Line drawn on big steel strike stalls inaction
New York July 16 officials of United States Steel and leaders group decline to discuss strike progress. Pittsburg reports 19 000 skilled workers affected with 6 220 out in American Sheet Steel and 2 259 at 50 mills on strike. Little change on second day as plants stay closed and talks of settlement circulate amid organized efforts in hoop and tin plate mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preas
New York
Chas. M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Bohwab
J. Pierpont Morgan
Pittsboro
Moneson
American Steel Hoop Company
Duncanville
American Sheet Steel Company
Pittsburg
Painter Mill
Lindsay & McCutcheon
Clark's
Solar Iron Works
Monongahela and
Sterlin Piste Planta Ware
Painter's Mill
Alabama
Harper
Albrecht
Combine
Amalgamated
Shaffer
Shafer
George Powel
American Tin Plate Workers’ Protective and International Association of America
Ellwood City
Éiping
Amalgamated Association
American Tin Plate Company
Yeater Deay
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Asajetant
Tide
Munegon
Hoop Mill
Reese
William Clark's Sons
Lab
Bhatter
Duncanguille
Scottdale
Saltsburg
Phillips
JR. Philips
Davia
Gibson
Vandercrift
Monesen
Meneren Hoop
American Steal Hoop Company
Duncansville
Monongahela
Moneset Tin Plate Mil
Labor Troubles and Freight Unrest Hit Mines and Ports
Labor strife erupts in Kingston Coal as 1,500 workers strike over yardage wages, from 1.50 to 1.00 per yard. California freight handlers halt work, demanding 3 1/2 dollars daily for nine hours with overtime. warehousing from Nevada dock to Crockett tied up. Wilkes-Barre stationary firemen idle about 700. Chicago moulders' talks stall. Chicago breweries mostly yield to fireman demands. Scranton and Lackawanna valley coal mines shut down as 25,000 miners faced stoppages. widespread disruption hits rail and port operations across multiple regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Pres
Wilkesbarre
Kingston Coal Company
United Mine Workers
California
Port Costa
Cal
Nevada
Crocket
Wilkesharre
T Ja Es- Amatec
Chicago
Foundrymen’s Association
Chicago Breweries
Til
Fotty
Scranton
Delaware and Hudson, Erie
Ontario and Western
Lackawanna Valley
Peckyville
Forest City
Rain Recovers Parched Kansas City Area Crops
Rain spread over an eighty mile radius of Kansas City bringing moisture to Lawrence Ottawa Wellsville Toronto and Camden Point. Some fields were too far gone yet late corn may be revived. In three Missouri counties east of Kansas City crops are in prime condition. Temperature reached 93 at 11 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asso
Cd Press
Kansas City
Kanena City
Lawrence
Kan
Ottawa
Wellsville
Toronto
Camden Point
Missouri
Northwestern first ship to sail Chicago to Europe
The Northwestern departs Chicago on its initial voyage to Europe. It passes the Mackinaw Straits at dawn and is expected back in Chicago tomorrow afternoon after leaving April 24 on the maiden voyage. A Missouri girl survived a lightning strike while learning of her fiancé’s marriage to another woman and then eloped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stenmee Northwestern
Crag Agro Ce
Mackinaw City
Northwestern
Northwestern Company
Chicago
Europe
Straits of Mackinaw
Thunder Atruck
An Cher Gir
Armed Men Loot Attempt at Ressler Ashbrooke Bank
A gang of six to seven men blasted open the Ressler and Ashbrooke bank in Alexandria Ohio district and held off a crowd for about an hour. They used dynamite on the outer vault door, fired at pursuing locals, then fled in stolen busses after failing to reach valuables. A $1400 package left overnight was found amid debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Alexandria
Licking County
Ressler & Ashbrooke Bank
Shve
Whem
Buxton
Rogers Will Filed for Probate in Trenton Court
Former US Attorney General Griggs represented John S Bethalow and William Pennigeton executors in probate action for Jacob Rogers estate. Chancellor Magic set September 16 for testimony and argument while petition sought appointment of administrators pendente to handle securities and railway stock matters in New York and capital stock adjustments. Metropolitan Museum of Art legatees joined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Trenton
W J
Tuly
United States
Grigga
John S Bethalow
William Pennigeton
Jacob Rogers
Magic
Theodore A Rogers
Griggs
Pendentente
Rogers
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Realdnary
