Telegraphers' strike teeters on plea for peace
President Sylvester J. Small of the Commercial Telegraphers' union says arbitration is out of the question and strikers will remain out for two months with union support. Small arrives in New York as a peace mission rumor swirls through Chicago while a mass meeting and security pleas ripple across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ss. J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Chicago
Sylvester J. Small
Terhune
Western Union Telegraph Company
H. B. Perham
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Gen. Bell
Ashfork
Ariz
Mixed news briefs from 1900 era report diverse events
Obituary notes Prof Oren Root dies in Clinton New York from cirrhosis of the liver. Assassination of Col Ivanhoff in St Petersburg after bomb blast. Parker addresses convention in Portland Missouri on corporate power and state lines. Cuba creates a national sanitation department by decree. Acapulco sinks near San Francisco docks but passengers survive. British law legalizes marriage to a deceased wife's sister. A Chicago suburb car crash injures several. a nine year old is murdered in Gary Indiana. Five New York firemen poisoned by smoke. Robins and Spencer mill explosion injures and destroys plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oren Root
Clinton
N. Y
Col
Ivanhoff
Viborg
St. Petersburg
Alton B. Parker
American Bar Association
Portland
Department of Sanitation
Cuba
Magoon
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Acapulco
D.C. Prask
San Francisco
Great Britain
House of Lords
Chicago, Milwaukee Electric Railway
Glencoe
Chicago
Hilla Schrader
John Schrader
Gary
Ind
New York
Robbins & Spencer Flour and Feed
Scranton
Armour & Co
Dock Barnes
Tulsa
I. T
Dublin
Fontenoy
Belgium
Sapulpa
St. Louis & San Francisco
Common Council of
Slighmore
S. D
J. B. McDonald
Laura Sterrette McAdoo Triggs
Oscar Levell Triggs
University of Chicago
Eatone
Ofras Thinkere
Dupont de Nemoures
Sobrante
Berkeley
Cal
Mohawk and
Malone
New York Central
Fulton
Edmond F. Noel
Lexington
Miss
Arthur Clemens
Brooklyn
Glencove
L. 1
Clinch River
Tennessee
William Tyler
Glesgow Thompson
Bovitblack
Kewanee
Ill
Montana
Elihu Root
William
Muldoon
White Plains
Cortelyou
Minnesota
Rhisali
Morocco
Card MacLean
Alcazar
Frank Peknolas
Samuel Ambrose
Coaldale
Pacific
Loeb
Roosevelt
Mme
Agnes Lake
Jersey City
Somerville
Mass
Wisconsin State University
Whitehall
Kirksyville
James C. Monaghan
Washington
Notre Dame University
Bureau of Statistics
Los Angeles
Jaa Junta
Diaz
Mexico
John Porter Stallings
William J. Sevier
Liberty
Stallings
Charles
Roumania
Madrid
Mr. Collier
United States
Spain
Tornadoes and tragedies strike multiple states across U S
Tornadoes near Ladysmith and Whitehall Wisconsin and in southern Ohio caused several deaths and widespread destruction. A fatal shooting in Chicago, a rail wreck in Virginia and a ship collision near Baltimore are among numerous incidents recorded. An American oil syndicate plans to exploit Mexican lands and compete with Standard Oil. President Roosevelt oversees naval and monetary policy moves as global tensions unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladysmith
Whitehall
Wis
Ohio
Hakodate
Inda Ethel Blaine
Saratoga Hotel
Chicago
Charles F. Andrews
Elkhart
Ind
Andrews
New York
Gerry
Wilmington
Del
Barnstable
Patapsco River
Maryland
Sparrows Point
Charles Blondin
Niagara Falls
West Cheshire
Conn
Michael Todd
National Bark of Commerce
Kansas City
Fuller Construction Company
Arabella Dolley
Whittier
Cal
Salida
Col
Fernleaf
Loris Higgins
W. L. Copple
Rougulie
Neb
Boucroft
Katrina Wright
Luke BE. Wright
Japan
Gheiles Palmer
International Bank of Manila
Tokio
Waldo Merrill
Boston
Erick Landstrom
Mattapan
Wash
Narragansett Pier
Benjamin Franklin Rees
Chattanooga
Panama Canal
Taft
James Allen
Army
America
Anarchist Congress
