Railroads Called Wasteful by Labor Leader in Wage Brief
W B L F international president W S Carter filed a brief with the arbitration board in the eastern rail wage dispute alleging mismanagement and watered capitalization. He cites 44 roads showing a combined net surplus of 256 million, arguing they can fund wage increases while condemning stock and bond inflation and excessive capital charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. of L. F
Arbitration Board
New York
Carter
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad
Clover Leaf Road
Chicago and Alton
World Happenings Converge In One Friday Chronicle
Scutari is captured by Montenegrins triggering fears in Europe. An Erdman law wage dispute settles 35 000 firemen versus 54 railroads. 100 dead and 100 entombed in a Pittsburg Coal mine in Courtney Pa. American Publishers Association forms a committee to extirpate press agents. Representative Underwood touts tariff bill as a new era. An Annapolis water craft record is set at 4459 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arbitration Board
Pittsburg Coal Company
Courney
American Publishers’ Association
Underwood
Aerial Gambling Den For Germans Under Study
German gambling circles discuss a plan to convert an old Zeppelin airship into a floating gambling room. A company plans to purchase a dirigible and establish high altitude betting to evade police, with a conference of leading police prefects expected to address the idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Frankfort
Dresden
Cits
Germany
Lingerie in His Trunk Hidden by Heino at Sea
Customs inspectors on the White Star liner Baltic found eighty one boxes of cigarettes hidden in a false bottom of Eric Heino's trunk. They confiscated the cigarettes and transferred lingerie and other apparel to Miss Severinson's trunk, detaining her briefly until her friends arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heino
New York
Custom House
Eric Heino
Severinson
Baltic
Heine
Miss Severinson
Pan American flight over canal in hydroaeroplane
Robert G. Fowler flies a hydroaeroplane over the Panama Canal with a passenger aboard. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children rescues eighteen thousand in one year. Valhajalmar Steffansson seeks uncharted Arctic lands on his expedition. The American Protective Tariff League circulates calls for a vigorous fight on the Underwood tariff bill. Physicians oppose the Friedmann tuberculin cure sale. Labor leaders foresee minimal May Day trouble, noting the I W W as the main disruptive force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert G. Fowler
Panama Canal
New York Society For Prevention of Cruelty
Valhajalmar Steffansson
Arctic
American Protective Tariff League
Dogs Die Trying to Save Boy Near Buffalo
Major and Spot two setter dogs were buried after dying while attempting to rescue their young master Joseph Green of Depew near Buffalo. While playing near a water filled quarry Saturday evening Joseph fell into 20 feet deep water and could not swim. Dorothy urged the dogs to help as they circled the boy but their efforts were hindered and all three sank. The boy's body was recovered half an hour later and the dogs Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major
Spot
Joseph Green
Depew
Buffalo
Joseph
Dorothy
Railroads face $20 million flood losses in Indiana Ohio
Railroads in Indiana and Ohio estimate flood damage at $20 000 000. Paterson mill owners warn strikers to return by Monday or plants will close. Pudley Jardine organ maker saved from pauper’s grave after 30 years of mystery. Supreme Court rules creditor of a nonparty corporation may pursue its successor for debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Ohio
Australa
Montenegro
Paterson
N. J
Pudley Jardine
New York
United States Supreme Court
Northern Pacific
Electric light carbons from tar by new Swedish process
The Scientific American reports a Swedish firm has developed a process to obtain high grade electric light carbons from tar. Finely divided carbon is separated from tar liquid and pressed into carbons for electric lighting or larger forms for electrochemical use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Missing bank cashier sparks search in New Jersey town
J Frank Best, cashier at Citizens National Bank in Netcong New Jersey, is missing. Reports from Pekin say Yuan Shih Kai is about to resign as president of China. Paterson silk strikers press mills to grant a 10 percent wage increase. Mrs George Hughes of Poughkeepsie seeks separation over insufficient meals. Grand Council Royal Arcanum of New Jersey withholds instruction to delegates on continuing rule of advancing half the assessments to aged members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yuan Shih Kai
China
Pekin
Paterson
George Hughes
Poughkeepsie
Grand Council
Royal Arcanum
New Jersey
Supreme Council
Hardening Soft Iron by Prussiate of Potash Method
The article explains a technique from a blacksmith for hardening soft iron. Wet the iron, scatter yellow prussiate of potash, heat to two cherry red, melt the potash to coat the surface, then quench quickly in cold water and repeat. White heat and red prussiate or incorrect potash fail.
