Industrial strikes and factory reopenings across states
News of sustained and settled strikes in eight weeks at a Vicksburg site ends with resumed work as labor disputes ripple through Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Compromises cut hours wages and holiday practices at plants in Johnstown South Vale Irwin and Reading while new mills reopen in Uniontown and Warren amid non union and strike tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicksburg
Mies
Fiend Memorial Hospital
Johnstown
Ohio
Toronto
EB. M. Butz
Columbia Iron and Steelworke
Uniontown
Eyaiew
Springfield
Louis
Uys
Wales
Falcon Iron and Nail Company
Biles, O
Wabash Iron Company
Terra Haute
Ind
Ramberg
Reading
Seyfert
Granderd Glass Company
Wellsburg
W. Va
Dennison Manufatoring Company
Kemi, O
Warren
Dobson’s Mills
Falls of Schuylkill
Philsdetwie
EEFSTOWE STATE CULLINGS. Constable arrests violators
Beaver Falls constable clamps down on fish law violators. Dozens of local incidents reported including robberies in Huntingdon, a woman in Norristown attacking her baby, and multiple accidents and disasters across several counties.
Train accident leaves three dead and injured in Sobertown
A Sunisy excursion train on the 5.40 line derailed after the coupling broke between coaches two and three. Lucas T. Myers of Latrobe and Milwwn Pyle of Somerset died at the scene, Kelly and Myers were killed, while Pyle survived but expected to die soon. Kelly’s wife and two children were sent for support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sobertown
Citiens
Tewrs
Palioeguma Kei'y
Lucas T. Myers
Latrobe
Milwwn Pyle
Somerset
Kelly
Myers
Pyle
Kreily
Wrecked Elba Works Finishing Dept Structure Collapse
A collapse at the Elba iron works finishing department on Padaly Street Pittsburg on Second Avenue Frankstown killed two men outright and injured five or six others with one more dying at Homeopathic hospital. The 143 by 106 foot building fell during roof work, trapping workers among fallen beams and furnaces. Three lives were lost in total. injured include George Baker Frank Schreidt George Lemmon Michael Manning and J Cobra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Padaly St
Elba Iron Works
Second Avenue
Frankstown
B. Corkin
Andrew Zienak
John Parker
George Baker
Frank Schreidt
George Lemmon
Michael Manning
J. Cobra
Life Imprisonment for W J Elliott Murder Verdict
Columbus July 24 jury in the W J Elliott murder trial returns a verdict of murder in the second degree. The sentence is life imprisonment. Osborn killed and Hughes wounded as Elliott planned the crime in a crowded street. Elliott's gesture of insult toward the Grand Army of the Republic is noted. Trial cost over 2200 and secrecy rumors surround the jury. Accomplice P J Sillott will be tried in another county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
W. J. Elliott
A. C. Osborn
W. L. Hughes
Hinghes
Ury
P. J. Sillott
W. J. Effiott
Railway Disaster At Sainte Marie Sanday Kills 43
An official report from Paris on July 2 states 43 dead and 194 injured after two excursion trains collided near Sainte Marie Sanday. The second train’s driver and fireman were burned alive. The stationmaster is reported to have gone mad and disappeared. Gas explosions ignited wreckage as victims burned. witnesses describe a scene of horror. Among the dead were the Marquis and Marchioness of Monteferrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Sainte Marie Sanday
Sone
Monteferrat
Killed by Spanking in Philadelphia Tragedy
Philadelphia July 29 Raymond T Zimmerman 23 year old son of Daniel K Zimmerman died after being chastised by his mother for teasing a younger sister. She said she used only an open hand. Minutes later he gasped for breath and grew blue as his father tried back blows. A physician found no marks of violence and suggested possible choking or epigastric spasms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Raymond T. Zimmerman
Daniel K. Zimmerman
Raymond
Iszard
Indiana Earthquake Spooks Evansville Churches and Streets
