Peaceful Chicago amid looming threat of new meat strike
Peace reigned in Chicago on June 5 but mutterings of discontent surfaced as hopes for a swift settlement faded. The stockyards strike appeared settled yet discharged leaders balked at returning, prompting fears that 5000 butchers could be called out if reinstatement is refused. Michael Donnelly and A W Leonard plan a conference to resolve the dispute.
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Chicago
Butchers’ Union
Michael Donnelly
Meat Cutters’ Union
End of Chicago Meat Packers Strike After Secret Pact
In Chicago on June 1 the two week strike by packers and Teamsters ended at 4:15 am after a secret conference at Grand Pacific Hotel. The agreement grants partial victory to the Teamsters with no discrimination against union members and allows most strikers to return to work the next morning.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Packers
American Railway Union
Grand Pacific Hotel
Corcoran Hall
Albert Young
National Teamsters’ Union
John Myers
Joan Myer
Riot ends. packing-house talks yield wage compromise
A Chicago scene shifts from riot to order as a peaceable welcome greets returning workers. A secret conference yields a wage scale 2 cents below the men’s demand, with rates for cart drivers through six-horse teams and a half hour lunch deduction. The plan cites no discrimination against unionists and preserves protections on Labor Day.
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Grand Pacific Hotel
Chicago Parkers
Teamsters
Carter H. Harrison
State Board of Arbitration
Thomas J. Conners
Armour & Co
John Meyer
Armour Teamsters
Lewis Swift
Swift & Co
W. F. McNaughton
Swift Teamsters
Thomas E. Wilson
Nelson Morris & Co
E. T. Laid
Rioting in East grows from street railway strike
Providence and Pawtucket see violent protests as 30 striking conductors march, cars blocked, missiles thrown, and trolley ropes cut. Police clash with crowds. twenty arrests spark further disturbances. Pawtucket police protection lacking allows unrest. 750 of 1,200 workers reportedly at work, 700 on strike.
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Providence
R. L
Owl
Pawtucket
Taft Meets Pope Leo in Vatican Audience
Taft and officials met Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican for a forty minute audience. Taft outlined Philippine church state readjustments as constitutional necessities while the Pope expressed pride in the US church and pledged conciliatory study via Cardinal committees to reach a settlement satisfactory to all sides.
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Rome
Taft
Philippines
Thomas O'Gorman
Sioux Falls
Smith
Major Porter
Judge Advocate’s Department
Washington
Vatican
Mgr. Bisseti
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
O'Gorman
Thislands
United States
Philippine Islands
Great Republic
Art
Archbishop Ireland
Georgia Democrats Nominate Ticket in Primary
Incomplete returns from Georgia Democratic primaries nominate for Governor J M Terrell and a slate of state officers led by Philip Cook as secretary of state and W A Wright as treasurer. Also named are R E Park attorney general J H Hart school commissioner W B Merritt agriculture commissioner O B Stevens prison commissioner and associate justices A J Cobb and Samuel Lumpkin with A G Clay as the U S senator candidate for the six year term.
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Atlanta
J. M. Terrell
Philip Cook
W. A. Wright
R. E. Park
J. ©. Hart
W. B. Merritt
O. B. Stevens
Thomas Eason
Supreme Court
A. J. Cobb
Samuel Lumpkin
United States
A. G. Clay
Rebuke in Commons as Redmond Sparks Irish Row
London June 5. In the House of Commons A J Balfour won a vote of £50,000 for Lord Kitchener amid Irish protests led by William Redmond. Redmond shouted claims of 15,000 child deaths and war on women and children, prompting uproar and a closure motion. The grant passed 230 to 44 amid disorder before a final Commons thanks to the army proceeded.
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London
Edward
House of Commons
A. J. Balfour
Lord Kitchener
Egypt
Balfour
South Africa
Lord Roberts
Great Britain
Henry Campbell- Bannerman
John Dillon
Dillon
Campase
Henry Labouchere
Redmond
William Redmond
Mr. Redmond
Khartum
Court Gulley
John Redmond
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
House OF Lords
Prince of Wales
Lord Salisbury
Imperial
Europe
England
Earl Spencer
Unrest in Anthracite Spurs Violent Clashes in Wilkes-Barre
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on June 5 a boy was shot by a guard at Stanton colliery as fences burned at Murray and Stanton sites. Four coal and iron policemen faced duty accusations while strike activists swell ranks and violence escalates with arson and intimidation around the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Company properties.
