Miners Crisis Near Canonsburg as Injunctions Rise
Pittsburg August 12 sweeping injunctions mark the coal miners strike in the Pittsburg district. Marches and assemblages disrupt output of New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company while sheriffs curb actions. Judges Caltier and Stowes set hearings for Monday as miners insist on peace and right to assemble seeking relief from wage starvation.
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Pittsburgr
Pittsburg
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company
Caltier and
Stoweslaw
capluses
De Armite
Canonsburg
Melivain
Dolan
New York and Clevland Gas Coal company
Pident Dolan
beneuty
M@ushed
Cameron Miller
Plum Creek
Indiana Battleship Docks at Halifax in Drydock
Halifax August 12 the United States battleship Indiana has been placed in drydock after a dawn docking. Crowds witnessed the operation as hawsers and block and tackle guided the ship in. Two hundred crew plus 109 dock workers assisted in shoring while sailors stood guard. one man briefly went overboard but was rescued. The vessel will remain docked through Sunday and depart next Tuesday.
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Halifax
United States
Bowles
drydock company
National League Baseball Scores and Standings
National League scores from New York Washington Philadelphia and Cleveland matchups with team hits and errors listed. Standings show Pittsburgh Cleveland Chicago Boston Cincinnati Baltimore New York and others with win loss records and percentages.
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New York
W.Yorko
Bogor
nyYork
Boston
Nev
Washington
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Louisville
Toursville
Chicago
Cleveland
B.C
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Philadelpha
Brockiyn
GONDENSED DISPATCHES OF VARYING NEWS EVENTS
Charles Pradford of Alabama is hanged in Columbia after murder conviction. General Stewart L Woodford departs London for Paris en route to Madrid with staff. Wilson Benjamin named surveyor of customs at New York. Blatchford resigns. Spanish government may grant Canovas widow duchess title and grandee pension. Fall River councilors jailed over schoolhouse bribery conspiracy. Indiana convict confesses two burglars killed Rev Hinshaw’s wife. Hinshaw serving life for murder. Chicago Aug 3 reports a new traffic alliance linking Great Western with Kansas City Pittsburgh and Gulf. potential wider North Southern ties. not finalized yet.
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Charles Pradford
Alabama
arensed
Columbia
Stewart L. Woodford
United States
Spain
London
Paris
Madrid
Wilson Benjamin
New York
Blatchford
Canovas
New Traffic Alliance
Chicago
Aus
gulf of Mexico
Great Western
Kansas City
Pittsburg
Gulf
Great Northern
Man Shoots Himself in Oswego Home
Oswego Aug 13 James Ferguson 56 committed death by own action by blowing out his brains. He had become totally blind six years earlier ending his prosperous grocery business. His wife Mae had been nearby with a neighbor in the yard when he acted. A note deploring his condition was left.
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Oswego
James Ferguson
Mae
Assemblyman Renominated at Republican Convention
Oswego Aug 12 Assemblyman Taylor has been renominated by the Republican convention amid party support and expectations of continued legislative work.
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e Arsemblyman
Osweno
Arsemblyman Taylor
mera
Long Murder Case Ties Mount Vernon Woman to Crime Scene
Mount Vernon Aug 12 Detectives in the Greenwich Long murder case say they traced suspects to this city. Jennie Weisman 24 runs a boarding house and is said to have stepped from a train with a companion near the Bellehaven murder scene. A reward had been posted, and she denies involvement though an accuser identifies her.
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Mount Vernon
Edward Long
Greenwich
ciy
Jennie Weismann
Stamford
Long
Bellehaven
Fessenden
Aoman
Jennie Welaman
Miss Weisman
Foley
Lent
Negroes Try to Beat a Railroad in Baltimore
Baltimore, Aug. 14. Sixty-five Negroes were arrested, fined ten dollars each, and jailed for attempting to ride Western Maryland trains without paying fares. Dozens, including women, boarded excursion trains after leaving city limits, refused tickets, and were loaded into a box car and brought back for arraignment.
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Baltimore
Western Maryland railroad
Accident to Senator Hanna's Yacht Comanche goes aground
Jack Fish Ontario reports Senator M A Hanna and party aboard the yacht Comanche ran aground in Nepigon straits and lay on rocks for 16 hours while guests slept. Tugs freed the vessel with only a slight leak, the accident blamed on the pilot steering out of the channel.