Dynamite Hunts Target Foxes in York Valley Farms
Farmers in Reh meyer valley York county organize dynamite hunts to rid their poultry of raids by foxes. When fox holes are located the explosive is used to destroy the dens and inhabitants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Rehmeyer Valley
York County
Accused of Poisoning Her Baby in Easton
Annie Burke a poorhouse inmate is charged with murder after a coroner's jury finds her one year old child died from carbolic acid allegedly administered by the mother. Burke was committed to the county jail by Alderman Brunner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Easton
Annie Burke
Alderman Brunner
Astor Estate Final Appraisal Tops Eighty-Seven Million
Final appraisal fixes John Jacob Astor estate at 87,216,691 with Vincent Astor receiving 65,008,547. Trust allocations for Ava Willing Astor and Madeleine Force noted. Real estate totals about 64 million, with 20 million in securities. Worthless securities minimal. principal items include Waldorf Astoria and Knickerbocker hotels and St. Regis holdings. Charles Morse debt unsettled since 1909. deductions tally 1,875,771. Tax due rises with value increase.
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New York
John Jacob Astor
William Vincent Astor
Colonel Astor
Ava Willing Astor
Madeleine Force
Astor
Waldorf-Astoria
Astor Court
Knickerbocker
St. Regis
Putnam
Astor House
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Forty-second Street
Cambridge
Schermerhorn
Sixth Avenue
West
Nineteenth Street
New York Central
Charles W. Morse
Doughnut Delivery Saves Two From Coal Gas
In Shamokin Pennsylvania on May 1 a neighbor sent Charles McWilliams with fresh doughnuts to a gasged home after Mrs Albert McWilliams slept. The boy found the mother and her son Warren nearly unconscious, opened doors and windows and summoned doctors who revived both victims.
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Shamokin
Albert McWilliams
Warren
John Campton
Charles
McWilliams
Whisky Saves Self Not Man At Railroad Tragedy
May 1 in Pottsville Pennsylvania a man named Martin Center of Summit Station reportedly drank a quart of whisky in a wager and walked away. Hours later his body was found on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna division near Hammon after a train strike. Two quarts of whisky remained on his body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville
Martin Center
Summit Station
Schuylkill & Susquehanna Division
Reading Railway
Hammon
Lightning Strikes Deadly in Denton Farmstead
Edward Melvin, a young farmer near Hickman, was killed by lightning last night. A daughter playing on the kitchen floor was unharmed and a dog on the porch died. The house caught fire but was quickly put out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Edward Melvin
Hickman
Explosion in Cressona Mine Injures Mrs Hunter
In Cressona Pennsylvania a dynamite cap exploded when John Hunter placed a bucket of coal in a stove. Mrs. Hunter sustained injuries as a result. The incident highlights the dangers of leaving dynamite in mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville
Cressona
John Hunter
Wealthy Farmer Shoots Judge in Ohio Incident
In Upper Sandusky Ohio on May 1 probation Judge W P Rolland was shot four times. Wealthy farmer John Bradman surrendered to police after failing to dismiss a civil suit against him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper
Sandusky
W. P. Rolland
John Bradman
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W. S. Garter
Firemen’s Union
American Press Association
W. S. Carter
Globe
Binn
Herbster
Annapolis
Nicholas
Scutari
London
Ira May
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Ormrod
Albany
J. P. Morgan
Cardell Hull
Tammany
Sulzer
Paris
Kent
California
Ramona Borden
Boston
Father
Monte Carlo
Young Master
J. Frank Best
Citizens’ National Bank
Netcong, N. J
Vincent Astor
Marceau
Axminster
Green & Davidson
Pennsylvania
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