Kentucky Labor Battle Ends With Fatality In Mine
A mob attack at Providence Coal Company near Madisonville Kentucky left James H Smith dead and George Crouch wounded. Guards and attackers traded heavy fire as the feud over labor rights increased tensions across Webster and Hopkins counties. Militia has been ordered by the governor as authorities investigate and a coroner’s inquest rules death justifiable self defense. Also notes Southern Exposition opening in Charleston and political disputes over Indian school integration in Guthrie and an edict praising Li Hung Chang in Pekin.
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Madisonville
James H. Smith
George Crouch
John West
Hut Dawson
Nathan Bush
Providence Coal
Smith
Crouch
Hall
Providence
Murray
Webster
Hopkins
Mine Disaster Still Unresolved Hope Lingers At Mine Pit
Penhertas Virginia November reports say more than 2 000 people traveled to the mine entrance as rescue work continues. Eight bodies may be inside the drift while 12 have been recovered. The mine burns fiercely with limited progress. relief funds rise and the state mine inspector monitors the scene. A second item notes the murder of Tr Baker in Savannah and theft of valuables. A separate report covers Woman's Christian Temperance Union members preaching in Fort Worth churches across various denominations.
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Penhertas
Pocahontas
Flat Top
Elkhorn
Fort Worth
Tex
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
union
Creditors Paid Two Cents in York Bankruptcy Case
York Pa Nov 38 creditors of W J Brown received only small sums after assignee proceedings. six checks for two cents each and others for three or four cents amid twenty thousand dollars of claims and judgments. Burned While Lecturing Fort Scott Kan Nov 18 professors W Harkins and H P Delan of Scranton Pa severely burned by chemical explosion aboard a railroad instruction car. flames enveloped them but were extinguished by railroad men. Children Burned to Death Watertown Mass Nov 18 Alfred and Jennie Kendall ages 2 and 5 burned to death in a home fire while mother was briefly away. a lamp upset likely caused an explosion.
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York
W. J. Brown
Fort Scott
Kan
W. Harkins
H. P. Delan
Scranton
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Watertown
Mass
Alfred F
Jennie ©. Kendall
Albert Kendall
Miss Stone
Sofia
Bulgaria
Elen M. Stone
Mme. Tsilkit
Dickinson
United States
Texas
Tex
Hen Kilpatrick
Marty Longharsh
St. Louis
Montana
Sayers
Concho county
Missouri
Kilpatrick
Concha county
Tom Green
Lewistown
Mmira
Heister
Ryde
Trenton
N. J
John A. Roeblings Sons company
Railroad Crash Claims Two Men in Potter County
Killed in a log road accident near Mina Potter County two Larkawanoa Lumber Company workers L Keep ler and V m Purdy were killed when dark cars ran away on a steep grade and crashed into the log train near Mina in Potter County on November 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coudersport
L Keepler
V m Purdy
Larkawanoa Lumber company
Mina
Potter county
Conspiracy Rumors Stir Skagway To Oust Northwest Authority
A circulated tale from Skagway Alaska dated November 6 claims a large plot to overthrow Canadian rule in the Northwest and establish a republic with Dawson as capital. Arm supplies reportedly cached. 5,000 miners said ready to arm. Prominent residents named as leaders. U S officials met to discuss evidence. No confirmation in Seattle. officials silent on the alleged conspiracy.
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Butismeratiae
San Francisco
Skagway
Alaska
Dawson
Victoria
Vancouver
Seattle
Northwest territory
Corrigan
Northwest mounted police
United States
Marshal Shoup
coufer
Washington
Wash
Shoup
McWeill's Island
Prank Gould's Prize Horses and Dogs to Be Sold
Mer. Prank Gould plans to dispose of prized horses and dogs after news of his marriage to Miss Ifeten Gould. Gould has long bred and shown top stallions Burlingham and Sandringham, plus two well-regarded St Bernard dogs Marvecrost and Baron Landridge. He already maintained a fine kennel at Toyndhurston- ule, now enhanced by the new stock sale.
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Mer
Prank Gould
ifeten Gould
Mr. Goud
Benedict
Gould
Sandringham
jave
Mi.loud
St. Bernard
Marvefcrost
Baron Landridge
Vane
Croutd
Toyndhurston- ule
Bank Robbers Captured After Long Chase in Iowa
Sioux City Ia Nov 183 The Greenville barn break in vault blown open robbers pursued by posse captured after a gunfight wounding city marshal C J Lodine and businessman John Sundland one robber fatally shot others fled by handcar and car found at Rock Island crossing they surrendered after Laurens and Albert City possee stopped them Taken to Stern Lake for safekeeping Also Milan Kansas safe blows end with robbers driven off before plunder by local citizens with shotguns.
