Hazleton Mine Strike Heightens as Troops Guard City
The Hazleton crisis worsens as 5 000 to 7 000 miners may join the strike threatening a clash with troops. Poles Lithuanians and others gather at St Joseph's Church while authorities forbid funeral processions and vow strict action to prevent demonstrations. Four more victims die and ten coffins are readied for public viewing outside the church.
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Hazelton
Martin
St. Joseph’s Church
Father Rust
Cobin
Hastingse
No. 3
Audenreich
Gomer Jones
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Jones
Gobin
Jacob Tomashantos
Andrew Yuprick
Steve Urich
John Puta
Mike Cheslok
St. Joseph's Church
Typhoon Strikes Yokohama Wrecks Ships and Claims Lives
A fierce Yokohama typhoon floods the city and harbor with heavy property damage and loss of life. The German warship Irene and British ships Glenericht and Lonsdale were driven ashore but later floated without severe damage. The Norwegian bark Allette wrecked off Nichisk with ten drowned and six injured. cargo recovery possible.
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Yokohama
Irene
Glenericht
Davies
Port Gamble
Lonsdale
Frazer
Antwerp
Allette
Lorentzen
Vancouver
Port Angeles
Nichisk
Emperors Exchange Kisses at Hungarian Meeting
Emperor William and Emperor Francis Joseph met at Totis Hungary with General Count Obrutscheff in attendance. The two rulers wore their regalia and exchanged kisses and handshakes before a large crowd. They proceeded to the Esterhazy castle after the ceremony.
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Totis
Hungary
William
Count Obrutscheff
Francis Joseph
Order of the Black Eagle
Archddukes
Iliam
Austri Hussar
Emperor William
Emperor Faenseph
Count Franz Esterhazy
Seven Die When Freight Car Crashes in Arkansas Wreck
At Hantom I T near Van Buren seven men were killed and six injured when a machinery car toppled by shifting freight wrecked twenty cars. The victims were men and boys from Vian I T seeking work in Van Buren cotton fields. None of the train crew was harmed.
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van Buren
Ark
Iron Mountain
Hantom
I. T
William Fame
Charles Fame
Douglass Anderson
John Johnson
Bore Henderson
Frank Hamilton
H. A. Walton
George Coffman
Jack Jones
James Phillips
Robert Eubanks
Charles Pender
George Parker
Vian
Walton
Coffeeville
Kan
Aged Sisters Die in Lynn Fire Accident
Two unmarried sisters Miss Harriet C. Sheldon 82 and Miss Matilda Sheldon 86 died in a Lynn home fire caused by a tipped kerosene stove and burning oil igniting their clothes. Neighbors arrived too late. Matilda died in an easy chair and Harriet later in hospital. The pair once ran a school offering tuition to affluent local families.
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Matilda
Sheldon Sisters
Healer Schrader Faces Faith Test by Kokomo Preachers
In Kokomo Indiana Rev Kuhn drove cripples to healer Schrader and begged a cure. After no results the crowd removed the patients. Schrader declared his faith could resist poison and refused to drink a vial marked strychnine that held epsom salts. He was denounced across pulpits.
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Commercial Tribune
Kokomo
Ind
Schrader
Kuhn
Main Street
Treaty opens 150000 acres of Shoshone land to settlement
Twelve chiefs from the Ft. Hall Reservation sign a treaty selling 150000 acres of the southern reserve to public buyers for about 600000 dollars at four dollars per acre. The sale will open the area to settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello, Id
Ft. Hall Reservation
Hanna Envisions Honest Campaigning Not Oratory
In Cleveland on Sept 12 Senator Hanna, praised for forceful delivery and clear diction, plans a conversational campaign style avoiding stump speeches. The article recalls Congressman Lentz attempting to win John R. McLean to free coinage, ending with a joke about a political revelation and the Enquirer’s policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Cleveland
Hanna
Painesville
Burton
State Committee
Republican’ Party
John J. Lentz
John R. McLean
Lentz
Bryan
Congress
New England
Columbus
United States
Washington
McLean
Enquirer
Mr. Lentz
The
Enchanted Mesa Yields Pottery and Arrows Indicating Ancient Inhabitants
Smithsonian explorer F W Hodge reports findings from New Mexico's Enchanted Mesa showing pottery fragments shells bracelets and stone axes on the summit. He ascended via rope ladders to confirm that the mesa was once inhabited contradicting Prof Libbey's earlier conclusion.
