End of strike near as 10 percent wage rise seen
Reports from New York and Pennsylvania indicate the anthracite miners may end the strike early next week with a 10 percent wage increase. Prominent figures like Senator Hanna are seen as central to negotiations while prices for coal in cities dip as preparations for a settlement proceed. Local officials report confidence that troops will be unnecessary once a deal is reached.
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New York
Merald
Mitchell
Shenandoah
Sherif Toole
Pottsville
Gobin
Elliott
Hanna
Scranton
Senator Hanna
Hazleton Strike Leaders Hear Mitchell on Labor Warfare
In Hazleton Pennsylvania President Mitchell declined to reveal any settlement, saying the great industrial contest shows labor’s resilience under adverse conditions. He noted a potential 10 percent wage rise and warned against rushing proposals, stressing fair compensation for labor and the need for a living wage within a sliding scale system.
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Hazleton
Mitchell
New York
America
Racine Water Meeting Seeks Extensions and Lower Rates
A joint session of Racine Wisconsin waterworks committee and the common council discussed a request for an extension and urged taxpaying residents to seek lower water rates. The Sept 20 meeting reviewed committee reports and options.
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Racine, Wis
Special Waterworks Commmitei
Common Council
Racine Water Franchise Extension Deliberations
City council discusses extending the Racine Water Company franchise with reports printed alongside the old ordinance. The company offers 15 percent hydrant rental share for eleven years and 20 percent for the extension, while taxpayers seek lower consumer rates. The company agrees to drop suits against the city totaling 180000 dollars if the extension is granted.
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Tee
Racine Water Company
Water Company
Fifty Men Ambushed in Marinduque Capture Mission
General MacArthur reports from Manila that on September 11 Captain Deveraux Shields and fifty-one men of Company I Twenty-ninth Volunteer Infantry left Santa Cruz Marinduque for Torrijos. They have not been heard from and are presumed captured with many killed or wounded. The gunboat Villabolas carried the party and was captured. locals say the party is in Filipino hands.
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Washigton
MacArthur
War Department
Manila
Devereaux Shields
Twenty-ninth Volunteer Infantry
Santa Cruz
Marinduque Island
Torrijos
Shields
Villabolas
Little Boys the Thieves Convicted in Illinois
Gabriel E Colson and Charles A Colson father and son are convicted by a Mattoon city court jury of receiving stolen goods. Brass journals stolen from railroads across Illinois were valued in the thousands and part of a larger scheme tied to Colson in Chicago. Six boys were sent to reform school. Meanwhile in Philadelphia William Browne Sons wood dealers and Phoenix Mills seek extra time from creditors as liabilities reach up to 1.7 million dollars.
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Mattoon
Gabriel E
Charles A. Colson
Peoria
Decatur
Evansville
Ilinois Central
Reform School
Illinois Central Road
Collitz, Zwick & Co
Chicago
C. A. Colson
Philadelphia
William Browne & Sons
Phoenix Mills Company
Flooding Swamps Arsons Kansas Amid River Dam Breach
Heavy rain for four days floods Arsons Kansas as Labette creek dam breach causes extensive inundation. About twenty city blocks submerged with no early relief in sight and damage to property and livestock difficult to estimate.
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Kan
Labette Creek
Pardoned after serving half of murder sentence in Lansing
Major P Hawks of Lansing has been pardoned by Governor Pingree after serving half of a fifteen year term for murder. He killed his wife in Baldwin and attempted further violence against the man he believed enticed her, before she intervened and was killed.
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Lansing
Mich
P. Hawks
Pingree
Hawks
Tie
Roosevelt Campaign Stops Reach Kansas And Minnesota
Colonel William J Bryan completed his South Dakota tour at Aberdeen after traveling 260 miles and giving a dozen speeches. Governor Roosevelt began campaigning in Kansas with early stops at Jennings Norton and Prairie View before a train schedule to Kansas City. The campaign train includes state and national party officials and plans future stops.
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Aberdeen
S. D
William J. Bryan
South Dakota
Ile
Corn Palace
Bryan
Lee
Nik Point
Yankton
Scotland
Mitchell
Woonsocket
Luren
Redfield
Roosevelt
Kansas
Lebanon
Kas
Kansas City
Jennings
New York
Norton
Prairie View
Campaign scenes and anti imperialist meeting headline
In Canton Ohio delegates from the Daughters of Rebekah greet President with handshakes at the McKinley lawn event. In New York Cooper Union fills for an Anti Imperialist League meeting with cheers for McKinley Bryan Debs and Carl Schurz as speakers preach government power derived from the governed.