A strong earthquake struck Evansville Indiana at 5 23 Sunday evening causing loud rumbling and a lateral shake derailing windows and swaying buildings. People fled into the streets and churchgoers rushed out without benediction. Several panics and minor injuries were reported among children at the First Baptist church but no deaths were confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Boiler blast injures crew and threatens family home
A Hill City Oil works boiler exploded yesterday morning in Vicksburg Mississippi. The engineer and fireman were mortally wounded as the boiler hurled into a private residence 200 feet away passing through two floors and landing at a breakfast table where a family was seated. One man injured by ceiling debris. Seven children drown at Seven Islands Quebec as a river drowning tragedy claims Alfred Joseph Marie Louise and Cecil Montigny Marmad and Marguerite Peareb. Five bodies recovered.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Hill City
Quebec
Jaly
Lower St. Lawrence
Chiildren
Alfred
Joseph
Marie
Louise
Cecil Montigny
Marmad
Marguerite ‘Peareb
Fragmented World News Fragments From A Distant Era
A garbled collection reports a train wreck near Freiburg Hungary killing ten laborers after floods damaged the road bed. Other notes mention floods in Moravia Silesia crippling crops bridges and roads, strikes in Britain, fires in Cairo Abdin palace, a premature shell explosion at Felixdorf, and various European unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freiburg
Hungary
Moravia
Silesia
LATE NEWS CONDENSED CHAIN OF TRAGEDIES AND FIRES
A condensed late news roundup reports a three lynching threat in Billings Montana after a coroner's inquest. a Philadelphia cotton mill fire destroys logs valued up to 273000 dollars with 40 workers affected. various homicides, explosions, fires, and accidents across the U.S. including Atlanta Philadelphia Portland and Detroit. insurance and criminal cases noted. notable deaths and public safety events detailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Mont
Campbell & Eiliorest
Philadelphia
Charles M. Osburn
Janes M. Pradley
Atlanta
Plainfield
N. J
Portland
Ore
James Span
Fred Miller
Markham
Binghampton
N. Y
Death at Erie crossing kills White family and nurse
In Elmira New York during July 1893 a train accident at the Erie crossing instantly killed Reverend Wellington White his daughter Lillian five Hattie Hastings nine and Susie McCarthy a nurse girl. Mrs White and a two year old were fatally injured while Mabel White seven was seriously hurt. The family party driving onto the crossing unaware of an approaching freight and a passenger train caused the deadly crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Castleton
Colborne
Ont
Potter
Mr. Bellow
New York
Japan
Jackson, Tenn
John Brown
John Gardner
Illinis
City Hall
Burr & Bro
Philadelphia
Henry Nelson
Brooklyn
Corona
L. I
Nelson
Cole Street
Elmira
N. Y
Wellington White
Lillian
Hattie Hastings
Susie McCarthy
Erie Railroad
Constable Kills 4 Marshall in Kentucky Quarrel
Morehead Kentucky July 27 Deputy U S Marshal George Armstrong was shot and killed by Constable Simons. Armstrong, escorting moonshine prisoners, halted for the night after a quarrel over a hog belonging to Simons, which Armstrong killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Morehead
U. 3
George Armstrong
Simons
Armstrong
Simona
World's Fair Notes Exposition plans and exhibits
Texas will dedicate a spacious room in its Exposition building for a colored people exhibit. Leipsic firms signal participation in the Columbian Exposition. London Times predicts a surpassing fair with English displays urged. Chief Burnham plans two new buildings for shoe and leather and musical displays costing $100,000 each. Cable and machinery firms pledge exhibits including a recreation of a cotton gin. Choral director Pjorgsson Tomlins seeks English choruses for October 1992 dedication events. An agricultural congress auxiliary committee forms to advise farmers and boards across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Leipsic
Germany
TRE London Times
Burnham
Grover Warp
Commercial Cable Company
Chef Barrett
New Orleans Machinery Company
Buchanan
Turbulent Chilean Conflict Reports Spread
Reports from New York on July 3 describe brutal measures by Balmaceda loyalists in Chile. Accounts cite executions, floggings, and desertions, with widespread terror in Santiago Valparaiso and southern towns.
