Mitchell Under Fire Denies Charge at Miners Convention
At the United Mine Workers national convention in Indianapolis on January 19, Delegate Robert Randall of Wyoming accused President Mitchell of selling out the miners and attacked his finances. Mitchell defended his handling of the Colorado strike, urged settlement, and denied links to stock-market collusion. The anti Socialist faction, led by Patrick Dolan, argued against committing the union to politics. Several speakers denounced Randall while supporting Mitchell.
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Indianapolis
Colorado
United Mine Workers
Robert Randall
Wyoming
Mitchell
Randall
Howells
National Board
J. L. Gears
Lewis
Wilson
Pat Dolan
Pittsburg
W. BR. Paisley
Alabama
Patrick Dolan
John Walker
Illnois
3Hell
Civb Federation
Rani
Grover Cleveland
Frank Robbins
Andrew Carnegie
Houmestead
Hident Mitchell
Lodaeve
Fie
Dietz
Utah
John Mitchell
Mr. Mitchells
Frankobbins
America
Lanquet
Federation
Frank L. Robbins
William E. Jones
Wyo
National
Randall Tellings
West
Papers in Dawson Case Extradition From Canada Sought
Detective Mark Hagan applied to the State Department for extradition papers to transfer Dr. Edward Bris bane Dawson from Hamilton Ontario to Baltimore. Papers secured from Gov. Warfeld. Dawson will fight extradition, possibly be set at liberty if police delay. Dawson charged with felonious assaults on four schoolgirls in his dental parlors. The piece also notes Roosevelt receives Sioux war bonnet and buckskin coat from Chamberlain Indian School superintendent John Flinn, and other items and travel notes from White House staff.
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Canada
Mark Hagan
Baltimore
State Department
Edward Brisbane Dawson
Hamilton
Ontario
Warfeld
Dawit
Dawson
Roosevelt
John Flinn
Chamberlain
Finn
Nev Ols
Lifesaving devices tested by steamboat inspectors
Supervising inspectors of the Steamboat Inspection Service evaluated a fire indicator and a lifeboat at the annual conference in Washington. The fire indicator demonstrated automatic smoke detection and steam flood capability to extinguish fires, while the lifeboat, built in Lubec Maine, showed buoyancy and water tight exits designed for long voyages with fifteen men aboard, barely dipping when rocked.
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Steamboat Inspection Service
Department of Commerce and Labor
Uhler
Thirteenth Street
Gen. Uhler
Petition to President Aims to End Per Diem Civil Service Exemption
Thirty two General Land Office clerks on the per diem roll plan a round robin to the President protesting that their temporary status remains outside Civil Service protection. They note six years on the roll, equal work for lower pay, no leave, and loss on holidays, urging inclusion under Civil Service rules.
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Civil Service
General Land Office
Interior Department
Civil Service Commission
Bristow retires from Post Office. Conrad acts in interim
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow retires after guiding the bureau. Charles A. Conrad becomes Acting Fourth Assistant Postmaster General until a permanent successor is named. Bristow to serve as special commissioner on Panama Railroad rate inquiry. Secret Service, railway mail officials plan a three week London Paris trip to study foreign mail service. Regulations announce February 1 federal cattle quarantine in much of the South. New counterfeit ten dollar buffalo note reported by Secret Service. Harvard President Eliot sails to Europe aboard the Bluecher.
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Post Office Department
Joseph L. Bristow
Taft
Panama Railroad Company
War Department
Bristow
Charles A. Conrad
Cortelyou
Secrona
Shallenberger
John M. Masten
Railway Mail Service
New York
England
France
London
Paris
South
Department of Agriculture
Eliot
Europe
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Eilot
Robert 8. McCormick
Russi
Belmont Urges Limited Municipal Control Of Transport
August Belmont, financier and subway promoter, addressed the Chicago real estate board on municipal transportation. He argued ownership can be right, but municipal operation is risky and often unsatisfactory. warned against hasty public utility schemes and urged a cautious compromise for Chicago’s street railway franchises. He noted New York’s public plant agitation and urged arbitration and private operation if possible.
