Strike News and Labor Leaders Clash Across States
Jan 5 reports from several cities on labor unrest and union actions. UMWA and AFL leaders deny nationwide strike plans while Governor Ferris aims to mediate in Michigan Calumet and Houghton. Gompers hints at possible general action but stresses AFL authority. Mother Jones faces jail in Denver amid deportation fallout.
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Mich
Ferris
Dessmore
Department of Labor
Washington
Western Federation of Miners
Ooth
Moyer
Big Rapids
Calumet
Sovernor
Cunningham
Houghton
Detroi
Gompers
Chicago
Amerleas Federation of Labor
Wasington
Browel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mahomey
Miller
Michigan
Jones
Denver
Col
Chase
Bank Reopens After Cashier Disappears in Schaumberg
Chicago, Jan 5. The Farmers' Bank of Schaumberg Illinois reopened for business this morning after a $40,000 deficit was reportedly caused by the speculation of cashier Frank Henning, who vanished on New Year's Eve.
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Chicago
Farmers’ Bank of
National Board Meeting on Baseball Officials in Cincinnati
Prominent baseball figures including national commission members and minor league magnates meet in Cincinnati to review annual reports. August Herrmann reelected chairman and Bruce secretary with Governor Tener in attendance. Minor league leaders join for joint session with the commission to assess players federation claims and federation pressure.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
National Commission
Imo
Players’ Federation
Polemics Rise Over Ratliff Case and Coal Strike Ties
The Colorado congressional delegation seeks a full congression al inquiry into all aspects of the coal strike. Chief Forester Graves will investigate Ratliff activity. Keating notes Mother Jones will return to the deportation scene. In St Louis a lockout occurs as Hamilton Brown Shoe Co outs workers of the United Shoe Workers, while Boot and Shoe Workers stay separate.
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Ratliff
Colorado
Forester Graves
Keating
Mother Jones
St. Louis
Hamilton Brown Shoe Company
United Shoe Workers’ Union
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
State banks off of reserve list
General Fellows has rendered an opin ion to the effect that under the Michigan banking law state banks cannot hold stock any other bank and, therefore not in a federal reserve bank. He held state banks can not assume obligations nor loan their credit to federal reserve banks. Lansing, ws Jan. 5.-Attorney
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General Fellows
Michigan
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Banks
Lansing
Sidney Moulthrop Indicted For Diamond Ring Pawn Forgery
Washington reports Sidney Moulthrop former clerk to Senator Lewis of Illinois was indicted for pawning a $250 diamond ring he was to send to a Chicago jeweler and forging the senator’s name to a $240 check Quincy notes county and city officials ordered 54 city saloons closed deterring arrests and a quiet day yesterday
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Washington
Sidney Moulthrop
Lewis
Illinois
Chicago
Quincy, I
Matrimonial ad traps hundreds in uptown scam
Bloomington Indiana January 5 A matrimonial ad from a counterfeited bureau drew hundreds of suitors as the woman using the name Miss Emma Burkett ran a two year campaign of deception. A federal case and evidence including forty eight exhibits follow as authorities pursue charges of mail fraud and social deception.
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Bloomington
Til
United States
Vermilion County
Emma R. Burkett
Post Office
Federal Grand Jury
Postoffice
Burkett
Emma Burkett
J. H. Evans
Shoshone
Idaho
Actress Lillian Sinnott Found Dead After Fiance Dies
New York report says actress Lillian Sinnott, known for Broadway roles, was found dead in her apartment with self-inflicted injuries. Despondent over fiancé's death, he to be buried today.
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New York
Lillian Sinnot
Heriance
Dead troops lie unburied after clash at frontier
Across Ojinaga and nearby villages, exhausted Federals lie unburied as a rebel assault continues. Generals Salazar and Castro vow to die at their posts if their men desert, while Villa races to the front with 2,200 reinforcements and renewed fighting looms.
