Colombia Seeks U S Backing Over Panama Crisis
President Marroquin pledges safety for Americans in Colombia and urges the United States to honor treaties on the Panama Isthmus. He condemns U S actions as interfering with Colombian sovereignty while urging pacific settlement and wide public support for Colombia’s stance against Panama’s independence move.
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Bogota
Colombia
Marroquin
Associated Press
United States
Beaupre
United States Senate
Panama Questiovn
Colombian
United
Binda
Panama
Globe
Confederate States
Pacific
Washington
Americas
Rico
Rica
United States Congress
Congress
Senate
Rice
Minis
Texas
New Granada
Hague
Exis
England
France
Seward
Union
Acams
London
Paris
Plate Glass Insurance Firms Form Combine in San Francisco
A union of all plate glass insurers in San Francisco has been created to curb a potential rate war. The move aims for harmony among rivals and may raise mica related rates across the Pacific States. The seven to eight agencies share at least $100,000 in annual premiums.
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San Francisco
Pacific States
Dozen Die As Italian Laborers Perish In Shanty Fire
In Johnstown Pennsylvania a shanty housing 125 Italian railroad workers burned. About 27 men were killed and many injured as flames trapped them inside the single exit structure. Witnesses describe a frantic scramble for doors and windows while loot and keepsakes were left behind.
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Johnstown
Lilly
Pennsylvania Railroad
McMenamin & Simg
Pennsylvania Road Improvements
Samuel Gompers Reelected President of Federation
Boston November 21 Samuel Gompers was re elected president of the Federation of Labor. Invitations were read from Milwaukee unions and from Utah Salt Lake districts. Delegates nominated Gompers and Ernest Kreft with Kreft supported by Socialist delegates. Gompers won by an overwhelming roll call.
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Boston
Samuel Gompers
Federation of Labor
Trades and Labor Organizations
Milwaukee
Utah
Salt Lake
Kramer
Richmond
Labor
Organized Labor
Debarry
St. Louis
Ernest Kreft
Roll Cail
Gompers
Gompera
Kreft
Riots and Mediation in Chicago Street Car Strike
Chicago November reports a possible settlement as mediation resumes. Mayor Harrison’s committee listens for progress while city rail lines operate with a few in service. A large mob clashes with police on Archer avenue. rumors of dynamite are unfounded. Marines bolster security. ships like the Massachusetts, Alabama, and Texas are in dry dock for repairs.
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Chicago
Harrison
City Railway Company
Archer Avenue
Wagonaumler
Wentworth Avenue
Two Indiana Men Acquitted in Bribe Conspiracy Case
D W Miler of Terre Haute and Joseph M Johns of Rockville Indiana were acquitted of conspiracy to extort a bribe from John J Ryan. The jury delivered a verdict of not guilty amid uproarious demonstrations from the crowd in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
D. W. Miler
Terre Haute
Joseph M. Johns
Rockville
Ind
John J. Ryan
Post Office Department
Finsen Rays Reported Successful for Tuberculosis
Chicago reports three permanent cures using Finsen rays for consumption with Dr Mary E Jackson of Hammond Indiana testing tuberculosis cases and claiming disease end in three patients Berlin disputes Prof Mikulicz says seven weeks of Mamorek serum trials show few improvements with uncertain attribution and further testing planned
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Chicago
Mary E. Jackson
Hammond
Ind
Berlin
Mamorek
Milaulez
Breslau University
Breslauer Zeitung
Mikulicz
University Surgical Clinic
3Ramorek
Lakeside Station suicide after telegram request goes awry
A young man rushed into Lakeside Station telegraph office in San Diego seeking $10,000 via telegram to a relative in Albany New York, then threw himself in front of a passing train and was killed. The victim was identified as Frebeao dail.
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San Diego
Cal
Lakeside Station
Albany
N. Y
Ilis
Frebeaodail
Moneyless Monarch Struggles to Secure Loan for Servia
Vienna reports Servia’s credit at its lowest ebb as King Peter seeks financial support. A Servian government representative failed to secure a loan on the king’s life from Gresham Life Insurance in Vienna after visiting banks and private moneylenders. Earlier appeals, including to Prince Arsene in Paris, likewise failed.
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Vienna
Servia
Europe
Peter
Gresham Life Insurance Company
Arsene
Paris
Britt Wins Decision Over Canole In Boston Bout
Jimmy Britt the white lightweight champion won a decision over Martin Canole of Boston after twenty one rounds at the Colma athletic club. Britt fought aggressively throughout the bout and withstood Canole’s persistent left upper cuts while delivering decisive hooks to the body and head.
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San Francisco
Jimmy Britt
Martin Canole
Boston
Colma Athletic Club
Britt
Evia
Canole
Fleishmann Reappears in New York After Disappearance
William N. Fleishmann, kin to Cincinnati mayor, resurfaces in New York after vanishing from Saratoga race meeting last summer. He had supervised Mayor Fleishmanns racing tables and allegedly ran a betting ring leaving him over $40 000 in debt to bookmakers. He says he came to New York directly and has rarely left his apartments since August while ill.
