Livery Strike Grips Chicago Funerals and Weddings
In Chicago on December 19 1600 livery drivers backed by the Teamsters strike halting 400 stables. Hearses vanish as mourners ride cabs and streetcars to cemeteries while weddings are disrupted. Union and undertaker groups unite against the strike as police guard processions. Seventy five funerals scheduled with ongoing tensions and threats.
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Chicago
Teamsters’union
Liverymen's Association
West Eighty-seventh
Allport Streets
Enoug
City Health Department
Man
Mary Kucera
Bohemian National Cemetery
Teamsters
Mrs Gen Eva Flaherty Dies on Train in St Paul
Mrs Gen Eva Flaherty of Duluth died on a Northern Pacific train as it entered St Paul while en route to her brother's home in Manston Wis. Coroner's verdict cites starvation and exposure. She traveled with four children aged 15 months to 10 years. Husband jailed in Duluth on non support charges. death follows her struggle with poverty and ill health.
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St. Paul
Minn
Geneva Flaherty
Duluth
Manston
Wis
Northern Pacific
Flaherty
Ex-Speaker Henderson Active in Dubuque Plot
Des Moines reports ex Speaker Henderson is now in Dubuque where friends are said to be organizing a scheme. The fragment suggests a political intrigue developing among associates of the former House leader.
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Pes Moines
Henderson
Dubuque
Plan to move Birdsall to judge post and renominate Henderson
In a strategy to restore representation, a plan seeks to appoint Congressman Birdsall as a judge and then re elect Colonel Henderson to his former congressional seat. The Kingsley transport reports a rock-inflicted bottom damage after ashore at Murc elagos North Mindanao.
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Congress
Birdsall
Henderson
United States
Manila
Kingsley
Murcelagos
North
Mindanio
Noted criminal at large James Dunlap freed on clemency
Chicago reports that James Dunlap the famed gentleman bank robber is at large after pardoning board clemency. His record spans over two decades with famed exploits including the Manhattan bank robbery of nearly a million dollars.
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Chicago
James Dunlap
Joliet
Dunlap
Monmouth
Northampton
Mass
Manhattan Bank
New York
Condemns Wood's Promotion by Army Chief Merriam
General Merriam denounces the promotion of Wood as unpopular and says he has not found an army officer who approves it. The statement comes from Denver with December date cited.
Four Philadelphia crewmen on trial voyage ship builders
Mick Gallagher James Mc Hugh Michael Gallagher and Peter Pachatias were crewmen on the builders' vessel that departed Philadelphia two days ago for a trial trip.
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Mick
Michael Gallagher
James McHugh
Peter Pachatias
Philadelphia
Railroads Face 1897 Earnings and Elkins Law Impact
The Interstate Commerce Commission releases its seventeenth annual report totaling 201457 miles of line. Net earnings per mile reach 8.18, with large tax figures and rising dividends. The report highlights railroad accidents with 164 passenger deaths and 4,424 injuries, condemns collisions, and urges broader adoption of the block signal system.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Elkins
Kansas Salt Trust
Brown University Freshman Confesses to Larceny
Ralph E. Bancroft of Stoneham Massachusetts a Brown University freshman who led the Epworth League and is now arraigned in district court for larceny confesses to numerous thefts in Providence R I on December 19. He had passed the night in a cell awaiting further action.
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Ralph E. Bancroft
Brown University
Epworth League
Providence
R. J
Stoneham
Mass
Army morale questioned by General Wood appointment
Major General H Merriam, arriving from Washington, says the president naming General Wood a major general unsettles the army. He argues such promotions discourage officers with forty years of service and harm morale, noting widespread lack of approval among army men.
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Wood
H. ©. Merriam
Washington
Merriam
North Adams Officer Slain Chief Then Wounds Self
North Adams Police Officer Gardner Northup shot Chief William Deneen after an intoxication suspension dispute. A bullet hit the chief in the mouth and neck, another grazed the abdomen, a third pierced the right hand. Northup wounded himself and slashed his throat. both men are hospitalized.
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North Adams
Mass
Gardner Northup
William Deneen
Deneen
Northup
Wright brothers fly successful craft near Kitty Hawk
Norfolk report says Wilbur and Orville Wright of Daytona conducted a successful flight near Kitty Hawk North Carolina. The machine covered three miles against a twenty one mile an hour wind and landed at a chosen point with propellers powered by a small engine and no balloon attachment.
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Norfolk
Kitty Hawk
N. C
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Daytona
Steam Pipe Explosion Harms Turkish Cruiser Crew
In Baltimore on December 19 the explosion of a steam pipe in the Medjma's fire room, built by the Cramps of Philadelphia, seriously scalded four men. They were landed and are receiving treatment at Johns Hopkins hospital. The injured include James McCor.
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Baltimore
Medjma
Philiadelphia
Johns Hopkins Hospital
James McCor
Swimmer thefts solve as Bancroft confesses
Livery misdeed at the college pool leads to Bancroft being suspected for stealing money and valuables. An electric buzzer trap and pocket book hidden in pantaloons set a trap for the thief. Bancroft, once trusted as a league leader, admits to the theft after a buzzer signal and a marked coin found in his shoe.
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Bancroft
Epworth League
Vancroft
Duel Joke Is Now Serious In Milwaukee Boardroom
Emil von Schleinitz editor in chief of Die Germania has been summoned to testify before the grand jury about a duel challenge issued by Gustav Hoffman. Dr John Anderson who delivered the demand is also summoned. What began as a joke has moved to a serious stage with potential prison for issuing a challenge. Mme Margaretha Ruehmkorff was not summoned yet but is expected later.
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Milwaukee, Wis
Emiil von Schleinitz
Die Germania
Gustav Hoffman
John Anderson
Hoffman
Mme
Margaretha Ruehmkorff
Batavia Factory Lockout Leaves 1500 Jobless in Illinois
In Batavia four large factories remain closed after workers refused to sign hours agreements. About 1500 men are out of work as Mayor Hooker says the dispute may be taken to Governor Yates and the state arbitration board if not settled by week’s end.
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Aurora
Ill
Batavia
F. J. Hooker
Yates
Unois State Board of Arbitration
Trial Reveals Prison Plot Against Railroad in Montana
In Helena on December 19 the Isaac Gravelle trial disclosed a plot against the Northern Pacific Railroad hatched years ago in Deer Lodge penitentiary. An ex convict testified Gravelle, then an inmate, discussed a scheme to extort money from the railroad and fake threats. He allegedly used a schoolgirl’s tablet to write letters smuggled out after Gravelle’s July discharge.
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Gravelle
Fire injures three in St. Louis tenement blaze
A fire at 611 North Twenty third street partially destroyed a tenement. Mrs. Esther St. Clair died from burns, Miss Ray Belmont was seriously injured after leaping from a third floor window, Maud Lester nearly asphyxiated but revived by firemen. Escaping gas is believed to have started the fire. losses are nominal.
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St. Louis
North Twenty-third Street
Esther St. Clair
Ray Belmont
Maud Lester
Swindlers Sentenced in Chicago Federal Case
In Chicago on December 19 Judge Humphrey overruled a new trial motion and sentenced Julius M. Nissan and Arthur J. Herbst to eighteen months in the penitentiary with $500 fines. The pair, posing as Western Supply Co, used the mails to defraud reputable businesses nationwide.
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Chicago
Humphrey
United States District Court
Julius M. Nissan
Arthur J. Herbst
Western Supply Company
United States
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