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Sioux City
Greenville
Sioux Rapids
Rock Island
Albert City
C. J. Lodine
John Sundland
Laurens
Stern Lake
Kansas
Wellington
Kan
Milan
here
Titania Wrecked in Dense Fog Off Cape Race
The Titania sailing from Liverpool to St Johns was wrecked in fog near Cape Race. One man, Williams, died while attempting to reach shore. Captain and crew, lashed to rigging for 36 hours, were rescued only yesterday afternoon. The vessel lies a total wreck with cargo lost. In Pittsburgh, the Philadelphia Company moves to raise bonded debt to 22 million and capital stock to 44 million as it plans absorption of Southern Traction and other transit outfits.
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St. Johns
N. F
Liverpool
Cape Race
Williams
Pittsburg
Philadelphia company
Southern Traction company
Suburban Rapid Transit company
Pittsburg and
Birmingham Traction company
Judge Charged With Bribery Sparks Arizona Contention
Phoenix November 18 Welster Street chief justice of the territorial court has gone to Washington to appear before the department of justice to answer bribery charges from last summer. The complaint alleges he accepted a bribe between 5000 and 7090 dollars linked to a decision affecting the King of Iona Mining Company.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Welstertreet
territorial court
Washington
department of justice
King of Iona Mining company
Street
Irresponsible forger used Chicago names on notes
New York, Nov 18. BH Wheeler Jr was arraigned on charges of forging Chicago business men names to notes totaling 103000 dollars. Court heard he appeared unbalanced and in need of medical care. Magistrate sent him back to police headquarters for treatment as a private physician would attend.
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Chicago
New York
O. BH. Wheeler, Jr
Wheeler
Bellevue Hospital
Cornell
Attack by Bolomen Insurgents Delays Returning Congressmen
Manila dispatch reports Nathopilan Company E repelled a rush by about 50 bolomen and insurgents near Teranagan Samar with one corporal and one private killed and sixteen bolomen slain. Captain Hall’s scouts in Batangas estimate bands of 30 to 66 insurgents. US transports Sheridan Waldron and Hancock suffered inland seas accidents delaying congressmen’s return. General Chaffee opposes future transport routes through inland waters.
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Manila
F. H. Shhoeffel
Teranagan
Samar
belo
Herman Hall
Twenty-first Infantry
Batangas
Tring
Hall
Sameer
Luzon
Laritman
First Cavalry
Baan
Batangaya
Summer
Boers Demonstration Incites Attack on British Crew
A Brussels report says a Dutch fishing boat claiming distress approached a British vessel in the North Sea and crewmen were attacked after the Dutch boarded the ship. The Dutch allegedly locked their captain in his cabin before the assault, and the British crew escaped to Ostend to file a complaint with the British consul.
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London
Brussels
Yumidon
Wylinger
North sea
Ostend
Ella Lost With All Hands Near Belle Isle
A private dispatch from Louisburg Nova Scotia says the Norwegian steamer Ella chartered to Black Diamond Line has been lost on the Newfoundland coast near Belle Isle. She left Montreal Sunday with a general cargo for St John s New Brunswick crew about 20 men and 1000 tons register.ỉnh
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Halifax
N. S
Louisburg
Ella
Black Diamond Line company
New Foundland
Belle Isle
Montreal
St. John’s
N. F
Suunderland
Tragic shooting accident on Laurel Run
In Wilkesbarre a man cleaning a gun discharged a shell that struck his sister-in-law Lena Strokman, 12, in the neck as she walked through the kitchen. She died almost instantly. The shooter Philip Cosmosity is described as grief-stricken. Also notes a York area report of a dynamite attack on the Northern Central railway line near town, with no arrests yet and expected developments in the coming days.
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Wilkesbarre
Philip Cosmosity
Laurel Run
Lena Strokman
Cosmosky
York
bern
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KENTUCKY LABOR BATTLE
Charleston
S. C
Mme. Barbol
Geer
Herbert Sass
Theodore Saul
Guthrie
O. T
Oklahoma
Li Hung Chang
Pekin
al draguista
GILBERT BROW A
Baltimore
Coleman
W. W. JEFFERSON
Danville
WILLIAMSON’S
Pire
Savannah
Baker
Beaufort
Colonial Park
Klondike
Northwest Republic
Cheyenne
Wic
Miller
Newcastle
Big Thunder country
Nimbus
Campana
St. John’s bond
General Stewart
Harrisburg
Adutant
Norristown
Ireland
Dublin
Galway
Horace Plunkett
Arthur Lynch
Altoona
John M Wilson
Tisil
FRANK GOULD
Uniontown
Mike Sucko
Sucko
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Nirth Infantry
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Goodrich
Martin J. Bentley
Roosevelt
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