Miners Endorse 10 Percent Raise With Conditions
Scranton Pa Oct 15 The anthracite miners strike ends with acceptance of a 10 percent net wage increase offered by mine owners provided it lasts until April 1 1901 and the sliding scale is abolished in the Lehigh and Schuylkill regions If operators refuse arbitration is planned and no work resumes until the convention is notified that the strike is ended and workers return. The convention also calls for wage stability and grievances addressed by employer committees.
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Scranton
Lehigh
Schuylkill
King George of Greece Visits Paris Exposition
King George of Greece arrived in Paris with General Rein neck and aides de camp to view the exposition. He was met by high French officials at the railway station and driven to the Hotel Bristol with no incident of special importance reported.
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Paris
George of
Greece
Reinneck
Nicholas Thon
Bristol
Scranton Convention Terms Probed by Coal Operators
In Shamokin and nearby towns on Oct 15 operators resist an accord on the Scranton convention terms. Read ing officials doubt abolition of the sliding scale while miners resist a 10 percent raise bound to a fixed period. Officials in Wilkesbarre report opposition to extra concessions and warn arbitration may fail. General Gobin awaits operator verdict as strike unrest continues in the Panther Creek region. Local game law fines issued in Holly. Judge Joseph D Cox dies in Cincinnati at 78.
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Shamokin
Mount Carmel
Reading
Mitchell
Wilkesbarre
Wyoming Valley
Chase
Lehigh Coal Company
Markle
Hazleton
Scranton
Shenandaha
Gobin
Oneida
Lattimer
Panther Creek
Wealthy Judge Loses Most Property in Garfield Campaign
Houghton Michigan October 15 Judge Jay A Hubbell chairman of the na mie Republican congressional com Garfield campaign loses most of his property amid a financial reversal. The report notes Hubbell once held substantial wealth and prominence.
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Houghton, Mich
Jay A. Hubbell
Pingree pleased as legislature curbs railroads
Detroit October 15 Governor Hazen H Pingree says the recent legislature action removing three rail road charters and approving an amendment resolves his four year goal. He abandons politics and signs four pardons. He lobbied for a court to relieve the supreme court but the house rejected it. PD J Campau argues equal taxation remains distant and that the amendment grants no new power to the legislature.
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Detroit
Hazen H. Pingree
Supreme Court
House
PD. J. Campan
Democratic State Central Committee
Campau
Youtsey Gains Clarity as Trial Hangs in Georgetown
Georgetown Kentucky residents report Youtsey improved last night, showing understanding of nurses and steady breathing. Doctors note diminished fear of brain fever and possible trial resumption today. Color, sleep, and restfulness return. observers no longer doubt authenticity of symptoms.
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Georgetown
Youtsey
Jewelry Heist At Tiffin Store Nets 28 Rings
In Tiffin Ohio yesterday afternoon two strangers distracted the proprietor at Lewis Seewald jewelry, unlocked a display case with a key left in it, and fled with a tray holding twenty eight diamond rings valued at five thousand dollars. Both suspects escaped.
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Tiffin
Lewis Seewald
Quail Hunters Provoke Ire With Early Season Killings
In Wabash Indiana and nearby counties quail numbers surge this fall. Coveys are large and birds in prime condition, but many hunters violate the close season, drawing strong protests from sportsmen and triggering law enforcement concern.
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Wabash
Ind
Tere Haute Strike Settlement Reaches Arbitration
Terre Haute Ind Oct 183 A board of arbitration for the street railway strike has completed its work and the men are back to duty pending final decision. Manager Kidder discharged the one men and firemen and renewed strike threats unless he agreed to restore work.
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Tere Haute
Terre Haute
Ind
Kidder
Sioux City to contest census count with private recount
Sioux City businessmen reject the census figure of 83,111 and plan a private recount at their own expense to verify the citys population.
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Sioux City
Roosevelt and Bryan Campaign Notes in Kentucky and Ohio
Reports from Spring Station Kentucky and Akron Ohio describe campaign stops by Governor Roosevelt and William J. Bryan. Roosevelt rested on a farm near Lexington with limited local notice while crowds grew at meetings, including a hostile Elizabethtown reception. Bryan’s Ohio tour yielded calmer days, with large gatherings at Mansfield Circleville Zanesville and Cleveland after stops at New Philadelphia Alliance Niles Youngstown and Leavittsburg.
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Spring Station
Lexington
Roosevelt
Louisville
Nashville
Leslie Combs
Republican State Central Committee
Elizabethtown
Buckner
Bryan
Kentucky
Henderson
Akron
W. J. Bryan
Jude Cgrant
Ohio
Cleveland
New York
New Philadelphia
Alliance
Niles
Youngstown
Leavittsburg
Mansfield
Circleville
Lancaster
Zanesville
Coshocton
Chillicothe
Relays and Pigeons Mark Canton Event and Health Alert
Layists left Canton at 7 a m and finished at 1 15 p m for 92 miles in six hours and fifteen minutes. A messaw greeted West Virginia Republicans. Seventeen homing pigeons were released at Canton with the first arriving at 9 30 a m. Lansing reports state smallpox measures amid an outbreak in Brutus Emmett county with the disease inspector en route to take charge.
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Canton
State Fair Grounds
West Virginia
Lansing
Mich
Brutus
Emmitt County
Penitent husband recalls tragedy after wife’s suicide
In Chicago on October 15 Philip Hardy mourns his quarrel with Sophie Hardy whose death by self inflicted gunshot at 1220 Wabash avenue shocked the neighborhood. A coroner’s jury ruled death by own action while she was temporarily deranged, spurred by jealousy and belief her husband would follow through. Hardy sought funds for a decent burial, expressing remorse for the quarrel that preceded the tragedy.
