Negotiations Ended in Gotham Coal Talks No Settlement Reached
New York October 11 The yesterday meeting between officials and President Baer and Chairman Thames produced no yield toward a settlement. Operators rejected all public proposals including 10 percent wage raise shorter hours and union recognition. Odell confronted Baer over political interference prompting a heated exchange before Baer reportedly apologized.
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New York
Baer
Thames
Odell
Matt, Cony
Penrose
Maer
Tom
Paer
U M W Attacked Under the Sherman Antitrust Law
Washington receives a legal brief from David Wilcox vice president and counsel for the by. and H. road urging use of the Sherman act against the United Mine Workers. He argues the coal industry is interstate commerce and the union’s action to control production and shipments constitutes a conspiracy to restrain and destroy interstate commerce. He cites authorities to show the law applies to both production and shipments across states. He asserts that a broader restraint includes the narrower case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Washington
David Wilcox
H. Road
Wilcox
Mine Workers’ Association
Bank collapse claims two men in St. Joseph
In St Joseph Missouri on October 11 William Casper and John Rump were fatally injured when the top floor of a newly built bank at Fourth and Felix streets collapsed. The fall from forty five feet to the floor below was preceded by a predicted accident an hour earlier.
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St. Joseph
William Casper
John Rump Wes
Fourth and Felix Streets
First Chinese Woman Resident Arrives in Joliet Marriage to Quong Sing
The first Chinese woman to reside in Joliet has arrived. She is the bride of Quong Sing who has lived in Joliet six years. He married her in New York paying her father Gun Yee, a Chinese clothing merchant, $800 for the daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joliet, Mis
Joliet
Quong Sing
Wundry
New York
Gun Yee
Pendleton Convicted of Bigamy Sentenced in Five Years
James Pendleton mayor of Gentry Missouri is sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for bigamy. Using the alias Coda S Morris he wed Grace Obley of Emporia and later, as John Cox, buried a coffin with ice at Orlando Oklahoma Territory and spread news that Morris had died in a wreck. Pendleton has a family at home.
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Emporia
Kan
James Pendleton
Gentry
Pendleton
Coda S. Morris
Grace Obley
John Cox
Orlando
O. T
Trade Review Notes Mixed Signals Amid Labor Strife Fuel Shortage
New York October reports a favorable outlook despite labor controversies and fuel scarcity. Commodity prices rise with coke shortages limiting pig iron, railway equipment remains brisk, footwear shipments stay strong, cotton mills near shutdowns in New England, woolen orders quiet, and weekly U S failures total 245 versus 271 a year ago with 21 in Canada.
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New York
G. Don @ Co
Duma
New England
United States
Canada
Markets Show Mixed Hedging Across Regions
Chicago and East Buffalo report unsettled receipts and varying quotes for cattle, hogs, and sheep. Prices range for steers, heifers, and calves with mixed demand, while St Louis and Milwaukee show firmer to steady grain and livestock futures amid fluctuating bid levels.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Bilevens
Gampmission
Catton
Ckippim
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery touted for blood cures
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for curing eruptive skin diseases by cleansing impure blood. It includes a testimonial from Mrs. Ella Quick of Cass City Michigan detailing a long eczema recovery after thirteen bottles and ten pellets plus All-Healing Salve. The copy warns against substitutes and promotes Dr. Pierce's pellets for cleansing the system.
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Pierce
Golden Medical
Ella Quick
Cass City
Tuscola Co
Mich
Dr. Pierce
Dispute at Union Veterans Convention Ends With Split
Washington October headlines report wild disorder as votes proceed on restoring six months service clause. General Dyrenforth faces suspension charges. General Hutchinson leads as presiding officer amid pandemonium. Dyrenforth reelected commander while factions demand constitutional changes.
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Washington
Union Veterans’ Union
Orgunization
Olite
Tilols
New York
Michigan
Tawa
Pennsylvania
Maserehusetta Department
Dee Moines
Order
General Hutchinson
Dyrenforth
G A R Encampment Ends as Frisco Chosen Next
The Grand Army of the Republic encampment closed in Washington with social gatherings to follow. San Francisco selected for 1902 meeting, officers to be elected. Resolutions urge broader civil service recognition and pensions for veterans. Several related bodies concluded their conventions and officers were chosen.
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Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
San Francisco
Sons of Veterans, Womans’ Relief Corps
Committee On Legislation
Congress
United States
The
Never Loved Before Toone Wan Who Hoe Mixeed a Lot of Yon Weds trt to Omaha
Intrepid Charles J O Connor from Shamokin Pa appears before Notary EP Smith in Omaha Neb and swears he has never before been in love engaged or married before marrying Miss Therese Suchy a solitary young woman living with her parents in southern Omaha The Suchy parents, aiming to break the match, have O Connor swear he had never loved before and thus attempt to invalidate their son in law choice.
