Transit Strike Crisis Deepens as Merchants Seek Arbitration
Philadelphia faces a looming general strike as the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company refuses arbitration. Senator Jim McNichol and Recorder Ware are urged to return from Florida to avert upheaval. Banks and the Market Street Merchants' Association back efforts to press the council for a peaceable arbitration plan while transit bosses weigh a route to bring calm.
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Rapid Transit Company
Philadelphia
Jim McNichol
Florida Sands
Recorder Ware
McNichol
Ware
Central Labor Union
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Board of Arbitration
Carmen
P. Kk. T
Market Street Merchants’ Association
Ellis Gimbel
Samuel D. Litt
Ready to Arrest Packers in New Jersey Case
New Jersey Prosecutor Garven orders capiases for the arrest of indicted meat packers and summonses for six indicted meat corporations. He will hand them to Sheriff Kelly for execution, who will determine which indicted men are within his jurisdiction.
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New York
Capiases
Garven
New Jersey
Kelly
Weather Illinois unsettled pattern with showers likely
The region faces unsettled conditions with showers probable today. Warmer temperatures are expected. Clouds may linger into tomorrow with continued unsettled weather and possible showers.
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Illinois
Leader in Philadelphia Street Car Strike Highlighted
A key figure emerges among the leaders of the Philadelphia street car strike, drawing attention for influence and strategy. The article traces their role in coordinating protests and negotiating tensions with city officials.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
SPECIAL CALL ISSUED FOR ILLINOIS COAL WAGE TALKS
The United Mine Workers and coal operators issue a call for a wage conference in Cincinnati on March 8 for the Central competitive bituminous field. Illinois miners demand a ten cent flat increase to one dollar per ton while operators push a wage cut to eighty cents, widening the gap by twenty cents. The Vie nois operators will not attend, risking leaving Illinois out of the convention.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
United Mine Workers of America
Tinois
Ilinois
Vienois
High Water in Ohio Wrecks Train and Homes
Ohio flooding costs lives and property as the Lake Shore Limited derails near Olmstead Falls after track washout. Seven cars left the rails but injuries were slight to two. In Youngstown a boy, Harry Lightbody aged seven, died near Dry Run while trying to rescue a dog. Fremont’s city hall opened to house over 200 homeless residents.
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Cleveland, CO
Ohio
Harry Lightbody
Youngstown
Lake Shore Twentieth Century Limited
Olmstead Falls
Fremont
Sandusky
Toledo
Huron
Akron
Canton
East Liverpool
Zanesville
Chillicothe
Fatal blood poisoning after fight bite on Grace Street
Blood poisoning from a thumb bite inflicted by a named assailant in a February 22 altercation at Grace Street and Evans ton Avenue led to the death of Nicholas P. Williams fifty year old motorman. Police could not identify the aggressor and continued investigations.
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Chicago
Grace Street
Evanston Avenue
Nicholas P. Williams
Half Million Reward for Girl Rescued by Tramp in Texas
Frank Strome, a westward traveler, saved the seven year old daughter of Samuel W Jennings from an oncoming train near a railroad track in Jeff Davis and Pecos counties. Jennings transferred a half interest in the Valvedere cattle range, valued near a million, to Strome as reward. The range spans 20,000 cattle and 100 square miles, with ownership by Jennings.
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Galveston
Tex
Frank Strome
el Paso
Jeff Davis
Pecos
Samuel W Jennings
Jennings
Strome
Militia Withdrawn After Riot Fear in Cairo Wisconsin
Five militia companies that stood guard in Cairo since February 17 due to race riot fears were withdrawn after a conference between military and civil authorities. Champaign Effingham Vandalia and Shelbyville units left by special train and the local company was dismissed.
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Cairo
Champaign
Effingham
Vandalia
Shelbyville
Hog prices hit $10 a hundred on hogs on the hoof
Chicago on March 1 reports the long awaited rebound to ten dollars per hundred for hogs on the hoof. The historic high, last seen near the Civil War era, was finally reached again after days of market anticipation by packers and livestock men.
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Chicago
Elaine Hay
Myer
Corio
Eve Sas
Elevator Strike Settled in Chicago Downtown Offices
Wage differences between the Elevator Conductors and Starters Union and the Building Managers Association, which threatened a downtown office building strike, have been settled.
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Chicago
Building Managers’ Association
Insane farmer murders two in Uniontown area
Frank Smith, a wealthy farmer ten miles south of Uniontown, allegedly snapped last night and killed his father D. F. Smith at the night church return. He then killed his brother indaw Hans Moser in a bedroom before fleeing on horseback to the mountains. His sister witnessed the shock. Sheriff Johns and County Detective McVeth led armed posses through the mountains seeking him.
