Amalgamated strike actions threaten U S Steel plans
The Amalgamated association rallies in Pittsburgh area as a major meeting in Newcastle is announced to hear Samuel Gompers and Patrick Dolan. Officials say the steel trust will steadily restart mills with nonunion plants while probing worker sentiment and aiming to win back skilled labor in Vandergrift, Leechburg, Apollo and Scottdale.
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Mase
Ee Shatter
Newcastle
Waass
Phoenix Park
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Rienpeukeren Ben Ssmitiel Gompers
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Amalgamated Association
Patrick Dolan
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers ‘of America
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Lg Steel
Clark
Freigher Auido
United States Steel Corporation
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Trust
Sheet Company
Vandergriff
Leechberg
Apollo
Scottdale
Tin Plate Company
McKeesport
Shaffer
Youngstown
Ohio
National Steel Company
Milwaukee
Siesbad Haere Cae Mipertas
Dinota
Steel plant may shut as 1500 faced with strike
Report states 1500 workers at the Bay View plant of Illinois Steel Company may strike over a union issue. Fifteen hundred employees, including 300 Amalgamated members, are warned the plant could close when the strike time arrives.
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Minu
Bayview
Clinois Steel Compary
Amalgamated Association
Funeral of Dow agen Empress Frederick Set for Aug 13
Berlin reports the funeral will be held Tuesday August 13 with interment at the Frigden's church mausoleum near Potsdam. Emperor William orders six weeks mourning for the army and specifies exact emblems and attire for court ladies and gentlemen through November 8. Some papers object to the mourning orders.
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Frankfurter Zeitung
William
Berlin
Dowagen
Frederick
Frigden’s Kirche
Potsdam
Pennington Burned at Stake by Alabama Mob
Aug 8 Birmingham reports John Wesley Pennington, a Black man, was burned at the stake near Enterprise Coffee County after a confessed brutal assault on Mrs. J. C. Davis. A mob of about 600 whites and blacks tied him to a stake, ignited brush and oil, and the body was consumed leaving only ashes as the crowd dispersed.
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Coffee County
Pennington
Davia
Birmingham
Ala
John Wesley Pennington
Enterprise
J. C. Davis
Coffen County
Firm Henrietta Holds Her Ground, Meekton Says
In a clipped exchange, Mr. Meekton praises Henrietta for her firm stance once she forms an opinion. He notes she cannot be argued out of it, predicting she will not change her mind when pressed in debate or dispute.
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Mr. Meekton
Rome
Waphi Ington
Thousands Die as Yangtse Floods Ravage China
Victoria B C August 8 The Yangtse floods have caused immense loss of life with estimates over 40 000 dead. Anking and Kiu Kiang are flooded with water reaching two feet in foreign areas. Swu Hue Chong Teh and Wu Chang suffer heavy inundation and boatmen report tens of thousands dead. The embankment fearfully endangered by Chong Cheh Tung near Wu Chang could drown hundreds of thousands.
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Anking
Kiu Kiang
Swu Hue
Chong Teh
Chong Cheh Tung
Wu Chang
Two Men Arrested in Murder of 17-Year-Old May Yost
John Cline and Clayton Rodgers were arrested in Wheeling for abducting and murdering May Yost after taking her at gunpoint from her sweetheart Walter Hammond. The father swore out the warrant alleging rape and murder and the body has not been found in the Ohio River. Hammond identifies the suspects.
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Wheeling
W. Va
John Cline
Clayton Rodgers
May Yost
Ohio
Walter Hammond
Inducements Offered Hungary for Textile and Machinery Firms
Government subsidies will back textile goods machinery silk and other enterprises in Hungary including lead zinc and tin production by electricity. Washington reports Aug 8 indicate Dawson Alaska sees ice at two cents a pound and a rent outlook improving. San Francisco notes a police arrest connected to the Selby smelter robbery case with $280,000 in gold bullion stolen. German troops in Tientsin face high fever mortality.
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Auglo- Hungary
de Servia
Roumaowia
State Department
Onsal Listoe
Rotterdam
Hungary
McCook
Dawson City
Alaska
Dawson
San Francisco
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Gossiping Duel Scene Reveals Blame and Lost Love
A terse courtroom exchange centers on Hoodoood and Mrs. Crawford as they clash over fault in a relationship. Crawford laments losing a once in a lifetime chance, calling it luck against him. The judge remarks on the improbable odds of happiness slipping away.
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Crawford
Mamms
Stong
Obeying Orders in a Chicago Daily News Cartoon
Mrs Naggs asks if her husband is in the office and the office boy replies that he is not and cannot say when he will be in. The boy explains the husband told him not to reveal his hours.
Leave demanded of Frazer and temperance foes in Fort Scott
A mass meeting in Fort Scott Kansas drew about 2 500 attendees on August 8. It adopted bitter resolutions demanding that Rev Frazer and other proponents of enforcing the prohibitory law leave the city. The chair was to appoint a 50 member committee to carry out the resolutions.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Frazer
State Tamperance Union
Fusion Talks and Political Promises Across States
In Lincoln fusion talks nearly unite Democratic Populist and Republican state committees for September 17 conventions. In Bristol the Constitution movement shows progress. A New Jersey tragedy and a Brooklyn trolley crash color a day of news.
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Lincoln
W J Bryan
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