New Pope Chosen Pius X Crowned at Vatican
The Vatican announces Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected pope as Pius X to succeed Leo XIII. Rome celebrates with illuminations and public demonstrations. Cardinals, diplomats, and bishops to meet him as he assumes the pontifical robes. The coronation date not settled.
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Rome
Giuseppe Sarto
Venice
Leo XIII
Vatican
Pius X
Sarto
Pius'x
St. Peter's
Rampolla and
Oreglia
Cardinal Herrero Y Espinosa
Herrero
Leo
Adriatic
Phillips Brooks
Boston
Secretaries Move to Seize Merchants Bridge Under War Statute
Secretary of War Root asked Merchants Bridge Company to show cause why the United States should not take possession of the St. Louis Mississippi bridge under a special statute. Possession could occur if the company consolidates with another, pools earnings, or officers cross between firms. The St. Louis Terminal Association is said to control the Merchants Bridge and many railroad terminals, while a city bill seeks privileges for crowd management at the world fair.
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Washington
Secreary Root
Merchants’ Bridge Company
Mississippi River
St. Louis
United States
Secretary of War
St. Louis Terminal Association
Eads
Merchants’ Bridge
Terminal Association
Trainmen Seek Higher Wages Strike Looms for Rock Island
Trainmen and conductors on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad have voted to strike if wage increases are not granted. The unions the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will brief railroad officers on the referendum result, with a potential 2,000 workers walkout if demands are refused. The dispute centers on a proposed 12 to 15 percent wage hikes for passenger and freight crews under a new agreement.
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Chicago
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Order of Railway Conductors
Brotherhood of Railway
Catholics Send Cable to Rome on Papal Election
Atlantic City dispatch notes the American Federation of Catholic Societies adopting resolutions including opposition to socialist influence, support for trade unions, and condemnation of divorce laxity. A cable to Cardinal Gotti expressed filial obedience and prayer for the pope. Delegates presented funds for Sioux delegate Hanska and praised government, press, and non Catholics for reverence toward Leo XIII.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Cardinal Gotti
Propaganda
Rome
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Cardinal Sarto
Monahan
Kelley
Savannah
McFaul
Trenton
Messmer
Green Bay
Roosevelt
Federation
Minteni Hanska
Leo XIII
United States
Papal See
Jas Xivi
Pope Pius
Schwab Resigns as United States Steel President
Charles M. Schwab resigns as president of United States Steel Corp. William E. Corey elected successor. Schwab cites ill health and seeks rest, while Corey, long allied with Andrew Carnegie, assumes top post and reforms governance with new advisory and board roles. Morgan comments on health and support.
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New York
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
William E. Corey
Schwab
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Steel Company
J. P. Morgan
Steel Corporation
W. E. Corey
E. H. Gary
E. C. Converse
William Edenborn
D. G. Reid
Frick
Daniel G. Reid
Edmund “€. Converse
Morgan Banking House
Steel Board
Corey
Steel and Iron
Mr. Frick
George W. Perkins
Colored man Nichols in jail after murder arrest in Kenton
William Nichols, a Black man accused of the murder of Alpha Minard near McGiffey, is jailed in Kenton Ohio after a days long search. He was arrested at Carmel by Sheriff Griffith of Hardin County amid a crowd that met the train without violence. Nichols denies the charges.
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Kenton
William Nichols
Alpha Minard
McGiffey
Carmel
Grifith
Hardin County
Nichole
Saloon Shooting Ends With Arrests in Cerealine Town
In a late night incident at James Jones’s saloon Earl Abbott the bartender fired five shots at John Sweeney missing him. Abbott was arrested for shooting with intent to kill and Sweeney for assault and battery with patrolmen Woolley and Mullen placing both under arrest.
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James Jones
Cerealine
Earl Abbott
John Sweeney
Sweeney
Abbott
Woolley
Mullen
Fire destroys Pittsburg Plate Glass Plant at Court and Broadway
Cincinnati dispatch reports a blaze at the Pittsburg Plate Glass Plant near Court and Broadway after midnight causing an estimated loss of 350 000. Insurance covers a portion. Three people injured including Captain Purcell of engine No 7 with a hand cut, Lieutenant George Donovan with facial and hand injuries, and a Greystein lineman struck by falling brick.
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Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Court and
Broadway
Purcell
Engine Company No
George Donovan
Greystein
Wizards of the Light Photographers of America Open Meeting
The Wizards of the Light Photographers of America held a record breaking session with nearly one thousand delegates registered. The event marked an unparalleled milestone in the association’s history.
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Photographers OF America
Photographers Association Opens Twenty-Sixth Convention
The Photographers' Association of America began its twenty-sixth annual convention at the German House in Indianapolis with President J George Nussbaumer of Buffalo delivering the annual address. Attendance surged toward 1000 as committees were named and education over prizes endorsed while a St Louis exhibit invitation was debated and a juror appointed.
