Strike at Dawa Men Not All Out
Traffic to the seaside practically at a stand still as a strike action stalls movements with men in Dawa refusing full duties.
17 Jul 1899
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1899
Page
1
Traffic to the seaside practically at a stand still as a strike action stalls movements with men in Dawa refusing full duties.
In Brooklyn a new trolley strike disrupts Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines amid wage and timetable disputes. Police guard routes as 1,000 officers secure barns and prevent violence after President Rossiter’s private car Ampere is attacked near Fifth Avenue.
Union Ice Company drivers and helpers struck for a $2 weekly wage increase. The company paid off the strikers and hired new workers. Striker David Ellis assaulted refuser John Chamberlain. Ellis was arrested and to be prosecuted. Strikers threaten to drive out the newcomers. manager Winsworth arranged protection.
A heavy windstorm swept Minneapolis at 5 30 this evening with lightning and rain. The front of the Minneapolis and St Louis ticket office was blown in and trees, awnings, and signs were damaged. The storm lasted under five minutes and appears local with no further damage reported.
Special Cable reports Captain William Andrews who started from Atlantic City in a twelve foot boat was picked up July 12 by the steamer Holbien seven hundred miles from land in exhausted condition. He set his small craft adrift after being taken aboard in Liverpool.
Norfolk reports that an affidavit from Charles N. Greenwood, a Norfolk jeweler, is being sent to Ambassador Choate. Greenwood testifies that Florence Maybrick’s husband James Maybrick was an habitual arsenic eater and used large doses. Other potential corroborating witnesses include druggist Eaton who supplied arsenic.
Manila July 16 The sick list totals 1889 not counting quarters. wounded to date 1586 and 282 dead from wounds. Weekly hospital tallies include typhoid 23 malarial fever 223 dysentery 233 and other ailments totaling 1378. Officers for the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Volunteer Regiments have been chosen. Colonel Bell to command the former and Colonel Wallace the latter. The Filipino Junta at Hongkong has bought Labuan Island property, signaling a move of its headquarters.
Patrick Carney of Dark County reports a strange insect damaging wheat in his area. He says 110 acres are destroyed and several other farmers lost crops. The pest saps life from the plants causing them to wilt and fall. Its name remains unknown and confined to a small region.
George Whitney aged 35, married, tried to board a Vandalia freight at Brazil Indiana. He slipped and fell between cars, wheels pass over both legs, cutting them off at the knee. He is expected to die.
El Liberal retracts its report of a 2 750 000 peseta deficit due to embezzlement in the Northern Railway Company, admitting the earlier story was false and published yesterday.
The Administration seeks to avoid wrangling and jealousy over the issue. Morgan Ford is named as a rival of Bryan by Senator Scott, with discussion of industrial relief for Cuba.
Washington dispatch reports the administration plans enlisting not only ten regiments but the full thirty five authorized by Congress. Officials say public opinion is shifting toward large force needs to quell insurrection, with state-control concerns to be avoided and volunteers treated as regulars. Senator Scott predicts Morgan or Bryan outcomes and notes West favors expansion and Nicaragua Canal. Senor Quesada urges Cuban aid via cattle seeds and tools, not rations, to foster self sufficiency under McKinley.
Interior Department reports show no fear of monopolization of lands for livestock watering under the reservoir law. Rules ensure fair use. lands cannot be fenced and remain open to all. Rights may be canceled for noncompliance.
Major Clapp reports investigation underway at Pine Ridge Agency. Indians in question are not Crows and may belong to Pine Ridge or Rosebud. A posse from Edgemont has arrived and investigations continue with potential arrests if the group helps the reservation.
William J. Bryan sent a reply agreeing to address the Chicago platform mass meeting at the Auditorium on July 25, during the Democratic National Committee gathering. Ex governor Altgeld extended the invitation, while Mayor Harrison is asked to give a welcome as Chicago's mayor, not as a party figure.
London dispatch details a Creel critique of General Otis for poor leadership in the Philippines. The writer claims Admiral Dewey and Admiral Dewey’s dissatisfaction with Otis. The piece alleges censorship and suppression of favorable dispatches and cites altered or omitted reports and regimental heroism.
William McNeals of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania was shot twice by Peter R. Hamm in a Thacker lumber camp quarrel. Hamm, intoxicated, fled but was seized by a citizen posse and handed to authorities. McNeals, about 35, had lived in Thacker since moving to the area.
