Workers Strike Halts Mills Across States
About 80,000 members of the Amalgamated Association walked out for union recognition. From West Virginia to Illinois mills in steel hoop sheet steel and tin plate trusts closed, leaving 20,000 to 30,000 workers jobless. Two large Pittsburgh hoop mills shut down as a key win for the strikers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers, Steel and Tin Workers
West Virginia
Illinois
Pittsburg
Shaffer
Tragedy in San Antonio Linked to Washington Theater Shooting
Trinidad S. Coy, a prominent San Antonio youth, was shot twice at the Washington Variety Theater and taken to the city hospital with dangerous wounds. Charles W. Granberry was arrested and jailed awaiting Coy’s medical outcome. In Paris, S. E. Paul, stenographer for Charles Griffith, has joined the Galveston, Houston and Henderson offices in Galveston.
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San Antonio
Tex
Trinidad S. Coy
Washington
Charles W. Granberry
Coy
Paris
S. E. Paul
Charles Griffith
Frisco Santa Fe
Galveston, Houston and
Henderson
Galveston
Five Persons Killed In Kansas City Freight Collision
Five men including an engineer two brakemen and two tramps were killed in a Missouri Kansas and Texas freight train collision three miles north of Marshall Arkansas on July 16. The report notes the wreck near Their Services and mentions a separate item about the Rudd rifles receiving 104 dollars from the state for two days of service in answering a Trinity call.
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Muskogee
I. T
Kansas and Texas
Ward
Marshall
Rudd Rifles
Trinity
England Still Sore Over War Censorship Says English Press
London correspondent for the Tribune notes English public opinion condemns military censorship of dispatches from the war. Despite General French's attack on Scheaper's stronghold details are scant and reports of mass British withdrawals or focused railway occupation are disputed by military men.
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New York
England
Kitchener
London
The
Tribune
Botha
DeWet
French
Scheaper
Johanesburg
Courban
Blomfontein
Johannesburg
Ohio Bank Robbery in Licking County
A gang of six or seven robbed the Ressler and Ashbrooke bank at Alexandria, Licking County, blew open the outer vault, found $1500, fired on residents, and fled in two stolen rigs as a sheriff’s posse closed in. In Hot Springs lightning struck a residence, injuring several. A Paris assassination attempt on Minister Baudin failed.
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Columbus
Ressler & Ashbrooke
Alexandria
Licking County
Buxton
Hot Springs
Ark
Park Avenue
Ed Crouch
Crim
Frank Crim
Paris
P. Baudin
Elysee Palace
Baudin
Olgewska
Neterreu
Insurgent General Surrenders and Manila Reports
The report notes Insurgent General Barbarro surrendering with 70 men at Legaspi in Albay province. It also mentions General Aquino being sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering five captive soldiers of the Twelfth United States infantry. Other items cover Dow’s death, remains prepared for Nashville, and a prisoner electrocuted in Auburn New York.
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Luke Dow
Nashville
Manila
Barbarro
Legaspi
Albay
Aquino
Twelfth
United States Infantry
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Ralston
Howell Bros
D. Ss. Hhearn
Optician
Hall
Drang
D. S. Hearn
St. Louis
GLOGK
Tyler Haswell
Mneeda
Golaan
Bryan
A.E
Worley
A A
Propri
Mae
Georgia
Americus
Macon
Bill English
Howell Britton
Clawson
Magnolia Dell
Albritton
English
Oliver Clawson
Marine Hospital Service
Cape Town
Great Britain
Wales
el Reno
O. T
Lawton
Ohio Bank
Malta
Mont
Pinkerton
Cunningham
Eagle Pass
P. D. Cunningham
Bryan Grocery CO
Auburn
N. Y
Frank Wennerholm
Chatauqua County
JowNeys
Emmel’s Drug Store
J. £. Ponder
Daw J. Ford
Prop
Battle Ax
Dee Mike, JR
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