Explosions and crimes dominate Tamaqua week in news
A gas explosion at Lehigh Coal and Navigation Tamaqua mine killed one worker and burned thirteen others, with five may die. authorities suspect a faulty safety lamp. Roosevelt removed Judge McMillan on immorality charges, Judge Clement Smith to replace him. A teen killed sister in St Louis. a boy attempted suicide. A murder verdict in a company case. a Greenwich mansion fire endangers a girl and mother. A lynching near Wilmington, Del., of George White. Baseball standings for National and American Leagues shown.
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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Tamaqua
Koon
Roosevelt
Daniel H. McMillan
Supreme Court of New Mexico
Clement C. Smith
Lf Hastings
Mich
Johnon Kenzer
Gladys Kenzer
St. Lewis
Lottie Lindsay
Jotscot
Jolie
Onuhea
Line Linnier
Robert Vours
United States
Burns
Alfread Peats
Electric Hill
Greenwich
Coon
Genevieve
Peats
Massion
Sitoo
QQC
Parate
Newcastle County
Phe Negro
Helen S. Bishop
Wil. B
Pittsburg SC
YAS
New York
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
St Louis
Lous
Detroit
Cleveland
Washington
Naples Volcano Eruption and Fires Dominate Briefs
A Naples dispatch reports Vesuvius in full eruption while fires devastate the Amenean Flint Giana Bottle Company plant in Summitville with $150,000 loss and Avery Manufacturing in Omaha suffering $7,000 plus damages in a five story blaze. Also noted are hangings in Clarksville Ark for Sheriff Powers murder, a Grant candidacy rumor in San Diego Union, and mine No 3 at Biossburg exploded killing five.
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Amenean Flint Giana Bottle Company
Summitville
Avery Manufacturing Company
Omaha
George Durham
Fred Underwood
Clarksville
Ark
John H. Powers
San Tego
Cal
Uo Os
Grant Isne
Raton Coal and Coke Company
Biossburg
Stowthers
von Rochester
Pee Brothers
Numerous 1912 items thread through Baltimore and New York
The Kaiser prize goes to the Junger Maenvercher of Philadelphia in Baltimore. Wage talks avert a coal strike as Mipers and operators reach a truce. President Roosevelt guarded in Baltimore at the northeastern seamen’s event. Alvord Warriner Cooley is named civil service commissioner succeeding William Kourke. WHI Van Benthuysen, NY World editor, dies in Chicago. Lowell textile strike ends with 17,000 workers returning at prior pay. Wagen losses total about 1.31 million. Flynn admits paying 150,000 in blackmail in large enterprises. Bishop Hartzell sails from New York on a mission tour. George Gallagher dies at 23 in West New York after a football injury. Major James Barton Pond dies in Jersey City after leg amputation. Schooner Martha T Thomas cammed by Massachusetts while near sink. Gov Bates vetoes eight hour day for public works, eight hours from nine. An attempted lynching of George White near Wollington, Del, prevented by prison warden. Attorney Ammon convicted for receiving stolen money. Jennie Stover dies of peritonitis after basketball exertion. New Haven court clears final trolley link to Boston, except Westport half mile.
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Junger Maenvercher
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Mipers
President Roosevelt
Saenserfeat
Alvord Warriner Cooley
Westchester
N. Y
William Dudley Kourke
Whi van Benthuysen
New York World
Methodist Episcopal Church
New York
George Gallagher
West New York
N. J
James Barton Pond
Jersey City
Ife
Martha T Thomas Waar
Massachusetts Bay
Massachusetts
Gov Bates
George White
Helen Bishop
Wollington
Del
Superior Court
New Haven
Conn
New York City
Boston
Westport
Rhodes
Iowa
Pat Donovan
Clinton
Mont
Donovan
Sherman Bell
Colorado
Rough Rider
Colorado Springs
Essie Carter
White House
E. J. Arnold
St. Louis
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Coal Company of Brazil
Ind
Chicago
Frank Hayes
North Topeka
Kan
Missouri Supreme Court
Continental Tobacco Company
Cleveland
Northern Pacific
Big Timber
Billings
Columbus
Oliver Bansett
Park City
T B. Gerow
Kansas Free Employment Bureau
Vast List of Mixed 19th Century Incidents and Awards
A long column reports robberies in Colfax and Chicago, a $150,000 gift to Armour Institute, a new civil service commissioner in Joluth, and the Derby winner in Chicago. It notes music supervisor Coe Stewart's resignation, a bridge workers’ attack, and multiple accidents, fires, and political shifts across the U.S. including Denver, St Louis, and Chicago.
Ban on dancing and liquor at church picnics
Bishop McCloskey of Louisville orders a ban on dancing and liquor at church picnics. A note from Miss Hattie A. Thomas, who killed herself with laudanum before her slated marriage, shocks New Orleans. The Jett-White jury in Jackson reports no verdict and is discharged, prompting a new trial. A levee break in Hollybrook floods vast cotton lands, displacing 5,000 people across East Carroll and Madison parishes. Sam Clabhorn, jailed for vagrancy in El Paso, alleges American Black men are lured to Mexico and kept in virtual slavery for years.
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McCloskey
Louisville
Hattie A. Thomas
New Qeleam
Redwine
Jackson
Hollybrook
East Carroll
Madison Parishes
Sam Clabhorn
el Paso
Texas
Mexico
Republic
Cleveland denies desire for fourth nomination
The New York World quotes ex President Cleveland from Princeton New Jersey saying he has no wish to reenter public life. He states he has never sought or received support for a fourth candidacy and has no political ambition beyond peaceful private life with his family. He insists no political leader is pushing such a move.
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Beyo
The
New York World
Princeton
N. J
Cleveland
Washington
Jett Jury Disagrees and Case Transferred to Covington
In Jackson Kentucky the Jett and White trial jury twice failed to reach a verdict and Judge Redwine discharged them. The case will be moved to Cynthiana Harrison County for a second trial as one juror favored conviction while others leaned toward acquittal. Governor Beckham declined to comment on potential action.
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Jackson
Redwine
Cynthiana
Harrison County
Gov. Beckham
Indianapolis schoolmistress acquitted in assault case
After a brief deliberation a jury acquitted Miss Kate Mason principal of an Indianapolis school of assault and battery for whipping a boy pupil. The judge urged support for teachers’ discipline, noting laws protect reasonable punishment and school order. The piece also notes YMCA education lines and New York Teachers College buying lots for an outdoor laboratory garden.
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Kate Mason
Indianapolis
Iasault
Indianapolis Journal
Young Men’s Christian Association
Association
New York Teachers’ College
Industrial Review Sees Steady Demand Amid Labor Tensions
R G Dun & Co reports steady demand and firm prices in New York branches with mixed manufacturing, rail earnings up modestly, and high steel and coal activity. Labor disputes threaten longer-term gains while Chicago views split on labor costs and Rothschild notes stock market declines. American pessimism wanes as warnings of cautious optimism surface.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Chicago
London
Rothschild
Marshall Field
Field
Lord Rothachild
Wall Street
Tome
Iskely
Inland Market Prices Across Cities and Commodities
A wide postal market snapshot lists cattle hogs sheep and grain prices by city. Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Toledo Buffalo New York provide ranges for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed with bid asks and quality notes across shipping and common to prime grades.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Toledo
New York
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