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Stanton
Murray Colliery
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Culm Bank
Charles McCann
Mercy Hospital
Coal and Iron Police
Coal and Iron
Philadelphia
Murray
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company
Strikers Use Nonunion Labor as Coal Mine Tensions Rise
The strike presses on as nonunion workers replace strikers at night to avoid angering locals. New York Board of Trade urges Roosevelt to intervene, while President Mitchell stays secretive and busy with committee calls. Pumps fail in some mines due to worker shortages and dual roles, as engineers from outside the region apply for jobs.
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New York Board of Trade
Roosevelt
Mitchell
Miles Miles Urged Back by Roosevelt on Secrets Charge
Kansas City dispatch reports Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, army commander, was summoned by President Roosevelt and threatened with immediate court martial on charges of betraying official secrets. Miles traveled from Fort Riley to Washington, then returned alone in haste, reportedly told by a journalist that he faced charges, and left for Washington without leaving Union Station.
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Kansas City
Nelson A. Miles
Fort Riley
Washington
Roosevelt
Miles
White House
Lieutenant Arnold
Senator Culberson
Culberson
Beveridge
Asere
Union
France Chamber row over posters ends in fisticuffs and insult claims
In Paris on June 5 deputies clashed in the Chamber of Deputies over national posters attacking Republicans. M De Largentaye called President Loubet a thief as deputies traded unprintable epithets and a fight broke out. Brisson declined to form a cabinet. Combes consented to form a new government.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. de Largentaye
Cotes du Nord
Republic
Marquis de Dion
M. Millevoye
M. Mislier
Committee of the
Bachimont
M. Bachimont
Count de Dion
M. de Largentayere
Ubet
M. Henry Brisson
Elysee Palace
Loubet
M. Brisson
Combes
Senate
Black man dies in mob incident near Ravenal
Charleston June 5 Jim Black a Black man implicated in the assault on the wife of J K Jones a section master of the Atlantic Coast Line died last night near Ravenal after being seized by a mob from a posse en route to jail He had escaped after the crime and was captured near Savannah yesterday and was being brought to Ravenal for confinement The case also mentions a second Black man named Seether as involved
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Charleston
D. C
Jim Black
J. K. Jones
Atlantic
Ravenal
Black
Savannah
Long Time Dying Wheeler Hanged at Michigan City
Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Michigan City Ind June 6 William B Wheeler of Warrick county killed his son in law Elias Burns last fall and was hanged in strict accordance with the law five minutes after midnight. The drop fell at 12 45 and death was declared at 12 15. Wheeler showed vitality and faced death with indifference. The warden chaplain and guards attended. Wheeler ate his last meal at seven and walked or slept until the trap sprung. He murdered Burns with an ax after shooting him in a tobacco patch and attacked his wife before Burns arrived. His insanity plea failed and the Supreme Court affirmed. This was the third hanging at the state prison.
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Indianapolis Journal
Michigan City
Ind
William B. Wheeler
Warrick County
Elias Burns
Wheeler
Mana
Warden Reid
H. L. Henderson
Mr. Henderson
James D. Reid
Joseph Keith
John Rinkard
Barnard
Lewis
Henderson
H. L. Streaker
H. W. Wilson
Boonville
Burns
Supreme Court
B Peek
Tower Court
Jenene Tee of
Warrick
Nora Kifer
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Mr. Donnelly
A. W. Leonard
Union Stockyards Transit Company
Pope Leo
Governor OF the
Georgia
Primcples
Kitchener and
Roberts
Kitchener
Lynch
Associated Press
Arthur Lynch
Galway
Colonel Lynch
War Office
Wilkesbarre
Scranton
Lackawanna Valley
M. Loubet
M. Combes
South Carolina
William BR. Wheeler
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