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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1901
Page
1
San Francisco reports $280000 in gold bars stolen from the Selby smelting works. $130000 recovered, with the remainder hidden near the railroad wharf. Detectives traced suspect Jack Winters and allege inside involvement. Henry Windall cites possible inside complicity.
A man returning from Crockett with his wife says two pistol shots were fired near a railway tunnel. He reports hearing a whistle in the night and that boarders also heard shots and whistles, suggesting a recurring danger around the tunnel area.
A suspected Boer sympathizer caused a blast at the stock landing where the Harrison steamer Mechanician, bound for mules to South Africa, was moored. The explosion dented the ship, let in water, but crew reports indicate no explosives on board and the vessel is not in danger.
United Wine Workers pledge support to Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Gompers refuses further talk, promising to act. United Mine Workers pledge aid while Riverside Iron Works in Wheeling, West Virginia goes nonunion amid shutdowns.
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