Miners in Massillon Split from United Mine Workers
Massillon Ohio August 7 1895 miners in the Massillon district vote to secede from the United Mine Workers of America and form an independent association. The new organization covers the old subdivision, reelects officers, and adds an executive board amid claims the national leadership neglects local interests and favors the Kuhn McBride faction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massillon
Ohio
United “Wine Workers of America
National ’Organization
Winera
National Orea
Ar‘pitrator Kuhn
John McBride
McBride
Sloss Iron and Steel workers strike in Alabama
Three hundred miners at Sloss Iron and Steel plants in Brookside Cardiff and Brazil walked out over pay and weighman access. Additional strikers in Ensley City, including 150 colored workers, demanded higher wages and faced replacement by convicts as deputy sheriffs guarded facilities amid fears of unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloss Iron and Steel Company
Birmingham
Ala
Brookside
Cardiff
Brazil
Bloss Company
Ensley City
Ensley
Taylor defaulter treasurer returns to Pierre with money
W. W. Taylor the Chicago to Pierre bound defaulter treasurer arrived in Bronx City on Aug 7 to turn over about 100000 dollars and properties to South Dakota. He said he would plead guilty in Pierre and be sentenced on Aug 13, accompanied by Charles T. McCoy who handled his affairs during the pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Taylor
Taylor
Charles T. McCoy
Multiple Disasters and Fatalities Reported Across States
A farm accident near Yorksville, Illinois, killed Thomas Weeks after his arm was torn from his shoulder while adjusting a belt on a steam thrasher. Fire destroyed Brydston flouring mill at North Webster, Indiana, with $15,000 in losses and $5,000 insured. Electric plant burn at Ahhapee, Wisconsin, caused $15,000 loss with $10,000 insured. A Jefferson City penitentiary bridge collapse injured twenty two. A 14-year-old boy Fred Schramm died jumping from a train in Omaha. Jacob Nusgell, 85, found dead in Menomonee River near Milwaukee. At Anderson, Indiana Nellie Regan killed and mother badly hurt by runaway beer wagon. Lightning struck a Quakerstown church and worshipers injured. Thunderstorm party sheltered under a tree in Pennsylvania witnessed two deaths and multiple injuries.
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Thomas Weeks
Yorksville
Brydston
North Webster
Ind
Joseph Wodsedalek
Ahhapee
Wis
Jefferson City
Fred Schramm
Omaha
Jacob Nusgell
Menomonee River
Milwaukee
Anderson
Neliie Regan
Quakerstown
Pennsylvania
Balkan Princes and Armenian Crisis at a Glance
Foreign notes report Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria assuring the Pope his son Boris will keep his faith. World unrest includes Armenian atrocity debates, protests in Macedonia, cholera in Podolia, and political shocks from Britain to Denmark. Also covered are shipwrecks, drownings, miner rescues, violent crimes, and a Kentucky hotel shooting.
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Italy
Brazil
Rilo Janeiro
Signor Nobill
Rilo de Janro
Baron Blanc
Af Irs
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Boris
Spichern
Woerth
Germany
Panama Canal
Supreme Court
Verastegal
Romero
Judicial Committee
Privy Council
Mizquital Mining Company
New Tepic
Mexico
Florence
Newcastle
Panama
Stoneleigh
Melbourne
London
Bengerhead
Brennan
Montreal
Frank Stokes
Dublin
William Robinson
Shields
Thomas Monagle
Carricksfergus
Ireland
China
Gladstone
Chester
England
Christian
Denmark
Macedonia
Watson
Ranger
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Vishoviec
Vyzograd
Russian
Podolia
United States
James A. McKenzie
Valparaiso
Japan
Bolanos
Guatemala
Ezeta
Salvador
William
Heligoland
Paris Gaulois
Alsace
Aughen Harvie
Sault Coates
Noted outlaw Cherokee Bill indicted for murder at Fort Smith
Indictment for murder trails Cherokee Bill in Fort Smith Arkansas. Dr. Springer arrested in South Bend Indiana for practicing without license. George Young whipped in Atlanta Georgia on Thursday night after a street shooting that killed Edwards. Ivey Sanford killed Mrs. Thomas Griffin at Oxmoor Alabama over a disputed romance. George Henwood killed himself at Dowagiac Michigan.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Eliza Hale
Kitty Wisdom
Hale
A. E. Kelly
Cleveland, D
Lakeview Cemetery
Joe Campbell
Ed Payne
Dr. Springer
South Bend
Ind
Coughlin
George
Stagg and Dawes
Echo
Utah
Keystone
W. Va
J. M. Stroud
Pulaski Iron Company
W. A. Gilbert
James Owens
Gilbert
Owens
Hans Hanson
United States
San Francisco
Maurice Fitzgerald
Hesperia
Hanson
Thomas St. Clair
St. Clair
Joseph Winger Roperts
Honolulu
Astoria
Ore
Father Dielman
Rupert
Versailles
Col Roudenhough
N. D. Lane
Cherokee Bill
Fort Smith
Ark
Springer
George Young
Atlanta
Thomas
Edwards
Young
Ivey Sanford
Thomas Griffin
Oxmoor
Ala
Sanford
Griffin
George Henwood
Dowaglac
Mich
Various Local and National Notices Span Rail,Law and Arts
The piece records multiple items including a teachers conference in Lacon Illinois, Sunday performances debate in Duluth, dental board officers, Texas fever in Birmingham Pennsylvania, Ohio river navigation funding request, county official salary cuts in Arizona, suit against Southern Pacific, railway sales and debts, Indian scouts report, Bell Telephone versus National Telephone patents, Pacific Mail route competition, miners strikes and union shifts, yacht racing dispute, a Duluth furniture debtor, Mastodon Dunn mine settlement, Harugarl lodge election, Brazil Indiana miners raise pay, Stanford estate demurrer hearing, East Central Minnesota strike wage increase, Texas People's party encampment fusion talk.
