Mines Open as 82,000 Men Work Anthracite Region
Wilkes-Barre reports 22 more mines in operation boosting output toward 100000 tons with about 82000 workers at work. Non union miners are being displaced as older hands return, led by Delaware Lackawanna and Western production. Scranton regions anticipate full resumption by Monday with few imported workers remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company
M. B. Williams
Wyoming
Lehigh
Schuylkill
Mitchell
Behal
Washington
Stanley T. Mecalley
Withdrawal of troops from anthracite region urged
General orders from Gov. Stone directed the withdrawal of troops from the anthracite coal regions, with most to return before election day and only a few regiments possibly remaining. Major Gen. Miller recalled Batteries A B and C as conditions warrant, with more units to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Stone
Harrisburg
Penn
Stone
Miller
Pottsville
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Phoenixville
Continue On Strike In Hazleton Mines
Hazleton Penn Oct 24 Employed at G B Markle & Co collieries and Coxe Bros & Co Drifton mine vote to continue strike until return conditions change Officials say workers who want to return must apply individually to foremen and that non union men must not be molested Coxe Bros will not resume as a body at any mine Silverbrook colliery operated by Wertz & Co requires individual applications before operations resume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Penn
Rose
Delaware and Hudson Company
North Scranton
Schadt
Wilkesbarre
Gobin
Lickawanna County
Hazleton
G. B. Markle & Co
Drifton
Coxe Bros. & Co
Silverbrook
J. S. Wertz & Co
Retain Non-Union Miners Stir Ring Lykens Valley
Harrisburg reports only a small portion of strikers in the Lykens Valley are returning to work as the coal company plans limited re hires. The firm will not discharge workers who replaced the strikers, fueling unrest among miners and sparking anger at the company policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lykens Valley
Harrisburg
Penn
Going to China to Become a Bride
Miss Edna Van Schoick of Hightstown will travel to China this week to marry Dr Charles Lyon a hospital physician from Cheung chow He studied in Philadelphia and visited Miss Van Schoicks father Dr I Lanning Van Schoick to learn about China The message ends with an unrelated health advertisement authored by Dr D Jayne Ton ic Vermifuge urging health care and warning readers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Edna van Schoick
Hightstown
China
Charles Lyon
Cheung-chow
Wooster
Ohio
Philadelphia
van Schoick
I. Lanning van Schoick
Newly Mined Coal Arriving As Prices Spark Debate
Coal shipments begin to move with 1 200 tons of anthracite on Erie rails to Weehawken signaling the first post strike arrivals. Officials pledge fair retail pricing while dealers warn of losses as circular price discussions press readings above five dollars per ton.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Erie Railroad
Weehawken
New York, Ontario and Western Railroad
Burns Brothers
Cortlandt Street
New York
Paris Premier Engages Miners in Arbitration
Premier Combes met with the National Committee of the Miners Federation and the group agreed to submit their demands to arbitration. They seek a minimum wage and limits on work hours. Combes will consult company delegates, seen as copying Roosevelt’s U.S. coal strike intervention.
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Paris
Premier Combes
National Committee of the Miners’ Federation
M. Combes
Roosevelt
United States
Death of A L Ashman proprietor of Sinclair House hotel
Amaziah Levi Ashman longtime New York hotelier dies at 72 in his Sinclair House rooms after a chronic intestinal disease. A founder of Astor Place Bank and vice president of Excelsior Savings Bank, he left a wife and daughter. Funeral at St Ann's Church, East Twelfth Street, with burial in Calvary Cemetery.
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Amaziah Levi Ashman
Sinclair House
Broadway
Eighth Street
Mr. Ashman
Connecticut
Livingston
New York State
Lakeville
Genesee ‘Wesleyan Academy
Lima
Buffalo
New York
Astor Place
Astor Place Bank
Excelsior Savings Bank
Manhattan
Catholic
Phoenix
William J. Fanning
St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church
East Twelfth Street
Calvary Cemetery
Traction Chief Mitten Considered for New York Post
Milwaukee reports indicate Thomas E. Mitten formerly general superintendent of the Milwaukee Street Railroad now general manager of the International Traction Service in Buffalo may become head of the Metropolitan Railway Company of New York. If selected he would run affairs during President Vreeland's anticipated two year European tour. Mitten previously served with the Denver system.
