Bribes for Strikers Spark New Movement to End Strike
Detroit and surrounding areas report a push by mining interests to bribe Mine Workers locals for 2050 a piece to quit work. District President Michols accuses ex foreman Michael Grimes of leading the scheme, while Grimes and coal companies deny the charges and vow to prove or refute in court.
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Beranton
Michols
Michael Grimes
Nichols
Detroit
Common Council
Smith
Eight Hour Day Proposal From Minneapolis Mills
Minneapolis mill managers reply to the eight hour demand with a wage schedule raising hourly rates to fit an eight hour day. They warn of shutdown or hiring others if the plan is rejected. A strike is set for next Monday if the union rejects the proposal. Also noted are AFL President Gompers calling for the twenty-second convention in New Orleans and a south railroad meeting in Carlyle Illinois. A Cape Town minister proposes liquor prohibition for natives. An elderly man is killed by a train in Velpen Indiana. The Dun and Co weekly review notes continued business activity amid market strain.
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Minneapolis
Cobber poet Lawrence Watson leaves wealth to church
Lawrence Watson of Sycamore Illinois a cobbler poet recluse and large landowner died after a solitary sixty year life. He followed strict diet and wore poor clothes yet helped tenants and stock in model barns. His entire estate was willed to Roman Catholic charities, leaving only Mrs Maurice Prindiville of Chicago as his sole relative.
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Sycamore
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Lawrence Watson
Titneis
Watson
Ile Myey
Maurice Prindiville
Chicago
Reitz Sails from Transvaal Secretarial Post to New York
Former state secretary of the Transvaal, Reitz, has departed for New York aboard a voyage that signals a shift in his political connections and future endeavors.
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Reitz
The
Transvaal
New York
Livestock and grain prices across Chicago Buffalo St Louis markets
Chicago market reports show hog receipts about 21,000 with prices from 5.25 to 7.60 for various hog lots, cattle receipts around 5,500 with steer values from 4.50 to 7.45, and sheep and lambs near 14,000 with lambs and natives priced up to 5.65. East Buffalo reports slower hogs at 7.35 to 7.65, cattle up to 8.75, and sheep and lambs firm. Grain notes from St. Louis and Toledo list wheat, corn, oats, rye firm or dull with specific bid and ask ranges.
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Texas
oTeers Westerns
East Buffalo
N. Y
Bept
Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St. Louis
Board of Trade
Cataclysm in Sicily 400 lives lost across coast
Catalog of a Sicilian disaster reports 400 deaths feared from a cyclone and tidal flood along the east coast, with 124 mile storm path from Catania to the interior, severe damage at Modica and Catania, ships wrecked, and relief efforts under way.
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Syracuse
Sicily
Catania
Ubis Island
Villa Bellini
Modica
Aetna
Strombott
Palermo
Fractissa
Caprera
Ex Actress Abandons Suit Over Bennett Estate In New Jersey
Laura Biggar former actress abandons claim to Henry M. Bennett estate and accepts 60 percent as per will. Heirs’ counsel reveals conspiracy warrants against Samuel Stanton former Hudson county justice and Dr C C Hendrick tied to Biggar marriage and child birth allegations. Stanton and Hendrick jailed after preliminary hearing. Washington moves: Shaw offers to pay government bond interest early with present value figures and to buy 1904 bonds if presented by Oct 15. Roosevelt's leg injury status improving with steady progress.
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Long Branch
N. J
Laura Biggar
Henry M. Bennett
Wilbur A. Heisley
Biggar
Samuel Stanton
Freehold
Miss Biggar
Washington
Shaw
Diplomatic shifts in United States ambassador postings
Washington September 27 announces a broad reshuffle of ambassadors and ministers. Tower moves to Berlin, McCormick to St. Petersburg, Storer to Vienna, Hardy to Madrid, Bryan to Switzerland, with David K. Thompson named minister to Brazil to fill the vacancy. Thompson, a Nebraska Republican figure, is promoted to ambassador status as part of the changes.
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Berlin
Tower
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McCormick
Vienna
Storer
Madrid
Hardy
Switzerland
Bryan
Brazil
David K. Thompson
Nebraska
David BE. Thompson
Stevegan
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Fnally
Laid It All On Herself In Hospital Tragedy
Grand Rapids report states Gertrude Van Orman died in U. B. A. hospital after alleged surgical maltreatment. She kept silent on culpability to the end, and shortly before death sent for her mother.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Gertrude van Orman
Turbulent Weekend Across Rail Strike and Local Notices
Union Pacific injunc tion hearings continue in federal court as strikers contest action to bar picketing and interference with new workers. Separate reports note officer elections for Crocker’s brigade, crop bulletin updates from Lansing and Omaha, and visits by Secretary Root and Mrs Hanna to Canton as leaders travel amid national labor tensions.
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Neh
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Taklvein
Munger
Tatinoeny
Pardoned by Roosevelt for 1880 Japan murder case
Washington reports President Roosevelt granted a full and unconditional pardon to William Dinkella who was convicted in 1880 before a United States consular court in Japan for the murder of Charles H. Abbott, first mate of the ship Centennial, in Heigo harbor. Dinkella has served over twenty-two years, and premeditation was deemed absent, with good conduct cited.
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William Dinkella
United States
Japan
Charles H. Abbott
Centennial
Heogo Harbor
Diakella
Albany
Abbott
Argentine Chilean alliance talks and South American tensions
A Panama talk on an Argentina Chile alliance surfaces amid US intervention fears. Chilean General Entilio Korner advocates unity for a South American state, while reports from Acre note battles between Galves revolutionists and Bolivian forces and a Bolivian commandant’s execution.
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Tut
Santings
Entilio Korner
Korner
Acre
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Jornal Do Commercio
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Galves
Lunes
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Puerto Alonzo
Remere
Clergy Debt Grilling Sparks Debate At Indiana Conference
Methodist Bishop Tathe Matnty rebuked indebted ministers during the Indiana conference in Terre Haute. He warned against leaving charges unpaid and threatening back salary suits, stressing ministers must pay their bills or not be reappointed. The bishop also pressed candidates for deacons orders on moral questions before approval. William D. Huber of Philadelphia was reelected president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Malini, former president of the Pilipino supreme court, refuses to take the oath of allegiance.
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Ind
Grant
Indiana
African Methodist Episcopal Church
William D. Ifuber
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Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Malini
Pilipino Supreme Court
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