Robert W. DuForest
Vegetables Soar As Heat Tightens Markets
Chicago reports intensified heat and humidity driving up vegetable prices. Potatoes rise 25 percent, oats and corn 10 to 25 percent, fruit and vegetables 10 to 50 percent, sweet corn up 100 percent and cucumbers quadruple in value. Western buyers shift to Chicago for home use amid shortages. Temperature reached 90 at 11 am, then cooled to 86.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
West
La Follette Skips Wisconsin Building Dedication Trip
Madison July 28 Governor La Follette will not accompany state officers to the Wisconsin building dedication on July 31. Recovery from illness is gradual and his physician directs him to abstain from the trip. Lieutenant Governor Stone will represent him at the ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
la Folletta
Wisconsin
Stone
Woman fires at minister in Paris amid grievance claim
Paris July 16 a woman identified as Olgenshka drew a revolver at Minister of Public Works M Baudin as he rode to a cabinet meeting in the Elysee palace the shot missed. She said she acted to spotlight her husband Count Olgenshka a former architect at Nice who held a government receivership nearby and believes money owed by the foreign affairs ministry is being kept from him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
M. Baudin
Eiot
Elysee Palace
Olgewska
Naterre
Nice
Madame Olpewska
M. Badin
Count Olgenshka
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Amateur Rowing Races Start At Iowa Regatta
The seventeenth annual Iowa State Amateur Rowing Association regatta opens at Lake Manawa with junior events and fours and doubles today. Four crews compete in half mile races, two heats needed to win, as large delegations from Dubuque, Sioux City, Ottumwa, Davenport arrive to cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Cornell Bulfis
Lake Manawa
Iowa State Amateur Rowing Association
Dubuque
Boloux City
Ottumwa
Davenport
Glass Blowers Condemn Court Injunctions At Milwaukee
The National Glass Blowers convention adopted a resolution denouncing arbitrary court power and the use of extraordinary writs in employer employee disputes. It urged members to back the anti injunction in Congress. The convention likely ends Wednesday afternoon with a Flint Glass Blowers committee from Atlantic City expected to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
National Glass Blowers’ Convention
Congress
Flint Glass Blowers
Atlantic City
Great Northern train robbers elude chase. posse returns
Dispatch from Malta Montana reports sheriffs posses have abandoned pursuit of the Great Northern train robbers. Only a few Pinkerton detectives and the posse guard the Badlands southern boundary as rumors of their location mislead the officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
St. Paul, Minn
Malta
Mont
Great Northern
Pinkerton
Badlands
Government Defeated Over War Office Model Display
London July 6 Associated Press reports the government faced a defeat in the house of lords over whether a model of the new war office should be exhibited. Lord Lansdowne refused to consider the proposal, but the motion passed 41 to 2, drawing prolonged cheers from supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
House of Lords
War Office
Lord Lansdowne
Philanthropist Dies At 75 In Chicago
Charles A. Spring Jr long headed McCormick Harvester and died at his home in Chicago at seventy five. He once pledged to spend any fortune beyond 250000 in philanthropy and reportedly kept his word. He retired from active work in 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associates Press
Chicago
Charles A. Spring, Jr
McCormick Harvester Company
Spring
Rain Brings Relief Across Nebraska Towns
Rain fell across eastern Nebraska and western towns today, beginning at 2:24 p.m. and bringing cooler air as temperatures dropped to 68 degrees by 9 p.m. One inch or more of rain was recorded in Omaha and surrounding areas, with reports of showers in the Black Hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neh
Nebraska
Town
Crop conditions show heat strikes across central valleys
The Weather Bureau reports another week of extreme heat with little rainfall across the central valleys from Missouri to Oklahoma, injuring corn and stressing wheat and oats. Eastern states see favorable rains. Pacific coast cool and dry with frost in places. Haying slowed in New England and mid Atlantic, crop prospects mixed by region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Missouria
