Various American Industrial and Labor News Items
Indemnity payment of 75000 to heirs of sailors from the Valparaiso incident satisfies the United States. Fall River mills report 33 percent wage hikes for 25,000 workers and a two hour weekly reduction. Fall River remains the top cotton factory city. A Hasmeyer building strike in New York City is linked to non union iron workers. A major fire at the Atlantic Hotel bakery in Long Branch destroys the building with 300 guests escaping. Sundry Civil Appropriations bill bars contracting with agencies employing private detectives, now sent to conference. Ohio Republicans nominate L W Hull for Congress. Prisoners killed in Sacaterras, Mexico, and soldiers attacked by fever. Grain farm accident near Thomas Gomez injures several. Chicago trades leaders face libel charges in London via Pinkerton. Carnegie donates funds to Hardie election effort. J Stone of Nevada seeks Governor. Shonecase supports Joliet and Mil installation. Illinois Steel Company signs for Shone Case mill. Labour and steel industry notes include Joliet, Chicago, Milwaukee references. A track accident and a cave-in near Augusta, GA kill several. Bendoff slate quarry incident and a fatal horse injury near Warren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ak Sider
Wokerton Detective Agency
Wexiion
District of Columbia
Ohio Ienenieet
Tifle
L. W. Hull
Upper San 7
Congress
Sacateras
Mexico
Thomas Gomez
Joseph Sanders
Memon
Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly
W. A. Pinkerton
Isbor
London
Andrew Carnegie
J. K. Hardie
Southiam
J. Stone
Nevada
Pomier
Fefferson City
Zallinois Steel Company
Mil
Lllinois Steel Company
Esteel Company
Joliet
Chicago
Milys
Ef Association
Village
Augusta
Bendoff
Auarry
County
Sol
Tightning
Ricbi
Dan Hmmett
Warren
Follweiler
Bauer
Geo. C. Donaldson
Kennedy
J. Aregocd
Nomination of George Shiras Jr to Supreme Court Bench
George Shiras Jr was nominated by President Harrison for Associate Justice of the U S Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Bradley's death. The outline details his birth in Pittsburgh January 26, 1832, family ties to Blaine, education at Ohio University and Yale Law School, and a long, productive legal career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Shiras, Jr
Harrison
Supreme Bench of the
United States
Justice Bradley
Senate
Shiras
England
New Jersey
George Shiras II
Pittsburg
George and
Elizabeth Blaine Shiras
Blaine
Ohio University
Yale Law School
Yale College
Pennsylvania
John L. Mitchell
Gov Pattison in Homestead Visit Amid Strikes
Gov Pattison arrived in Homestead Pennsylvania with staff riding in from Harrisburg. Cavalry guard saluted, salute fired, and breakfast at Carnegie hotel followed inspection of troops. No talks with strikers. missing chairman Hugh O Donnell remains unfound as warrants issued for alleged murder and treason. First Brigade returns to Philadelphia. rest remain on duty as stalemate continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov Pattison
Homestead
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Brinton
Port Perry
Muyhall
Jones
Rheridan
Snowden
Battery B
Carnegie Hotel
Gobin
Carnegie Steel Company
Alderman McMastern
Pittsburg
H. C. Frick
Lovejoy
Potter
Dove
Corey
Armor Plate Department
William and
Robert Pinkerton
Carnegie
Mt. Gretna
Mt Gretna
Philadelphia
Joseph Weber
W. J. Morris
M.J. Price
McMasters
John McLuckie
Twentyninth Street
Mornings' murder charge over Homestead Pinkerton clash
F T F Lovejoy filed two informations in Pittsburg Allegheny PA against Hugh O Donnell John McLuckie Sylvester Critchlow Anthony Flaherty Samuel Burkett James Flannagen and Hugh Ross for the murder of T J Connors a Pinkerton watchman and Silas Waine during the July 6 1892 battle between Pinkertons and Homestead workers The informations cite malice aforethought riotous conduct and deadly weapons and seek warrants for arrest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania versus the named defendants
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.T. F. Lovejoy
Carpepie Steel Company
Pittsburg
Hugh O'Donnell