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Omaha
Charles J. O'Conner
Halle
Shamokin
Smith
Poesion
Colmentyoneking
O'Connor
Veanek
Mise Suehy
Cctt
Mystery Death of Sioux City Musician Solved
The body of Mrs. T. P. Burns, a leading Sioux City musician, was found in the Missouri river confirming an accidental death. A ransom letter for $106 led police to the suspect Karl Laque, 18, who claimed he hoped for a larger payoff and had no knowledge of Burns location.
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Sioux City
T. PF. Burns
Stoux River
Thirne
Riverside
Boutelab
Oats Bushel Rule Upheld By Federal Court
In Chicago the United States circuit court of appeals ruled that without an agreed standard the market price at the place of purchase governs, deciding that thirty two pounds make a bushel and the Chicago board of trade is the relevant market. Governor Cummins defends the Iowa platform and tariff revisions in a Marquette club address urging reciprocity with Canada. Milford hosts Amish Mennonite conference with over一. thousand delegates from fourteen states in a large Milford hall.
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Chicago
United States
Elrenit Court of Appeals
Jenkins, Grosecup and Baker
Chicago Board of Trade
A. B. Cummins
Towa
Marquette Club
Canada
Milford
Neb
Joseph Schlegel
Rangely action prompts fears of renewed conflict
Meeker Colorado October 11 reports say the wounding of State Game Commissioner Harris has stirred settlers near Rangely. A special messenger notes that after the clash the deer herds have sent their women and children back to the reservation, signaling a possible new fight.
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Meeker
Colo
Harris
Rangely
Michigan bartender survives after stairs fall
Menten Harbor, Michigan, December 11 reports Curtis Monger the smallest bartender in Michigan regained consciousness after thirty seven hours unconsciousness following a stair fall. His skull is crushed and he is partly paralyzed though he may live. doctors are mystified. He is 42, three feet tall, seventy pounds. In Jackson Isaac Edwards discovers his shop missing after vacation and learns two workers sold shop paraphernalia for twenty five dollars. pawns recovered.
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Menten Harbor
Mieh
Dct
Curtis Monger
Michigan
Jackson, Mich
Isaac Edwards
Innovation brings Sunday night theater to Grand Opera House
Anderson Indiana reports that starting next Sunday the Grand Opera House will begin regular Sunday night theatrical performances. Local management announced plans for ongoing shows and evening entertainment in the city.
Government and Admiral Casey Meet Over Panama Crisis
A conference between Panamanian government representatives and Rear Admiral Casey occurred on Wednesday. Casey said the talks aimed to determine if government and revolutionists could reach agreement or set a basis for settlement.
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Panama
Oct. Y
Casey
U S Admiral to Confer With Colombian Leaders Over Panama Crisis
Admiral Casey weighs terms of amnesty decree and calls for talks with General Herrera to end the strife. He outlines U S actions to keep transit free and warns against bombardment or provocation by Panamanian forces and the gunboat Padilla.
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Maraquia
Admiral Casey
Herrera
Salavar
Casey
McLean
Washington
Terrera
United States
Tie
Lne
General Herrera
Panama
Padilla
Governor Pardons Mrs F L Taylor and Daughter
Governor Nash pardons Mrs F L Taylor and her daughter amid official statements supporting doubts about their aiding abetting the abduction of Margaret Taylor. A June 1802 letter from the child’s father and mother requests the pardon. In Dublin a cablegram reports Ireland’s delegates to the United Irish League of America convention leaving Queenstown for Boston.
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Columbus
Nash
Mra
F. L. Taylor
Cincinnati
Beennee
Margaret Taylor
Chicago
Get
Dublin
John FP. Finerty
John P. Redmond
John Millon
Michael Davitt
Edward |Lake
Ireland
United Irish League of America
Boston
Queenstown
Roosevelt Drives with Crutches After Illness
Washington news reports President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt went for a morning drive in an open landau. It was the first time since his illness that he left his home unassisted and came downstairs using crutches instead of an invalid chair.
