51 Labor Officials Face Conspiracy Trial Over Nitro Transport
Federal prosecutors prepare to try 51 current and former leaders of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers on charges of conspiring to transport nitroglycerin and dynamite by train. Ortie E. McManigal, key witness, is jailed. the case links to the Los Angeles explosion tied to the Llewellyn Iron Works blast of 1910.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Federal
Charlies W Miller
Stassenger
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Frank E. Ryan
Herberts. Hockin
William N. ‘Harding
John W. Kern
A. B. Anderson
Federal Building
McManigal
Ortie E. McManigal
Chicago
Los Angeles
Llewellyn Iron Works
John J. McNamara
San Quentin
Iron Workers
Pacific Coast
Fat Picking for Sneak Thieves
An article notes the lower berth hammock on sleeping cars attracts thefts by screen cutters and pocket robbers. Rail lines plan to eliminate hammocks west of the Mississippi, with eastward adoption expected. Pullman will stop supplying hammocks. Passengers, especially women, warned to keep valuables secure as robberies continue.
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Tne
Mississippi
Texas
Pullman Company
Weather Conditions Signal Broad Cold Spell Across Nation
An extensive high pressure area sits over Kansas with low temperatures. it brings fair skies to most of the country but showers in the east Gulf and south Atlantic states. Frosts reach into Kansas and temperatures dip below freezing in the northern Rocky Mountains, with Sheridan Wyoming recording 24 degrees. A secondary Pacific coast system is noted bringing warm but unsettled conditions along the coast.
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Kansas
East Gulf
South Atlantic States
Kangas
Rocky Mountain
Sheridan
Wyoming
Pacific Coast
Ely
Labor Leaders to Be Tried on Murder Charge in Massachusetts
Three hundred fifty potential jurors gathered at the Essex county courthouse as labor leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti and mill worker Joseph Caruso face charges tied to the January textile strike murder of Anna Lopizzo in Lawrence. A motion for venue discharge was expected with jury impaneling likely to take two or three days.
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LABOR
Salem
Mass
Essex County
Joseph J. Ettorana
Arturo Giovannitti
Industrial Workers of the World
Joseph Caru
Anna Lopiszo
Lawrence
Caruso
Ettor
Giovannitt
Quinn
Gloyvapnitt
Democrats Warn Empire State on Syracuse Governor Pick
Gov Wilson urges New York Democrats to choose a progressive governor candidate at the Syracuse convention with an undirected, free platform. He says the party must be unbossed and avoid outside dictates while selecting a man who can lead and stand by a principled platform.
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Sea Girt
N. J
Wilson
New York
Syrause
Syracuse
Definition of a decomposed egg under the pure food act
Washington debates whether a decomposed egg equals a rotten egg under common law. The case centers on 433 cans of frozen egg product seized in Jersey City from Seymour Packing for E J Keith, with experts debating bacteria counts versus common law rot.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the
United States
Ege
Department of Agriculture
Department
Jersey City
N. J
Topeka
Kan
Seymour Packing Company
E. J. Keith Company
Keith Company
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Six Chinese stowaways driven out by fumes on Puebla
In New Orleans on September 29 six Chinese stowaways hidden in the Puebla steamship hold were driven from cover by fumigation fumes. They pounded on the hull and were rescued as fumigation halted. The ship arrived at quarantine after four days at sea and the men were turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
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New Orleans
Puebla
We Never Forget Early Home Remedies in Science
A reference to early home life memories tied to Bucklen's Arnica Salve used by mother or grandmother to treat burns boils scalds sores skin eruptions cuts sprains and bruises. The piece claims forty years of cures proving its merit and notes its use for piles corns and cold sores with a price of 26 cents at druggists.
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Bucklen
Augusta Quiet After Trying Experience
Three business men were shot and killed by Georgia militia during a strike by Augusta-Aiken Trailway and Electric workers. Major Levy ordered reports from firing-line officers as Captain Jowitt and Captain Henderson face military court martial this week. Governor Brown ordered a full inquiry while negotiations for settlement continue for the disrupted street railway.
