Strike Declared Off by Miners Convention Unanimous
Washington reports that the miners convention at Wilkesbarre declared off the anthracite strike with no dissent. President Roosevelt notified, ordering the arbitration commission to meet Friday the 24th at 10 a.m. Sessions to be held in Washington Wilkesbarre Philadelphia or New York with miners and counsel present.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wilkesbarre
John Mitchell
W. B. Wilson
Mitchell
Vwriday
Wright
Department of Labor
Hest
Philadelphia
New York
Strike Off Unanimously by Wilkes Barre Miners
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania October 22 1919 representatives of 147000 coal workers ended their lengthy strike by voting to resume mining and placing all disputed issues before a presidential arbitration commission. The decision followed a heated debate over protections for workers losing old jobs or unable to reemploy. a later move directed the executive boards to address the problem. Hundreds of men were already repairing mines as operations began to resume. President Mitchell received many congratulations.
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Mitchell
Associated Press
Carroll Dr. Wright
Recorder of the
Arbitration Commission
Wilkes Barre
Wilkesbarre
United States
Doan's Kidney Pills Prove Worth in Washington Case
J M Auld of West Seventh street recounts reading an ad for Doan's Kidney Pills at Columbia Pharmacy and using three boxes to cure backache and kidney weakness after five to six years of trouble. He notes dizziness and urinary weakness improved, and urges others to buy the 50 cent pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as sole US agents.
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Washington
J. M. Auld
West Seventh Street
Doan
Columbia
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
National Telegrams Celebrate End of Pews Strike
Grateful messages pour in from across the country praising the settlement ending the pews strike. Officials and church leaders express relief as congregations resume regular worship and services.
Biike-S Dramatized Strike Settlement At Anthracite Meet
The convention adopted two resolutions with the first calling off the strike and proposing arbitration. It authorized John Mitchell to represent miners before the Roosevelt commission and report to work Oct 23. A second resolution thanked supporters of the settlement. A former Hasleton superintendent estimated losses far below some figures, listing rail freight, un sold coal, police costs, and other impacts in the tens of millions.
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Roosevelt
John Mitchell
United Mine Wor
Wilkesbarre
Hasleton
Tle
Wales
Culver farmers hit by worthless checks in Chicago scams
Marshall county farmers report losses running into thousands after shipping livestock to Chicago and accepting checks believed worthless. A Chicago commission firm, Ewart Bros. and Baker, bought stock in nearby counties. Baker claims no money, while farmers hold Ewart paper. Notable losses include Higley around 1700, Schwartz about 1100, and others, with some transactions undisclosed. Rockefeller donates a 35 foot marble fountain to New York City.
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Culver
Ind
Chicago
Marshall County
Ewart Bros. & Baker
Baker
Ewart
Drovers’ Bank
Schwartz
Ora
Winamac
Markets Report From Chicago and Other Bourses
Chicago Board of Trade quotations feature mixed grain futures with December wheat at 8.72% and May 8.?? amid erratic moves. Live stock in Chicago uneven with hogs selling around 6.85 to 7.05 and cattle trading mainly 6.60 to 7.50. East Buffalo, St Louis and Toledo notes show slow creasing activity in cattle hogs oats and corn with prices cited for spot and futures.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning and Stevens
St. Louis Grain
St. Louis
Toledo
Milwaukee Grain
Milwaukee
Northern
Von Buelow Defeated in Reichstag Tariff Vote
Berlin Oct 22 government defeat in tariff bill test votes as Conservatives and Centrists push minimum wheat duties to 1.50 per metric hundred weight and rye to 1.57. Vote tally wheat 14 to 1, rye 152 to 1 with opposition from National Liberals Socialists and Radicals. Chancellor von Buelow vows no compromise and contemplates dissolution or compromise to sway majority. Also notes ministerial stance against higher minimums and pursuit of commercial treaties.
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Berlin
Reichstag
von Buelow
Wrom
American Window Glass stockholders meet in Pittsburg
The American Window Glass company held its annual meeting in the Westinghouse building. President James A. Chambers presented a generally favorable report for the year ending Aug 31 1902 despite the window glass trade's difficult year, noting total receipts from sales and other sources of 874.