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Europe
Chicago
Van
Belmont
New York Subway
Chicago Real Estate Board
Auditorium Hotel
New York
Aly
Robert F. Porter
England
Australa
United States
Suit Under Trust Law Alleges Sherman Act Violation
Samuel Lyons, silverware dealer, sues International Silverware Company of New Jersey in U S Circuit Court for 100000 damages. He alleges a conspiracy with other silverware firms controlling 40 percent of output in the United States and Canada to fix prices and require resale contracts. Lyons says the conspiracy caused him to lose by refused stock sales and price cut impacts.
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International Silverware Company
Chicago
Samuel Lyons
United States
International Silverware Company of
New Jersey
Lyons
Canada
Yukon dismissals cut Yukon government staff in half
A Dawson dispatch reports Acting Gov. Maj. Wood consolidates the preventive officer, mining inspector, and territorial secretary offices. The police will handle recording and inspecting in outlying districts, process applications, and forward them to Dawson. Thirty employees, including all mining inspectors and recorders, are dismissed.
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Seattle
Wash
Post-Intelligencer
Dawson
Yukon Territory
Maj. Wood
Territorial Secretary
Bishop Admitted. Deportation reversed by secretary Metcalf
New York on January 19 William Bishop the English socialist who had been ordered deported as an undesirable immigrant with anarchistic leanings was released and allowed to land after telegraphic orders from Secretary Metcalf of the Department of Commerce and Labor Secretary Kuhn of the Socialist Labor party aided his release Accused of defrauding railroads Otto Schrowang a printer was arrested in St Louis charged with forging validating passes and plates to ticket brokers and held on a forgery warrant His operations are claimed to have cost St Louis railroads between 50000 and 100000 Freight diversion from Omaha and Kansas City to European ports via Western lines via New Orleans and Galveston is under Interstate Commerce Commission inquiry to see if secret rebates cause the shift to gulf ports Relitroore and Retail 125 Via Pennsylvania Railroad every Saturday and Sunday all trains except Congressional Limited
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Metcalf
New York
William ‘Bishop
Department of Commerce and Labor
Kuhn
Socialist Labor Party
Bishop
St. Louis
Jan
Otto Schrowang
J. B. Norton
Norton
Schrowang
Chicago
Omaha
Kansas’ City
Western Lines
New Orleans
Galveston
Interstate Commerce Commission
Palgake
Gulf Arts
Midvale plant capacity eyed for 8000 ton armor contract
Navy officials named a board led by Capt. A R Cougen to inspect Midvale Steel Co Philadelphia facilities and capacity to deliver 8000 tons of armor. If feasible the department may award the entire contract due to lower bid and lack of royalties versus Carnegie and Bethlehem bids.
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Converse
Bureau of Navigation
Board of
A. R. Cougen
Einsien Pryor
Bureaiu of Ordnance
Midvale Steel Company
Philadelphia
Midvale
Carnegie
Bethlehem
Russia Finances Maintain Gold Reserve Through Paris Loan
Russia keeps its gold reserve intact by placing the latest loan in Paris to meet interest on a near four billion dollar debt. The piece describes German, French, and English roles in Russia’s debt, Kokovtzoff’s defense of bond policy, and hopes for American investment to balance European markets amid war.
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Paris
Russia
M. Vladmir Micholaevitch Kokoytzoff
Liiely
Rente Russe
Bank of State
M. Kokovtzoff
Ministry of Finance
United States
England
Port Arthur
America
France
Germany
John Callan O’ Laughlin
Fifty Third Birthday Celebration For Washington Y M C A
The fifty third anniversary of the Washington Young Men's Christian Association will be observed next Sunday with sermons, addresses, and a men’s meeting at Lafayette Opera House. President S W Woodward will read the annual report, Hamilton Mabie will deliver the principal address, and musical numbers from the United States Marine Band and local quartets will be part of the program.
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Washington Young Men's Christian Association
S. W. Woodward
Lafayette Opera House
W. Woodward
Hamilton W. Mabie
New York
Mabie
Outlook
Macfarland
District of Columbia
United States
Maine
Dalley
Lyric
Baltimore
California Association
California State Association
Riggs House
O’donoghue
United States Capitol
Father Juniper Serra
Leland Stanford
James Lick
John Boyer
T. J. Corwin
Wilkins
GC. L. McCauley
Barry Bulkley Lecture for College Athletic Fund
Barry Bulkley presents a benefit lecture at Columbia Theater for the College Athletic Association, with stereoscopic views of Yellowstone Park. The auditorium is rent free. proceeds aid athletic causes. A public auction of boxes and seats follows, hosted by Col. E B Hay for Bulkley’s testimonial next Friday.