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The
Photographers’ Association of America
J. George Nussbaumer
Buffalo
Barrows
Indiana
Indianapolis
Durbin
W. H. Potter
St. Louis Exposition
Exposition
Nussbaumer
J. F. Ryder
Cleveland
Frank Medler
Spencer, Ir
J. M. Bantell
Milwaukee
H. G. Schwarzer
Brooklyn
William Stevenson
Atlanta
E. L. Wilson
F. M. Guerin
W. J. Scanlan
New York
R. P. Bellsmith
Cincinnati
George Sparry
Toledo
Charles W. Hearne
Boston
Actinic Light Unit
Frank R. Barrows
Neil Walden
Evansville
A. T. Proctor
Richmond
Will Moses
New Orleans
Alfred Holden
Philadelphia
F. Duncian Todd
Chicago
Mr. Steadman
Pueblo
Mexico
Ight
W. J. Scanlin
New Ae
Bloodhounds on trail of escaped convicts in Webber creek country
In Eldorado and Amador counties a larger posse network forms to pursue the hungry fugitives. Sheriff Bosquit plans searches from Placerville and Lotus while C H Ferrall with trained bloodhounds has joined the effort. Sheriffs Norman of Amador and local volunteers press the chase toward Orifl ranch as convicts, aided by former inmates, are believed to be moving on foot with a day’s head start.
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Placerville
Cal
Bosquit
Eldorado County
Webber Creek
Lotus
Taylor
Folsom
C. H. Ferrall
Reno
Orifl Ranch
Norman
Amador
Jackson
Plymouth
Britain signs subsidy deal to arm Cunard steamships
Britain reaches an agreement with Cunard and government bodies to loan 13 million dollars for two new fast steamers and place Cunard ships under Admiralty control for hire or purchase during war. The plan requires British flag crews and limits sales without government consent. Subventions total 375 thousand dollars per vessel annually. loan repaid over twenty years.
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London
Admiralty
Board of Trade
Postmaster General
Cunard Steamship Company
Liverpool
New York
Boston
Mediterranean
Havre
Maine
Cunard
Morgan Shipping Combine
Post Office
House of Commons
Defense Witnesses Testify Jett Not Present at Mar cum Killing
In Kentucky a jury heard defense claims that Curtis Jett was outside the courthouse when the two fatal shots were fired at J B Mar cum in Jackson. Witnesses offered inconsistent accounts about Jett’s location, with others tied to Hargis Brothers store across the street.
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Cynthiana
the Commonwealth
Curtis Jett
Thomas White
J. B. Marcum
Jackson
J. M. Kash
Marcum
Hargis Brothers
Asbury Pier
Lish Noble
Jett
Asbury
Bowling
Spicer
Adams
Bird
James Bach
Wth Spicer
State backs down in canal injunction case
SPRINGFIELD Aug 4 State of Illinois abandons its defense in the injunction suit against the Illinois and Michigan Canal commissioners. The state concedes on all points except the interpretation of the constitutional clause prohibiting the creation of canals and railroads.
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Springfield
Ill
Ulinois
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Labor Meeting Aims For Settlement At Gemmer Works
About four hundred union men attended a mass meeting in Marion Indiana with L P McCormick D F Kennedy and O P Smith urging orderly settlement of the Gemmer Works strike The assembly discussed general labor issues and signaled readiness for negotiations while police protected thirteen nonunion workers brought in from Cleveland and Chicago as tensions rose The city fears troops if demonstrations persist and Quartermaster General Oran arrives to study the strike for the governor A banquet invitation to D M Parry was extended and likely to be accepted
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Indianapolis Journal
Marion
Ind
Central Trades Council
L. P. McCormick
D. F. Kennedy
Union of Indianapolis
O. P. Smith
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Gemmer Engine Works
Smith
McCormick
Gemmer Company
Tst
Cleveland
Chicago
Gemmer Works
Oran
Skalee
Gemmer
Manufacturers’ Association
D. M. Parry
Parry
Marton
Alliance to Furnish Jobs Opens Local Employment Bureau
Shelbyville notes that the Citizens' Alliance has completed plans to open an employment bureau to secure jobs for its members in this city or elsewhere. The group is also arranging to print a weeklypaper, with the first issue due soon.
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Indianapolis Journal
Shelbyville
Ind
Citizens’ Alliance
A. Alliance
Militiamen Lose Jobs After Responding to State Call
Two members of Company B First Regiment Indiana National Guard were discharged for answering a state call. Captain Dudley confirms the dismissals amid reports that one worker was told the cause was drunkenness and that Jacob Dalley, back from Evansville riot duty, was told there would be work for him but received no satisfaction.
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Sacred College
Cardinal Sarto
anti-Rampolla
Rampolla
Serafino Vannutelli
Barto
Sarto
Page & Col i
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana National Guard
Dudley
Jacob Dalley
Evansville
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Boston Divine
Rock Island
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Kim E. Corey
Anantagipal
MR. Schwab
Gary
H. C. Frick
Europe
Mr. Morgan
Dinkey
A. C. Dinkey
Edgar Thomson Steel Works
Braddock
Carnegie Company
Homer Williams
Mr. Dinkey
Carbon County
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Wizards OF the Light
National Association
Indiana Association
Fair Bank
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Cunard Line
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