Railroad track tearing sparks Gilberton town riot
Telegraph dispatch details a clash in Gilberton Pennsylvania after the Schuylkill Traction Company track tearing. Richard A. Pafaitt, 25, and William Hughes, 18, were killed. Chief Richard Amore was wounded. crowd violence followed as militia and locals clashed amid amid efforts to settle.
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Gilberson
Schuylkill Traction Company
Gilberton
R. E. Jones
The
Traction Company
Richard Amore
Shenandoah
Girardville
National Guard
John Briggs
Giradville
Richard A. Pafaitt
Amore
Pafaitt
Wm. Hughes
Milwaukee's Unemployed March On Court House
A mob of over 20 unemployed laborers marched through Milwaukee streets to the court house shouting for work. Mayor Koch urged them to seek employment, promised funds for public improvements, and the crowd then dispersed after looting a candy stand and taking fruit from a merchant.
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Milwaukee
Court House
Koch
Ctty
Washington
Half fare train rates for World’s Fair opening
Pennsylvania lines secure consent to offer half fare on all trains from Pennsylvania to the World’s Fair on September 7. Chicago and Ohio River lines join in half fares for Ohio Indiana days and southern state days.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania Road
Pennsylvania
Ohio River
Ohio
Indiana
Southern Lines
Fire damages in Indiana town impact area include church and store
Fire in Weet Franklin Indiana started in Mrs Albert Schlaepper store and spread to the postoffice Methodist church, saloon, homes and outbuildings. Loss estimated at thirty five thousand dollars with full insurance. Rain needed in Indiana. corn, pastures, wells, and grasshoppers cited as damage notes. Ohio reports poor upland crops and lagging rain, south counties especially needing moisture.
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Weet Pranklin
Ind
Ohio River
Albert Schlaepper
Postoffice
Indiana
Ohio
Uch
Couutiea
Smallpox Cases Rise in Muncie and Death Reported
Health Officer Jackson records new smallpox cases in Muncie Indiana bringing the total to twenty and noting one death. The item cites the lingering yellow fever in southern cities and mentions Alva A Morricke of Mt. Vernon Ohio, a nursing student at a sanitarium, who drowned at Gognacs Lake Battle Creek Michigan after cramps while swimming. age twenty five and unmarried.
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Muncie
Jackson
Ind
Alva A. Morricke
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Sanitarium
Gognacs Lake
Battle Creek
Mich
Turbulent day spans strikes fires and personal tragedy
A sprawling rundown from New York and Illinois reports a Roxbury Carpet Company shut down for a month due to lack of orders. A New York drummer loses a 230000 case of diamonds. Five thousand unemployed in New York riot a labor hall. A Oneida man injured after riding trains. Lucille Adams death linked to starvation and California mining stakes. Court grants land grants in Santa Fe. Nebraska thefts and a Chicago tragedy close the sweep.
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Somparity
New York
Roxbury Carpet Company
Boston
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
St. Louis
Lucille Adams
California
Richard Goodman Platt
Marie E. J. L
Willard
James S. Willard
Er. K. Willard
Wall Street
Chicago
Lehigh Railroad
Leroy
N. Y
Kansas
McPherson
Lincoln
Robert Kincalp
Mound City
Kan
Citizens’ Bank
United States Court of Private Land Claims
Santa Fe
Jacona
Luis Jaramillo
W.T. Hill
G. H. Hammond Packing Company
Holcomb
Jackson
Mich
Crouch
Dan &. Holcomb
Eau Claire
Wis
Richard Hantzch
James L. Bruner
Masonic Lodges
Omaha
Nebraska City
Neb
Missouri Pacific Freight House
Auburn Park
Douglas Curtis
Hannibal
Leslie
Curtis
Multiple Disasters Reported In Various Areas
Reports cite Mrs. S. F. J. Trabue killed in a runaway near Frankfort Kentucky. Dallas Texas rail companies placed in receivership. Georgia Alliance membership drops from 18194 to 9000 with funds halved from 80000 to 20000. At Danville Virginia a trestle failure toppled two passenger cars and a sleeper into a creek. eight killed, four injured, none seriously. Engineer Peyton Tunstall said the train was moving about ten miles per hour.
