Teamsters Strike Spreads as Peace Program Fails
In Chicago on May 22 the Federation of Labor backed a fund to support the strike, while the Teamsters Joint Council refused to abandon express drivers. Officials warned of broader unrest and potential federal and military aid as the strike expands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Teamsters
Joint Counil
Teamsters’ Union
Barrett
Teamsters’ Joint Council
Express Drivers Warned as Strike Spreads to Lumber and Teaming Firms
The strike threatens building trades as the Lumbermen's Association vows to deliver to boycotted firms and force drivers to take orders. Team Owners' Association may mobilize 8 000 teamsters for boycotted houses within days. Express company officials say workers violated their agreement and must be treated as disloyal, with no reinstatement promised. Open shop demands and permanent Employers' Teaming company status define employers' terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lumbermen’s Association
Team Owners’ Association
Express Company
Japanese Victories Reported. Russian Lossed Heavy
Imperial Army Headquarters dispatch notes continued Japanese successes in operations abroad. The report cites Russian forces suffering around 300 casualties while Japanese units press advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Army
Man
Strike in Lumber Yards Threatens City Building Ops
May 22 report from Chicago notes the strike spreading to lumber yard drivers threatening building operations. Violence resumes citywide though not severe. Japanese advances in Manchuria are reported with 300 Russian casualties and a wrecked Russian officer transport.
Strike Settlement Limits Ex Press Bias Against Workers
Employers would not consider applications of men with lawless conduct during the strike. The settlement excluded Ex Press companies and union drivers must deliver to express firms despite strike conditions. Working conditions remain as before the strike and wearing the union button is banned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shea
Mayer
Teamsters’ International Union
Levy Mayer
Riot Attacks on Negroes End in Fatality and Injuries
A mob violence incident on Twenty sixth Street and Princeton Avenue fatally wounds nine year old Enoch Carlson after a crowd attacks two Peabody Coal Company drivers, with leaders including Bernard Engstrand wounded. Police intervene as rioters clash with officers. additional violence follows at Thirty first and LaSalle streets leaving William Green and Charles Allison severely beaten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoch Carlson
Peabody Coal Company
Bernard Engstrand
John Williams
Kansas City
George Williams
Peter Nolan
Twenty-sixth Street
Princeton Avenue
George
Veabody
George Wil James
John
Nolan
Engstrand
Metropolis Antonius and the Free Dom in Russia
Metropolitan Antonius of St Petersburg advocates religious liberty under the czar and is noted for a broad minded churchmanship. He presides over the Neva blessing when a cannon fires and is expected to succeed Pobedonostzeff as procurator of the holy synod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antonina
St. Petersburg
Sard
Neva
Pobedonostzeff
Holy Synod
Sheriff Mobilizes in Bedford Lynching Plot
Bedford Indiana May 22. Sheriff Frank Smith learned a mob planned to storm the jail at midnight to lynch Virgil Wilson charged with attempted murder. Deputies were sworn in and the jail secured with road sentries to report any approaching suspects. Wilson, ex editor of the Heltonville News, allegedly shot at Silas Guthrie and Guthrie's wife. Guthrie survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Ind
Wilson
Heltonville News
Guthrie
Driver Yeager Unearths Odd Coin In Horse Shoulder
Chicago on May 22 reports William Yeager a Marshall Mield & Co. driver and his associates found a strange occurrence at the barns. Yeager opened an abscess on a horse's shoulder and removed a two cent piece embedded in the flesh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Yeager
Marshall Mield & Co
Yeager
Tragic Train Jumper From Ireland Dies Near Lake Station
A young man named M. J. Sullivan en route from Ireland to Alhambra Montana leaped from a Michigan Central train near Lake Station Indiana and was killed instantly. Papers found on him indicate his destination and status as a settler. A considerable sum of money was found in his clothing.
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Michigan City
Ind
J. Sullivan
Ireland
Alhambra
Mont
Michigan Central Railroad
Lake Station
Baseball scores from Chicago and across leagues May 21 22
Scores from Chicago and national leaguers list results by city and league for Saturday and Sunday. Highlights include Philadelphia beating Boston 11 to 3 in Philadelphia and Chicago sweeping Washington 8 to 1 in Chicago. Other notable results feature Brooklyn 38 Chicago 4, and Chicago 11 Brooklyn 2 in Sunday play.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Boston
St. Louis
Brooklyn
New York
Pittsburg
Detroit
Cleveland
Washington
Association
Kansas City-Toledo
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Columbus
Minneapolis
Louisville
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Omaha
Des Moines
Colorado Springs
Heating plant funds misprint in Illinois appropriation
Springfield May 22. A misprint reduces a proposed 35000 dollar request for the University of Illinois heating plant to 35 dollars in the general appropriation bill. The error arose from omitting thousand and altering numerals but the law remains, allowing the university to draw 35 dollars from the state treasury. The mistake passed through clerks and officers without detection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Iinois
Secretary of State
House
Senate
Letter That Never Came From Battle Creek
Work men paving State street uncover an old letter found near the post office that would have reunified Mrs. George Halberg and her husband the Advance Thresher worker. The letter shows she planned to return home saying she was desperate and would hurt herself if not forgiven. The couple had separated three years earlier after she ran away with another man.
