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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1902
Page
2
Washington reports a last attempt to end the coal strike as October discussions include President and advisers. The plan suggests President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers might persuade striking miners to return to work to avert a fuel famine and impending disaster.
Two sloth ers and bondholders petitioned the civil district court in New Orleans to appoint a receiver for the New Orleans Railway company alleging mismanagement by officers and directors and failure to operate trains, with a strike keeping cars idle since Sunday morning.
Capt. John J. Pershing's force in Mindanao completely routs the Macin Moros on the island. The engagement results in roughly a hundred enemy killed or wounded and the capture of 40 forts along with their destruction. Manila reports the action dated October 6.
Nationwide and state inquiries into the anthracite coal situation aim to inform potential legislation and miner relief. The president has no immediate call for a special session, urging Pennsylvania to pursue constitutional remedies before national action.
Paris reports the death of Emile Zola, famed novelist and Dreyfus defender, from asphyxiation due to stove fumes in his bedroom. Zola and his wife retired Sunday night. Mme Zola was ill but briefly conscious when moved to a private hospital. Zola was a leading European figure in the Dreyfus affair and author of the Human Comedy. He was knighted in 1888 and led the French Society of Men of Letters in 1891.
The Democratic state convention nominated Governor Bird S Coler of Brooklyn for governor and Charles N Bulger of Oswego as lieutenant governor along with Frank Mott of Chautauqua as secretary of state Charles M Preston of Ulster as comptroller John Cumen as attorney general Richard W Sherman of Oneida as state engineer and surveyor George R Finch of Warren as state treasurer and John C Gray of New York as associate judge of the court of appeals The platform calls for Jeffersonian principle advancement and attacks trusts especially coal and beef urging public ownership of anthracite mines under eminent domain with strong cheers.
William Nelson Cromwell, general counsel for the new Panama Canal Company, reports to Attorney General Knox from Paris that every conveyance and document since 1878 shows a complete claim of title and clear power to convey the canal and its properties to the United States free of liens or claims.
In Black Diamond Washington an explosion of fire damp at the Lawson mine killed twelve miners between 9 and 9:30 pm on the fourth level. Three bodies have been removed, nine more believed trapped. Three miners injured, one seriously. No fire started. News also notes Rear Admiral Silas Casey arriving at Panama to take command of American naval forces on the isthmus and political nominations in Michigan, as well as a rail collision near Cornwalis, West Virginia.
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