Labor unrest and wage disputes across nations and cities
Reports tally unions from Denmark to Des Moines and Los Angeles seeking eight hour days wage increases and organizational reforms. The Fransi vaal government forms inquiry committees while Britain plans union banks and safety laws expand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Chicago
Aunt Bes
Louisvde
Fransvaal
Des Moines Trades and Labor Assembly
Commercial Club
Journeymen Plumbers’ Union of
Sacramento
Boston
United States
Arkansas State Federation of Labor
Fort Smith
Women’s Trade Union League
Congress
St. Paul Pilinters
Pew
Brotherhood of Painters
Pittsburg
Thaw trial begins amid global press interest in Stan ford White killing
The Thaw trial opened in New York for the murder of Stanford White on Madison Square Garden. Harry Thaw defends emotional insanity as the cause, while crowds and reporters mobbed the Criminology Building. The case links high society, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, and a dramatic courtroom saga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Archotaet
Stanford White
Faustice Fitegerald
Pittsburg
Cours
Lomg
Crimin Quure
Bridge of Sighs
Gluidow
Thaw
Madison Square Garden
White
Evelyn Nestit Thaw
Justice Fitzgerald
Harry ‘Shaw
Harry Thaw
Moystery
William Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Countess of
Yarmouth
George Carnegie
May MecKenzie
Edward Thaw
D. AL Delmas
Jerome
Mr. Delmas
Enghand
Shonts Names to Lead New Interborough Company
Theodore Jt Shonts, chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, is named as president of the Interborough Metropolitan Company of New York with a salary of 50000 dollars a year. Headquarters will move from Washington to the Isthmus region for his service, and John FP. Stevens may not be confirmed as canal engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Shonts
White House
War Department
Washington
Panama Canal
Secretary of War
New York
Interborough
Theodore Jt Shonts
Isthmian Conmal Commission
Interborough Metropolitan Company of
New Yor
August
Higt
Jolm FP. Stevens
Inaugural calls for reform sweep several states
Gov Ansel of South Carolina urged abolishing the state ciary and bucket ops removal. Gov Chamberlain sent a message to the Oregon Legislature. Bills proposed include a two dollar fare and a primary law. Missouri’s lower house passed a bill taxing undivided land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ansel
South Carolina
Ciary
George IE. Chamberlain
Lisse
Oregon
Missouri
Tolson City
Britain Apologizes for Jamaica Crisis Row Over Kingston Relief
Britain issues a formal apology to the United States for Governor Swettenham's order demanding Admiral Davis withdraw his forces from Kingston after the Kingston earthquake. The incident strains Jamaica US-British ties amid American influence, recovery efforts, and casualties reported in Kingston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
Alexander Strettenham
Jamaica
Davis
Kingston
Hoot
London
Admiral Davis
Swettenham
Paname Canal
Caribbean
Cuba
Panama Canal
Panama
India
Jameaies
James Alexander Swettenham
Uncle Sam
Swetterham
Swelterhan
Kingston Disaster RAVAGES City and Port Area
The Kingston disaster in Trnava mirrors San Francisco and Valparaiso, with hundreds dead and generic debris fires. Looting fears rise as famine threat looms, while troops with fixed bayonets guard provisioning stores and central city zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
San Francisco
Trnava
Valpiraiso
Tettin Rm
Onla
Ruin in Kingston Area After Severe Tide and Fire
The town and surrounding coast suffer extensive damage with Kingston’s cable line broken and coastal towns inundated. Sir James Fergusson’s estate razed, Anolta Bar washed out, and many buildings destroyed. lootings persist amid harsh martial law with suspected 100 arrests and troops ordered to shoot looters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Treasury
Harbor Street
Government House
Nova Scotia
Paris Clurch
Port Ftorsi
Kingston Harbor
James Fergusson
Anolta
Richmond
Port Royal
Kingston Crippled by Quake and Fire Threatened by Sea
Reports from Kingston after a major earthquake and widespread fire describe rising water and harbor collapse. Ships face danger as the harbor depth changes, lighthouses sink, and portions of the town lie underwater. Officials study topography amid Jamaica coast tidal impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Wingsler
Fingeron
Trium Point
Neral
Holland Bay
Port Royal
Havana
Jamaica
Washington
Matesl
Pinin
Kingston Fies
Sone
Cesst
United States
The History of American Morals and Cultural Shifts
Prof Franklin Giddings analyzes American emotionalism tracing its roots from colonial virtue to witchcraft hysteria and revivalism. He links 1801 Kentucky disturbances to lynchings 1882 1900 era social forces. Also notes Cornell 14th annual report student growth and English schools favor continental Latin pronunciation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin G. Giddings
The
Times Magazine
United States
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitfield
Kentucky
Toub
Oxford
Cambridge
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Denmark
Britain
Atlantic
Organized Labor
Labor Temple
Ionstead
Gakers
Manchester and Salford Cingland
Med
General Federation
Trades Unions of
Aberdeen
Scotlandg
Teichstag
Miners’ Federation of
Amerian Federation of Labor
Amatsumated Association of
Austria-Hungary
Dawson
Alsaka
Russia
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
French Guiana
Kansas
Kansas State Penitentiary
Worden Flaskell
Civil Service Commission
Little Rock
Ark
Senate
Stoose
Velt
Brownsville
Lincoln
Neb
Wisconsin Assembly
Joseph W. Bailey
United States Senate
Texas
Bailey
Harry EK
Gtanford Witte
Ganal Post
Swettenhan
England
Admiral Davies
War Office
Harry Straw
Bray
Chicago Inter Ocean
Kingston and Environs
Schurman
Cornell
Schermann
Butler College
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