Coal Trust Squeeze Threat Raises Winter Prices in New York
News notes a coal price surge in New York tied to a hard coal strike. Analysts warn households, especially the poor, face steep costs as anthracite climbs toward 20 dollars a ton while stockpiles near city shipping centers hint at a controlled supply. Operators tout possible quick end to the walkout, claiming 112,000 miners stand ready to return.
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New York
The
Herald
Todas Enya
Pola Trust
Noal
Coal Trust
OHS
Weehawken-Erie
South Plainfield
Lehigh Valley
Bull
Coe
Rondout
Delaware and Hudson
Enevh
Sonal
No Goal at Duluth Delivers Coal Shortage Report
Minneapolis dispatch reports no coal receipts at Duluth for six weeks, leaving the northwest short of hard coal. Buyers face refusals as wholesale firms allegedly favor large regular customers, shutting out others seeking winter supplies.
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Minneapolis
Duluth
Northwest
Coe
Johnson Victorious in City Franchise Injunction Dissolution
Cleveland court dissolved Judge Caldwell’s injunction restraining the city council from granting public service franchises including the street railway low fare scheme. Johnson led the challenge and his victory likely signals immediate construction of the low fare line.
Hanna Gets Cane as Cleveland Railway Men Honor Hanna
The 700 to 800 Cleveland City Railway employees, led by their union head, presented Senator Hanna with a valuable cane. Hanna thanked them and spoke on capital and labor relations, endorsing the Civic Federation and stressing manhood, integrity, and mutual respect between workers and employers. He praised efforts to avert the anthracite strike and pledged to keep capital and labor closer together in Cleveland, where he had resided for 22 years.
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Cleveland City Railway
Cleveland, O
Cleveland City RailWay Company
M. A. Hanne
Hanna
Civic Federation
Weither
Labar
Cleveland
Packers Warned Over Beef Combine By Livestock Leader
Denver August 6 John W Springer president of the National Live Stock Association warns against a proposed beef packing combine. He says the organization watches every move of packers and objects to any merger. He asserts packers deny intent but vows united opposition from livestock producers and consumers if a trust forms.
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Denver
John W. Springer
National Live Stock Association of the
United States
Lve
Helena Railroads Seek Lower Assessments After State Board Rises Valuations
The Montana state board of equalization will hear railroad representatives next Friday challenging a jump in railroad valuations from 15.5 million to over 40 million dollars. The decision would raise taxes about 440 thousand dollars, while Governor Toole pushed for a 30 percent increase based on Northern Securities company figures. The governor argues the board has not fully accepted his recommendations and has equalized several lines to match other property values, acknowledging past errors in valuing miles of track.
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Helena
Mont
State Board of Equalization
Toole
Northern Securities Company
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Butte
Anatonda
Pacific
Successul Anandera
eMorgan
Train crash and fire near oil train in Los Angeles
A Banta Fe passenger train struck an open switch in Los Angeles and collided with an oil train. The wreckage and fire damaged cars and engines. details on injuries or casualties are uncertain.
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Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Cal
Banta Fe
Enging
Ae Reinling Company
Collision on Lake Erie sinks City of Venice
A clear night without fog saw the steamers City of Venice and Seguin collide bow on near Rondeau. The Venice sank almost instantly. 43 persons are dead or missing with several survivors. The Seguin took the living to Cleveland and the Venice wreck lay in deep water. The Venice, 301 feet long, belonged to McGraw Transportation Co of Bay City Mich and was valued at 176000 dollars.
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Cleveland
City of Venice
Seguin
Rondeau
Tha
Phater Simonson
Brooklyn
Thomas Flanigan
Duffalo
Ghorgh
Venice
W A. Lavinge
Broderick
Ife
City of
McGraw Transportation Company
Bay City
Mich
Edward’s Return to London Sparks Royal Demonstration
London reports all preparations completed for King Edward’s return tomorrow in a royal special train. A planned street demonstration will greet the monarch en route to Buckingham Palace. The text also notes the serious illness of Most Rev. Robert Mackray, archbishop and Manitoba university chancellor.
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London
Edward
Great Street
Buckingham Palace
Robert Mackray
Rupert's Land
All
Italian Assaulted and Injured in Leechburg Parade Probe
In Shenandoah area an Italian worker was assaulted by about a dozen men while returning from work, an unknown shooter wounding his leg. Judge Patton made permanent the injunction against William Little and others linked to United Mine Workers of America and local brass bands, restraining them from parading Leechburg streets to intimidate miners.
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Shenandoah
Girardville
Here
Patton
Armstrong County
Wallace
Laurens County
Willian Little
United Mine Workers of America
Monongahela and
Carnegie
Has Loathsome Disease Providence Society Leper
Arthur H. Swift once a social figure is declared a leper after a marked change in appearance. He married a society belle and traveled to South Africa after marriage returning in 1897. Swift fled Rhode Island Hospital and then went to his wife’s family home before heading to New Bedford Massachusetts where his family lives.