John McLuckie
Sylvester Critchlow
Anthony Flaherty
Samuel Burkett
James Flannegen
Hugh Ross
T. J. Connors
Pinkerton
Silas Waine
Pinkertons
Homestead
Hugh O'Donnel
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Samuel Barkett
James Flannagen
Reed of Pennsylvania
County of Albany
J. W. McMasters
F. T. F. Lovejoy
Ugh O'Donnell
F. T. F. Lovestoy
James V. McMasters
Capital Labor and industrial unrest across the US
Reports from Homestead and Fall River describe seizures and resolutions as locked out workers return rifles to authorities while union mills sign scales. In Coeur d Alene federal troops restore order. Kensington and West Superior mill actions discharge workers and refuse to recognize unions. immigrant and homicide data, rail and political notices fill Washington briefs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homestead
Pinkerton
Cholera spread in Russian provinces and British election gains
Cholera reports show 4935 new cases and 139 deaths in Russian provinces over two days, with Baku worst at 62 deaths. All private Caucasus schools to close. The Christian Herald ship Leo arrived in St. Petersburg. Mayor gifts Captain Davies a silver trumpet. Rev Dr Talmage spoke at welcomes. Leo arrival celebrated in the capital. In Britain, 668 MPs elected with Liberals 266, Conservatives 268, Liberal Unionists 44, Nationalists 65, Parnellites 9. Gladstone gains 80 seats, overall Liberal majority feared at 45. A Dublin regatta accident capsized a boat. four drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baku
Caucasus
Christian Herald
Leo
St. Petersburg
Davies
Talmage
House of Commons
Parnellites
Gladstone
Great Britain
Weather Crop Bulletin Reports Mixed Conditions Across States
The week was cooler than usual across agricultural districts with rainfall near or above average nationwide. Reports from Pennsylvania show haying completed in southern counties, corn tasseling, potatoes and tobacco doing well, but wheat oats damaged by rains. Kentucky notes storms damaging corn and grain in shock but tobacco and corn outlook favorable. Indiana, Illinois, and other states report varied results from harvest progress to crops improving, with oats, hay, and tobacco generally doing well and corn and potatoes needing favorable conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Hickman
Kentucky
Michican
Iowa
Bloody labor riot near Jamasi Hungary shocks village
In Jamasi Hungary 180 reapers demanded higher wages and attacked arriving constables with scythes. Volunteers fired after mob violence, leaving 12 dead and 30 wounded. Ten strikers were arrested amid the chaos and siege on the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamasi
Hungary
No Fair on Sunday in Congress Opposition
The article reports that Congress opposed a World’s Fair, with advocates failing to secure a $5,000,000 appropriation and a decision to close the Fair on Sundays. The House debated the measure, and the issue was referred to a conference to resolve the conflict between supporters and opponents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
Ark
H. Clay Snodgrass
Congress
Tennessee
Wasuinator
United States
House
Island Sangier Volcano Described as Raging Fire
Reports from Timor claim Sangier island in the Philippine group was engulfed by a volcanic eruption with almost the entire population of about 1,200 killed or swept to sea. Native witnesses described lava flows, burning buildings, and wreckage along the coast, though officials caution exaggeration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sussex
Timor
Sangier
Tatantz Islands
Se Iangen
Cholera Deaths Hit Several Russian Cities
July 17 official Russian cholera figures show Astrakhan 268 new cases and 189 deaths, Saratov 109 new cases and 78 deaths, Samara 56 cases and 45 deaths, Kazan 2 cases with 1 death, plus July 16 Rostov 124 cases and 70 deaths. A Baku dispatch reports 80,000 of 100,000 inhabitants fled, spreading infection empire wide. Public panic, looting, and troop dispersals follow. Grain stocks listed by New York exchange show declines in wheat, corn, and rye with minor rises in oats.