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S. F. J. Trabue
Frankfort
Dallas and
Oak Cliff
West Dallas
Dallas
Texas
State Alliance of Georgia
Atlantic and
Danville
Peyton Tunstall
Treasury silver repeal and bi metalism policy debate
Reports show declines in bank deposits loans and profits while Carlisle proposes moving bullion to coinage funds and issuing notes. Senate Finance Committee passes repeal of silver purchases pushing for a bi metal monetary system with equal value for gold and silver coins. Iowa Republicans nominate Jackson for governor with pro reform stance amid religious tensions. Bombay riot clashes restart as streets turn violent.
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Carlisle
Congress
Silver Coinage Fund
Senate Finance Committee
Voorhees
Senate
Home of Representatives
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
United States
Calamitous Bombay Riots and Financial Strains Reported
Reports describe a violent Hindu festival day in Bombay with mosques burned and mobs looting public buildings. Troops and gunboats were deployed, banks halted drafts, and money orders surged as authorities aimed to quell the unrest.
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House of Commons
London
Bombay
Poonab
House Committee Seats Reordered in Fall Congress
Speaker Crisp announces standing and select committee changes in the House. William L. Wilson of West Virginia takes the Ways and Means chair from Springer, Bland remains head of Coinage, Weights and Measures, Holman retires to a new post with Sayers of Texas succeeding him, and Springer becomes Banking and Currency chair. The move aligns with administration plans and signals shifts in taxation on state bank circulation, while a mix of seasoned and new members fill key panels.
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Crisp
Springer
Bland
Holman
Washington
House
Ways and Means
William L. Wilson
West Virginia
Sayers
Texas
Banking and Currency
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Committee On Indian Affairs
Indiana
General Tracy
Williams
Sperry
Connecticut
William J. Wilson
Benton McMillin
Tennessee
H. G. Turner
Georgia
A. N. Montgomery
Kentucky
J.R. Whiting
Michigan
W. Bourke Cochran
New York
M. Stevens
Massachusetts
W.J. Bryan
Nebraska
C. R. Breckinridge
Arkanase
W. J. Bynum
J. C. Taraney
I. H. Reed
J. C. Barrowe
8. E. Payne
John Dalzeil
Pennsylvania
A. J. Hopkins
J. H. Gear
Iowa
R. P. Bland
Missouri
Charles Tracy
A. B. Kilzore
J. F. Epps
Virginia
WJ. Btone
J. M. Allen
Missaissippi
J. H. Bankhead
Alabama
Isidore Raynor
Maryland
M. D. Harter
Ohio
H. A. Cota
Wyoming
W. A. McKelghan
W. Stone
W.N. Johnson
North Dakota
Nelson Dingley
Willis Swert
Idaho
A. Hager
J. Frank Alurich
Ilinoia
J. L. Rawlins
Utah
W. M. Springer
Illioola
Louis Sperry
N. N. Cox
Iilinote
C. A. Kunsell
N. P. Haugen
Wisconsin
H. N. Johnson
Appro Fations
J. J. Rogers
W. OC. P. Breckinridge
A. M. Dookery
Harner Compton
J. O'Neill
L. ¥. Livingston
J. EK
M. Robertson
Louisiana
EB. V. Brookshire
J. R. Williams
Ilinois
W. J. Coombs
D. B. Henderson
W. Cagewell
H. P. Bingham
Nelson Dingley, Jr
Maine
W.W. Uroat
Vermont
J. G. Cannon
Sinots
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Des Moines
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R. P. Omer
Illinois
C. P. Wilkinson
Irish Catholic Benevolent Union of North America
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R.G. Dun & Coos Weekly Review of Trade
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Leon M. Carrier
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