Second day of Homestead strike erupts in clash at depot
The second day of the Homestead strike sparked intense excitement as a carload of 40 men was smuggled toward the depot. guards blocked doors, some workers fled or jumped from the train, a coat and $14 were left behind, and stones and blows flew but few injuries were reported. Most new arrivals were willing to return to Pittsburgh. Their plan was not endorsed.
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Homestead
Pittsburg
Grant Street
Association
Aot
Baltimore
Duquesne
Eenes
Peg Room Gt
Howara
Gee
Sheriffee Pemmeeaies
Schwab
Jesus
Worka
Fawcett
Youghiogheny
Hoe
Ceisler
Howari
Guat
McCandress
Picevars
Slomestead
Hick
United
Window Glass Workers’ National Convention
Campbell
Cake
Jeannette
F. M. Gessner
Isaac Cline
L. A. 300
Canbell
A. 3
L. A
Ethen
Senet Council
E Council
Sauron
Comet
Pitwburg
Brennen
Window Glass Workers’ Union
New York Sun
Dr. Finsch
New Guinea
Finseh
Africa
Finsch
Employment Agent Geisler Recalls Homestead Escape Fight
August Geisler's employment office shows battle scars after escorting 40 men to Homestead. Sheriff warns silence. strikers assault and uproot workers, throwing one man into a ditch. Geisler reports bitter mood, guns not used, and plans to hold workers until further orders from Abbott.
Local delivery driver injured after wagon overturns on Ridge avenue
Peter Kress of Thirty-seventh Street between Penn and Hutler streets was delivering goods on Ridge avenue near Center avenue when the wagon overturned. He injured his back and teeth, and was taken home by a passerby.
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Peter Kress
Thirty-seventh Street
Penn Avenue
Hutler Street
Ridge Avenue
Center Avenue
Achter
Thomas Kelman Committed on Assault Charges by Alderman Reilly
Thomas Kelman was committed to jail yesterday by Alderman Reilly on a charge of assault and battery preferred by a Mrs Little. He faced a second charge of assault and alleged by Mrs Littlebels, stemming from an altercation.
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Thomas Kelman
Alderman Reilly
Little
Sears
Littlebels
Notable visitors and hotel guests listed in city notes
W. H. Raryes, receiver of the Allegheny Valley Railroad, is at the Duquesne Hotel. R C. W. Huling of Oil City and Hon. Charles H. Mackay of Franklin are guests at the Monongahela House. Brenorp Robinson, president of the Indianapolis Electric Light Company, and L. M. Levering of Baltimore stay at the Hotel Anderson. Prof. James A. Monnow, former principal of Esteen Aivamesy at Reck Normal School, staying at the Avenue Hotel.
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W. H. Raryes
Allegheny Valley Railroad
Duquesne Hote
C. W. Huling
Oil City
Charles H. Mackay
Franklin, Pa
Monongahela House
Brenorp Robinson
Indianapolis Electric Light Company
L. M. Levering
Baltimore, Md
Anderson
James A. Monnow
Delegates Champion Bid for Re election of President Smith
A Bolsire telegram reports the American Flints contesting President Smith's bid for reelection. Wages in the shade branch were settled on last year's basis with no changes, while some branches prepare changes amounting to a practical advance.
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Bolsire
American Flints
Smith
Shade
Ened
Piuteburg Iron Firms Sign the Scale
Most major iron firms have joined the wage scale. Zog and Co signed yesterday leaving few large firms unsubmitted. A conference between the Mill Committee and Carbon Iron Company near Thieyconed street led to a plan for a new wage schedule as repairs at the mill delay action for a week or two.
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Zog & Co
Carbon Iron Company
Thieyconed
Miners Officers Elected in Scottdale Knights of Labor
At Sub-Division No. 4 N T A 135 Knights of Labor meeting in Scottdale yesterday officers were elected. Master Marek BR, D Laerfoot Sr Foreman, W T Thomporns Screens and Treasures, Co M tense a con ae M, aa form the Gascotive Board. Peter Wise declined re election as Master Workman and was retained as General Organiser.