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Washington
Roosevelt
He Swore To A Lie Gretna Green Case In Michigan
Otsego County farmer Owen Warren married Clara Hopkins by falsifying her age as 18 after obtaining a license in St. Joseph Michigan. Hopkins’s father opposed the union and Warren was jailed awaiting trial on perjury charges. The couple had moved to Otsego and Warren remains in jail after being unable to post bond. The case is noted as a first of its kind in the Gretna Green style marriage trade.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Owen Warren
Otsewo
Allegan County
Clara Hopkins
Otsego
William Hopkins
Warren
Hreart
Gretna Green
Chicago sanitary district suit on Gayford land struck
Joliet Ill Oct 11 The suit of the sanitary district of Chicago to condemn land held by the Gayford water power syndicate has been stricken from the circuit court docket. The district failed to file plains showing proposed water power plans. Suit likely to be started at a later term of court.
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Joliet, Ill
Sanitary District of
Chicago
Gayford Water Power Syndicate
Plains
Kane county landowner Elgin dies by poison act
Mrs Elgin of Kane county reports that Ji dobhn Pilaui an extensive land owner died by swallowing Paris green at Algonquin. He rose at 5 a.m. took poison and retired to the yard. His sons found him dead before breakfast. Also the Federation of Labor plans an active campaign in New Jersey to unite labor there.
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Elgin
Get. Ji—dobhn Pilaui
Kane County
Paris Green
Algonquin
Executive Council
The
Federation of Labor
New Jersey
Agricultural yield and condition readings across states
The report lists average conditions and preliminary yield estimates for crops including spring wheat oats rye corn and buckwheat across states such as Washington Minnesota Nebraska Kansas North Dakota Oregon Idaho Wisconsin and New York. It notes changes from prior months and compares to ten year October averages with figures for quality and tobacco potatoes apples hops and other Produce.
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Waelhington
Det
Department of Nenieiligive
Minnesota
Nebraska
Ned
Colorado
North Dakota
Washington
Kansas
Booth Dakota
Oregon
Utah
Town
Wisconsin
Idaho
Department of Agriculture
Oble
North Carolina
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Maine
New York
Iowa
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Wasington
California
First Bank Forger Vaughan Promised Bride Large Sum
Richard William Vaughan, brother of a Stafford lawyer, forged twenty pound notes to impress a London solicitor’s daughter. He planned to marry on the basis of a £1,000 gift from his mother, but passed two forged notes, was arrested, tried at the Old Bailey on April 7 1758, and hanged at Tyburn four days later. Other items note a Dubuque killing, miner clashes in France, Ambassador Tower’s London dinner, a grocer combine, a Southern railway prize, and a Canadian fugitive surrender request.
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Richard William Vaughan
Htte
Vaughan
London
Ile
Bank of England
Det Wells
North McGregor
John Gleason
Dubuque
France
Ambassador Tower
Carleton Hotel
Goooress Corbin and Young
Southern Railway
Washington
Secretary of State
Robert Thompson
Lincoln
Neb
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Bat
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Dyrenferth
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Rochester
Finlly
Hutchinson
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Torrance
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Anderson
Mic
Taylor
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Meride
Onte
Harley Eed Hye
West
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Elze
Onss Th Ken
Canh M. Kron
Puan Ih
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Jenking
Win
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Jenmdt
Pirate Hank
Oltisen
P. J. Nanley
Schuyler W. Livingston
Weetington County Savings
Hank Washington
A. Dewey
Attorney-at-Law
Temple Nallding
Alberson's Grocery
Marsh W. Bailey
W. M. Butterfield
Orall’s
Washington, la
Eicher & Wilson
Joseph Pollard Jr
Atty. A. L. Suerer
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J. L. Brookhart
Lawvye
Opera House
Osteopathy
C. S. Harper
Osteompatmiio Prmysigian
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Douglish Bank Forser
Arthaud, Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
Kirtkeville, Mo
Sane
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J.T. Anderson
Caushier
Asa't
Ancu Mecunsy
DrakeTransit
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A. Charvey
W. A. Moore
J. A. Cunningham
W. W. Wilson
J. J. Palmer
Washington County
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Lehington, Iowa
Time Deposita
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State Bank
Chas. OH Ngemach
DM McLaughin
A. White
Kk. G. Wilson
Henry Knecht
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Mall
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Davenport
Washington- Andaye
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Sam Ao
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Cupcay
Columbus Junction
Mason
Pacific
Pullman
VF Rotann
Reute
Burtington
G. RB
Orme
Killem
Weer
Mason City
Mt. Paul
Peoria
Peoria Mall
Marshalltown
O & NW
Denevor
Terremone
Geo. & Barry
Lowa
Wabash
Scopy
Crane
GP & TA
Lata
Palmer, Alg A
Adama
T. J. Dempsey
Means & Stichter
East Hide Restaurant
Louisville
Nashville
Great Central Southern Truck Line
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
U. S
Gulf Coast
R. J. Wemyss
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