Death of Commander Frederick M Wise Recalled
A naval cadigram reports Commander Frederick M Wise died at Yokohama hospital. He commanded the old Monocacy during early Chinese troubles when it came under fire at the Taku forts. The piece also notes a $420 conscience gift to the U S Treasury via Father Baggio of Santa Clara and a forthcoming competitive exam for 21 army veterinarian vacancies with pay of 1500 a year and incremental increases.
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Washington
Navy Department
Yokohama’ Hospital
Frederick M.wise
Taku
United States
Roberts
Father Baggio
Santa Clara
Cal
War Department
Strikes and Industry Upheaval Dominate Early News
The steel workers strike affects over 31 percent of U S Steel production. Amalgamated lodges in McKeesport appeal for aid while spindles in Fall River pledge wage reductions. A large New York City strike plans to involve nearly 30 thousand workers in flannel waist and women wear industries. Other items note a fatal fall in Atlantic City, capital boost for Cambria Steel, Schwab to oversee Bethlehem Steel, a Fire in Dry Run, hop crop declines, New Jersey mosquito control efforts, a bogus degree scandal, a Dutch steamer collision sinking a pilot boat, potential break in McKeesport strikers, a fatal trolley crash in Brooklyn, and risingPan American exposition attendance.
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United States Steel Corporation
Amalgamated Association
McKeesport
Fall River
Mass
New York City
Felix Kahn
Cincinnati
Atlantic City
N. J
Philadelphia
Cambria Steel Co
Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel Co
C. M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Co
Hammond
Dry Run
Oneida
Madison
Otsego
New York
New Jersey
JD. M. Mitchell
State Board of Health
Jersey City
Mitchell
James Gordon Bennett
Bennett
National Tube Co
Fifteenth Street
Brooklyn
N. \.) Rapid Transit Co
Long Island Railroad
Nonunion workers brought in to replace strikers at Chicago plant
In Chicago on the 14th, about a hundred union pickets jeered as 29 non union men were admitted to Frazer and Chalmers to fill the strike positions. The workers were brought from the east and escorted into the plant by police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frazer & Chalmers
Train wreck at Raleigh Indiana injures one fireman
An eastbound Big Four passenger train at Raleigh Indiana on the 16th derailed after the engine jumped. It carried 70 passengers with only fireman Lilly injured. The engine and tender separated and lay 20 feet from the track as a mail car and other cars were damaged.
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Big Four
Raleigh
Ind
Lilly
Ageor
Germany
Ter
Landess
Odd Fellows
Niehaus Bros
West Berkley
Cal
Seventh
Delaware Streets
Kansas City
San Francisco
James McCullough
Altoona
Baltimore
Arctic explorer Wordenskiold and missing ship mystery
Baron Adolf Erik Wordenskiold’s Stockholm report confirms his 1832 birth and firing incident. The missing ship Manchester, loaded with kerosene for Yokohama, is found wrecked on Pikar Island in the Pacific, with at least one woman and several children surviving.
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Baron Adolf Erik Wordenskiold
Stockholm
Manchester
New York
Yokohama
Pikar
Pacific Ocean
Ascuncion
Paraguay
Frank A. McKean
Nashua
N. H
Indian Head National Bank
McKean
South America
Constantinople
Damitra
Armenia
Labor council forms in Allegheny region and strike fallout
AfeKeesport forms a senate of labor with three delegates from each union to oversee the strike. Buffalo Nut and Bolt Works in North Tonawanda closes, putting 500 workers idle due to steel shortages from a strike. Georgia cotton’s first bale at the New York cotton exchange sells for ten cents per pound. American Sugar Refining Co cuts all refined sugar by ten points to 3.25 for standard prenulated. Pittsburg man Matthew McBride shot and killed in Squirrel Hill while patrolling his boat. gunman fled. Shipyard delays grow as San Francisco labor troubles affect army and navy vessel work, including six warships and two torpedo boats, notably the battleship Ohio. International Union of Textile Workers plans November 15 Washington convention to disband and merge with AFL. Former Lackawanna official Thomas J. Matthews commits suicide in Oliphant. Anonymously threatening letters reach regimental commanders in Somerset ahead of possible strike duty, investigation by U S postal authorities.
