Business leaders push arbitration to avert Philadelphia street strike
In Philadelphia on February 28, business leaders urged arbitration as 90,000 union workers threaten a citywide street railway strike next Saturday. The Central Labor Union, representing 125,000 members, voted to strike in solidarity with the rail workers, while some urged immediate action. Rioting and arrests accompanied the tense developments as authorities gauge the impact on commerce.
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Philadelphia
Street Railway Company
Central Labor Union
Labor Lyceum Hall
Weather summary for tonight and Tuesday
Rain looks unlikely tonight with warmer air, turning colder Tuesday afternoon. Overnight low will stay above freezing. Temperature at 7 am 21, high 29 and low 20 in past 12 hours. Wind 5 mph at 7 am. Humidity 92 at 7 am, 79 at 7 pm. Sun sets 5:47, rises 6:30, moon rises 10:20 pm.
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J. M. Sherier
Lindbergh Seeks Scalp Of Hitchcock In Fight for Post Posts
Washington February 28 Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota attacks Postmaster General Hitchcock after his refusal to accept Lindberghs post office recommendations. He calls Hitchcock a political dictator and accuses him of trying to defeat Lindberghs renomination.
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Washington
Lindbergh
Minnesota
Fifty Americans to Aid Insurgents Reported in Nicaragua
San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua Feb 28 50 Americans from the canal zone landed at Bluefields headquarters of the insurgents. Two steamers sent to verify reports that Mena of the insurgents had captured Morrito did not return today.
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San Juan del Sur
Nicaragua
Canal Zone
Bluefields
Mena
Morrito
Receivers Appointed for Textile Mills in New Orleans
New Orleans February 28 Receivers for the Textile Mills corporation were appointed this afternoon. The capital stock is 35,000,000 dollars.
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New Orleans
Textile Mills Corporation
Injunction Sought to Aid Bleached Flour Trade
Updyke Milling of Omaha filed a federal petition asking U S District Attorney Temple to stop further interference with its business and to halt seizures of flour ordered by Secretary Wilson. Eight carloads of bleached flour were seized months ago.
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Des Moines
Updyke Milling Company of
Omaha
United States District Attorney
Temple
Wilson
Derailed Westbound Twentieth Century Limited at Olmsted Falls
Cleveland Ohio February 28 the westbound Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore Railroad derailed at Olmsted Falls while running at 60 miles an hour. Two or three passengers were slightly injured as the two engines and seven cars left the track but remained upright.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Twentieth Century Limited
Lake Shore Railroad
Olmsted Falls
Roosevelt Ends Pursuit of Game
Gondokoro Soudan February 28 Roosevelt and party sailed on the steamer Dal for Khartum arriving March 15. The African scientific expedition under the Smithsonian Institution and led by the former president of the United States was practically closed with his departure.
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Gondokoro
Soudan
Roosevelt
Khartum
Smithsonian Institution of Washington
United States
Germans Compete for Canada's Trade in West
Winnipeg reports a new German Canadian trade treaty to take effect tomorrow as about 300 German travelers head for western Canada to pursue trade, challenging U S firms. Last year Germany bought 90 million dollars of western Canada grain or grain products.
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Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Commercial Travelers’ Association
Canada
United States
Germany
Western Canada
New Army Field Gun Can Be Carried by Two Men
The army adopts a compact new machine gun that can be carried by one or two soldiers with full equipment. Ammunition and stands fit on a single mule. It can be fired from the shoulder, reducing vulnerability to enemy attack and capture.
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Washington
Girl's Trial Near End in Stout Case
The closing argument in Estelle Stout's trial for the murder of Henry Hornberger, a picture frame canvasser, is expected to conclude today. Prosecutors allege motive linked to defending sister as Hornberger disputed payment in her sister's flat.
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Estelle Stout
Canvasser
Chicago
Henry Hornberger
Hornberger
Lock Horns On Waterway Plan Sparks Illinois Spat
Senator Lorimer clashes with Governor Deneen over a 20 million dollar Illinois deep waterway project from Utica to Lockport. He writes all legislators Feb 26 opposing the Schmitt bill and any immediate waterway action, citing grounds for his opposition.
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Washington
Lorimer
Deneen
Illinois
Utica
Lockport
Schmitt
General Assembly
New Jersey meat packers indicted in New York case
Prosecutor Garven ordered warrants for the arrest of the indicted meat packers and summons for the six indicted meat corporations. A separate incident notes a New York man, driven by high prices, took his own life after financial strain. The report mentions bond actions against warrants issued by the sheriff.
