Steel strike situation nears possible move at mill centers
Pittsburg August reports a strategic Amalgamated move without details as leaders gather at headquarters Samuel Gompers status awaited. John Mitchell warns against sympathetic strikes while officials expect a general action once orders come. Local mills fear disruptions and discuss support measures for workers.
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Pittsburg
Rome
Amalgamated Association
Samuel Gompers
Amwrican Federation of Labor
Lim
Contet
John Mitchell
National Organization of the United Mine Workers of America
Resaan
Fle
Republic
Narioval Tube Company
National Prastee
John Pierce
Old Guard
Viyde Park
Trents
Vlyde Park
Apollo
Vandergrist
Charles James
Mourning Proceeds as Dowager Empress Lies in State
Six weeks of national mourning are ordered for the dowager Empress with theaters closed until after the funeral at Potsdam. King Edward sails for Germany to attend. A massive grocery trust involving about 2700 firms plans a September New York meeting to form a permanent group and cut purchase costs.
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Ren
Potsdam
Frederick
Jies
Cowes
Edward
Germany
Berlin
Philadelphia
United States
New York
Man with money to burn causes chaotic panhandling scene on Sixth Avenue
A well dressed man staggered into Sixth Avenue near 24th Street shouting he had money to burn. He handed out tens and twenties sparking a wild scramble as panhandlers pressed close. Police identified him as William L. Harkness, 25, a commercial traveler from Nassau Street. He was detained at Tenderloin station with $80 custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sixth Avenue Stern
Tye
23Rd Street
Panhandlers
Poleeman Behr
Behr
William L. Harkness
Nassau Street
Victoria Anne
Murderer at Bay in Illinois Sheriff Arrives
Fletcher Patterson, armed with a double barreled shotgun, killed John Thomason near Suilivan IL and held a mob at bay until the sheriff's posse arrived. Thomason leaves a divorced wife and three children. Patterson, long known as a violent man, surrendered after gunfire and securing the house.
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Patterson
Thomason
Klinmoundy
Thomasons
Explosion Rips Locust Street Block Kill Toll and Wrecks Homes
A Philadelphia blast on Locust Street above Tenth leveled five buildings, killed about a dozen people and injured over twenty. Fire followed, rescue teams and neighbors aided survivors as debris burned. Identifications include Elizabeth Mountain and several unidentified victims. area described as the Negro slums with widespread destruction and crowded with mourning residents.
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Philadelphia
Locust Street
Tenth
Tve
Lizzie Mountain
Elizabeth Mountain
Pennsylvania Hospital
Nan
Mornig
Aman
Peltal
Aurus
Lorust
Eleventh
Hauking
Sna Ect
Gales
Drowning drama ends in rescue at Brook lissa Rowing Club
A dozen Bay Shore district swimmers watched as Irene Molloy, 22, as she struggled in the bay near the Brooklissa Rowing Club at 99th street. Two young men leaped from a sloop yacht to aid and pulled her to shore unconscious but alive. Molloy is kept by her father Robert Molloy, a real estate owner on Bay Ridge’s Fourth Avenue.
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New York
Brooklissa Rowing Club
99Th Street
Bay Shore Road District
Irene Molloy
Robert Molloy
Fourth Avenue
Bay Ridge
Miss Molloy
Fort Hamilton
Coughlin
Dunne
The
Sterling
Extension of Trowbridge street under court review
Hearing on LL Trowbridge's appeal to extend Trowbridge street to Frederick street resumed in borough court before Commissioners Roat Peck and Kilduff. Witnesses for and against the extension testified, arguing public necessity versus private property interests, with attorneys Downs Sweeney and Kennedy presenting, and judgment reserved.
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LL. Trowbridge
Board of Warden and Burgesses
Borough Court Room
Roat
Peck
J Kilduff
Trowbridge
Towbridge Street
Frederick Street
Downs
Derby
Sweeney
Edward Gibbons
Cliff Street
W. E. Brown
Gibbons
Trowbridge Street
Martin Crowe
Highland Avenue
Trowbrid Brown
Trowbridge Place
Richard Durkin
Messrs
Trowbridge and
Brown
L. W. J Brennan
Sho — Street
Brennan
Dewns
William Cronin
George Street
Mr. Brown
Thomas Neary
Church Street
Patrick J. Dutty
Clit Street
Aronul
Pryor and
Welch
John Meegan
Mt. Brownland
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Raterials
Peter Paul Illy
H Dunn
Mason
Onerele
York
Myrman
Naugatuck
Dallas
Union Street
East Main
Bearnsley
Arent Atlantic Steamship Companies
Raymond & Whitcomb, Tourngeuts
May Avenue
L S Beardsley
Rotice
Merchant’s Express
McCarthy
Goodyear
J J Burke
South Mato Ste Ec
Pres. Shaffer
Hoeeruis
Mitchel
Seymour
Conn
T. B. Beach
Tie
Joanbine
Alwul
Re. Terkish
Sith Avenue
Murderer AT
Tenth Streets
Prom
Cox
Center St
Credit Clothiers
Waterbury
Greenburq
Freedman
M. Freedman
Naugatuck’s Shopping Center
Morris
South Main Street
Taylor’s Market
Post Office
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