Russia Faces General Strike as Railways Are Targeted
A noon Thursday call by unions in St. Petersburg and Moscow seeks a vast general strike to halt all rail lines. The move is backed by the Union of Unions, peasants, and workers councils amid clashes with the government. Reports detail heavy security, troop mobilization, and protests across cities as agitation expands nationwide.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Union of
Union of Peasants
General Railway Union
Moscow
Rairoad New
Durnove
Orcere
Workmens' Couner
Aty
Jowieh Market
Evers Darracks
Skt
Tanyskoe
League of Leagues
Mliice
Peasants’ Congress
Postal and Telegraph Union
Council of Workmen's Delegates
League
Gt Petersburg
3. Petersburg
Der
Molva
Moscow House
Count Witte
Ananda Rul
NISTH
Florida
Penn
Atlantic Coast Line
Pa. Ave
Race misnomer sparks talk on birth statistics
Chicago speech at Physician Club banquet faults national alarm over race death by own action as based on unreported births. Sup t Bodine cites lax census methods and reports from New York City Philadelphia St Louis and census chief W A King. He notes Chicago census claimed 6900 unregistered births in three years.
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Chicago
America
Physician' Club
W. N. Bodine
Cnicago
América
New York City
Philadelphia
St Louis
W. A. King
Government Census Bureau
Explosion At Fifth Avenue Site Kills Three Men
Three men blown to pieces and seven injured when dynamite in a rock ledge near the Altman building exploded. The blast sent fragments across hundreds of feet and drew guests from nearby hotels like the Waldorf Astoria. Jacobs Metzger and Frank Anderson, superintendents, were arrested on criminal negligence charges.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Thirtyfourth Street
Altman
Waldorf-Astoria Totel
East Thirty-fourth Street
Jacob Metzger
Post and McCord
Frank Anderson
O'Rourke Construction Company
Bank Robbery And Street Fight Reported In Two States
Four robbers dynamited a Bald e safe in Illinois, fired a street confrontation with citizens, and fled in a tied buggy. About $2500 in currency and $1000 in silver were damaged. amount seized unknown. A bloodhound posse pursues. In Iowa, Udell Bank was robbed with a dynamited safe and $50 stolen. sheriffs posse and dogs search for the robbers.
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St. Louis
Quu
Vec
Baldwie
Centerville
Iowa
Udell
Uns County
Sherifs
Woman Attacked by Robbers in Philadelphia Jewelry Store
In Philadelphia a sensational robbery occurred at Mrs. Mary Liggins 1209 North Eleventh Street as two men knocked her down and looted jewelry worth about 200. The pair fled through a back door when a policeman arrived. Mrs. Liggins was found unconscious and no trace of the robbers has been found.
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Philadelphia
Mary Liggins
North Eleventh Street
Trains Crash on Harlem Elevated Kills One Injures Dozens
A Poughkeepsie express and a Stamford local collided on the New York Central elevated tracks near 110th Street in Harlem. One man, James W. Knapp of New Rochelle, died, and more than forty were seriously hurt. Rescue was difficult as tracks towered about thirty feet above street level, with many injured treated at Harlem Hospital Flower Hospital and at the scene.
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Poughkeepsie Express
Stamford
New York
New York Central and
Hudson River
110Th Street
Harlem
Tne
James W. Knapp
New Rochelle
Hard & Rand
Knapp
Harlem Hospital
Emmet A. Seat
I J. Dyer
Conn
Edward Hieler
David A. Lespersnes
Port Chester
Flower Hospital
Daniel Bella
Samuel Foster
Norwalk
Flower Mospital
Grand Central Station
Forty-second Street
New York, New Haven and Hartford
New York Central
Poughkeepsie
Central
15Th Street
10Th Street
Jerry Murphy
Horn
Murphy
106Th Street
Engineer Horn
Express
Connecticut
New York State
Serlong
Christman
Leposit
Train wreck tragedy as engineer jailed for manslaughter
After a collision with the Poughkeepsie express, passengers freed the injured, pulled victims from wreckage, and two doctors administered aid. An older man in clerical dress died among the debris, later identified as James W. Knapp. Engineer John D. Horn was arrested on manslaughter charges and later released on bail.
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Poughkeepsie
James W. Knapp
John DB. Horn
Murdered in Mexico Robbers Escape After Diaz Attack
Reported from El Paso and Philadelphia detail a Diaz Chihuahua raid by highwaymen. Two Philadelphia men, Robert Rutherford Jr. and Murray, were killed at a ranch. A third man, known as Shorty, was wounded but survived. Rutherford’s family, including his wife and infant, faced uncertainty amid sparse details.
