Buckshot used on rioters at pressed steel car plant
Rioting strikers clashed with guards at the Pressed Steel Car plant near McKees Rocks Pennsylvania. Police used buckshot to hold back crowds as hundreds of workers kept a picket line behind a stockade. Several men were injured, including Stanely Kuchasky and Jomas Farrell. State Constabulary and deputies were deployed to quell the disturbance. The dispute centers on a pooling system that grouped workers for pay rather than individual wages.
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Steel
Schoenville
McKees Rocks
Stowe Township
State Constabulary
Stanley Kuchasky
John Kuchasky
Jomas Farrell
Jomas Farrell, Chief of Company Police
Ubs
Donkal Maula
Ohio Valley Hospital
H. Folks
Jos. Mar- Howitt
Hio
Paul Bartoe
Stanley Pakhalsky
Addison C. Gumbert
Pennsylvania State Constabulary
Gumbert
Shrikera
Gompany
Buried Long Time Man Found In New York Sewer Excavation
A unidentified man buried fifty feet in a sewer excavation near New York city's infrastructure. The body, likely from a year or more ago while working on the sewer, lay beneath gliding sand avalanches. his shovel was found with him, illustrating how one life could vanish unseen.
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Waerkman
New York City
Young Wife Wounded in Attempt to Save Husband’s Suicide
In New York City a young wife suffered a serious cheek wound while wrestling a revolver from her husband Edward J. Helmuth who, despondent over unemployment since his four month marriage, shot himself after a struggle. Helmuth died two hours later.
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Edward J. Helmuth
Fies
New York City
Helmuth
Fla
Italian Kills Man With Butcher Knife in Wilmington Street Stabbing
Vincent Walker aged fifty two is slain on a Wilmington street by Michael Miell an Italian. Constable L Co Jones loses one arm while attempting arrest. Miell is pursued by a crowd and captured until police arrive. Walker intervened in a quarrel when Miell attacked him in the heart with a knife.
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Vincent Walker
Wilmington
Del
Michael Miell
L. Co. Jones
Miell
Walker
Subpena Service Leads to Brick Throw at King
Complainants failed to serve a subpena on Samuel J. King, an New York insurance broker. They hired a process server who hurled a brick through King's dining room window during a meal, claiming the act constituted legal service.
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Samuel J. King
New York City
King
Murder on lonely island shocks Cleveland man
Louis Rosenberg a Cleveland cigarmaker was killed on a lonely island in the St. Clair flats. Frank Ribera also of Cleveland is dead from a self-inflicted poison as arrest loomed. Sam Frisbie, held at county jail, confesses to aiding the murder and tells a brutal tale of Elbera’s plan fueled by race hatred and greed. Frisbie says Elbera lured Rosenberg from a dance to a secluded spot where he was shot and drowned, the victim’s clothes stripped of valuables about $200 taken.
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Louis Rosenberg
Cleveland
St. Clair Flats
Frank Ribera
Sam Frisbie
Frisbie
Etbera
Rosenberg
Elbera
Eibera
Rosenborg
Trains Collide Head-On Near Kalamazoo Michigan
A northbound passenger train and a southbound freight train on the Chicago Kalamazoo and Saginaw railway collided head on one half mile north of Behults station near Kalamazoo Michigan. The passenger train engineer and fireman were killed. The freight train engineer and fireman were fatally injured. The dead are Melvin Meade and Seth Chandler both of Kalamazoo. Injured are Pred Kruse and John Milbeck both of Kalamazoo. The accident is believed caused by a misunderstanding of orders. Neck broken on yacht woman killed in Erie society leader Mrs Jacob Clemens as shawl entangled in yacht machinery. Don Carlos of Bourbon pretender to the Spanish throne died at Varese Lombardy. He had long illness and apoplexy with paralysis.
