May Mean End of Struggle in Anthracite Strike
Harrisburg Pa Sept 13 The Stone Mitchell conference on the coal strike ended at 430 this morning after three and a half hours of discussion Gov Stone said all differences have been discussed with best of feeling A proposition was submitted Mitchell and labor leaders left for Wilkes Barre It was not clear if the conference was satisfactory but the proposal aims to end the anthracite field dispute
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Harrisburg
Gov. Stone
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Wilkesbarre
Mitchel
Milwaukee
Middle West
National Stock Exhibitors' ‘Union
Iowa arrives at Rio in apparently undamaged condition
The battleship Iowa reached Rio de Janeiro on Friday in apparently undamaged condition. All crew are reported well.
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Iowa
Rio Janeiro
Marriage and Divorce Rules From Anglican Synod
In St John New Brunswick on Sept 13 the general synod of the Anglican church debated marriage and divorce legislation. Delegates proposed changes but no decisive measures were adopted. The synod banned marriages between a man and his deceased wife's sister or her sister's daughter, binding all Canadian priests. The house of bishops backed prohibiting remarriage of divorced persons, but the motion failed for lack of united clerical and lay support.
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New Brunswick
St. John
N. B
General Synod
Anglican Church
Montre
Canada
House of Bishops
House of Deputies
Paris Green Is Deadly To Cotton Pickers
A Paris Texas report claims Paris green poison applied to cotton infested with worms sickened seven pickers four men and three women in a Red River and Kiemta area patch. They fell ill after exposure to treated plants and seven fatalities were reported after several days.
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Paris
Tex
Red River
Kiemta
Indian Territory
Night gown dispute forces try on in police court
In Indianapolis on September 13 two women faced a police court trial over a stolen night dress from the McLean Place flats. Judge Oran Muir ordered both to try on the gown. the garment fit Mrs. Lyons, leading to Mrs. Hamilton being fined and jailed.
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Indianapolis
Mary Lyons
McLean Place
James Hamilton
Oran Muir
Wilsons Crop Talk Grains Grass Key to Beef Prices
Secretary Wilson returning from the west reports abundant crops in Nebraska Kansas Iowa Illinois Indiana and Ohio. He notes a strong corn crop with late frost risk passed and grass crop is exceptionally good, signaling lower meat prices though not a return to past lows as demand and prosperity rise. He cites meat demand from England and growing cattle numbers as supporting this outlook.
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Washington
Wilson
West
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
United States
England
Ommander Wcrea
Grain Corner Stopped by Law Ruling Impacts Margins
Chicago judge upholds injunction denial against Waite Thorburn & Co. and major commission houses in the July oats corner dispute. Decision narrows Chicago board of trade power over property rights and margins, limiting its authority to discipline members for margin refusals.
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Chicago
Chytraus
Circuit
High Court
Waite Thorburn &Co
Chicago Board of Trade
Death of Alexander R. Shepherd in Mexico
Alexander R. Shepherd, former vice president of the District of Columbia Board of Public Works and later governor of the district, died in Batopilas, Mexico, at 67 from peritonitis after appendicitis. He was praised for city improvements despite press opposition and helped secure Washington as the capital. He leaves a widow and seven children.
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Alexander R. Shepherd
Herd
Board of Public Works
District of Columbia
Shepherd
Pull Works
Washington
Reciproc ity talks extend time for ratification
Washington Sept 15 British government continues to extend deadlines for final ratification of Kasson drafted reciprocity treaties now pending before the senate. Raikes, the British charge, met with acting Secretary Atlee to sign amendments extending the exchange period for Jamaica, British Guiana, and Turks and Caicos by six months.
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Kasson
Senate
Raikes
Newport
State Department
Atlee
Jamaicas
British Guiana
Turks and Caicos Islands
Kerosene Fire Deaths At Moritz Home Reported
Fire from kerosene used to start a blaze at Louis Moritz home in St Paul, Minnesota, killed two children aged 2 and 17 while another child was injured. The article also notes contemporaneous items about Wisconsin suffrage activities, deposition requests in Indiana, and an auto accident in California that killed Mrs. William M. Stewart, the Nevada senator's wife.