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New York Times
Milwaukee
Wis
Thomas E. Mitten
Milwaukee Street Railroad System
International Traction’ Eiice
Buffalo, N. Y
Metropolitan Railway Company of
New York
Mitten
Vreeland
Denver
Miss Elsie Knapp and Wilson M Powell Jr Married
Miss Elsie Knapp eldest daughter of the late Shepherd Knapp and Wilson M Powell Jr Harvard graduate lawyer with his father at 3 Broad Street were married Thursday in the Adams Chapel Union Theological Seminary Park Avenue The Rev Dr James M Farr officiated Norman Dyer served as best man The bride was given away by her brother the Rev Dr Shepherd Knapp A small reception followed at the bride’s home 266 Lexington Avenue
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Knapp
Shepherd Knapp
Wilson M. Powell, Jr
Harvard
Broad Street
Adams Chapel
Union Theological Seminary
Park Avenue
James M. Farr
Norman Dyer
Lexington Avenue
Powell—Knapp
Elsie
Emma B. Knapp
Mrs Katherine Byrne Weds John E Baxter in Brooklyn Church
Miss Katherine V Byrne daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas E Byrne of 51 Montgomery Place Brooklyn and John E Baxter were married on Wednesday evening at the Church of St Francis Xavier Brooklyn with Rev David J Hickey officiating. The maid of honor was Miss Marie B Byrne and the bridesmaids included Miss Alice Baxter Miss Angela McGratty Miss Marie Byrne and Miss Juanita Byrne. The best man was Vincent Walsh and a reception followed at the bride’s parental home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine V. Byrne
Thomas E. Byrne
Montgomery Place
Brooklyn
John E. Baxter
Church of St. Francis Xavier
David J. Hickey
Marie B. Byrne
Mary J. Fransioli
Alice Baxter
Angela McGratty
Marie Byrne
Juanita Byrne
Vincent Walsh
Famine Threatens Northern Sweden After Harvest Failures
London report says harvest failure in the Tornen Valley leaves Northern Sweden distressed as famine nears. Stocks from prior years exhausted and an early severe winter worsens destitution.
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Sweden
London
Malt
Stockholm
Tornen
Long Signs with New York Club for 2 Years
Herman Long, Boston Nationals shortstop, jumped to the American League and will play for New York next year. Manager Colling of the Boston Americans, for Bai Johnson, signed him for two years at 3800 dollars per year and gave 500 dollars to seal the deal. Ballings of the Nationals claims no binding hold beyond a verbal promise.
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Herman Long
New York
New York Times
Boston
Boston Nationals
Colling
Boston Americans
Bai Johnson
Ballings
Nationals
Long
Roosevelt appoints Anthracite Strike Commission
The Strike Arbitration Commission appointed by President Roosevelt met at the White House on October 23 1902 and received its instructions. Judge Gray presided as chairman as the group planned meetings open to the public and arranged for two assistants to aid the recorder.
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Washington
Strike Arbitration Commission
Roosevelt
White House
E. E. Clark
Order of Railway Conductors
Bishop Spalding
D. J. Stafford
Gen. Wilson
Thomas H.watkins
Col. Wright
E. W. Parker
Judge Gray
United States Circuit Court
Cortelyou
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Mr. Wright
Mitchell
Mosely
Nell
Theodore Roosevelt
Commissioner of Labor
Heepem Hg
United Mine Workers
Edward A Mosely
Recorder Wright
President avoids committing executive to coal dispute arbitration
The President directs the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission to arbitrate without binding the Executive. The commission will report to the President, who will then share findings with the parties. Congressional transmission of the report hinges on a House or Senate resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Executive Department
Congress
Society Notes Show Meadow Brook Hunt and Two Weddings Today
Society pages report a Meadow Brook drag hunt and afternoon dances, plus two weddings. Frances Coster Jones and Harry Kip marry at the Church of the Incarnation with a small reception at Mrs Edward Anthon's home. The Kip family includes best man Garrett Kip and ushers Ruloff Kip and others. newlyweds plan to live on West Fifty-seventh Street after a bridal tour.
