Abraham Barker predicts great labor party and reforms
Abraham Barker, 81, celebrated his birthday in West Philadelphia with family including daughter Mrs. Edward R. Mellor and son Wharton Barker. He spoke of shifts in finance, inflated credit, and a rising labor party as a future political force with government ownership of railroads. he did not expect to see such changes in his lifetime.
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Abraham Barker
South Forty-second Street
West Philadelphia
Edward R. Mellor
Edward Wilson
Barker
Wharton Barker
Barker & Co
Labor Party
Scrantonians Back Col Watres For Governor
A large turnout at the Lyceum Theatre in Scranton endorsed Col L A Watres for Governor. Speakers including J A Scranton and John R Farr urged unity and a Harrisburg delegation to promote Lackawanna’s candidate.
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Philadelphia Times
Scranton
Lyceum Theatre
L. A. Watres
J. A. Scranton
Colonel Watres
John R. Farr
John E. Barrett
A. J. Colborn, Jr
Pennsylvania
Republican Convention Nominates Local Ticket in Huntingdon
The machine Republicans in Huntingdon select a full county ticket at the June convention. Postmaster H. E. Butz named for Congress defeating Edwin M. Hummel 121 to 23 and serving as Mahon backer. Elkin gains governor delegates. county slate includes Montgomery, Taylor, Benson, Steel, Enyeart, Williamson, Chilcote, Carothers, Couch, Madden, Miller, and Davis. A. S. Welch elected county chairman.
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Philadelphia Times
Huntingdon
H. E. Butz
Edwin M. Hummell
Snyder County
Butz
Mahon
John FP. Elkin
W. W. Bell
Mount Union
C. C. Brewster
Quay Wins Easily in York Delegates Race
In York county the anti Elkin ticket won six delegate seats to the Republican State convention on the first ballot by wide margins. George W. Moyer John McCoy B Fulton Payne Arthur S Keller William H Menges and Dr R N Meisenhelder were elected. N Sargent Ross led the Elkin faction with 68 votes as the convention declined to adopt county level resolutions. The regular county nominating meeting is set for August 19.
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Philadelphia Times
York
Elkin
Senator Quay
County Delegates Defeat Elkin Resolution in Mifflin County
In Lewistown on June 3, county delegates met to instruct their Republican State convention delegate to back John F. P. Fikin. The Elkin resolution failed by two thirds. General John V. Taylor was elected State delegate. County Chairman Brought and Taylor announced Mifflin County will vote for Judge Pennypacker.
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Philadelphia Times
Lewistown
John FP
Fikin
Elkin
John V. Taylor
Taylor
Miffl
Judge Pennypacker
Electric Lights Mark Elkin Headquarters In Harrisburg
Special to The Philadelphia Times Harrisburg June 3 The first sign of the Republican State convention arrival is a towering electric keystone at the Lochiel Hotel marking Elkin headquarters It contains 150 lights with the Attorney General's portrait at center Elkin spoke at Dickinson College Carlisle and aimed to sway Cumberland county delegates once friendly to Mullin The campaign expects Elkin to win on the first ballot and predicts Pennypacker lacks 40 votes outside Philadelphia
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Philadelphia Times
Harrisburg
Lochiel Hotel
Elkin
Carlisle
Law School
Dickinson College
Reed
Cumberland County
Senator Quay
Charles H. Mullin
Quay
Pennypacker
Philadelphia
Democratic division chairs praise Creasy, discuss party unity
Harrisburg reports from the first division chairmen covering Adams to York counties say party organization is strengthened. State Chairman Crgasy notes unity and intent to push an honest administration in this Quay machine era. No gubernatorial candidate names disclosed. A motion to inaugurate school district organization within thirty days was adopted.
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Philadelphia Times
Harrisburg
Adams
Cumberland
Dauphin
Franklin
Juniata
Lebanon
Miffin
Perry
York
Crgasy
Tordaynd
Commonwealth
Democratic County Convention Nominates Local Slate
Centre for Woodward Bellefonte June 3. Delegates back Woodward for Geerner and Heinle for State Senate with no Congress endorsement. Ticket lists Wetzel Kepler Taylor Archey Rowe Marlin Meyer Hampton Beck Tibbens and delegates Spangler Noll McDowell Johnson plus McDonald Walker Todd Miles Meyer. Sheriff Bru ongart elected county chairman for 1903. Platform attacks Stone administration and trusts urging publicity laws with criminal penalties for conspiracy. no national policy discussed.
