriptions include derailments collisions and bridge collapses with numerous workers injured or killed. Mentions trains near Brazos Trinity Nashville and Panhandle regions and references to officials and prosecutions.
Georgia State Federation of Women's Clubs opens its seventh annual meeting in Cartersville with large attendance from Atlanta Savannah Augusta Macon Griffin and Athens. The program promises top speakers and wide ranging discussions on topics of civic cultural and philanthropic interest.
Armed Canadian workers strike and labor dispute near the Niagara Falls power house prompts a 3rd Battalion to guard the Canadian side. Italians and Hungarians among striking laborers, armed with knives and revolvers, bayonet charge reported. one militiaman injured as strikers retreat.
Berlin reports October losses show 27 steamships and 75 sailing vessels lost with 500 drownings. An additional 422 ships were damaged, underscoring heavy maritime casualties in a single month.
Washington reports that the treasury asks for a postal service appropriation of 165,055,000 dollars for 1915 with 14,000 over 1d. Eight Hour Law Not Apply. A San Francisco item states the eight hour law does not apply to Alaska or other territories in a U S appeals ruling. John McCall pioneer of Eastern Oregon dies at Island City.
In Pendleton on Nov 5 Coe Commission notes dull Northw est grain receipts easing cash market. Wheat strength counters dullness with millers reporting strong tour demand in Chicago trading on Nov 2 and Nov 3. Prices show May and November futures wobble amid sluggish market mood.
Nov. 3 reports describe heavy, close voting in Massachusetts Utah San Francisco and New York with near equal betting on McClellan Schmitz and Crocker. Violent incidents include a shooting in Troy and fatalities at Gate City Virginia and Louisville Kentucky amid contested local races. Republican gains predicted in Nebraska and Maryland. Rhode Island governor race seen as tight. Philadelphia results awaited.
Portlands November telegram quotes Gov Chamberlain expressing strong reluctance to convene the legislature for a special session. He warns a failure to act could disrupt state operations and treasury matters, noting uncertainty over Supreme Court decisions and possible tax implications for the year.
Reports from Newcastle and Douglas Wyoming describe a sheriff clash with Crow Indian fighters led by Kagte Feather Smith. Casualties include a sheriff and a settler. Eagle Feather wounded. tribesmen pursued toward Rosebud agency. Senator Warren warns of further trouble and calls for agency watch.
Berlin dispatch reports a German soldier stepped from ranks at Vilna to kill his colonel with a saber as the regiment cheered. Investigation shows the colonel was condemned to death and the murderer selected by lot.
Trade Director Stubbs and the general managers and general passenger agents of Union Pacific Southern Pacific Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company Oregon Short Line and Chicago and North Western meet to arrange a new schedule cutting down travel time between Chicago and the Pacific coast. A second item reports a hotel man Fred Khareon shooting his wife then killing himself with carbolic acid. details note their three children and a Portland connection. A third brief mentions anarchist Juan Casidemont arrested in Barcelona en route to Lisbon to kill King Alfonso. A final note from Indianapolis says Secretary Wilson reports Mine Workers leader Mitchell ill but not seriously.
United States Marshal Treat took 42 Chinese destined for deportation from San Francisco under the exclusion law. In Jefferson City Missouri State Senator Farris, charged with boodling, was called this morning with Law set to testify for the defense.
The strike order targets Colorado Utah and Wyoming as well as Pennsylvania steel mills closing indefinitely. About 18 000 workers are affected in the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company plants across Colorado Wyoming and Utah while mines in Frisco San Francisco and Sharon face manpower cuts and suspensions. Company leaders pledge to fight the action to the end amid mounting shortages and economic disruption.
In Ontario CW Mallett, pioneer planter and irrigator, will read a paper on Bee Culture in Connection with Alfalfa at the Irrigation Convention. Mallett is regarded as highly knowledgeable, promising an instructive discussion. Premier Comber to resign in Paris amid continued labor bureau rioting fallout.
A large crew of carpenters and masons began work on November 4 to reconstruct the burned district at Coney Inland Toby's callmate in that the lowe will be BL ,0000.
Fragmentary text reports a murder suicide involving a contractor and his wife in Washington with mentions of a released individual and a broader note on diamond price advances and wartime policy impacts. The legible portions imply a crime scene narrative and related economic commentary. The exact events and names remain unclear due to damaged text.
In Union and Harney counties three men, George B. Miller James Colvill and Bert Bailey, appeal life imprisonment for murder and related cases. The union case involves Woodsan for murder with courtroom details and a railroad damage action. The Harney County matter centers on a verdict and appeal from a murder sentence and the ensuing civil claim over a railroad incident. The defendants are represented by Weatherford Wyatt and AM Crawford, with the attorney general and Thorn tor Dods noted.
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