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Providence Society
Providence
R. J
Arthur H. Swift
Swift
South Africa
Mr. Swift
Himes
Rhode Island Hospital
Superitendent of Health
Chapin
New Bedford
Mass
New York Times Buys Block for Modern Steel Building
The New York Times announced acquisition of a triangle bounded by Broadway West Forty-second Street and Seventh Avenue. The plan calls for a large steel constructed building for its use, with occupancy expected early in 1904.
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New York
New York Timez
Broadway
West Forty-second Street
Seventh Avenue
Banker Skeptical on Baldwin Expedition Return
William Ziegler, funder of the Baldwin Arctic expedition, told the Associated Press he had not received advices from Baldwin. He denied reports of Baldwin’s arrival at a higher port and said he doubted any return.
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Ito
New York
William Ziegler
Associated Fresh
Baldwin
Honninggraeg
Great Nile Dam project transforms Egyptian agriculture
Aug 5 Ar Gouan Egypt Great Britain plans irrigation to expand five crop cycles yearly in the Nile valley by the Assouan and Assiout dams. The reservoir will yield over a million cubic yards of water annually, enabling vast tracts to be tilled, boosting sugar cultivation and floodplain fertility with the Nile’s mineral-rich mud.
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Vaet
Assouan
Egypt
Nile
Argouan
Assiout
Agsouan
Catarice
Ansouan
Cairo
Mediterranean
Nile Valley
Nued
Goluthon
Salt Palace Tragedy Ends in Double Homicide Suicide
At Salt Palace grounds early today J C MocCaslin shot and killed waitress Lot ties Russell and wounded Max Peters. He then killed himself. Reports say domestic troubles with his wife earlier fueled the violence as Peters and Miss Russell taunted him.
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Salt Lake City
Aus
Salt Palace Grounds
J. C. MocCaslin
Lottle Russell
Max Peters
McCaslin
Peters
Miss Russell
Steyn Arrives in Europe and Heads Toward The Hague
Former President Steyn of the Orange Free State arrived at Southampton in ill health. He will be taken to a Dutch steamer, ferried to the Hook of Holland, and conveyed by ambulance to a cottage near The Hague for treatment before meeting Kruger on Monday.
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London
Presiden
Steyn
Orange Free State
Southampton
Hague
Kruger
Hook of Holland
Six Seriously Hurt In Elgin Street Car Crash
In Elgin Illinois on August 5 two street cars collided and telescoped. Fifteen passengers were injured, with several seriously hurt. Among the injured are Frank Minard of Carpentersville with both legs broken, Mrs D C Hunter and two children, Mia Eberlein and daughter who were badly cut and bruised. Passengers were trapped for about an hour.
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Elgin
Aus
Frank Minard
Carpentersville
D. C
Hunter
Mia
M. Eberlein
Storm damages groups in southwestern Iowa crops ruined
A severe early morning storm swept southwestern Iowa damaging crops in eastern Pottawattamie and western Cass counties. Hail destroyed a corn strip several miles wide and Avoca saw lightning strike and destroy a feeder elevator of the Des Moines Elevator Co, causing about 40,000 dollars in damages to the building and grain.
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Iowa
Count Bluffs
Pottawattamie County
Cess County
Heil
Avoca
Des Moines Elevator Company
German Veterans Reunion Draws Thousands in Hamilton
The German Army and Navy Association of North America held a large gathering in Hamilton Ohio with a morning concert, banner presentation, grand parade, and a grandstand addresses by Frank Erling of Saint Paul. A United States choir performed, followed by fireworks and a drill led by Gustave Burkhardt. The event runs through Wednesday with a farewell reception in Cincinnati. The association, founded in 1884, now includes 66 societies and over 4,000 members.
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Army and Navy Association
Hamilton
German Army and Navy Association of North America
Fair Grounds
Grandstand
Guades
Frank Erling
St. Paul
United States
WW. Hermes
St. Louis
Gustave Burkhardt
Cincinnati
Deutscher Kreigerbund
North America
Eiseneye
Situation grows still graver as attacks rise
In Renandoah Pennsylvania the Jitighth regiment camps on a plateau after three stone throwing attacks by a bush band. Brigadier General Gethin orders stern measures with double guards and armed sentries. One suspect Lithuanian William Stoppanitz under arrest. provost marshal seeks others. About a dozen attackers believed. Stepnanita claims four.
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Renandoah
Gethin
William Stoppanitz
Fightr Regiment
Stepnanita
Lyi
Mitchell Sees No Change In Strike Readiness
Wilkesbarre Pa Aug 4 President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers says there is no change in the strike situation and expects no resumption at colleries next week. Old workers have not returned in Lackawanna region where new men operate Oxford mine. Strikers remain confident of victory. Woodward colliery may resume with some old Bremen back. Firemen unlikely to return per State Secretary Mullahy who urges staying away until the strike is won. New coal unions seek arbitration and possible governor action if operators refuse.