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Meadow Brook
Morristown
Frances ‘Coster Jones
Alfred Renshaw Jones
Harry Spies Kip
William Bergh Kip
Church of the Incarnation
Madison Avenue
Thirty-fifth Street
William M. Grosvenor
Miss Jones
Lewis Quentin Jones
L. Q. Jones
Edward Anthon
West Forty-eighth Street
Joneses
Fifty-fifth Street
Marie Antoinette Davis
Fellowes Davis
Garrett B. Kip
Ruloff W. Kip
James Darrach
Gerard Herrick
Alexander Cochran
Everett Colby
William Sloane
Murray Shoemaker
Andrew C. Sage
Mrs. Kip
West Fifty-seventh Street
New York Man to Wed in Chicago
CHICAGO Oct. 24 The wedding of Miss Jeannette Williams to Robert Latrobe France will be held tomorrow evening at the residence of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Hunt Pratt 1003 Winthrop Avenue Edgewater Mrs Pratt is the bride’s sister Miss Jessica Williams will be maid of honor Robert H Rice is best man Harry Skinner and A T Conner will be ushers Mr and Mrs France will be at home in New York after November 24
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New York Times
Newport
T. Shaw Safe
Sackville West
Mrs. Safe
John W. Ellis
Ralph N. Ellis
New York
8. C. Powell
Beach Street
Miss Wetmore
Arnold Hague
Beacon Hill
Washington
Richard Gambrill
F. K. Sturgis
E.H. G. Slater
Daniel B. Fearing
William and
Robert I Gammell
Sturgis
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Beaulieu
Miss Morgan
C. H. Baldwin
Jackson
Baldwin
Snug Harbor
William T. Bull
Chicago
Jeannette Williams
Robert Latrobe France
Benjamin Hunt Pratt
Winthrop Avenue
Edgewater
Pratt
Jessica Williams
Robert H. Rice
Harry Skinner
A. T. Conner
New Wood Dog Trunk and Bird Bath Accessory Debut
The shops unveil a wooden dog trunk with arched top and air slits, side entrance, plus an adjustable bird bath attachment that latches to a cage. Prices: 34 cents for small cages, 60 cents for arched-roof versions. Also features fashion items from gowns to stockings, including an all perfo rated black lisle pair with polka dot holes and risqué fringe.
Aid Needed to Supply Fuel for 1200 Daily Recipients
The Charity Organization Society seeks 1000 to cover unusual expenses from cooperation with the Street Cleaning Department. Wood collected by the department’s carts is dumped and used as fuel for about 1200 people daily. Funds are requested to continue distribution for another month.
