Question Over Rail Roads and Strikers Deadlocked
Chicago July 16 nearly paralyzed wholesale trade as freight handlers and railroads refuse concessions over a half cent per hour per man totaling about 800 a day for 24 hours. Committees met managers thrice with no result while unions threaten escalation and merchants warn of rapid damage if unresolved within a week.
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Chicago
Curran
Milwaukee & St. Paul Road
O Finteh
South Water Street
Harrison
Young
Teamsters’ National Union
Commission
Floods Hit Iowa Corn, Cucumber Losses Rise
Widespread flood damage reported across Keokuk and Clark counties as the Des Moines river floods rise eight feet at the mouth and levees break. The Keokuk Canning company suffers $10,000 losses with farmers facing much more, while railroad tracks and bridges suffer washouts along the Skunk River and lower Des Moines.
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Keokuk
Clark County
Des Moines
Given
Ows
Here
Ottumwa
Weather Bureau
Marshalltown
Iowa
Iowa Central Railroad
Oae
Nugent
Pinger
Oskaloosa
Iowa Central
Searsboro
Eddyville
Ka Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Lawrence
Ness River
Robbers Hold Up Denver & Rio Grande Train
A Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge passenger train was halted west of Marshall Pass by four masked men who forced the engine to stop at gunpoint. They blew open two safes in the express car, took valuables from passengers, many of them tourists, and escaped on horses into the surrounding mountains. Local sheriffs and county officers joined the pursuit.
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Asengers
Thetr
Marl Pass
Fifteen Horses Burned in Minnesota Lumber Yard Fire
Crookston Lumber Company barn and mill at St Hilaire Minnesota were destroyed by fire. Fifteen horses and large feed stock were burned. Firemen saved key mill buildings. loss estimated near ten thousand dollars.
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Hilaire
St. Hilaire
Minn
Crookston Lumber Company
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North Dakota
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C. B. Boothroyd
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City Dray Line
John Heffernan
Prop
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Kota
D. Bell
A. A. Austill
Bell & Austill, Undertakers
Buford and Culbertson
Bread Office
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London
Edward
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Havana
Cienfuegos
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Maj. Waller
Norfolk
Maj
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A. P. Thomas
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Little Boy
Deadwood
Pine Ridge
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J. Fi. Belyea
Bruegger Merc. Co’s
Fort Buford Lodge
Hea Wedueedey
Bevyza
T. Lucas
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Tress
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X 'E. Pavpwouuz
R. T. Lucas
Mount Moriah Lodge
Sbenesa Brownell
W.M. C
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W. WA. Stewart
Copeland
Overson
Copeland & Overson
City Meat Market
Sherry
Son
Hanson
Brownell & McPhee
Board of Trade
Minneapolis
Duluth
Star Meat Market
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Ole Thorsen
Nelson, N. D
Barstad
Kbove
Halfo
Hoffiend
Williams County
N. D
Wiltieton, N. D
F. A
R. A. Jones
Elton
K3uan
Apetm
Montana
P.O. Sodveers Buford
B. A. Jones
Frank Conlin
Baker’s Landing
Wallace County
Williama County
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Ross Horse Co
John A. Ruse
Tong Creek
Daugié
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M. G. Markel
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