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Washington
F. W. Hodge
Bureau of Ethnology
Smithsonian Institute
Enchanted Mesa
New Mexico
William Libbey
Princeton University
Libbey
Hodge
Pradt
Battle ships for Japan and Chinese loan plan
Chinese government negotiates with a foreign syndicate for a loan of 100 million taels to pay the indemnity to Japan. In related notes from London shipping sources Japan orders a 17 000 ton battleship and a 9 000 ton cruiser to be built at Clyde yards and Yokosuka respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Messrs. Thompson & Co
Clyde Shipbuilders
Shikoshima
Yokosuka
Maiuchi
Japan
Sunstruck Brother of Brooklyn Attorney Dies in Workhouse
Charles D. Nichols, brother of Delaney F. Nichols, a renowned Brooklyn attorney, died in the Quincy workhouse from sunstroke while serving a vagrancy sentence. His brother's address was learned from a letter found in Nichols's pocket.
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Quincy, II
Charles D. Nichols
Delaney F. Nichols
Brooklyn
N. Y
Nichols
Vengeance Manages Escape as Parker Is Slain
The shooting of Sam Parker in Cecil by Shelton Dampier near Hahira shocks Valdosta. Dampier fired through Parker’s heart after a talk with bystanders and then waved a pistol at the town marshal before fleeing. The motive traces to a meat theft conviction Dampier served in the chain gang years earlier. Parker was en route to church when killed.
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Valdosta
Sam Parker
Cecil
Hahira
Shelton Dampier
Parker
Dampier
Chain Gang
Wiltshire youths overdose ends in death
Clarence Kohn Fred Morrison and Arthur Vanator, Wiltshire youths, took pills in a dare near Van Wert. Kohn 17 Morrison 13 Vanator 12. All returned home. Vanator later suffered stomach cramps, surgery performed but he died that day.
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Commercial Tribune
van Wert
Clarence Kohn
Fred Morrison
Arthur Vanator
Wiltshire
Kohn
Morrison
Vanator
Fatal shooting after craps altercation in Williamstown
In Williamstown Kentucky on September 12 a dispute during a negro craps game led to Eugene Lair kicking Charles Williams. Williams died from two gunshot wounds one to the heart and one in the arm. Lair is jailed.
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Commercial Tribune
Williamstown
Eugene Lair
Chas. Williams
Lair
Williams
Arthur
Lairs
Supreme Court Judge Fenn Dies in Connecticut
Winsted Connecticut September 12 Judge Augustus H Fenn of the Connecticut Supreme Court died here today from Brights disease aged 53
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Winsted
Conn
Augustus H. Fenn
Connecticut Supreme Court
Bright
Ohio Farmers Gain From Tariff Boost In Farm Values
A letter from J H Brigham to Senator J C Burrows shows Ohio farm products rising in value this year. Wheat adds about 18.7 million, tobacco 1.6 million, wool 850 thousand, corn 1.5 million, with cattle, swine and sheep lifting overall farm wealth to around 41.65 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Ohio
J. H. Brigham
United States Department of Agriculture
J. C. Burrows
Michigan
Washington
Ohio Catholic Knights Hold Sixth Annual Convention in Hamilton
The Catholic Knights of Ohio meet in Hamilton September 13 to 15 with about 120 delegates from 100 branches. Archbishop Elder and Bishops Horstman and Waterson attend. a solemn high mass and Hadyns second mass in C will be sung. A grand parade follows at 1 30 pm. The order has 100 branches and about 5 000 members.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Catholic Knights of Ohio
Elder
Horstman and
Waterson
St. Joseph’s Church
Archbishop Elder
United Chorus
Hadyn
Ohio
Order
C. K. of O
J. J. Patel
Co operative scheme on chimney workers in Indiana
An Elwood report notes a rumor that chimney workers from Elwood Marion Muncie and Alexandria may form a cooperative company to run the Windfall chimney factory. With flint glass plants idle since June 30 the plan could revive employment and spur industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Elwood
Ind
Marion
Muncie
Alexandria
Posse Captures Robbers After Shootout In Indiana
Bert Andrews and Clifford Gordon ambushed Wolley Bros store near Osgood Indiana. A waiting posse wounded them and County Sheriff Busching as the robbers fought fiercely. The pair were later captured at home and sent to jail on stretchers. Andrews suffered a punctured liver Gordon a ball in each shoulder and many buckshot wounds. Both men likely face death. Sheriff Menaced by Blood Poisoning Condition.
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Commercial Tribune
Osgood
Ind
Bert Andrews
Clifford Gordon
Wolley Bros
Here
Busching
Andrews
Gordon
Evansville Men Missing After Seattle Steamer Sinks
Evansville trio Wm Moody Albert Beerwart and George Hardy were aboard the steamer Eliza Anderson lost at sea while en route from Seattle to St Michaels Alaska. William Zins also sailed from Seattle but deserted at Metlacotla Alaska and returned home after deeming the ship unseaworthy.