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Salazar
Castro
Ojinaga
Mexico
Villa
el Paso
Texas
Pancho’ Villa
Juarez
Maclovio Herrera
Chihauhau
Weather Forecast for Rock Island Davenport Moline Area
Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with warmer Tuesday. Low around 30 tonight, light southerly winds. Temperatures at 7 am were 26, yesterday's high 35, last night's low 25. No precipitation, humidity 82 percent at 7 pm and 85 percent at 7 am. Stage of water .7 feet, up .1 foot in 48 hours. Astronomical events list Mars Saturn as evening stars and Mercury Jupiter Venus as morning stars. The great square of Pegasus stands high south by 6 pm.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Mars
Saturn
Mercury
Jupiter
Venus
Pegasus
Meridiar
Inheritance Law Upheld and Detonation Cap Case Decided
Washington Jan 5 The Illinois inheritance tax law prohibition on transferring deposits of deceased persons to executors with insufficient tax retention is constitutional. The Illinois Supreme Court rules aliens who lived in the U S and visit foreign homes may be deported upon return after three years for immoral acts. It also holds states may tax citizens on par value of out of state stock. In Chicago 12 year old Harold Cramer to receive over $6,000 damages from a contracting firm after a detonating cap explosion mangled his hand.
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Washington
Illinois
Supreme Court
Anna Lepina
United States
Harold Cramer
Chicago
Untermeyer Urges Trust Reform to Restore Confidence
Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for the Pujo committee, told the Illinois Manufacturers association in Chicago that business freedom and confidence require a program. He urged big business leaders to subordinate personal gain to the public good and insisted laws must be clear enough for any businessman to know what counts as a violation, including complete dissolution between railroads and industrial organizations.
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Chicago
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Samuel Untermeyer
Pujo Committee
Egg boycott begins in St. Louis as league joins strike
In St Louis a weeklong egg consumers strike was launched by the People's League with about 1000 members. Leaders report a five cent price drop in eggs due to the boycott. In Washington, a agriculture official says at least ten percent of U S poultry and egg production is wasted in nonfood disposal, estimated at 75.1 million dollars annually.
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St. Louis
People's League
Washington
Dennington
Food Research Laboratory
Department of Agriculture
Kermit Roosevelt to wed Miss Belle Willard in Richmond
Richmond reports from Madrid indicate Ambassador Willard’s daughter Belle Willard engaged to Ker mit Roosevelt son of Theodore Roosevelt. The wedding is expected in spring likely at the Willards Richmond home after a Virginia motor tour with Belle, Kermit, and his sister Mrs Richard Derby. A prior Roosevelt wedding in New York involved Ethel Roosevelt and Mr Derby. In Pittsburgh a man described as the head Negro believed murdered lay buried in a snow bank near the business district.
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Kermit Roosevelt
Richmond
Madrid
Willard
Belle Willard
Theodore Roosevelt
Miss Willard
Richard Derby
Willards
Virginia
Hot Springs
New York
Ethel Roosevelt
Mr. Derby
22 Members of Ship Die in Storm Off New Jersey
Eastern coasts swept by hurricane causing heavy property loss estimated at 1 to 2 million dollars. The tanker Oklahoma off Sandy Hook sank with 22 crew dead and eight saved. rescue included Captain Gunter and several mates. Long Island coast cottages hotels and bathhouses destroyed. Far Rockaway Pier Theatre and other structures toppled. 200 bathhouses lost and hotel damage near 150000. Funds appeal planned in Sea Bright as more vessels report distress between Cape Hatteras and Baltimore.
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New York
Sandy Hook
Oklahoma
Gunter
Davis
New Jersey
Long Island
Arvernea
Bibos
Far Rockaway
Pier
Sea Bright
N. J
Washington
Cape Hatteras
Baltimore
Revenue Cutter Headquarters
Lopez on Earth, He Says in Note
A St Louis letter dated January 1 from Ralph Lopez the bandit, wanted in Bingham Utah, arrived in the city. In Spanish it says he is in St Louis and not worried, claiming to have walked the streets until two this morning and to have met police who talk long but act short. He wishes a Happy New year.
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St. Louis
Ralph Lopez
Bingham
Utah
Wilson at Biloxi KIRK Visits Biloxi Church Surprise
Pass Christian Miss Jan 5 President Wilson and family made an unexpected stop at the First Presbyterian church in Biloxi. The small congregation soon filled with onlookers as the president left to a cheer. He plans a busy week, studying documents brought on vacation.
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City of
Mexico
Wilson
John Lind
Christian
Senor de la Lama
Europe
Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
Pass Christian
Miss
Biloxi
First Presbyterian Church
Emmanuel Showing Interest for Expo
Rome, Jan 5 King Emmanuel expressed deep interest in the Panama Pacific exposition after Ira n Neleon Morris of Chicago explained it to him He said his conference with the ministers would aim for a result benefiting all concerned.
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Italy
Emanuel
Iran
Neleon Morris
Chicago
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