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Knights of Labor
Scottdale
Marek BR. D. Laerfoot
W. T. Thomporns
AFTER HER HUSBAND
A well dressed woman rushed to Central police seeking arrest of her husband claiming he was with a young woman at a downtown hotel. Officers Lawrencevine and Superintendent O Mara investigated but refused to intervene. The parties reportedly stayed at the hotel during the evening.
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Eee
McKoskie Named in Assault Case Warrant Issued
Carl McKoskie faces a warrant after his younger brothers John and William McKoskie charged him with battered assault following an incident days earlier when they refused to blacken his shoes and run errands for him.
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Carl McKoskie
John
William McKoskie
Birmingham streetcar drivers seek 12 hour work day
Twelve drivers petition Superintendent Lowery to end their split shifts. They request a continuous 12 hour work day with no mid shift break while continuing to serve in the morning, midday rest, and late night hours. A charity note mentions Badle Hollander collecting funds for William Puff, linked to a rescue incident involving Mrs McClin ae.
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Birmingham Street
Lowery
Stone Horse Troughs Planned for East End Streets
A large number of stone water troughs, about six feet long by two feet wide and one and a half feet deep, will be placed in position next week across the East End streets.
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East End
Allegheny Council Debates Tax Collector Salary and Water Extends
The Allegheny Councils met last night with petitions including fixing the delinquent tax collector salary at 1500 dollars plus 5 percent. June bills totaled 51380.99. Controversy over California Avenue extension ended in passage. Water main extensions to Nine Mile Island discussed amid fever concerns. Fire contracts and garbage building plans reviewed. investigations proposed into Fire Committee actions.
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Allegheny
Snaman
Act of Assembly
Fire Committee of Common Councils
Crow
California Avenue
Arthur Kennedy
Committee On Parks
Henry Phipps
Phipps
Kennedy
Hunter
Nine Mile Island
Casaboes City Way
Popera Eggle
Yton
Johnstown
L. Cearniecki
Butcher's
J. Boder
Silby Manufacturing Company
Ogiebentogt
Fred Gene He
Anne
Ohio Connesting Railway
Woods’ Run
James McAfee
T. M. Scanlon
Beth Noma
Com Committee On
California
Fourteenth Ward
Aceon Street
Fifth Waehe
Hazel Street
Slope Alley
Drunken buggy chase sparks conflicting police report
Early yesterday a drunken couple fled down Seventh avenue in a buggy as officers Ketler Engleman fired at them. Witnesses varied. some said a black man and white woman were aboard, others denied any passenger. Officers pursued toward Allegheny. later reports denied a woman presence in the buggy.
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Seventh Avenue
Ketler
Engleman
Seventh Street Bridge
Allegheny
Seventh Street
Penn Avenue
Fourteenth Ward
Snyder
Meta Eg
Bunny
Mikes Corner
Oakland
Ronn
Ato 7
Manion Sreeti
Proull
Appropriating Funds Confinement Reported
Peter Shearer was jailed yesterday for appropriating ad funds. M Seitor, a prosecutor, said a hearing will proceed to further actions.
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Peter Shearer
M. Seitor
McKeesport Lines Extend Toward RersoLpTOON Borough
A series of local notes report natural gas expansion toward RersoLpTOON borough and new infrastructure projects. Reports mention wages at river coal mines, a fall of a janitor’s key, a theft case with four suspects sentenced to jail, a water main laid on Lincoln avenue, and an impending Carrie Furnace blast readiness. Also noted are a car accident injuring a boy in Allegheny, a sheriff touring the area, and the death of WakRREN PUTNAM in Crawford county.
