Miners Slow Roll as Eight Hour Strike Calls Go Out
United Mine Workers order engineers firemen and pumpmen at collieries to refuse eight hour day pay. Early turnout shows mixed strength as pumps stay in operation despite many quitting. Officials estimate 80 percent in some areas but figures vary by company amid a quiet district and no violence.
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Wiikesbarre
United Mine Workers of America
Mitchell
Lehigh Valley
Scranton
Shamokin
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Delaware & Hudson
Erie Companies
Susquehanna Coal Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Nanticoke
Here
Reading Company
Terms are Told Halfoula Wakes the Official Announcement
In the House of Commons crowds gather as an official statement is delivered. Members listen closely to the terms announced, signaling a formal update on the matter.
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Halfoula
House OF Commons
Riot and bloodshed hit Chicago teamsters strike
Riot and bloodshed marked the Chicago teamsters strike as police clashed with strikers and sympathizers on the West Side. A fight erupted when police halted meat wagons in Crosby Street known as Little Hell, with stones, mud, and bricks flying and officers hurt. Women fighters joined the melee. one officer was struck and arrested after a wagon obstruction led to clashes.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Crosby Street
Collins
Terms of Peace Declared in Open Conference
The terms announced by Lord Milner and Boer leaders end hostilities with surrender of arms and loyalty to King Edward VII. Burghers return home with liberty and property protections, schools to teach Dutch, rifles licensed, civil government to follow, franchise timing, no land tax, and a 3 million pound grant plus loan facilities for resettlement with conditions on war debts and rebel exclusions.
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Lord Milner
Steyn
Bremner
C. R. Dewet
Hertzog
Orange Free State
Schalkburger
Reitz
Louis Botha
Delarey
Edward VII
Lord Kitchener
Botha
Dewet
Transvaal
Orange River Colony
South Africa
Orange
South African Republic
His
Desperate Shootout Ends with Death of Patrick Fitz Stevens
In Anaconda, Patrick Fitz Stevens shot Police Judge Hayes and Deputy Sheriff Daly as he sought to kill witnesses at a sanity hearing. Daly and Sheriff Conley returned fire, wounding Stevens, who died later at the county jail. coroner’s inquest absolved officials of blame.
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Viaana
Warm Springs
Patrick Fitz Stevens
Hayes
Daly
Anaconda
Fitz Stevens
Cedar
Cherry
Spelman
Hughes
Conley
Morgan
Stevens
Judge Hayes
Fitzstevens
Joseph Daly
Sherif Conley
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Whitehall
Joseph Chamberlain
Colonial Office
Joseph H. Choate
United States
Henry White
Lord Rothschild
Erill
Mr. Chamberlain
Mr. Balfour
Edward
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Depauty
Joe Daly
Wis
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Deputy Daly
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