Fresh depredations in China threaten missionaries
San Francisco reports from China describe renewed anti missionary violence. Attacks at Yankso on June 2 looted Catholic property and set buildings ablaze. Kiangsi near Fuchow saw four chapels looted and burned along with a priest’s church school and residence. A French orphanage was destroyed and eight or nine children were taken. A junk near Kingho was attacked on June 15 by five armed men, killing four passengers and injuring others before survivors leapt overboard. pirates then seized the vessel and sailed away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
China
Yankso
Kiangsi
Fuchow
Baimen
Kingho
Hor
Trade Review Shows Mixed Conditions Across Regions
The weekly Dun and Co review notes improved trade in wool and dry goods with strong leather and meat sectors in select cities. Wheat receipts soar in Chicago while overall crop prospects brighten the West, yet money tightness persists in the South and several sectors lag. Business failures total 254 worldwide, up from last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.g.dun & Co
Review of Trade
Hartford
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Detroit
Chicago
South
Alaroa
United States
Canada
Prison Population Survey Shows 1990 Increase Over 1880
Washington July 30 The Census Office bulletins report county jail prisoners numbered 19 338 in the census year up from 12 601 in 1850 an increase of 6 337 over ten years or 53 95 percent The overall population rise was 24 36 percent The per 1 000 000 prisoner ratio rose from 252 in 1850 to 312 in 1890 with the North Atlantic division showing the largest increase at 95 per 1 000 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
First Feats From the Farms Reported
Baltimore reports the first car of oats sold for 45 cents from Northern Tamais in prime condition. A first car of new winter wheat patent flour arrived from Shelby Ohio, noted as very fine and superior to last year. Richmond experiences a devastating fire on Lafayette avenue destroying 28 houses, with two women and two children killed. Elm Creek Nebraska endures a severe hail storm that ruins crops, small grain, garden vegetables, and corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Tamais
Shelby
Richmond
Newport News
Lafayette Avenue
Washington Hovel
Elm Creek
Neb
Notable Roaming Celebrities From A Dazed Census Echoes
A garbled survey of public figures appears with mispelled names and dated hints. It lists individuals such as Jax Gout, Beer Hamre, Passineasr Dias, and Ssenazazy Bian with varied ages and occupations, plus mentions of Huser W. Stocum and Justin McCarver as writers. it references Ex-Presmont McCoss at Asbury Park, Claus Spreceeta the Sugar King, and a yacht costing 980000. It also notes the late Senator Hearst’s fortune, royal identifiers, and a miscellaneous cast from Mesico to Rusia. The piece reads as a scrambled collage of names, titles, and eccentric details with no coherent narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jax Gout
Hamre
Passineasr Dias
Mesico
Ssenazazy Bian
Powada
Havono
Harrison
Smxaros Viras
Wisconsin
Gosaris
Rusia
Greece
Hearst
Huser W. Stocum
Justin McCarver
Joan SuERé@an
United States
Hannibal Hamtin
H. M. P LaGuen
Standard Oil Company
Loogsland Sound
New York
Princeton
Henes Asbury Park
Sexavon Calvin Barce
Ohio
Missouri
Army
Ee Lane
Chicago
Lex
NATIONAL GAME BASEBALL NOTES AND SCORES
The Boston League team loses an extra man as Lyons leads the Association in batting and Lattham tops the league in stolen bases. Brooklyn struggles, Pittsburgh thrives with Galvin pitching, and Davis hits over 100. Brourass leads Boston batting, Murphy shines in bases on balls, and a long list of players show varying form. The Grand Forks game ends after 25 innings with no score. Crowler, once a famed catcher, is profiled after illness and a career across clubs from 1873 to 1884.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Lyons