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New York
William N. Fleishmann
Cincinnati
Saratoga
Fleishmann
Europe
South Africa
Battleships Ordered to Proceed to Colon
Reports say the battleships Kearsarge and Massachusetts at New York Navy Yard received orders to move to Colon. Commanders have been summoned by telegraph. officers already there told to remain aboard. Kearsarge loaded last Wednesday and most stores are aboard.
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New York
Colon
Keatsarge
Massachusetts
New York Navy Yard
Pardon Plea for Jack Douglass Fails to Gain Support
Huntsville reports a petition by friends of Jack Douglass, jailed for his wife murder about five years ago, asking for a pardon. The local sentiment is strongly against his release, and the petition is meeting little backing.
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Huntsville
Jack Douglass
Douglass
Httle
Governor Chamberlain Calls Extraordinary Oregon Session
Governor Chamberlain summons the Oregon legislative assembly to meet in the capitol at Wale on December 23, 1903. The session aims to enact laws for levying taxes on assessment rolls for 1903 due to a defect in the 1903 act governing assessment and tax collection.
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Wale
Ore
Chamberlain
Legislative Assembly
Grand Rapids Bribery Warrants Target City Officials
Seventeen former Grand Rapids officials are named in warrants linked to the Garman Cameron water scheme. Former City Attorney Salsbury, after a prior bribery conviction, confessed while in custody, prompting the action. Indicted include Mayor George R Perry State Senator David Burns and several aldermen. Amounts cited range from 206 to 3333 dollars with shares of 100 300 and 500 dollars noted for various figures.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Garman-Cameron
Lake Michigan
Salsbury
Detroit House of Correction
Supreme Court
George R. Perry
David Burns
Corey Bissell
Board of Public Works
Riner Stonehouse
Daniel Lozier
John McLachlan
Clark Slocum
John”aiair
Adrian Shriver
Commmon
Perry
Burns
Ward
Balabury
Judge condemns governor over Frankfort case in perjury trial
Judge Chittenden denounces Governor Bliss over the Spafford pardon and Thomas perjury case in Frankfort Circuit Court. He orders Spafford to appear for pendence as he criticizes clemency as a burlesque on justice and accuses executive interference of weaponizing the law.
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Frankfort
Mich
Chittenden
Thomas
A. T. Bliss
Spafford
Cadillac
Gov. Bliss
I T
Chitterden
Pendence
General strike to halt structural iron work nationwide
New York report states that after failed talks between the Iron League and the Union of Housesmiths and Bridgemen a general strike of structural iron workers is ordered. 20,000 workers to be called out soon and at least 100,000 expected unemployed as the movement expands nationwide. Frank W. Johnstone announces the plan as a continuation of the conflict with the Iron League. A November 30 meeting is set to formalize full-scale action.
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New York
Iron League
Union of Housesmiths and Bridgemen
Structural
Frank W. Johnstone
International Association of
Structural Iron Workers
Park
Wages Cut Plannedby Passaic Steel Brings Strike Threat
Fifteen hundred of the Passaic Steel company workers at Paterson New Jersey voted to strike December 1 if a 10 percent wage cut is enacted. Bridgemen say they are affected by an agreement that no cut shall occur for one year.
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New York
Passaic Steel Company
Paterson
N. J
New Pacific Cereal Association Formed in San Francisco
A new cereal company group was created on the Pacific coast in San Francisco. The Pacific Cereal association will operate under Nevada law with authorized capital of 750000 dollars, 250000 dollars paid in, and will assume the plants and business of Empire Milling Delmonte Milling Capitol Mills Yolo Mills and Trin Brothers Milling and related firms.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Nevada
Pacific Cereal Association
Empire Milling Company
Delmonte Milling Company
Capitol Mills
Yolo Mills
Shortage of Laborers in Africa Reaches 241000
Johannesburg reports the labor commission estimates a shortage of 241000 workers, with 170000 needed in mining. It says no central or Southern Africa source can cover the gap, and offers no remedies as beyond the commission’s task.
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Johannesburg
The
Labor Commission
Africa
Rich sugar magnate Spreckels III suffers stroke
A San Francisco Times dispatch reports Chris Spreckels, 73, the sugar merchant and reputed wealthiest on the coast, has suffered an apoplectic stroke after returning from abroad. Doctors attend as rumors say a second stroke has affected his throat leaving him unable to speak. the report names John D. Spreckels as his elder son.
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New York
Chris Spraekete
Iil
Times Dispatch
San Francisco
Spreckele
Deniat Lybia
John D. Spreckels
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Plate Glass Insurance Companies
Federation
Alabama
Miller and
Johns Cass
California
Moncey
King Peter
Oregon
Grand Rapids, Mich
NEW Cereal Company
Claus Spreckels III
Sewer District,No. 9
4Th Ward Meeting House
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