No Third Term President McKinley Declares He Won't Seek Reelection
President McKinley states no third term and would not accept a nomination even if offered. His aim is a second term with public support, after which he will retire to private life and work for the nation's welfare. The White House release emphasizes grave questions facing the administration and the need to avoid prejudicing public opinion. Executive Mansion, Washington, June 10.
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William M'Kinley
Executive Mansion
Washington
President McKinley SAYS No Third Term Nomination
Washington June 11 President McKinley approved a Cabinet endorsed plan to silence third term talk. He announced he is not a candidate for a third term and would decline any renomination, deeming such discussion harmful to national policies and the administration. Telegrams of support arrived, not disclosed.
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Washington
McKinley
Courtesyou
Cortelyou
C. M. Depew
Pranacore
Joe
White House
Presidential timber and third term issue in 1920 race
Kinley states he will not be a candidate or accept a third nomination deflating the third term boom. Roosevelt mentioned as part of early 1920s speculation. Washington Star notes the presidential nomination as the GOP outlook shifts to the party’s nominee.
Early 1900s US Senate Campaign Rumors Rise
The piece outlines looming campaigns and ambitions across states. Indiana, Fairbanks, Forsker, Hanna, Spooner, and Roosevelt are named as potential contenders. A revival of Roosevelt talk is anticipated after the Senate session and his role as presiding officer brings him back into public focus.
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Fairbanks
Indiana
Fairban
Forsker
Hanna
Spooner
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Senate
Hanna comments on McKinley third term stance
Senator Hanna said McKinley’s statement on a possible third term is exactly what he expected. He has never discussed the matter with the President and regards talk on presidential candidates as premature. He noted public sentiment against altering Washington’s precedent.
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Cleveland
Hanna
McKinley
Washington
Jones Is Dying, Valet Jones in Ill Health
New York June 11 reports say Charles F. Jones once valetSecretary to William Marsh Rice is in grave health. Mrs Dickinson, in charge of his sanitarium, states he is dying, lacking nourishment, hagard, thin, with pinched features and confinement to his room for four weeks. District attorney cites denial of imminent death. doctor says he is very ill.
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New York
Charles F. Jones
William Marsh Rice
Texas
Evening World
Dickinson
Jones
Charlies F. Jones
District Attorney's
Sixteen Miners Dead at Fort Royal Mine Disaster
A massive blast at the Pittsburg Coal Company Fort Royal mines left sixteen dead and seven injured. Eleven dead were rescuers, and one victim was related to President McKinley. Inspectors investigate lamp use and gas ignition while Mine Inspector Callahan reports a second explosion during a rescue survey.
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Port Royal
Fort Royal
Pittsburg
William M'Cune
Taylor Gunsaulus
Fritz Kruger
William F. Allison
Allison
McKinley
Dennis Wardley
John Keck
Carr
Boss
John Stickle
Smith
Harry Beveridge
Robert McKenny
Charles MccCaffery
Soaper
Clarence Setler
Daniel McCullough
Thomas Gleason
Arthur Smith
Coal Company
Bernard Callahan
Callahan
Hans Gronnerud Missing In Olivia Wisconsin Bank Collapse
Olivia Minnesota June 11 Hans Gronnerud once valued at 25000 and linked to multiple local banks and a county abstract company has failed with liabilities around 1235 and appears to have no assets. Beaver Falls Bank closed amid depositor unrest while many locals including widows and workers await funds. Gronnerud reportedly transferred his holdings to D Cheney and left for Indiana or springs, leaving questions about his reverses.
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Olivia
Minn
Hans Gronnerud
Bank of Beaver Falls
Morton Bank
State Bank of Olivia
Renville County Abstract Company
Wisconsin
Bank of
Beaver Falls
Gronnerud
D. Cheney
Indiana
Manufacturers Unite to Fight Labor Unions
About three hundred metal trades representatives met in New York to back a defense fund and pledge to protect fellow members against demands of labor organizations. Thirty-three firms with 7,500 workers enrolled, pledging support for arbitration rules and the association’s leadership.
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New York
Metal Trades
National Metal Trades Association
Edwin Reynolds
Chicago
United States
Devens
Ational Metal Trades Association
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Seattle
Wash
Ohio
National Trades Association
Metal Trades’ Association
Canada
Detroit Re-elected Milwaukee Chosen Next Convention Site
The convention re elected Detroit and decided Milwaukee as the meeting place for the next gathering two years hence. After the installation of officers the convention adjourned sine die.
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Detroit
Milwaukee
Killed by a Live Wire in Marietta
Miss Lucy Hanna, bookkeeper at the Marietta Daily Register, was instantly killed by a live wire shock tonight amid a thunderstorm that knocked a transformer out of service. A former teacher at Marietta Commercial College, she was well known in educational circles.
