Coal miners strike widens as prices surge and districts shut
The coal strike in Pennsylvania grows with 112,000 miners reportedly out or ready to join. Four districts Lackawanna Wyoming Lehigh Schuylkill see near total tie ups while violence stays minimal aside from a minor incident. Operators claim many mines run and warn funds may fail the union, as prices rise from 6 to 7 dollars and potentially higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers’ Union
Lackawanna
Wyoming
Lehigh
Schuylkill
Lehigh Coal Company
United Mine Workers
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Hollenback
South Wilkesbarre
Stanton
Sugar Notch
Lance
Nottingham
Wanamie
Reynolds No. 16
Maxwell
Susquehanna Coal Company
Wanticoke
Glen Lyon
St. Louis
New York
Global and Local Politics Sweep the Era Across Continents
A wide mix of 19th century news items spans Scotland to Georgia. Plague in Glasgow and new Prussian coal mines, with political campaigns abroad. U S expeditionary force movements in Asia, census shifts in Augusta Butte and Sacramento, and labor tensions in American industry. They mingle with parliamentary intrigue and cultural notes on figures like Ochiltree and Cyrus Field Adams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrus Field Adams
The
Times
Metz
George K. Smith
Pittsburg
Phil
Augusta
Supreme Council
Boston
Henry L. Palmer
Butte
Mont
Shan Hai Kwan
Humphrey
United States Expeditionary Force
Col
Samuel S. Sumner
Tin Tsin
Hhe
Germany
Cologne
Grenola
Kas
Elmer Hicks
New York
Barker
Georgia
Texas
Nebraska
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Minnesota
West Virginia
Kentucky
Kansas
South Dakota
TEXANETTES Dallas gets a medical college in Texas
Various Texas notes report Dallas to host a new medical college while Galveston sees the state university medical branch reopen mid November. Reports cover rail and oil incidents including fatal wrecks near Texarkana and Richardson, a new militia unit in Ladonia, street bonds for Bryan, and oil finds at Arlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Order of the Alamo of Palestine
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
Galveston
University Regents
The
State University
Richardson
Dallas
James Bervins
Arlington
Tarrant County
Houston
Powell
Navarro County
Ladonia
Bryan
Thorne
Aubrey Dramatic Company
Fort Worth
Percy Tanner
J. W. Blake
Sherman
Grimes County
St. Louis
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Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Shamokin
Mineral Railroad and Mining Company
Cameron
Luke Fidler
Union Coal Company
Hickory Swamp
Hickory Ridge
Richards
White & White
Reliance
Alaska
Locust Gap
Treveston
Henry Clay
Midvalley
Lykens Valley
Summit Branch Coal Company
Williamstown
Lykens Valley Coal Company
Short Mountain
Lyttle Coal Company
Lyttle
William Penn
Reading Company
Mahanoy
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Mill Creek Coal Company
Mill Creek
Lentz, Lilly & Co
Park Place
Coxe Bros & Co
Coxe Bros. & Co
Markle & Co
Calvin Pardee
Colerain
Audenedid
Idle
Springbrook
Spring Mountain
Hazleton
M. Dodson
Beaver Brook, Idle
Silverbrook Coal Company
Pennsylvania Coal Company
West End Coal Company
Macanaqua
Lehigh Region
Philadelphia
Reading
Aller
Easton
Glasgow
Scotland
Prussia
Jones
David B. Hill
Tammany Hall
St. Paul
Montreal
Hill
Savannah
Winoha
Minn
Thomas P. Ochiltree
London
Sacramento
Cal
Pueblo
Cuba
Gen. Wood
James J. Corbett
London Echo
National Sporting Club
James Brown
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Birmingham
Ala
Europe
Mr. Brown
American Car and Foundry Co
Bloomburg
Coats
Clarke Company
Brooks Company
North Texas
Texarkana
Elijah Smith
Third District
Mineola
DeGraffenreid
H. G. Clifford
Dragoon Mining Company
Grant County
New Mexico
el Paso
Gov
Sayers
Brookshire
Waller County
Brook- Shire
Citiegens
Patterson
Sam Beckham
Katy Depot
Greenville
Monett, Mo
Edna J. A. Bolling
Bolling
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Jackson County
Mayfield
Whitesboro
Bonham
A. C. Melugin
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company
Agnes T. Junkin
Richmond
Masonic Home
Horace Chaster Eitle
B. F. Eitle
McGregor
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