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Senator Hanna
Jack Fish
M.A. Hanna
Nepigon straits
Murder charge arraigns Delucta after card game dispute
Giuseppe Delucta was arraigned in the municipal court on a murder charge for the Aug. 5 stabbing and shooting of Em peratore Damiano after a quarrel during a card game. Damiano died Aug. 3 after being wounded in the abdomen and hospital treatment. The defendant pleaded not guilty and was held for the grand jury. In Rome, Aug. 13, the Canadian premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier met with Pope Leo XIII for about an hour to discuss Canada’s affairs including Manitoba schools.
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Boston
Giuseppe Delucta
ecourt
Emperatore
Damiano
Delucca
Rome
Sir Wilfred Laurier
Lae Laurier
Canada
Manitoba
The Welland Canal Break Repair Expected Tonight
Port Dalhousie Ont August 13 Marine men expect the break in the Welland canal to be repaired by tonight and locking through to resume tomorrow morning. A large number of vessels wait at both ends to lock through.
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Welland Canal
Port Dalhousie
Ont
Blanchard Estate Heir Fight Ended By Surrogate Decision
New York August 13 William A Hoes public administrator won his long contest to protect the Blanchard gambling estate for rightful heirs. Surrogate Arnold ruled Mrs Belkeiser not Blanchard widow and letters of administration revoked. Likely final distribution favors Thomas Leggett the ragseller.
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New York
William A. Hoes
William Lewis Blanchard
Thomas Leggett
Boston
Portland
Colonel Blanchard
South Braintree
Mass
Big Bill Leggent
Fanny Belkeiser
West Fortyfirst street
Siandhara
Hoes
ated
Arnold
Beikeiser
ragseller
Ransom
Belkeiser
Broadway Savings bank
Blanchard
George A. Smythe
FRoston
Mary Gill
Smythe
Berkeiser
West Sixty-fifth street
Liberty street
Reeson
Monmouth
Beliweiser
clair
Sudden Death of a Bicyclist in Mahanoy City Race
An 18 year old bicyclist Clarence Anstank died after collapsing two thirds of a lap into a training spin at the Mahanoy Athletic Association track. Death caused by heart failure and overexertion during a practice run for Saturday races. An unrelated note reports Edward Smith killed when a cannon on the Enquirer yacht discharged while preventing it from going overboard.
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Mahanoy City
Mahanoy Athletic Association
yesterda
Clarence Anstack
Buffalo
siesra
Enquirer
Edward Smith
Smith
Archbishop Keane and Mission to Attend US Archbishops Meeting
Archbishop Keane formerly rector of the Catholic University of America in Washington arrived on the Trave to join the pope’s delegation. He will attend the annual meeting of United States archbishops at the Catholic University in October.
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New York
Keane
Catholic University of America
Washington
Trave
United States
Catholic university
Prince Henrys Adversary Named In Turin Duel Claim
Paris Aug 13 It is understood that the Italian claimant to duel Prince Henri of Orleans is Count Victor Emmanuel of Savoy Turin The report from Popolo Romano July 19 was denied by The Figaro Rome special correspondent The Count is son of the late Duke of Aosta and brother in law to Princess Helens through the Duke of Aosta marriage in 1845
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Turin
Victor Emmanuel
Savoy-Aests
Paris
Henri of
Orleans
house of Savoy-Acata
Popolo Romano
Henri
Pini
nnr
Duke of
Aosta
Prince Henri
Helens
Dramatic Yorkville Senate Campaign Scene Unfolds
In Yorkville South Carolina on August 12 Senator McLaurin engagement with Populist doubt leads Magie la to offer withdrawal. Magiela says proof shows McLaurin blocked Populist growth, prompting a withdrawal pledge. McLaurin faints after a heated exchange with Governor Evans then hospital care follows.
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Mayfield
Hace
Yorkville
S. C
Magiéla
McLaurin
South Carolina
United States senate
Senator McLaurin
Evans
Patriotism in Schools Forces Committee Report in New York
Grand Army Commander Shaw forms a special committee of the Grand Army of the Republic in the New York department to study and report on best methods for teaching patriotism and civics in public schools. The panel includes Saxton, Van derveer, Baker, Goulden, Adams, Morey, Pickard, Stowits, Tibbetts, Scott, Pierce, and Rubight, with a conference at Elliott Square in Buffalo scheduled for August 26 at 10 am.