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Atlantic
Great Horn
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Iowa
Atlantic Coast
North Pacific Coast
Minnesota
Oregon
New England
Middle Atlantic
Ohio
Lake Region
Ohio Valley
President appoints multiple officers in artillery cavalry infantry
Washington July 16 the president made appointments of several officers across artillery cavalry and infantry with ranks including colonel lieutenant colonel major captain and second lieutenant naming Kenzle Greenough Day Davis Califf Hobbs Rest Hoskins Kephart Burgess Bigelow Wailing Staylon Cowan with details of the new posts and ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Artllery
David T. Kenzle
Leutenant
George G. Greenough
Seldon A. Day
Edward Davis
Joseph MM. Califf
Charles W. Hobbs
Clarmont Iz Rest
John D. C. Hoskins
Samuel A. Kephart
Louis R. Burgess
Mortimer O
Lorillard's Will Probate Move Hinted in Jersey
Associated Press reports from Mont Halt NJ state an effort to probate the Lorillard will in the United States tomorrow. Lorillard long claimed residence here and lived at Jobs town near the Rancocas farm. deputy surrogate Huft says if filed in Trenton it will be referred to this country for probate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph
Mont Haly
N.J
W.e
Pierra Lorillard
Frauds in Turkish customs lead to arrests over £120000
A Pall Mall Gazette dispatch from Constantinople reports large frauds in Turkish customs with embezzlements surpassing £120,000. Several senior customs officials have been arrested. In St Louis a cool wave ends a heat spell as the thermometer hits 91 at 2:30 PM amid rising clouds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Constantinople
St. Louis
Pearman Plantation Manager Killed by Colored Worker
Pearman plantation manager Lucius Reet was killed after ordering Charles Phillips to clean out Macabin. Phillips fled into nearby woods as a posse pursued him into Port author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Lucius Reet
Pearman Plantation
Here
Charles Phillips
Phillips
Posse
Port
San Francisco Schuetzentent Opens Third Day Marksmen Work
San Francisco Cal July 16 Today marks the third day of the Schuetzenfest with the marksmen starting early though the weather was not ideal for good schooling due to light rope conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Judge Lyon Receives Civil War Pension at Seventy-Seven
Judge W P Lyon president of the state board of control and former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court was notified of a $12 a month Civil War pension. To prove age he cited his 1846 marriage to ex-Sheriff George Wylie of Elkhorn Walworth County. Lyon served as captain then colonel of Wisconsin units, later breveted brigadier general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecal
Madiaon
Wis
W. P. Lyon
State Board of Control
Supreme Court
Pension Department
Judge Lyon
Eighth
Wisconsin Volunteers
Wisconsin
French's Trap Failed In British Assault On Scheeper's Stronghold
London dispatch reports General French's combined attack on Scheeper's stronghold yielded incomplete results. The main forces escaped, and General Brench plans another trap. There are unconfirmed claims of a larger British infantry withdrawal and a sole occupied railway link between Johannesburg and Durban.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
French
Scheeper
Brench
Johannesburg
Durban
Bloemfonten
Not Caused By Hazing Claims About Craven Refuted
A New York report alleging Henry Smith Craven, grandson of Rear Admiral Craven, was driven insane by hazing at Annapolis is disproved by Navy records. Craven was appointed to the academy in 1880 but never entered due to ill health, and he was not an actual student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uv Associated Press
Washington, D. C
New York
Henry Smith Craven
Craven
U. S. Nu
Bloomingdale
Annapolis Naval Academy
Navy Department
James G Stone Likely New U S Consul at Cape Town
In Washington on July 16 it seems probable that James G Stone the United States consul general at Cape Town will be appointed United States vice consul at Cape Town or another South African port. The move aims to keep Stone in government service while he may accept a lucrative role with American exporters as resident agent in South Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