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Marietta, O
Lucy Hanna
Marietta Daily Register
Hanna
Marietta Commercial College
Smith College Ex-Student Indicted on Eleven Larceny Counts
Mabel Burt former Smith College student indicted by Northampton grand jury on eleven counts of larceny involving money and jewelry valued around $2,000. She pleaded not guilty and bond set at $1,000. Father and mother present with Dr. Brewster. Burt to a sanitarium per family plan. police report no further arrests. Ring valued at $180 recovered, linked to Burt. Indictment lists thefts from multiple Chicago Boston North Abingdon and other residents.
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Northampton
Mass
Mabel L. Burt
Smith College
Pierce
Burt
Mary J. Brewster
Miss Burt
Bridgeton
N. J
Pennsylvania
Worcester
Henrietta H. Tiffitt
Chicago
Louise Lee
Marie Conant
Boston
Ruth Crossett
North Abingdon
Henrietta Bosworth
Lee
Grace M. Zink
Buffalo
Wadsworth
Plainfield
Birnie Perry
Stockton
Cal
Annetta du Armont
Ruth
Minn
Helen Walbridge
Brooklyn
Ethel Lane
Lombard
Prince Trial Testimony In Kansas City Murder Case
Will Prince testifies to help prove his sister Mrs Lyle Prince Kennedy did not kill her husband The defense seeks alibis for the prisoner’s father and brother Bert while Will Prince denies supplying a revolver the day of the crime indicating steps to save Kennedy from conviction
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Lyle Prince Kennedy
Will Prince
Kennedy Trial Proceeds With Alibi Evidence In Murder Case
In Kansas City the Lulu Prince Kennedy murder trial entered a second day with twenty witnesses testifying. Defense aimed to prove Bert and C W Prince alibis while the state pressed a scenario of a planned killing at the Ridge building. Lulu Kennedy showed composure and prompted her lawyers as testimony focused on timing and whereabouts. In Eldorado the Jessie Morrison murder case against Jessie Morrison was set for trial after a motion to delay was denied.
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Kansas City
Lulu Prince Kennedy
Bert
C. W. Prince
Ridge
Kennedy
Prince
Will Prince
T. J. Noble
Leon
Ridge Building
Prince's Place
Bert Prince
Lulu
Eldorado
Kan
Jessie Morrison
Clara Wiley Castile
Aikman
Machinists Face Nationwide Fight Amid Strike
President O Connell of the machinists said reports from New York suggest manufacturers plan to fight but expressed hope for a national arbitration settlement. Five vice presidents will travel to unsettled districts to lead the strike action while the executive committee arranged financial aid for nonunion workers.
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Toronto
O’connell
The
Machinists
New York
Labor News from Cross Country to East Liverpool Pottery
Officers elected by International Ma. Louisville Street Railway raises wages to 18 cents per hour for two year workers. Newport News Shipbuilding warns closure if machinists don’t return. East Liverpool Pottery Companies formed with 1 million capital. Savannah guards Seaboard shops against strikers. Maine trackmen strike seeks recognition. Canadian Pacific hold conference after ultimatum. IAM convention re elects president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Street Railway Company
A. L. Hopkins
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
East Liverpool
East Liverpool Potteries Company
J. J. Purinton
J. G. Meredith
J. Owen
J.W. Hall
G. ©. Murphy
Robert Hall
Myers
Savannah
Wilson
America
Shaughnessy
Canadian Pacific
Shaughnessey
Internaional
Toronto
Merrimac Hero Hurt in Sea Tragedy and Hawaii News
The Oregon arrived May 30 from the Orient to San Francisco. A mutinous Chinese cook on the J A Campbell killed the mate, then died by steam. Chief Boatswain J E Murphy was badly injured off Honolulu. Hawaii news covers Judge Humphreys controversy, home rule talks, Porto Rican strikes, and the court of claims backlog.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
Oregon
Orient
J. E. Murphy
Hobson
Santiago
Murphy
J. A. Campbell
A. E. Smith
Port Blakeley
Adam Huber
Hawaiian Bar Association
First Circuit
J. Humphreys
Washington
Humphreys
Beckiey
McKinsey
House
Senate
Beckley
McKinley
Hawaii
Kalua
Elecele
Makawali
Cane Fielde
Court of Claims
Board of Health
Mikito Salo
FCI Sgescent
Cuba Debates Platt Amendment Reconsideration
In Havana the Cuban constitutional convention discussed reconsidering the Platt amendment. Conservatives argued no need to reexamine the vote since the form passed is not acceptable to the United States. The convention agreed not to reconsider and adjourned to tomorrow with Radicals said to have paused attendance while Conservatives hold power.
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Havana
United States
Cuba
Senor Moran Delmado
Sesson
Dexter State Bank Closed After Cashier Suicide
State Bank Commissioner Albaugh said Dexter State Bank was closed after Deputy Davis reported Cashier J M Watkins killed himself amid a banking shortage. An $800 shortfall was noted, possibly rising. the bank had $3.4 million in deposits with $2,500,000 capital and $2500 surplus. Merrydith of Winfield, a cattleman, held $4,200 of stock. Watkins was about thirty, married, and well regarded.