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Grand Army
St. Albany
Shaw
Spears
Grand Army of the Republic
department of New York
Charles T. Saxton
Clyde
Albert Vanderveer
Albany
Charles S. Baker
Rochester
Joseph—aAT Goulden
New York
ary H. Adams
William C. Morey
A. Pickard
Jamestown
George H. Stowits
Buffalo
Noah Tibbetts
Brooklyn
W. H. Scott
Syracuse
Charles A. Pierce
Utica
C. A. Rubight
Corning
Eliott square
Buffais
Big Gas Deal In New York And Kansas City Bond Issue
In New York on August 1 it is announced that the Tutt ed Gag Improvement company of Philadelphia has sold to J and W Seligman & Co the issue of Kansas City Gas company's first mortgage five per cent gold bonds due in 1922. Total issue five million dollars with three million seven hundred fifty thousand outstanding. Remaining bonds reserved for improvements to be issued at par for ninety percent of such improvements. Kansas City Gas is reported earning over twice the fixed charges. United Gas Improvement stock is selling at eighty dollars per share par three hundred fifty. Hotel Centrored by Fire in Baden canton of Aargau near Limmat reports the Neue Kuranstalt Baden Grand hotel nearly destroyed, Panties among guests and two lives lost.
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New York
Well street
Tutted Gag Improvement company
Philadelphia
J. and W. Seligman & Co
Kansas City Gas company
United Gas Improvement company
gurich
Baden
Aargau
Limmat
American Claims Allowed In Cuba
La Lucha the Cuban government organ says Madrid has ordered all tobacco claims by American manufacturers to be allowed and tobacco can be removed. Chiang Gen Yoon departs New York with Special Ambassador John W Foster for Sackets Harbor to host him until Monday before proceeding to China.
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Cuba
Tampa
Fla
La Lucha
Madrid
Chiang Gen Yoon
New York
Chang Gen Hoon
John W. Foster
Sackets Harbor
Mr. Foster
china
Fleeting Her Cargo The Justine Landon Stranded
Aug 12 report says the steamer Justine Landon from Philadelphia bound for Sigg, after running aground off Silgo Bay, has lightered 150 tons of cargo and moved, with position improved though she still does not float. Captain Twerdle is in command.
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Justine Landon
Justin
Twerdle
Philadelphia
Sigg
Wheaton rack
Silgo bay
Norwegian Bark Eline Ashore Near Elsinore
Norwegian bark Eline under Captain Monck from New York July 4 bound for Hudikevall ran ashore near Elsinore Denmark with assistance provided alongside.
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London
Eline
Monck
New York
Hudikevall
Elsinore
Denmark
Buffalo Breakwater Halt Looms Over Tariff Dispute
The Buffalo breakwater project faces a near halt as treasury tariff rulings on imported stone threaten to impose duties. The War Department contracted Hughes Bros. & Bangs to build the works using Canadian stone, but Buffalo collectors now demand duties, risking damages for demurrage and heavy government losses if funds cannot be found. General Wilson has urged treasury action and proposed remedies.
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Washington
treasury department
Buffalo
war department
Hughes Bros. & Bangs
treasury
Wilson
Two Teens In Ohios Montpelier Tragedy Overturned Plans
In Montpelier Ohio on August 13 Maud Young sixteen and Jennie Meyers nineteen visited Mrs Jane Leek. A shot rang out in a side room Maud exclaimed I have killed Jennie Jennie died from a head wound Maud then shot herself and died within an hour. The girls were close friends planning to attend a party together that evening.
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Mer
Montpelier
Maud Young
Jennie Meyers
Jane Leek
Maud
Jennie
Alleged ex Priest Arrested in New York
Adolph B Martins claimed to be a German ex priest was jailed at Yorkville police court. He had worked as a collector for John Hancock Wife Insurance at 34 Union Square. Superintendent Peter H Keaster accuses him of not turning in all money received for politics. He was held for examination. The alleged peculation does not amount to 920.
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New York
Adolph
Marting
Yorkville
John Hancock Wife Insurance company
triion square
Peter H. Keaster
Martins
Blartins
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Pire
Davis
law department
Quackenbush
NATIONAL LEAGUE
GONDENSED DISPATCHES
Elmira N.L
Bridget Mulien
Archie Raster
Furape
Artisal
Archbishop Keane
Santiago Barraeta
state department
Ramon Hidalgo
Havana
Cienfuegos
Cabanas
la Isla de Cuba
General Weyler
Barroeta
Dano Labra
Hidalgo
Pam Hwang Soh
privy council of Korea
Korea
Seh
Chim Pom Yen
Eun Wha
Mr. Soh
Arion Society
Yellowstone park
West Shore
Niagara Falls
Milwaukee
park
St. Paul
Minneapolis
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