Week's Events Review: Telegraphers' General Strike
Twelve Havana cable operators obeyed S J Small's strike order and quit. Chicago and New York saw limited effects as unions claimed most members were already out. Small and Gompers discussed arbitration and hoped to raise a 2 million dollar fund within two months. Roosevelt declined intervention. Arbour & Co. operators in Chicago and East St. Louis joined the walkout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Cuba
Small
Chicago Federation
S. J. Small
Chicago
New York
Samuel Gompers
S J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Boards of Trade and Commercial Bodies
Roosevelt
Neill
Armour & Co
East St. Louis
Senators push plan to curb Mormon political power
Senator DuBois of Idaho urged Illinois congressmen to back a constitutional amendment giving the federal government authority to combat unlawful cohabitation and polygamy to check the Mormon church influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Ill
DuBois
Idaho
Porter
Bristol, Conn
New York-Pittsfield Express
Ashley Falls Crossing
Pleasantville
Howard T Harsteller
N. J
Steeplechase Island
Bridgeport
Conn
British Guiana
Venezuela
Taft
Washington
Globe
Tiverton
Robert Allan Pinkerton
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Bremen
Emma Leach
Cole
Jim
Bobh Younger
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Duluth
Roy Radcliffe
Des Moines
Ifa
Ridgeway
Vast US Explosive Secrets and Global News Digest
Reports from across the world describe the US uncovering a more powerful explosive than any before, a major socialist congress starting in Stuttgart, a sea meteor near Amagansett causing waves, and five miners killed in Seaman Pennsylvania. Other items include a paratrooper’s death in Connecticut, bubonic plague in San Francisco, a court ordering payment of a life policy, and various investigations, crimes, accidents, and corporate actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Maj. Dunn
Ordnance Corps
United States
International Socialist Congress
Stuttgart
Amagansett
S. I
Seaman
Theodore A. French
Lavin Rock
Conn
San Francisco
McPherson
Red Oak
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Lucius H. Perkins
Ashtabula County
Ohio
John E. Owens
Cincinnati
Madeline Wassner Langlotz
New York
Pennsylvania
Capitol Investigation Commission
Stuart
Marathon County Railroad Company
W. D. Connor
Wisconsin Railroad Commission
Warren Hastings
Boston
Standard Oil Company
Brodhead
Wis
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company
Milwaukee
F L. Gilbert
Wisconsin
Landis
Chicago
Treasury Department
Washington
Toledo
Elizabeth Gallighan
St. Louis
Bonaparte
Wall Street
Burlington Railroad Company
Crall
Chillicothe
Vermont Association of Boston
Philadelphia
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Western Bar Iron Association
Pittsburg
Board of Conciliation
Lipman
Beloit
J. Ogden Armour
Count Seckendorf
Ramseys
N. J
Atrike
Notable incidents and trials across nations and states
A digest of varied events including a fugitive named Robert Fitzsimmons offered a police school post by Mayor Fisk of Plainfield. a lynching in Maple Kentucky. King Edward meeting Emperor Francis Joseph at Ischl. a New York murder-suicide case. naval actions near Casablanca. a fatal Brooklyn streetcar crash. Doemitz Germany dynamite factory explosion. Jamestown exposition North Carolina event. bigamy case in New York. Army of the Philippines leadership. forthcoming Coast Artillery training at Fort Monroe. rail labor and stock market turbulence. Pope Manufacturing receivers in multiple states. Irish lord Lord Ashtown narrowly escaped bomb attack.