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Marshall County
Ill
Teachers’ Institute
Lacon
Law and Order
Duluth
Newark
Birmingham
Ohio
Congress
Ohio River
Territorial Supreme Court
Tucson
George A. Martin
Sioux City
Southern Pacific Company
San Francisco
Martin
Dallas Trunk Railway
Texas Western Railway
R. S. Lovett
New York
Elijah Smith
Brawnmor
Peru
Ents
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Nne
Panama Railroad Company
Pacific Mall
Sloss Iron and Steel Company
Ala
Missouri Democrats
Perth Springs
Massillon
United Mine Workers
Vigilant
Carl W H Berkleman
Mastodon
Dunn
Menominee Range
Michigan Grand Lodge
Harugarl
Lansing
Charles Hoppe
Brazil
Ind
Pennsylvania
Stanford
United States
Minnesota
West Superior
People's Party of Texas
Fort Worth
Free Silver Democrats
Program on Tuesday August 18 1895 racing program
The schedule lists harness events for August 18 1895 with multiple races including Trot and Pace divisions. Purses range from 75.00 to 400.00 dollars across nine to twelve numbered events. Schedules show No 1 through No 12 events with different purses and race types on the program page.
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Bess
Reading as a disciplined, slow study method urged
An essay extols careful reading to strengthen memory and understanding. It urges chewing ideas, arguing them in the mind, and digesting material rather than rushing through daily papers. It cites Prof Alexander McAdie on lightning avoidance and notes Yale mocking Harvard in a humorous aside.
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Alexander McoAdie
Washington Weather Bureau
Advertising in the Local Paper is a Sure Crop for Business
A Trade Magazine article urges merchants to invest in local newspaper ads. It argues aggressive, honest, fact based copy pays, keeps ads fresh, and treats news as part of advertising. Farmers and advertisers alike should water campaigns in dull times for steady returns.
Alabama Populists and Republicans plan Birmingham silver convention
Alabama Populists and free silver Republicans will hold a joint silver convention in Birmingham in November. The Colorado Democratic State convention produced a call for Democrats to unite and reorganize. William Stoke, 36, a colored inmate at Providence RI, serving life for a 1834 murder, has become insane after involvement with a Chicago racing stable.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Robert &. Rivera
New Orleans
Colorado
Odd Fellows of
Clay City
Ill
William Stoke
Providence
R. I
Joseph Barr
Chicago
Maple Leaf Eyes Leavenworth and Topeka Routes
The Chicago Great Western or Maple Leaf plans to lease tracks to Leavenworth Kansas over Santa Fe lines and appears set to enter Topeka via the Southwestern road as it builds a new freight depot. Denver citizens raise funds for destitute Oklahoma farmers. Henderson County Soldiers' and Sailors' reunion scheduled at Oquawka Illinois August 21 to 23. Kentucky orders quarantine on cattle from several southern states to curb Texas fever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Great Western
Maple Leaf
Leavenworth
Kas
Santa Fe
Topeka
Denver
Oklahoma
Henderson County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Association
Oquawka
Ill
Kentucky
A Kentucky Man of Letters James Lane Allen Biography
James Lane Allen author of Flute and Violin and A Kentucky Cardinal was born on a Blue Grass farm near Lexington. He rose from frugal beginnings, taught to support his family, then moved to New York with little. Within eight years he produced five volumes and several poems and essays including Butterflies, with Harper’s serials set in Kentucky.
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James Lane Allen
Kentucky
Lexington
Blue Grass
Allens
Virginia
Madisons
Paynes
Johnsons
Lanes
Clays
William Payne
Washington
Col
Payne
Times
E James Lane Allen
New York
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Sir Henry Republican
George Burr
Efaulting
South
Newport
Inter
Mr.Willard
George Gould
Mies Nicklin
Bloomington
Walter Johnson
Miss Nicklin
Armenia
Messary
Buzzard’s Bay
Mass
Bullock
Georgia
Graybles
N. Y
Bill
Formance
CRIME
Feenes
Eee
Louis Cattle
Csee Scocveseneeneen Doe
Creaccese Seeanee
Sobde Tae
Kansas City
Toledo
Oata
Henry, Illinois
Eeee
Spr Feature
M. Forsman
New, Mammoth Balloon
THE
North Star
T. H. Vogelsang
C. A. Camp
Henry Yaeger
Yale
Harvard
Kentucky Man OF Letters
Violin
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