Moyer Abducted and Injured During Copper Strike
Charles H. Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners was kidnapped in Hancock Michigan after a meeting with Citizen's Alliance officials. He was beaten shot in the back and dragged to a train bound for Chicago where he was hospitalized. Miner leader Charles Tanner accompanying him was not shot. McNaughton of Calumet and Hecla denied involvement though Moyer alleged papers were seized and orders given. Congress called for a probe amid mass burials and protests by labor and socialist groups.
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Moyer
Michigan
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Chicago
Calumet
Hancock
Citizen’s Alliance
Strcks
Charles H. Tanner
Miners’ Federation
Houghton
James McNaughton
Calumet and Hecla Copper Company
McNaughton
Copper Trust
Congress
Redfield
Lane
Foscher
House Committee On Mines
Baltimore
Bremmer
New Jersey
Kelly
Garment Workers’ Union of
Philadelphia
Morgan House
New York
J. P. Morgan & Co
Financial World
Western Union Steel Trust
Bankers’ Trust Company of
McReynolds
Miners’ Union
Wilson
Woolen Company
Arlington Mass
Mills
Woolen Trust
Mexicans in Fierce Border Fight
Rebels under Gen Ortega attacked along the northern border after being sent from Chihuahua by Gen Villa to dislodge federal troops. The clash involved rebel and federal forces with ongoing fighting reported from the border region.
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Mercado
Ojinaga
Huerta
John Lind
Vera Cruez
Chester
Gulfport
Miss
Wilson
Ortega
Chihuahue
Villa
Acwo Alae
Reinstatement of Mrs Young as Chicago schools chief
Ella Flag Young resumes the office of superintendent after John D Shoop withdraws and the board confirms her election. The dispute centered on vocational schooling policy, with Mrs Young opposing a plan seen as favoring wealthier students and preparing youth for industrial ranks.
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Young
Ella Flag Young
Chicago
John D. Shoop
Shoop
New Laws Go Into Effect in Several States
New year brings sweeping measures in multiple states. Ohio California and Connecticut add workers compensation laws while Maine enacts a blue sky anti swindle statute and Nevada imposes residence rules for divorces. Minnesota requires pure mattresses and Pennsylvania adopts seed and weight standards. Suffragists push tax resistance and Congress faces a resisted presidential primary under Wilson. Katherine Davis becomes New Yorks first department head in a female cabinet post.
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Ohio
California
Connecticut
Maine
Wisonsin
Nevada
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Railroads Face Scrutiny Over Use of Earnings in Rate Hike Debate
Federal inquiry presses railways to reveal how yearly improvements are funded and whether money favored contractors or promoters of stock and bond flotation. Brandeis involvement cited as exposing internal graft patterns. Also high profile civil suits and mob-guarded trials highlight unrest and accountability in early 20th century transportation and crime news.
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Commerce Commission
Louis D. Brandeis
Boston
Quaker Oats Co
Great Western Cereal Company
Chicago
Quaker Oats Company
Dayton embraces city manager system with hired business manager
Dayton joins cities using the city manager plan becoming the first large city to hire a business manager. Henry W. Waite becomes manager at a salary of 12 500 dollars a year amid debates on militant suffrage tactics and anti suffrage rhetoric from leaders and conservative papers.
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Dayton
Henry W. Waite
Cincinnati
Professor Trails Cost of Living and Capitalism’s Role
Professor Albion W. Small of the University of Chicago told the American Economic Association in Chicago that studying the cost of living and social issues stalls without a broad inquiry into the capitalistic system. He urged government interference only to foster healthy competition. Lynchings on the Decline. Records show 1913 had 44 lynchings, the lowest in years, largely white victims with few charged for attacking white women. Albany official confessed to collecting about 2200 in five months from laborers for canal support. Separated Couples Taxed Less. New income tax guidance grants a 4000 exemption to cohabiting couples, while separated spouses get 3000 each. Commerce Court Into Limbo. The Federal Commerce Court ended with year’s end. its judges continue as circuit judges in various districts.
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Anna Shaw
National Woman Suffrage Association
Moylan
Congressional Union
Shaw
Washington
Mitchel
John Purroy Mitchel
New York
Katherine B. Davis
Department of Correction
Wilson
Congress
Trails
Albion W. Small
University of Chicago
American Economic Association At
Chicago
North Dakota
Montana
Albany
Commerce Court
Federal Commerce Court
Doctors Drain Blood From Living Dog At Penn Hospital
At the University of Pennsylvania hospital, three Johns Hopkins doctors in Baltimore performed a living dog blood drainage into tubes through the beating heart and purifying it with salt solution. The operation used special equipment and aims to enable cleansing of living human blood. Biologists Indorse Vivisection. The federation endorsed animal experimentation under proper regulation and criticized antis’ misrepresentations. Coolidge Introduces Improved X‑Ray Tube. William D. Coolidge announced a new ductile tungsten tube for controlled X‑ray administration.
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University of Pennsylvania
John Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
Philadelphia
William D. Coolidge
General Electric Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Oil City Man Fatally Shot in Quarrel Over Card Game
Wasso Lubisi c aged 23 remains in Oil City Hospital with a fatal gunshot wound to the throat. Nick Vuckourick is jailed in Venango County awaiting word on Lubisi c’s prognosis after a drinking and gambling quarrel at a Kennerdale sand plant. Both men worked for Pittsburg Plate Glass. They were arrested after the incident and removed by train.
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Oil City
Wasso Lubisi
Bes
Nick Vuckourick
Venango County
Franklin
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Kennerdale
Lubisic
Death ends Bradford man at New Year Ball
Mack J. Healey aged 50 a Bradford business leader collapsed with heart disease while dancing with his wife at the Knights of Columbus New Year’s Ball. He had lived in Bradford 15 years and was former Hazelhurst resident with ties to glass making and Consolidated Window Glass. He headed Healy Hazelton grocers and led the Knights of Columbus Lodge home association. he leaves a widow eight children two sisters and three brothers.
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Bradford
Knights of Columbus
Mack J. Healey
Healey
Hazelhurst
Consolidated Window Glass Company
Healy-Hazelton Company
Knights of Columbus Lodge
Home Association
John E Reyburn Dies Former Philadelphia Mayor and Senator
John Edgar Reyburn, former mayor of Philadelphia and longtime Pennsylvania legislator, died in Washington at 1 am of heart failure. He was 68, a native of New Carlisle Ohio, served in the Pennsylvania house and senate and several terms in Congress representing the Fourth district, and was mayor of Philadelphia from 1907 to 1911.
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Washington
John Edgar Reyburn
Reyburn
New Carlisle
Ohio
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Pennsylvania
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