Great Battle Between Combine and Strikers In Balance
Pittsburg August 13 Neither side moved decisively in the industrial conflict in steel. Strikers gained in Pittsburg McKeesport Wheeling and Bellaire while mill owners retain the advantage. About 16 000 out on general orders and 62 000 on three orders. Destruction of Chartlers plant at Carnegie offered by American Sheet Steel Company. Leaders plan moves, crowds around plants, police called to clear them. Mayor Black defends orderly response amid tensions. Indignation meetings and warnings from various cities noted.
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Pittsburg
McKeesport
Wheeling
Bellaire
Star
Shatter
Amalgamated Association
American Sheet Steel Company
The
Steel Corporation
Chartlers
Carnegie
Leechpurg
Kiskiminetag
Chicago
Bay View
Youngstown
Cohimiveere
Rtstiminetas Valley
Carnegie Group
Jatlet
Lower Union
Mcskeesport
Riverside
National Tube
Benwood
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
R. J. Black
Tube Company
American Federation of Labor
Connellsville
American Tin Plate Company
Carter
National Tube Works
Black
Striking Steelworkers Gain First Break at Carnegie Plants
In Pittsburg on August 13 ten men left the Lower Union mill to join the strikers, five skilled among them, marking the first defection from Carnegie’s 15,000 strong force. The Bellaire plant closed as workers were short handed, while hundreds of National Tube Works employees at McKeesport walked out. Despite partial gains elsewhere, mills operate with reduced staff and limited material as managers plan to adjust forces at Lindsay and DocCutcheon’s and Painter’s mills.
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Lsittsburg
Lower Union
Carnegie Company
Pittsburg
Carnegie
Bellaire
National Tube Works
McKeesport
Wheeling
Benwood
Clark
Lindsay and DocCutcheon’s
Painter’s Mill
Lindsay and McCutcheon
Trust Charters To Be Forfeited In Indiana
Indianapolis August 13 Indiana members of the Amalga mated Association on strike vow to stop the company by legal action. They assert qua warranto proceedings against the United States Steel Company may not be had here since incorporation in Indiana is lacking but parts are liable and charters of individual factories will be forfeited.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Amalgamated Association
United States Steelompany
Trust strike cuts 31 percent of US Steel output in week
At Pittsburg on August 13 the steel workers strike reduced combined steel and finished product tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation by 4,375,420 tons from an annual production of 14,269,420 tons. Idle mill workers totaled 72,500 while 110,000 remained employed, totaling 182,500 affected workers.
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Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
The
Steel Corporation
Glen
Has She Children Or Not Gun Theft In Cuba And Philippine Appointment
In Washington a dispute over Mrs. Fannie Wadsworth's Philippine teaching post centers on whether she has young children. Her husband claimed she did, while she denied it and noted the children were his from a prior marriage. Separately in Santiago de Cuba, Spanish guns from Punta Gorda battery were hauled away and destroyed by explosives, later found in a forest and deemed old metal. The culprits were jailed.
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Washington
Division of Insular Affairs
War Department
Fannie Wadsworth
Mellwood
Neb
Philippines
Miss Wadsworth
George Wadsworth
Kansas
Manila
Santiago de Cuba
Punta Gorda
Santiago
United States
Spain
Burning Roanoke not the Roanoke ship in fire claim
San Francisco August 13 reinsurance on the American ship Roanoke now thirty days out from Norfolk to San Francisco has fallen to 15 percent. A vessel resembling her was seen on fire about a month ago prompting reinsurers to offer 45 percent for any cargo. It is now almost certain the burning ship was not the Roanoke.
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San Francisco
Roanoke
Norfolk
Husband murders his wife in Shamokin yard
Jacob Gerhardt, a contractor and builder, shot his wife in the rear yard of their home in Shamokin Pa, then wounded himself. He survived with a scalp wound and is in police custody. The crime followed the wife’s decision to separate over alleged parsimony, with she having to wash to support their four young sons.
