Miners Face Possible Violence as County Orders Disarmament
In Bingham Utah on September 25 amid the copper miners strike for higher wages, county commissioners order firearms taken from miners. Deputies select fifty sharpshooters but have not posted them atop the hill overseeing Utah Copper. Strike leaders fail to reach General Manager Jackling for talks, raising tense prospects of violence before aims are achieved.
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Bingham
Utah
Utah Copper Company
Jackling
May End Peacefully at Bingham Canyon
Salt Lake September 25 Fear is expressed by mine operators that Sheriff Joseph C Sharp s force of deputies and watchmen might not control the Bingham strike in an emergency. County officials and the sheriff visited the camp to assess conditions. About 4500 strikers watched but did not show violence. Sharp and Deputy Whitbeck found no unrest on the canyon s eastern hills. Sharp believes many strikers are ready to return to work and that Utah Copper and other operators may resume with many former employees.
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Salt Lake
Joseph C. Sharp
Utah Copper Company
John AC. Mackay
Oscar W. Carlson
W. J. Burton
Sharp
Alex. Steele
Flies and other carriers discussed at hygiene congress
Washington September 25 experts from Germany France England and the United States addressed the international congress of hygiene and demography on disease spread by flies shellfish and other carriers of typhoid diphtheria cholera and influenza. Dr Ira S Wile of New York warned that female insistence on health certificates could solve sex hygiene issues.
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Washington
International Congress of Hygiene and Demography
Germany
France
England
United States
Ira 8
S. Wile
New York
Exhibition Hall
Congress
First World Series Game Set for Gotham October 8
New York announces the opening game of the world baseball championship series will be played October 8 in Gotham. The schedule alternates between New York and Boston until the series concludes.
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Gotham
New York
Boston
Moving Marines to Haiti Border Quay to Protect Custom Houses
Early dispatches from Washington report no news of a San Domingo revolution. Preparations continue to move 750 marines to guard the Haytien border customs houses. Marines will be gathered at Philadelphia and fast-tracked to the South aboard the transport Prairie.
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Washington
State Department
San Domingo
Haytien
Philadelphia
Taft Arrives in Altoona for War Governors Convention
President Taft arrives in Altoona Pennsylvania from New York to take part in the war governors convention celebration. He traveled to the city early this morning to join the event with local and state officials.
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Altoona
Taft
New York
Wilson wins New Jersey primary sweep for governor and Hughes
Governor Woodrow Wilson claims a sweeping victory in New Jersey primaries with a plurality near twenty thousand. Wilson supporters back Hughes for U S Congress while James Smith Jr faces nomination defeat for Senator. Voter turnout is described as light statewide with Progressives winning in Hudson county.
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Newark
N. J
Wilson
New Jersey
United States
James Smith
William Hughes
Smith
Essex County
Congress
Hudson County
Home Seekers Rates to Pacific Coast Confirmed
Chicago September 25. The homeseekers rates to the Pacific coast will not be discontinued next year despite suggested cuts by two western railroads. A referendum vote of interested railroads favored continuing the 1913 rates in effect.
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Chicago
Pacific Coast
Foss Secures Democratic Nomination For Massachusetts Governor
Boston Sept 25 Eugene N Foss wins Democratic nomination for a third Massachusetts governor term after yesterday's primaries. Foss leads Pelletier by 26614 votes while Republican Joseph Walker tops Benton by 10302 in the count released today.
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Boston
Eugene N. Foss
Massachusetts
Foss
Pelletier
Joseph Walker
Col
Everett C. Benton
Roosevelt in Arkansas on Progressive Crusade Visit
President Roosevelt spoke in Little Rock, declaring the progressive movement a religious crusade. He cited singing Onward Christian Soldiers as a striking impression of the meetings and planned to continue to Memphis later in the day.
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Little Rock
Ark
Roosevelt
Memphis
Death of Anna Rice Under Coroner Investigation
Chicago officials opened a coroner investigation into the death of Miss Anna Rice who wandered Chicago for two days before dying at her doctor's residence. Detectives traced her movements except for a 24 hour gap. she worked as a domestic on the South Side. The physician said she was ill with pneumonia and frail when first seen.
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Chicago
Anna Rice
South Side
Duluth Carmen Ready to Quit
Duluth Minnesota September 25 Union carmen state their terms to end the strike. Rehire all strikers without prejudice except the nine discharged with arbitration for those cases. End opens shop but permit unionism. Hours reduced from thirteen to twelve. no wage increases. General Manager Warren rejects proposals. Company plans appeal to the state supreme court from the Dibell ruling to resume service.
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Duluth
Minn
Union Carmen of
Warren
Traction Company
State Supreme Court
Dibell
Strike in Spain Shuts Catalona Railways
Dispatches from Barcelona report rail traffic halted across Catalona Spain as strikers gain control of stations. Military holds key points after workers walk off at midnight with widespread property damage noted in early reports.
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Perpignan
France
Catalona
Spain
Barcelona
Rebels kill captain and seven soldiers near Cuernavaca
News from Ojo De Agua reports Captain Escobedo and seven of his thirty soldiers killed by rebels. Upon learning the news, actress Sofia Moncada, Escobedo's sweetheart, died by her own hand in Cuernavaca.
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Cuernavaca
Mex
Ojo de Agua
Escobedo
Senorita Sofia Moncadia
Escobedi
Madero Defines Amnesty Move for Orozco Rebels
Mexico City September 25. President Madero and his cabinet order the minister of war to offer amnesty to followers of rebel leader Orozco in a new peace initiative aiming to end northern Mexico turmoil.