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Philadelphia Times
Bellefonte
John A. Woodward
Geerner
William C. Heinle
State Senate
Congress
Assembly
J. Henry Wetzel
J. W. Kepler
Hugh Ss. Taylor
A. G. Archey
John C. Rowe
W. J. Marlin
P. H. Meyer
E. A. Hampton
J. H. Beck
William H. Tibbens
J. L. Spangler
John Noll
McDowell
John Johnson
P. J. McDonald
W. Harrison Walker
John Todd
W. C. Patterson
John Q. Miles
Henry Meyer
Cyrus Bruongart
Platforn
Stone
Quay Democrats Lose Ground at Fulton Convention
In McConnellsburg on June 8 Hon. S Wesley Kirk was renominated for Assembly with little opposition. George A Harris was chosen Prothonotary while George Sigel and Samuel D Mellor were named Commissioners. W H Nelson and Captain George W Skinner a Quay-Democrat won two of twenty four delegates, the Quay machine failing to gain Fulton support due to Kirk's nomination.
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Quay Democrats
Fulton
Philadelphia Times
Mcconnellsburg
S. Wesley Kirk
Assembly
George A. Harris
George Sigel
Samuel D. Mellor
W. H. Nelson
George W. Skinner
Quay Machine
Kirk
Fire on Mont Pelee ash storm torments two ships’ crews
The steamer Therese from Trinidad faced a fourteen hour hail of red hot ashes near Martinique. Captain Haymes described dense smoke, blazing dust, and efforts to prevent fire as the crew crawled through near midnight. The schooner Jennie Lippett also endured volcanic dust and delays while transporting bones to ports in Paysandu Montevideo and Barbadoes.
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Mont Pelee
Martinique
Therese
Trinidad
Haymes
William J. Grandfield
St. Pierre
Jennie Lippett
Paysandu
Montevideo
Barbadoes
Paysander
Cook
Mate Pierce
Barbados
Alaskan Volcano Upheaval Near Cook Inlet
Passengers aboard the Chico confirm rumors of a Redoubt eruption forty miles northwest of Illamna. Dense black clouds blanket the region over Cook Inlet. Daylight shows no flames or ash, but by evening bright flames illuminate the sky toward the volcano.
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Seattle
Cook Inlet
Redoubt
Illanma
Earthquake Activity Shakes Mexican Guerrero Region
Earthquakes continue in Guerrero with shocks in Chilpango renewing Sunday after a prior quake. Taxco, a mining town, reports strong tremors while nearby Cerro del Coll near Guadalajara shows gelatinous mud in the crater but no danger is feared.
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Mexico City
Guerrero
Chilpango
Taxco
Cerro del Coll
Guadalajara
German Sympathy for France in Martinique Disaster
The Reichstag reassembled with President Count von Ballestrem delivering a speech expressing heartfelt sympathy for the French nation after the Martinique volcano disaster. Ministers and deputies stood in approval as he spoke of the fearful calamity that horrified Germany.
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Berlin
Count von Ballestrem
Martinique
Germany
Where Beef Trust Has Advantage in Market Pressures
The piece argues demand versus supply shapes beef prices and output. It notes perishable meat limits control, the indie butcher’s low startup cost, and that large packers underprice small shops when beef cattle run high. It discusses prices from four to seven dollars per hundredweight and competition dynamics.
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Beef Trust
Oae
New Mexico Volcano Threatening
Deputy U S Marshal McKeehan reports Grant residents greatly excited by volcanic activity several miles from the town.
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New Mexico
Albuquerque
N. M
U. 8
Marshal McKeehan
Grant
Man buys bankrupt mill property with silver coin
W H Stecher purchased the Muhlhauser Shoddy Manufacturing Company assets after a bankruptcy sale. He paid $137,000 in silver coin, with a personal check for the full amount rejected by creditors who argued the coin was not legal tender. The sale occurred in the courtroom following creditor negotiations.
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W. H. Stecher
Muhlhauser Shoddy Manufacturing Company
Stecher
Loan bill of 5,000,000 in city councils tomorrow
A regular session of Select and Common Councils will be held tomorrow afternoon with the main business the final passage of the 5 million loan bill. Other items include a university laboratory on Locust street and adding Old York road to the city plan to create a vista on Broad street.
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Select and
Common Councils
Common Council
Select Council
University of Pennsylvania
Locust Street
Thirty-third
Thirty Fourth
University
Old York Road
Olney Avenue
Fisher's Lane
Broad Street
Olney
York Road
Clarkson, Summerville
Fisher, Duncannon and
Wagner Streets
P. A. B. Widener
Lower Merion
Tulpehocken Street
City Avenue
Girl's Avenger Case Probed by Coroner After Fatal Quarrel
Coroner Dugan closed the inquest into John Baditsky who insulted a 14 year old girl and died of a brain hemorrhage. Edwin Hagencotter is jailed on manslaughter charges awaiting Grand Jury action. Coroner scolded others for taking the law into their own hands and deemed permission unnecessary for life saving treatment.