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Pittsburg
American Window Glass Company
Westinghouse
James A. Chambbers
Chambers
Stomachs on Stilts and Digestive Remedies
An old style ad explains that stimulants only offer temporary relief for weak stomachs and promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for digestive and nutritive disorders. A customer testimonial from Loudoun County praises the medicine, urging avoidance of substitutes and recommending Dr. Pierce's pills to stimulate the liver.
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Dr. Pierce
Clarence Carnes
Faq
Taylorstown
Loudoun Co
Windom rules that a municipal official cannot assign his salary
Judge W. J. Windom of the Duluth municipal bench delivers a decision stating that a pullle official cannot set or assign his own salary. The ruling clarifies salary authority and affects local governance practices.
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Duluth
Minn
Judee W. J. Windom
Unwritten Law Obeyed A Methodist Aptness Dispute
In Danville a church dispute over Rev H C Gibbs was settled as the bishop upheld the unwritten law of Methodism. Gibbs will lead the First Methodist Church. Decatur refused to release him. The Illinois Baptist Association annual session opened in Alton with brief remarks by McKay of Shurtleff College. officers will be elected before adjournment.
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Danville
H.C. Gibbs
First Methodist Church
Thie City
Mr Gibbs
Piret
Deentar
First Church
Elattn
Merrill
Decatur
Pinelly
Mr. Gibbs
Missionary convention section opens in Omaha home field
The first section of the American Christian Missionary Society gathering in Omaha began yesterday. The three day program focuses on home field work and the next convention candidate list narrows to Detroit and Portland, with Detroit favored.
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Omaha
Neh
American Christian Missionary Society
Conversion of the Disciples of Chriat
Detroit
Portland
Attempted Elysée Palace Infiltration Aims at Loubet
Paris dispatch says a man was detected attempting to scale a wall of the Elysee palace early today. He likely sought entry to the palace garden for a chance to assassinate President Loubet.
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Says & Hiain
Elysee Palace
Loubet
Tammany Hall to read Cleveland letter at Hill address
New York December 22. It is learned that Tammany Hall has received a letter from Grover Cleveland in response to an invitation to attend tonight's mass meeting where David B Hill will speak for Bird 8 Color. The letter will be read at the meeting.
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New York
Get
Tammany Hall
Grover Cleveland
David B. Hill
Bird 8 Color
Fire destroys elevator and depot in Marshalltown blaze
Wire of unknown origin destroyed the B A Lockwood Grain elevator containing 26,000 bushels of grain and 100 tons of coal and also burned the Chicago and Northwestern freight depot in Marshalltown on October 22. Loss estimated at 50,000 dollars.
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Marshalltown
B. A. Lockwood Grain Company
Chicago and Northwestern
Dying Jackson Singer Who Wrote Ain't It a Shame
Hugh Cannon, once of Jackson, Mich, lies dying at the Marshallsea Pa poor farm. The songwriter behind Ain't It a Shame and Bill Bailey began as a Detroit choir boy and later toured with Deming's minstrels. He wrote I Don't Want No Jonah Hangin Around after youthful romance in Albany. Cannon served six days for an $8 drunkenness fine.
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Jackson
Mich
Hugh Cannon
Marshallsea
Thaghie
Goo Goo Eyes
Bill Bailey
Daly
Cannon
Detroit
New York City
Jonah
Deming
Europe
Albany
N. Y
Bomb in the boiler flue thwarted at threshing outfit
In New Ulm Minnesota on October 23 a dynamite bomb with cap and fuse was found inside the boiler flue cover of John Maus and Adam Vinegar's threshing outfit. Had it not been discovered the crew at work near the machine could have suffered serious loss of life. Vinegar had started the boiler when he found the device.
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New Ulm
Minn
John Maus
Adam
Dynamite threat tied to rival outfit in Nebraska case
In Lincoln Nebraska John Flax, jailed on drunkenness, is charged with complicity in a Burlington robbery from ten days earlier. Authorities had kept the case secret, revealing the link to the holdup after a complaint by Sheriff Branson. In Omaha Secretary Wilson toured farmers in Ashland, denouncing tariff tinkering.
