Delegates Arrive as Anthracite Convention Opens in Wilkesbarre
About a quarter of the 700 to 800 delegates to the anthracite mine workers convention have reached Wilkesbarre where 16 oclock tomorrow marks the start to decide on Roosevelt's arbitration plan and end the strike. President Mitchell expected to be elected chairman and urge acceptance to return to work soon amid a generally favorable outlook.
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Wilkesbarre
Anthracite Mine Workers’ Convention
Nesbitt Theater
United States
Arbitration Commission
Hint
Mitchell
Roosevelt
Averane
Gremisd
Elison
Aggee Bernice
Pottia Ares
Georme Hertlein
Paul Pulaski
Ie Ortral
New Jersey
Shamokin
Schuylkill
Senne
Nt Mitchell
Samuel Jones
Toledo
O. Ea al
Will End On Tuesday Forecast of the Convention
SCRANTON Pennsylvania October 19 District President Nicholls of the United Mine Workers said the convention would adjourn some time Tuesday with little opposition to the proposal. PF B Clark grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors arrived to serve as an arbitrator if confirmed. He plans to accept to avoid delay if a commissioner declines. Clark attended a union meeting on grievances from the Delaware Lackawanna and Western rail men, which was postponed until after the mine strike.
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Scranton
Nicholls
United Mine Workers
PF. B. Clark
Cecar Rapids
Order of Railway Conductors
Cae
Clark
Delaware
Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Conors
Unanimous Acceptance Expected By United Mine Workers
District President Fahy leads sixty delegates from Shamokin to Wilkes Barre for the convention. Fahy says the group will back Mitchell's call to hire Roosevelt's commission. Mines prepare rail lines timber and ventilation as miners await the start of work. Wright at the White House.
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Shamokin
John Fahy
Ninth District
Wilkesbarre
United Mine Workers
Fahy
Mitchell
Roosevelt
Arbitration committee meets with Roosevelt at White House
An arbitration committee appointed by the President conferred for about thirty minutes at the White House this evening. They discussed, in general terms, the commission’s work and the current state of affairs as reported by newspapers.
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White House
Roosevelt
Minnesota Youth Admits Fire Threat After Rejections
Sheriff Dreger jailed Adolph Kadelberth in Minneapolis on charges of setting fire to barns and warehouses on multiple farms near Loretto. He claims love rejection drove him to revenge, targeting farms of Piper, Spurzem, Miller, and Thomas. he was captured at Thomas’s farm after alarms spread along Rockford road. Hundreds of farmers stood guard overnight as authorities withheld details to prevent violence until transfer of custody.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Dreger
Adolph Kadelberth
Loretto
Charles Piper
Jacob Spurzem
Kadelberch
Leonard Miller
Charlies Thomas
Rockford
Hennepin County
Shotuns
Winterholter
Recovered jewels regain owner in Duluth case
Mrs. T. D. Merrill recovered a pearl necklace and diamonds valued at $7,000 after leaving a jewel case in a bank safety deposit vault. A stranger delivered the gems to the Merrill home refusing reward while police suspect a momentary impulse theft followed by return.
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Duluth
Minn
T. D. Merrill
Merrill
Overstreet Arrives Home for Campaign Tour Dates
Representative Jesse Overstreet and wife return from New York to Indianapolis to begin active campaign work. He outlines a two week itinerary visiting Irvington Southport Eastern Republican Club Bridgeport Clermont Haughville Cumberland North Indianapolis West Newton Brightwood Sixteenth and Yandes Street South Side Republican Club. He credits Roosevelt with ending the coal strike and stresses a safe Republican majority in the Fifty-eighth Congress amid varied district issues.
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Jesse Overstreet
Indianapolis
New York
Overstreet
Republican National Congressional Committee
Denison
Shaw
Irvington
Bouthport
O. P. Morton Ub
East Ern Republican Club
Tuxedo
Bridgeport
Clermont
Haughville Town Hall
Cumberland
Newton
Brightwood
Yandes Street
South Side
Republican Club
Congress
Harrison
Secretary of the Treasury
Pacific Slope
Northwest
Kansas
Nebraska
Middle West
Roosevelt
Odell
Wu Tingfang Clarifies China Ministership Status
Washington report says Chinese minister Wu Tingfang denied a permanent post. He explained he was informed of a successor, then that he would stay temporarily. He cannot confirm length of his term, noting the plan is unclear and may be mistaken for permanent duty.
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Washington
Wu Tingfang
Story of a tragedy at Strassburg touches grief of Indianapolis family
A letter from Franklin Busch Hays recounts the death of George Fitzgerald at Strassburg on Oct 4. He says the accident occurred during a boys prank with swords and a revolver. Donald Goss, a classmate, reportedly fired the weapon thinking it empty, killing George. The family attributes fault to no one but dangerous play and the school notices the cautious stance of Professor David K. Goss. George died soon after. plans to transport the body and the Fitzgerald family member to return home are noted.
