Mining Information Mitchell Yet the Star Witness
Scranton Nov. 17 The strike commission opened with Judge Gray asking Lenahan to identify his clients and positions. Mitchell faces cross examination as Willcox cites Shamokin proceedings. MacVeagh and Wilcox press miners wage and union issues. figures show 1901 earnings for contract and outside labor and high annual mine profits.
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Scranton
Gray
Lenahan
Willcox
Mitchell
MacVench
Wilcox
Wayne MacVeagh
MacVeagh
Miners' Hours Debate Stirs Commission Hearings
MacVeagh presents photos of Forest City miners homes and local bank deposits to argue conditions differ from Mitchell’s. Mitchell acknowledges uncertainty, while discussing eight hour limits and fairness to workers. The arbitration commission adjourned after another day of testimony with services observed by members.
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MacVeagh
Mitchell
Forest City
Arbitration Commission
Reply of Lehigh Coal and Navigation to Mitchells Indictment
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company submits its answer to the anthracite strike commission. The document traces the company's history from its 1822 origin and explains its role in the labor dispute.
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Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Mitchell
Philadelphia
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
King Leopold Targeted as Shot Fired During Te Deum
A would be assassin named Rubino fired twice at King Leopold while en route to a Te Deum in Brussels. He was arrested by police before the mob could lynch him and later claimed he sought the king’s death in a fit of anarchist fury. The king escaped unharmed.
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Mitchell
Baer
Lond
Wilcox
Brussels
Leopold
Tie
Rubino
London
Garibaldi
Italy
Deer hunt tragedy in Crossville ends in shooting
Merritt Lewis aged 19 was shot in the head by his uncle Frank Lewis during a deer hunt in the woods. The victim was taken for a deer and is feared to die. The uncle says they were separated and he fired at a deer.
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Crossville
Mich
Merritt Lewis
Frank Lewis
Lewis
Uties
Pfred Miller
Miller
Baton Rapids
William Cloge
General Miles Tours Mindanao and Visayas military posts
Manila reports General Miles visited Camp Vicars in Mindanao on Saturday and Zamboanga yesterday. He plans to tour Hagan Cebu Leyte Samar and southern Luzon before returning to Manila.
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Manila
Miles
Camp Vicars
Mindanao
Zamboanga
Hagan
Cebu
Leyte
Samar
Luzon
Federation's Message Marks AFL Anniversary
New Orleans reports the American Federation of Labor sending a toast pledging fealty to the trade union movement to uplift wage earners and unite organized workers for world fraternity. Debates cover ship subsidy repeal and Isthmian canal plans with votes on both.
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New Orleans
Fraternity of Man
American Federation of Labor
Isthmian Canal
Gilthorpe
O'Connell
Fursteth
Indiana Coal Trust Fails After New York Negotiations
Information from New York says the Indiana bituminous coal operators combine formed last week has fallen through. Local coal men report no word on the end of the deal. J. Smith Tally of Terre Haute confirms the New York report. other operators named include J C Kolsen and A M Oxle.
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Indianapolis
New York
Indiana
J. Smith Tally
Terre Haute
Tally
J. C. Kolsen
A. M. Oxle
Coal Dealers in Terre Haute Expect Organization by January
Prominent coal dealers in Terre Haute predict the truest will be organized before the end of January. Names mentioned include Cago and James TH McClelland of Brasil, highlighting regional figures in the anticipated formation.
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Cago
James TH. McClelland
Brasil
Terre Haute
Wisconsin Delegation Backs Cannon for Speaker
Wisconsin Republicans met in Milwaukee and unanimously backed Cannon of Illinois for speaker after offering support to Babcock of the Third district. Babcock declined candidacy and urged unity behind Cannon, praising him as a veteran and capable leader.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Cannon
Minois
Joseph W. Babcock
Third
Babcock
Call for Chicago convention to form national religious education group
A convention is called for Chicago in February or March to establish a national organization for improving religious and moral education via Sunday schools and related agencies. The call comes from the Council of Seventy, a collaborative of Biblical teachers from leading institutions.
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Chicago
Council of Seventy
Gazetteer of Philippine Islands issued with maps and data
The Tro nuncing Gazetteer ad Geographical Sictionary of the Philippine Islands, prepared in the bureau of insular affairs, has just been issued and contains a wealth of information about our Oriental possessions including maps and illustrations.
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Washington
Philippine Islands
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Rowell case decided in Oshkosh circuit court
The Rowell case ended after years of litigation with judgment for the plaintiffs in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for 19 080.60 and costs. action estimated at about 50 000 dollars. Also reported, Terre Haute, Indiana, telegraph official R B Woolsey dies at age 61 after long service including a former presidency of the Train Dispatchers Association of America.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Terre Haute
Ind
R. B. Woolsey
Champion lofty tumbler William Conwell dies in Indiana hospital
William Conwell once widely known as the world’s champion lofty tumbler died in an eastern Indiana hospital for the insane in Richmond. He had been a celebrated figure in gymnastics years ago.
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Champlton Lofty
Richmond
Ind
William Conwell
Indiana Hospital
Whitney, Commercial Bank President, Dies Suddenly
Adrian Michigan reports the death of Channing Whitney, president of the Commercial Bank, who died suddenly on Saturday after a brief illness.
