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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1897
Page
8
A Pittsburg district conference reports coal operators and river shippers avoided participation in a proposed uniformity movement. Delegates from several states discuss an accord with new clauses while others stay away, delaying decisions on the agreement.
The New York Times notes Japan’s warning on Hawaii transfer by force and US resistance as tensions rise. Grace Allen faces preliminary poisoning trial in Chandler drawing large crowds. Silver prices hit a fresh low in New York with low demand. Ottumwa plans a new distillery after Kansas City interests take up talks. Telegraph briefs report Bolivia’s new minister credentials and a fatal brawl in Louisiana. a farm hand fatally wounds a domestic before killing himself amid a separate double murder in Oregon.
A Pennsylvania conference closed with a plan for arbitration governing miners and thick and thin vein operators. A nine member Uniformity Commission would enforce terms, with penalties paid to signatories. The deal requires 95 percent signing by January 1, 1898. discussions continue as operators press for contract terms amid ongoing strike tensions.
Dominion government to impose a 10 percent royalty on placer mining in Yukon with monthly output thresholds and a 100 annual assessment plus public reserve allotment. Also reports a California expedition offering a company for Alaska defense on 19 hours notice.
The schooner Sailor Boy arrived from Port Clarence after a swift two‑day passage. Reports list whaling catches at Port Clarence including Orca Be Forebal Karlacoue Joannetts Belvidere Narvaoch and a cargo of whalebone landed at Brae.
Nebraka Exposition Commission met at the Dellone hotel to start its organizational work. It was decided to establish offices and a headquarters there at the northeast corner of Fourteenth street and Capitol avenue. W H Deering of Plattsmouth was elected secretary.
Debs and labor leaders address 5,800 miners at a mass meeting near Oak Hill, as 1,800 strikers march from Turtle Creek to disrupt De Armitt’s pits. Deputies fire five shots when miners run to work. Debs urges restraint and solidarity while warning of nationwide sympathy if De Armitt’s men do not come out. The shutdown affects Peoria strawboard mill and adds to labor-wide tension.
Nine boys aged nine to fifteen, mostly orphans, were sent by the Children’s Aid Society to Escorado yesterday afternoon. The group was directed by agent Jett and includes youths under protective care.
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