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College Athletic Association
George Washington University Athletic Association
Columbia
Barr Bulkley
Cduse
Bulkley
Col. E. B. Hay
Buikley
Columbia Theater
Yellowstone National Park
Shiloh Baptist Church
Board of Education
W.’ Stenton Wormley
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Cleveland
Riano
Don Juan Riano
Legation
Texas
State
Foreign Mail Service
Massachusetts
Woods Hole
George C. Look
Potter
Stella M. Richie
Pennsylvania
Bartonsville
Stewart T. Bellis
Virginia
Hawkins
George
Bandy
John W. Childress
Wilkie
United States Secret Service
Castoria
Yukon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Congressional
Calgoa
Culgoa
West Indies
Navy Department
Naval Court
Barnegat
N. J
Robert M. Doyle
Julian B. Yates
Artilery Corps
Aig
San Francisco
Cal
Fort Terry
Julian L. Dodge
Nineteenth Infantry
Pirot
William #. Bennett, Jr
Twenty-fifth Infantry
James K. Crain
Artillery Corps
Coast Artillery
Artillery District
Charleston
Charles J. Long
Fort Sneling
Minn
Samuel W. Hussey
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Vita
John A. McAllister
John D. Millikin
George H. Casaday
Julien R. Bernheim
Army
J. F.luby
Naval Recruiting Station
D. W. Blamer
Chieagd
Naval
Courtney
Blakely
Wainwright
Richard Wainwright
Gloucester
Santiago
Royal R. Ingersall
United States Navy
Grant
Fort Monroe
Washington Post
Newport News
Frederick D. Grant
Pullman
Oid Point Comfort
Col. Potts
Fort Washington
School of Submarine Defense
Wwilets Point
Steamboat Ordnance
Wilmington
Del
Ordnance
Ordnance Department
United States Army
Pusey & Jones
Annapolis
Yamashita
Naval Academy
League Island Navy Yard
Duncan Kennedy
Texas Society
Wilkinson
L Street
O. W. Gillespie
Fort. Worth
W. H. McNeil
Denton
H. C. Wilmuth
W. BH. Sundarth
Dr.'King
Alldruggista
Finances OF
John Callan O'Laughlin
Inngland
Bismarck
St. Petersburg
Turkey
Ruskill
Empire
Austria
Roumania
Government Aids Industries
Treany
Kendall Baptist
C. F. Nesbit
Assembly
J. Peeile
Fourth Presbyterian
North Capitol
M. E
T. A. Harding
West Street Presbyterian
A. B. Browne
St. John's English Lutheran
Ridout
Metropolitan Presbyterian
Miles M. Shand
Warner Memorial
R. Stewart
Barry Bulkley
Epworth League Entertainments
Epworth League
Hamline M. BE. Church
Ninth
P Streets
Edwin H. Hughes
D D
Foundry M. E. Church
Royal Hungarian Court Orchestra
M. E. Church
Spedon
McKendree M. E. Church
Montauk
Paderewski
Davis Earl Moyer
Paderewski Junior
First Congregational Church
Christian Endeavor Society
Holaclaw
Edna
Beddt Smith
John Tweedale
Elp] Youngs, Jr
Charles Emory Smith
National Geographic Society
Nazi Rifles’ Armory
G Street
Chestnut Farms
Geo. M. Oyster, Jr
Prop
Conn. Ave
Heurich Brewing Co
Heurich
Maerzen
Senate
Yawman & Erbe Mfg. CO
12Th St
Jackson Bros
Graat Cash Furniture House
Boverth
D Street
Hubbard Heating Co
Washington
F Street
N. W
Muir
The
Eesite
Ceres
Zoliet
Tolman Laundry Cor
Oice Yy St
Seolcere
Miy
Ulate
Maryland
Colonial
Ninth Street
Yale Laundry
Oth St
New York Ave
Office and Works
Phaone Main
the Cosmopolitan
Regal
Warner
Safe Curse Company
Rochester
N. Y
Borfington
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