President Roosevelt starts on a two months’ outing, his trip to include a reunion of his old Rough Rider regiment and hunting excursions in Texas and Colorado. He states that he leaves Secretary of War Taft “sitting on the lid.”
Charles H. Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners, sues ex-Governor James H. Peabody and others for $300,000 for false imprisonment during the Colorado strike.
April 4.—At a municipal election in the city of Chicago Edward F. Dunne (Dem.) is elected Mayor over John M. Harlan (Rep.) by a majority slightly exceeding 24,000, thus reversing the immense majority of over 60,000 by which Theodore Roosevelt carried the city five months ago. The issue in the campaign just closed was that of municipal ownership of the traction lines, Judge Dunne standing for immediate city ownership of these utilities.
Rolla Wells (Dem.) is re-elected Mayor of St. Louis by small plurality.
President Roosevelt is given an ovation in Louisville and other cities on his way to Texas.
General Home News
March 7.—The strike continues on the New York Subway and Elevated railways. The Subway trains are run intermittently by “strike-breakers,” resulting in one accident, seriously injuring over a score of people.
March 8.—The Mayor of New York offers to arbitrate the Subway strike. The workingmen accept the offer, but the company declines.
The Standard Oil Company, in retaliation for adverse legislative action in Kansas, refuses to admit low-grade oil from that state to its pipe lines, thus shutting off from the market three-fourths of the output.