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Dugan
John Baditsky
Edwin J. Hagencoter
Wadsworth
Baditsky
Bertha Yard
Hagencotter
James A. Kelly
St. Mary's Hospital
Lumbermen saving waste from stump to lumber pile
Minnesota lumbermen push thrift from stump to pile. Rivers are dragged for usable dead head logs and discarded stock is repurposed into shingles lath pickets and crates. Widespread efficiency aims to curb waste amid higher timber and manufacturing costs.
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Minneapolis Journal
Minnesota
Mississippi Valley Lumberman
West Coast
White Pine Country
Operation on a Lioness in Reggio Emila Circus
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a successful eye operation on a circus lioness in Reggio Emila. The animal, blinded by a cataract, was restrained during surgery performed by doctors including a Bologna specialist. Post procedure the lioness roared and tore at bars but the operation was deemed successful though eye medicating remains impossible.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Reggio Emia
Bologna
Clothing workers strike in Syracuse over wage increase
About 1,500 workers walked out as manufacturers refused to grant an 8 percent pay raise to subcontractors prompting a broad labor dispute in Syracuse New York on June 3.
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Syracube
N. Y
Somenétor
Rice's Wife Alleges Abusive Conduct Leads to Divorce
Christine Wetherill Rice testifies that John V. Rice, a noted inventor, abused her daily drinking heavily, locking her out of the Edgewater Park home and wasting family funds. She describes threats, violent acts, and neglect since their May 1897 marriage, with testimonies from a coachman and relatives.
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Christine W. Rice
Samuel Price Wetherill
Whatnut Street
John V. Rice
Rice
Wayne MacVeagh Urges Neighborliness at Bryn Mawr Meet
Ex attorney general Wayne MacVeagh addressed Bryn Mawr Citizens Association urging communal spirit over legal enforcement. He urged neighbors to know each other, support the poor, and broaden association aims to foster real socialism without neglecting duties to all citizens.
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Academy of Music
John Drew
Wayne MacVeagh
Bryn Mawr Citizens’ Association
Powell's Hall
Lower Merion
Radnor
Haverford
MacVeagh
Cain
Republic
United States
New England
Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr Association
Disagreeable man’s drunken ire shocks Mrs Rice family
A testimony recalls a Saturday at Mrs Wetherill's with a man drinking heavily. He stumbled entering in a bathing suit, fell, and kicked his heels while making crude remarks. He later minimized any offense toward the sisters and Mrs Rice, while using profanity in their presence. The witness notes no physical strike, but references loud drum sounds and a vague monkey chorus remark.
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Edgewater
N. J
Edgewater Park
Walnut Street
Lake Geno
Mr. Rice
Ludlow Street
Philadelphia
Respondent
Libellant
Emory Eldridge
Beverly
William
Wetherill
Allegory of Rich Oppression in a Penny Newspaper
A reader condemns a wide circulation newspaper for a first page cartoon showing a devil on an automobile grinding down the poor. He argues beauty and progress should benefit all, urges moral duty by officers, and warns against class hatred and enforced injustice.
Buttered Track Incident Tied to Emory and Henry College
A Richmond Dispatch report recalls a moonlit raid by students on the Emory and Henry College store room after Mahone blocked a regular train stop. The act involved stealing firkins of butter and buttering the track for about a mile before Mahone confronted the marauders and yielded.
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Mahone
Virginia and Tennessee
Emory Station
Emory and Henry College
Bers
Richmond Dispatch
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Chestnut Street
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Mexico
France
Reichstag
Coroner
S. P. Wetherill
Atlantic City
Vernal Blair
Wayne M’veagh
William Hanamaker
Atlantic City, N. J
Lexington Corner
Pacific and
Missouri Avenues
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New House
Matthew Baines
Majestic
Virginia Ave
C. Osborne
W. F. Shaw
Gladstone
Ocean Front
Stone & Collins
Berkshire Inn
Virginia Avenue Ocean End
J. A
J. E. Dickinson
Marlborough House
Josiah
White & & Sons
Bartram
Charles V. Frick
Pitney
W. J. Imel
Brookehurst
Burrell & Brown
Chetwoode
P. A. Dempsey
Rudolf
Charles R. Myers
Ocean View
R. F. Bogle
K. McGrath
SAVOY
Chelsea
M. Hanley
Leedo
Ocean Ave
J. A. Laughlin
Morris
Cape May
St. “James Place
Mod
R. A. Bonifield
Congress Hall
Sadi
Cbre
Ocean
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Chestnut St
Phila
R. Halpin
Aldine Decatur ST
Theo
Mueller
Capon Springs
Great North Mountain
Nelson
W. Va
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