Amsterdam
Moreton
Huron Street
Toledo
Cleveland
James I. Briggs
Denver & Rio Grande
Pueblo
W. A. Farren
M.D. W. Adams
Farmers’ Bank
Clearford
Taylor
Airgin Thomas
Kentucky
Katie Brumet
Bordeaux
Paris
William J. Bryan
Germany
Wrecks Kill One and Injure Several Across States
Reports from Bowman near Charleston and nearby towns detail a Clover Leaf passenger wreck that killed P. Conkling of Texarkana and injured seven others. Separate incidents include a Taft bound St Louis & San Francisco train derailment near Spring Hill with no injuries and a Hocking Valley freight wreck near Dundas causing fire and long delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Jsl
Bowman
Here
P. &. Conkling
Texarkana
Tex
Ssharden Ross
Kentland
Ind
C. Provine
New Douglas
Nelson Anderson
Ashmore
J. N. Green
Dana
James Green
Charles Whipman
Toledo
Harley Ferguson
Brocton
Kansas City
St. Louis & San Francisco
War Taft
Spring Hill
Kaw
Taft
Gallipolis
Hocking Valley
Dundas
Telegrapher Strike Widens Calls for Industrywide Walkout
New York telegraphers strike expands as brokers' operators are urged to join. President Small urges workers to remain on duty until union instructions arrive and schedules a Wednesday meeting of brokerage house staff to decide on joining the walkout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Small
Lion Attack Gut Slams Woman at Sauna Park
Mrs. Anne A. Hucke, 55, of 78 Vanbraam Street, Pittsburg, is hospitalized in precarious condition after being mauled by a lion at Sauna park. She was pulled from the ground as the animal bit and clawed, with many rescuers firing bullets to stop the beast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Anne A. Hucke
Vanbraam Street
Sauna Park
Huecke
Beck assures Taylor immunity for Powers trial
Gov. Beckham writes to Commonwealth's Attorney Robert Franklin offering cooperation to protect William S. Taylor from arrest and allow him to return to Indiana if he testifies in the next Scott circuit court trial at Georgetown against Caleb Powers in the Goebel murder conspiracy cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Commonwealth
Robert Franklin
Goebel
Beckham
William S. Taylor
Indiana
Scott
Georgetown
Caleb Powers
Nelson Morris Dies in Chicago at 1840s-born Packer Legacy
Nelson Morris, a pioneer Chicago packer and multimillionaire, died at his home on Indiana Avenue from heart disease worsened by kidney trouble. Born in the Black Forest, Germany in 1840, he arrived in America penniless at age 11 and rose from steelyard worker to prominent business figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Nelson Morris
Indiana Avenue
Mr. Morris
Black Forest
Germany
America
Punctured His Eloquence at a Local Trial
In Johnstown New York a defense attorney depicted a boy’s “poor old widowed mother” to sway a jury after the boy was caught attempting a surreptitious entry under the fair grounds fence. The boy interrupted, correcting the widow claim, and the lawyer snapped at him to be quiet as the case continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
N. Y
Fair Grounds
Seeing Things and the Pledge in a Nature Lovers Exchange
An enthusiastic nature devotee and a reformed tramp discuss the sun’s glare swallowing the horizon and the moon fighting a storm, while the tramp notes he has not seen such scenes since taking the pledge.
Dark Side of Married Life Lecture Noted
Mrs Strongmind invites her spouse to attend a town hall lecture titled the Dark Side of Married Life. She plans him to sit on the platform as an illustration for the talk tomorrow evening.
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Kan
Hecking Valley
Lion
National Lead Company
Buffalo
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Philadelphia
John T. Lewis & Bras, Co
Pittsburgh
National Lead & Oil Co
Wellville
Phgs
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