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Topeka
Kan
State Bank
Albaugh
Davis
Dexter State Bank
W. Bb
Merrydith
Winfield
Watkins
Pennsylvania Steel Co. Secured by Pennsylvania Railroad
Unconfirmed reports say the Pennsylvania Steel Company has come under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad and International Navigation Company. The plan is to use Sparrows Point Maryland as a shipbuilding plant and to shield PRR from rail steel price monopolies.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Railroad and International Navigation Company
Sparrows Point
Pennsylvania Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Drexel & Co
Major plow combine formed with Chicago as HQ
Chicago reports a major plow combine nearly complete among firms led by B F Avery & Sons and Deere & Co. The proposed capitalization around 75 million includes 5 million preferred and 40 million common. No bonded debt, cash 50 percent of value by underwriters, with balance in preferred stock and 80 percent of preferred in common. Directors to include one from each firm and NY backers. headquarters in Chicago.
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Chicago
B. F. Avery & Sons
Louisville
David Bradley Company
Deere & Co
Moline
Ill
Deere & Mansur Company
Moline Plow Company
Union Maltleable Iron Company
Bucher & Gibbs Plow Company
Canton
Bettendorf Metal Wheel Company
Davenport
Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Company
Madison
Wis
Grand Detour
Dixon, Ill
Kingman Plow Company
Peoria
Morrison Manufacturing Company
Fort Madison
Pekin Plow Company
Peru
Plow and Wheel Company
Springfield
Lil
Sattley Manufacturing Company
Tileeee Chilled
Syracuse
N. Y
South Bend Chilled Plow Company
South Bend
Ind
Combine
New York
Charles H. Deere
New York Money
Bank Messenger Attacked in Bronx Bank Stairway
Louis Hays, son of real estate dealer Simon Mays, was arrested in New York on a charge of assault and attempted robbery of George F. Mellert, a Bronx Borough Bank messenger. The incident occurred on a stairway at Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, where Mellert reports being struck with an iron bar and losing a bag of silver containing $2,100.
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New York
Louis Hays
Simon Mays
George F. Mellert
Bronx Borough Bank
Twelfth Ward Bank
Lexington Avenue
Twenty-Fifth Street
Mellert
Hays
Nine Men Overcome by Torrid Wave at Marion Mills
Heat swept through Anderson factories with multiple prostrations. Peter Arderson, 37, recently arrived from Connersville and working at the box factory, collapsed outside and died. Charles Jackson, 17, and Charles Shaul, at the tin mill, also collapsed. Jackson likely to die. Six others were affected in the same mill.
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Indianapolis Journal
Anderson
Ind
Peter Ardson
Connersville
Charles Jackson
Charles Shaul
Marion sun stroke hits Home Band cornetist Grim
In Marion Indiana on June 1 a first sun stroke of the year struck Grim the sole cornetist of the Home Band. He was taken ill and his condition was reported as serious.
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Indianapolis Journal
Marion
Ind
Grim
Tornadoes and Heat Wave Hit Several States
A tornado passed over Adrian early yesterday morning demolishing several houses with no deaths. A snowstorm ended Scotlands heat, Grampian mountains covered in snow, and La Crosse saw heat prostrations as farmers’ horses collapsed. In McKeesport Pennsylvania trains delayed after floods, while Cleveland streetcars derailed with passengers struck but not seriously injured. Lyon County Iowa had a small tornado destroying houses. a three year old boy was killed near Torchwood, Lasnin and Ugland families escaped alert. In Homestead Pennsylvania seventeen year old Francis Morris was killed by lightning. fatal bolt damaged multiple houses. Chicago posted a new high of 89 with six prostrations, several unconscious victims rushed to hospital.
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Adrian
Scotland
Grampian
la Crosse
Wis
McKeesport
East Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Cleveland I
Lyon County
Iowa
James Armstrong
Armstrong
Torchwood
Las
Ugland
Peer Lance
Homestead
Francis Morris
Chicago
Anna Morgen
Freder
Farmer
Daniel Dol
Charles Hitchcock
Wesley Phiebeult
Fort Wayne Elks Carnival Lights Amid Festive Night
Fort Wayne Indiana hosts a crowded carnival night as Elks and families arrive. Calhoun Street glows purple and cotte with hotels full and many city homes occupied by visiting guests. Prizes lure numerous maskers while Muncie Elks plan a special train to Wayne for the state meeting. Portland Junior Order units prepare a grand gathering with national and state officers arriving before the Buffalo council session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Elks
Calhoun Street
Muncie
Muncie of Elks
Wayne
Sodas
Portland
United American Mechanics of
Indiana
National Council
Buffalo
N.Y
Charles E. Reeves
Seattle
Wash
Amos L. Gray
Jonesboro
Little Fae
U. M
Coslen
Jr. O. U
Sabin warns of steelhold strike amid Terre Haute telephonists
Preadent Sabin of Central Union Telephone Co in Terre Haute delivers an ultimatum to striking linemen after shocking stockholders with talk of required funds. He had offered a $3.00 nine hour day raise but refused to sign an agreement.
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Central Union Senads
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Ind
Preadent Sabin
Central Union Telephone Company
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MR. Devens
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Miss Morrison
O'Connell
General Labor News
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