Ironton Strikers Tie Up Lines and Drive Nonunion from City
In Ironton Ohio and surrounding areas a strike by Camden Inter urban Electric Railway workers sparked violence as nonunion crews were driven from cars. Crowds pelted motormen and conductors. unionist James Sanders was dragged from a car and escorted home. Police were scarce as mobs disrupted traffic and the Beechwood park concert was canceled.
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Ironton, O
Camden Interstate Electric Railway
Guyandotte
Hanging Rock
James Sanders
Ohio River
Cattlettsburg
Ashland
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ironton
Beechwood Park
Desperate Battle Under Way on Isthmus of Panama
Dispatch from General Salazar confirms ongoing combat since Tuesday at Agua Dulce as Colombian government forces about 7,000 contend with roughly 4,000 revolutionists in an inaccessible Panama region. Water routes are irregular and overland travel takes eight days.
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Washington
Salazar
Department of Panama
Agua Dulce
Panama
General Jacob H. Smith Returns from Manila
General Smith arrived in San Francisco after a Manila tour and plans a few days there before returning to Portsmouth Ohio. He describes his forced retirement as an unwelcome surprise and says he remains in the government's service though unable to discuss recent personal events.
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San Francisco
Jacob H. Smith
Manila
Portsmouth
Smith
Tariff Commissioners Deadlocked Over Chinese Revision Plan
In Shanghai on Aug 4 British tariff commissioner Sir James T Mackay and Chinese officials failed to agree on a scheme for tariff revision. The row stems from Chinese objections to British inland navigation rules, seen as a sign of dishonesty by opponents of likin abolition. The American commissioner told Liu Kun Yi that the United States would not back likin removal, noting most U S imports head to Manchuria and northern provinces without likin.
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Shanghai
James T. Mackay
James
Liu Kun Yi
Hankin
United States
Manchuria
Severe Storm Ravages Southwest Iowa Crops and Elevator
A severe storm swept southwestern Iowa on August 4 damaging crops in Pottawattamie and western counties with a hail stripe destroying corn. In Avoca lightning struck a Des Moines Elevator Co. elevator, destroying the building and contents valued at about $50,000.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Pottawatomie
Avoca
Des Moines Elevator Company
Republican Campaign Text Book Issued In 1902
The Republican congressional committee released a pamphlet sized campaign text book of 880 pages. It quotes President McKinley and Vice President Roosevelt and includes extracts from their messages to Congress. The volume surveys the Republican party’s record from its founding to the present.
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Washington
Republican Congressional Committee
McKinley
Roosevelt
Congress
New Orleans Street Railway and Telephone Workers End Strike
In New Orleans on August 4 the street railway and telephone firms agreed to raise electric line workers pay to 3 dollars per day from 2.50, effectively ending the strike. The accord settles the dispute with improved wages for the workers and restored service.
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New Orleans
Street Railway
Copper circuits offer first class service across Midwest
Copper metallic circuits provide first class service and low rates reaching over 2 000 cities and towns in Minnesota North and South Dakota Iowa and Wisconsin.
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Minnesota
North and
South Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
No Change in Anthracite Strike Says UMW President
Wilkesbarre Pa August 4 President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers visited Scranton and said there was no change in the strike situation. He doubted any mine would resume work next week and noted Oxford mine workers in the Lackawanna region were replaced by new men with old staff not returning. He reported the region faced the same conditions and that the strikers remained confident of victory.
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Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Scranton
Oxford
Lackawanna
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