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Evansville
Ind
Eliza Anderson
Seattle
St. Michalels
Alaska
Wm. Moody
Albert Beerwart
George Hardy
William Zins
Metlacotla
Klondike
Chilkoot Pass
Ohio Man Dies in Alaska
OAKLAND Calif Sept 12 Chief of Police Lloyd received a telegram announcing the death at Juneau of J C Boatman formerly private secretary to Congressman Hilborn and recently appointed Fish Commissioner of Alaska He was a native of Ohio and 40 years of age.
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Oakland
Cal
Lloyd
Juneau
J. C. Boatman
Hilborn
Alaska
Ohio
Ida Bolley Dies in Laughter at Farm Home
Ida Bolley, wife of a prominent farmer, died in Lagrange Indiana after a fit of laughter when a blood vessel ruptured. The death occurred at the family residence on September 12.
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Srcial Tribune
Lagrange
Ind
Ida Bolley
Money and man missing from Parkersburg mystery
H. S. Guthermuth, brother of missing John Guthermuth, arrived from Petaluma and debunked reports of the brother found in California. He doubts death and believes the missing man may be abroad, possibly Europe, as a dated New York postmark letter suggested. Guthermuth will stay several days to settle the estate.
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Commercial Tribune
Parkersburg
W. Va
Guthermuth
John Guthermuth
Petaluma
California
Europe
New York
H. S. Guthermuth
Carlists Prepare for War in Madrid
Madrid reports the Carlists may be gathering strength to exploit Spain's Cuba embarrassment. El Imparcial claims it has reliable authority that Carlists are secretly forming an elaborate military organization amid circulating rumors.
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Madrid
Cuba
el Imparcial
Silver forces threaten Bryan in Nebraska campaign
Nebraska political turmoil grows as Populists plot a separate ticket. Silver leaders urge unity to stop a bolt, while fusion nominee Judge Sullivan contemplates resignation to keep the Bryan coalition intact. Democratic, Populist and Silver Republican committees clash over strategy and harmony efforts.
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Commercial Tribune
Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Bryan
Democratic Central Committee
Allen
Teller
Weaver
Towne
Simpson
Cyclone
Davis
Democrats
Sullivan
Fusion
Democratic Committee
President Attends Church Before Leaving for Washington
President McKinley and Attorney General McKenna attended morning services at the Methodist Church in Somerset Pennsylvania. Abner McKinley Mabel Endsley Dr A I Endsley Colonel Alfred Cushing and W K Endsley accompanied them. A crowd gathered outside as they exited by a different route. The President scheduled a Cabinet meeting for Tuesday and will depart by special train for Washington the next day.
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Somerset
McKenna
Methodist Church
H. N. Cameron
Abner McKinley
Mabel
A. I. Endsley
Alfred Cushing
Washington
W. K. Endsley
Cameron
J. H. Sutherland
Presbyterian Church
Jerusalem
Mutineers to be Sent Home Aboard Lancaster
Captain Carnan reports from Bahia that the US frigate Lancaster, on its way home from Montevideo, will transport the Olive Pecker mutineers to the United States for murder trials. The crew is held at Bahia awaiting passage after the voyage from Boston to Buenos Aires.
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New York
Carnan
Collridge
Bahia
Olive Pecker
United States
Lancaster
Montevideo
Whitman
Saunders
Boston
Buenos Ayres
Vigilance Committees Formed in Kendallville Burglary Rise
Kendallville residents form vigilance committees amid a surge of burglaries over the past week. The crimes are believed linked to a gang active in multiple Northern Indiana towns, causing heavy losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Lagrange
Ind
Kendallville
Indiana
Yellow fever cases declared in New Orleans quarter
The Board of Health announced six cases on St Claude street as yellow fever and later another on Miro and Esplanade streets. Quarantine and sanitation measures were enforced, with eight total cases and one death traced to Mississippi coast origin. Officials urged calm and continued vigilance to keep the outbreak contained.
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New Orleans
Board of Health
St. Claude Street
Miro
Esplanade
Board of Experts
Olliphant
Ocean Springs
Roy
Lemonnier
Touatre
Matas
Scranton
Miss
Oliphant
St. Claude Street Square
Esplanade Street
Mississippi
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Coxe
Hazleton
Monarcch
Indian Territory
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His Delivery
Hanna J
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McKinley
White House
Mark Hanna
Prof. Hodge
Battle Ships
China
Ney
Supreme Court
Ohio Catholic Knights
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