Nine Thousand to Strike Teamsters in St Louis
St Louis cabmen and carriage drivers threaten a 9000 member sympathy strike if wage demands rise 20 to 80 percent. Citizens' Association vows to enforce law while unions pledge not to move freight or coal until the dispute is settled.
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St. Louis
Citizens’ Industrial Association of St. Louis
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
August Donnelly
St. Louis Liverymen’s Association
Employers and Employes Fail to Adjust Their Difference
Chicago December 24 peace in the livery drivers strike again seems remote. After both sides voted for arbitration the other side asked for it but made no move. A Sherman House meeting failed to occur as the employers failed to attend. Albert Young and his teamster committee declared they are ready to arbitrate and will levy a 1 dollar monthly assessment from each union man. about 35 000 teamsters will support the strikers.
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Chicago
Sherman House
Livery Drivers’ Union
Liverymen's and Undertakers’ Association
Liverymen and Undertakers’ Association
Albert Young
Teamsters
Indictments In Street Car Strike Probe Hit Union Officials
Chicago December 24 Five officials of Franklin Union No 4 of Press Feed ers and an alleged professional slugger were indicted by the grand jury on several counts connected to recent labor troubles. About ten indictments target participants in the street car strike. no officials were named in the indictments. Each case cites alleged assaults.
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Chicago
Franklin Union No. 4
Sharon Foundries plant reopens after wage cut agreement
Sharon Pennsylvania December 24 The Sharon plant of the American Foundries company reopened after a two week closure over the wage scale for molders. An agreement satisfactory to both sides was reached with workers accepting a 10 percent reduction effective from December.
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Sharon
American Foundries Company
Railroad foreman killed by passenger train at Rosedale
Michael Mc Grath aged 59 who supervised railroad construction at the World’s fair grounds was struck by a Wabash passenger train at Rosedale Junction and instantly killed.
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St. Louis
Michael McGrath
Rosedale Junction
Dutch Training Ship Ashore Near Nieuwersluis
A Dutch naval training ship ran aground in fog near Nieuwersluis in Holland as crews work to refloat and assess damage. Local authorities report no injuries and outline salvage plans.
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Nieuwersluis
King, Holland
Red Star time steamer Finland grounded. Dutch training ship
A newspaper note states the Red Star time steamer Finland ran aground on Saturday last and is identified as a Dutch training ship. The incident is reported with emphasis on the vessel type and nationality.
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Red Star
Finland
Premature dynamite blast kills and injures workers
At the Union Iron and Steel furnace in Ironton Ohio Nicholas Jones was killed instantly by a premature dynamite explosion. Patrick Stafford was fatally injured and Wesson Brice seriously hurt in the same incident. In Rising Sun Indiana James Gillespie and three other relatives are indicted for the murder of Gillespie’s twin sister Elizabeth, amid a bitter family feud over an estate.
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Ironton, O
Union Iron and Steel
Nicholas Jones
Patrick Stafford
Wesson Brice
James
Rising Sun, Ind
Rising Sun
Ind
James Gillespie
Belle Seward
Carrie Barbour
Myron Barbour
Elizabeth
Papal reception includes American delegates at audience
The assemblage varied in small groups as Pope Pius spoke individually to attendees. United States representatives at the reception included Mer. Seton of Newark and Mer. Kennedy, rector of the American college.
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Pope Pius
United States
Mer. Seton
Heliopolis
Newark
N. J
Mer. Kennedy
American College
Panama
Republic of
William Inseo Buchanan
Buffalo
Argentine Republic
Chile
Carnegie Founds Relief Fund for Workmen
Carnegie establishes a relief fund of 4 million dollars with interest directed to aid workmen. The announcement from Newcastle Pennsylvania notes the fund is set apart and will apply its earnings to support laborers in need.
Family conspiracy charged in sister murder case
An indictment returns conspiracy among family members as the basis. James Gillespie is charged directly with killing his sister on December 8. The three others are named as accessories before the fact. under Indiana law accessories may face the death penalty.
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James Gillespie
Wright brothers sail from Kitty Hawk to return home
Orville and Wilbur Wright of Dayton claim successful navigation of their air ship at Kitty Hawk and say it now rises with the gasoline motor. They plan to stay home for two weeks and will resume experiments on the North Carolina coast.
