Coal Miners Strike Over Screening System
A dispatch reports a miners strike near Rock Springs Wyoming as the Union Pacific system faces a clash with miners over coal weighing. About 1200 workers are out, with mines closed and no immediate restart expected. Two soldiers from Camp Pilot Butte, Perry Polk and Thomas ONeill, were arrested for passing counterfeit silver dollars.
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Sun
Wyo
Union Pacific
Bere
Camp Pilot Butte
Perry Polk
Thomas O'Neill
A O U W Reception in Cheyenne Draws Dense Crowd
About 290 ladies and gentlemen attended the Ancient Order of United Workmen installation at the Masonic hall in Cheyenne. Cheyenne Lodge No. 3 had 117 members present, with speeches by Warren Richardson J F Jenkins W M Mass and Dr Maynard, a banquet by Mr Whitcomb, music by an efficient band, and a late departure amid praise for the lodge.
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Order of United Workmen
Masonic Hall
Sixteenth Street
Cheyenne Lodge
Mr. Whitcomb
Germania Hall
Walter L. Larsh
Messrs. Warren Richardson
J. F. Jenkins
W. M. Mass
Maynard
P. J. Black
M. W
Joseph Gape
Geo. H. Truckey
P. Michels
W.S. Hurlburt
Ira L. Fredendall
Joseph Leming
A. D. McNeil
I. W
JR. Walker
O. W
T. B. Adams
Cheyenne Lodge No. 3
Artcient Order of United Workmen
TIPS FROM THE TIES
The article notes a double track to be laid over Crow Creek bridge near the stock yards with seventy pound steel rails and an extended embankment. Contractors prepare ash pit work and excavations for a new paint area while roundhouse masonry nears completion.
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Crow Creek
Stock Yards
Bradley
Roundhouse
Land Patent Delivery Bill Moves Through Senate
Senator Plumb reports a bill to deliver unclaimed land patents to rightful owners. He cites 250000 patents awaiting claimants and alleges collusion with a Washington law firm and an assistant interior secretary. The measure directs the interior secretary to forward 60 patents per county for uncalled cases after twelve months.
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Wasuixcron
Senator Plumb
Committee On Public Lands
Senate
Plumb
Paddock and Berry
General Land Office
Washington
Columbian Exposition Site Accepted by National Commission
The World’s Fair National Commission formally accepts the joint lake front and Jackson Park site for the Columbian exposition by a 78 to 11 vote. Debate was minimal as directors explained the tendered arrangement amid differing views from commissioners. A separate note mentions a request from the National Dairy Association for favored treatment due to financial scale, referred to the organization committee.
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Curiaco
National Dairy Association
Committee
Moonshiner Conflict Reported In Bowen County
A Flemingsburg Kentucky dispatch reports a bloody clash between revenue officers and moon shiners in Bowen County yesterday. All accounts confirm three men killed in the confrontation. In a separate note from Greensburg Pennsylvania a lamp explosion fatally scorches two children and seriously injures their father Steinemer, with the wife in critical condition.
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Kentucky Moonshiners
Louisville
Flemingsburg
Bowen County
Robbing an Editor
In New York on July 2 Young Wallace and his accomplice were sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary at hard labor for robbing Editor Wallace of $50,000.
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New York
Young Wallace
Wallace
Louisiana Lottery Victorious Senate Endorses Bill
Baton Rouge July 2 the senate amendment to the lottery bill was concurred by the house by a vote of 68 to 2. The struggle is now over as the bill can be passed over the governor's veto should one be written.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
House
A Brooklyn Writer Studies Birds At Home
A profile of Olive Thorne Miller a Brooklyn author who writes and observes birds without leaving her home. She maintains a room for her avian subjects trains and records notes for her popular books including Bird Ways and In Nest in Time. The piece highlights her indoor approach and family considerations. Colonel F A Stiter sells block 3 for 4000 to J B Jeffrey who then sells lot 5 of the same block to Mrs Mary E B Larech.
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Brooklyn
Olive Thorne Miller
Tree and Post
Zopeba Capital
F. A. Stiteer
J. BK. Jeffrey
Sulzer
Jeffrey
Mary EB. Larech
Meek Travels from Cheyenne to Denver in Rail News
Wilde named General Freight Agent of the Union Pacific. In Omaha, Hon. John L. Webster confirms McKibbin engaged him for defense in the company suits. Webster says McKibbin has a full defense and that rumors of fraud are unfounded.
Fast Run Sets Rail Record From Cheyenne to Denver
General Manager Meek rode back from Omaha by fast mail to Cheyenne then to Denver. Engine 710 hauled his private car with Engineer Fellows at the throttle, achieving 106 miles in 1 hour 47 minutes, a record for the line and praised for speed under safety.
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Cheyenne
Denver
Denver News
Meek
Omaha
Fellows
Fred Wilde Appointed Freight Agent
Fred Wilde of the Union Pacific becomes general freight agent filling the vacancy from N A Johnson. H W Adams moves to assistant general freight agent after tendering resignation and will assume duties shortly following approval by Traffic Manager Mellen and General Manager Meek.
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Denver News
Fred Wilde
Union Pacific
H. W. Adams
Adams
Mellen
Meek
Mr. Wilde
N. A. Johnson
Wilde
Butte
McKibbin Hires Webster for Union Pacific Defense
Ex purchasing agent McKibbin of the Union Pacific is charged with wrongfully appropriating sixty thousand dollars tied to the railroad. He denies the charges while Hon John L Webster says McKibbin can be produced in Omaha on twenty four hours notice and will proceed to trial. A new seven ton safe is installed in the Cheyenne post office as postal business grows.