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Lincoln, Neb
John Flax
Pattbury
Lincoln County
Nurlington
Lincoln
Branson Aled
Omaha
Uet
Wilson
Agricultural Department
Ashland
Congress
Banker's Robbery Tale Emerges from Chicago Street Assault
Kiwin L. Clark a Mishawaka banker was lured from the Saratoga hotel and robbed. He remains in danger after a brain concussion as doctors decide on his removal home. Prisoners Vanderberg Wiekoff and Nunesie confess and implicate John Martin in the attack with a woman rider after a carriage ride. They say the assault happened near Bloom's saloon at Peoria and West Van Buren streets.
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Chicago
Kiwin L. Clark
Mishawaka
Ind
Saratoga
Io Tallman
John Vanderberg
Thomas Wiekoff
Frank Nunesie
John Martin
Clark
Bloom
Peoria
West Val Buren
Nansie
Martin
Railroads offer 2 percent wage raise to switchmen
Minneapolis December 22 The railroads here yesterday offered switchmen a compromise raise of 2 percent an hour with a 0 cent increase for foremen. Workers had sought 5 cents more but view the offer as a near victory and likely to accept. San Juan Porto Rico October 21 A political shooting affray occurred at Arroyo yesterday morning. A mob attacked several Federals who returned fire. One Republican was killed.
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Minneapolis
San Juan
Porto Rico
Arroyo
Property Quieting Suit in Washington County Iowa
In district court Washington County Iowa Higgins and Myall sue to quiet title on lot seven in block twenty and a described parcel in the original town plat of Washington. Defendants and unknown claimants are notified to appear by January term 10 to defend or risks of default and decree. The petition details chain of title among Hetherington Peckover Walker and others with conveyances by quit claim and joint ownership. The court orders six weeks publication in Evening Journal to notify all defendants and unknown claimants.
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Washington County
Iowa
LD. Higgins
Joseph F. Myall
Plate Tiffson
A. H. Hetherington
A. H Hetherington
Edmund Peckover
Helr
A J. Manning
A. J. Manning
Cohn
Arthur Walker
Ron
Walker
Jonathan Klack
Jonathan Black
Mary A. Binck
Simon Teepe
Richard Decree
Simon J. Teepte
Richard Moore
Washington
O&ce
District Court
Laws
Loto
tHiginos
Josepon HH. Myatt
L H. Higgins
Joseph H. Mynds
H. Hetherington
Mgabraham Lh
Hetherington
A. H
Abraham H. Hetherington
John M. Hole
D A. Kettle
William Peckover
Bonham Martin
Thomas Perry
Simon P. Teeple
Paveramens
A.J. Manning
Bonhar Martin
H.W. Cobn
A. J
Isis
Indi
Manning
Perry
Martin
Colin
West
Mary A. Black
K. H. Quinn
Margaret Mendenhall
Carrie Smyth
Henry H. Ceha
HH. Cobh
Fis
J. L.beookuanr
Asx
Ryan & Ryan
Evening Journal, News
Outrage on a Court Citizens Promise 18 Violated
A mob in Hempstead Texas lynched Jim Wesley and Reddick Darton after criminal trials for assault and murder. District judges had sought militia from the governor. no troops arrived. Wesley and Darton were hanged in the public square amid guards and scattered injuries, as the governor remained silent.
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Thempatend
Tex
Jim Wesley
Reddick Darton
Regiows
Houston
Hempstead
Horton
Ile
Ertointel Accault
Mire
Susan Lewis
Orny
Wesley
Bneke
New President Installed at Northwestern University
Edmund Janes James was installed as president of Northwestern University in Chicago on February 22. Delegates and dignitaries from major U.S. universities and foreign institutions attended. The day included a Fisk Hall reception, luncheon in Orrington Lunt Library, and a formal ceremony at First Methodist Church where James took the oath and delivered his inaugural address outlining the university’s history and future policy.
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Chicago
Get
Northwestern University
Edmund Janes James
United States
Fisk Hall
Orrington Lunt
First Methodist Church
James
Mark Twains Latest Jokes and Quick Baseball Result
Washington reports a satirical letter from Mark Twain offering government bonds and postal currency as winter fuel needs. In Kansas City a women’s heart surgery is noted with six stitches after a hospital procedure. The All Americans beat the All Nationals 5 to 4 in a brisk seventy-minute game.
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Washington
Treasury Department
New York City
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington, D. C
Mark Twain
Kansas City
All- Americans
All-Nationals
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American School of Osteopathy
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