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Norfolk
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
North Carolina
Pope Receives Cardinals in Christmas Audience
Rome December 24 pope meets cardinals and high prelates exchanging season’s greetings. The event, the first of its kind under the current pontiff, was held in the renovated throne room of the late Pope Leo XIII. The pope sat in white robes on the throne as cardinals and dignitaries formed in order, Dean Cardinal Oreglia delivering a brief speech.
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Rome
Pope Leo XIII
The
Sacred College
Cardinal Oreglia
Carnegie announces $4 million relief fund for workers
The Carnegie Steel company allocates four million dollars to a perpetual fund. Interest will aid injured workers with daily payments of $1 for married men and 75 cents for single men. Children under 16 receive 10 cents daily. Families of deceased workers receive $500 and $100 for the death of a child under 16.
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Carnegie Steel Company
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Divorce Granted in Schoenburg Waldenburg Royal Couple
Dresden reports the dissolution of the marriage between Prince Frederick and Princess Alice of Schoenburg Waldenburg. Princess Alice, daughter of Carlos the Spanish pretender, sought divorce on grounds of bodily injury and forcible deprivation of liberty amid prior reports she eloped with an Italian coachman Emilio Naberni, which were denied.
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Dresden
Frederick
Alice of
Schoenburg-Waldenburg
Carlos
Emilio Naberni
Henry Herman Case Shows Insolvent Estate for Creditors
Milwaukee reporter Paul J. Lewis the receiver in Henry Herman bankruptcy says remaining assets total about 3000 dollars while liabilities top 500000 dollars. Herman vanished months ago and his location remains unknown.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Paul J. Lewis
Henry Herman
Former Partner of Lincoln Dies in Danville
Danville lawyer Hiram W. Beckwith, once Abraham Lincoln's circuit partner from 1857 to 1860, died of Bright's disease at St Luke's hospital. He was 71 and remained prominent as a lawyer until 1885 when he became land agent for the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad.
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Lincoln
Chicago
Hiram W. Beckwith
Danville
Bright
St. Luke’s Hospital
Abraham Lincoln
Beckwith
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Admiral Alexieff Granted Far East Authority
Telegram from Vladivostok reports Admiral Alexieff, viceroy of the Far East, authorized to settle on the spot all questions concerning neighboring states and to take expedient measures. The British and German offices weigh a possible Russia Japan clash with Britain potentially involved if war breaks out.
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East
Great Britain
Berlin
Foreign Office
Far East
Japan
Russia
Frank Lascelles
England
Schrieber Bros. Clothiers Put in Receivership
Chicago December 24 Schrieber Bros wholesale clothiers are in the hands of a receiver with liabilities of 47000 dollars and assets of 35475 dollars.
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Chicago
Schrieber Bros
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Carnegie Founds Relief Fund
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Hill
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Dertin
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Alexieff
Germany
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Pittsburg
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Commerce
Washington
Lawrence O. Murray
Commerce and Labor
Murray
Senate
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Citizen's National Bank
P. J. Manley
Washington County Savings Bank
Scamuyler
W. Livingston
Abeiradea
Iowa
Maran W. Barney
Epmuyo D. Monrison
Bailey
Morrison
Law
Opposite Court House
Washington, Iowa
W. A. Butterfield
Eicmer
Wilson
A. K. Dewey
A. Dewey
DEWEY
Dewey, Lawyers
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W. A. White
Lluard
Crail's Dry Foods
Northwest Corner Square
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New Set Abstract Books
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Lay
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Proms. Office
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Washington National Bank
Bloomington
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Ross Anderson
Celina
Denver
Burlington
Reolia
Willam R. Post
Philadelphia
Francis Bradley
Westminster Avenue
May Kirk
J. A. Cunningham
A. Anderson
Arch McCully
B. F. Brown
A. Moore
J. A. Cunninghan
D. J. Palmer
J.T. Anderson
Ase't Cashier
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Savings Bankington
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State Bank
Chas. Ohngemach
D.M McLaughlin
A. White
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Henry Knecht
Rh. Jenkins
W McLaughlin
Kes
Jenkins & McLaughlin
Physicians and Surgeons
Court House
Osteopathy
C. S. Harper
Osteopathic Phy
Klein & Co
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Arthaud
Osteopath
Obronte
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American School of Osthy
Kirkeville, Mo
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Omaha
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Minneapoli
Golden State Limited
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Dally
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Mall
Knoxville
L. M. Allen
H. W. Russel
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Southwest Limited
Iowa Central
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Mason City Mail
J. A. Trrremore
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