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Canton
McKinley
Daughters of Rebekah
Odd Fellowship
Peru
Dudley
Cleveland
New York
Cooper Union
Carl Schurz
Bryan’s Indiana appearance set for Democratic speakers
Democratic state committee completes plans for William J. Bryan’s arrival in Indiana. He is expected to speak Thursday afternoon at the Grand hotel after a Union station reception. parade marshal Irvin Robbins leads the National Association of Democratic clubs event as local clubs confirm participation. One fare rates apply Oct 1 to Oct 4 within 75 miles. larger discounts to farther points.
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National Association of Democratic Clubs
M. D. Yontz
Irvin Robbins
Sullivan
R. BE. Mansfield
Indiana
Buy Rean
Miss Nellie N Russell recounts siege of Peking
Miss Nellie N Russell, a missioner who endured the Peking siege, writes of June 14 to Aug 15 events including the burning of homes, the party’s flight with 71 foreigners and 700 Chinese converts, the death of Baron von Ketteler, and relief forces entering the city amid searchlight and cannon sounds.
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Bessemer
Mich
Nellie N. Russell
Peking
Baron von Ketteler
Russell
Imperial
Doctor survives overdose after family turmoil in Chicago
Dr. Harry A. Jackson of Saginaw Michigan told reporters he valued life but claimed a morphine overdose was not a suicide. He appeared with his wife and brother in law in the county hospital after being found unconscious on a Chicago sidewalk near 1204 Wabash Avenue.
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Chicago
Harry A. Jackson
Saginaw
Mich
James 2. Weintraub
Thirty-fourth Street
Jackson
Wabash Avenue
Tie
Crocker Brigade Adjourns After Biennial Session
The Crocker Brigade association closed its biennial session in Keokuk Iowa with a large camp fire meeting five thousand people watched a rainy parade. Officers elected included H H Rood as president J Hiles Monroe as vice president and D W Bushnell as secretary. Next meeting will be in Muscatine after a contest with Waterloo and Sigourney.
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Keokuk
Crocker Brigade Association
H. H. Rood
Mount Vernon
J. Hi
Monroe
Muscatine
William M. Penn
Des Moines
Daniel Embree
Ames Ia
Mayes
Red Oak
D. W. Bushnell
Connell Bluffs
G. W
Immigration Exclusion Law Gains Mixed Results
Chicago readers see a Washington report on the fiscal year ended June 16 100 showing the contract labor law harms better class immigrants while lures of low eligibility flood the country. It notes a decline in immigration versus the prior decade, critiques of the immigration service inspection system, and suspected abuses including shipments to the Canadian border and unchecked Japanese labor arrivals on the Pacific coast.
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Chicago
the Post
Washington
United States
Department Herely
Commissioner of Immigration Lriterte
New York
Census Bureau
Pritehle
Tn Ts
Triantigration Bureau
Russia
Poland
Germany
Italy
Greece
Ireland
Nore
Immigration Bureau
Muureau
Suapleion
Department Tere
Canada
Pacific Coast
Remarkable Statement by Commissioner on Alien Labor Law
Commissioner Fritchie argues the alien contract labor law harmed American workers by removing low income risks while deporting well off aliens who could have supported themselves. He notes 400 825 aliens landed in New York last year across many nationalities with significant increases from South Europe and the Balkans and rising illiteracy among arrivals.
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Port of
New York
Fritchie
Italy
Slovacs
Europe
South Europe
German Kingdom
United Kingdom
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Balkan States
Greece
Turkey
Roumania
Toronto Jim identified after Northwestern train robbery arrest
Milwaukee report identifies Charles Hughes as Toronto Jim, one of three men nabbed at Portage on a Friday robbery attempt against Northwestern train passengers. Postal Inspector Ralph Bird says Hughes will be sought for surrender to U.S. authorities. In Marshfield, Gottlieb Fleischmann dies after a 20 foot barn fall. aged 56.
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Milwaukee
Charles Hughes
Portage
Ralph Bird
Toronto
Jim
United States
Marshfield
Wis
Gottlieb Fleischmann
Harrison party to return to Indiana after Adirondacks
Ex President Harrison and his family, who have spent the summer at a camp in the Adirondacks, will depart Monday for their home in Indiana.
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Utica
N. Y
Harrison
Adirondacks
Indiana
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