Judge Gray Named President of Arbitration Commission
Washington October 24. President Roosevelt appointed a strike commission to investigate the railway labor dispute. The group met at the White House and, after brief introductions, elected Judge Gray of Delaware as chairman and set its staff with Recorder Wright and assistants Mosely and Neil.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
White House
E. E. Clark
Order of
Bishop Spalding
Wilson
Thomas Watkins
Wright
E. W. Parker
Gray
United States District Court
Cortelyou
Messrs
Mosely
Neil
Judge Gray
Fierce custody battle over Chicago girl heads to Memphis
Angelina Castagnino, guarded by bailiff John Kellander, travels from Chicago to Memphis under court orders after a year of legal fights between her divorced parents, Pearl Loos and Charles Castagnino. The case spans Illinois and Tennessee courts with arrests for kidnapping and conflicting custody decrees.
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Chicago
Ill
Illinois Central
Memphis
Angelina Castagnino
John Kellander
Chytraus
Galway
Second Circuit
Shelby County
Tennessee
Pearl Loos
Justice Hall
Castagnino
Hurricane devastates Diamante port in Entre Rios
A hurricane swept the port of Diamante in Entre Rios province causing fifteen deaths and many injuries. One hundred houses were destroyed and several ships sunk. Negroya and other areas suffered damage.
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Buenos Ayres
Argentine
Diamante
Entre Rios
Negroya
Lone Wolf seeks Mexican land for Comanche band
Lone Wolf a Comanche leader seeks to move his people to Mexico in exchange for a land grant near Chilimaana, an aim backed by suspected real estate interests. The scheme has no involvement from the Interior Department or the Indian Bureau as Lone Wolf faces mandamus action in the Supreme Court to block opening Kiowa Comanche country to settlement.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Interior Department
Indian Bureau
Lone Wolf
Chilimaana
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Secretary of the Interior
Lone Wolf Defends Native Standing Against Mexican Scheme
Lone Wolf says the Indians he represents are free to acknowledge hardship but will live and die as their ancestors did, resisting a broader Mexican scheme. The statement frames tribal resolve and cultural continuity amid regional pressure.
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Lone Wolf
Metal and Money Market Brief in New York
New York reports on October 23: Mexican dollars at 39 3 4 cents, silver at 50 1 2 cents, copper unchanged.
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Metal and Money Market
New York
One Editor’s Wide Roles in a Small Town
Stillman Valley editor J A Atwood serves as undertaker tombstone agent police magistrate and village preacher. He handled a subscriber’s wife’s burial advertised the service in his paper married a widower insured both couples and houses and chairs several local groups. He also acts as justice of the peace marrying many and runs the Stillman Valley Graphic.
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Stillman Valley, NL
J. A. Atwood
Stillman Valley
Atwood
Battleground Memorial Association
Denver Army Paymaster Named in Divorce Suit
Hallie Young Whipple files for divorce from Captain Herbert Sydney Whipple chief paymaster US Army here alleging gross neglect and threats to kill. She claims July 1901 assault and repeated choking and hostile treatment with alienation of affection. She cites his inheritance from both parents totaling substantial sums and notes their Louisville marriage on October 9 1894.
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Denver
Colo
Hallie Young Whipple
Herbert Sydney Whipple
Captain Whipple
Captain
Mrs. Whipple
Louisville, Ky
Longtime St Louis leader charged in wholesale bribery case
Edward Butler a wealthy Missouri politician is indicted on charges tied to a lighting bill vote. The informant alleges Butler urged a legislative bloc to pass the measure for bribes of 2500 dollars per member. Witness names include Tamblyn Helms Schumacher Robertson John K. and E. Murrell. Butler denies knowledge of the bill and calls the Campbell check claim false.
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Folk
Butler
Combine
Ap Butler
Kelly
Tamblyn
Helms
Schumacher
Robertson
John K
E. Murrell
Jim Campbell
Pennsylvania Troops Ordered Home From Anthracite Fields
Gov Stone issued orders to withdraw Pennsylvania troops from the anthracite region with most regiments expected home by election day. In Reading the first coal train from Schuylkill region after midnight headed to tidewater, with 6000 to 7000 tons expected for the day compared with prior runs of about 5000 tons.
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Harrisburg
Stone
Reading
Reading Company
Schuylkill
Tidewater
Conable Ends Fast After Twenty Mile Walk For Appetite
Edgar Wallace Conable editor of the Pathfinder ends a fifteen day fast by walking twenty miles with Herbert George of Denver. He shows no emaciation, says he lost only two pounds, and plans a cottage for visitors seeking fasting and breathing therapies he offers free of charge.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Edgar Wallace Conable
The
Pathfinder
JM. Conable
Mr. Conable
Herbert George
Denver
Two Republicans Shot in Porto Rico Political Turmoil
In Porto Rico Porto Rigo San Juan authorities said political strife ended with two Republicans wounded by gunfire near midnight. The News editor was arrested on libel charges after publishing the citizens petition demanding mayoral prosecution for destroying municipal records.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
the News
Northern Train Robbery Leaves Engineer Dead Near Raymond
Word reached St. Paul that the Northern Pacific mail train was robbed near Raymond Montana around midnight. The engineer was killed and the mail car looted of all registered mail. other cars remained untouched.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Northern Pacific Mail
Raymond
Montana
Murderers of ex Premier Stambouloff Sentenced to Death
Sofia reporters note Michael Stavereff and Alix Hallu were found guilty of the 1895 assassination of former Premier Stambouloff and were condemned to hang.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Michael Stavereff
Alix Hallu
Stambouloff
Democrats Favored to Control House in 1958 Vote
Washington observers, citing polls and insider sentiment, expect the Democrats to win a majority in the Fifty-eighth Congress. Republican leaders cling to hope of a late rally, while Democrats predict a landslide or at least a narrow victory amid party discipline and public sentiment.
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Babcock
National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Griggs
Washington
Man Goes Crazy High in the Rockies Crashes Train Chase
John O'Hara, a wealthy mining man from Oklahoma City, leaped from a Denver and Rio Grande train near Pleasanton at 8000 feet, shouting he was Jesus and throwing money and tearing $300 checks. He fled through foothills, dodging with rocks and gunfire, was surrounded after an hour, and taken to Salida for care.
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Pueblo
Colo
Jesus Christ
John O’hara
Oklahoma City
Portland
Oregon
Rio Grande
Pleasanton
O’hara
Brown
Salida O’hara
Rain Dampens Southern California Weather Night
Rain fell across southern California last night with Los Angeles recording 0.37 inches by 5 a.m. The steady precipitation marked a good fall for the region as crews tracked the storm’s progress.
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California
Los Angeles
Calif
Arizona Charley expedition reports from Tiburon Island
Charles Meadows and companions from Guaymas on an eleven ton sloop reached Tiburon Island. They gathered bows arrows and relics while facing storms and hostile Seris. Wheatley described Seri ferocity and cannibal rumors while planning a settlement at Fresh Water Bay with armed escorts.
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Los Angeles
Charles Meadows
George Fugard
W. W. Wheatley
Arizona
Tiburon Island
Nadeau Hotel
Meadows
Guaymas
Chabasca
Tiburon
Smithsonian Institution
Sonora
Fresh Water Bay
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Uncle Sam
ST. Louis Boodlers
ST. Louis, Mo
Edward Butler
Pennsylvania
MR. Gonable
Porto Rigo
House of Representatives
National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Colorado
Fiis
Arizona Charley Expedition
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