Telegraphers End Strike In Arbitration Settlement
The Telegraphers union in Oakland unanimously accepts Western Union and Postal Telegraph settlement. Workers return to duty with wage increase proposed via arbitration between the two companies. Companies claim no wage agreement prior to arbitration.
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Oakland
Cal
Telegraphers’ Union
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Suprintendent
Storrer
Postal Cable Telegraph Company
O'Brien
Western Union Rehiring All Offenders at Old Pay Rates
Colonel Robert C. Clowry announces Western Union will re employ all reliable operators who left San Francisco and Oakland, reinstating them at the same salaries they earned before quitting. The June 21 walkout and subsequent resumptions are noted as settled with traffic restored.
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C. Clowry
Western Union Telegraph Company
San Francisco
Oakland
Western Union
Additio
Settlement of strike reaches early success for Commercial Telegraphers
A message from President Small to Secretary Russell reports a 103 to 4 vote to accept and reemploy strikers with wage talks after resumption. Future grievances to be arbitrated and strike talk urged to stop as Small plans a return east message. Also notes Jordan incidents in Mississippi and Louisiana with killings.
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Small
Russell
Telegra
Drowning of Captain Azzali During Bathing Incident
Captain August Azzali head of a Mexican band and leader of the El Paso lodge of Elks accompanying the group to Philadelphia drowned while bathing in Atlantic City. Life guards tried to save him but he had swallowed too much water to be revived after being pulled toward a lifeboat.
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Atlantic City
August Azzali
el Paso Lodge of Elks
Philadelphia
Captain Azzali
Train Derails Near Waterloo Injures Several
Passenger train No. 2 on the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad derailed near Waterloo ten miles south of Laurens. Conductor Henry Stewart and several passengers were seriously hurt. Mrs. Sarah J. Griggin of Evanston Georgia suffered internal injuries that may prove fatal.
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Columbia
S. C
Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad
Waterloo
Laurens
Henry Stewart
Sarah J. Griggin
Evanston
Freight Train Strikes Passenger Car. Many Killed
A freight train collided with a passenger car causing multiple deaths and injuries. Early reports describe a severe crash with extensive damage and urgent rescue efforts underway. Authorities investigate the circumstances as survivors are attended to at the scene.
Pere Marquette Excursion Wreck Kills Many Near Salem
Eight hundred passengers including workers and families from Ionia were aboard an eleven coach Pere Marquette excursion train when it collided with a westbound freight two miles east of Salem Michigan. Thirty to forty dead and about a hundred injured were reported as of noon with six passenger cars wrecked. Authorities say the freight crew was ordered to wait at Plymouth for the excursion.
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Salem
Mich
Pere Marquette
Ionia
Detroit
Washburn
Plymouth
Trump
Pere Marquette Railway
Trolley Collision Kills One Injures Four In Indiana
A southbound Louisville and Northern Railway and Light company car crashed into a northbound trolley at Watson Indiana seven miles north of Jeffersonville. Motorman William F Hobson of Jeffersonville was killed. Injured include Miss Druell Oakes of Louisville scalp wound Andrew Carlisle of Jeffersonville rib fracture John Abbott of Charleston hand crushed and Mrs Margaret Wheat 64 of Charleston a broken leg.
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Louisville
Louisville and Northern Railway and Lighting Company
Watson
Ind
Jeffersonville
William F. Hobson
Jeffersone
Miss Druell
Oakes
Andrew Carlisle
John Abbott
Charleston
Margaret Wheat
Smallpox in Prison Delays Courtroom Fight in San Francisco
In San Francisco on July 20 Judge Lawler ruled largely for the prosecution in the Glass case over admissibility of bribe testimony from ten board of supervisors members. After adjournment Sheriff ONeill warned of a smallpox outbreak in Wing 2 of the county jail where Mayor Schmitz and Vice President Zimmer of Pacific States Telephone are confined. The judge ordered no prisoner may leave the jail until danger passes.
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San Francisco
Glass
Board of Supervisors
T. W. Halsey
Home Telephone Company
Lawler
Heney
Delmar
O'Neill
Judge Lawler
Schmitz
Zimmer
Pacific States Telephone Company
Packinghouse Workers Reorganize Union After Long Absence
Three hundred packinghouse employees met at Kansas City Kansas to reorganize the Union of the Amalgamated Order of Meat Cutters of America. The union had vanished years ago following an unsuccessful strike in Chicago Kansas City and other packing centers.
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Kansas City
Kan
The
Amalgamated Order of Meat Cutters of America
Chicago
Rogertown Bank Closed by Comptroller on Insolvency
Washington July 20 The Farmers' National Bank of Rogertown Pa was ordered closed by the comptroller of the currency after National Bank Examiner Bingham reported it insolvent J W Sco field a bank examiner was named receiver The bank had 50000 capital
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Washington
Farmers’ National Bank
Rogertown
Comptroller of the Currency
National Bank
Bingham
J. W. Scofield
Local Dog Mimics Rooster Crows
Stidman I T July 20 report that Bill Pullen of two miles away owns a shepherd dog that crows like a rooster, a curious animal behavior observed in the countryside.
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Stidman
I. T
Bill Pullen
Barn Fire Destroys Erwin Farm South of Waxahachie
Waxahachie Texas July 20 The barn of R K Erwin fourteen miles south burned with a large quantity of feed amid the blaze.
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Waxahachie
Tex
R. K. Erwin
Local dispute ends in fatal shooting in Clifton
In Clifton Tennessee on July 20 a dispute over a cistern led to Charles Moore a liveryman being shot and killed by Dr Moore. The incident occurred during an altercation with the doctor turning himself in after the shooting.
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Clifton, Tenn
Charles Moore
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