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Omaha Bee
John L. Webster
McKibbin
Union Pacific
Webster
Chicago
Davis
Mr. Webster
Barnes & Co
Barnes
Mr. McKibbin
Omaha
Onanta Republican
Union Pacific System
Comany
Theentleman
Cheyenne
Nerve to Do Right as House Debates Federal Election Bill
The House resumes debate on the federal election bill with Tucker amendment on supervisory judges and Rowell plan to create United States juror commissioners to draft panels. Hemphill seeks to curb troop use. party lines blur as votes shift and reconsiderations are filed amid protests from Democrats.
Motion to reconsider and table bill in dramatic House vote
In a heated session Springer votes against then for reconsideration as the bill faces dilatory challenges. After appeals and adjournment motions, the bill advances to final passage with 155 yeas and 149 nays amid partisan applause before adjournment.
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Springer
Yeas
Hemphill
Iowa
Nave
Coleman
Lehrbach
Outhwaite
Louisiana
New Jersey
Houk, Taylor
Tennessee
Waddill
Senate Reconsiders Vote on Appropriation Bill
Wasuixeton July 2 The motion to reconsider the senate vote on receding from amendments to the legislative appropriation bill was agreed to and the senate receded after debate. The bill proceeds to the president. The senate then considers two commerce bills to equalize American merchant marine, and to establish ocean mail with foreign ports. West opposed subsidy bills, noting the dangers of favoring any one line. He criticized the Pan American Congress as outdated and proclaimed subsidies would discourage other lines. The floor adjourned after an executive session with plans to act on the river and harbor bill tomorrow.
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Wasuixeton
Hiscock
Senate
Committee On Commerce
United States
West
Pan-American Congress
Harrison
Secretary of — State
Frey
Wyoming Admittance Bill Sought For Fourth of July
The American Woman Suffrage Association led by June H. Spofford and the National Christian Temperance Union led by Ada M. Bittenbender urged the president to sign the Wyoming admission bill on July Fourth. They push political equality without sex distinction and plan to present the bills at Cape May Point during the president's Fourth of July visit.
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Washington
American Woman Suffrage Association
June H. Spofford
National Christian Temperance Union
Ada M. Bittenbender
Wyoming
Republic
Idaho
Cape May Point
Democratic State Convention Opens in Scranton in July
The Pennsylvania Kickers convened to nominate state officers with Edhley B. Coxe elected temporary chair and Har rity named permanent chair. Black and Patterson secured first ballot nominations for lieutenant governor and governor respectively. The platform calls tariff reform, lauds Cleveland, critiques the current administration, condemns Republican power grabs, civil service issues, soldier promises, and election corruption.
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Pennsylvania
Republican Party
House of Representives
Cincinnati Carpenters Reach Poststrike Trade Pact
Striking carpenters in Cincinnati return to work after July 15 with employers offering ten hours pay for nine hours worked. About a thousand of the 1,000 unemployed are expected to find new jobs under the agreement.
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Cincinnati
Man Takes Laudanum Poison in Despair and Dies
At about 1 pm W R Keenright bought two ounces of laudanum labeled poison then ingested over an ounce. His mother and stepfather tried to revive him. he died at 3 10 pm after a typhoid illness and suspected mental imbalance. The coroner ruled death by self-administered laudanum during temporary insanity.
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W. R. Keenright
Dr. Hunt
Seventeenth Street
William Mass
Sixteenth and
O'Neill Streets
Daniel Hanesworth
Hunt
Union Pacific
William R. Keenright
IH. H. Heerensrine
A. W. Shilling
Ep. Towser
Entitled to Their Claims Patents Granted at Land Office
Patents issued yesterday by the United States Land Office to residents of Lar amie Albany and Carbon counties who have proved up on their claims. Names listed include C. C. Miller W. M. Reynolds Jay Pettibone J. Wilson J. Kern W. C. Tilton J. M. Cassiday C. T. Jones W. Fallon C. B. Stark G. L. Willson J.T. Atkinson W. F. Barry W. L. Hobbs G. W. Peiffer A. M. Kimmel and J. C. Shaw.
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United States Land Office
Laramie
Albany
Carbon
C. C. Miller
W. M. Reynolds
Jay Pettibone
J. Wilson
J. Kern
W. C. Tilton
J. M. Cassiday
C. T. Jones
W. Fallon
C. B. Stark
G. L. Willson
J.T. Atkinson
W. F
Crook's Pet Mule Jen nie Guards Camp Carlin Trail
General Crook’s favorite mule Jennie that he rode through the Arizona campaign is kept with the mule pack train at Camp Carlin. Report says Jennie stays in place and unhitches for hours when the general dismounts awaiting his return.
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Crook
Jennie
Arizona
Camp Carlin
Burlington and Missouri Extend Rail Lines Progress
Track laying has begun on the Burlington and Missouri's new extensions. Thirty miles from Newcastle west to the Big Horn mountains will be ready by August 4. The Deadwood line caves may run by October 4. The Newcastle extension will push to Sheridan and Buffalo as quickly as possible.
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Burlington
Missouri
Newcastle
Big Horn Mountains
Deadwood
Sheridan
Buffalo
Promoted From the Banks to Superintendent Role
Edward Dickinson, former general manager of the Union Pacific Missouri division, will begin duties as general superintendent of the Trans-Ot lines for the Baltimore and succeeding Mr. Peabody. Dickinson is from Cumberland, Maryland and started in railroading as a twelve year old messenger boy in Cleveland and Toledo, rising to a prominent position.
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Washington’sf
Edward Dickinson
Union Pacific Railway Company
Baltimore
Peabody
Baltimore and Southwestern
Dickinson Los
Cumberland
Cleveland
Toledo
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