Labor Violence At New Orleans Rail Yard Strikes Turn Deadly
In New Orleans a switchmen strike on the Queen and Crescent system led to a deadly confrontation near the yard. Eleven men arrived from St Louis to take spots, four were shot, George Sprague died within hours, and W R Smith W R Maples and J F Jones were seriously wounded while James Sexton among the strikers was fatally hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
George Sprague
W.R. Smith
W. R. Maples
J. F. Jones
Pinkertons Targeted by Striker Allies at Homestead
Reported at Homestead Pennsylvania that forty Pinkerton non union workers joined strikers and aided Amalga leaders. They allegedly gathered evidence on riot participants and revealed a hidden rifle cache. Authorities plan to search for captured Winchester guns with warrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homestead
Pinkerton Agency
Carnegie
Pinkerton
Winchesters
Great Steel Works
Munhbail Station
Carnegie Steel Company
Wichester
Prosecution Restarts on Homestead Strikers
Secretary Love joy of the Carnegie Steel company resumes prosecutions against Homestead strikers. Six men present July 6 were arrested on conspiracy and aggravated riot charges. five held in Homestead, one arrested in Allegheny and jailed for lack of bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Lovejoy
Carnegie Steel Company
Homestead
Little Bill
John McLuckie
George Ryland
Thomas J. Crawford
William Gatches
William Deffner
Attorney General Interprets Eight-Hour Law for Government Labor
Miller issues an opinion on the eight hour act stating the general application to workers directly employed by the government and DC, with limits on public works. It notes doubt for some cases and suggests fact specific outcomes, including sailors and shipboard workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Washington
District of Columbia
Buffalo Strikers Denounce Militia After Broderick Death
In Buffalo on August 30, workers denounced the militia for fatally shooting Michael Broderick during last week's strike. Troops withdrawn, deputy sheriffs and police patrol yards as five men are jailed for blocking switchmen. A mass meeting led by John H. Hynes calls for prosecutions, a court martial if martial law persisted, and a committee to pursue the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
H. Walter Webb
South Side
Michael Broderick
John H. Hynes
Dennis H. Ryan
K. of L
Father Cronin
Catholic Union
Quincy grocers cap credit terms for granite workers
Quincy Massachusetts August 30. An arrangement limits credit to thirty days for rocked-out granite cutters by all members of the Quincy Grocer's association. Granite manufacturers push for subjection while workers unite through the central labor union and may back co operative stores. More strikes in lumber mills in Wisconsin. Eagle River and Woodboro mills employ about five hundred workers striking for ten hour days with bi monthly pay. Some workers at Eagle River have been paid off and discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Mass
Quincy Grocer’s Association
Central Labor Union
Rhinelander
Wis
Eagle River
Woodboro
Montgomery County
Columbia City
Ind
James Gray
Terre Haute
Hart
Pythian Supreme Lodge elects officers and outlines rites
Kansas City reports the Pythian supreme lodge elected officers led by W W Blackwell as supreme chancellor and W B Ritchie as vice chancellor with several regional reps. The Pythian Sisters chose Mrs Hattie A Robinson and Mrs A A Young as leaders. Competitive Drills across multiple cities concluded with strong applause and Indiana battalion winning by default. The lodge ritual was exemplified and praised, to be distributed to grand and subordinate lodges for testing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Pythian Supreme Lodge
W. W. Blackwell
W. B. Ritchie
E. T. Blackmer
San Diego
Cal
R. L. C. White
Nashville
S. J. Willey
Wilmington
Del
Representative Lyon
Kansas
O. H. Gardineer
New York
Supreme Outer Guard
J. W. Thompson
Washington, D. C
Pythian Sisters and Sisterhood
Pythian Sisters
Sisterhood
Hattie A. Robinson
Ohio
M. D. Wood
Missouri
A. A. Young
Concord
N. H
L. A. Small
Farmington
New Albany
Ind
Grand Rapids
Mich
Little Rock
Ark
Girard
Indiana
Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias to meet in Washington
The supreme lodge and encampment of the Knights of Pythias announced Washington as the site for the next biennial session. After a close vote among Louisville Washington and Indianapolis Washington won 82 votes to 50 for Louisville with Indianapolis not contending after preliminary rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pythians
Washington
Kansass City
Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Louisville
Indianapolis
Sensational divorce suit names Thomas Nisbett in Chicago
Alfred M. Compton, a J. W. Farn & Co. salesman, files a divorce case alleging adultery with co respondent Thomas C. Nisbett. Nisbett, a noted Sunday school leader and Christian Endeavor official, denies the charges and cites past moves from Alton to Minneapolis then Chicago where he worked in real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alfred M. Compton
Compton
J. W. Farn@ & Co
Evanston
Thomas C. Nisbett
Nisbett
Illinois
