Miners Split Over Strike Exit Proposal From White House
John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, replies to President Roosevelt’s suspension offer. He says miners went half way, reject further sacrifices, and refuse to return to work without operators accepting a fair tribunal’s findings and enforcement. He cites past operator resistance and risks prolonged suffering from the coal strike.
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Washington
John
Mitchell
Mine Workers’ Union
Roosevelt
White House
Piseadore
United States
Washington, D. C
Carroll D. Wright
Tr Ag
John Mitchell
Hoosier Police Probe Grave Robbing Ring
Police in Indianapolis confront a grave robbing network after bodies allegedly stolen from cemeteries across the city and surrounding gas belt areas. Detectives linked thefts to a group of ghouls suspected of pilfering as many as a thousand bodies over two years.
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Hoosier
Louisville
Indianapolis
Central College of Physicians and Surgeons
Cocoanut Shells Sold For Tenement Fuel In New York
A New York dispatch reports cocoanut shells for fuel supplied to tenement dwellers. Sold in bags of fifty to sixty pounds for ten or fifteen cents each. The material furnishes more heat than coal and burns longer, with better qualities despite the rougher stoking.
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Pra
New York Dispatch
Walter Wellman Father Dead in Bradshaw Nebraska
Walter Wellman, Arctic explorer and Washington correspondent for the Chicago Record, and A W Wellman of Madison Wisconsin, died at his Bradshaw Nebraska residence in the early hours after a seven week illness.
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Walter sVellmar
Alonzo
Wellman
Walter Wellman
Arctic
Chicago Record
A. W. Well
Madison
Wis
Bradshaw
Neb
Tragedy at Mercer Neb as laborer shoots two Italians
T G Rich a laborer with a Union Pacific gang near Mercer Neb shot two Italian coworkers about 8 pm Thursday. One man died, the other is in critical condition. Rich, reportedly drinking, fled on a westbound freight. The shooting followed a drunken quarrel. An interpreter and another worker traveled to Valley to notify authorities.
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T. G. Rich
Union Pacific
Mercer
Neb
Rich
Valley
Murder at Naper Neb Presages Sioux Chief’s Son
In Naper Nebraska on a reservation near an Indian school, John Bear killed farmer and teacher E C Taylor at six pm, then shot Johnnie Straw at seven pm as he rode north with a shotgun. Bear, son of Swift Bear, later surrendered in Bonesteel and is jailed. Taylor’s body to be embalmed and sent home.
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Naper
Neb
Johnnie” Shaw
B.C. Taylor
John Bear
Bear
Swift Bear
Napsr
E.C. Taylor
Taylor
Johnnie” Straw
Bonesteel
Jessie Morrison Freed After Bond Approval
Jessie Morrison, accused of fatally slaying Mrs. Olin Castle, was released from the Kansas penitentiary near noon Wednesday after the supreme court order and a $10,000 bond was deemed satisfactory. She thanked Warden Jewett and officials as she departed on a Kansas City electric car, taking some personal handiwork.
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Jessie Morrison
Olin Castle
Kansas Penitentiary
Eldorado
Kan
Jewett
Supreme Court
Miss Miorrison
Kansas City
Striker killed by soldier at Shenandoah coal camp
A striker named Durham was shot dead by Private Wadsworth of the High Teenth Regiment at coal mines near Shenandoah Pennsylvania during outpost duty after failing to answer a challenge. Officials think the incident involved an attempted dynamite attack. Wadsworth surrendered after reporting to headquarters.
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John Durham
Wadsworth
Highteenth Regiment
Shenandoah
Durham
Convict Byron Murphy Makes Daring Escape From Prison Engine
Byron Murphy a fireman on the prison locomotive broke for liberty near Folsom California. Moments after the engineer left the cab he opened the throttle and headed toward Sacramento. Guards fired but Murphy escaped unhurt and fled into the woods after leaving the engine at Alder Creek.
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Byron Murphy
Folson
Cal
Murphy
Sacramento
Alder Creek
Explosion Kills Two at Lima Factory
An explosion at the Producers' Explosive plant south of Lima Ohio killed Earl Bush a nitroglycerine maker and John Anspaugh a helper. The factory wrecked and surrounding buildings were damaged as Bush recently took the job and his wife was en route to the plant when the blast occurred.