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Battle Creek
Mich
State Street
George Halberg
Elm Street
Halberg
George
Court decree charges stockholders in Spectatorium firm
After twelve years of litigation creditors of Steele Mackaye's Columbian Celebration company win a decree from Judge Tuley that stockholders, in a company capitalized at 82 000 000, are liable for about 400 000 of debts. The case remains in court for several years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Steele Mackaye
Columbian Celebration Company
Tuley
Louis Chevrolet Breaks Mile Record at Morris Park
New York May 22 Louis Chevrolet set a new world mark for a mile with a flying start at Morris Park track covering the distance in 2 24 5. The previous record stood at 3 seconds longer, held by Barnard Oldfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Morris Park
Louis Chevrolet
Barned Oldfield
Barnaby Disappearance Reported From Muskegon
Glenn A. Barnaby has been missing since last Tuesday in Muskegon Michigan prompting police inquiries and public appeals for information.
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Muskegon
Mich
Glenn A. Barnaby
Widow of Cousin Barnaby Returns With Bridegroom
A man returns on Thursday with his bride who is the widow of his cousin Barnaby. Barnaby saw her for the first time that summer.
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Barnaby
Fatal Lightning Strike Kills Mine Engineer in Jamestown
Francis J., an engineer at Riverside owl mine in Jamestown, was struck by lightning and killed instantly while walking along the railroad track to the mine. The accident occurred during the stormy weather in Saginaw County.
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Saginaw
Mich
Magga. Dering & Heavy
Francis J, Stemlen
Jamestown
Various 19th Century News Talks and Local Incidents
Twenty one students evacuated from Washington academy to Washington. Sterling police order removal of all slot machines from cigar and other stores. Ras Rastnsen near Thomdot Til commits death by suicide due to incurable lung disease. Rag picker Barger fatally burned in Muskegon. Ira TD Sankey, the evangelist, in Brooklyn home with friends noting rapid decline. Mrs Mary Shepard dies at Rough Keepale New York aged 104. Ohio river at Evansville Indiana rises then falls after a week. H Clay Brann ex US consul general in London travels on the St Paul from Southampton to New York. Over 1000 Japanese laborers on Pioneer plantation Maui strike for higher wages. Dr C H A Kielschmidt famed Washington surgeon dies at 66. Alfredo de Oro of St Louis regains pool title from Jerome Keogh of Buffalo.
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Washington Academy
Washington
Sterling
Ras Rastnsen
Thom
Asteep
Barger
Muskegon
Mich
Ira
Sankey
Brooklyn
Mra
Mary Shepard
Rough Keepale
Isiah
Ohio River
Evanaville
Ind
H. Clay Brann
Exconaul
London
St. Paul
Southampton
New York
Maui
Hawaiian Islands
C. H. A. Kielschmidt
Alfredo de Oro
St. Louis
Jerome Keogh
Buttato
Hogs and cattle prices move in mixed markets in Chicago
Chicago markets report mixed receipts and prices for hogs cattle and sheep with estimations for today and tomorrow showing light hogs steady to higher and cattle and sheep varying, receipts around 11000 hogs and 22000 cattle with overall firm to higher tendencies in some grades.
Fleet of the Czar Seizes Coal Barges in Red Water
A Russian fleet unit appears in French waters as part of the czar's squadron. Reports say ships carry coal and halt near a French port, signaling strategic energy movement amid tensions.
Russians Rumor Fleet Maneuver Near Indo China Waters
Hong Kong reports a large Russian Pacific fleet off the Mekong delta with ships flying German British Norwegian Russian and other flags. The fleet allegedly anchored at Halnan Port Payot and a portion returned toward Port Dayot to observe neutrality, with theories of a strategic ruse by Rojestvensky to mislead Togo.
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Paris
Hong Kong
Mekong
Cape St. James
Jonquieres
Arta
Petit Journal Saigon
Anya
Ort Deayot
Halnan
Anam
Port Payot
Petit Journal
Saigon
de Jonquieres
Port Dayot
Rosetvenky
Togo
Indo-China
Rojestvensky
Vladivostok
Land Campaign Reports From Tokio And Harbin
In the Tokio report dated May 22 forces repulsed attacks on Chiengtzu and Ching Yang Pao with infantry and cavalry. No change at Changtu beyond scout clashes since May 18. Russian Yalu detachment skirmishes with Japanese, aided by 5,000 Chinese bandits. strong wind dries roads southward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Wei Yuan Paomen
Chiengtzu
Ching Yang Pao
Changtu
Kungchuliang
Fakoman
Harbin
Yalu
Roosevelt urged to probe Equitable insurance crisis
W F King former Merchants' Association president asks President Roosevelt to authorize a national investigation of the insurance business. The appeal cites the beef trust and Standard Oil inquiries as precedents and seeks action amid Equitable Life Assurance Society troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable
New York
Roosevelt
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Beef Trust
W. F. King
Merchants’ Association
Explosion at Palace hotel burns two men to death
An exploding lamp caused a fire at the Palace hotel in Austin Pennsylvania killing Michael Kemper and Dr. Benjamin. The loss is listed at 5000 dollars. A Tule ar hotel fire near the same time claimed Adam Jorepaugh. Lieutenant General Chaffee will depart for Alaska on July 1. Secretary Morton left for New York then Chicago.
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Austin
Palace
Michael Kemper
Benjamin
Tule
Adam Jorepaugh
Chaffee
Alaska
Morton
New York
Chicago
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Express
Harrett
Ing Journal
Churia
Riet
Antonius
Russia
Grain Market
Beach-Wickham Grain Co
Ats
McCallom
China
Jonquierea
Geta Buay
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