Mitchell slips quietly away as miners strike enters third month
President Mitchell of the miners union left Wilkes-Barre for New York to confer with labor leaders about aiding striking coal workers. In New York he planned talks with railroad and other unions, with return expected tomorrow for a delegates’ meeting at Nanticoke. Officials foresee a September 1 strike if concessions are not offered, while coal prices may stay steady or rise.
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Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
Miners' Union
New York S
New York
Associated Press
Metropolis
American Federation of Labor
Ther
Fta
Nanticoke
Tamorrow
Exambouras Duthposéd of
Rhiners
Giliiers
John Whitchen
United Mina Workers
Europe
Indianapolis
Baltimore Strikes Loom As Garment Workers Refuse Work
About 500 pants makers and pressers in Baltimore plan to strike tomorrow morning, halting 200 small shops including sweat shops. The walkout targets machines and tools costs borne by workers, seeking contractor supplied equipment in future contracts.
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Baltimore
Pants Makers' Union
Ana
Eam
Pope Celebrates Vatican Anniversary With Fetes
At the Vatican, July 6, American college members and Philadelphia clergy attended a ceremony for the pope’s twenty fourth coronation anniversary. A chorus, banners, and pigeons marked the fete while the pope’s health and spirits were reported improved by his physicians. A noon dinner for 150 Rome’s poor followed, with Cardinal Respighi and several prelates present.
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Rome
American College
Thomas Kennedy
McCate, McCourt and Mullin
Philadelphia
Vatican
Papal
Belvidere
Cardinal Respighi
Probability of Strike Denied by Rock Island Firemen Chief
J J Hannahan of Chicago acting grand master of the United Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen says there is no probability of a strike on the Rock Island route. He spent July 6 in Chattanooga preparing for the group’s September meeting and refuted rumors reported by the Associated Press. He emphasized strong ties and cooperation between Rock Island officials and firefighters.
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J. J. Hannahan
Rock Island Firemen
Chattanooga
Tenn
Chicago
United Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of America
Read House
Hannahan
Rock Island
Mr .Hannahan
Rock Island Firemen to Meet Grievance Panel in Chicago
Kansas City dispatch reports officials of the Rock Island and the firemen grievance committee will confer in Chicago on July 15 to seek an agreement. Firemen demand 20 cents extra per 100 miles and restoration of those discharged for refusing the engine-wiping order. If not granted, a strike is threatened with potential sympathy walkouts by engineers, brakemen, and conductors.
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Rock Island
Kansas City
The
Star
Morrow
Chicago
Louisville and Nashville Plans Big Shop Construction
The Courier-Journal reports Louisville and Nashville railroad plans to build general shops in South Louisville with an authorized expenditure of 1,000,000 dollars. Randolph Curtis, new mechanical engineer, along with Leeds and Montfort aides, study modern shop layouts after visiting eastern facilities. work to begin soon.
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Louisvile
Courier-Journal
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Louisville
Randolph Curtis
Leeds
R Montfort
Curtis
Louisville and Nashville
Britons Complain of Loss of Rare Books to U S Buyers
The Times reports Americans acquire a seven hundred item collection of rare and illuminated manuscripts. It includes thirty-two Caxton press items and select books from William Morris's library. The article questions continuing wholesale exports and notes the anonymous donor.
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London
The
Times This
United States
Caxton
Wiliam Morris
Europe
Thames
Wreck of Eight Cars Traps Tramps in Chicago
A freight wreck on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern line at Miniethe Street injures seven men who were riding freight cars into Chicago. Eight cars filled with tramps telescope in a crash. Shouts and cries follow as workers escape the wreckage. The disaster results from a broken tram car, with at least fifty tramps involved in the ride.
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Chicago
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
Minetieth Street
Dbdin
Parents Dead in Bath Room Tragedy in Grand Forks
Charles McCormick a Great Northern conductor and his wife were found dead in a bathroom on the same floor after a party. Their son Hilby aged 13 found them and a later inquest is expected to explore possible poisoning. The couple had been in good spirits hours earlier.
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Grand Forks
N. Dak
Charlies K. McCormick
Great Northern
Hilby
Mrs. McCormick
Mr. McCormick
President Hill
Cas
Convention of Catholic Societies to Convene in Chicago
Cincinnati reports growing national interest in the American Federation of Catholic Societies convention to be held in Chicago August 5 to 7. About a million Catholics expected, with leading clergy and laymen attending. Holy Name cathedral services to feature Archbishop Feehan and several bishops. The Chicago committee plans extensive prep and invites all Catholic societies to send delegates, promising no interference with governing bodies and autonony of affiliated groups.