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Producers’ Explosive Company
Lima
Earl Bush
John Anspaugh
Bush
Gobin Arrives in Wilkesbarre to Lead Strike Response
General Gobin and staff landed in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania Thursday morning and will base operations there until the strike ends. He arrived with the Third brigade assigned to duties across the third anthracite district and predicted no trouble would be encountered.
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Gobin
Wilkesbarre
Steamer Sunk After Collision in Dense Fog
The British steamer Robert Ingham was struck by the Kron Prinz Wilhelm off Beacham, England, in thick fog. Five minutes after the collision it sank. thirteen crew members were rescued, while the mate and one passenger were drowned.
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Robert Ingham
Beachhard
Eng
Kron Prinz Wilhelm
Kron Prinz
Wre
Brief items: Lincoln bartender robbed. war office adopts motor wagons
Joseph Valin, a Lincoln bartender, was held up and robbed of $3. The British war office has decided to adopt motor wagons after experiments proved satisfactory. A. BY Stillwell hag purchased the San Rafael mines in Zacatecas, Mexico for $160,600 in cash. Five foreigners were killed in a collision between a coal train and a gravel train on the Panhandle road at Way Emens station, Pa.
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Joseph Valin
Safe 15 Racked but Little Cash Handed to Robbers
A bank safe at the Bank of Dubois in Dubois Nebraska was attacked on Saturday night under dark rainy skies with thunder. An explosion went unnoticed until Sunday morning. Watches were stolen but no entry found. Two men were arrested as suspects and a posse chased another man believed to hold the watches. Bloodhounds from Beatrice were unavailable.
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Dubois
Neb
Beatrice
Two Robbers Escaped After Burlington Train Hold Up
Nebraska officers across the eastern region pressed the search for suspects in Saturday morning’s Burlington train robbery near Woodlawn. Despite reports of suspicious characters and two men detained at Hubbell, no match to the robbers’ description was found and no decisive leads emerged by Sunday night.
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Burlington
Woodlawn
Nebraska
Lincoln
Hubbell
Thayer County
New Orleans Railway Strike Ends After Secret Ballot
The street railway strike in New Orleans ends as workers nearly unanimously accept the governor’s ultimatum. Negotiations started Saturday night and concluded Sunday morning with a return to service at 20 cents for ten hours, minimum seven and a half hours daily, and no discrimination. The city greets the settlement. poles display political figures and officials’ names in celebration.
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New Orleans
Judge Jones Refuses Giles Injunction in Montgomery
Supreme Court Judge Jones of the United States court at Montgomery Alabama denied Jackson W. Giles an injunction to stop registrars from sending up their lists without Giles and other qualified voters names. The ruling rests on lack of jurisdiction and follows equity decisions limiting the equity side to property matters. An appeal was taken directly to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Supreme Court
Jones
United States Court
Montgomery
Ala
Jackson W. Giles
United ‘States
Accident at Staplehurst injures Miss Madge Work
Miss Madge Work daughter of Mr and Mrs D C Work Seward Nebraska suffered serious injuries when a caboose was knocked from the trucks during switching at Staplehurst by a freight train. She was thrown across a seat and cut her face sustaining internal injuries and unconsciousness. Returned home by passenger train after initial care. Several others in the car had minor injuries.
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Madge Work
D. C. Work
Seward
Neb
Staplehurst
Miss Worl
South Omaha School Board Members Arrested On Bribery Charges
Four South Omaha school board members A L Lott J L Kubat Theodore Schroeder and Alonzo V Miller were arrested Saturday on bribery and fraud charges connected to their official duties. Miller faces a separate charge for a $19.20 payment on October 8 to influence a vote on typewriter machines. Bonds set at $1000 each. Preliminary hearing scheduled for October 20.
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South Omaha School Board
A. L. Lott
J. L. Kubat
Theodore Schroeder
Alonzo V. Miller
Vinsonhaler
Miller
Floyd St. John
Lott
Kubat
Schroeder
St. John
Salem mayor threatens hangings in coal strike push
Mayor John F. Hurley of Salem mass angered a mass meeting by saying he would hang President Baer and other operators by the neck. He urged extreme measures until they would arbitrate. Resolutions of sympathy for the miners were adopted and funds collected.