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St. Paul, Minn
Louis Moritz
Jen Moritz
Sain Rrancisco
William M. Stewart
United States
Nevada
Alameda
Cal
Stewart
Henry Foote
Taylor
Forest fires rage across Pacific Northwest along with missing workers
Fires burn from British Columbia to the California line destroying millions of feet of timber and farm property. Elsie Palmer dies in Oregon mills. Trickey missing. Dozens of houses, mills, and livestock lost. towns like Enumclaw and Centralia report darkness and water outages as crews rush to safety and evacuation.
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Gre
Ade
British Columbia
California
Bridal Veil
Ore
Palmer
Elsie Palmer
Mill Main
Vancouver
Elina
Aberdeen
Washington
Ducora
Com
Centralia
Shelton
Mason County
Mitlock
Bordeaux String Hill
Horsebeck
Olympia
Beaumont Fire Destroys Pumps in Keith-Ward Field
A Beaumont telegram reports a blaze in the Keith-Ward tract northwest corner destroying ten pumping rigs and a 1200 barrel settling tank over about an acre. About twenty five wells exist in the area, with one gusher on fire. A field force of 300 men under J. Co. Cullinan fights the blaze. damage estimated at $50,000.
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New Orleans
Beaumont
Tex
Sts
Keith-Ward
J. Co. Cullinan
State of Industry Review Highlights Growth and Challenges
K G Dun & Co reports industrial activity at a high level with new factories, expanded facilities, and resumed idle shops amid settled labor disputes. Coke blockade limits transport. Food abundance lowers August prices by about 3 percent. Retail and wholesale trade show strength. pig iron capacity remains high but fuel shortages curb production. New England boot and shoe makers demand full prices. leather markets solid. Woolen demand good. wheat stocks low and frost fears affect corn outlook. U S and Canadian failures trend lower than last year.
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I &Co New York
K. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade Today
New ‘England
United States
Frost Hits Nebraska and South Dakota Crops
A killing frost swept through Nebraska and South Dakota on Thursday night. Temperatures fell to 24 degrees at Watertown, damaging late corn and other vegetation while much of the crop remains believed safe. The frost also affected northern Nebraska with heavy scarring and losses.
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Sioux City
South Data
Northwest
Watertown
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Egrn
Fatal mixup on the Santa Fe collision kills crew
Denver dispatch reports a Santa Fe passenger train bound for Col orado Spin Pueblo Straby collided with a freight near Straby. Three crew members died and another was fatally injured. Passengers were shaken but not seriously hurt as eight cars piled into the wreck. The freight’s cars surged downhill as two engines pulled the passenger train into the ditch.
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Denver
Col
Santa Fe
Colorado
Pueblo
St. Louis
Chicago
Straby
Nevada Republicans Endorse Hawley and Silver Platform
Reno reports the Republican state convention endorsed Hon. Thomas D. Hawley for the United States Senate and backed direct senatorial elections and broad silver circulation. Denver coverage notes the convention also nominated James H. Peabody for governor Franklin E. Brooks for representative at large James Cowie for secretary of state John Holmberg for auditor and Whitney Newton for treasurer.
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Reno
Committee On Platform
Thomas D. Hawley
United States
Congress
Therman
Denver
James H. Peabody
Fremont County
Franklin E. Brooks
EL 30
James Cowie
Boulder County
John Holmberg
Whitney Newton
Pueblo
Linemen vs Maudlin on False Imprisonment Case in Michigan
In Owosso, Michigan, William Maudlin sues Union Telephone for false imprisonment after linemen trimmed trees and stretched wires on his property against his orders. The case raises whether utility companies may injure shade trees to lay lines.
