Ultimatum issued as coal strike tightens control
Sheriff Harvey warns marching miners to stay within the law or face consequences. President Mitchell denies ordering marches but agrees to seek peace. A conference signals a potential end to the four week strike as talks focus on a 10 percent wage increase and a new regional wagescale plan. In Waxahachie Texas a cotton mill builds a roof and installs new machinery with a large water supply to back operations.
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Hazleton
Associated Press
Harvey
Galvin, Pardee & Co
Lattimer
Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley Goal Company
Wilkesbarre
Mahanoy City
Centralia
Lost Creek
Mitchell
Tdury
United Mine Workers
Heys
Scranton
Weat Point Waiters Strike For Higher Pay
Twenty two waiters at the cadet mess hall at West Point, New York, stopped work before dinner seeking a five dollar monthly raise. Major Hall, treasurer of the commissary, granted the demand. A strike is threatened in two other departments as cadet numbers rose increasing civilian workload. The old mess hall scale was twenty dollars per month with rations.
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Weat Point
New York
Major Hall
Mess Hall
Wharton County Rice Venture Tests Well Irrigation
In Wharton County Texas a large new rice venture is studied with irrigation by wells near East Bernard. J P Taylor F B Davis Joel Taylor and Alex Mudgins back the project on light prairie soil. If successful 500 acres will be planted next season. Nearby at Kountze Broad ranch El Camp irrigation wells already proved successful.
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Wharton
Texas
East Bernard
Messrs
J. P
Joel Taylor
F. B. Davis
Alex Mudgins
Wella
Kountse Broad Ranch
el Camp
Minnesota Tornado Leaves Nine Dead in BiwaliK Minnesota
A violent October tornado ripped through Biwalik and a Finnish settlement near Pike Lake. The storm carved a 200 foot wide path, destroyed shaft houses and three mines, with losses estimated at 75 000 to 100 000 dollars. Nine fatalities and many injuries are confirmed, with more expected as reports come in.
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Minnesota
Biwalik
Minn
Pike Lake
Engines Crash in Monticello Train Collision
At Monticello Indiana on October 8 passenger trains Nos 38 and 34 on the Monon collided head on near the curve south of town. Three men from Indianapolis were injured Engineer James M Covington Laze Noble and Marvin R Maxwell. Both crews jumped as baggage cars were badly damaged and engines buried in wreckage. The southbound train had just left the station and the northbound train was slowing for Monticello.
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Monticello
Ind
Monon
Indianapolis
James M. Covington
Laze Noble
Marvin R. Maxwell
No. 33
Floods Hit Mexican Rivers Near Tampico Destructive Rise
Telegraphic reports from Tampico say the Panucoa and Tames rivers are swelling to historic highs. In the Chila Station area the Tames exceeds fifty miles in width, wiping out hundreds of homes, causing numerous drownings, and washing away villages and farmland along tributaries south and east of San Luis Potosi.
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Mexico
St. Louis
Tampico
Panucoa
Tames Rivera
Gulf
Chila Station
Mexican Central
San Luis Potos
Binbullet Disappears in Greenville Texas Mystery
Sam Kdear vanished from his Mouth Wesley Street home in a case described as somnambulism. He woke twice in the night about 2 and 4 am tried to light a cook stove then disappeared unseen by family. Relatives are disturbed as search continues.
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Binbullet
Greenville
Texas
Sam Kdear
Wesley Street
Bam
District Clerks to Meet in Dallas on 12th
Waxahachie Texas Secretary Treasurer W 8 Kemble head of the State District Clerks association has mailed notices to members across the state for a meeting at the Dallas district court room on the 12th at 10 a m He reports about seventy five letters expressing attendance and expects a large turnout.
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Waxahachie
Texas
W. 8. Kemble
State District Clerks’ Association
Dalla
Dallas District Court Room
Explosion Kills Five at Flatonia Gun Site
A boiler explosion six miles west of Flatonia Texas killed five people and badly wounded six others. Victims include Winkfield family members and neighbors. four dead were children. The gin house was destroyed and debris scattered. owners believed to be Winkfield and McMicken faced critical injuries.