Christian Endeavor Society Missionary Board
St. Nisbett
Alton
Minneapolis
Red Cross Ordered to Duty in Austria for Cholera Service
Emperor Franz Joseph orders the Red Cross to organize cholera service across Austria. Hospitals will be built in various regions under Red Cross supervision and the society will handle transport of patients from homes to hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Vienna
Franz Joseph
Red Cross Society
Austria
Empire
Cholera Fears Rise as Ports Contain Outbreaks Abroad
Reports detail cholera on the steamship Gerona at Middlesborough with quarantining, two deaths in Paris from cholera, and Hamburg's surge to hundreds of cases and deaths. Havre and French liners may shift to English ports. Hamburg seats to sanitary warnings with funerals pared to bare ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lonpoy
Gerona
Middlesborough
Paris
Sainte Louis Hospital
Say
Havre
United States
Southampton
Strict watch urged as cholera fear lingers in city
Health officials insist on continuing quarantine rules for at least a year or two to guard against cholera. Austrian immigrant Anton Potzel, from Hamburg, shows symptoms resembling cholera and is isolated at a riverfront tent hospital until diagnosis clarifies his illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenkins
Anton Potzel
Hamburg
Germany
Bellevue Hospital
Potzel
London Sanitary Chief Warns on Cholera Influx
Dr Thorne head of the London Sanitary Board district warns of grave doubt the board can keep cholera out of London focusing on East End migrants. He notes unregistered indigent arrivals drift to slums, escaping medical inspection, prompting calls for stricter measures and possible exclusion of immigrants amid cholera fears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loxpox
Thorne
Local Government Board
London
East End
Gladstone
Germany to publish daily cholera case totals
Berlin reports a decision at an interior ministry conference to publish daily cholera case numbers across Germany. The measure, urged by the emperor, aims to curb panic by informing the public about the precise peril, with Berlin cited as a model for cleanliness and preventive action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Ministry of the Interior
Germany
Immigration Quarantine Pushed Amid Cholera Threat at Gotham
At a Gotham conference Mayor Grant and Health Board members urged strict immigrant inspections during Europe’s cholera threat. President Wilson supported total stoppage by tightening quarantine rules and pressuring lines to halt arrivals from infected districts. He noted only a federal act could compel companies, uncertain if Congress would act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Health Board
Grant
Europe
Wilson
Congress
Six Die as Train Plunges Through Barrett Bridge
Seo passenger train No. 65 left Minneapolis Saturday morning and crashed through a trestle near Barrett Minnesota. Six killed and thirty injured as two coaches fell twelve feet into the river. Passenger list includes laborers heading to Valley City extension. several seriously hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrett
Minn
Seo
Here
Minneapolis
Hankinson
Oakes
Valley City
Gustaf Boquist
Hoffman
Mike Crocket
Depere
Wis
James Laurie
Syracuse
N. Y
Edward Smith
Dunbar
Seymour Bugbee
Manistee
Mich
A. C. Belyea
George Gelzell
Charleston
8. C
Dennis Horton
Menominee
George Haywood
Elk River
Charles EK. Larson
Watertown
John McMillan
Back Hutt
Carl Peterson
John Thompson
Boardman
D. F. Vale
St. Paul
Forty-Three Saved From Parkslip Mine Blast
Forty-three miners trapped by the Parkslip mine explosion at Aberkensfig have been located alive. Thirty-five have been rescued, eight remained too weak to move. For the remaining hundred miners there is no hope. Home Secretary Asquith arrived on a special train. The lord mayor organized a fund for families left destitute by the accident. Of the eight unable to be removed, six recovered while two died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loypor
Parkslip
Aberkensfig
Asquith
Socialist Labor party nominates Wing and Matchett for national offices
At the national convention the Socialist Labor party nominated Simon Wing of Boston for president and Charles H. Matchett of Brooklyn for vice president. Delegates attended from New Jersey New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Socialist Labor Party
Vic
United States
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Simon Wing
Boston
Charles H. Matchett
Booklyn
Foreman H Myers Crushed by Ion Pipe Attack in Indiana
In Washington Indiana on Friday night Foreman H Myers of the Ohio and Mississippi roundhouse was fatally injured when struck by an ion pipe wielded by John Miller a wiper. Myers skull was crushed and Miller was arrested at Vincennes and jailed here. Friends threaten lynching if Myers dies and the jail is guarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ind
H. Myers
Ohio and
Misissippi
John Miller
Miller Wa
Vincennes
Jai
Myrs
Miller
Notable Figures Gather in Various Cities
A list of prominent individuals including engineers, governors, actors, and generals appears associated with U S locales such as Brooklyn New York Canandaigua Rio Janeiro Milwaukee Chicago Mont Pleasant and Madison. Names include Myron H Clark Alexander Kirkland J P Blauvelt and Myron H Maloney among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoch Chase
