Miners Mass Meeting as Cannonsburg March Looms
Pittsburg dispatch reports a two week coal strike with 1000 miners planned to march on Cannonsburg and the Boone and Allison mines. Deputies are stationed at the mines, with gatherings spanning Millers Run to Bridgeville and Cecil, as women urge action amid hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Penn
Cannonsburg
Boone and
Allison
Washington County
Millers and Toms Run
Slope
Bridgeville
Essen No. 1
Steens
Cecil
Laurel Hill
Creedmoor
Bishop
Standard
Ellsworth
Millers Run
Coal Scarcity Highlighted by Miner Strike Leader
President Ratchford declares the coal shortage real as miners gain momentum after two weeks of suspension involving 150000 workers. He cites rival operators boosting prices, rail shipments halted, and factory wheels stilled, while unions gain broad labor support and pledge ongoing action to win a living wage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, CO
Ratchford
Coal and Iron
West Virginia
Illinois
Miners Vote to Return After Strike Decision
Miners at Thacker Logan and Dingess reconsider the strike and will return to work Monday. Elkhorn miners who had also decided to strike are believed to follow suit and return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Thacker
Logan
Dingess
Elkhorn
Boston man appointed register of copyrights
Thorvald Solberg of Boston has been appointed register of copyrights. Librarian John Russell Young notified the selection on Saturday and Solberg accepted by wire, agreeing to assume the post on Tuesday morning. He is a Wisconsin native born 1852 with fourteen years in libraries and publishing houses backing his appointment.
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Washington
Thorvald Solberg
Boston
John Russell Young
Solberg
New Library
Wisconsin
Congressional Library
Boston Book Company
Authors’ Copyright League
The
Century Company
Harper Bros
D. Appleton & Co
Regatta Hop Injury At Winthrop Yacht Club
Miss Mamie McHugh of Boston fell from the embankment at the Winthrop Yacht Club regatta hop injuring her left elbow and sustaining bruises. Dr Gage attended and she was taken home after first aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie McHugh
Boston
Winthrop Yacht Club
Gage
Car Victims in Cambridge Showing Improvement
Mrs. Margaret King of 12 Lopez Street Cambridge recovered from a severe electric car accident on Saturday night and was taken home yesterday. Her son John sustained minor injuries. Mrs. Annie Bailey is nearly recovered from bruises and the panic. Miss Sarah J. Nickerson rested comfortably at her home on Sydney Street yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret King
Lopez Street
Cambridge
John
Annie Bailey
Sarah J. Nickerson
Sydney Street
Triplet Birth Draws Neighborhood Praise
Mrs James MacMelville presented her three newborns born July 10 to a crowd yesterday. All babies are healthy thanks to nurse Mary Shea and the community anticipates a joyous christening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James MacMelville
Mary Shea
Sunday Law in Hartford Changes Little
Hartford July 18 The Sun day law which took effect today hardly altered business. Cigar and tobacco shops closed all day and evening while drug stores remained open all day and restaurants ice cream and Italian fruit shops stayed open in the evening as usual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Aged physician dies after fall in Bridgeport
Dr. Robert Hubbard, a nationally known physician, fell while climbing the steps to his State street office in Bridgeport early today and died from head injuries. He was 71 years old. Hubbard hailed from Cromwell, Connecticut.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Robert Hubbard
State Street
A Hubbard
Cromwell
Gnn
Ex Queen Liliuokalani Spends Day at Hotel Albemarle
Ex Queen Liliuokalani and her suite stayed in their hotel apartments due to threatening weather. She is reported in good health and did not venture outside the Hotel Albemarle in New York on July 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liliuokalani
Hotel Albemarle
Local Man Arrested For Larceny Of Clothing
Officers of Station 6 arrested A. B. Hickey age 32 of 972 Washington street on charges of larceny of clothing valued at 87 dollars from C. J. Murray. Alleged act occurred in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Hickey
Washington Street
C. J. Murray
Mesa
Drunken row aboard Iowa leaves man disfigured
Newport Rhode Island July 18 Marines from the battleship Iowa broke up a drunken altercation. Daniel Murphy bit Alexander Simmaxler’s nose severely and will be disfigured for life. Three arrests were made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. I
Daniel Murphy
Alexander Simmaxler
Five Italians Arrested for Sunday Card Playing in Beachmont
Patrolmen Adair and Sackett arrested Antonio Russo Antonio Graci Antonio Amato Antonio Scalio and Bartallo Russo yesterday afternoon under the Beachmont pier. They were taken to Revere station and released on bail. Arraignment set for Chelsea Police Court for playing cards on Sunday. Residents listed as Pitts street.
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Adair and
Sackett
Beachmont
Revere Centre
Chelsea
Antonio Russo
Antonio Graci
Antonio Amato
Antonio Scalio
Bartallo Russo
Pitts Street
Bellicose Wrath of America and Pacific Sealing Ironies
A Times letter points out the irony that America’s belligerence serves few English capitalists profiting from government leases on the Pribyloff Islands, while pelagic sealing offers the only livelihood for American marine workers on the Pacific coast.
