Strike Settled as Commission to Open Talks on Anthracite
Washington Oct 16 the great anthracite coal strike is settled a six member commission with recorder Carroll D Wright will study issues between operators and miners Brig Gen John M Wilson retired U S Army Mr E W Parker editor of Engineering and Mining Journal Mr George Gray US judge Mr E E Clark sociologist Mr Thomas W Watkins miner expert Bishop John L Spalding and Wright named recorder The workers union to resume operations next week and a convention to approve arbitration proceeds in Wilkesbarre Oct 17 and Scranton Oct 18 report of locals opposing terms circulated but district leaders say acceptance likely
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Washington
Carroll D. Wright
Mitchell
Miners’ Union
Root
White House
John M. Wilson
U.S. A
U. Ss. A
Washington, D. C
Engineer Corps
Military
Naval Service of
United States
E. W. Parker
Parker
Coal Division
United States Geological Survey
Engineering and Mining Journal of
New York
George Gray
Wilmington
Del
United States Court
E. E. Clark
Cedar Rapids
Order of Railway Conductors
Thomas W. Watkins
Scranton
John L. Spalding
Peoria
Wilkesbarre
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers
Nicholls
Nichols
Chinese edict approves five million dollar French loan
An edict dated October 15 sanctions a five million dollar loan to be raised in France. Sheng, director of railroads, will negotiate through a Russian bank to finance a railroad from Ching Ting Fu to Tai Yuen Fu.
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Shanghai
France
Sheng
Ching Ting Fu
Tai Yuen Fu
Corbett Defeats Bernstein for Featherweight Title Decision
In Music Hall Eureka Athletic Club Baltimore on Thursday night Young Corbett won the decision over Joe Bernstein of New York known as the Ghetto champion. The bout took place before a large crowd.
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Baltimore
Young Corbett
Joe Bernstein
New York
Eureka Athletic Club
Music Hall
Navy orders Wainwright to report for Newark duty
Commander Richard Wainwright received orders from the Navy Department to report on November 3 to the U S cruiser Newark and its command. The announcement places Wainwright in a key assignment within the cruiser’s Pastime Command.
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Annapolis
Richard Wainright
Navy Department
United States
Newark
Fire blamed on love jealously in Minnesota arson spree
Sheriff Dreger jailed Adolph Kadelboch for setting fire to barns and warehouses on six farms near Loretto. He said rejection by neighborhood women drove him to revenge, burning homes of Charles Piper Jacob Spurzem Leonard Miller and Charles Thomas before his capture near the latter farm. Farmers guarded their properties as word spread.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Dreger
Adolph Kadelboch
Loretto
Charles Piper
Jacob Spurzem
Kadelboch
Leonard Miller
Charles Thomas
Rockford
Kadelbach
Hennepin County
Winterholter
PUPILS IN SCHOOLS
The report shows 17,299,930 pupils in U S schools for the year ended June 30 1901, up 278,520 from the prior year. Public and private institutions supported by taxation total 15,710,394, plus about 0.5 million in special schools, bringing the aggregate to over seventeen and a quarter million.
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Washington
Commissioner of Education
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Tug Boat Fred Nellis Wrecks Near Mound City
Memphis scene reports two killed one fatally and three injured when the tug Fred Nellis from St. Louis exploded near Mound City Arkansas early Sunday. The vessel with 11 aboard had left Memphis bound for Thebes to aid bridge work. three boiler flues failed wrecking the upper deck.
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Memphis
Tenn
Fred Nellis
St. Louis
Mound City
Ark
Nellis
Plaquemine
Thebes
Ill
A Temperance Wave In Austria Seeks Strong Prohibition
Vienna reports a new government bill to curb drunkenness, the first such measure in Austrian history. It follows temperance pressure and would jail repeat intoxicated offenders in public spaces and limit bottle sales to holders of special licenses, one per 500 inhabitants.
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Vienna
Austria
Temperance Party
Steam pipe breaks at Benwood plant injuring eight workers
Eight men were scalded when a 12 inch steam pipe fractured at the River side plant of National Tube Works in Benwood. Four carpenters and four laborers were on a scaffold in the boiler room when the pipe burst, filling the room with steam and sending several men toward death. Separate item notes the strike by wood carvers at a New York firm supplying White House carvings ending in a victory for the union.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Riverside
National Tube Works
Benwood
New York
White House
Train Collision Near Brainerd Injures Several
A passenger train No 12 on the Northern Pacific collided with an engine six miles west of Brainerd Minnesota. Engineer Carlson Fireman Leonard and Baggagemaster Jones were among a dozen injured passengers.