Miwaukee
Louis Lowe
Maryland
Brooklyn
Myron H. Clark
New Yok
Canandigua
Caeral DA Fonseca
Brail
Rio Janeiro
Tay Rundle
New York
Tev
Joan Winn
Malison
Wis
Hmilip Altpeter
Milwaukee
Alexander Kirkland
Chicago
Figadier
J. P. Blauvelt
Mont Pleasant
N. Y
Hatrick Maloney
Jixon, Ills
History of a Week Highlights Large Mixed News
A weekly recap from August lists political shifts with William A. Guthrie declining to run for associate NC justice. It covers lynching punishment, fires in Wagner block and Hotel Belmont, accidents and stabbings, a Welsh colliery disaster, railroad wrecks, criminal trials, marriages by a woman in Wisconsin, and the 1893 international peace congress decision in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belmont
West
Asheville
N.C
Carne
Charleston
John Morley
Swansea tin plate makers plan closure amid low prices
Reports indicate Swansea tin plate manufacturers discuss closing their works due to prevailing low prices. Other items note various political nominations in multiple districts, and a series of crime and shipping incidents across the nation, including embezzlement hearings and a major bank of fruit shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swansea
Wales
Tlinois
N. S. Scrivens
Peoples
Iowa
Frederick E. White
Minnesota
William H. Harris
Tennessee
N. N. Cox
Pennsylvania
Lemuel Ammerman
California
Central Pacific
Frank Smith
United States District Court
Marshal Wellman
Johnson County
Wyo
Eldora Paddock
Corydon
Ind
Frank Desmond
Martin Kormstad
Joseph Walker
Town of
Superior
Christian Obreicht
Baraboo
Wis
Hamburg
Havre
Antwerp
Dalton Gang
Nowata
Congressional nominations list and early 1900s notices
Congressional nominations include Tenth Iowa James Ryan Democrat and Eleventh Town Don Campbell People’s, with other nominated figures. A Denver wife killer Thomas Smith shot and killed himself after separation. Enoch May, 91, oldest printer in the west, died in Burlington. Lizzie Borden trial continues in Fall River on circumstantial evidence. Canadian toll plan for Soo Canal vessels noted. Hamburg cholera coverup accusations and rising unrest in St Petersburg. Seven miners killed in Swansea coalmine. England fruit crops damaged by storms. A bridge failure on Pittsburg Shenango and Lake Erie line reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
James Ryan
Town
Don Campbell
People’s
Nils P. Haugen
Michigan
George L. Yaple
Pennsylvania
George I. Kribbs
Georgia
John W. Maddox
Thomas G. Lawson
Thomas Smith
Denver
Colo
Enoch May
West
Burlington
Boston
Lizzie Borden
Fall River
Mass
St. Mary’s Falls Canal
Hamburg
St Petersburg
Swansea
Wales
England
Pittsburg
Shenango
Lake Erie
Mixed 19th Century News Snapshots From Across Regions
Reported items span international travel plans of Miss Frances Willard to England and meetings with Lady Somerset, local strike resumptions in Buffalo, a quirky burial request by Hezekiah Shepherd of Drakeville Iowa, and ex Senator Ingalls returning from Europe to campaign in Kansas. Includes Tennessee militia withdrawals at Coal Creek, Corrigan's Latonia Derby winner Libretto breaking a leg and being shot, a deadly Paint Lick Kentucky brawl, insolvent savings and loan firms, a $500000 Met Opera House fire in New York, and fatal burns at a Wal Street building incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Willard
England
Lady Somerset
Buffalo
Sweeney
Hezekiah Shepherd
Drakeville
Ingalls
Europe
Kansas
Coal Creek
Corrigan
Libretto
Hawthorne
Chica
Paint Lick
Childre
Third Ward Permanentavings and Loan
Erie County Pemanent Savings and Loan Associations
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Wal Street
Mary BK. Hanley
Birthday Memory and Fire News From Various Localities
Tuesday August 30 reports Holmes birthday at Beversfarms. Metropolitan Opera House fire in New York estimated at 300000 with rebuild in ninety days. A Brunswick lumberman faced tar coat accusations from a neighbor’s wife. Equitable League formation mirrors Iron Halls. Baltimore certificate holders seek receiver due to insolvency. Obituaries include William Ware Howland missionary in Jaffna Sri Lanka, General J P Blunt ex mayor of Nyack, Paul E Theard of New Orleans. Fire at East Tawas Michigan causes 8500 property loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brunswick
Equitable League
Baltimore
Jaffna
Ceylon
William Ware Howland
Moon Pleasant
N. Y
J.P. Blant
Nyack
New Orlea
Paul E. Theard
East Tawas
Mich
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Buffalo Switchmen
Pinkertons
The
Carnegie Company
John Edwards
Allegheny
Edwards
Buffalo Strikers
Militia
Broderick
Will
Britain
Hanburg
Altona
London Sanitary Board
Kaiser
Gotham
Penmame de Terre
L. O. Gaines
F. D. Gaines
Jordan Brix
West Sipe Square
Fairfield
William A. Guthrie
People’s Party
North Carolina
Atlanta
Wagner
Reading
Dixonbury
Fisher
Ditfendiefer
Frank Srassel
Rank
Hannah
Rutledge
Switchman Sweeney
James Ro Morton
Camden
N. J
Jacob Yoncell
Adelphena Hanson
Wisconsin
Kate Pier
W Gp
Iron Hall
International Peace Congress
Wriday
Holmes
Beversfarms
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