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Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Scranton
Oxford Ming
Lackawanna
Woodward
Delaware, Lackawanna ,and Western Company
Bremen
J. F. Mullahy
Stationary Firemen's Association
Public Alliance
Workingmen’s Alliance
Citizens’ Alliance
Sterne
Baldwin on his work in Arctic exploration at Honningvaas
Evelyn B. Baldwin reports success in establishing huge depots of condensed food via sledges at Rudolfland near Italian expedition HQ, at a site in latitude 1 degrees 34 minutes, and at Kane Lodge Greely Island. Depots and camps will enable a large polar dash in 1908, with ice conditions delaying steam depots in 1901.
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Honningavaas
Norway
Evelyn B. Baldwin
Rudolfland
Lstitude
Kane Lodge
Greely Island
Camp Ziegler
Franz Josef Land
Nansen
National Museum
Tromsoe
America
General Smith surprised by retirement from active service
General Ja cob H. Smith arrives in San Francisco after Manila trip and faces forced retirement from the Army. He calls it an unwelcome surprise, says he aimed to follow duties and military law, and defends his campaign against Samar natives while noting harsh combat conditions and the risk of brutal methods.
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San Francisco
Jacob H. Smith
Manila
Portsmouth
Smith
Samar
Millery
Man Put to Death for Barred Marriage Murder at Sing Sing
Ossing New York August 6 Aaron Malle a bartender was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the murder of his sweetheart Mary McCarthy after she refused to marry him. He announced intent to buy a revolver and kill her prior to the crime, fired two shots and she died within ten minutes. Crowds and police reports described his calm demeanor after the killing.
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Aaron Halle
Ossing
Aaron Malle
Sing Sing Prison
Mary McCarthy
Bincen Sing Sing Halle
Balle
Mellarthy
McCarthy
Halle
Commercial Travel Federation Adjourns After Three Days
The International Federation of Commercial Travel adjourned in Ottawa Beach Michigan after a three day session. Sixty five delegates from organizations totaling about 130000 members elected K A Cavanaugh Chicago as president L T De Laurie St Louis as vice president A L Sheets Omaha as secretary treasurer F E Haley Des Moines C C Daniel Columbus and E Trivett Utica New York formed the executive committee. A key resolution called for an interchangeable mileage ticket of 3000 miles similar to the Northern Mileage bureau. The next meeting is scheduled for Mackinac Island Michigan on July 28 1903.
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Ottawa Beach
Mich
International Federation of Commercial Travel Organization
K. A. Cavanaugh
Chicag
L. ‘T. de Laurie
St. Louis
A. L. Sheets
Omaha
F. E. Haley
Des Moines
C. C. Daniel
Columbus
E. Trivvett
Utica
Northern
Mackinac Island
Vatican wary as France threat to concordat grows
Rome reports the Vatican fears M. Combes may denounce the concordat over closed unauthorized congregational schools. Cardinal Rampolla favors delaying action, while some cardinals push toward rupture to block further anti clerical laws. In Chambray crowds protest police closures of nun schools and the breach of walls is used to evacuate sisters amid cheering crowds.
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Rome
Vatican
France
M. Combes
Permier
Rampolla
Republic
Chambray
Heat Wave Keeps Wichita in 106 Degree Peak
In Wichita Kansas today August 4 the city endures a third straight scorcher with temperatures above 106 degrees. Local thermometers show extreme heat across the region as residents seek shade and relief. The heat wave persists with no immediate relief in sight.
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Wichita
Ken
Markets Report From Sioux City and Chicago Hogs Cattle Prices
Sioux City stock yards show hogs at mixed lots around 1.90 to 7.25 per cwt with good and heavy buying. Chicago and South Omaha receipts imply market softness for hogs and steadier cattle. official closes show hogs steady to lower and cattle steady. Kansas City reports mixed cattle and weaker hogs. South Omaha notes lighter demand for sheep and lambs with price dips. South Omaha and Kansas City reflect regional demand shifts while Chicago lists widespread price ranges across hogs cattle and sheep.
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Sioux City
Chicago
Ito
South Omaha
Kansas City
Texas
Pbs
Mullons
Grain and Provisions Market Report Chicago Aug five
Grain and provisions prices quoted with notes on cash market for wheat corn and rye. Listings include Spring and Hard Red varieties with bid ranges and contract grades, along with pork and lard figures and butter market snippets.
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Grain and Frovisions
Chicago
Ieee Spay
Cho Oma
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Cgal Trust
Johnson
Packers
National Live Stock Association
Beef
Montana Board
Lake Erie
Ontario
Times
Salt Lake
J. G McCaslin
Europe
Pennsylvania
Fio
Amy
Soma
Vatigan
Kansas
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