Miners Split Over Offer as Mitchell Influence Looms
Large groups of mine workers favor rejecting the operators offer while equal numbers see merit. President Mitchell may yet waive objections, though he says settlement requires the union convention. The strike area shows no change as 143,000 miners await a declared end and rapid coal shipment plans unfold. Morgan and Bacon meet Root but offer no comment on the coal dispute.
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Wilkesbarre
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Associated Press
Colleries
New York
Atlantic
Agreement to Arbitrate Sets Stage for Coal Strike End
Washington report states coal operators and mine leaders propose a five member presidentially appointed commission to settle disputes in the anthracite fields. The panel would include an army or navy engineer, a noncompany mining expert, a federal judge, a sociologist, and a coal industry insider. Miners to return to work once the commission is formed and findings take effect for three years.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Robert Bacon
Root
Roosevelt
White House
Cortelyou
Pennsylvania
Mitchell
United Mine Workers Union
United States
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Navy
United States Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Mr. Morgan
New York
Mr. Bacon
Baltimore and Ohio
Arlington
Secretary Root
Morgan
Death of Mrs Ward a Belle of Kentucky and Relative of Presidents
Mrs Josephine Ward widow of General Grant dies in New York at nearly eighty. A cousin of James Madison and General Zachary Taylor she was linked to three presidents and a friend of Dolly Madison. Born Miss Harris she married George W Ward in 1847, a New Orleans cotton broker.
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New York
Josephine Ward
Dolly Madison
Julia D. Grant
General Grant
Ward
Harris
James Taylor
Newport
Miss Harris
United States
James Madison
Gen
Zachary Taylor
Thomas Jefferson
Madisons
Montpelier
Geo. W. Ward
New Orleans
Grant Says Samar Island Enjoying First Period of Peace
General Frederick Grant back from the Philippines says Samar is peaceful for the first time and believes the islanders will not trouble the government again. He spoke in San Francisco on October 14.
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Samar
San Francisco
Frederick Grant
Philippines
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