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AfeKeesport
Senate of Labor
Buffalo Nut and Bolt Works
North Tonawanda
N. Y
New York Cotton Exchange
American Sugar Refining Co
Matthew McBride
Squirrel Hill
Pittsburg
Mcbride
Officrs
Army
Navy
San Francisco
Union Iron Works
Ohio
New York City
International Union of Textile Workers of
Amelia
International Union
Washington
Amercan Federation of Labor
Amerian Federaton
Texte Workers
Thomas J. Matthews
Lackawanna County
Oliphant
Somerset
National Guard of Pennsylvania
United States
Gulf Storm Rages North Gulf Coast Floods Cities
Stark storm wrecks ships and floods Mobile New Orleans Pensacola area causing deaths and widespread property damage. report details wind speeds up to 70 miles per hour and tidal surge with multiple vessels grounded, warehouses flooded, and rescue efforts under way.
Three Additions to the Navy Named Whipple Truxtun Worden
Baltimore reports three torpedo boat destroyers christened and launched by Maryland Steel Co. The vessels, largest of their type in the U S Navy, will be named Whipple Truxtun and Worden. Construction features include asbestos sheathing and no wood in the hull.
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Baltimore
Maryland Steel Co
Whipple
Truxtun
Worden
United States Navy
Islander Disaster Claims Many Lives Near Douglas Island
The steamer Islander struck an iceberg near Douglass Island during August night operations and sank within minutes. 108 passengers were aboard, 60 were lost, as passengers scrambled for lifeboats and jumped into icy water. One Portland man fled with $14,000 Klondike gold, others clung to a satchel with $40,000 in dust.
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Queen
Islander
Skagway
Douglass Island
M. Blumaur
Portland
Foote
Klondike
Bishop
Shell blast at Fort Riley wounds seven soldiers in mishap
A seven inch shell exploded during breech loading at Fort Riley near Junction City Kansas on August 20 killing Henry C Watson and injuring six others including John J King Murray Sykes Charles Duncan Henry Logsdon Dennis Mahony Roos Duck and James Brady. The big siege battery had been on the range since the prior Wednesday with the casualty list reporting severe injuries and a mix of fatal wounds. London Kentucky and Boston natives are named among the wounded. Afro American delegates arriving in London for an ecumenical council cause hotel tensions with American guests in a dispute over colored visitors.
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Junction City
Kan
Fort Riley Reservation
Seventh Artillery
Henry C. Watson
John J. King
Murray Sykes
Charles Duncan
Henry Logsdon
Dennis Mahoney
Roos Duck
James Brady
Watson
Joe King
New Jersey
Tienry Logsdon
London
Dennis Mahony
Boston
International Ecumenical Council
Fire destroys J. Wright Co. plant in Richmond
Richmond, Aug 20. Fire wiped out the J. Wright Co. plant of the American Cigar Co. here, consuming 400000 pounds of leaf tobacco stored in a 19200 square foot building. Total loss about 200000 with 112000 insured. About 350 workers, mostly Black, escaped unharmed.
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Richmond
J. Wright Co
American Cigar Co
British pressure over Chu-Chau massacre orders
A Peking dispatch states Sir Ernest Satow warned Chinese peace plenipotentiaries that Britain will rethink troop withdrawal unless the decrees punishing Chu-Chau massacre authors are immediately implemented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ernest Satow
Peking
Chu- Chau
Great Britain
Second Mosquito Victim Dies in Havana Experiments
Havana on August 20 reports the death of the second man bitten by infected mosquitoes used in Dr Caldas's experiments. The victim died Monday from yellow fever.
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Havana
Caldas
Made Strong and Well Peruna Testimonials in Minnesota
Mrs E A Crozier of Minneapolis a senior vice president of the James Morgan Post WRC says Peruna cured her bedridden pains and headaches in two weeks and made her feel young again. Mrs William Henderson of Bordulac reports pain from back to left leg eased completely with no recurrence for nearly two years. The notice offers free treatment under Dr Hartman at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio for women in need with confidential letters and no charges for the treatment.
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E. A. Crozier
James Morgan Post
Minnesota
Landour
9Th
Wicollet
Minneapolis
Minn
William Henderson
Peruna
Mrs. Win. Henderson
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
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