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Augusta
Maltis
Augusta-Aiken Trailway and Electric Corporation
Levy
Jowitt
Henderson
Street Railway Company
Turkey readies for trouble in the Balkans
Athens reports Turkey mobilizes 100000 men into eleven divisions for six weeks of field maneuver training. Thrace troops return to posts while Saloniki Dardanelles and Smyrna forces remain detached amid Italy war. London dispatch notes Samos hostilities cessation announced by the porte.
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Athens
Turkey
Balkans
Thrace
Albania
Saloniki
Dardanelles
Smyrna
Italy
London
Samos
Porte
Constantinople
Boy Gives Leg to Save Girl in Gary Operative Procedure
In Gary Indiana a newsboy William Rugh offered skin from his useless leg to save Ethel Smith an 18 year old girl severely burned. Surgeons grafted 150 square inches of skin and amputated the boy's leg. The girl's mother reluctantly consented after protests poured in from across the country.
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Gary
Ind
William Rugh
Ethel Smith
Rugh
J. A. Crai
Mary Arnold
Lebanon
Eadh
Roosevelt Attacks Taggart Machine in Chattanooga Speech
Colonel Roosevelt denounces Governor Marshall as a Taggart machine representative and blasts Governor Wilson for supporting Tammany. He criticizes Hooper and Senator Sanders, calls the Republican party a shell, and notes his swing through the South en route to North Carolina and New York.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Marshal
Indiana
Taggart
Roosevelt
Wilson
New York
Marshall
Rooskevelt
Hooper
Sanders
Tennessee
Atlanta
Knoxvill
North Carolina
Republican Party
Senator Sanders
Taft-Hooper
Wilson- Hooper
Murphy Stands Firm for Dix in New York Convention
Syracuse September 30. Charles F Murphy leader of Tammany Hall resisted anti Dix pressure arguing Dix should be renominated. Opponents claimed Murphy controlled about 400 of 450 convention votes as they considered bringing William J Bryan to bolster the anti Dix effort.
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Syracuse
N. Y
John A. Dix
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Gov. Dix
Macon Merchant Killed in Auto Crash Near City
Macon Georgia September 29 George a well known business man of this city was killed and four persons injured near here today when an automobile in which they were riding crashed into a telephone pole and skid down a steep embankment. Marsden leaped from the automobile to another telephone pole but was crushed to death when the heavy machine pinioned him again at the pole. None of the others was fatally hurt.
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Macon
George
Marsden
Campaign fund investigators renew inquiry into Roosevelt era contributions
Washington reports the Senate sub committee renews its probe into presidential campaign donations. Key witnesses include Ormsby McHarg and Cornelius Bliss Jr. with anticipated appearances by Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan as two month hearings unfold.
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Washington
Senate
Clapp
Theodore Roosevelt
J. Pierpont Morgan
Roosevelt
Ormsby McHarg
South
Taft
C. C. Tegethoff
EB. H. Harriman
Charles A. Peabody
Wall Street
Harriman
Roosevelt Fund
Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr
Republican Campaign Committee
Standard Il
Oliver
Paynter
Pomerene
Mr. Bliss
Bliss
Riots and arrests in Lawrence during 24 hour strike
Law rence Massachusetts saw serious rioting as 24 hour strike promoters from the Industrial Workers of the World urged textile workers to join the demonstrations. Police clashed with pickets at the Everett mill. one man was seriously injured and several were arrested including some armed individuals.
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Everett Mill
Essex
Mill
Freman
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Los Angeles Times
Joseph J. Ettor
Arthur Giovannitti
The
Empire State
Gov. Wilson
Supreme Court
Brown
Tammany
Hooper and
Tennesee
Murphy
Dix
Vylpetarour
Mobile’s
Campaign Fund
Senator Clapp
Morgan
Republican Committee
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