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London
Times
America
Pribyloff Islands
Pacific
Bates Praises Reed At Christian Workers Convention
In Old Orchard Maine on July 1 at a camp ground sermon Rev. Dr. L B Bates of Boston praised Speaker Reed for opposing the Sugar Trust. The audience applauded loudly when Reed’s name was mentioned during the forenoon sermon at the convention.
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Old Orchard
Christian Workers
Camp Ground
L. B. Bates
Boston
Reed
Sugar Trust
Landslide delays Pennsylvania trains near Spruce Creek
A landslide on the middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad west of Spruce Creek covered tracks for about 100 yards up to several feet deep. Debris halted all trains for several hours as crews cleared the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Penn
Middle Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
Spruce Creek
Tragic Drowning of 6-Year-Old Timothy Griffin in Holyoke
In Holyoke on July 18, six year old Timothy Griffin drowned while swimming in a shallow pond. Police and rescuers attended the incident and continued inquiries into its circumstances.
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Holyoke
Timothy Griffin
Senator Gorman Ready to Resume Senate Duties
Laurel Maryland July 18 Senator Gorman has fully recovered from a recent indisposition and will resume his senatorial duties tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Gorman
Laurel
Gorman
Nantasket Beach crowds swell as Cupid and sea air draw 40,000
A Sunday at Nantasket Beach drew nearly forty thousand visitors amid sun and sea breeze. Lovers and families enjoyed rides, artistes, and shore activities while petty thefts and motor breakdowns were noted. Crescent Beach and Revere Beach also drew crowds.
Point of Pines Crowded for Busy North Shore Day
The Point of Pines drew some 20 000 visitors as Reeves's Band and the Lynn Cadet Band provided music from noon to night. Bathing drew large crowds due to Crescent Beach facilities limited. diverse seaside guests enjoyed the grounds, picnics, and social scenes throughout the day.
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Crescent Beach
Winthrop Beach
Neck
Shirley Point
Revere Beach
Li Tan Lin
Washington
West
Lin
Point of Pines
North Shore
Reeves
Lynn
Pines
Purdue University engineers bid farewell to Schenectady No 1 locomotive
Purdue students mourn the departure of Schenectady No 1, the first college locomotive used to teach steam engineering. The eight wheel, 100000 pound locomotive with 250 psi is replaced by No 2, seen as a step forward. President Smart salutes the machine that fueled four years of instruction and pride.
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Purdue University
Indiana
United States
Schenectady
Purdue
Schenectady No. 1
Schenectady No. 2
Smart
Deaf mute Charles Farenholt Charged With Maverick Street Fire
Chelsea police arrest deaf mute Charles R. Farenholt within an hour after a stable on Maverick street owned by Woodman Bros. and run by Henry C. and George J. Farenholt is set ablaze at 1 am. Investigators say the fire was connected to a discharge in his brother’s store and a prior assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Farenholt
Chelsea
Maverick Street
Woodman Bros
Henry C
George J. Farenholt
Smith
Gooding
Burke
George
Charles
Sunday Closing Law Fails Wide in Connecticut
Nutmeg Sunday law enacted by the General Assembly was not widely observed today. Reports show normal business in most parts of the state while New London kept stores open except for grocers and Willimantic suspended all business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
General Assembly
New London
Sunda
Willimantic
Man Battered With Black Jack in Flor ence Street Robbery
Albert Gardner of Somerville was arrested on suspicion of assault and robbery after he allegedly struck Frank Kenny on Florence Street with a heavy black jack. Kenny lay unconscious for hours and was treated at City Hospital where he recovered speech but cannot recall the incident. A witness identified Gardner. another man fled. Kenny’s injuries described as serious with several days before trial.
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Station 6
Albert Gardner
Somerville
Frank Kenny
Florence Street
Kenny
Station 5
City Hospital
Gardner
Overland Jack Outsmarts New York Poker Ring
A New York Sun recounts the 1870s exploits of Overland Jack, aka John McCormick, who arrives at the Morton House and, in a high stakes poker tale, beds the room with bold bets and four of a kind. He defeats a deuce man and a flush player, proving skill can triumph in the city’s gaming rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Overlan Jack
John McCormick
Overland Jack
San Francisco
Morton House
Enty
New York
Jim Morton
Ryan
Morton
Shed
General Owens
Ed Gilman
Albany
Morten
Pener
Jack
New York Sun
Dogs After Him. Rees Escapes From Insane Asylum
Howell C. Rees president of the Phoenix Gas Company of Mattewan was seized in New York and confined at Dr Ferguson's private Sanitarium for the Insane in Central Valley Orange County. He escaped last night by hidden clothing through a closet window and fled into woods pursued by keepers and dogs. He reached Mattewan at daybreak and spoke with his attorney James G. Meyer who had filed a habeas corpus writ. Judge Barnard was notified and urged that Rees remain at the hospital until the Tuesday hearing. Rees says incarceration stems from a business dispute with his father rather than insanity.