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Brainerd
Minn
Here
Carlson
Leonard
Jones
Bridge Collapse Kills Five in Constantinople Suburb Link
Fifteen people were immersed in the disaster when the bridge over the Golden Horn collapsed, linking Constantinople with Galata. Five drowned, others rescued or missing as authorities investigate the accident.
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Constantinople
Golder Horn
Galata
Death by Self Inflicted Wound Ends James Younger Life
James Younger, once a member of the James gang, shot himself after parole from Minnesota Penitentiary in July last year. A farewell letter to the press cited despondency over ill health and separation from friends. He was 54, had led an exemplary life since release, and his body was found in a downtown St Paul room after a revolver self-inflicted wound. The coroner recorded no inquest.
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Minnesota
St. Paul
Minn
James Younger
James
Younger
Jim Younger
Lassie
State Board of Pardons
State Penitentiary
Vatican hopes for US relations from Manila talks
Rome dispatch says the Vatican hopes Taft Guidi negotiations will establish diplomatic ties with the United States. If that fails, the pope hopes an envoy to Rome will ratify the arrangements after Guidi talks conclude.
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London
Rome
Daily Telegraph
Vatican
Manila
Gov. Taft
Guidi
United States
Richard B. McCoy Dead Shaped Civil Rights Debate
Richard B. McCoy died at his Dublin home in Hartford County at age 81. He served in the Maryland legislature and supported abolitionism but opposed Negro suffrage. He belonged to a group that met with President Lincoln the night before the assassination to discuss suffrage.
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Baltimore
Richard B. McCoy
Dublin
Hartford County
McCoy
Maryland
Lincoln
Labor federation orders grocers union to resume work
Chicago October 20 The Chicago Federation of Labor registered a near unanimous vote of its delegates declaring the Wholesale Grocers' Employes' union as a strike breaker and ordering members to return to work while arbitration settles their dispute.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
Treasury to Anticipate Interest on Government Bonds
Washington October 20 the treasury department will anticipate the interest on bonds due November 1. On Monday checks totaling 2,233,000 dollars will be mailed to bondholders for the interest payment.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Librarian Walter Crane of Braddock Dies at 40
Walter Crane longtime Carnegie library of Braddock librarian died suddenly Sunday from apoplexy at age 40 in Pittsburg. He was born in Rossier Scotland and came to the United States at age six.
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Pittsburg
Walter Crane
Carnegie Library
Braddock
Rossier
Scotland
Nine Die in Littleton Race Riot near Birmingham
In Littleton, Alabama, three white men and eight African Americans are reported killed after a race riot sparked by an alleged assault on a white woman. Deputies responded by train, but the situation escalated with gunfire, vacancies, and a Negro force holding the town, including a captured coal company powder magazine.
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Birmingham
Ala
Littleton
A. W. Burgin
Southern Railway
Burgin
S. F. W. Barnes
Rev. F. R. Skelton
W. F. Lane
M. J. Marshall
C. J. Langston
Posst
Millionaires plan premier race track in Jamaica Plains
New York reports a 480 acre race track site in Jamaica Plains Long Island for millionaire owners including August Belmont William C Whitney and Thomas T Hitchcock Jr. The plan promises top class facilities and aims to be ready when Morris Park ceases racing.
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New York
Jamaica Plains
Long Island
August Belmont
William C. Whitney
Thomas T. Hitchcock, Jr
Morris Park
No decisive results reported in Victoria battle
A U S dispatch from Cara cas dated October 18 states the revolutionary army withdrew from near Victoria and government troops still held Valencia. A later dispatch at 10:46 Sunday forenoon says the battle ended with no decisive result.
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Washington
State Department
Caracas
Bowen
Victoria
Valencia
Rotten timbers in floor threaten church collapse
In Omaha on Oct 20 a crowd of 500 at the First Christian church narrowly escaped catastrophe when rotten timbers in the floor gave way. The floor settled five inches and the congregation, led by Rev. Allen Wilson of Irvington, Ind., evacuated quietly with no injuries reported.
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Omaha
Neb
Allen Wilson
Irvington
Ind
Epidemic Among Colombian Troops Reported
Kingston Jamaica October 20. The steamer Orinoco from Colon reports yellow fever and smallpox have broken out among Colombian government forces at Colon with ten soldier deaths daily.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Colon
Colombia
New Counterfeit $10 Note Reported by Department
The department detects a counterfeit $10 United States note from the 1901 series. The lithographic bill uses two sheets with silk threads between them. It appears ordinary at first glance but fails under close inspection.
