Missions in Trouble Plan to Kaiser's Colonies Teaching English
British officials in Natal and German authorities in the Caroline and Marshall islands clash with American Congregationalists. Rev. James L Barton says Germans mistrust U S missionaries, request German language schooling and German workers. Governor McCallum harshly criticizes Congregational policy, blocking marriages and church offices, inviting investigation and relocation of missions.
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London
United States
Natal
Caroline and
Marshall Islands
James Levi Barton
American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions
Japan
China
Thas
Europe
Henry Milward McCallum
Nata
Associated Press
Barton
Middle Pacific
American Board
National Society of Christian Endeavor of
Germany
Lieberzoller Mission
Pacific Islands
McCallum
South Africa
Italian blackmailers body and arrest after shooting in Blairsville
Giuseppe Giussito an alleged blackmailer was shot dead when he and two companions tried to extort Frank Cieppiano a shoe maker in Blairsville Pennsylvania. A companion stabbed Cieppiano but he survived. One captive man was jailed at Indiana Pa while another fled.
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Blairsville
Giuseppe Giussito
Frank Cieppiano
Cieppiano
Giussito
Indiana
Funeral for Richard Mansfield in New London
Funeral services for Richard Mansfield were held at noon with Rev. Alfred Poole Grant officiating at St James Episcopal Church. The procession conveyed the body to Gardner Cemetery across from the Mansfield home for burial.
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Richard Mansfield
New London
Conn
Alfred Poole Grant
St. James Episcopal Church
Gardner Cemetery
Mansfield
Well Known Milwaukee Resident John R. Goodrich Dies at 80
Milwaukee businessman and social figure John R. Goodrich, eighty, known across Wisconsin for over fifty years, died in Milwaukee on September 2.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
John R. Goodrich
Belding Hall Official Denies Chicago Dispatches
Brinton I Hall vice president of the Belding Hall Manufacturing Co rejects Chicago reports on the firm saying the amount outstand ing is about 80000 not 500000. He states the plant partially shut and about several dozen of the 350 employees laid off as the company faces temporary embarrassment.
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Belding, Mich
Brinton I. Hall
Belding-Hall Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Hall
Jesse J F. Hall
New York
Philadelphia
Automobile Hits Horse Near Noblesville Injures Four
Elwood Indiana September 3 1919 C V Erdman superintendent of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company with Joseph Fibe assistant superintendent J A Kramer and John OBrien were riding back from Indianapolis when a horse grazing roadside dashed into the road at thirty miles an hour. The car struck the horse throwing it into the front seat and bending the steering gear. An hour was required to unload the horse and repair the vehicle. The party reached home at 2 am in a driving storm with minor injuries to the men.
Actress Virginia Harned Regains Sight After Treatment
New York reports Virginia Harned who was blinded temporarily in New Haven due to a strain from flashlight scene photography for Anna Karenina has recovered. She arrived for treatment and doctors diagnosed a temporary paralysis of the eyelids, now resolved.
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New York
Virginia Harned
New Haven
Anna Karenina
Miss Harned
Beaudry Body Recovered After Quebec Bridge Collapse
The body of Honore Beaudry, killed when the Quebec bridge collapsed, has been recovered in Quebec City. Sixty men remain missing amid the search.
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Quebec
Que
Honore Beaudry
Moronto Chico Gored in Plaza de Toros Disaster
Paso Tex Sept 2 Matador Moronto Chico was caught on a bull's horns during the Juarez Plaza toros performance and mangled badly in front of thousands. Believed fatal. Paducah Ky Sept 3 The American Express building collapsed trapping agent A I Ingersoll who was recovered after more than two hours. he escaped serious injury along with three other office attaches.
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Paso
Tex
Moronto Chico
Juarez Plaza del Toros
Paducah
American Express Company
A. I. Ingersoll
Midshipman W A Lee Captures US Rifle Championship
Midshipman W A Lee aged 19 won the rifle championship of the United States at the national shoot held at Camp Perry Ohio. He emerged as the top marksman in the event on Sept 3 strengthening Navy shooting honors.
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Camp Perry
W. A. Lee
United States
Ohio
Baseball scores from Chicago and shifting games
SCORES ON THE DIAMONDS baseball results across leagues with multiple games rained out or shortened. Notable showings include Chicago and St Louis in the National League, Boston and Philadelphia in the American, Toledo and Columbus in the Association, and Omaha and Sioux City in the Western circuit with several games extended to extra innings.
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Chicago
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Brookln
New York
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Cleveland
Meveland
Detroit
Toledo
Columbus
Indianapolis
Louisville
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Western
Omaha
Sioux City
Labor Day clashes and injunctions in national unrest
Samuel Gompers denounces court injunctions seen as denying workers equal protection under law while William R Hearst lauds Labor Day as a national pillar. In San Francisco riots erupt during a parade with police and fire crews contending with labor mobs. Two women shield attacked workers in Steubenville as violence hovers over labor disputes.
