Pittsburg Carpenters Sell Back as Strike Drags On
Bosses reject last concession. Pittsburgh carpenters lose heart and drift back in twos and threes. Meheeport joiners surrender and return to old wage rates. 65 men work on Ellwood enamel plant in a week. Coal strikes and wage disputes ripple across Pennsylvania and Ohio amid union pressure and factory closures.
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Pittsburg
Meheesport
Ellwood
Sumen
Allison Coal Works
Wahington
J. W.H. Cook & Sona
Pioneer
Pottsville
Coal Company
Herauo
Frookville
Coal-Mining
Amalgamated Association
Wells”gile
Gile
W.J. Wood & Co
Mahoning Waller
A.furnace
Bakers
Five Riverside Citizens Drown After Boat Upset by Steamer
Cincinnati June 27 five of Riverside’s best citizens perished when their boat capsized after a steamer passed by on the Ohio River. Victims include Thomas Thurman 34 and Joseph Mins 22 both of Banner Tobacco Co. Edith Rins 20 sister of Mins. Catherine Cox 23 niece of Mrs Lord. Kate Riddle 18 cousin of the Rins boby.
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Cincinnati
Riverside
Quiet trading across trades cycles notes
Bradstreet's Review reports general quiet in trade centers with mixed price trends. Iron, pig iron prices fall. lumber stocks rise. produce prices mostly lower. Boots and shoes demand steady while eastern stocks rise. Storms damage the Northwest, rains aid the South. Rubber and sugar rise, wheat down on vorlage crop fears. Cattle and hog prices vary by market. wool slow. Australian wool steady. U.S. business failures total 5,07 for the year to date.
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Bradstreet
Brazil
Omaha
St. Louis
Kansas City
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
California
San Francisco
Condition of Crops Across Regions Warns of Damage
Reports from Bloomington Indiana Mason county indicate army worm ravaging wheat as plants mature, while Lansing Michigan notes a heavy train louse invasion on growing wheat causing significant losses. Ottawa Ontario cites 1 300 acres under cultivation with 1 000 000 acres in wheat and others in oats barley peas and flax forecasting a 25 000 000 bushel wheat yield if weather holds.
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Bloomington
Ind
Mason County
Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Ilinois
Ottawa
Ont
Northwest Territories
Strikes Hit Bakers Butchers and Grocers in Paris
Paris reports a wave of strikes as bakers led a mass rally of six thousand demanding work order changes and suppression of registry officers. Butchers seek reforms, and grocers join for shorter hours and higher pay amid rising unrest influencing daily city life.
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Paris
Tensions Rise at Franklin Mines Over Colored Miners
In Seattle on July 1 reports say 600 colored miners imported from the East faced union opposition at the Franklin mines. At daylight Sunday clashes with white strikers left two whites dead, others injured, and a white woman seriously hurt. One Black worker possibly fatally shot. Militia sent. Robinson, a white miner allied with the Black workers, killed two strikers and was taken to Seattle.
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Seattle
Wash
Franklin
Pinkerton
Robinson
Texas ‘Panhandle
White Seward
Sidney Smith
Lansville
Minnesota
John Witt
Hivago
Weddall Vandrah
Tom Harris
Shreveport
Ella Franklin
Indiana Supreme Court
South Wales Tin Plate Workers Hit By Month-Long Stoppage
London reports that four-fifths of tin plate works in South Wales closed for a month causing about 25,000 workers to lose jobs. Delegates plan to visit America to explore prospects while American agents push new machinery and promise higher wages. The workers protest the stoppage and urge a shorter monthly halt to prevent distress.
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London
South Wales
America
Parnell and Mrs OShea Wed in Sussex Ceremony
London June 27 Charles Stewart Parnell Irish leader and Mrs Kitty OShea divorced wife of Captain OShea were married Thursday by the Register of the Parish of Steyning Sussex. Mystery surrounded the wedding and a second marriage by a clergyman in London is planned to satisfy Catholic sentiment. Two illicit distillers killed in Cherokee county North Carolina with floods damaging farms and crops across miles.
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London
Charles Stewart Parnell
Kitty O'Shea
Knoxville
Tenn
Cherokee County
North Carolina
Harvey Agnew
Jacob Newton
Imperial ukase reports Russian army and industry
An imperial Russian ukase cites 1501 officer count at 262400 versus 212000 in 1531, and Russia doubles factory inspectors in Bavaria due to lax labor laws. Other items note shipwreck of the British steamer Cid with two dead and crew saved, Servian finances, a German photographer jailed in Paris, Italian deficit, Vienna murder conviction, and crop fears amid potential famine. Thunderstorms hit Germany and Switzerland, Dublin grain porters strike risks bread, and a Copenhagen court upholds death sentence for Philipsen.
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Bavaria
Cid
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Naples
Havre
Tribunal of the Seine
Scheider
Vienna
Austria
Herman Fischer
Jackoel
Germany
Switzerland
Copenhagen
Cabinet Sets Silver Coinage Plan in Washington
The June 29 cabinet meeting concluded that the act of 1861 requires coinage of trade dollar bars into standard dollars and that about 1500000 will be used for subsidiary coins. It notes a four month period to complete the exchanges and indicates that continued silver dollar coinage is not practical at present. Treasury reports a net surplus of 3027137 dollars.