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Shamokin
Jacob Gerhardt
Gerhardt
Consolidated Tobacco Company of America Mortgage Filed
A Hudson county court filing in Jersey City records a mortgage for 150 million dollars by Consolidated Tobacco Company of America to Morton Trust Company to back 4 percent bonds. Dated June 15 the instrument shows absorbed entities American Tobacco and Continental Tobacco and subsidiaries.
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Consolidated Tobacco Company of America
New York
Hudson County
Jersey City
Morton Trust Company
Consolidated Tobacco Company
American Tobacco
Continental Tobacco
Divorce Granted to Mrs Hall Amid Gilman Fortune Claims
New York August 13 Justice McLean granted an absolute divorce to Mrs Helen Petts Hall from Blakely Hall. She is a claimant to part of the late George F Gilman’s fortune of Black Rock Conn. Also reported a railway wreck in Virginia with engineer H D Trevillian killed and two trainmen injured near Norwood Nelson county. Count Tolstoi to Crimea per Moscow dispatch noting a special railroad car being arranged.
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Gilman Willions
New York
Justice McLean
Supreme Court
Helen Petts Hall
Blakely Hall
Richmond
James River
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Norwood
Nelson County
H. D. Trevillian
Count Tolstoi
Crimea
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Ministry of Fallroads
Riot at Big Rock camp grounds in Jackson Ohio
A bloody race riot broke out at the Big Rock colored camp grounds in Jackson on August 13. White visitors were resented and a fight with a colored man sparked a general melee of about four hundred people lasting thirty minutes. Whites fled as beer bottles and clubs were used. Over a dozen persons were seriously hurt.
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Jackson
Ohio
Big Rock
Mrs. Glass Defends Store as Clerks Sworn on Assault
Great FallsMont August 13 three Clerks union reps were horsewhipped by Mrs William Glass wife of store proprietor The Trades and Labor council later swore to a complaint charging Mrs Glass with assaulting the men The store was declared unfair for disregarding the 6 o clock closing rule while clerks distributed circulars urging boycott Two Virginians Drowned Richmond VA August 13 Stauffer and Taylor of Buckingham county drowned in Slate river while returning from court after high water Faraund Norway 31 200 homeless Fire destroys town leaving 1200 people homeless Loss 1500000
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Richmond
Buckingham County
Stauffer
Taylor
Slate River
Christiania
Faraund
North Sea
Train Robbery at Caney Switch Seizes Express Car and Passengers
August 13 Fort Worth reports the southbound Missouri Kansas and Texas train No. 3 was robbed at Caney switch Indian Territory at 1:05 am. Five masked men blew open the express car and safe, rifled mail pouches, and robbed all passengers. Dynamite blasts damaged the car. $350 in cash recovered, most funds left at Muskogee. Five men arrested at Caney, bonds set at 35000 each. two suspects fled.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Caney Switch
Indian Territory
Caney
Denison
Muskogee
Tulley
Sam Gaines
Railway Mail Service
Caney Creek
Caney Station
United States
Latham
J. B. Davis
Colbert
I. T
Mr. Davis
E. C. Richmond
Bob Alford
George Brown
John Gibson
Tom Edwards
Jack Barr
Atoka
Ball
George F. Tuley
Shermann
Uribe Slain in Battle Fought for Venezuelans
Report from El Conservador via Barranquilla cites General Rafael Uribe Uribe killed July 27 at San Cristobal Venezuela while leading Colombian rebels with Venezuelan troops against invading forces. Colombian officials doubt the news, noting prior false reports of his death. Dr Estrepo disputes it and says Uribe may be alive and in command of about 16,000 men.
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New York
Times
Nerren
el Conservador
Barranavila
Colombia
Rafael Urine Uribe
San Cristobal
Venezuela
Iguaran
Rio Hocha
Barranquilla
Rangel Carbiral
Uribe
Newa
General Uribe
Castro
A. J. Estrepo
Zulla
Estrepo
Empress Frederick
Potsdam
General Uribe-Uribe
Mr. Halls
Hague Arbitration Tribunal
Europe
United States
Police Captain Indicted for Neglect of Duty in New York
Grand jury, at the request of District Attorney Philbin, indicted Police Captain Thomas J. Diamond on neglect of duty as a public officer. Witnesses Lena Schmidt and Rosie Greenberg testified. The indictment cites Diamond's alleged failure to report Lena Schmidt's disorderly house as a suspicious place.