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Salem
Mass
Lynn
John F. Hurley
Baer
Hurley
Despondent Missouri Teacher Dies After Self Inflicted Shot
Edward Yeamans, 19, from near Hopkins in Noda way county, Missouri, shot himself in the head with a target rifle in his mother's yard. He had been teaching school and despondent over lack of success. The act occurred in the presence of his elder brother.
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Edward Yeamans
Hopkins
Nodaway County
Missouri
Yeamans
Miss Mary Andrews Named First Woman Pastor in Kansas City
Miss Mary Andrews daughter of ex Sheriff Robert N Andrews of Hamilton Ohio has been elected pastor of the Universalist church in Kansas City Missouri. She succeeds Rev Luther McKinney and will be the first woman pastor Kansas City has had.
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Mary Andrews
Robert N. Andrews
Hamilton, O
Universalist Church
Kansas City
Luther McKinney
Butte Editor Shoots Doctor In Suspected Ladies’ Row Conflict
Inter Mountain editor J. W. Kelly shot Dr. A. H. Cayley of Butte Montana in a dispute said to involve a woman. Doctors express no hope for Cayley’s recovery as officers search for Kelly. The incident occurred at a late hour amid tense relations between the parties.
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J. W. Kelly
Inter- Mountain
Butte,Mont
A. H. Cayley
Butte
Cayley
Kelly
Accused Stabber Bound Over After Utica Nebraska Fight
William Hymas and Emmett Watson near Utica Nebraska quarreled over trespassing stock and fought. Hymas was charged with stabbing Watson on the left side of the head. He was arrested and brought before Justice Snodgrass and bound over to the district court.
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Wiliam Hymas
Emmett Watson
Utica
Neb
Hymas
Watson
Snodgrass
District Court
Fusion ticket to appear on ballot under Democratic name
The fusion forces claim the state ballot will show the Kamsas ticket as Democratic. They have not yet obtained a permanent order from the secretary of state, but a district court granted a temporary order allowing both the populist and democratic tickets to appear.
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Democratic
Berries, Cherry Trees Prosper in Cass County Crop Boom
Berries grown by Chris Bell near Plattsmouth Nebraska produce a second crop this year. Cherry trees are budding with prospects of bloom before cold weather. Cass County shatters prior fruit records in year with strong orchard output.
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Chris Bell
Platts‘mouth
Neb
Cass
Canada Seeks Preference Amid U S Coal Strike
The Toronto mayor cabled an appeal to the mayor of Cardiff to urge coal mine operators to grant Canada preference in meeting the emergency caused by the American coal strike.
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Canada
Toronto
Cardiff
Wage Adjustment For National Railroad Of Mexico Staff
A wage question between employees of the National Railroad of Mexico has been satisfactorily adjusted. Engineers and conductors receive an average wage increase of 15 percent.
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National’ Railroad of
Mexico
Robbery Holdup Delays Burlington No.41 West of Lincoln
Early Friday morning the Burlington train No.41 was held up on the West Lincoln hill about five miles from Lincoln. Three men stopped the eight-car train at bridge No.58 two miles west, terrorized the crew, and opened the safe. The safe contents were missing. initial estimates vary but later reports cite about $1,500. No injuries reported.
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Burlington
Lincoln Hill
Lincoln
Union Pacific
Roundhouse
Moore
Portland
Lupton
Bridge No
Jit
Plattsmouth Child Loses Leg in School Ride Accident
The seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs E C Slagel suffered a severe injury when a farmer's buggy wheel caught her leg on the way home from school. Despite two doctors efforts the limb could not be saved and amputation was required between the knee and hip.
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E.C. Slagel
Plattsmouth
Fires rage across Lexington and more amid broad coal strike
Brief telegraphs report fires burn the Lexington ice plant Hoffman's brewery and several avenues causing losses estimated around one hundred thousand dollars. Robinett is named receiver of Midland Fire Insurance Kansas City. An AFL council plans fundraising for coal miners strikers. Germany to open a legation in Havana with budget support. Kansas City court holds a railroad retaining identity after merger. A nationwide grocery combine is forming led by George D. Hanford with details to follow after November 5 in Detroit.
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Lexington
Hoffman’s
Robinett
Midland Fire Insurance Company
Kansas City
Kan
American Federation of Labor
Havana
Foreign Office
United ‘States-court- At
United States
Detroit
George D. Hanford
New York City
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