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Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw
Behults Station
Kalamazoo
Mich
Fraight
Melvin Meade
Seth Chandler
Pred Kruse
John Milbeck
Freman
Jacob Clemens
Erie
Don Carlos of Bourbon
Varese
Lombarry
Conviction Is Affir med in Dauphin County Capitol Conspiracy
The Superior Court upheld the Dauphin County case convicting William P. Shyder auditor general and J M Shumaker of conspiring to defraud in furnishing the Harrisburg state capitol. The unanimous ruling also covers contractor John H Sanderson and former State Treasurer William L Mathues, both deceased since conviction, with two years in prison unless the high court overturns.
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Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
Supreme Court
Forte
William P. Shyder
J. M. Shumaker
John H. Sanderson
Formelr
Willian L. Mathues
Giant Bell System Merger Signals National Consolidation
A planned merger would unite all Bell Telephone companies into a single corporation with about 979 million capital. The move follows AT&T’s absorption of New York and New Jersey Telephone stock, with an exchange offer pending for its shares. Facts rely on reportage of actions by American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Bell Telephone Companies
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company
New German Chancellor Appointed Amid Public Ceremony
Prince von Buelow leaves office as Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg takes over the chancellorship. Detbrueck becomes interior minister and vice chancellor while Sydow moves to commerce. Wermut becomes treasury secretary, with the emperor public about the changes for three hours in Berlin.
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Prince von Buelow
German Empire
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Herr Detbrueck
Interior
Herr Sydow
Imperial Treasury
Department of Commerce
Herr Wermuth
Treasury
Berlin
Wiseman Burned by Attackers at Laporte Facility
In Laporte Indiana August Wiseman a Chicago New York electric line watchman was beaten by two white men and a Negro. His clothing caught fire inside a steam shovel donkey engine firebox and he pulled the whistle cord to escape. Workmen nearby dragged him out severely burned. He said the attackers demanded whisky or money before striking him.
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Wiseman
Laporte
Ind
Suffragettes in Holloway Face 24 Hour Confinement
English suffragettes in Holloway jail resist prison rules and refuse to work. The governor orders them brought before Walting magistrates on charges of defying rules and breaking cell windows. Meanwhile a Chicago jury awards Eddie Wisinski 2000 dollars against saloon owner Zomartek after a boy dies following a drinking challenge. A mine near Matewan allows workers to attend a trial, and Theodore Roosevelt hunts a three ton hippopotamus on lake Nalvesha Afriog.
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Holloway
London
Boy
Chicago
Eddie Wisinski
Frank Zomartek
West Hammond
Charles Wiasinski
Wialiek
Hippo
Teddy
Theodore Roosevelt
Lake Nalvesha
Afriog
Bng
Prominent Virginian Bead John Aged Soldier Paralyzed
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a prominent Virginian named John aged and associated with Nortel BY yer soldinr, dealing with paralysis after a stroke. The text is garbled, but outlines a soldier’s failing health and an identity linked to Nortall, Van tallowing, and related entities.
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John Ie
Tailor-made suits cut in spring summer fashions
Spring and summer suits heavily discounted with price cuts across multiple ranges. Men's suits new prices drop from $40–$50 to $25–$35 and lower tiers from $12.50–$18 down to $10–$12.50. Women’s tailoring offered with minor adjustments. Oxfords reduced to $1.50–$2.50 and shoes 1/4 to 1/3 off. Young men's novelty suits advertised at discounted values.
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Pressed Steel Car Company
Polly W. Shippart
Newburg
Warwick County
Weston
Edward P. Weston
Arthur Fiske
San Prancisco
Morgan
Scranton
New York, Susqueanna and Western Railroad
William Parry
Ireman
William Brown
Fatesville
Lonely Island
Emperor William
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg
Ming
Gow Gage
Trish
Matewan
W. Va
Jno. Kelly Shoes and
Oxfords
W. R. Loughry & Company
Alex. Hobusch
Church Street
Indiana
Pennsylvania Railroad
Atlantic ‘City
Cape May
Go City
Asbury Park
Long Branch
West
Elberon
Deal’ Beach
Allenhurst
Ocean Grove
Bradley Beach
Dicketi
Cara
Pee Oon
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Dlecharge
Dicket
Haratop
Oye
Tr, Wood
Gro
W. Boyd
Indiana Hardware Co. Ltd
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