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Washington
Treasury Department
United States
Chinese provinces to train Russian language schools edict
Kronstadt reports an imperial edict allows schools in Chinese provinces adjacent to Asiatic Russia to teach the Russian language. Separately, Col. John C. Moore, an 80 year old San Diego newspaper writer and Crimean War veteran who fought for the Confederacy, died suddenly of paralysis.
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Odessa
Russia
Kronstadt
China
San Diego
Cal
John C. Moore
American Jockey Van Dusen Wins Austrian Prize Race
Van Dusen rode Beregvpergy to victory in Vienna on Sunday in the Austrian prize race, one of the country’s biggest events. The stake totaled $26,000.
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Vienna
van Dusen
Beregvpergy
Austria
Peruna claims praised by users in unsolicited letters
Letters from users tout Peruna as effective for catarrhal troubles and colds. David F Wilber reports near full recovery after several bottles and endorses the remedy. C F Given cites rapid cold recovery and recommends Peruna highly. Julian Weisslitz credits Peruna with saving his voice and notes ongoing use. Address Dr Hartman for free advice.
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Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
David F. Wilber
C. F. Given
Sussex
N. B
Sangerlust
New York City
Julian Weisslitz
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
BEE Hartman Sanitarium
Hio
Very Low Colonists Rates to California and Nearby Points
The Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route offer one way Colonists and Settlers tickets to California and North Pacific Coast points, plus to Missouri Arkansas Indian Oklahoma Territory Louisiana and Texas. Tickets valid first and third Tuesdays monthly from October 21 to April 31 at half standard first class fare plus $2.00. For details contact nearestAgent or write H C Townsend G P T Agent St Louis Mo.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
Iron Mountain
California
North Pacific Coast
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma Territories
Louisiana
Texas
H.C. Townsend
St. Louis
Mrs Peck Returns From Niagara in Detroit Free Press
Mrs Peck has returned from Nia gara with remarks on the journey while Mr Peck praises the outcome. The Detroit Free Press notes the couple’s reaction as they discuss how Niagara was accomplished.
Scalp Eczema Treated With Dean's Ointment Ad
An old advertisement touts Dean's Ointment as a quick permanent cure for scald head eczema. It notes availability at drug stores for 50 cents and cites other patent medicines. The snippet includes quotes from Indianapolis News and Four-Track News mentioning various remedies and moral sayings.
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Dean
Four Daily Trains to St Paul Minneapolis via Northwestern
Four daily trains run from Chicago to St Paul and Minneapolis via the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Departures at 9:00 a.m. 6:30 p.m. electric North-Western Limited 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. with fast schedules and luxurious equipment. Dining car service noted. For tickets and pamphlets contact W B Kniskern at 22 Fifth Avenue Chicago Illinois.
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T. Paul-Minneapolis
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Chicago
North - Western Limited
W. B. Kniskern
Fifth Avenue
Ills
Fullback hunted for trouble and outpunts foes
A brief humorous note from the Catholic Standard and Times recalls a fullback who sought trouble and found it in a game, joking that he “outpuntted” the defense after taking on a government mule and earning his tombstone quip.
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Catholic Standard and Times
Doctor's remark and Cholly's wish in Chicago record
A doctor weighs the patient’s fate as Cholly mutters a dark wish to die happy. The fragment samples a mood of resignation and faint gratitude in a medical setting from the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Cholly
Chicago Record-Herald
A Thin Soil Crop
A satirical note from the Los Angeles Herald on egotism as a readily grown crop, claiming the plant thrives most rapidly on barren material and yields permanent growth.
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Los Angeles Herald
Floating debts and the grand vizier’s question
A fragment cites a grand vizier asking what a floating debt is while a Turkish navy remark surfaces in a Philadelphia road dialogue. The men’s exchange hints at fiscal terms and nautical allusions in a wartime or diplomatic context.
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Turkey
Philadelphia Rd
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Diplomatic Relations
Pope
Richard B. M’coy
Alabama
Millionaires’ Race Track
Omaha, Neb
Wilber
Pe-ru-na Medicine Co
Columbus, C
Seneca Street
Buffalo
N. Y
D. I. Wilber
Onec
Ita
Ohio
Covonisman DE Wilber
New
York
Indianapolis News
Monarch
Thomas
N. Y. Telegraph
Fac Simile Signature of
Bears
Castoria
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