Phenomenal Texas crop year and varied farmlands woes
Drought injures Illinois corn while Texas rains aid crops and hay prospects. Fire damages Chenos stores including Balbach at $20,000 loss. Coal miners in West Virginia swing between strikes and returns to work at operator prices. Ireland faces crop losses from cold and potato blight. German heat dries vineyards. White House reports Mrs. Harrison improving gradually. Politicians named for Congress by Democratic and Republican conventions. Memphis plumbers strike over foreman duties. Ishpeming furnace closes, 75 job losses. Baltimore mayor asked to intervene with coatmakers’ wives, who say they starve. Pocock mine workers strike against checkweighman.
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Texas
Chenos
Ill
Jacob Balbach
Boggs Hon
Wellsburg
Moundsville
Elm Grove
W. Vs
Ireland
Gergasny
Rhenish
Austrian
Baden
Memphis
Tenn
Excelsior
Ishpeming
Mich
Marquette County
Baltimore
Brooklyn
Beichers
Coal Creek unrest prompts swift state military mobilization
Governor Buchannan requests heavy troop reinforcements to suppress the Miner insurrection at Coal Creek. Gen. Carnes leads state forces toward Knoxville with 500-man county contingents. Gen. Kellar Anderson commands fortified Coal Creek position as officials forecast quelling the revolt. Convicts relocated under guard as dispatches reveal incriminating evidence and civil prosecutions proceed.
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Oliver Springs
Morgan County
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Hamilton
Knox
Shelby
Davidson
Carnes
Coal Creek
Kellar Anderson
T. Carnes
N. G
Buchanan
Grant
Tennessee
Rock Island
Illinois
Carnel
Squire Kincaid
Anderson County
Pickle
Ayfe
Inman
Aleman
Nashville
General Carne
Alleman
Buxte Smith
Memphis
T Nashville
Tracy City
4 Miners uprisin in Georgia
The Tennessee miners threaten an invasion of Georgia. An adjutant general orders troops to the front as Whiteside miners may attack Coal City stockade. Georgia can field 4000 men on short notice. Superintendent Cannon at Col City requests military aid.
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Buchanan
Gov. Buchanan
Tennessee
Tracy City Branch
Inman
Marion
Knoxville
Oliver Springs
Chatanooga
Georgia
Adjutant General
Whiteside
Tenn
Coal City
Georgi
Cannon
Col City
Fearful Oath Reported From Tennessee Miners Coven
The article describes a secret miners oath taken in Tennessee, binding members to obedience secrecy and lifelong loyalty. It details vows to follow orders, conceal identities, aid each other to the death if needed, and to punish betrayers, with references to midnight gatherings, fire, and an implied violent sanction for breach.
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Blamele
Cholera Cases Rise and Fall Across Cities and Persia
By Thursday evening 211 Asiatic cholera cases surfaced in the city with 70 fatalities. About 200 suspected cholerine cases, likely cholera proper, yielded 65 deaths. Antwerp saw four cholera deaths amid denials of Asiatic cholera. Russia reported 5,505 new cases and 2,660 deaths, down from Monday by 1,601 and 770 respectively. Teheran warns of unchecked cholera in Persia with countless unburied corpses.
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Antwerp
Russia
Teheran
Persia
Quiet Sunday at Homestead with services and inspections
The Homestead mill area saw a quiet Sunday with Rev Dr W W Craft of Allegheny delivering a sermon on Christian Faith Rests Upon Reason. Brigadier General Wiley inspected Camp Black and found conditions excellent while Chaplain Hayes led evening services for the Sixteenth Regiment. Harry Bickerton, a Homestead striker, was held to await court on riot charges after a hearing before Alderman McMasters, with witness John Egman testifying.
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Homestead
WW. F. Craft
Allegheny
Wiley
Camp Black
Duquesne
Chaplain Hayes
Fifteenth Regiment
Sixteenth Regiment
Chalain
Harry Bickerton
Lovejoy
Alderman McMasters
Pitt
Homestead Advisory Committee Attacks Carnegie Output Tactics
The Homestead Advisory Committee issued a pointed statement arguing Carnegie Steel cannot operate the plant with all new workers and detailing alleged efforts to sway old workers, poor material quality, and local boycotts. Carnegie officials rebutted, denying letters to former employees and disputing idle-worker claims, noting improved production levels and resumed plant activity.
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Homestead Advisory Committee
Carnegie
Homestead
Duquesne
Pittsbu
H. M. Curry
Carnegie Steel Company
Pittsburg
Plate
Woods
Roller Jamison
Pinkerton
Military clears mob at Bomfstead mill yard
At Homestead a crowd of several hundred confronted Nicholas Ratti gan as he moved to a mill house despite a strike. Deputies failed to disperse them, and General Wiley with Colonel Mechling intervened. The crowd slowly dispersed only when troops warned bayonets would be used.
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Bomfstead
Nicholas Rattigan
Carnegie
Theen
Rattigan
General Wiley
Mechling
Striking Homestead Mill News and Fatal Accident
About 150 new workers arrive at the Homestead plant, including 88 from Philadelphia, as a citizen tours the mill to verify steel quality. A soldier, Jeremiah Benninghoff of Company K, Sixteenth Regiment, is accidentally shot by Private Ford Smith and dies. Smith is exonerated. Militia regiments request to remain at Homestead while trouble persists.
