Steel Combine Gains A Point In Pittsburgh Mills
In Pittsburg on Aug 19 steel managers report two Painter plant mills started at 7 am bringing to four the number in operation. About 200 workers are at the site, with 50 skilled. Monessen mill expected to run by night. Strikers say operations do not hurt their cause and note increased vigilance after strike breakers arrived. An ununion worker in Wellsville was beaten. Two Switchmen's Union meetings urged moral support for strikers. Grand Master Hawley proposed a national labor leaders conference. Bellaire works idle awaiting repairs. Amalgamated organizers push membership to 550 with goal of 1,000. Clark mill started with a full crew. 600 workers now. No breaks at Lower Union or Carnegie plants. Strikers claim gains in all questioned plants.
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Pittsburg
C. L. Harper
Monessen
Wellsville
Vandergrift
Switchmen’s Union of North America
F. T. Hawley
Hawley
American Federation of Labor
Bellaire
National Steel Company
Amalgamated
Clark Mill
L. T. Brown
Lower Union
Carnegie
Bay View Mills Closed Indefinitely in Milwaukee
The Illinois Steel company posted a Bay View notice announcing mill closure due to Amalgamated association contract violations. Workers are invited to collect wages owed at the office. Strike leaders expect a settlement soon, with no picketing reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Illinois Steel Company
Bay View
Amalgamated Association
Joliet Mills Idle Amid Strike Talks and Rumors
In Joliet Illinois a rumor swirls that steel mills may reopen with non union workers as four Amalgamated lodges continue a strike. Strikers met for hours without public statements and discussed South Chicago events. A Pressed Steel Car plant plan failed as under 100 of 500 workers returned, with pay promised tomorrow but possible permanent closure if refusals persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joliet
Ill
Amalgamated Lodges
Chicago
Pressed Steel Car Company
Allman
Tomorow
City Looting Targets Arsenal as Mob Seizes Rifles
Authorities checked Monett and Aurora for aid but by 10 o’clock this morning the mob controlled the city. The rioters breached the Pierce City militia arsenal and carried off all state rifles stored there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monett
Aurora
Pierce City Militia Company
Noted horse thief associate nabbed in Indiana
Hartford City Indiana August 20 arrest of Truman D Hutchinson regarded as a major catch. Hutchinson formerly lived at Salamania Jay county and was a pal of Marvin Kuhns Indiana s most noted horse thief. He is wanted in several Ohio cities for horse stealing and was taken to Fort Recovery Ohio by town marshal W S McCLELLAND. Hutchinson agreed to return without requisition papers. He is said to have stolen horses in Indiana and Ohio and sold them across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford City
Ind
Truman D. Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Salamania
Jay County
Marvin Kuhns
Indiana
Ohio
Fort Recovery
McClelland
Purdue Led Livestock Institute Heads North Indiana
An agricultural institute under Purdue University will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday August 27 and 28 at the Huntington opera house. Eminent authorities from Wisconsin and Indiana discuss progress in agriculture, stock feeding, breeding, and beef production with lectures on sheep and swine management and the value of silage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Indiana
Opera House
Huntington
Purdue University School of Agriculture
Indiana
W. A. Henry
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station
Virginia C. Meredith
Cambridge City
C. S. Plumb
Purdue Station
Henry
H. P. Miller
Sunbury
W. B. Anderson
Ottwell
Ind
A. W. Bitting
Purdue
I. H. Keim
Ladoga
Malloy resigns at Marion Soldiers Home after fatal error
Dr Malloy at the Marion branch National Soldiers' Home hospital resigned to the governor after giving the wrong medicine that killed two inmates George Carruthers aged sixty five and Thomas Pinkerton aged ninety nine. He faces mental strain from the incident as an investigation led by Congressman George W Steele unfolds and other staff may lose posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
Malloy
Marion Branch
National Soldiers’ Home Hospital
George Carruthers
Thomas Pinkerton
George W. Steele
Tighe Welcomed Back Amid Strike Headlines
Assistant Secretary M F Tighe of the Amalgamated association received a warm reception in Pittsburg after winning Joliet and Bay View members to the strike. He will report to President Shaffer before any Chicago action. In Monessen a brief clash occurred as strike sympathizer L McMahon resisted police efforts to move him and was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
M. F. Tighe
Amalgamated Association
Joliet
Bay View
Shaffer
Chicago
Monessen
L. McMahon
McMahon
Lynching Rampage in Pierce City Sparks Black Exodus
In Pierce City Missouri a mob of hundreds lynched William Godley and his grandfather French Godley and burned black homes after the murder of Miss Caselle Wild. The unrest spread as prisoners and suspects were arrested while armed whites seized the town arsenal and reinforced patrols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Pierce City
William Godley
French Godley
Caselle Wild
Tomato crop deteriorates statewide raising packer concerns
The tomato crop, once thriving across the state, has fallen drastically by August 1. Packers fear obtaining only about a quarter of an average yield, threatening canneries’ profits as rising prices cannot offset the season’s losses, with some old stock remaining unsold.
