Miners Deny No 4 Mine Strike At Coal River Collieries
Huntington WV January 6 1926 company and union officials clash over strike claims at Coal River Collieries No 3 and No 4 mines. General manager J T Dunigan counters Percy Tetlows report of a December 12 walkout with records showing 93 to 105 workers present and asserts wage scales and loading pay are being misrepresented. Company shareholders in mining workes are cited among miners.
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Huntington
W. Va
Percy Tetlow
United Mine Workers’ Organization
West Virginia
Coal River
Mr. Tetlow
J. T. Dunigan
Tetlow
Indianapolis
Collieries Company
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Warren 8. Stone
Dunigan
R M Dean Elected to House from Mineral County
In Keyser West Virginia R M Dean Republican won the Mineral county special election to fill the late William Farris seat. Dean defeated Democrat W H Barger by 144 votes with 1426 to 1426 pending national totals. The turnout was about one third of the November general election where Farris won reelection.
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Keyser
W. Va
R. M. Dean
House of Delegates
Mineral County
William Farris
Dean
W. H. Barger
Barger
Farris
W. B. Stewart
Bridge Grant Aids Monongahela Crossing in Pittsburgh Plan
Washington January 6 Congress will authorize county of Allegheny to build a bridge across the Monongahela near the Allegheny junction in Pittsburgh under a bill introduced today by Representative Morin.
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Monongahela
Washington
Allegheny River
Pittsburg
County of
Allegheny
Morin
Allied debtors silent as Britain proposes Brussels debt conference
In Paris twelve allied and associated nations prepare to reopen talks on postwar debts. Winston Churchill arrives with a plan for a full allied conference on war debts to be held in Brussels in March. Most delegates, except Britain and the US, stay reticent while Mussolini directs silence.
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Winston Churchill
Brussels
Maereh
Paris
Frank B. Kelley
Great Britain
Herrick
James A. Logan, Jr
United States
Churchill
M. Clementel
France
Mussolini
Italy
Congress
Belgium
Japan
Poland
Greece
Portugal
Jugo-Slavia
Czecho-Slovakia
Rumania
Gas quality probe planned for Wheeling by public service
James M. Imboden chief engineer of the public service commission will visit Wheeling to sample the city gas and have the Bureau of Mines analyze its heating quality. He will review complaints about gas heating value and determine improvements.
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Charleston
W. Va
Wheeling
James M. Imboden
Public Service Commission
Imbodens
Bureau of Mines
Deficiency Bill 16 Passed by House
The U S. House passed an emergency deficiency bill totaling 157 million dollars for immediate expenditure. It rejected an effort to drop 3 million for Inland Waterways Corporation stock and moved to Senate. The bill also funds refunds of internal revenue taxes, Muscle Shoals dam work, plague eradication, and Coast Guard cutter repairs.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rainey
Illinois
New Inland Waterways Corporation
Madden
Appropriations Committee
President's Agricultural Commission
Blanton
Democrat
Texas
Inland Waterways Corporation
Dam No. 2
Muscle Shoals
Alabama
New Orleans
Oakland
Calif
Coast Guard
Cable
Republican
Ohio
Rug salesman Stillings arrested as fugitive from justice
George E. Stillings fifty three a rug salesman was arrested in New York after a telegram from Inspector J W Barry Pittsburg requested his apprehension on a larceny case involving a large sum.
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New York
George E. Stillings
Stillings
J. W. Barry
Pittsburg
Senate Veto Of Postal Pay Rise Sustained By One Vote
President Coolidge's veto of the postal pay increase bill was sustained in the Senate by a one vote margin. Twenty nine supported the veto and fifty five opposed, short of a two thirds majority. the measure died and a combined pay and rate bill was expected to fail.
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Washington
Jan
Senate
Jones
Wadsworth
New York
Reed
Pennsylvania
Moses
New Hampshire
McNary
Oregon
Edge
New Jersey
Dial
South Carolina
King
Utah
Owen
Oklahoma
Brookhart
Couzens
Dale
Elkins
Frazier
Gooding
Powell
Johnson
California
Ladd
la Follette
McLean
Means
Norris
Shortridge
Stanfield
Ashurst
Bayard
Caraway
Broussard
Copeland
Dill
Edwards
Ferris
Fletcher
George
Gerry
Glass
Harris
Harrison
Heflin
New Mexico
Kendrick
McKellar
Mayfield
Neely
Overman
Pittman
Ransdell
Robinson
Shappard
Simmons
Smith
Stanley
Swanson
Trammell
Underwood
Walsh
Massachusetts
Montana
Farmer-Labor
Shipstead
Ball
Borah
Bursum
Butler
Cameron
Capper
Cummins
Curtis
Ernst
Fernald
Fess
Greene
Hale
Harreld
Keyes
McCormick
Olson demands exhumation in McClintock case
Chicago January six. Chief Justice Harry Olson demands the exhumation of Dr. Oscar Olson, brother of the McClintock foster father, as part of inquest into William Nelson McClintock death. He says the death may have been designed and urges a prolonged investigation, while noting prior heart disease and possible self poisoning theories.
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Chicago
Harry Olson
Municipal Court
William D. Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Milionaire
McClintock
Oscar Olson
Shepherd
Olson
Young McClintock
Shepherds
Udge
Attorney General Stone Begins Farewell Tour
Attorney General Stone begins a farewell drive to clear the Justice Department desk before joining the Supreme Court. Secretary Davis and Stone plan to inspect a proposed Alderson West Virginia site for a federal reformatory for women next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Stone
Davis
West Virginia
Alderson
Reformatory For Women
Washington
Stone
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
White House
Charles B. Warren
Japan
Frank Dietrich
Idaho
Silas Strawn
Chicago
Arthur Rugg
Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts
Frank B. Kellogg
London
Beck
Department
Kellogg
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
California
United States
Panama
Arizona
Indiana
Reformatory For
Tragedy at Bluefield: Mother Lethal Rat Paste Poisoning
Mrs. Mattie Blackwell Lambert fed her three children rat paste and drank carbolic acid, dying an hour later. The children 3, 5, and 11 were at Bluefield sanitarium with phosphorus poisoning, and doctors warned they would remain in danger for days.
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Mattie Blackwell Lambert
Herbert Lambert
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Bluefield
Shelby Heights
Lambert
Daddy
Mr. Lambert
Jack
Evangeline
Annie
Will Tiller
Thelma
C P Telephone Rates Seen Insufficient and Confiscatory
Charleston Jan 6 The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company petitions for a rehearing charging rates granted are insufficient and confiscatory while Public Service Commission Chairman Birk S Stathers dissents claiming the increase is excessive He questions depreciation charges and argues the return and valuation are misapplied and seeks readjustment of tariffs with effect past 1923 figures and future rate structure.
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C. & P. Telephone Company
Stathers
Charleston
W. Va
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Birk S. Stathers
Public Service Commission
Stathern
Sion
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Judge Olson
McCintock
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