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Koller
Flatonia
Texas
Wink Winkfield
Alice Watsn
Effie Winkfield
Kel Anderson
Delia Cline
Ruby Cline
Polion Wilson
Alice Watson
Effie Lee
Ab Belton
Albert Martin
Henry McMicken
Florie Winkfield
Dime Offer Helps Galveston Schools Seek Ten Months
Miss Hill of Ball High School Galveston urged Superintendent Horn of Sherman Public Schools to mobilize a dime drive by Texas public school children. She and others believe ten cents per student could fund ten months of schooling for Galveston after the hurricane. Horn reports many students support the idea and plans to begin collecting on Monday.
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Register
Tragic Coal Oil Fire Kills 9 Year Old Anna Norment
In Smithville Texas on October 6 Anna Norment aged 9 died from kerosene ignition while kindling supper fire. The can exploded throwing burning oil on her and igniting the stove oil. she died after hours of agony. The house burned briefly but damage was contained leaving a widowed mother with seven younger siblings.
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Smithville
Texas
Anna Norment
Fort Worth Charter Changes Proposed by City Committee
Fort Worth Texas October 6 The committee appointed by the city council to suggest changes in the charter has completed its work. The revision provides that charter officers shall be elected by the people custodian of citys funds to be selected by the highest bidder school trustees to be elected by the people all ordinances are to be voted on by the people the mayor to be corporation judge for public utilities compensation must be made to the city Eight hours to constitute a days work by laborers and city council to have no power to establish workshops for city employes.
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Fort Worth
Texas
San Antonio School Recess Vote By Women Cast
In San Antonio Texas a unique election was held to decide if public school scholars receive a half hour or one and a half hour inner recess. Voters cast 3150 ballots with 2187 for the shorter recess and 1063 for the longer period. Women led the voting effort and no candidates were elected. The issue has long vexed local school circles.
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San Antonio
Texas
Cuero Cotton Mill Plans and Bill of Materials
Cuero Texas October 6 plans for the cotton mill are here. A pie for the cotton mill and a pie is at the post office. It is a fine looking building. Specifications will be ready soon and ten bids will be sought for the erection of the building.
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Warahachie
Waxahachie
Texas
Corliss Bates
Howarth
Cuero
Homemade philosophy echoes in a rough print
A harsh, satirical excerpt reflects on society and morality with clipped aphorisms about greed, justice, religion, and politics. It cites figures like Finnicky Finnick, Johnson, Defoe, Burns, and a note on literary life, contrasting virtue with worldly motive.
Literary Figures and Their Quick Writing Feats
The piece notes Grote spent fifteen years on History of Greece Mulhall nearly thirty years on Dictionary of Statistics Lamb wrote essays after a day at the East India office Goldsmith produced The Vicar of Wakefield in six weeks Cowley wrote most brief poems in a day or less often an unfinished poem in a forenoon Pope translated Homer and produced from fifty to one hundred lines in a session
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Grote
Greece
Mulhall
Charles Lamb
East India Office
Goldsmith
Wakefield
Cowley
Pope
Homer
World records and odd facts from the late 19th century
A collection of varied statistics notes 600000 cases of eggs stored by Chicago stock yards packers, rates of clergy and population in England and Ireland, risks of dipping hands in molten lead, and France’s tobacco income of 329000000 francs in 1898. It also cites 407 Prussian schoolchildren who died by self harm through 1896, about 100000 locomotives, a £135 London jug from 1566, Isai Loun and Arabs aiding paper history, and Kansas grain and bank growth since 1896.
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Stock Yards
Chicago
England
Ireland
London
Christ
Isai-Loun
Europe
Kansas
Elephants and Decrees in History Hint at Global Tales
An 1899 decree notes 13 421 foreigners in Chinese open ports at year end 1898. Paris fixes urban motor speed at 12 mph and 16 mph on roads. The Siam king reportedly trains an elephant corps of about 500 for military use. Some African tribes deem twins a curse.
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King of
Siam
China
Paris
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L. N. Halbert
Brewster
Congress
Damnashun
Pennsylvania
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Rasselas
de Foe
Burns
W. H. Ragin
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