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A brief note reports a strike action terming it as ongoing with involvement from unnamed workers. No specific parties or dates are given in the readable fragment. The item reads as a short update on labor activism.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1901
Page
1
A brief note reports a strike action terming it as ongoing with involvement from unnamed workers. No specific parties or dates are given in the readable fragment. The item reads as a short update on labor activism.
McKeesport and Wilkes-Barre report a conference between United Mine Workers and Stationary Firemen’s Association aimed at ending the stationary firemen strike. Leaders indicate a possible end if miners avoid discrimination and reinstatement is granted.
In McKeesport 125 National Tube Works workers are organized by Amalgamated Association official Tighe. Twenty five skilled men from each department are initiated. The union expects to recruit enough additional workers within 48 hours to keep the plant shut down, affecting about 9 000 men. Rumors from Wellsville add little new information.
The article describes planned efforts to reemploy nonunion workers at mills in the Pittsburgh area. Ten Vandergrift men are ready to report to East Liverpool, while strikers pledge no overt acts. President Shaffer reports improved conditions, broad support from labor groups, and continued plans to press the campaign. The Boston Tron & Steel 22 inch mill at McKeesport resumes after a three week shutdown for repairs.
A late report from McKeesport says strikers, amid rumors of imports of 200 workers, picketed the town and halted people for ID. Police dispersed them at 2:45 AM as railroad workers began moving freight cars and strikers regrouped to rush the cars. Developments remain uncertain.
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Great Falls reports burglars forced a transom in Caveidy and Murphy’s saloon on Third Street South. They opened the cash register with a wagon spring, stealing 200 dollars. 90 dollars belonged to the firm and 110 to a friend staying there for safekeeping. Police have no suspects. The case is under quiet investigation with hints of developments.
Seven women led by Mrs. H. H. Grover raided a town tent joint in Eldorado Kansas and dumped a tub of bottled beer. The sheriff ordered the operator to quit after taking liquor samples as about five hundred residents watched. A second joint fled with stock loaded into a wagon. The town had gone wet at the last election and joints now run openly.
Mrs. Mary E. Dickens attacked John Batchelor's policy shop on Shawnee street with a hatchet last night after about a dozen men gambled there. She smashed a policy wheel into a hundred pieces and warned she would wreck every policy shop in town until authorities close them.
In Kroonstad on July 21 reports say Major Pine Coffin surprised a Boer commando at Honingspruit on July 19. Commandant Hatting, two sons of General Prinsloo, and 24 others were captured while 17 were killed or wounded.
The semi annual conference of the Mormons of Oregon was held in Portland. The report shows Oregon membership now upward of 2,500.
Francesco Crispi the Italian statesman is ill with a weak heart in Naples prompting renewed concern from officials and supporters.
A terse statement reflects belief that prayers do not reach expected outcomes in other places, suggesting disappointment or resignation regarding divine response beyond immediate circles.
On July 21 Governor Dockery called for fasting and prayer amid record heat. St Louis reached 106 degrees, with higher readings in exposed areas. churches prayed for rain while many suffered prostrations. Other cities reported extreme highs from 100 to 114 degrees across Missouri.
A heat wave hits the central western states with many 100 degree readings across Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Iowa Missouri Ohio and Illinois. Chicago reaches 100, Kansas City logs 18 straight days at or above that mark as rain remains scarce and crops suffer ahead of possible relief via local storms.
The Weather Bureau bulletin reports a nationwide heat wave with no rain seen. Iowa Missouri and Illinois report record highs including 106 in Davenport Dubuque Springfield and St Louis. Kansas City records 100 plus for 18 days and 34 days above 90 without interruption.
Chicago officials report all time high heat records for the city as the government thermometer hit 103 degrees. Residents faced extreme heat with 3 to 5 degree hotter street conditions and a stifling southwest wind. From dawn the temperature rose from 77 to a peak at 4 30 pm, then fell after a lakeward wind shift. Prostrations increased and police ambulances operated citywide to aid those overcome by heat.
Weather across Europe remains hot with London posting 88 degrees, while many regions expect relief. Lightning strikes climb into dozens across England Germany and Holland with fatalities in Austria Tyrol and Palau France as children die attempting to ring bells to avert storms.