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Chicago
Philip Hardy
Sophie
Wabash Avenue
Hardy
New York
Terrible grade crossing at Robinsons Crossing kills three
Newcastle Iowa October 15 A double seated rig was struck by passenger train No 16 at Robinsons Crossing five miles west of Newcastle. Three occupants a man and two children were killed instantly and an injured man likely to die. The bodies and injured man were brought to Newcastle. The two dead are a girl about 15 and a boy about 10. The man’s head and face were crushed. Lafayette Indiana October 15 William J Roseberry Sr president of the Land and Improvement company has disappeared leaving a desk with books and cash drawer unlocked.
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Newcastle
Robinson's Crossing
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Lafayette
Ind
William J. Roseberry, Sr
The
Land and Improvement Company
Prohibition Special Train Runs to Punxsutawney Overnight
The Prohibition special departed Allegheny at 10 p m Friday and reached Punxsutawney at 1 30 a m Saturday. A half hour meeting followed at the station with brief stops at Big Run Falls Creek Dubois and Brockwayville.
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Ridgway
Allegheny
Punxsutawney
Big Run
Falls Creek
Dubois
Brockwayville
Gas leak kills three workers at Omaha residence
Saturday night in Omaha two workers suffocated and one died as three men were overcome by sewer gas while digging a rear yard trench. The deceased are G. M. Geppner and his son Roy Geppner among the victims.
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Omaha
G. M. Geppner
Roy Geppner
Stevenson in Delaware and Republicans in Wheeling
In Wilmington Delaware Hon Adlai E Stevenson Democratic vice presidential candidate spoke to a large crowd at the Opera House after an afternoon address in Laurel. In Wheeling West Virginia the Republican field day featured a message from President McKinley delivered by a relay of riders from Canton.
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Wilmington
Del
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Laurel
Wheeling
W. Va
McKinley
Evelers
Canton
Papers in ex tradition seek return of Carmody for robbery
Fargo reports papers from ex tradition asking Frank Carmody to be sent back to Mexico for alleged $10,000 robbery from a city electric light company. Other items note two men struck by a Big Four train in Pana with possible double suicide context, Dutfield dies aboard a train near San Antonio, Yellow Fever origin debate in Havana, Patchen breaks track record but not his own mile mark in Brooklyn.
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Fargo
N. D
Frank Carmody
Mexico
Electric Light Company
Pana
Ill
Donald Becker
Antone Ruchem
Galveston
Tex
San Antonio
J. G. Dutfield
Patchen
New York
Joe Patchen
Parkway
Brooklyn
Parliament prorogued as Sprigg Urges peace in South Africa
Cape Town reports Parliament prorogued on Oct 15 as Premier Sir James Gordon Sprigg expresses hope that reassembly will bring an end to bitterness and that peace and good will prevail across South Africa.
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Cape Town
James Gordon Sprigg
South Africa
Infant dies after shotgun accident in Elida
The infant daughter of William Zimmerman of Elida was shot by her 5-year old brother in Rockford. One hundred pellets were removed and the child died a few hours later.
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Rockford, Ms
William Zimmerman
Elida
Young Chase Abduction Mystery Near Paris
W J Sutherland of Mooney Boland detectives faced a new twist as Moses Fowler Chase, heir to a $1,000,000 estate, vanished from a French insane asylum and was spirited away by his aunt Mrs Dubie while en route from Detroit to Lafayette. The case deepens with legal battles and incomplete European efforts.
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Chicago
W. J. Sutherland
Mooney & Boland Detective Agency
Chilcago
Defenbach
Paris
Boland
Europe
Sutherland
Moses Fowler Chase
Lafayette
Ind
Hegin
Frederick Chase
Yale
Young Chase
Moses
Charles Dubme
Cincinnati
Morton Fowler
Aire
Dr. Niles
Whnt
Tae Fayette
Detroit
Cadillac
Mia
Dubie
Sanity ruling ends mad suit over Chase family feud
A lengthy series of legal battles centers on Moses Fowler formerly known as James Chase who was deemed sane by a Lafayette court. Warranted abduction claims by Frederick Chase and relatives sparked cross nation surveillance and multiple detours including a Paris asylum and French court actions. Detectives on all sides pursued the prodigal son as the affair wove through Maine New York Chicago and London amid shifting allegiances and family tensions.
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Frederick Chase
Pingree
Michigan
Duhmes
Moses
Maine
Doy
Lafayette
Chase
Cincinnati
Moses Fowler
Fowler
Europe
Dunne
Paris
Dulmes
Boulogne-sur-Seine
Sutherland
Chicago
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United Mine Workers of Illinois
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Illinois
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Glendale
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Wyoming
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Mary O'Neill
Sarah O'Neill
White Plains
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Frank Stewart
Chas
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I. M. Sprours
Carl M. Kee
E.R. Powers
Opera House
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Mirsch
Baird & Bailey's
O. PF. Wright
Ashby
Nicola
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H. Knecht
the Reynolds Gallery
J. J. Dempsey
Rouare
C.J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
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Temple Building
Washington, Iowa
W.H. Butterfield
Orallaetora
Washtorton
Hotel Allen
Bailey
A. S. Hays
W. E. Anderson
Klein's
Washington
Iowa
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopathy
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Joseph Pollard, Jr
Marsh W. Bailey
Qofesor
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P. J. Hanley
Washington County Savings Bank
Donee General Banking Business
W. BR. Jeffrey
A. Anderson
J.T. Anderson
Washington County
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A. H. Wallace
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Vy. Blair
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Athens
Riga
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Madison Medi+«cine Co
Madison
Wis
Journal Office
R. F. Riley
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