James G Stone
United States
Cape Town
Capa Town
Stowa
South Africa
Attack on Train at Tierra Blanca Kills Seven
A Vera Cruz and Pacific railway train was attacked at Tierra Blanca by a large armed force. Seven men on the train were killed and reinforcements from Cordova, Mexico are in pursuit. The motive remains unclear, though the attackers may have been former road builders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preva
St. Louis
Cordova
Mexico
Vera Cruz & Pacific Railway
Tierra Blanca
New Park Dedication Celebrations Planned in Menasha
Neenah Menasha Wis July 16 a grand celebre thon is set for July 20 for the dedication of the new park pavilion at B D Smith Library park. Activities include a parade speeches band concerts and a pavilion dance with night illumination and decorations. Officers and committees are named to manage music illumination and advertising with a program designed to be memorable in Menasha history. Local residents report travel and visits to Pan-American positions Walparago Indiana Milwaukee and Oshkosh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neenah-Menesha
Wis
Henry Fitzgibbon
L. J. Noble
John Rosch
G. Mars
P. J. Robertson
Mcclahon
Henting
Hyland
Joseph Stommel
Theodore Beach
F. E. Grove
Menasha
Vin Wright
Neenah
Willam Hughes
Sid Mansur
Walparaigo
Indiana
Joseph Walker
Little Sons
Milwaukee
Fred Meyer
Oshkosh
L. G. Arnold
Death of Mrs Monahan Wife of Oshkosh Citizen
Mrs Ken M Monahan aged 63 died today before noon at 26 Eleventh Street Oshkosh. Born August 7 1838 in St Stephens New Brunswick she leaves husband William J Monahan and children Belle J Monahan and four sons and five sisters and one brother. Funeral from St Johns Catholic church Friday at ten o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ken M. Monahan
Wiatm FE
Monahan
Eleventh Street
St. Stephens
New Brunswick
Aona
Willum J. Monahan
Hugh EH. Monahan
Daniel KR. Monahan
Belle J. Monahan
Oshkosh
Hugh Monahan
Fire alarm at Ida Street ends via chimney trouble
A fire alarm sounded near twelve o'clock today at the corner of Ida Street and Franklin Avenue. A serpent stove fire was contained by proper venting after smoky trouble caused by a defective chimney. A misread flame prompted the alert and crews responded promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Street
Franklin Avenue
Estelle Bowers
Hlugene Bowers
Buffalo
N. Y
John Manion
J. T. O'Brien
City
Texas
Jefferson Avenue
O'Brien Sayat
Oshkogh
Texan detective links teacher to alleged Texas murder
A Little Rock dispatch reports a detective has arrested a supposed young woman teaching at a private school near Kings River. The teacher, identified as a tan named Sears, is believed wanted in Texas for a murder committed seven years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Memphis
Tents
Little Rock
Ark
Kings River
Sears
Texas
A Walt From Old Gardens
The blue flower spiderwort marks old dwelling sites in New England where it escapes from neglected gardens. Though tied to personal memory, the plant itself is curious and interesting, evoking sympathy for relics of the past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Clarencé Moores
What the World Demands and the Call for Integrity
A reflection on societal expectations that true success lies in uplifting others and pursuing wealth honestly. The piece urges not to harm widows or orphans or gain riches through sharp practices. It argues for a moral life where dignity and ethics guide achievement.
Hancock's Record Trip Reported at Manilla
United States army transport Hancock arrived with Adjutant General H. C. Corbin and Surgeon General George M. Sternberg aboard. The vessel completed a record voyage from San Francisco in twenty one days. A separate line notes a man facing bankruptcy over interest payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manilla
United States Army
Hancock
H. C. Corbin
George M. Stermberg
San Francisco
Standard Table Old Cloth Company Organized
Official announcement states capitalization of 10 310,000,000 and indicates the company will acquire large plants in Buchanan New Jersey Passaic Newark Ohio Youngstown Ohio and Norristown Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jay
Standard Table Old Cloth Company
Buchanan
Passaic
N. J
Newark
N. d
Akron
Ohio
Youngstown
Norristown
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