Miners warned by Mitchell to honor contracts at convention
President Mitchell urges United Mine Workers to honor contracts and opposes a general strike while backing a weekly one dollar assessment and a 25 percent cut to officers' salaries. He warns that breaking contracts undermines the union and could cripple the anthracite labor movement.
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Mitchell
the United Mine Workers
Wilson
Charles Gilday
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers' Organization
Labor Movement Unity and Sympathetic Strikes Debate
A convention discussion argues against sympathetic strikes as ineffective and harmful to labor progress. It urges the United Mine Workers to avoid repeats of past defeats, learning lessons to shape future strategy and pressure coal operators toward fair wages and conditions.
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United Mine Workers
Wisconsin Republicans nominate Lafollette for governor again
The Wisconsin Republican convention nominated Robert M. Lafollette for governor with a largely unified ticket. John Kempf won the state treasurer post and John W. Thomas secured the railroad commissioner nomination after late switching by stalwart factions. Lafollette received a roaring ovation and directed a stern rebuke to dissenters and would‑be legislators not aligned with the platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Robert M. Lafollette
T. James O. Davidson
Soldiers’ Grove
Walter L. Houser
Mondovi
John J. Kempf
Milwaukee
L. M. Sturdevant
Neillville
Charles Omm P. Carey
Delevan
John W.thomas
Chippewa
Zeno M. Host
John M. Whitehead
John Kempf
Joseph G. End
Sheyboygan
Kempf
John W. Thomas
Jonas Swenholt
Carey
Harvey
Lafollette
Two Lucky Convicts Paroled In New Jersey
Richard Bassler, freed by the New Jersey Court of Pardons, aims to return to Germany to claim a $50,000 inheritance. He had been jailed for burglary after falling through a shop window while intoxicated. A fellow inmate, imprisoned for ten years in 1900 for breaking into a post office, was released to pursue a sewing machine invention, with a $1,000 capital company formed to manufacture it and the pardoned man receiving $50,000 cash and stock in the venture.
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New York
Germany
Richard Bassler
New Jersey Court of Pardons
Bassler
Court of Pardons
Mattie Beals Married in Private Wichita Ceremony
Wichita telephone girl Mattie Beals who drew the Oklahoma land lottery second prize wed Chicago grocery salesman Charles W. Payne. The ceremony at her mother's home was private. her trousseau reportedly cost 2600 dollars. She paid 168 cents to the land department to avoid forfeiting her Lawton farm under Interior Department rules.
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Wichita
Kan
Mattie Beals
Charles W. Payne
Chicago
Beala
Lawton
Interior Department
Land Department
Miss Beals
Serious Blood Poisoning Strikes Stanford Chemist
Dr. George Mann Richardson, professor of organic chemistry at Leland Stanford University, is at Union Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore with blood poisoning. His condition tonight is serious, with his wife and California-based children and his mother from St. Louis already in the city. Little hope is entertained for recovery.
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Baltimore
George Mann Richardson
Leland Stanford University
Union Protestant Infirmary
California
St. Louis
Groch Won't Return to Danville Case Clears
Governor Nash refused to grant a requisition in the Bert Groch case. Groch, wanted in Danville to answer charges of alleged wrongdoing as a bucket shop operator. Dr. W. W. Toby of Pamville accuses Groch of misappropriating $1,100 invested last June.
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Columbus
Nash
Bert Groch
Groch
Danville
W. W. Toby
Aville
Bituminous Workers Seek Universal Strike Avoidance Offer
Bituminous workers prefer to avert a universal strike and may propose forming a large fund to sustain efforts in districts where grievances are claimed.
First Union Terminal to Anchor Indianapolis Interurbans
Indianapolis will gain a vast union terminal for interurban lines near Illinois Street with an anticipated investment near one million dollars. Plans call for a stone and brick eleven story building housing freight and passenger facilities, company offices, and upper floor offices. Location kept tentative with Illinois Street options. loop link to Ohio Street Capitol Avenue and Delaware Alabama lines enhances access. officials expect the car tax to be withdrawn to secure interurban franchises.