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Uniontown
Frank Smith
D. F. Smith
Smith
Indaw
Hans Moser
Winchester
PA. Johns
McVeth
Taft proposal for interstate commerce court endorsed by committee
Washington reports that Tafts plan to create an interstate commerce court of appeals to handle cases from the Interstate Commerce Commission was endorsed by the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce. The vote was 10 to 8 with all members present, signaling a probable push for the measure despite anticipated debates in both chambers.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Interstate Commerce Court of Appeals
Interstate Commerce Commission
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Commerce Court
Postal Savings Bank
Senate
House
Oldest Irish American of New Hampshire Dead at 140
Milford, March 1. Michael Leavitt, reputedly the oldest Irish-American in New Hampshire, died here at age 140. He had lived alone since his wife’s death forty years ago and had long been a tobacco user.
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Milford
N. H
Michael Leavitt
New Hampshire
Wher Uranium Arrives in Halifax After Nineteen Days
Nineteen days into the voyage from Rotterdam to New York the liner Wher Uranium reached Halifax Nova Scotia as eleven hundred passengers peered toward the shore. The ship’s arrival ends a long Atlantic crossing amid much relief among travelers and crew.
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Halifax
N. S
Rotterdam
New York
Taft Accepts Invitation to Peace League Banquet
Taft has accepted an invitation from the American Peace and Arbitration league to be the guest of honor at its banquet at the Hotel Astor in New York on March 22. He is expected to speak on the navy as a means of insuring peace. Domestic humor and unrelated queries follow in the clipping.
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Washington
Taft
American Peace and Arbitration League
Hotel Astor
New York
Towns Buried and People Killed Gribery Case Details
Attorney J W Osborne represents Senator Conger in New York State Gribery case as reports describe towns buried and people killed in the incident. The article outlines the legal actions and potential charges connected to the event, noting ongoing investigations and regional impact.
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Senator Conger
New York State
Gribery
Avalanche Destroys Idaho Towns in Fatal Snow Slide
In Wallace Idaho on March 1 an avalanche buried the mining town of Mace and swept Burke. sixteen dead in Burke and twelve dead plus twenty-five injured in Mace. About seven hundred relief workers from nearby towns trench through deep snow amid blizzard conditions. Houses vanished, railroad boxcars lost, and the full toll unclear for days.
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Wallace
Mace
Burke
Northern Pacific Railroad
CAPT. DIETRICH DIES AIDED ILLINOIS POLITICS AND TREASURY
Prominent Illinois political figure and Treasury Department veteran Col. John Dietrich has died in Plainfield New Jersey at age 81. Afriend of Lieut Col Douglas and Gen. Grant, he fled the gold rush in 1849 to California returning with wealth, later settling in Bloomington Illinois. He served in the treasury department in 1863 before joining the Civil War effort, leading the First Mississippi regiment at Vicksburg and guarding the city during the Meridian raid.
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Plainfield
N.J
John Dietrich
Doulas
Grant
California
Bloomington
Til
Treasury Department
Washington
Quartermaster’s Department
Vicksburg
Priest Found Dead in Cabery NL in Bed at Eighty
Rev Father F. M. Ebert of St. Josephs church Cabery Newfoundland was found dead in bed on March 1. He was eighty years old.
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Cabery
F. M. Ebert
St. Joseph’s Church
Chicago Market Report 1910 Hogs Beef and Cattle Prices
Chicago markets show hog receipts totals and price ranges for light mixed and heavy packing grades. Cattle and sheep outlooks are steady to weak with official receipts and shipments noted. grain prices and various feedstuffs listed by Beach-Wickham Grain Company in Washington City market data.
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Beach-Wickham Grain Company
Chicago
Reister and Son Quotations on Turkeys and Chickens
Fragmentary OCR item mentions Reister and Son and quotations related to turkeys and chickens with unclear dates or context. The readable bits reference spring, dates like May 13, and scattered letter strings, offering no coherent event or outcome.
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Reister & Son
John A Babcock Case at North American Live Stock
John A Babcock files case against North American Live Stock Commission Company at U and Stock Yards in Chiowao Ell. The dispute concerns inventory, pricing, and settlement terms and seeks court intervention.
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Live Stock Commission Company
U. & Stock Yards
Chioawo, Ell
Justice Moody Relapses After Illness
Information from Washington reports Associate Justice William J. Moody, long ill, has taken a turn for the worse. He remains at his home in Haverhill Massachusetts and a plan to bring him to Washington if he can travel.
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Washington
William J. Moody
The
Supreme Court
Justice Moody
Haverhill
Mass
Taft Goes Motoring in Storm in Washington
Washington reported the season's first thunderstorm late Monday as lightning flashed and rain lashed the city while President Taft took a motor tour amid the severe weather.
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Taft
Washington
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