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Philadelphia
Homestead
Potter
Crawford
Lovejoy
Carnegie Steel Company
Tide
Black
Jeremiah Benninghoff
Sixteenth Regiment
Ford Smith
Benninghoff
Smith
White
Enninzhof
Earth
Greenville
Kreps
Nicholas Rattigan
Beiter Crop Prospects And General Trade Outlook
The weekly trade review notes prospects improve across most lines with crops expected to be better in wheat and corn and cotton slightly improved though near last year’s yields. Rail disruptions threaten some routes but overall stocks remain steady while money is abundant. Wheat prices fall slightly as western receipts rise. corn and related markets show mixed moves. Regional trade in cities like Baltimore Cleveland Chicago and Milwaukee remains active, with various sectors reporting healthier activity and strong collections. The report tallies 197 business failures worldwide for the past week, up from 189 prior and 216 year-ago.
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R.G. Dun & Co
New York
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Atlantic
Korn
Kansas
Illinois
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Chicago
Milwaukee
Canada
A New Turf Queen Ousted by Nancy Hanks Reign
At Washington Park Chicago Budd Doble drove the mare Nancy Hanks to a world trotting record surpassing 2 08 5. The event drew about 10 000 spectators as the horse lowered Sunol and Maud S marks. In Japan a disaster report cites a typhoon slide and earthquake killing many and displacing tens of thousands.
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Knights of Pythias
Kannar City
Atarm
Supreme Council
Knights of Pythias of
City National Bank
Fort Worth
Tex
Wandy Hanks
Washington Park
Chicago
Budd Doble
Robert Bonnet
Sunol
Maud
Japan
San Francisco
Tokushima
Akosagun
Strike Ends After Four-Hour Buffalo Conference
A four hour Buffalo meeting of Grand Master Sweeney Wilkinson Sargent and Grand Chief Clark ends with a verbal strike off at midnight. Committee-led withdrawal of troops signals uneasy quiet as arbitration begins and rioters bound over for August charges. Governor Flower offers rewards for violators of railway property laws.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Sweeney
Wilkinson
Sargent
Clark
Sweeny
Moriarity
Max
Barrett
Arbitration Board
State Board of Arbitration
John McMahon
The
Erie
Brunn
Walters
Bass
Lehigh
President Harrison Proclaims Toll Change on Welland Canal
In a proclamation dated September 1 1892 President Harrison uses act authority to impose a 20 cent per ton toll on U S cargo through the St Marys Falls canal to Canadian ports. He notes Canada’s rebate system and discrimination against U S citizens and states Canada has not acted to end rebates by season’s end. The White House announced Ottawa’s response and the U S action follows delays with no cabinet decision.
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Dominion of Canada
Welland Canal
Montreal
Union of Canada
United States
Benjamin Harrison
United States of America
Congress
St. Mary's Falls Canal
Richard G. Lay
Ottawa
State Department
Mr. Lay
Dominion
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Zermse
Weomaway
Minnesota
Ian Harris
Lockhaven
B. &. Seale
Fackawanna County
Lemuel Amerman
N. Cox
Dennessee
Weaver
Missouri
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Carolinas
Virginia
Iowa
Kennedy
John Pace
Ambrose Collins
Collins
White House
Toon Lake
G George L. Yaple
Mendon, Mich
Sateo
People's Party
Bellamy Storer
John A. Caldwell
Reublicans
Ohio
George ¥. Knibbs
Clarion
Pocock
Maillon, C
Anderson
Ind
Indianapolis
Taylor
Superior Court
James F. Farley
Order of Iron Hall
Somerby
Beker
Europe
Berlin
East Prussia
Thorn
Bantsi
Hamburg
Rintel
Vienns
Kaschav
Borsod
Odessi
Avs
Carrel
Executive Department
Tennessee State Board of Praca
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Clinton
Bud Lindsay
Terme
Lindsay
Briceville
Tennesses
Heaven
the & of P
Kansas City
Germany
Hemburg
Tue
Higley
Beiter Crop Prospects
Nancy Hanks
Mand
Harold
England
London
Judge Green
Lehigh Valley
George Halfner
Newburgh
Halfner
Flower
Cenads
Soo Canal
Bunch
Eugene Bunch
Franklington
S Posse
Louisiana
Florida
Ben Cooncan
William Carney
Atlantic City
Charles Simons
Benjamin Parker
Mannery
N.J
Castoria
Casiceia
With Your
House of Jacksons
Jacksons
Liberty St
Pepsive
Sant Er
M.C. Watson
Frank Keane
Indiana, Pa
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Keener
H. Tomb
Indiana
Ham
al Teétens
A. W. Taylor
Paitsdalphin Street
Ll. Gerry
G. Pes
Hetrick
Somers M. Jack
David Blair Taylor
Ilam
Fem Cunningham
Claark
Wood Diazhdiana, Pa, New
Issurkarcr AG
Ner Ae Tad
Kot
Hawson Hovas
W. B. Clawson
Propristor
Indiana Rouse
Neary
Joneeos
Anda
Bea
Jake Neo
Fisher Block
Detroit
Hee
T. E. Hildebrand
Hetck Bros
Daugherty Bros
G. Hartman
Zice Driggista Everywhere
Kirks
Annapolis
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Lara County Det Bank
Capital
Watt
Furs
D. W. Anthony
Parkwood
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