Barn Fire Claims Life After Loss of McCoy Farm
Orleans Ind August 19. Allen McCoy's barn near town burned with hay feed and implements worth about 2000 dollars with 800 dollars insured. McCoy, aged around seventy, collapsed and died of a paralysis after hearing the loss. This followed a prior barn fire in two years as the origin remains a mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orleans
Ind
Allen McCoy
Eel River conference elects church officers
Bluffton Indiana August 19 the Eel River conference of the Christian church closed with officers named President C W Whitelock Huntington vice president Rev David Didy North Manchester secretary J F Barnes Huntington assistant secretary Calvin Purdy Warren The conference will meet next year at Goshen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluffton
Ind
Eel River
The
Christian Church
C. W. Whitelock
Huntington
David Didy
North Manchester
J. F. Barnes
Calvin Purdy
Warren
Goshen
Belle Heiress Tales of Secret Marriage Rumor
Bedford Ind Aug 19 A local reporter Frank Hicks denied marrying Miss Gertrude Grieffe a New Albany society belle and fleeing to Kansas City A friend published a letter from Hicks claiming he prepared the story to cover his plan and that Gertrude would join him in twenty four hours Hicks reportedly works at a Seymour hotel not in Chicago involved in the rumored alliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Ind
Frank Hicks
Senl Spe
Gertrude Griffe
New Albany
Kansas City
Grieffe
Hicks
Brevoort
Chicago
Gertrude
Seymour
Death of Mrs. Harry Hart In Detroit
Word reached the city of Mrs. Harry Hart death in Detroit after a cancer illness. She was the wife of a Nickel Plate conductor and lived here until recently. She is survived by her husband two sons and two daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Hart
Detroit
Widow Mrs. Augusta Bruening Dies At 34
Augusta Bruening widow of John Bruening died at 9 a m Friday at her parents 185 Montgomery street home after two years illness heart and lung trouble. She aged 34 years seven months and survived by her parents two sisters and three brothers Ida Selma Paul Oscar and Herman The funeral was held Sunday at 2 p m from the residence and at 2 30 from St Pauls Lutheran church
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta Bruening
John Bruening
Ida
Selma
Paul
Oscar
Herman
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Indiana horticultural institute set for South Bend
The mid summer institute will be held at the Auditorium annex in South Bend next Tuesday and Wednesday under the State Horticultural Society and Purdue University School of Agriculture. It aims to help growers of fine fruits for home use or market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Auditorium Annex
South Bend
The
State Horticultural Society
Purdue University School of Agriculture
Woman with shotgun scares off tree-cutters near Valparaiso
In Valparaiso Indiana Aug 20 laborers cutting poles for American Telephone Company's transcontinental line damaged shade trees on a Porter county farm. The lone woman at home warned the workers, who scoffed and paused. She cocked a shotgun and ordered them to quit, and they left promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valparaiso
Ind
American Telephone Company
Lake County
Porter County
Dedicate New Presbyterian Church in Bedford
Bedford Ind August 19 Presbyterians dedicated their new church despite poor weather A large crowd attended Dr R V Hunter Indianapolis deliver the eloquent address All other churches joined the ceremony The Bedford stone building is one of the finest in the city and the fourth new stone church to be dedicated here in less than two years The church sits at Fifteenth Street and Lincoln Avenue Rev A M Irvine the pastor has served here for several years
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Ind
R. V. Hunter
Indianapolis
Fifteenth Street
Lincoln Avenue
City
A. M. Irvine
Fort Wayne Girl Anna Holman Dies in Chicago
Miss Anna Holman, a Fort Wayne stenographer who worked in Chicago, died Thursday of typhoid fever. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs William Holman of St Joe township and sister to Miss Meta Holman. A Fort Wayne High School and International Business College graduate, she was well regarded and her family stayed at her bedside through her illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Holman
Fort Wayne
Chicago
William Holman
St. Joe Township
Meta Holman
International Business College
Bishop Bowman to preside at Indiana Evangelical meetings