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Franklin W. Hays
Franklin Busch Hays
David K. Goss
American College
Strassburg
Alsace
Germany
George Fitzgerald
P. H. Fitzgerald
Indianapolis
Hays
Goss
Professor Goss
Donald Goss
Donald
George
Don
Bert
Walter Vonnegut
Mr. Goss
John Fitzgerald
Jer
Columbia
Fire destroys derricks and settles oil field tank
Beaumont Tex Oct 19 Fire in the oil field this morning destroyed half a dozen derricks and a settling tank. The tank exploded injuring a worker named February who died shortly after. The monetary loss was not large.
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Beaumont
Tex
Ofl
Grant Ordered to Washington from Chicago Visit
General Frederick Dent Grant, visiting relatives in Chicago since last Friday, left for Washington tonight. Telegraphic orders of the War Department expected to direct him to San Antonio.
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Chicago
Edief
Frederick Dent Grant
Washington
San Antonio
Indianapolis Leader Backs Republican Confidence and Arsenal Fund
The speech argues Republicans will win the business vote and maintain party strength in the next Congress. It urges support for two Indianapolis projects, a technical institute with arsenal grounds and Columbia University funding comparison, stressing local benefits and secure buyouts. It notes War Department readiness to help acquire the arsenal for Indianapolis.
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Technical Institute Fund
Arsenal
Indianapolis
Columbia University of New York
New York
Technical Institute
Columbia University
Army
Eight Men Scalded In Benwood Steel Plant Accident
A steam pipe burst at the Riverside plant of National Tube Works in Benwood Ohio Valley area injuring eight workers. Three or four are expected to die from burns to the face head body and limbs while four others suffer lighter scalds. Six carpenters and two laborers were in the boiler room when a twelve inch pipe burst releasing deadly steam into the scaffolded area.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Riverside
National Tube Works
Benwood
William Anderson
Henry Westenhaver
W. H. Jones
Samuel L. Grady
Arthur Halfpenny
Frank Bartula
M. H. Burke
ED Carsons
Quakers Plan Historic Federation Meeting in Indiana
A sweeping Five Years Meeting of Friends will convene this week in Indianapolis to unify the Quaker yearly meetings under a single administrative body. Delegates from all thirteen yearly meetings in America, about 170 representatives plus observers from Canada, will discuss a new uniform constitution and discipline to govern the church. Strong support grows as opposition fades, with Indiana Yearly Meeting the largest delegation and Baltimore Yearly Meeting the smallest. The event, likely to draw large crowds, marks a major shift toward federation and a consolidated church structure under one head.
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Orthodox Friends
America
Yearly Meetings of Friends In
Friends’ Church
Friends
Federated Movement
United States
Canada
Indiana
Delegat
Evangelistic Work Drives Interdenominational Meetings
Representatives of churches convene in Cleveland Kansas City and Philadelphia to advance missionary activity. Methodist Episcopal leaders from multiple continents address 2000 delegates in Cleveland and women’s home mission society delegates fill Kansas City and Independence pulpits. National German Epworth League ends its biennial in St. Louis with officers elected for two years.
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Cleveland
Methodist Episcopal Church
Grays’ Armory
Moore
China
Hartzell
Africa
Vincent
Europe
McCabe
South America
Thoburn
India
Foss
Fowler
J. M. Buckley
New York
J. W. Bashford
Ohio
John R. Mott
Robert E. Speer
Edward G. Andrews
Kansas City
Methodist Episcopal
ST. Louis
National
German Epworth League
Salem Church
F. Hunt
Hovighorst
H. C. Dickhaut
First Meetings Begin Ahead of Episcopal Missionary Council
Philadelphia hosts preliminary services as bishops from across the country address Sunday schools. Delegates include Van Buren Porto Rico Kendrick New Mexico White Michigan City Peterkin West Virginia Brewer Montana Barton Lexington Ky Francis Indianapolis. The council aims to unite clergy and laity for consultation, plan missionary work, and foster broader participation in prayer service and gifts for church expansion. Daily sessions run through Thursday night.
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Philadelphia
Missionary Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
van Buren
Porto Rico
Kendrick
New Mexico
White
Michigan City
Peterkin
West Virginia
Brewer
Montana
Barton
Lexington
Francis
Indianapolis
Missionary Council
Episcopal Church
The
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Great Communion Service Draws Thousands at Omaha Coliseum
At the national Christian Church convention in Omaha 12 000 filled the Coliseum with an additional 2 000 outside as 96 assistants distributed bread and wine in 23 minutes. Mrs Princess Long sang a solo then Rev T E Cramblett of Bethany College WV preached on the Lord s Supper. A separate First Christian Church scare narrowly avoided a catastrophe as 500 worshipers faced a dangerous timber issue in the building.
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Omaha
Neb
Coliseum
National Convention of the Christian Church
Princess Long
California
T. E. Cramblett
Bethany College
West Virginia
First Christian
Allen Wil
Irvington
Ind
Beise
Floor of old church gives way during service
The Rev. Harry G. Hill warned worshippers of unsafe floors as the audience evacuated quietly. The floor settled five inches and the gallery tottered, rendering the church useless and likely requiring rebuilding. Rev. Allen Wilson, known evangelist, resides near Whittier Place.