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King Edward
Ischl
Austria
Francis Joseph
George Wasser
New York
Wasser
Philibert
Casablanca
Gloire
Long Island
Brooklyn
Old Orchard
Burlington
Denver
Chicago
Russell
Weston
Kate C. Knight
Pittsburg
Danville
Doemitz
Germany
North Carolina
Warren G. Foster
Hermann Keuhn
Colorado & Southern Railroad
W. P. Cutler
Kansas City
California
Arkansas
Pope Manufacturing Company
Maryland
Republican Convention
George R. Gaither
Hammond Urner
James P. Baker
New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Lord Ashtown
10 PREVENT BOYCOTTS The Supreme Court Enjoins Labor Leaders
A DC suit seeks to permanently bar AFL and its subsidiaries from using unfair lists to boycott Bucks Store and Range Co of St Louis. James W. Van Cleave, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, files the action in DC Superior Court, naming Gompers Mitchell and others. The case arises from a 1906 strike by Metal Polishers No. 15 and subsequent boycotts affecting the Bucks Co. and its products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
James W. van Cleave
National Association of Manufacturers
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
van Cleave
St. Louis
Bucks Store and Range Co
Metal Polishers’ Union No. 15
International Union of Metal Polishers
Stave Founders
National Defense Association
The
Bucks Co
the Journal
Taft Delivers Political Confession of Faith in Columbus
Secretary of War William H. Taft spoke to a packed Memorial hall audience about tariff revision and anti trust enforcement. He urged early revision of the Dingley law and supported imprisoning those behind anti trust violations and rebate schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
William H. Taft
War Department
Memorial Hall
Buckeye Republican Club
Taft
Gov
Harris
United States
Republican Party
Ravisher Captured After Chase in Ohio Swamp
Warren Ohio August 20 Chief Flowers and Barney Gillen pursued a tramp who assaulted Alma Whitehead fourteen of Turner Pennsylvania. The suspect Henry Wagner twenty seven was captured in Ben Jones swamp near Wick twenty eight miles north and taken to Meadville for arraignment. He pleads guilty and faces September term. Wagner claims recent work at a Lorain foundry.
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Warren
Flowers
Barney Gillen
Trumbull County
Alma Whitehead
J. M. Whitehead
Turner
Psa
Ben Jones
Wick
Here
Marshall
Meadville
Crawford County
Henry W. Wagner
Lorain
Statue Clothed in Dollar Bills in Little Italy Parade
In Cleveland on August 16 a statue of the Virgin Mary wore a robe made of one dollar bills as it was carried aloft during the Little Italy carnival parade for the Ascension of St. Mary. Women knelt and offered dollar bills to adorn the statue amid the annual Italian celebration downtown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Little Italy
Woman Sues for $200000 in Springfield Suit
The Springfield Metallic Casket Co. president Charles E. Patrick and his third wife are defendants in a $200,000 slander suit brought by his former wife No 2. She claims denation of affections after his divorce from wife No 2 nine months earlier and his recent remarriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Charles E. Patrick
Springfield Metallic Casket Co
Patrick
Woman shoots wrong man in Cleveland suburb attack
In Cleveland on August 16 a colored girl mistook huckster Bernard Curten for an enemy and fired three times from a house near Broadway and Twenty second street. A bullet struck Curten in the leg as he fell. The shooter cried she had harmed the wrong man and fled the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Bernard Curten
Broadway
Curten
Runaway injures Mrs Dvorak in Ohio buggy chase
Cleveland August 16 Mrs Dvorak of Corlett Ohio was hurt in a runaway Thursday She clung to a buggy for a half mile as the horse bolted toward St Alexis hospital where doctors fear fatal injuries.
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Cleveland
Dvorak
Corlett, O
St. Alexis’ Hospital
Cleveland Trinidad Paving Firm Ordered to Disgorge Profits
Columbus Ohio August 17 The Cleveland Trinidad Paving Co must disgorge all profits from graft and bribery. The order covers East Broad street paving contracts and all other projects connected with the scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Cleveland Trinidad Paving Co
East Broad Street
Were United in Life and Death
Canton Ohio August 17 In a single grave Mr and Mrs Peter Clark were buried Friday both having died within 24 hours of each other.
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Canton
Peter Clark
The Markets Across Several Cities Aug 20 190%
Market notes from New York Cleveland Toledo and Chicago dated August 20 show varied activity. Prices listed include flour wheat corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes hay and cattle with ranges for steers calves hogs and sheep. Notable figures include Minnesota patent flour at 5.00 5.40 and Chicago pork at 15.70 with cattle steers 4.50 7.60 for prime and helpers up to 5.25.
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New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
Chicago
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Dalton
Robert Fitzsimmons
School of Instruction
Charles J. Fisk
Plainfield
Will Clifford
Maple, Ky
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Buckeyedom
Yoledo
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