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Adrian, Mich
Murdered telegrapher and Pythian home visits
Telegraph operator Edward Smwith was found dying at Clover Leaf station with no clear motive for the assault and possible robbery ruled out. In Springfield seventy five Pythians toured the Olio Pythian home with Illinois and Indiana grand officers expressing plans to build similar homes within two years. London reports Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar died yesterday at eight hundred twenty eight. Born near London in 1828 he wed in 1851 Lady Augusta Gordon Lennox.
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Edwardsvillle
Ill
Edward Smwith
Clover Leaf
Springfield
Lllinois
Indiana
London
Prince Edward of
Saxe-Weimar
Prince Edward
Augusta Gordon Lennox
Purifying Blood Fights Microbes Says Pierce Remedy
An old advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for blood impurity and related diseases. It claims sores boils scrofula and eczema improve after use and includes a petitioner who says five bottles cured him after failed medical care. Free adviser offered with stamps and request for more literature.
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Doctor Pierce
Pierce
Ezekiel Floro
Graytown
Ottawa Co
Ohio
Dr. Pierce
Armour's Sioux City Plant Destroyed by Fire
The Armour & Co. packing plant in Sioux City Iowa covering three and a half acres burned from a second floor fertilizer fire starting about 12:50 am. Loss estimated at 8 million with 721000 insured. Six hundred workers faced winter unemployment as fire spread through the brick complex including the fertilizer building beef killing house and oleo plant.
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Sioux City
Armour & Co
Stock Yards
Charles W. Lennon
Lennon
Armour
Feor
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
Ceattle
Alford
Ammonia Plant Blaze Devours Hog House and Offices
A series of ammonia drum explosions at a plant ignited a massive fire that destroyed the hog house, office and adjacent buildings. Flames breached walls at 2 30 am and fed by 3500 dressed hogs and 2 500 000 pounds of pork product, with a second blast Sunday afternoon scattering bricks and iron but injuring no one seriously.
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Lennon
Kellogg
Fee
Estranged son murdered in Illinois and Ohio reports
A body lies in an Illinois undertaker shop after a domestic estrangement suggested by a fragment of a letter. A separate chilling note directs to a dead man near the Elgin branch line where a knife was found. Concurrently in Lincoln a report says Emma Gillette Oglesby may wed an Italian count after visiting an American woman.
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Elgin
Joliet
Eligin
Northwestern
James
Robertson
Lincoln, Lus
Emma Gillette Oglesby
Richard Oglesby
Lichigan Beats Chicago in Rival University clash
Michigan defeated Chicago 21 to 0 as right end Sweeley scored ten points and Left Half Heston added a 70 yard TD run. Northwestern beat Beloit 10 nothing in the other Saturday games. long list of results followed.
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Michigan
Sweeley
Feld
Heston
Northwestern University
Beloit College
Philadelphia
Ladiana
Pennsylvania
Columbhus
Tlinots
Ohio State
Tithea
Lafayette
Ithien Lafayette
Cornell
Princeton Vale
Princeton
Boundary dispute over Alaska untrue warns survey officials
Washington officials from the coast and geodetic survey deny a Victoria newspaper claim that a US surveyor encroached on British territory near the Portland Canal. They say monuments mark triangulation work and were not intended to fix boundaries, noting no international boundary line has been drawn recently.
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Washington
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Government
United States
Alaska
Victoria
Pritleh
Portland Canal
Congress
President's Sunday Dinner at Smede's Camp
President and party spend a quiet Sunday at the Little Sunflower camp. They ride the forest trails in morning, dine on camp style fare with tin plates, and recount near misses in bear hunting. Judge Dickinson catches trout as a special army advances on the camp via the river.
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Smede
Judge Dickinson
Rail freight congestion and world news briefings
Freight congestion in Chicago yards due to car and power shortages. The Central National tank in Boston faces an $800000 exposure with government charges. Paris considers a visit by President Louber to the St. Louis World’s Fair. Roosevelt rests in Washington for eye treatment. Emperor William travels from Sandringham to Lowther Castle to meet Lord Lonsdale. Illinois grand tribunal votes to expel John A Hinsey. Grand Duke Michael of Russia is seriously ill at St. Petersburg. Knights of Labor select Milwaukee for next year’s meeting at Niagara Falls. Francis Kelsey of Michigan rests easier. Cholera cases rise in Manila with about thirty daily.
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Central National Tank
Boston
Paris
Louber
St. Louis
Illinois
Grand Tribunal of the R. of P
John A. Hinsey
Michael
St. Petersburg
Assembly of the Knights of Labor
Niagara Falls
Milwaukee
Francis Kelsey
University of Michigan
Manila
Bogus policies in Louisiana spark insurance fraud concerns
Reports from New Orleans and Shreveport detail rising insurance fraud tied to bogus policies from a New York based Phoenix Life Assurance company and two new wildcat fire insurers. The state insurance department warns sheriffs and police. widespread frauds stretch through New Orleans area parishes with unauthorized agents and schemes.
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Louisiana
Shreveport
Phoenix Lesuratee Company
New York
Wildcat
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