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Washington
Foster
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Nebecker
Death in a Cyclone at Patterson Coal Breaker
Mt Carnier Ps June 20 The Patterson Coal Company's breaker at Natatio was destroyed by a cyclone Saturday. Killed were J N Blossom Hawley PA Bantley Dodson Shickshinny PA Richard Roberts Luzerne borough William Dodge Luzerne borough an Italian unknown and another stranger remain under debris. The breaker was among the region's largest with a capacity about 49000 tons per month and cost over 1 000
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Mt. Carnier
Patterson Coal Company
Natatio
J.N. Blossom
Hawley
Bantley Dodson
Peculiar Tragedy Ends in Fall From Teas PoSe House
Mrs Ellen Dougherty and Joseph Reed quarreled on a roof over pranks by Dougherty's children. Reed lunged at Dougherty, she tried to escape and fell to her death. Reed is in custody.
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Ellen Dougherty
New York
Joseph Reed
Reed
Minister Clark Dead and Body to Return From Liberia
Alexander Clark former American minister to Liberia died in Monrovia on June 3 at age 63. His family in Mascatine Iowa will seek State Department approval to repatriate his remains.
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Chicago
Mascatine
Alexander Clark
Liveria
Monrovia
Clark
State Department
Warners
N. Y
Wm. B. Cadd
Wm. F. Ausin
James Corcoran
Boston
United States
Siberia
Waterloo
Iowa
Missouri
Cherokee
Alliance platform outlines 1896 issues and Ocala support
Grand Forks North Carolina June 27 the Alliance platform omits the Cincinnati platform calls for a 100 cent silver dollar tax on mortgages supports an income tax prohibition and woman suffrage and endorses the Ocala platform.
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Grand Forks
N. C
Alliance
Cincinnati
Alliance Aso
Western Farmers Suffer From Wide Storms
Dispatches report a hurricane sweeping Kansas and Missouri with heavy rain wind and hail. Emporia and Osawatomis fear major crop losses to wheat oats and fruit while Sedalia and Pattis counties see shattered shocks and broken glass. Arkansas City yields thousands in damage including windows fruit trees and damaged crops.
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Kansas City
Jisty
Marlem
Loaunde
Danape
Ransas City
Atchieson
Iain
Atchison
Liz
Mervean
Farid
M. J. Parkers
Jacol Manelis
Rushville
Washington, D. C
Rocky Mountains
New England
Ohio River
Lake Mere
Locky Mountains
Ingion
Oregon
California
Winston Texas
Wisg
Iowa
Nebraka
Por Lene
Colorado
Michigan
Berth
Jarve Vieja
Porfim
Progres
St. Louis
Kansas
Missouri
Emporia
Kan
Osawatomis
Ecdalia
Sedalia
Pattis
Arkansas City
Ark
Multi incidents hit Hamilton Missouri and nationwide
A compilation of late brief items reports a roof collapse near Hamilton Missouri killing Dan Blaise and injuring others, a near-fatal derailment scare for Jay Gould in Irvington New York, a violent Knights Templar excursion fight in Delaware, and numerous other accidents, crimes, and weather notes across states.
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Hamilton
Dan Blaise
Scattered scientific notes from century era reports
A compilation of diverse items: pearl fishery ranking in Ceylon, Hungarian railways adding electric limits to express trains, eight coaches with accumulators, Prof Thomson on alternating currents, meteorological cloud photographs, deep Black Sea basin depths, surface and deep water temperatures, a pulse study showing seasonal patterns, Copenhagen engineer’s proposed decimalized measure system using a 1000 ounce foot, a new Florida snake Stilosoma extennata, steamship safety and speed evolution, a rare 1804 American dollar found by Frank M. Connor, other 1804 dollars and distribution, Swedish small farms and crop patterns noting Oma staple crops.
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Prof
Thomson
Frank M. Connor
Connor
Lynn
Tripoli
Pey
Africa
Stickney
Salem
William 8. Appleton
Boston
St. Paul
Ome
Lyra
Mass
Famine threat grows in Madras region due to drought
Advices from India report distressing conditions around Madras as no crops have grown for seven months. The country is parched and inhabitants lack many necessities of life, with the outlook extremely serious.
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London
India
Madras
Insurrection Toll and Fatal Collapse Reported
A Hudson steamship from Haytian ports notes the May insurrection was quelled and 290 people killed. In Wisconsin, a wall collapse during school razing killed Patrick Hane gan, Richard Bennitt, and John Flaherty.
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New York
Oxzama
Haytian
Janesville
Wis
Patrick Hanegan
Richard Bennitt
John Flaherty
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Ceveaud
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Prades’ Assembly
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Guffy
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Iron Cars Equipment Company of
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Pittsburg Carpenters
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Levering & ‘Gewoffe
Ime
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Imet
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Brooklyn
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Quana
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Shea
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James 4. Stumon
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Sixth National Seit
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Minister Clark
Liberia
Stephen
Meach
Bheep
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Col
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Elizabethport
W. J
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Jay Gould
Irvington
N.Y
Barnard
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Del
Colored Knights Templar
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Bee Hive
Springfield
Ill
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le Mayne Moore
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Daniel Herame
Freddie
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Warren County
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Congress
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Kirkpatrick
Northampton
James H. Parker
Fulton
B. M. Nead
Dauphin
Thad. M. Mahon
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Wilkesbarre
Nathaniel Blough
Johnstown
Pennsylvania State Weather Service
Louisa Hallstock
Siamoxia Paarslay
Jacob Kobock
Phoenixville Teel Works
Frigay
John McGlone
ageiGi
Connolly
Scranton
Joseph Noah
Samuel Fultler
Teylorstown
Scientif Scraps
Ceylon
Black Sea
Bosphorus
Florida
Collectora
Philadelphia Zoological Society
Anesau
Sweden
Saratoga
Wik Tara M. Ogden
Church of the
Timothy Leeland
Waguna
Philadelphia
State
Penn
East Liberty
Pittebarnh Stock Farm
Castle
Wight
Ea Body
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