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Owosso
Mich
William Maudlin
Vernon
Union Telephone Company
Maudlin
Manudlin
Telephone Compu
Telephone
Graph
President appoints Bonaparte and Draper to Indian commissioners
Washington Sept 13 The president named Charles J Bonaparte of Baltimore and Professor Andrew S Draper president of the University of Ti nos to serve as members of the board of Indian commissioners Grand Army posts ordered to take part in McKinney memorial exercises in Topeka Kansas tomorrow per an issued directive by Colonel H C Loomis department of Kansas G A R
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Washington
Charles J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
Andrew 8. Draper
University of Tinois
Board of Indian Commissioners
Grand Army
Topeka
H. C. Loomis
Department of Kansas
Grand Army of the Republic
McKin-ney
Kelly Appeals To Habeas Corpus In City Bribery Case
In St Louis officials press grand jury over a $47,000 city lighting bill bribery scheme. Ex delegates Tamblyn and Mepham questioned. Char Kelly sought as key witness, missing from usual haunts. Adolph Wallner offers to post bond to bring Kelly in. Judge Krum seeks warrants' legality. Kelly reportedly not en route to the Orient.
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St. Louis
Ringsters
Tamblyn
Edgar A. Mepham
Kelly
Char T. Kelly
Folk
Adolph Wallner
Sheridan House
J. K. Murrell
Combine
Murrell
Jefferson City
Chester H. Krum
Gantt
Supreme Court
John Helms
Charles A. Guth
Otto Schumacher
M. E. Schnettler
Krom
Orient
San Francisco
Charles F. Kelly
Boodlers
Hong Kong
Advertised for a Wife in Belleville Column
Belleville Illinois September 13 Miss Barbara Ebret heiress and Alex Danner Center ville Station East St. Louis wed after a matrimonial column ad. Danner owns hundreds of acres in St Clair county and runs a leading southern Illinois dairy. Meeting led to engagement and lavish ceremony. Ebret 35, heiress. Danner 50.
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Belleville
Ill
Barbara Ebret
Alex Danner
Centerville Station
East St. Louis
Danner
St. Clair County
Ilinois
Miss Ehret
Release of 4,000,000 Bonds Deferred Depositories Adopted
Washington September statement by Shaw outlines plans to release about 4 million in treasury holdings through temporary depositories. Banks would hold face value bonds as collateral, avoiding market purchases at premiums. October 4.2 million anticipation and coupon cashing ordered. no alarm. New York weekly bank report shows surplus reserve up by 5.55 million to 715,075 over required 25 percent. loans down 6.58 million and deposits down 14.6 million.
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Washington
Shaw
Treasury
United States
New York
Ottumwa Car Strike Deepens in Iowa
Ottumwa Iowa September 15 street car strike grows serious as Blacksmiths employed by the company quit work this morning threatening to halt electric power supply the city relies on from the street car plant.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Nuns Expelled Again at Landernau in Brest France
Sub Prefect Finistere with gendarmes and troops again expelled nuns from Landernau after their August return claiming a 1528 decree. Prefect released the school amid local protests as anti semitic tensions flare. In Vienna a Poland Jew shop mob rampages injuring and killing a gendarme, military restored order.
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Brest
France
Austria
Landerneau
Vienna
Czenstochowa
Poland
Diabolical Degenerate Missouri Develops Him and Will Probably Mang Him
Pierce Nebraska Sept 13 Thursday night Gottliel Niegentind shot and killed his former wife Mrs Anna Peters shot six times at Albert Breyer her father who died yesterday morning and shot the wife of Breyer on the shoulder seriously perhaps fatally After shooting Niegentind left the house meeting Peters sister Lena Breyer attempted a criminal assault but was frightened away Peters had divorced two years earlier and he was thought to have left the country He appeared at Pierce Sunday and later visited the Breyer farm where his former wife lived with her parents He went to the Breyer home last evening and engaged his father in a quarrel the trouble over Niegentind oman as was his eochowner of tragedy Niegentind drawing a revolver during the quarrel and opening fire on Breyer
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Missouri
Pierce
Neb
Gottliel Niegenfind
Anna Peters
Albert Breyer
Breyer
Niegentind
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