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Indianapolis
Board of Public Work
Hugh J. McGowan
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Market Street
Capitol Avenue
Alabama and Market
Illinois and Market
Northwest Corner
Miller
Illinois-Street
Bookwalter
Board of Public Works
Ohio Street
Delaware
Alabama Street
Georgia Street
Washington Street
Illinois Street
McGowan
Charity Sisters Shot by Inmate at New York Foundling
Henry F. King, 30, shot two Sisters of Charity at the New York Foundling Asylum then wounded himself. The sisters, Sister Angelina and Sister Cecilia, survived. King, accused of dementia and melancholia, sought to learn his parentage. a 1900 court order sought access to the asylum books but was denied. King was committed for examination.
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New York
Henry F. King
King
Foundling Asylum
Baltimore
Supreme Court
Thomas H. Gardiner
Bryantown
Justice O'Gorman
Jane ©. Merysal
Henry J. King
Hold-up men foiled near Fort Worth
Two masked robbers tried to derail a Rock Island passenger train between Saginaw and Newark by piling telegraph poles on the track. The engine struck the obstacle and halted. engineers fired at the men who retreated into the brush. The train reached Fort Worth four hours late as posses hunted the area.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Rock Island
Saginaw
Newark
Knight
Squall Capsizes Whale Boat Off Isle of Shoals Trapping 12 Women
A nineteen foot whale boat carrying sixteen Oceanic House staff and two Harvard law students from Star Island capsized in a sudden squall off the Isle of Shoals. Twelve women drowned, two Harvard men perished while attempting rescue. three were saved. Names of the dead and survivors listed, with grim recovery notes and hospital checks.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Oceanic House
Star Island
Isle of Shoals
Fred Miles
Henry Farrington
Cambridge
Mass
W. A. Alward
Frederickon
N. B
Bertha Graham
Danvers
Minnie M'Donald
Cambridgeport
Eva Adams
May Adams
Eva
Catherine Bowes
Saxonville
Elizabeth Bowes
Catherie
Bessie Chase
Malden
Anna Sheehan
West Bedford
Eva Marshall
Haverhill
Farrington
Alward
Harvard University
Forsyth Hall
Massachusetts
Sleche Wave Damps Shore of Lake Michigan
In Chicago a phenomenon known as a sleche arrives from Geneva lakes and causes a large wave to surge toward the shore. Water laps at doorsteps along the lake front as steamers bob at docks and breakwaters are disrupted by the unusual convulsion.
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Chicago
Geneva
Lake Michigan
Lakefront Storm Dashes Shore. Casualties Averted
A fierce craft flung toward the shore and boats broke as a sudden pressure change in the weather system drove waves over the land. Two Lincoln Park boys were saved after drifting from shore. Evanston lifeboat crews rescued a fisherman and another Evanston boy in danger of drowning. The barometer showed a sharp spike then drop as a west to east pressure wave moved across the city, forcing water inland and then receding.
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Lincoln Park
Evanston
Weather Bureau
Woman Burned to Death at Walnut Hills Estate
In Cincinnati on Walnut Hills Cas tello mansion, Mrs. E. M. Castello died after a rubbish fire on the lawn flared, her husband was seriously burned, and their son was slightly burned while attempting rescue. Mrs. Castello perished from inhaling flames. Castello is a wealthy contractor.
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Cincinnati
Castello
Walnut Hills
E. M. Castello
Locomotive Boiler Explodes Killing Engineer and Fireman
A Clover Leaf Railroad locomotive boiler exploded at Continental Ohio killing engineer Charles Mathers and fireman Smith. Mrs Ladd seated on a nearby porch was blown through a window into a house and injured. The locomotive was pulling a freight train off a siding when the blast occurred.
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Columbus, CO
Clover Leaf
Continental
Charles Mathers
Smith
Ladd
Sagamore Hill Visitors Charters Special Train to Oyster Bay
Former Representative Weaver of Springfield arrives to confer with President Roosevelt on Indian Territory citizenship courts. Guests include Caspar Whitney and R B Hawley. Hawley chartered a special train to reach Sagamore Hill for luncheon and discussions on Cuban reciprocity and Texas appointments. Boer prisoners visit, with Beekman home nearby.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Weaver
Springfield
Indian Territory
Spencer B. Adams
Greensboro
N. C
Foote
California
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
William D. Bynum
Indiana
United States
Hawley
Texas
Cuba
Eodore A. Bingham
Washington
Hill arrives at Oyster Bay for overnight visit
Former Senator David B. Hill reached Oyster Bay and was hosted by ex lieutenant governor William F. Sheehan at a country home. A Seventeen gun salute greeted the arrival and a crowd cheered Hill as the carriage departed with calls of three cheers for him as the next President of the United States.