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The
Federation of Catholic Societies
Cincinnati
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Chicago
United States
Holy Name Cathedral
Feehan
Muldoon
McCaul
Messmer
Chicagd Committee
Messrs
M. F. Girsten
B V. Hubbard
Thomas Cannon
Peter Kiausso
Ohio
New Jersey
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Alabama
Massachusetts
New York
Illinois
Kansas
Minnesota
Knights of Columbus
Knights of St. John
Catholic Knights of America
Catholic Order of Foresters
James MacFaul
S. G Messmer
Educators Arrive for National Education Association Meeting
Delegates including W B Harris from Washington and W R Harper of Chicago arrive in Minneapolis for the National Education Association session. Miss Nicholson presides over the council meeting, and Governor VanSynt addresses the Indian section. Graham Bell will oversee education for the best, dumb, blind, and weak-minded as interest grows in the northwest’s progress. Indians from Chamberlain Dakota showcase a mandolin club and baseball team eager to play elsewhere.
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National Association
Minneapolis
National Eduucational Association
W. B. Harris
Washington
W. R. Harper
Chicago University
Micholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
National Council
Miss Nicholson
Indianapolis
VanSynt
Graham Bell
Association For the Education of
Harris
Northwest
Chamberlain
Beath from Heat in Cattlettsburg Police Chief Dies
In Cattlettsburg Kentucky Alex Yost, chief of police, died today from qunstreba. The force reports Beath from Heat as the incident's cause and notes Yost’s service to the city.
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Beath
Cattlettsburg
Alexander Yost
Qunstreba
Revival in African and European Markets Amid Mixed Signals
Berlin and London report light trading on the money markets with improved values during the week. London notes dividends and government disbursements reducing borrowed sums, while South African shipments offset by withdrawals. Germans see firmer land sales and rising rentes, with interest in Canadian Pacifics for New York. Money rates ease post settlement as mortgage payments and government needs drive Reichsbank discounts higher, and bank stocks falter except Deutsche Bank after the Burlington syndicate move.
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London
Stock Exchange
South Africa
King Edward
Jephérd
AL Wm
Berlin
Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company
North German
Lloyd Line
Hamburg
Bremen
New York
Reichsbank
Deutsche Bank
Burlington
Postal Telegraph Company Opens Wires on Railroad Route
The Postal Telegraph Company began operations under its contract with the Pennsylvania Railroad by readying for message transmission over wires at Jersey City Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Harrisburg and Pittsburg. Instruments were installed and business to start tomorrow. Western Union will share the wires until December 1 when the contract ends.
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Philadelphia
Postal Telegraph Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Jersey City
Baltimore
Washington
Harrisburg
Pittsburg
Pennylvania
Emer
Postal
Western Union Telegraph Company
Westernealens
Pennsylvania Railroad
Freight Handlers Meet on Oars
Chicago July 6 freight handlers numbering nearly five thousand in city warehouses and depots voted at a meeting tonight to strike within forty eight hours to press for higher wages. The union had asked railways general managers for wage increases. managers refused. Bradford officials offered talks but would not recognize union officers, a key demand of the workers.
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Chicago
Bratlford
Cattlemen and Indians Tension in Choctaw Nation
Ardmore July 6 grave trouble between cattlemen and Indians in the Choctaw nation grows after the week’s killing of nearly 400 cattle. The issue centers on cattle owners, non citizens, and a law limiting herds to ten per person. Indians accuse law violations and threaten further action.
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Indian Territory
Ardmore
J. T
Demand Return of Money from St Etienne Workers
A committee of dismissed workers from the state arms factory at St Etienne demands the return of pension contributions. If refused, the men threaten to march on Paris.
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Paris
St. Etienne
Fight to repeal coal police act shocks Scranton
Miners in Pennsylvania confront the act authorizing coal and iron police. Central Labor Union organizers call on state candidates to pledge repeal. Company officials deny orchestrating a strike canvass and state workers must return to work if they choose.
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Pennsylvania
Scranton
Central Labor Union
Act of Assembly
Coal and Iron Police
Rose
Delaware and Hudson Company
Plunder Found Near Chicago After Rock Island Train Robbery
Chicago police report that watches spoons and jewelers supplies stolen in the Rock Island express safe robbery near Dupont have been located. A sack of plunder was found on Henry Schultz farm, 12 miles north of Tinley Park, by a farmer living close to the hold up site, suggesting the bandits may be nearby Chicago.