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Charity Organization Society
Obituary Notes Roll Of Old Shipbuilders And Merchants
Obituary notes report deaths of Jesse Carl a Bayview Avenue Northport L I ship builder age seventy one Capt David Gillispie aged eighty seven in Morristown Lieut Charles E Schonberg of the Twenty second Regiment Spanish War died aboard the Manora between England and Calcutta age forty two He leaves a widow and five children Charles Abraham Colby eighty two Pine Street note broker died at 1933 Madison Avenue indigestion He was father of Prof Charles E Colby Columbia Chemistry Marshall O Waggoner nearly ninety Toledo attorney converted to Christianity after wife death died in Detroit James S Burdett entertainer died 231 West 130th Street age about seventy two Morse J Morse founder Morse Co Bangor Maine aged eighty three who built the largest Maine wood products firm and left lumber and shipping ties
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Jesse Carll
Bayview Avenue
Northport
L. I
David Gillispi
H. T. Hull
Morristown
Gillispie
Charles E. Schonberg
England
Calcutta
Schonberg
London
A. H. Schonberg
Pacific Street
Brooklyn
Charles Abraham Colby
Pine Street
Madison Avenue
Charles E. Colby
Columbia University
Mr. Colby
Salisbury
Mass
Marshall O. Waggoner
Toledo
Ohio
Detroit
James S. Burdett
West One Hundred
Thirtieth Street
Republic Lodge
Adelphi
Columbian
Knights Templar
Mecca Temple
Mystic Shrine
Llewellyn J. Morse
Morse & Co
Bangor
Mr. Morse
Parkers Head
Kennebec River
Hiram P. Oliver
Morse & Oliver
Maine
Morse
Penobscot
Marriages Listed in Providence and Nearby Areas
Several wedding notices dated October with ceremony locations across Providence R I West Haven Conn Montclair N J and New York. Names include Marian Towne Helen Gardner Duncan Pell Robert Potts Elizabeth Robbins Eliza Quarrier and others with their spouses and parental references.
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Pell—Gardner
West Haven
Conn
Helen Louise Gardner
Duncan Clarkson Pell
Obituaries From the Sinclair House and City Churches
Funeral notices for Amaziah Levi Ashman James Burdett Charles A Colby Thomas Leonard Coles Anna Josephine Cook Charles H Day Warren Ferris David Gillespie Frances M Humphreys Harriet Pardee Perkins and Sarah W Stiles announce private and public services across New York and New Jersey with times locations and burial plans. The list includes residences at East 12th Street Madison Avenue West 78th Street Union Avenue Cranford Morristown Athens Penn Hill View New York City and Woodlawn Cemetery among others.
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Lawrence
Mass
Coles
East 45Th St
New York
Thomas Leonard Coles
Cook
West 78Th St
Anna Josephine Cook
Adam Cook
Brewer Musgrave
Harris Pardee
Perkins
Athens
Penn
Edward H. Perkins
Stiles
Hill View
N. Y
Sarah W
Henry R. Stiles
New York City
Death of Mrs Frances Huntington Erhart in Texas
Mrs. Frances Huntington Erhart wife of William H Erhart and daughter of Benjamin H Huntington president of Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn died in San Antonio Texas after travel from Colorado Springs by special train to save her life. The body will be brought to Brooklyn for burial.
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Brooklyn
San Antonio
Texas
Frances Huntington Erhart
William H. Erhart
Benjamin H. Huntington
Dime Savings Bank of
Colorado Springs
Erhart
Charles Pfizer Oey
Maidenne
Deaths Reported October 24
A brief death notice notes individuals reported on October 24 with ages listed. Ages of one year or under are recorded as one year.
Unclear text fragment listing names and numbers
Fragmentary OCR content shows a string of names such as Battista Angelo and others with scattered numbers and words. No coherent event or context is clear to summarize into a full news item.