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Mexico City
Mex
Mexico
Madero
Orozco
Forger Guthrie Found Insane by Jury in Chicago Case
Jacob Foy Guthrie once Armour Institute professor turned burglar and daring thief was judged insane today by a Chicago criminal court jury. The defendant’s audacious home robberies had long puzzled police.
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Chicago
Jacob Foy Guthrie
Armour Institute
Ind
Criminal
Clean Up 20 Million Marked Baruch Rise in Wall Street
Bernard M. Baruch, a young New York speculator, has reportedly cleaned up twenty million dollars in the stock market. Once affiliated with Baruch Bros., he now operates independently from a private office near Trinity Churchyard, waiting for the right moment to act.
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Bernard M. Baruch
New York
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Baruch Bros
Trinity Churchyard
Charter for Los Angeles County Charter Vote in November
The final draft of the Los Angeles county charter is filed and will be voted on in November. It reduces elective officers to three plus five supervisors and makes all officers recallable. A public defender is provided to aid indigents and bring wage suits.
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Los Angeles
Board of Supervisors
Mount Wrangle Erupts Again Threatens Valdez Region
Mail advices from Valdez report Mount Wrangle erupting with heavy smoke and lava flowing across glaciers. Lieutenant P. Rosser of the signal corps, after surveying the Valdez to Fairbanks telegraph line, notes the eruption. Sulphurous fumes drive prospectors away from Kotina glacier.
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Seattle
Wash
Valdez
Tries to murder entire McKnelly family in Wellington
Theodore McKnelly a car repairer his wife and daughter were shot near Wellington. The daughter died and the wife is fatally injured. McKnelly's skull was crushed. The family lived in a tent. Robbery is believed the motive.
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Wellington
Kans
Theodore McKnelly
Wellngton
MccKnelly
Prince An Ai Appeals to Russia Over Chinese Atrocities
A Russian dispatch reports Prince An Ai appealing to Russia against Chinese aggression on the Manchuria Mongolia border. He camps eighty miles from the frontier and says five thousand of his people, many women and children, have been massacred with several family members killed by Chinese troops.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Manchuria
Mongolia
Prince An-Ai
Novoe Vremya
SNEED-BOYD LETTERS ADMITTED IN EVIDENCE AT HEARING
Amarillo Texas Sept 25 Despite objections the correspondence between Mrs Lena Sneed and Al G Boyce for two weeks before Boyce was shot was admitted in evidence Len Boyce brother of Al testified he wrote Al Boyce in Fort Worth in July under the names Johnson and Oldsby John Pace brother in law of Mrs Sneed testified to receiving letters for Mrs Sneed under her own and other names after the trial of Sneed for killing Boyce s father at Fort Worth
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Amarillo
Mex
Lena Sneed
al G. Boyce
Boyce
Sneed
Len Boyce
John Beal Sneed
Wheat Market Close in Chicago on September Wheat
Chicago September wheat closed at 88 3/4 cents a bushel on the Chicago market news report from NL dated September 256. The report notes the price movement of the September contract as traders react to market conditions.
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Chicago
Discontent and Hatred at New York Republican Convention
William D. Guthrie, temporary chairman at the New York Republican state convention in Saratoga on September 25, attacks Theodore Roosevelt. He accuses Roosevelt of fomenting discontent and class hatred and brands him socialist at heart while claiming he alone can save the country from socialism. Guthrie lists three great issues: congressional power to protect American industries, safeguards for the political system against direct democracy moves, and attacks on the federal judiciary.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Progressive Party
William D. Guthrie
Roosevelt
Guthrie
Congress
Idaho Falls Big Show Tomorrow War Bonnet Round-Up
Pocatello and Blackfoot join in Idaho Falls celebration tomorrow as the War Bonnet Round-Up opens with bucking contests relay and chariot races and fort hall red skins. A special returning train leaves Idaho Falls at 8 30 pm with six thousand spectators and two hundred horses on site.
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Pocatello
Blackfoot
Idaho Falls
Sunnyland
Fort Hall Redskins
Intermountain
Idaho
Greek Man Kills Woman Then Ends Own Life in Salt Lake City
Tom Tuogus, a Greek, shot and killed Mrs. Mary Theodorson after midnight as she walked home with her brother in law from a Greek coffee house where she worked. He then killed himself with self inflicted wounds and was found dead early morning in a coal bin on West Second South street. Theodorson, 19, was enamoured of Tuogus. Her husband reportedly is in prison in Denver for attempting to sell her into white slavery.
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Salt Lake City
Tom Tuogus
Mary Theodorson
West Second South Street
Theodorson
Denver
Peterson backs every Republican candidate from Taft to constable
Republican candidate Joseph H. Peterson declares in a bold open letter to Idaho Progressive chair J. I. Gipson that he supports every candidate on the Republican ticket. He touts Taft Borah and Haines, critiques the Bull Moose as an ally of Democrats, and cites Idaho Republican achievements such as woman suffrage, direct primary with corrupt practices act, local option, and good roads measures.
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Peterson
Taft
Constable
Joseph H. Peterson
Republian
J. I. Gipson
Progressive Party
Idaho
William E. Borah
Robert Bell
Roosevelt
Gipson
J. H. Gipson
Boise
Republican Party
United States
Good Roads
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