Laporte Ind Aug 19 The annual meetings of the Evangelical church of Indiana begin at Oakwood Park near Syracuse with Bishop Thomas Bowman of Chicago presiding over several sessions The woman's missionary convention opens August 27 followed by the Young People's alliance conference The gatherings are expected to draw about 1000 attendees across sessions
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
Ind
Conference of the Evangelical Church of Indiana
Oakwood Park
Syracuse
Thomas Bowman
Chicago
Woman’s Missionary Convention
The
Young People’s Alliance
Prevent Big Jail Delivery In Marion Jail Break Foiled
Marion Indiana sheriff and deputies stopped a planned escape as inmates prepared to flee. Forty prisoners held on murder, arson, grand larceny and other charges faced disruption after bars were cut and a window bar saved from a cell. Officers surprised the wrongdoers in a Sunday dawn incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
Bradford
Death of Margaret Esther Avis at ten months old
Margaret Esther Avis daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Avis of 241 Force Street died at 11 30 PM Thursday of cholera infantum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Esther
John Avis
Force Street
Mrs Eliza Thompson Dies at 94 in Marion Township
Mrs Eliza Thompson died at her Marion township home Friday morning from a complication of diseases, aged ninety four. Born in Maryland, she had long resided in the county and known widely. Funeral Monday at 2 p.m. from the home of William Thompson with Rev Murray of Hoagland M E Church officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Thompson
Marion Township
Maryland
William Thompson
Rev. Murray
Hoagland M. E. Church
Wedding of Miss Sadie Hirsh and Lester M Beckard
The wedding took place Sunday at the home of the bride's sister in Jackson Michigan. Miss Sadie Hirsh daughter of Mr and Mrs Adolph Wirsh of this city married Lester M Beckard of Boston in a private ceremony attended by family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Hirsh
Mrs Sophia Jautz Dies of Cancer and Dropsy
Mrs Sophia Elizabeth Jautz wife of Charles Jautz of 115 High street died at 3 30 Friday afternoon after a long illness She was born in Westphalia Germany aged 69 and lived here 62 years Surviving children are Louis and George Jautz of this city Mrs L C Rettig of Olney Ill and Mrs L G Meyers of this city Funeral services at 2 pm from the residence and 2 30 pm from St John s Reformed church
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Elizabeth Jautz
Charles Jautz
High Street
Westphalia
Germany
Louis
George Jautz
L. C. Rettig
Olney
Ill
L. G. Meyers
St. John’s Reformed
Indiana canneries in a pickle as harvest nears
Wabash Indiana August 19 vegetable canneries face shortages and rising costs amid an anxious harvest season. Officials warn delays threaten supply as producers seek help to avert losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash
Ind
Indiana
Stephens Dies at Home in Town
John Stephens died at his home in town according to a brief obituary fragment. No further details are provided in the readable text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens
Milan Township Dates and Funeral Details
Milan township events note funeral services held Sunday August 11. Born Monroe County Ohio October 5, 1813. Interment at Gar Creek cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan Township
Monroe County
Ohio
Gar Creek Cemetery
Miss Mary Schmalz Dies After Illness at Home
Miss Mary Schmalz died at 9 30 Friday night at her father Carl Schmalz 56 Master son street from nervous debility. She had suffered two years and worsened after her sister's death. Death occurred suddenly while attendants held her. The funeral was held Tuesday at 2 PM from 56 Masterson Street residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Schmalz
Carl Schmalz
Masterson Street
Gee rge Schimmele Dies After Street Accident
George Schimmele a Keller and Braun teamster died at St Josephs hospital at age forty eight from injuries after a Wells street wagon incident where a stone caused the horse to bolt He fell and the wagon passed over his chest He was a German native survived by his widow and six children and was a member of St Charles Benevolent Society Funeral services set for Wednesday at his home then Church of the Precious Blood
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Schimmele
Keller & Braun
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Schone & Veith
Huffman Street
Schimmele
Wells Street
Bcame
Germany
America
St. Charles Benevolent Society
Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Milo George dies
The infant daughter of Milo George and wife residing at 111 Jobkr street died Sunday from exhaustion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo George