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Oyster Bay
David B. Hill
William F. Sheehan
New York
Mr. Hill
Mr. Sheehan
Ice Cream Poisoning Fatality and Escape Couple
In Columbus Ohio on July 17 John Smith of Washington Pennsylvania died after allegedly poisoning ice cream with strychnine in a bid to murder Magente Canan, also of Washington. They had run away to marry and registered as John Thomas and wife before Smith returned with the dessert. Canan survived, Smith died within an hour.
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Columbus
John Smith
Washington
Magente Canan
Smith
John Thomas
Birmingham youth confesses to multiple infant killings
In Birmingham on July 17 Willie Cannon, a fourteen to fifteen year old colored tramp, confessed to Chief of Police Mustin that he recently killed four infants, two white and two black, at Gurnee and Helena and Cahaba, with the latest Birmingham baby body found. Corner Paris has the suspect in custody as investigators pursue the case.
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Birmingham
Ala
Willie Cannon
Mustin
Gurnee
Helena
Cahaba
Paris
Clara Taylor to Stay in Italy, Detective Reports
Cincinnati July 17 Detective Ryan arrived from Italy where Clara Taylor under indictment for kidnapping her niece Margaret Taylor will not return. He says she has friends in Italy who kept counsel and now care for her since release. Her mother and sister Frances remain under reprieve as accomplices.
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Cincinnati
Ryan
Italy
Clara Taylor
Margaret Taylor
Frances
Great fire devastates Guayaquil causing multi million loss
A major blaze in Guayaquil, Ecuador, last night burned for ten hours and caused estimated losses of about 2 million dollars. Firefighters fought the flames as damage spanned warehouses and adjacent property. No fatalities were reported in initial updates.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Russian push for international talks to curb trusts
London July 17 details of a Russian move to convene an international conference to counter artificial price dips caused by trusts and cartels. M de Witte’s note to powers urges collective measures beyond export bounties, including common duties if needed, to protect global commerce and ensure fair prices.
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London
Russia
Baron de Staal
M. de Witte
Financial Messenger
St. Petersburg
The
Whitlaw Reid Talks Peace and Liverpool Strength
Whitlaw Reid head of the US embassy to King Edward’s coronation praised postwar peace in South Africa and the alliance of nations. He urged Liverpool to trust its dock and navy, dismissed Morgan concerns, and said no war between Britain and the US is likely while praising Anglo American leadership. He spoke at an American Chamber banquet and visited the Liverpool Exchange to express sympathy for King Edward’s illness.
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Liverpool
American Chamber of Commerce
Whitlaw Reid
United States
Edward
South Africa
Reid
Southampton
Hamburg
Manchester Canal
Pierpont Morgan Venture
Scen Ae
New York
Morgan
Great Britain
Mr. Reid
Hemis
Rome
Liverpool Exchange
Deputy Sheriff Slain in Georgia Manhunt
In Swainsboro Georgia during an arrest attempt on outlaw Charley Johnson deputy sheriff J T Flanders was shot and killed on a public road. A large posse hunts Johnson and fears he will be severely dealt with if captured.
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Swainsboro
Charley Johnson
J. T. Flanders
Johnson
Gasoline Barrel Explosion Fatal at Hopewell Factory
In Crisfield Maryland on July 17 a blast from a gasoline barrel at the E Robinson and Co canning plant in Hopewell killed one worker and badly burned about a dozen others. The factory had just opened yesterday and authorities reported additional deaths may follow.
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Crisfield
E. Robinson & Co
Hopewell
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John P. Reese
Iowa
Mitted
President Mitchell
Badger State
Republican Convention
First Union Terminal
Charity Sisters
H. F. King
Foundling Hospital
Harvard Law Students
Boston
John Morris
Aphrodite
James Harvey
D. Bynum
R. B. Hawley
D. B. Hill
Black Boy
Ecesdor
Purc
Whitelaw Reid
Imperial
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