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Rersolptoon
McKeesport
Yesbesmeey
Alfred Brook Peockeen
Jonn M. Kelly
Atlantic City
Hottie Blowers
Thaddeus Stevens
Damte
Kornweir
John Lamb
John Patton
Rene Carroll
John Quinn
United States Iron and Tin Plate Works
Demmler
Hill
East
Madison Streets
Allegheny
Lincoln Avenue
East End
Carrie Furnace
Bradd
Teks Ae Hexwr
Eureka
W. A. Huwree
Young
Swedish Glee Club
Wakrren Putnam
Adamsonville
Crawford County
Fyne & Life
Spectacular Floral Tributes at Chief Crow Funeral Procession
The article describes funeral processions and floral designs from Pittsburgh fire departments and city councils honoring Chief Crow. It details urns, wreaths, and symbols from multiple fire companies including Allegheny Engine, Gates Ajar motifs, and the police department, plus attendance plans and public mourning customs.
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Allegheny Police Department
Columbia Enginompany
Ioka Engine Com
Columbia Company
Hope Engine Company
Easle
Goodwill Engine Combe
Op. Ellsworth
Liberty Engine Company
Pe Pany
Colon the Tibercy
Department of Puolic Safety
Pittsburg
Jonas Hunter
Edward Armoan
C. Creer
Samuel C. G
Josie McQ
Tennessee
Richter
W. C.rt
Allegheny
Swi
Crow
Hunter
Dream Reveals Hidden Gold Coin From Aunt's Wallet
In 1868 Linzie M. Trask of Vienna Lewiston possessed a gold 25 cent piece with a hole. Her niece Addie, prompted by a dream of Lizzie Trask to locate a wallet, found the wallet and the coin wrapped inside a paper in its bottom compartment.
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Augusta
Linzie M. Trask
Vienna
Lewiston
Jonathan P. Trask
Leman Butler
Mount Vernon
Lizzie
Addie
James
Tiger hunt ends with dramatic elephant clash in India
During a six week tiger chase near Calcutta the Duc d Orleans shot eight tigers including a fierce encounter when a tigress leaped a powered elephant. The mahout escaped unharmed by slipping under the elephant’s ear as the hunt ended with the kill across a river.
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Duc d'Orleans
India
Lord Dufferin
Calcutta
Vintage wine catalog notes and names listed on Fifth Avenue
The fragment lists imported wines and brands including Brandenburg Freres Medoc Lieee mre One St. Julien Margeaux Font Pierre Chain ville Chane la Rosa and a misreaded set of vintages and labels. It mentions a bottle case and street address 95 and 97 Fifth Avenue, with Old Sherry and Old Port categories referenced.
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Brandenburg Freres
Medoc
St. Julien Margeaux
Font Pierre Chain Ville Chane la Rosa
Margeaux
Grand Atean
Fifth Avenue
City
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Sol
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Manhall
Edward Meyer
Thare
Coulo
Mary
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Abeete
Benth
Abbott
Emil Dorner
Dorner
Columbus
Robert Feals
Belle Medlock
Mary Graham
Columbia
McKenna
Monongahela Furnace Company
McKee Port
W. B. Schiller
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Lexis Jacion
Sweet T
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Jeanette
William
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the Flints' Convention
Piuteburg
Badle Hollander
Lower Allegheny
Sean Ae
William Puff
Renee
Mra McClinae
Siee Ela Beeen Aias
Chief Crow
Jos. Honsz & Co
Penn Avenues
James Gowen
Neeley
Gowen
Jos. Honne & Co
James E. Crew
Allegheny Fire Department
Fire Department
Jackson Street
Regreer
Fourth U. P. Church
Robinson
Uniondale Cemetery
Poles Department
Rand
Grand Army
Anny
Te Aanpabne
Fear Henkok
Robert Jones
Foot
Besa
John Hunter
James Lindsay
Select Council
Lan Otmmon
FEE
Howells
John Gould
Statesboro, Ga
Estey
Melloe & Horne
Ladice
Pacific Laws
Tomain
Jos, Horne & Co
Duke
Boocs & Burt
DR. C. McLane
Fleming Bros
Pittsburg, PA
St. Louis
Thompson Brothers
Victoria
W. Beads
Horne
Busier
Sey
Mark Downs
Horne & CI
Claeet Wines
Boocs & Burn
Sea
Piggan
Jos, Horse & Co
Peon Avenue
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