Mine Horrors Told as Guards Harass West Virginia Miners
Woman reports brutal treatment of striking families by mine guards in the Paint Creek and surrounding West Virginia coal fields. She describes forced evictions from shacks, women beaten, children cry for their fathers, and guards firing into homes. Witnesses recount arrests of reporters and threats under martial law, with cases of a seventeen year old girl forced to wade a freezing stream and a wife wounded when guards fired on her house.
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Yahe
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Ruarda
W. OR. Fairley
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Claypool
Ponrds
West Virginia State Commission
Palnt Creek
Ungalin
Health certificates for grooms spark reform talk in D.C.
Prominent Washington women and welfare workers debated requiring prospective husbands to obtain a health certificate before marriage. Some urged a medical board linked to the health department, others trusted any reputable physician. Dr Eleanora Wolkmar and Mrs John A Logan led discussions with more conferences planned before Congress recommendations.
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Washington
John Hays Hammond
Health Department
Eleanora Wolkmar
John A. Logan
Mia
Howard Bell
Congress
Fireworks alarm at Niagara Falls funeral wake
At a Niagara Falls Ontario funeral for Alexander Pontinka, candles bought by friends sparked a blaze of rockets. Panic ensued as mourners fled doors and windows after a misinterpreted gesture led to candles lighting rockets near the body. George Norge, a funeral attendee, is mentioned in the disrupted account.
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Ont
Alexander Pontinka
Morse & Son
Rooman
Niagara Falls South
George Thigge
Briggs
Romeo
George Norge
The
Duffy crushed by gun on Battleship New York
In the Brooklyn navy yard Frank Duffy, a contract workman, was crushed when a breech end of a sixteenth gun descended on him while he adjusted machinery. Immobile between the platform and the gun, he realized he was doomed and cried out before laborers stopped the lever. He died instantly from the impact.
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New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
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San Antonio Plans 1815 Centennial Celebration
San Antonio launches plans for its 200th anniversary featuring historic pageants and an international exposition inviting Spain France and Mexico to participate. The autumn 1815 celebration aims to showcase the city’s founding and heritage.
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Une
Spain
France
Mexico
Chamber of Commerce
Submerged Island Near Temyo Identified as Chryasis
Government archaeologists identify an underwater site near Temyo in the Greek gre n i pelago as the slet of Chryasis, submerged at the start of the second century before Christ.
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Athens
Greece
Temyon
Chryasis
Auto wreck endangers Knox near Engino Creek
Atlantic City N J Philander C Knox former secretary of state and his wife faced a perilous crash when a car veered from control after striking a rut near Engino Creek about twenty miles from the city. Mrs Knox was thrown from the vehicle but escaped with bruises and scratches. The incident left Knox and his wife shaken but unharmed beyond minor injuries.
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N. J
Philander C. Knox
Serinus
Meir
Keox
Crass
Engino Creek
Car wreck leaves two injured passengers in city care
The state occupant was not ejected from the vehicle in the crash, which left the car wrecked. Both occupants were brought to this city by a passing automobile and a physician summoned. Nalther required more than light medical attention.
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Nalther
Whistling fish caught in Cleveland lakes
A boy caught a pout in Shaker Park lakes that allegedly whistled in the boat, supported by two young men. The fish was kept in a bucket and may sing again in an aquarium. local experts say pouts have a single note, though stories of moonlit choral gatherings persist from an elderly neighbor.
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Shaker Park
New England
Mr. Hoffner
Laughing Man’s Delirium After Joke Incident
Milwankee Julius Jeswein suffers a long laughing spell that doctors fear may erode his mind for life. He believes himself in magic and humor, and forgets the joke that started the trouble.
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Milwankee
Julius Jeswein
Mother of 17 in 12 Years Wins Divorce
Aurora Mrs Rolo Lincoln declares she bore 17 children in 12 years with four sets of twins and obtains a divorce on grounds of desertion.
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Rolo Lincoln
Wisconsin Circuit Judges to Receive Salary Increase
Wisconsin lawmakers approve raising circuit judges' annual pay from 5000 to 5500 dollars and grant Milwaukee county judges an extra 1000. Debate covers civil service tenure, state department heads fixing salaries, and related bills including cooperative credit societies for farmers and election law tweaks. The session also advances measures on express-rate timing, public utilities stock allowances, and railroad aid amid broader fiscal considerations.
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Wisconsin Leads Guernsey Cattle Breeding in Midwest
A Wisconsin report shows the state’s Guernsey club ranks behind only Pennsylvania and New York in national membership. President Charles L. Hill of the American Guernsey Cattle Club highlights impressive two year old heifer milk yields, while local figures note notable sales and dairy connections. The state health bulletin records 12 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis and 7,989 total deaths for January to March, an incidence rise to 13.27 per 1,000 residents from 12.77 last year.
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National Society
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Pennsylvania
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Charles L. Hi Af -Rasandale
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Helfers
Tey
B. G. Updike
Madison
Lake Milla
Waukesha
EB. H. Drew
Ore-gon
Charles Hill
American Guerneey Club
Island of
Guernsey
Anna L. Hii
Stita Board of Health
Convention Closes With Election in Eau Claire
The eleventh biennial conventing of the Catholic Order of Foresters of Wisconsin ended in Eau Claire with officer elections and resolutions condemning irreligion divorce and socialism and proposing methods to combat these evils. Twenty eight delegates were chosen to attend the international convention.
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Order of Foresters
Wisconsin
Eau Claire
State News In Brief Mayville and Across Wisconsin
Mayville hosts the Northwestern Band association jubilee on June 21 with Byron Sivwig as longtime president. In Green Bay, 17 year old R V Schleibner set a memorized words record at 245 wpm, while Fond du Lac forms a Sons of Veterans chapter. Racine reports over 30 delegates at the United Danish Evangelical churches conference, with notable figures invited to attend a Bragg monument dedication near Rienzo on June 20. In Marinette a six year old killed a younger child with a loaded rifle. Green Bay saw a brakeman die from a railway incident. Madison awards a contract to raze part of the statehouse north wing for 3400 dollars ahead of new construction. Burlington reports a fatal auto crash during a first test drive, with several injured. Neenah notes 130 calls for 24 patients in May. Other items include Burglary at Milwaukee Electric Railway, a deadly accident near Randolph, and Rev Jenkin Llosa Jones planning a summer home project near Milton Junction. La Crosse police tighten discipline on language toward prisoners, and Eau Claire reports a high tension shock incident misfortune that may recover.
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