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Chicago
Rock Island
Dupont
Henry Sehultz
Tinley Park
Tragey Uses Threats To Force Breakfast And Boarding
Seattle July 6 Harry Tracey Oregon convict again eludes pursuers after commandeering a farm hand to row him across the sound He forced the Johnsons to prepare a breakfast and place a table in the room then made the hired man carry bundles to a row boat before setting off for the wilds of northern Washington with a day long head start and a tide of pursuit still ongoing
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Seattle
Wash
Harry Tracey
Oregon
Cudthee
Parauli
Tracey
Fisher
Meadow Point
Water Front
Madison Point
Pat
Johnson
Anderson
Washington
Machinists Strike Ends After Two Months at Texas and Pacific
Marshall Texas July 6 The machinists strike on the Texas and Pacific railroad ending after about two months and a week of talks between General Manager Thorne and a Texas machinists committee. Both sides made concessions and the strikers will return to work tomorrow.
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Marshall
Tex
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Thorne
Machanists’ Organization of Texas
Turners Hold Convention in Davenport Iowa
The twentieth national convention of the North American Turnerbund opened in Davenport with Ed Lischer of Davenport as temporary chairman and Noah Gueter of Newark as temporary secretary. Credentials show 216 delegates from all twenty-eighth district Turner organizations attended. Mayor Becker welcomed the delegates, followed by Lischer on behalf of the Davenport Turners. Herman Lieber of Indianapolis responded as president of the national society.
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Davenport
Iowa
North American Turnerbund
Ed Lischer
Noah Gueter
Newark
N. J
Becker
Lischer
British Steamer Aground at Holyhead after Collision
The British steamer Rappahannock, under Captain Buckingham, ran aground at Holyhead Wales after colliding with the Daleganth in fog off South Stack light. The Rappahannock has a large hole amidships, water filling the second hold and cross bunkers, and feet of water in the engine room. One man was killed and two injured aboard the Dalegarth.
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London
Rappahannock
Buckingham
Holyhead
Wales
Daleganth
South Stack
New York Premier Proxy Wedding From Curacao Customs
Mrs Aranjo de Lieder of Curacao, married by proxy to her New York husband, arrived with her brother in law Negron from Curacao. The bride preferred her island custom over a direct voyage, with Negron acting as proxy groom and witnessing both civil and church ceremonies.
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New York
Philadelphia
Curacao
Porto Rico
Aranjo de Lieder
Brida
Newt York
Lieder
Curado
Miss Aranjo
Hersland
Negroh
Negron
Neder
Gompers Plea Rejected by Chicago Trades Assembly
President Samuel Gompers of the AFL faced defeat as the local trades assembly rejected his plea for reinstatement of Typographical Union No. 4. Delegates refused to seek overtures to printers. union No. 16 admitted fault in policy and to be seated at the next federation meeting after its expulsion for not supporting printers during a strike last year.
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Chicago Trades Assembly
The
Typographical Union
Chicago
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Typographical Union No. 4
Trades Assembly
F Typographical Union No. 16
Féderation
Typographical Union No. 16
Federation of Labor
Race riot erupts between Slavs and Poles at Rainey Mine
Last night at the Paul mines near Vanderbilt Pennsylvania a clash between Slavs and Polish miners and coke workers left Mike Zovatehin dead from three gunshots and Wieter Hennel mortally wounded. About thirty Slavs were injured. thirty arrests followed with Joseph Wellk and Peter Panik charged with murder. Witnesses and accomplices may be held. A christening at Frank Letkey’s Slavish boarding house preceded the violence after beer flowed and trouble began.
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Pennsylvania
Cornelipville
Paul
Rainey Company
Vanderbilt
Mike Zovatehin
Wieter Hennei
Siev
Joseph Wellk
Peter Panik
Zovetchin
Hennel
Oatentown
Frank Letkey
Big Ice Bills Prompture Buy Refrigerator Prices
An old OCR fragment advertises appliances and kitchenware with cut prices. It lists refrigerator basics and items like pans and griddles with irregular numbers, implying promotional deals and steep discounts amid a cluttered sale pitch.
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Witchell
Miners’ Union
St. Thomas
Holmes
Disney
L. and
Jacchs Fpharscer
Charles McCormick
Postal and
Tragey
Texas Pacific
Tealiy
Essig Bros., Seeo
Popular Clothiers
Ageh
Curacoa
Gompers’ Flea
DE. Hathaway
Bona Trest
Saratoga
Brooklyn Egg Be Biscuit Machine
Hegoe
Aeisssg
Igo
Stand of Hunnicutt
Bellingrath
Tene Steel
King Bee
Fairbanks
Peters Si
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