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Jeral
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Erie
A. L. Ashman
Strike Commission Effects Organization
Catherine Lowell Roosevelt
Alfred Roosevelt
James A. Roosevelt
W. Emlen Roosevelt
E. Reeve Merritt
This City
T. J. Bowlker
Harleyburg College
Hertfordshire
Roosevelt West
Miss Lowell
Percival Lowell
A. Lawrence Lowell
Duncan C. Pell
New Haven
Pell
D. Archie Pell
H. Archie Pell
Miss Pendleton
Staten Island
Frank Pendleton
Virginia Pendleton
West Thirtyfourth Street
Commission
Stilson Hutchins Has
Jesse Tyson
Culburn
Leon Marié
George Dillwyn Cook
Dillwynhurst
Orange
Rosa M. Cook
Frederic Carman
St. Peter’s Church
Col
William E. Carter
Radnor Hunt Club
the News OF Newport
Columbia
Harvard Crimson
Princeton
Europe
America
Andrew Carnegie
St.Andrew’s University
Scotland
Ady
Aeolian Hall
Fifth Avenue
34Th ST
Aeolian Company
5Th Ave
The
Fifth Avenue and
34Th Street
Lloyd—Baker
Providence
R. J
Edward C. Moore
D. D
William M. Chapin
Walter Lloyd
Montclair
Marian Towne
Nathan Hale Baker
Quarrier—Thompson
Second Presbyterian Church
Elizabeth, N. J
E. S. Cobb
Frances Price
Sidney Sayer Thompson
Archie Belknap Quarrier
Charles H. Day
Union Av
Cranford
David Gillespie
Maple Avenue
Curtice Brothers CO
Rochester, N. Y
W. H. Erhart
Colorado
Andrews
Grazio
St. & Mor
Ayres
Minnie
Ridge St
Alres
Eva
Alberts
Tie
Ashman
Amaziah L
Ernis
Laura
Barone
Emma
New Bowery
Bieber
Solomon
Bornstein, David
Willett St
Lush, Charles
Park Row
Wpw
Barry, T
Colby
Charles A
Madison
Cohen
Sarah
Broome St
Cantwell
Owen
Clark
John
Cherbono
Yu Crowley
Catherine
Cohn
Lottie
Duffy
Charles
Delpape
Pasquale
Gouverneur
Lung
Doyers Stee
Fitzsimmons
Mary
Farra
Giacomo
I Worth St
Greenberg
Jennie
Columbia St
Golanter
Jacob
Pitt St
Grossman
Monroe St
Goldstein
Forsyth St
Graziano
Maria G
Mulberry
Mayer
11Th St
Grazoano
Mulberry St
Gosper
Hoffman
Fritz
Rose St
Harvey
James E
Hills
Loderie
Ehlartroot
Madison St
Landauer
Itoria
Elizabeth St
Mosawitz
Hirsch
Mason
Benjamin
Moller
Philip
Harriet
Marsh
Georgie
Reinhold
Svoroda
Frank
4Th St
Schloss
Rachael
Tiedeman
Elizabeth
Ichard
Tracy
Albert E
Vise. Louis
Vitrovie
Mato
Wood
Lucy A
Cannon
Werner
Harry
Moses
Wrabel
Delia A
Weaver
Bronx
Reid
Amelia C
Morris
Conntlly
Edward
Joseph's Hospital
Lange
Francis
Ernst
Hugo W
St. Joseph's
Riley
Joseph A
Pyrke
Onry
Bainbridge
Kane
Jane
le Meyers
Grace
McKnigh
van Cleve
Garrett
Mott
Gmann
Peter
Dougherty
Josep Maurice
Spillane
Angelo
Battista
Eber “Este
Secken
Pizzabeth
Putnam Boullay
Schanns
Sivangelical Home
Scessctevcestus
Esterbrook
Este
Jto
Esterbrook Steel Pen CO
Camden, N.J
John N.Y
New Publications
Wall Street
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Caswell, Massey & CQ
Victor S. Flechter
Union Sq
DE Luca
Carmela
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Dillon
Marguerite
Elbert
Amelia L
Noble St
Ay Errickson
Home Fetzer
Gujer St. c
Finnerty
Thomas
Degraw St
Fleckenstein
Horwitz
Julia
Bushwick
Horwitz, R
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Utica
Satinsky
Bessie
Seigel St
Kehler
M. E
Knicker- Naeder
Bocker
Rash Oda Dares Ostwald
Carrie
Glenmore
Pietschmann
Katharine A
Sumner
Carroll St
Platt
Abram
Wer
Gold St
L. Ry
Hall St. Pasnewene
RICAR
Tia Ty A
Pacific St
30Th St
Rumandetti
Salter
W Bt
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Schrier
Geo Gates
Sinclair
Hen
Smith, Walsh, J
Nelson St
Hamburg
Weber
Henry
Wilde
George
St. Vellx
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