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Diamond
New York
Philbin
Thomas J. Diamond
Lena Schmidt
Rosie Greenberg
Wardman Bissert
Thamond
Politicians in New York Fight Ends in Stabbings
A street fight outside the Gilsey house in front of the wallpaper manufacturers' convention left Congressman Joseph A. Conry and William F. Francis wounded. Police reported three Boston politicians, including Conry, involved. no arrests were made and victims planned no complaint.
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New York
Gilsey
Boston
Joseph A. Conry
Patrick Bowen
Joseph J. Northen
Wallpaper Manufacturers’ Convention
Broadway
Conry
Willam F. Francis
Francis
Exclusion law evaded Chinese smuggling ring exposed
Santa Barbara August 13 Disclosures show wholesale Chinese smuggling from British Columbia into the United States via Santa Barbara Revenue cutter McCulloch has shadowed routes from Puget Sound to southern California with crews inflated by white sailors and Chinese men landed as Abilene fishermen Then to Vancouver and back with evidence of opium smuggling as well
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United States
Santa Barbara
Cal
British Columbia
McCulloch
Santa Barbara Channel
Puget Sound
California
Vancouver
Herford
San Pedro
Santa Barborn
Abilene
Congressman Conry Seen Leading Democratic Bloc in Boston
Boston August 13. Joseph A. Conry is the democratic congressman elect from Massachusetts ninth district and a leading party figure in the city. Joseph J. Norton sits on the Boston board of aldermen. Patrick Bowen, another Boston alderman, is believed the third party member, currently in New York.
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Copry
Boston
Joseph A. Conry
Massachusetts
Joseph J. Norton
Georgia News Roundup Ends with Local Strife and Rail Debates
Rainy cooler forecast dominates today as city and state notices mix with violent crime and political machinations. Reports include a murder in Athens, mayoral actions on chamber equity and Labor Day amusements, bond refinancing plans, and ongoing railway legal fights in Bibb and Macon. Also noted are a lynching threat, assaults in Jackson, union referendums, and international diplomacy chatter from The Hague to Potsdam.
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Maggie Rogers
Henry Lyle
Athens
Mims
Chamber of Commerce
City Hall
Garrett-Pierce
J. W. English
Peachtree Road
A. G. Rhodes
Labor Day
Georgia
Appraisers at New York Are in League with Silk Importers
A New York report claims local appraisers colluded with silk importers to inflate values and defraud buyers. Authorities investigate pricing schemes affecting consignments and sales across major markets, with several firms implicated.
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New York
Silk Import Fraud Allegations Prompt Treasury Probe
New York August 13 a silk appraisal scandal prompts a treasury inquiry. Appraiser Wakeman says he is examining imports to verify proper valuation as officials allege under weighing and backroom payments to examiners. Brown and others allegedly received substantial sums from import firms.
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New York
Wakeman
Europe
Charles ©. Brown
Secretary of the Treasury
Brown
Spalding
Washington
United States
Treasury
Blackmailers on the Rack In New York Inquiry
Justice Jerome led a judicial inquiry into bribery allegations involving police during a probe of illegal resorts. Capt A Vredenburgh and others testified as Park Row pool room owner Delacy and three aides were brought in amid a claimed trap. Governor Odell will not act yet, says no sufficient evidence links Murphy or Devery.
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New York
Justice Jerome
Watson A. Vredenburgh
Oak Street
Vredenburgh
Garvan
Peter Delacy
Park Row
Frank Moss
Jarome
Whitney
Odell
Albany
Odalk
Commissioner Murphy
Devery
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Teachers Flace
Wadsworth
Elaine
Custom House
Blacksite
Express Safe
Bibb County
Artope Anéaninas
Amoena
Southern International Typographical Union
Birmingham
Alabama
Missignippi Penitentiary
Texas House of Representatives
Iwo
Missouri
Texas
United States Steer Trust
Colon
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