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New York
Garven
New Jersey
Floods Sweep Ohio and Allegheny Regions
Severe weather from a hurricane and heavy rain drives rapid river rises across Ohio and Pennsylvania. In Ohio several hundred acres along the Little Miami River flood as backwaters from the Ohio overflow, washing away camps and forcing hundreds from Fremont and nearby areas as rivers surge through the watershed.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny
Monon- Bahela
Little Miami River
Ohio River
Fremont
Ohio
Waterway cooperation and flood aftermath detailed
Travel Note cites objections to a $20,000,000 bond plan for a Great Lakes to Gulf waterway without federal cooperation. The piece stresses federal pledges, lake water diversion limits, and legislative approval as prerequisites, with continued discussion on page five. The report also covers recall of witnesses in a meat-packing probe, a butcher's suicide spurred by rising meat prices, and extensive flood damage across northern Ohio, including Youngstown and Fremont, plus a Pacific Northwest storm striking Seattle with 40 mph winds and heavy rain.
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Illinois
United States
Gulf
General Assembly
Utica
Mississippi River
Congress
Chicago
Federal
St. Louis
Alexander Bindebeutel
Bindebeutel
Lent
Ohio
Youngstown
Mahoning River
Sandusky
Bucyrus
Fremont
Akron
Cuyahoga
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Wash
Washington
British Columbia
Exuberant talk on tariff and government waste
Special Correspondent reports on growing extravagance tied to tariff politics in Congress. Senator Aldrich criticizes government spending and business methods, advocating a costly new commission while warning existing commissions waste funds. Page four continuation awaited.
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TAV
Argus
Washington
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Senate
Congress
Committee On Public Expenditures
Avalanche Dead and Missing in Idaho Burke Mace
Spokane reports conservatively at least 60 dead from a Sunday night avalanche. Mace and Burke towns crushed. 14 bodies recovered at Mace and 16 at Burke. About 1,000 rescuers, Italians among those digging out, fear Burke deaths may exceed Mace, while mothers and families seek safety as slides strike homes.
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Spokane
Wash
Mace
Burke
Northern Pacific
Wallace
Anchor
Maes
Coder D'Alene
Mace, Burke and Bilack
S. H. Pascoe
Standard
Song
Pascoe
Walla Walla
Flood Warnings Sound as Cascades Snow Melts
Warnings from the local weather bureau warn of rare flood danger in the Puyallup White Duamish Snohomish and Skagit river valleys as snow melts on the western Cascades. The Great Northern and Milwaukee lines are blocked with a northbound Portland Vancouver Limited wrecked by a slide. no injuries reported thus far.
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Cascades
Weather Bureau
Puyallup
White
Duamish
Snohomish
Skagit River
Great Northern
Milwaukee
Portland-Vancouver Limited
Asquith Sets Finance First in Commons Speech
London February 28 Premier Asquith outlined a finance first program in the Commons stating government business will have precedence at every sitting through March 24. The plan places financial matters ahead of the Lords question and emphasizes continuous attention to budgetary concerns.
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London
Asquith
Commons
Supreme Court rules policy loans not subject to tax
The U S Supreme Court ruled that policy loans or premium note loans of insurance companies are not taxable. The decision was issued in the case City of New Orleans versus New York Life Insurance Company, announced in Washington on February 25.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
New Orleans
New York Life Insurance Company
Peaceful South Bethlehem Steel Work Stalls Restart
South Bethlehem Pa Feb 28 peace prevails with only a few of the 9 000 men reporting for duty as the steel company remains at a halt amid a strike. Cook and wife departed Andes Chile Feb 28 en route to the Argentine republic their exact destination not disclosed.
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South Bethlehem
Steel Company
Cook
Argentine
Andes
Chile
Frederick A. Cook
Argentine Republic
Summons for Congressmen Held Regular
Washington February 28 Justice Wright of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled the court acted within its authority issuing a writ of mandamus to the joint committee on printing to show cause why it should not consider the Valley Paper Company bid of Holyoke Massachusetts. Senators deny contempt but admit default and expect the protest to be rejected on merit, avoiding U S Supreme Court adjudication.
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Washington
Wright
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Joint Committee On Printing of
Congress
Valley Paper Company of
Holyoke
Wass
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Supreme Court of the United States
Live Hogs Near Ten Dollar Mark In Chicago Trade
Chicago hog markets touched near the ten dollar level with live hogs at about $9.92 per cwt and May pork prices peaking at $24.70 per cwt. Wheat futures rose on crop damage notes, with May wheat climbing to $1.1578 and closing at $1.15 as new crop prices set records.
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Chicago
Miners near disaster as river floods Gray's mine
In Danville Illinois on February 28, about one hundred miners narrowly avoided death when the Vermillion river burst through the mine walls. The pit fills with twenty feet of water just before workers would have entered. The flood would have claimed the men had they started minutes earlier.
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Danville
Gray’s Mine
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the Textile Mills
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Jersey
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James E. Bathgate, Jr
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Tait
Awove
Werth
Souta
Mace and
Lower Mace
Hotel Standard
Gem
Idaho
Macel
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