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Howell C. Rees
Phoenix Gas Company
Mattewan
Manhattan
New York
Ferguson
Central Valley
Orange County
James G. Meyer
Supreme Court
Justice Barnard
Rees
Meyer
Poughkeepsie
Barnard
Pilgrim
Hudson River State Hospital
Boston Tourists Pack Provinces Amid Atlantic Summer
Boston visitors arrive in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with plans for fishing trips and bicycle tours. B F Richardson and wife of Philadelphia travel with others including Henry E Cobb of Boston and Dr John Bryant and sons, all stopping Sunday at the Victoria Hotel before continuing toward Inglewood and Miramichi.
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ST. John
N. B
B. F. Richardson
Philadelphia
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Henry E. Cobb
Boston
Inglewood
John Bryant
W. B. Webb
H. J. Crawford
W. J. Hill
New York
J. A. Houston
Miramichi
Victoria Hotel
Irish Loyalty to America Concert and Lecture
A Winter Hill event in Grand Army Hall featured a lecture titled Irish Loyalty to American Liberty by J. P. Finn of Philadelphia. The program included piano solo by Miss M. E. Driscoll readings by Miss Kitty Dellen and Master Walter J. Driscoll, performances by Mr. D. H. Keegan, other vocals and instruments, and a final national anthem by Miss M. E. Driscoll.
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Division 39
Somerville
Grand Army Hall
Winter Hill
J. P. Finn
Philadelphia
M. E. Driscoll
Kitty Dellen
D. H. Keegan
Walter J. Driscoll
Times Sees Washington Meeting On Seal Dispute
The Times editorial says the planned autumn international conference on the seal controversy could defuse the dispute. It notes Britain will not let resentment of American diplomacy affect judgment and that Britain would cooperate if the United States meets on proposed terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The
Times
Murday
Washington
Secretary Sherman Improves After Stomach Disorder
Washington July 18 Secretary Sherman, sidelined by a mild stomach upset, is reported better tonight and plans to return to the State Department within a day or two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sherman
State Department
Pond's Extract Endorsed by International Journal of Surgery
A quotation from the International Journal of Surgery extols Pond's Extract for sprains and throat care. It claims rapid pain relief, reduced swelling, reduced bleeding, astringent action, antiseptic qualities, and safety for mucous membranes. recommended as mouthwash for stomatitis and pharyngitis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Journal of Surgery
Tariff Week Ahead as Bill Likely Becomes Law
House debate intensifies as Republicans rally behind the tariff measure. Analysts expect passage this week with support across GOP ranks and possible changes to trade policy once enacted.
Tariff bill likely cleared Congress by week end
Indications tonight point to the tariff bill agreed by Republican conferees passing both houses and becoming law by week’s end. Democrats anticipate debate, but Republicans plan two days for discussion and aim to speed the report to adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Republican Conferrees
Congress
Allison
Dingley
Senate Committee On Finance
House
Senate
Committee On Rules
South Carolina
Fires in Closets at Kennebec Boarding House
A mystery fire was found in a fourth floor closet at the Kennebec boarding house in Hallowell near Augusta at 12 15 this morning. The chemical engine controlled the blaze, but a second fire appeared in the back entry soon after. One boarder woke with difficulty as authorities estimate losses under 200 dollars and a fire inquest is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Kennebec
Second
Academy Streets
Hallowell
Rev Edwin Hale Preaches at Channing Memorial Church
The Rev Hidward Everett Hale delivered a sermon at the Channing Memorial Church in Newport Rhode Island today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DA. Hale
Newport
Young Parrots For Sale From Friske Bros Listing
Limited number of young parrots available at 400 dollars for all, 5.00 each for individual birds. Birds claimed to be capable of talking. Friske Bros advertises at 117 Kilit Street with emphasis on special attention to customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bros. Lis
Senate May See Fight Over Sugar Tariffs and Cotton Goods
Washington July 18 Senate debate on the tariff report remains uncertain due to broad debate rules. Democratic leaders plan a stiff challenge to sugar compromises and to restoring cotton bagging cotton ties bur laps to the free list. They will also oppose white pine restoring to two dollar per thousand. They expect a three day vote window despite possible spirited contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Baptist Young People Union funds mission drive in Chattanooga
In Chattanooga Tennessee on July 18 devotional services opened a citywide meeting of the Baptist Young People's Union of America. A consecration at 1 pm raised six hundred dollars to support Dr Frank Harper of Detroit for foreign mission work. Officials announced the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society debt of 468000 was paid and praised national unity through the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Baptist Young People's Union of America
Frank Harper
Detroit
Lookout Mountain
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
United States
Young People’s Union
Death in a Quarrel on Pennsylvania Rail Line
Daniel Carron a tramp was killed after being thrown from a freight car near Overbrook Philadelphia during a fight with Richard Wilson a New York resident. Wilson the paper hanger says Carron and companions attacked him and he struck in self defense. Wilson was arrested.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Daniel Carron
Pennsylvania Railroad
Overbrook
Richard Wilson
New York
Carron
Wilson
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