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Diaz
Robert W. Rutherford, Jr
Philadelphia
Washington Pont
Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Mexico
Robert Rutherford
M. ©. Murray
Finstad
Los Angeles
Cal
Shorty
Murray
Sarah J. Henson
R. Dale Benson
Anne M. Rutherford
Finston
Rutherford
Pinesteet
West Philadelphia
Daring Rescue From East River Tunnel Cave-In
Three volunteers plunged into icy water to rescue two Italian laborers trapped for over forty hours in a Pennsylvania Railroad under river bore at Long Island City. They guided the exhausted men to safety as pumps lowered flood levels and rescuers finally pierced the tunnel top.
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New York
East River
Pennsylvania Railroad
Long Island City
Lend
Benjamin Lewis
Charles Murdorn
Philip Edlendo
Haasinn
J. H. Corning
Lewis
Edlondo
Laberar
Volcanic eruption on Matatutu grows to vast proportions
The Ven tura reports Mount Matatutu on Savah Island in the Samoan group has risen in force to a 3,000 foot pile with lava covering thirty square miles and a twelve mile lava flow entering the sea. Lava shoots 1,200 feet high as natives flee.
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Honolulu
Ventura
Australia
Matatutu
Sevan
Tutulla
Santa Fe Train Wreck Near Badger Creek Triggers $5000 Reward
West bound Santa Fe train No 17 derailed at Badger Creek bridge near Santa Fe ties. Engineer Harry Davis and Express Messenger Elmer Derrick killed. Two passengers injured. Rail wreckers suspected after steal from Emporia tool house. reward posted by EB Muriey for arrest and conviction. Previous May wreck at Emporia noted with prior $15,000 reward.
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Reading
Kans
Santa Fe
Badger Creek Bridge
Here
Derrick
Koosts City
Mosenger
Harry Davis
Topeka
Eplkes
Kan
Muriey
Santa Fe Railway
Lang Thig
Express
Elmer Derrick
Emporia Junction
Strike May Tie Up Empire in 10-Day Issue
Ancient index lists varied items from strike threats to train wrecks, court cases, divorces, and political notes. It highlights events in New York, Chicago, Warsaw, Shanghai, and Maryland, with sections on senate proceedings, editorial, and social notes.
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New York
Shanghai
Chicago
sHummel
Yoice
Senate
House
Holland
Reform School
Virginia
Maryland
Warsaw
Cadeta
W. E. Parson
Bomb Explodes at Nonunion Iron Trades Office In New York
A dynamite bomb wrecked the Bureau of Allied Iron Trades at 7 East Fourteenth Street injuring none. The blast caused shattered partitions and flying iron fragments as crowds Panic near the Altman building. Police blamed a loaded iron pipe device and restrained a crowded street as officers arrived.
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New York Street
Bureau of Allied Iron Trades
Washington Post
New York
East Fourteenth Street
Budgeman's Union
Post & McCord
Altman
Allied Iron Workers
Wiliam Ward
John Brennan
Palmer
Biddle Piano Company
Tts
Ms Street
Fourteenth Street
Brooklyn
Williamsburg Bridge
Pistol duel ends in Jonesboro with death and injury
In Jonesboro Georgia last night Ben Hill Dorsey a prominent citizen died after a pistol duel with Leon T Milner a farmer wounded Milner reports self defense Seven shots fired near R B Watterson store Dorsey left heart Milner thumb shot off and damaged face Dorsey brother of Atlanta judge R T Dorsey he leaves six sons and two daughters Milner surrendered to Sheriff Brown Corporations in Massachusetts face forfeitures under new law totaling about 61600 Judge Lathrop orders restraining action until fees paid and law followed Baltimore service and local details note hourly trains from seven am to about apm
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Jonesboro
Ben Hill Dorsey
Leon T. Milner
R. B. Watterson
Dorsey
Milner
R. T. Dorsey
Atlanta
Brown
Riots in Shanghai Prompt Diplomatic Salvoes and Boycott Angles
The report outlines US officials not alarmed by Shanghai riots amid foreign control of the new city, with Marines on ships to aid balance. It notes Shanghai’s foreign enclave rules, says Chinese authorities cannot intervene there, and suggests the commercial boycott against the United States persists, possibly fuelled by European and Japanese merchants.
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State Department
Bhanghai
Rodgers
United States
Baltimore
Villalobos
Shanghai
Peking
Washington
China
Shenghai
Europe
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Ide Ail
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Order of Eike
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Santa Fe Railroad
Emporia
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Structural Iron
Boston
Massachusetts
Lathrop
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Vim Baltic Servicre & Obieve Ry
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