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Harry G. Hill
Allen Wilson
No. Whittier Place
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union gathering in Portland
Delegates of the National WCTU attend services across Portland churches. In St Luke's Episcopal Church Rev Henry Sanders spoke. Mrs Stevens presided. Elizabeth Greenwood delivered the annual sermon. Lady Henry Somerset addressed City Hall, urging action and unity for temperance. Somerset also rebuked Bishop Potter over published remarks. audience hissed at her reading.
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Portland
National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Henry §. Sanders
Bromley
London
Duxhurst
Stevens
Elizabeth Greenwood
New York
Evangelistic Department
Jefferson Theater
Henry Somerset
City Hall
Lady Somerset
Grayhead
Prohibition
Neal Dow
Frances Willard
Somerset
Henry
Bisho’ S Otter
Boer leader Dr Otto De Thompson speaks at Salem Church
In St Louis on October 19 the Rev Dr Otto De Thompson addressed a German language audience about foreign missionary work. A former Boer commander who led 3000 troops, he was wounded four times and surrendered to General Maxwell at Velch river. He now tours the U.S. to promote a Boer exile colony in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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ST. Louis
Otto de Thompson
Salem Reformed Church
de Thompson
Reformed Church of
Transvaal
Maxwell
Velch River
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Death in an Explosion on the Mississippi Tug Nellis
Two killed and three injured after a boiler explosion on the tug Fred Nellis near Mound City Arkansas. Mrs Josie Hill and William Phillips died in hospital. Willlie Gillem Tom Manning Frank Hill and Captain Thomas Ledger among the injured. Eleven aboard when it left Memphis for Thebes Illinois for Seecese at a Fal bridge.
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Memphis
Tenn
Fred Nellis
St. Louis
Mound City
Ark
Josie Hill
William Phillips
Willie Gillem
Tom Manning
Thomas Ledger
J. Louis
Frank Hill
Eer
Hill
Nellis
Plaquemine
Thebes
Ill
Seecese
Moon
Strike order issued by Chicago labor federation
Chicago federation of labor delegates voted to order striking Wholesale Grocers' Employes' Union members back to work pending arbitration. Five stores faced shutdowns with two more at risk as the federation seeks to back an September arbitration pact. In New York City a lodge of the International Union of Telegraphers was formed with 100 members to demand higher pay and shorter workdays.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
New York
International Union of Commercial Telegraphers
International Union
Wood carvers strike ends over dress by hand deal
The long running strike by wood carvers employed under the White House contract has ended. The workers won their demand that carvings be dressed by hand rather than by machinery. President Roosevelt reportedly facilitated the settlement.
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New York
White House
Roosevelt
Fire at Muir Station Claims Life of Jack Tanner
In Lexington on October 19, reports say Jack Tanner a colored man died in a fire that burned the Muir Station section house. He returned from Lexington after drinking, found the door open crawled inside a lamp tipped over igniting the blaze and he perished.
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Lexington
Jack Tanner
Muir Station
Heavy Fighting in the Brush of So Maliland
Intense clashes unfold in the maliland brush as forces of SWAYNE'S FORCE 18 advance steadily toward safety, though the path remains long and perilous amid ongoing bombardment and shifting front lines.
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Somaliland
Swayne
British Somaliland Expedition Faces Perilous Retreat
London reports detail Colonel Swayne’s dwindling force in Somaliland as he retreats north from the Mullah after last May’s campaign. With about 3,000 men and limited artillery, the expedition risks scorched deserts and continues to suffer from plummeting trade at Berbera and Bu. The Times warns ministers against half measures as Italian cooperation remains unconfirmed.
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London
Foreign Office
Cobbs
Mullah
Somaliland
Berbera
Erego
Mudug
Phillips
Angus
Howard
Everett
Swayne
Brego
Karl
Inger
Webbe River
Bohetle
Ible
Burno
Cipal
Jess
Ogaden
Doelbahanta
Delbahanta
British Soldiers Demand Pay Demonstration in Hyde Park
London observers report a crowd of several thousand reservists from South Psd marching in Hyde Park on October 1 to demand higher pay and steady wages for their service. The protest highlighted strain over compensation amid ongoing military duties and shortages.
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London
Hyde Park
South Ps
Soewor
Berlin markets slide as coal and iron shares weaken
Berlin market round up reports most departments of the Boerse weaker last week with iron and coal shares under pressure. The American coal strike settlement plan is seen as harming German iron trade due to halted exports to the United States. Prices fall on half rolled iron goods and renewed annual rents, while coal exports to France support some resilience.
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Berlin
Boerse
United States
France
Essen
Sigan Yan
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Mr. Mitchell
Nicholl
Wright
Carroll D. Wright
Minnesota
Mr. Overstreet
Grant
Benwood Steel Works
Quakers
Friends’ Conference
Methodists
Mission Societies of the Church
Episcopal Mission Council
Christian Convention
Epworth League
Episcopal Council of Missions
Lady Henry Somerset
Bishop Potter
OF the Church Militant
Congregation In
Mississippi
Federation of Labor
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Sofia
Philippopolis
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