Labor parade ends in shootings in San Francisco
In San Francisco on Sept 8 a labor union parade led to two men shot by a United Railways employee. Car men were attacked and fired in self defense as parade disruptors broke through near Ferry and Sutter streets, with a mob pursuing the workers.
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Ile
San Francisco
United Railroads
Joseph Harbison
John Hatton
Mary Magee
Bula Rooke
Harbison
Hatton
St. Louis
Ferry
Sutter Street
Labor Day Parades Hit Rain Across Cities
In New York 25,000 union members marched despite rain watched by umbrellas while horseshoers checked for union made shoes delaying a parade. Cincinnati saw a large Labor Day event interrupted by a heavy storm. Indianapolis reported 20,000 spectators as 5,000 unionists carried flags in clear weather.
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New York
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Indiana
Labor Day Parades Electronically Reported Across Cities
Milwaukee and LaCrosse host large parades with thousands marching in labor celebrations. St Louis and Omaha report 15 000 and 10 000 participants respectively. Springfield records 5000 workers, mass meeting features Max Morris urging workers to fund anti Manufacturers' association campaign.
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Milwaukee
LaCrosse
Wis
Pastors’ Union
Trades and Labor
St. Louis
Omaha
Springfield
White City
Max Morris
Denver
Colo
Manufacturers’ Association
Old Northwest Day marked at Jamestown exposition in Norfolk
Norfolk editorial notes Jamestown exposition will host Old Northwest Day from Sept 3 to Sept 15 with trainloads from Ohio Indiana Michigan Illinois and Wisconsin expected. Gov Frank Hanly of Indiana and Harry St George Tucker lead speakers. Minnesota Governor Johnson may attend.
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Norfolk
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Frank Hanly
Harry St. George Tucker
Johnson
Minnesota
Northwest
Northwest Territory
Illinois
French aeronaut declines Wellman expedition over safety doubts
Tramsar Sept 3 M Francis the French aeronaut who helped Walter Wellman with his balloon refused invitation to join the expedition after expressing mild doubt about the safety of Wellman plans. He was interviewed at Bergo Harbor.
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Tramsar
M. Francis
Walter Wellman
Bergo Harbor
Wellman
Market Notice Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices in Chicago
Market delayed by strike in Western Union offices. Journal to publish prices when resolved. Chicago September 2 1907 hogs receipts 36000 with mixed packers and light hogs ranging from 5.60 to 6.50, cattle receipts 24000 with beeves 4.15 to 7.30, stockers 2.60 to 5.10, westerns 4.20 to 6.00, sheep 21000 natives 3.00 to 5.45 yearlings 5.40 to 6.25 lambs 6.50 to 7.25.
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Western Union Telegraph
Journal
Texas
Sudden Attack of Disentery Cured by Remedy
A Brooklyn woman reports Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured her cholera like illness while traveling in South Dakota and helped her mother with dysentery. available from Cook and Sherman.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Chamberlain
South Dakota
Cook & Sherman
Iron judge John Jay Jackson who jailed Mother Jones dies
Atlantic City reports John Jay Jackson famed for his 1902 injunctions against West Virginia miners and Mother Jones, dies of heart disease at 85. Appointed by Lincoln, he served 44 years on the bench before retiring in 1905 amid union hostility to his anti strike rulings.
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Atlantic City
N. J
John Jay Jackson
Jones
West Virginia
Lincoln
Jackson
West Virginia Miners
United Mine Workers
West Virginian
Swedish Blacksmith Nearly Starved While Money Order Cashed
Richard Reynolds a Swedish blacksmith from Watertown New York wandered the streets of New York in a starving condition with a $10.50 money order in his pocket. He had sent for home and, unable to cash the order on a Sunday, endured days without food until police intervened. He was taken to a restaurant to eat and will be cared for until the order can be cashed and he reaches home.
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New York
Richard Reynolds
Watertown
N. Y
Prince Wilhelm
Reynolds
Driger
Prominent Mine Operator Shot in Cleveland Home
John J. Phillips, a well known Cleveland mine operator, was shot by a burglar at his Mount Union street residence. He died a few hours later after, awakened by noises, turning on the lights when a revolver fired. The case remains under investigation.
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Cleveland
John J. Phillips
Mount Union Street
Phillips
Burnley
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Matador
A. F. W. Ingram
A. F. Winnington Ingram
Edward
Bruton
Williamsburg
Ingram
Oxford House
Gompers
Hearst
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
William R. Hearst
Ear
Sutter
Montgomery Streets
Traverse City
Mich
Sherif Wirth
Bellaire
Isadore
Here
Sister Mary Jones
Isadore Convent
John A. Babcock
Is WiTt
The
North American Commission Company
Chicago, Ill
Organized
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