United Mine Workers Convention Sees Quiet Leaders Race
The United Mine Workers convention closes with no opposition for President Penna or Secretary-Treasurer Pearce. McBryde reports pre-1890 coal trade strength fading, debt about $3,000, and efforts to secure better prices in Ohio Indiana and Iima. Pittsburg agreement sets scale for coming year, December meeting favored.
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United Mine Workers’ Convention
P. H. Penna
Indiana
W.C. Pearce
Ohio
Patrick McBryde
Pittsburg
Penna
McKinley
Committee On
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Seaboard
West Virginia
Chicago
McBryde
Iima
Glass plants to close nationwide for months
Pittsburg Window Glass and Western Window Glass associations vote to shut down all United States factories from May 29 to October due to a glut in the glass market. About 1,623 pots across 48 Western and 16 Pittsburg plants would halt operations, with 2,200 workers laid off at one Pittsburg facility. The duration is uncertain, but reopening is not expected before October.
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Pittsburg Window Glass Association
Western Window Glass Association
United States
Pittsburg
H. Sellers McKee
Western Association
Pittsburg Association
Seizure of American Schooner Off Manzanillo Point
Copies of a protest by Captain John Hendricks of the American schooner Geo. W Whitford show the Cordova gunboat seized the vessel off Manzanillo Point on March 31. Hendricks says the ship complied with port rules but faced a threat to sink with the U S flag flying unless she returned to Golon in 15 minutes.
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United States
New York
J. L. Pearcey
Colon
John Hendricks
Geo. W Whitford
Cordova
Manzanillo Point
State Department
Hendricks
Golon
Leopold Schrepp
Riot in Colombia and Panama sparks deadly canal riot
A riot among canal laborers in La Boca, Colombia Panama leaves one man and one woman dead and many wounded. Troops are called to quell the unrest. Separately in Huatixoron West Virginia three Sheridan Moore children are burned in a barn near their home, believed to be playing with matches.
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Panama
la Boca
Canal
Huatixoron
W. Va
Sheridan Moore
B and O in fair shape for traffic recovery
New York April 15 report says the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pittsburg and Western show a healthier outlook. Repair shops are fulltime, rolling stock overhauled, and lines in the Cumberland Pittsburg Wheeling triangle appear able to pay. Traffic, mainly coal coke and lumber, could expand as competing lines honor traffic agreements.
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Wheeling
Pittsburg
Cumberland
New York
Stephen Sattle
Baltimore and Ohio
Pittsburg and Western
Cumberland-Pittsburg- Wheeling
President's brother deposed by St. Lawrence presbytery
In Watertown New York on April 15 the presbytery of St. Lawrence dissolved the pastoral relation with Rev William WN Cleveland brother of President Cleveland. Cleveland protested but the vote was unanimous after a year of attempts at reconciliation. A later Los Angeles item notes Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit officers elected with George W Lynch Walter Barnes and G H Becker and Boston set as next meeting site.
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Watertown
N. Y
Presbytery of
the St. Lawrence
William WN. Cleveland
Chaumont
Cleveland
Presbytery
Los Anxerees
Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association
George W. Lynch
Florence
San Diego
Walter Barnes
Chicago
G. H. Becker
Boston
Richard Richards
Brooklyn
Moscow
Magsowsk
Cape Colony
Natal
Karl Mathias
Toledo
George Pierce
Bridgeton
N. J
New York
Yonkers City
Manhattan Savings Bank
Jimmy Hope
Warrant Issued for Hart Over Filibustering Charges
A United States district attorney office issues warrants for John D. H. Hart owner of the steamer Bermuda and ship officers on filibustering charges. Dr. Congosta Spanish consul prosecutes. Dornan England notes date April 15.
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Prmladesiphia
United States District Attorney's Office
John D. H. Hart
Bermuda
Dr. Congosta
Spain's Usual Trick About Cuba Autonomy Contested
The April 15 dispatches report no State Department confirmation of a Madrid to London Pall Mall Gazette communique claiming President Cleveland offered a Cuban autonomy scheme. Spanish premier Canovas del Castillo is ill, and Madrid hopes to avoid quarrel with the United States while pursuing a mutual path on Cuba. The Cuba issue remains politically charged in Spain and among observers. Also, the Bureau of Statistics notes March exports at 73.99 million dollars and imports at 66.36 million, with gold and silver movements detailed, and a House committee advances a monument plan to acquire Maumee Valley battlefields for memorials.
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State Department
Cleveland
Senor Castillo
Madrid
London
Pall Mall
Senor Canovas del Castillo
Cuba
Wastixaton
Bureau of Statistics
Wasutyetton
House Committee On Military Affairs
Maumee
Put-In-Bay
Lake Erie
Secretary of War
Silver Senators Press Bond Inquiry Amid Senate Debate
Washington April 15 A lively senate colloquy showed silver and Populist members will not let the inquiry into recent bond issues lapse. Peffer Wolcott and Stewart urged the resolution remain active, to come after the Dupont case speeches as Chandler and Gray finish. Squire stressed urgent needs for coast defenses and fortified harbors. Fortification bill passes House totaling 11 384 613 dollars. Folger reassigned as inspector of the Eleventh lighthouse district with Detroit HQ. Treasury reports loss of 1000 in gold and 5000 in bars leaving the gold reserve at 126 715.01.
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Potter
Washington
Senate
Peffer
Wolcott
Colo
Stewart
Nev
Folger
W. M. Folger
Yorktown
Eleventh
Detroit
Wasminton
Treasury
State Legislature Enacts Public Institution Inspections
The legislature passes a law requiring six monthly inspections of private and public hospitals detentions reformatories convents and similar institutions by county commissioners with penalties for interference. Other bills cover criminal sentence terms sewers fence rules township incorporation street labor graves markers time standard clocks and sheriff pay. several house and senate measures are noted.
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Columbus
Senate
Lake Erie
Senator Platt Proposes Banning Transmission of Race Results
Washington April 15 Senator Platt introduced a bill to prohibit sending prizefight and race result reports across state lines and to treat such transmission as a misdemeanor with fines or imprisonment. Dannemora April 15 Joseph Alamel was electrocuted in Clinton prison for killing his sweetheart Theresa Kamora. Ecwima April 15 Charles Davis of Binghamton, late Kimura National Bank receiver, collapsed dead from apoplexy.
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Washington
Platt
Dannemora
Joseph Alamel
Clinton
Alamel
Theresa Kamora
Ecwima
Charles Davis
Binghamton
Kimura National Bank
Bradley and McKinley clash over convention chair
Louisville April 15 The Republican state convention will endorse Governor W O Bradley amid a fight for temporary chairmanship led by his ally Judge Morrow of Somerset against A R Burnam. Bradley's group claims a majority of instructed delegates and hopes to win over uninstructed delegates to secure a working majority. Other states hold conventions with McKinley favored or endorsed.
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Bradley
Louisville
Jefferson County
Todd
W. Godfrey Hunter
McKinley
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