City Property Listings Near Allen Academy
South half of block near Allen academy priced at 550. About one quarter acre near schoolhouse in southeast town with small cottage tenant house and well. Eight room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street with brick cistern at 1250. Quarter block near Allen Academy east front 250. 8 easy. Eighty feet front on Railroad street from Otto Boehme’s property. Sale of part or all. Lots near schoolhouse at 100 each and other city property.
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Allen Cademy
Smallow
Main Street
Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
Miners Strike Leaders Meet in Secret Conference
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on September 17 President Gompers of the AFL and President Mitchell with the UMW national treasurer and district presidents held a secret conference on the strike situation. Gompers said unions would contribute as needed and the federation’s convention would not be called before November to act on the strike. Coal breakers at Conningham and No 2 Plymouth mines were started and ran for hours with uncertain output.
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Wilson
Gompers
Federation
Conningham
Delaware and Hudson Company
Plymouth
Conference of Leaders Pushes No Concessions War
A secret session of top coal operators in New York outlined a hard line against concessions and rejected settlement talks. Leaders from Reading, Delaware Lackawanna, New York Ontario Western, Lehigh Valley and Delaware Hudson asserted workers must return to end the strike, citing Mitchell and Hanna as ineffective.
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New York
Philadelphia and Reading Company
Baer
Reading Road
Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Fowler
New York, Ontario and Western
Walters
Lehigh Valley
Oliphant
Delaware and Hudson
Irving Stearns
Coxe Bros. & Co
John Markle
G. B. Mark
Mitchell
Hanna
Collieries and Washeries Grow as Local Mines Expand
In Scranton on September 17 the Delaware and Hudson company reports six collieries and three washeries in operation after starting up three new collieries. Ontario and Western shows three mines and three washers active. Overall 19 collieries and 21 washeries are listed with a daily output about 20,000 tons. A deputy at Pancoast colliery fired a revolver to deter a pursuing crowd and was jailed for discharging firearms.
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Scranton
Dela- Ware and Hudson Company
Ontario and Western Company
Pancoast
Coal Chutes Burned at McAlester Texas
Denison TexasSept 17 The Katy coal chutes at McAlester Indian Territory were destroyed by fire Monday night Losses on the chutes and coal total about 3500 Two coal cars were burned with about 2500 in losses The loss is covered by a blanket insurance policy The chutes will be rebuilt by the company at once.
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Denison
Tex
Katy
McAlester
I. T
Passenger train collides with open switch near Ferris
Ennis Texas sept 17 the southbound Houston and Texas Central passenger train ran into an open switch at Ferris and collided with a train of flat cars the passenger engine was disabled several flat cars derailed and broken no injuries reported
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Ennis
Tex
Houston and
Texas Central
Ferris
Mrs Bowen Dead In Paris After Long Illness
Mrs. Bowen wife of Deputy United States consul general J Allison Bowen died Tuesday in Paris Texas after a long illness.
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Paris
Tex
Forest Fires Rage in Jacka Fork Mountains Territory
Report from the Territory notes ongoing forest fires in the Jacka Fork mountains for several years. Paris Texas records the development as fire activity continues to threaten timber and landscape, with local observers noting persistence and spread through the range.
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Paris
Tex
Territory
Jacka Fork Mountains
End of the Rebellion Report From Victoria
A Chinese correspondent states the rebellion is ended though smuggling of rifles continues, with Bandit Liu Tang Tsae holding Tunghua-Hsian and Boxers active in Cheng tse. Japanese steamer Higo Maru reports eruption at Torishama causing massive island destruction and ash covered landscape with crater formation and vanishing vegetation.
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New Chwang
Liu Tang Tsae
Chengtse
Torishama
Yokohama
Beresford Sees Value in American Sham War Games
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford of the English Navy arrives in New York for a three week stay and lauds the American naval and army maneuvers as valuable training. He notes no waste in the powder burning of the mock war and praises its role in identifying weak points. He adds Britain cannot compete with American railroads for through rates in shipping.
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New York
Lord Charles Beresford
America
Beresford
England
Henderson refuses to reconsider withdrawal from race
Des Moines reports Speaker Henderson stands by his decision to withdraw from the Third district congressional race. A telegram from Dubuque dated Sept. 16 expresses appreciation but says cannot reconsider after a lifetime fighting for country, state, and district, and opposes free trade as a cure for the trust problem.
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Henderson
Des Moines
Dubuque
Lafe
W. Rathbun
D. B. Henderson
Henderson declines re election bid in Dubuque call
Oyster Bay report from Dubuque indicates Speaker Henderson has declined to run again for Congress. Presidential senatorial callers offered no comment on the matter.
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Oyster Bay
Associated Press
Dubuque
Henderson
Congress
Perez accuses Vatican of injustice over Philippine mission
Enrique Perez, pro curator of the Spanish Geodotte Fathers in Rome, presents a voluminous Vatican report arguing that his order in the Philippines is unjustly attacked and libeled and asserting its right to remain and be protected by the government.
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Rome
Enrique Perez
Spanish Geodotte Fathers
Vatican
Philippines
Call for Condition of Banks Washington
The Controller of the Currency issued a call for a nationwide statement of the condition of National banks as of the close of business Monday September 15. The notice seeks balances liabilities and earnings from all federally chartered banks across the country for supervisory review and public transparency.
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Washington
News in Brief From Across States and Territories
A Mills county Texas hailstorm damaged open cotton. Vinitta Indian Territory voters approved 12000 for a new school building. Col T C Copeland, Butler Missouri pension attorney, deemed insane and committed to Nevada asylum. Arcadia Indiana post office burglars blew safe with dynamite and netted about 500. Fourteen year old Fred Boxleter killed in Dubuque Iowa while riding freight train wheels crushed. George Nipper, Claremore Oklahoma cattleman once missing ten years, located in Denver Colorado.
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Mills County
Texas
Vinitta
I. T
Col. T. C. Copeland
Butler
Nevada Asylum
Arcadia
Ind
Fred Boxleter
Dubuque
Great Western
George Nipper
Claremore
Denver
Col
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Morrison Drug Co
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Nabors Bros
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the Bryan Grocery Co
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Cole Bros
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