The city logged a 4 p.m. temperature of 1644 and street readings of 93 at 11, the 32nd day of the hot spell. Nine deaths from heat occurred in Kansas City Missouri and Kansas. Prayers for rain were held across churches, but no meaningful rainfall arrived, worsening the drought conditions.
Omaha Nebraska July 21 with the exception of July 26 1894 the city marks its hottest spell in 27 years. Thermometer hit 99 at 11 am rising to 104 8 10 by 4 15 pm and 104 by 6 pm. No rain and south winds add to discomfort. Four prostrations reported, no relief in sight.
Denver reports extensive fires due to a long dry spell. Timber fires burn near Mount Evans Longs Peak and the Kenosha range. Prairie fires devastate Baca and Prowers counties stock-raising districts. Water shortages alarm officials and ranchers.
Over the past three days about 150 counties report good rains in Texas while a central group of large cotton counties saw no rain. Today showers extend across South Texas aiding crops in most regions.
Indianapolis on July 21 recorded an official high of 99.8 but street readings reached 107. The heat was noted as the hottest in several years with the day affecting activity around the drill ground of the Indiana.
About 10 000 attendees filled the Mechanics Pavilion for the Epworth League convention finale in San Francisco. Delegates depart on side trips while many plan return journeys as resolutions praise missions and condemn the army canteen.
Bishop Teane W. Joyce praised the Epworth League International Convention in San Francisco. He noted high attendance, superior discussions, and a delightful brotherly spirit, crediting San Francisco and transport services for the event's success. Rev. Joseph F. Berry called it the most remarkable in the organization's history with enormous attendance and unusually strong speeches.
San Francisco July 21 Chinese Consul General Ho Yow issues a five page typewritten reply to the labor council arguments for Chinese exclusion. He asserts that raising the bar harms commerce and labor and that China trade would suffer without openness. He ends by urging adherence to the golden rule.
Berlin correspondent reports reduced depths at the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal mouth and Elbe entrance since 1895, indicating a rise of the north sea coast or sinking sea level. The Standard notes water depth fell by 16 to 18 feet at the Elbe mouth.
A B Cummings republican candidate for governor was thrown from a buggy during a runaway near Strawberry Point en route to Elkader. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and body bruises but no serious injuries reported.
Europeans in Tientsin expect firmness from the powers to prevent recrudescence of trouble. Li Hung Chang reportedly adopts an off-hand tone toward the provisional government and aims to oust it. Chinese resume cutting telegraph wires, Christians travel unarmed with protection promised, while officials like Sheo Yang Hsien face exile and Sir Ernest Satow protests for immediate decree fulfillment.
London reports July 22 that a decree exiling a Chinese magistrate issued during a mission to Taiyuenfu Shansi still leaves him in his official post. Missionary party led by Major Periera accompanied the probe into local conditions.
London reports from the Shanghai correspondent of the Standard that serious secret society disturbances have broken out in the Hsinghwa districts of the province of Fokien. The dispatch notes heightened tensions and calls for cautious observation of the unrest.
Fort Sill Oklahoma July 21 Disorder and distress are feared when the Kiowa Comanche reservation opens August 6. About 15 000 seek 13 000 claims by lottery as registration closes July 26. Many campers lack money and provisions. drought and a hot wind keep temperatures above 100.
At 1:30 a band of armed African Americans rode into Cleveland Mississippi stopping three white men on Main Street and firing when asked for names. One black man was killed another wounded, others fled. The incident followed Jesse Phillips lynching and fears of vengeance by lodge members. Squads patrolled streets as tension remained high.
A large prehistoric city is reported unearthed on the Navajo Indian reservation between Durango California and Farmington New Mexico. The discovery includes a palace with about 1000 rooms and another stone castle with 100 rooms. Artifacts and woods found are sent to the Smithsonian and the site is deemed scientifically and ethnologically valuable dating before Aztec occupation.
The Austrian Council of Agriculture prohibits all future delivery grain dealings after a report from Consul Warner of Leipsic Germany found suits cannot recover losses in such transactions. The council unanimously urged the government to suppress the practice throughout Austria-Hungary.
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