Narrow Strike Area Expands as 371000 Masons Ready
The piece reports about 231000 of 269000 bituminous miners set to strike, joining anthracite workers to form an armed 371000, with magnates Baer and associates resisting union demands. President Roosevelt's pressure influenced officials to meet miners, while Mitchell predicts strike impact will shrink by 60 percent as Robbins mines open and many operators resume work to avoid losses.
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Ptrugg Ua
Baer
Roosevelt
Mitchell
Robbins
Philadelphia
New York
US Interstate Commerce Unit Eyes Court Action on Freight Fraud
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission plans to certify cases of under-billing and misdescriptions to the Justice Department for criminal indictments after completing hearings in other cities. Additional probes into Buffalo and Philadelphia are set for April as the commission aims to curb the frauds through drastic court action.
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Washington
New York City
The
Interstate Commerce
Commission
Department of Justice
Buffalo
Philadelphia
New York
Train falls into ditch near South Whitley Indiana
Nickel Plate passenger train No 2 left the track near South Whitley while approaching Fort Wayne in April. The smoker coach and five sleeping cars overturned in a ditch, injuring 23 people. Engineer Samuel K Hooper said speed was about 45 mph. Only baggage car and rear dining car remained on track as rails possibly spread or breakdown occurred.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
South Whitley
Samuel K. Hooper
Dynamite Blasts Kill and Injure Workers in New York
Two separate explosions in New York on April 2 maimed and killed laborers at the Pennsylvania railroad extension. In a tunnel blast at Thirty-third Street and East River eight men were injured, three seriously. Earlier at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-third Street a fatal accident occurred amid wreckage in a new terminal area. Also reported is a fatal cabman shooting in Manhattan involving James Ahearn and James Black. No indictments were returned in a county treasurers’ gratuities case in Cincinnati. A. D. Keith Jr., former editor of the Butte Miner, died of heart failure at 65.
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New York
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-third Street
Pennsylvania Tunnel
East River
James Ahearn
James Black
East Sixty-third Street
Mary Woods
Black
Ahearn
Cincinnati
Grand Jury
Butte
Mont
A. D. Keith, Jr
Butte Miner
Northwest
Death by Own Action in Zee land Farm Home
Mrs Frederick Hochhalter Jr wife of a farmer near Zee land shot herself after her husband left the house The gun rested on the sewing machine and a string tied to the treadle fired the weapon The brains were scattered The woman had arrived from Russia last fall and had been married a short time No reason is known for the act. The Soo railway tax dispute in Barnes county moves toward the supreme court An Interurban railway planned from Jamestown to Courtenay and Wimbledon is proposed The wreck at Eckman ends in the burning death of Mrs W A McCord
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America
Russia
Bismarck
Barnes
Soo Railway
Barnes County
Oppegard
Supreme Court
Russell
Eckman
Here
W. A. McCord
Woman Dead in Burning House After Infant Saved
A man entered a burning structure and found his wife dead near a door, with the clothing burned off. A two year old infant on a bed in the room was saved from suffocation. News items from Fargo and surrounding towns include bids for a Blind Asylum in Bathgate, and various local developments such as irrigation, bridge work, and court house discussions.
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Williams County
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Inlan
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Commerce Commission
Nickel Plate Road
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Jamestown
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Morris Beck
Edward Russell
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John J. Nierling
Spiritwood Lake
Courtenay
Wimbledon
Blind Asylum
Bathgate
Fargo
Pargo
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News Not
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Linton
Court House
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Hildreth
Insane Asylum
Sheyenne
Sheyenne River
Elks
LaMoume
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Richland County
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Otto
William Schrider
Haver
Webb
Williston Implement Co
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Garry
Plymouth
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Williston, N. D
Mandolin
Wm. Snyder
M. D. W Williston
Alal Howell & CO
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Pau Minn
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Addrese
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William Gounty
Ole Thorsen
Postoffice Addrese
Nelson, N. D
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Shoulder
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Williama
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