Chicago reports the University of Illinois College of Agriculture will add a $150,000 complex in the coming months. Plans include a three story building about 64 by 240 feet and the institution will grant free scholarships to every county in the state except Cook, which already has seven.
Boston July 16 A unanimous audience resolution urged President McKinley to send General Miles to command in the Philippines until the islands are ready for freedom. Rev P S Henson of Chicago spoke on Chicago and rum instead of the Philippines, shifting focus away from expansion.
Vincent H. Perkins of Chicago says Mayor Harrison supports Bryan and will run for Illinois governor and then seek the presidency in 1904. Perkins notes Harrison loyal to Bryan and hints at a national campaign trajectory.
Frank M Girard of Company I, Oregon Volunteers, arrived in Albany from San Francisco against orders. On the San Francisco dock he learned his dying mother asked him to come home. He secured no furlough, descended by rope to a boat, and left for Monmouth. He pledges to return to his regiment in a few days.
Archie Brower, owner of a Bonesteel tent show, argued the creature he struck was not human but a monkey, after killing it in a scuffle. He faces murder charges with an argument that the victim was an animal, not a person, as a preliminary hearing binds him over to the grand jury.
In Upper Sandusky Ohio on July 16 Cummins Culver underwent a complex jaw reconstruction by Drs. O C Stutz and Sampson Maskey. The broken jaw from a horse trampling was wired with a silver thread and four holes drilled to prevent disfiguration.
Victoria B C July 16 United States Consul Smith reports a memorial from American mining engineer R E L Brown requesting U S government intervention to secure Brown's claim against the Transvaal Government for damages tied to the Witfontein case. Brown won a judgment of 1812000 dollars.
In Columbus Indiana William Louden paid the express charges for his father’s body from Paragould Arkansas after refusing to pay earlier. He buried the casket at 6:30 PM but a late telegram ordered its return to Arkansas.
In Baltimore on July 15 a child of William Perot Jr. vanished from the country home at Walbrook while the family was away in New York. Custody had been granted to the father after divorce. police and private detectives pursue leads, with the mother believed to be behind the disappearance and possibly in Montreal.
Mrs Wm H Perot wife of a Baltimore merchant elopes with an Englishman named Blood taking Pelais Perot, 11, and Montreal police are asked to arrest the couple for kidnapping. Detectives traced their arrival Saturday and brief hotel stay before they moved toward Quebec with a Baltimore detective pursuing.
Mrs. Andrew J. Hammond, wife of a grocer, is critically ill after a tarantula bite at her home. While reaching for bananas near the store, a tarantula latched onto her index finger causing multiple bites. Doctors fear for her recovery, noting a young tarantula may help her chances.
A squadron of twenty French ships arrived at Barcelona today. The arrival marks a notable naval presence in the port, with ships described as part of a sizeable squadron entering the harbor.
Rudyard Kipling's right thumb was bitten by a dog in London on July 16 and is inflamed. He wears a sling on his arm but doctors do not expect serious consequences.
W H Christman a 25 year old jewelry salesman from Harrisburg killed himself at the Clifton House in Columbus after being told he was under arrest for cashing a forged check. He and his wife had run up a $38 board bill and the $100 check drawn on his wife’s uncle’s account proved forged. Christman swallowed strychnine while dressing and died before aid could come. His body was sent to Harrisburg.
Richmond Indiana July 16 Attorneys pursue evidence to convict Alexander Jester for the Gates murder from over twenty years ago. They search Dalton Hagerstown and Newcastle seeking letters and pension correspondence showing his life under the alias Hill and efforts to identify him.
William H. Peacock 66 of Cynthiana Ohio was struck and killed while trying to cross the Baltimore and Ohio and Wheeling railroad tracks in front of a passenger train at 10 o clock. He was approaching town to meet a son from Cincinnati aboard the train. His other son rode with him and jumped from the buggy to save himself. the horse escaped unharmed.
The body of B. C. Hinnant, a Texas immigrant and Northwestern Telephone Company cashier, was identified by Mrs. E. L. Hanna as her boarder. Family troubles reportedly drove him to self destruction. The company will investigate his accounts tomorrow.
Clifford Felts, 12, son of the County Asylum superintendent, died in Fort Wayne Indiana of lockjaw from a self inflicted hand wound with a revolver and blank cartridges. The wound healed then tetanus developed and the muscles grew rigid until death.
Daniel Casterline and Verne Dildine were thrown from a boat into the Chemung River and drowned when the craft capsized today near Waverly New York.
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