Sobering effects of shooting in Wilkesbarre area
In Wilkesbarre June 7 idle men were sobered by Thursday night shooting at Stanton colliery. The colliery closed, coal and iron police fled, deputies sworn in, and ex officers escorted to pay offices and left town for New York and Philadelphia. boy Charles McCann remains seriously injured but may recover.
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Wilkesbarre
Wyoming
Stanton
Pennsylvania
Coal and Iron Police
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
New York
Philadelphia
Charles McCann
Albert Jacobs
Strike and flooding at mines amid indifference
Descriptions of rising water in lower mine levels despite indifference from coal company officials. Deser tions among fire bosses disrupt operations. strike actions by engineers and pumpmen nearly complete. Injunctions sought to stop water cuts, while shootings and unrest occur near Sugar Notch and Shamokin as sheriffs and deputies face tense protests. local authorities consider court and governor appeals to enforce order.
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Mitchell
Nanticoke
Susquehanna Coal Company
Coal Company
John Short
Sugar Notch
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Robert Hayden
Tde
Hayden
Shamokin
Samuel Deitrick
Northumberland County
Mineral Railroad and Mining Company
Stone
E Lykens Valley
Gombert
Carbon County
Yorktown
West Virginia coal strike broadens across fields
Montgomery thousand United: workers in the Kanawha field joined the strike today. Bramwell reports the United Mine Workers on the Norfolk and Western railway obeyed the strike order, with most collieries idle except a half dozen. At Pearl Mining in Dingess seven hundred miners walked out at noon yesterday. Elkhorn Tug River and Dingess fields see a large-scale stoppage with about 10,000 workers affected last evening.
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Montgomery
West Virginia
Flat Top
Elkhorn
Tug River
Dingess
Chinese "Flying Dutchman" must roam seas for relief
New Orleans authorities detain Fong Jung a Chinaman aboard the Norwegian ship John Wilson from Bluefields Nicaragua. Immigrant law blocks landing or return forcing him to be sailed back and forth until a passing ship's master agrees to take him.
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New Orleans
John Wilson
W. Hanson
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Fong Jung
United States
Volcano Eruption Kills Thousands in Guatemala Barrens
Frightful loss of life reported after Tacona volcanic eruption devastates Batalhulen Guatemala and nearby Champerico. News notes earthquakes since April 18 destruction of Quatzaltenango. A separate item says Illinois must be paid 774650 by Congress for Civil War era bond interest.
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San Francisco
Batalhulen
Guatemala
Tacona
Palena
Valparaiso
Batalbulen
Champerico
Quesaltenango
Guatemala City
Washington
Comptroller of the Treasury
Ilinois
United States
Congress
Coroner's jury ties May Thompson death to poison
A coroner's jury ruled May Thompson died from paralysis of the respiratory organs caused by a poison whose exact nature was undetermined. It sent Dr E W Johnson the "beauty doctor" to the grand jury for involuntary manslaughter, and she died last week. The doctor was jailed.
Strikes Loom in Manila Over Wage Increase Demand
Manila reports imminent strikes as workers press a 50 percent wage rise while employers refuse the demand. Separate dispatches note unrest linked to the Martinique disaster with reports of orgies among islanders. a terse Melbourne line mentions an earthquake.
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Manilla
Manila
London
Martinique
Half Rates to Lafayette on Big Four Route 1902
Round trip tickets from all Big Four points in Indiana to Lafayette Indiana are offered at one fare for the round trip on June 18 and 19 1902. No rate under 25 cents. Tickets valid for return leaving Lafayette to and including June 20 1902.
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Lafayette
Ind
Big Four
Purdue University
Indiana
Foley’s Kidney Cure Promoted Amid Public Excursions
Robert R Watts of Salem Missouri praises Foley’s Kidney Cure after five years of kidney disease and faint progress with doctors. The ad also advertises Otis J Beesons Home Seekers Excursion offering low rates to many states and territories with specific selling dates.
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Robert R. Watts
Salem
Foley
Otis J. Beeson
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Canadian Northwest
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indian Territory
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Manitoba
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
R. A. Gray
J.P. Oakville
Ind
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STO Jjk
W. R. Ellis
Sane
Elkhart Carriage & Harness Mfg. Co
Elkhart
Cal
Silver Bros
Perry
Ariel
Independent
Hotel
Hescali
Goshen
Wilson Bros
Corliss Coon
Louie Ne i
South Main ST
West Virginis
Tony
Prof
Horswell
Chicago
Charles Horswell
Garrett Biblical Institute
Darkey
R. B. Allen
Hicksville
White House
Army of the United States
Building Industries of
Electrical Workers Union
O’brien
Neil
Jack O’brien
al Neil
Cuba
Lionel EB. G. Carden
Havana
Republic of Cuba
Mark Twain
St. Louis
Eugene Field
South Broadway
Australia
Melbourne
Saints
D. H. Hawks
Otie J. Beeson’s
East
Lincoln Avenue
Wilson & Bradley
Nickel Cigars
Ara
Chas. E. Katz
Werner
South Main Street
Rocky Mountain
Tellmates
Oid
Milton
Axminster
Lowell
Ingravna
China
Brussells
Hartshorn
Norwood
The
Newell Bros
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