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Newspaper
Cuba Pilot
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1888
Page
7
A tabulation shows 852 strikes affecting 1,318,624 employees across 1,636 establishments with 25,798 losses. New York, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana represent 74.74 percent of establishments involved and 59 percent of capital in U S industries.
A night gathering featured speeches by Lowell Everett and others praising President Cleveland. Lowell lauded Cleveland as a model of Americanism, urging honesty and plain speaking, while Senator Morgan and Congressman Breckenridge weighed revenue, protection, and political reform. The Knights and the strike section discusses Powderly and the Reading boycott strategy amid labor tensions.
Chicago special quotes Misa-Ninda Van Vandt bitterly regretting an alleged plan to blow up the jail and release August Spies. She cites the Parsons murder as diabolical and laments not acting to save her husband, while a guest questions her thoughts.
Samuel Persel, arrested for perjury by order of Judge Gill, faced trial in Jackson County circuit court. Witness absence delayed proceedings. Persel testified about residence and wife’s whereabouts before being rearrested. Persel, a well-regarded Nebraska City merchant, testified he had lived in Kansas City over a year and did not know his wife’s location.
A chaotic mix of items includes a hurricane and snowstorm wrecking twenty five vessels in Greece, calls to intervene in copper price moves by French authorities, tobacco tax protests in New York, and financial troubles for Newman Leopold Chicago. Additional notes cover opera company funding, a Christmas gift from W W Corcoran, a Hartford wife murder sentence, and pension bills for disabled veterans with detailed provisions.
Fragmentary OCR indicates the Ohio River commission in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania set to meet on December 21 amid grisly notes about a patition.
A formal decision by the Interstate Commerce Commission considers whether express companies fall under the Act to Regulate Commerce. It notes contracts with railroads, capitalization, and the practicalities of bringing express business under federal oversight. The report also surveys 1887 railway construction and mileage, highlighting major western growth and job creation.
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