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Astrakhan
Saratoff
Samara
Kegan
Tzaritzin
Rostoff
Azoff
Voronegh
Voronesh
Baku
New York Produce Exchange
Pittsborg
Aes
Pa & Ohio
Elgin Creamery
Fancy Creamery
New York
Ohio
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
York
East Liberty
Pittsburg
Philadelphia Hogs
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Indiana Progress
Chili
Valparaiso
Minle
Fall River
Mass
Flebor
Havemeyer
New York City
Pan-Union Iron
Atlan‘dic
Long Branch
Wirndore
Gilace
Pe Haan
A Square Garden
Ponnell
Fai
Beme
Aaron
Skeere
Innis EK
McComas
Maryland
Carter
Republican National Com
Mit BicComas
Jts
York City
Fort Dal- Sound
Fiforis Pe Saade
Caliente
TOR Strrene Court
Geo. Shiras, JR
U & Sketch
Supreme Court of the
Washington
States
Melville W. Fuller
Cleveland
Stephen J. Field
San Francisco
California
John M. Harlan
Louisville
Horace Gray
Boston
Massachusetts
Samuel Blatchford
Lucius Q. C. Lamar
Mississippi
David J. Brewer
Topeka
Kansas
Henry R. Brown
Detroit
Michigan
Fuller
Lamar
Field
Third Judicial Circuit
Delaware
Marcus W. Acheson
Pittsburgh
Leonard E. Wales
E. T. Greene
William Butler
Joseph Buffington
Pattison
Monongahela
Bome
CECP
RB. G. Dan & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Baltimore
Fissburgs
Census Office
Bulletin
South
Abong
Susplicea Tees Resome
Cen
Covington
Schofield
Washington, D. C
Coeur D'Alene
Idaho
Iron and Steel Mills
Kensington
Phila
Carnegie Mills
Washington News
Byrean
Treasury Department Bureau of Statistics
Innicration Fieies
Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
Canada
Adolph Blazer
Lake Erie
Manokin
Princess Anne
Sons of Christ
Ball
Winsfield
Bavaria
George W. Rutter
Homeopathic Hospital
Edward Speer
West Penn Hospital
People’s Party of
Minnesota
Ignatus Donnelly
Kittle Helvorson
H. B. Martin
P.M. Ringdal
National Republican Committee
Thomas Henry Carter
Montana
Michael H. de Young
Cornelius N. Bliss
James F. Burke
J. §. Clarkson
Garret A. Hobart
Joseph H. Manley
Maine
Samuel Fessenden
Connecticut
Henry C. Payne
Wisconsin
Richard ©. Kerens
Missouri
William O. Bradley
William A. Sutherland
John R. Tanner
Ilinois
W. J. Campbell
Iinois
David Lester
Frank Calhoun
Calhoun
Memphis
Tenn
Alice Mitchell
Freda Ward
Jo Ward
James McCloskey
Wilmington
Del
Mable Claringbould
Morrilton
Powderly
Leon XIII
Italy
Spain
America
B. B. Dovenor
Wheeling
W. Va
David Yeoman
State Farmers’ Alliance
People's Party of the
Indiana
Winamac
The
Waters Stock Farm
Pabst
Milwaukee
Wis
Faustino
Sidney
Crown Point
John Gray
Jim Gray
Fustus Fame
Ben Diver
Witary
New York Bureau of Vital Statistics
Breckenridge
Washington, D.C
Stayner
Ont
Cameron
Sanderson
Dublin
Weather Crop Bulletin
Staten
Agricultural Department
Philippine Green
Russia
Castoria
With Your
House of Jacksons
Jacksons
Liberty St
ATLA
M. C. Watson
Frank Keener
Atson & Keener
Attorneys-Aatlaw
Harry White
T. Stuchul
A. W. ‘Taylor
Tan
Bech & Elkin
D. & Porta
W. Hood
Iniliana
Philadelauiesereet
Hetrick
Pierce
Attiornes-At-Law
Thevours House
Vanse
Weahington
Elewhere
Ian Bomers M. Jack
David Blair Taylor
Yes & Taylor
Soram
Hotels
Koster
Indiana, Pa
A. K. Seaen
Progrittor
Clawsos House
W. H. Clawson
Udians Pa
Prana
J. W. Clements
BANKS
Indiana Comy Deposit Bank
Capital
Wally
Dot Ganerak Banking
Dahea
J. M. Watt, Canhbler
Paul
I Philad
Sith Grice
Sarna Alphia Asd
All Draggiste
LORD
Sli Real
Wood
Woop
Funn
Hartman
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