Jobkr Street
Mrs. Etta D. Cleveland Dies in Cleveland Area
Mrs. Etta D. Cleveland of Antwerp Ohio died Saturday evening at St. Joseph's hospital after a period of illness. Her remains were shipped to Antwerp for interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etta D. Cleveland
Antwerp
St. Joseph's Hospital
Death of Miss Hattie D Haswell at age twenty
Miss Hattie D Haswell daughter of Mr and Mrs George I Haswell of 164 Indiana avenue died on Monday morning from spasms after years of poor health. Survived by parents two brothers and four sisters Mrs Emma Simon of Reading Mich Mrs F J Russell and Mrs Frank Wilcox of Indianapolis funeral at 2 pm Wednesday from the residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie D. Haswell
George I. Haswell
Indiana Avenue
Miss Haswell
Burton
George Haswell
Florence Haswell
Emma Simon
Reading
Mich
F. J. Russell
Frank Wilcox
Indianapolis
Campbell inmate Rachel Campbell dies at infirmary
Miss Rachel Campbell an inmate of the county infirmary died at the institution at 66 a m Monday from blood poisoning at the age of
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel Campbell
Death Following Erysipelas After Foot Amputation
The death occurred after a blood infection from erysipelas, despite prior amputation of a foot. Asa Turner of Hale Avenue is noted as a distant relative of the deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asa Turner
Hale Avenue
May reaffirm old platform at Iowa Democratic convention
Des Moines reports that Democratic leaders have arrived for the state convention opening tomorrow. They will nominate for governor lieutenant governor railroad commissioner and supreme judge. Kansas City platform monetary policy likely to be reaffirmed with Cato Sells of Vinton as the talked of potential nominee who says he is not a candidate though others see him as available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Kansas City
Cato Sells
Vinton
Sells
Women conductors fail at Madison Light and Railway
Indianapolis Aug 20 The Madison Light and Railway Company explains to the state tax board why it replaced women conductors. Attorney C J Roberts and superintendent C B Johnson say the women showed strong favoritism to certain male passengers and spoke mainly to them, provoking jealousy and rides with almost no other passengers aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Madison Light and Railway Company
State Tax Board
C. J. Roberts
C. B. Johnson
Roberts
Marshal Wins In A Long Chase At Hartford City
Hartford City Indiana August 20 City Marshal W S McClelland of Fort Recovery Ohio captured T D Hutchinson an alleged horse thief wanted in Piqua and several Ohio towns after a chase of six weeks Hutchinson found in town with one of his stolen outfits He is the son of Dr Henry Hutchinson a prominent Salamonie Indiana resident He returned to Ohio without requisition papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford City
Ind
W. S. McClelland
Fort Recovery
Ohio
T. D. Hutchinson
Piqua
Hutchinson
Henry Hutchinson
Salamonie
Hartford City Sensation Elopements Linked by Father
Emanuel Tipple told police he was chloroformed by daughters Minnie and Cora who then eloped with William Starline. He asks authorities to arrest them. His wife recently eloped with Isaac Boyle and is believed to be in Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford City
Ind
Emanuel Tipple
Minnie
Cora
William Starline
Tipple
Isaac Boyle
Ohio
Jamieson Sells Property to Son Near Hoagland
O EF Jamieson of two miles south of Hoagland records the sale of his property to his son C C Jamieson. Jamieson Sr is the father of Mrs G H B Freeby of this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. EF. Jamieson
Hoagland
C. C. Jamieson
Mr. Jamieson
G. H. B. Freeby
Pocketbook with money found at police superintendent office
A pocketbook containing a small amount of money was turned in and is awaiting the owner at the police superintendent's office.
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Steel Combine
Bayview Mills
BAY View Mills
Joliet Mills Idle
Marvin Kurns
Institute
Purdue University School
of Agriculture
General News OF
Tighe
Peter Hampton
Godley
Carter
George Lark
St. Louis
San Francisco
Miso Wild
Zerk
Lark
Eugene Barrett
Flavors
Tulsa
I. T
Barrett
Mt. Vernon
Godleys
Young Godley
Ike Carter
Peter
Robert Hampton
Conference
Belle His
Wife
Hart
Bruening
Holman
Bishop Bowman
AVIS
Thompson
JAUTZ
George
Cleveland
Haswell
Campbell
Marshal
Charles T. Russell
Oliver
Oliver Steel
C. C. Schlatter & CO
E. Columbia
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