St. Louis
Tikenim
New York
Lattham
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Pittsburys
Galvin
Cincinnnati
Brourazss
Boston Association
Alurphy
Washington
Rapsovurs
Cincinnati Association
Burns
Collins
Esterbrook
Burdock
Kexye
CuarEsox
Chamberlain
Tax Grand Forks
Louisville
Baifal
Soston
New Venus
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Angoat Paper
Weoncepar
Industrial and Labor
Southiale
Page
Piste Glass
Irwin
Spaulding
U. S
Carmegie Phipps & Co
Om Cramp & Co
Duquesne
Kimberly
Greenville
East Street Reaper Works
Whitely Wat Springfeld
Werrard
Chicas
Cleve Jeed
Welléeville
Salem Wire Nail Company
Rindlay
Rapid Transit Street Railway Company
Bewark
N.J
Ring- Sanders
New Derbed Wire Trust
Columbia Patent Company
Laughlin
Martins Ferry
Bridgeport
Teamstera
Eefstowe
Beaver Falls
Huntingdon
Norristown
Schuylkill Canal
S.J. Urias
Traddock
Hamburg
PTI Muise Devet
East Greensburg
J.C. Schnatterly
New Geneva
Fayetts County
Patterson
Reeder
Callery
James
Jeferson
Johustown
William Sowers
Mahoning
Carbon County
L. Searsons
Little Gap
G. M. Henry
J. W.sickler
Ar Jorie
Lackawana County
G. Rivinburg
L. M. Cook
Metsovern
Washington County
A.J. Allison
KR. Thompson
Leetonia
Ava County
J. J. Paten
Cato
Center County
Calvin T. Chessman
Gravelick
Clarion County
Wm. G. Pratt
Gath
Marion County
Agricultural Department
Pennsylvania
Larimer
Mt. Braddock Hall
Parker's Landing
George Stem
Redbank
Allegheny
State Fire Commission
United States Fish Commission
Annie Brenneman
East Berlin
York
Marion Weigle
Pennsylvania Steel Works
Breelton
Francis W. Kennedy
Spring Garden Bank
Philadelphicia
National Capital
Philadelphia Mint
Greene
Fayette
Brenough
Luke Vivers
Carney Station
Long Hollow
Wesley Hutchinson
Templeton
Aittanning
Turtle Creek
Elsie Snyder
Tennesee
Nashville
Tenn
Buchanan Bes
Macc
Ceate
Improads
Ft. Joseph
Gee Belmont Bend
Elmwood
Uscien
Depestens Sutewiey
Boteredik Bay
Mdcia
Elliott
Frances
Indiana
London Master Tailor's Association
Great Britain
Liverpool
Cairo
Egypt
Abdin Palace
Felixdorf
France
Prof
Koch
Jack the Ripper
Marseilles
Lord Salisbury
England
Aylesbury
Jares EL. Spurgeon
Guatemala
Chile
David Dudley Wield
Customs Service
Tracy
William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company
Treasury Department
Ad Valorem
Sissistant
Helt
Secretary of the Treasury
Cyssertur
Colon
Wm. E. Sims
Virginia
Mr. Sims
Yale University
Isl
Mississippi
Bureau of Industrial Statistics
The
State Department of Internal Affairs
C. A. Tillshiry
Minneapolis
Grand Rapids
Mich
Dan Dann
Steve Harcourt
Sewes
Trout Lake
James Harcour
Dann
Isaac Parish
Louisvile
Jose i Grainger
Mitchelaville
Simpson County
Kentucky
Paducah
Jesse Brown
John Curry
Rapid City
J. W. Saultrey
Saultrey
Brrs
Baulrey
Wewberton Banking Company
Chattanoogs
Sherefif
South Haven
Ed Gorman
Billy Hawkins
Mrs. Hendrick
Fairbanks
Can
Sophia
Blair
Trempelcan County
Wis
Forest
Livingston County
Ill
Galena
Lowrey
Mary Shutter
Birmingham Electric Line
Fort Leavenworth
Ir. H. T. Helmbolh
Bucho
August Young
Frank Wen_zel
Cortland
George Frieze
Sonora
Cal
Columbia
Spruce Aleck
Laughing Charley
Wells
Nev
Aleck
Dayton
George Mercherles
Frank Wenzel
Belvidere
Hunterdon
Marshall
Balmaceda
Panama
Congressional Party
Iquique
Maipe
Bulmunceda el “Tacora
Lacna
el Herald
la Paz
Bolivia
Santiagu
Suliiers
Santiago
Valparaiso
Papado
Lercual
Balmacerta
Copiapo
Chili
North
Paison Statistics
Stext
Livias Apo
Pan-Onien
New Jznser Socialista
Dexven
Somuz
Francr
Avene Az Bostom
Wersonth
Renen
Strixine Furniture
Sweden
Gisis
O & Ox
Wateroeilean
East Liberty
Pittsvars
Yeoda
Catile
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