Strike Nearing End Amid Latimer Coal Mine Stand
The Philadelphia coal strike moves toward settlement as President Mitchell signals a convention to decide a 10 percent wage increase. Latimer mines of Calvin Pardee & Co suspend operations after workers protest and mobs intimidate, while Delaware & Hudson joins others in offering the wage rise.
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Philadelphia
Mitchell Hay
Bhenandoal
Calvin Pardee & Co
Latimer
Pardee
Pardoo
Par- Hee
Delaware & Hudson Company
Aod
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Thorne
Tornado Ripples Across Biwabik Nixing Two People
A destructive tornado struck Biwabik and nearby areas Saturday, killing two persons and injuring eight. Property damage is estimated from 350 000 to 800 000, with shaft houses dwellings and businesses leveled. The Austrian settlement near Biwabik suffered severe losses as twenty houses were blown down.
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Minnepots
Wisconsin
Mesaba Range
Biwabik
John Moriarity
Aua‘trian
Ab Binabik
Kentucky Senate approves substitute on election law
The Kentucky senate on Saturday passed a substitute for the house election bill. The measure mirrors the Goebel era law with county judges naming election officers. The house is expected to reject the substitute and prospects for a new election law this session seem slim.
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Kentucky Senate
House
Germans clash with Chinese near Tien Tein retreat ordered
A German force engaged about 8,000 Chinese described as Boxers near Tien Tein on Friday morning, was checked and forced to withdraw. The Chinese may have Li Hong Chang veterans rather than Boxers. Includes note on Atlanta mayoral results and a Shanghai dispatch about court degradation and a new cable from Che Foo to Tain Tau indicating large indemnities.
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London Standard
Tien Tein
Tien ‘Tain
Thi
Li Hong Chang
Shanghai
Che Foo
Tain Tau
Southern Industrial Convention Opens Invitations Extended
Thompson of the Southern Industrial Convention announces the next session in New Orleans in December. Governor Heard of Louisiana invites all southern state governors to attend the opening day as the canal issue is to be discussed with state education superintendents, agriculture commissioners, railroad representatives, manufacturers, and business leaders invited to participate.
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NF. Thompson
Southern Industrial Convention
Heard
Louisiana
Nicurupna Canal
Povernora
Bryan Talks to Indiana Voters on Winning Tour
Hon W J Bryan Democratic presidential candidate concludes his Indiana tour with fourteen speeches across Platofield Green Castle Brazil Terre Haute Lewis Linton Emorona Washington Shoals Mitch ell Rylans Salem New Albany Jeffersonville. Audiences large at most stops with strong enthusiasm and great multitudes at several cities.
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W. J. Bryan
Indiana
Ohio River
Platofield
Indianapolis
Green Castle
Depauw University
Brazil
Terre Haute
Lewis
Linton
Emorona
Washington
Shoals
Mitchell
Rylans
Salem
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Governor Sayers Acts to Aid Gulf Coast Sufferers
Governor Sayers of Texas approves a $30,000 relief payment to Judge Talliaferro for mainland orderers after the September gulf hurricane. Severe conditions persist near Alvin and Hitchcock as Dallas leaders push for mass county meetings to seek $150,000 from surplus funds to aid Galveston and coast sufferers and urge legislative support.
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Gov. Sayers
Texas
Talliaferro
Alvin
Hitchcock
Dallas
Aaron Coffee
Galveston
Sion
Pork Barr Uptick and Trade Moves Highlight Chicago Market
Pork jumped to 17 dollars per barrel on the Chicago board with 75 000 barrels tied up as supply tightens. The close settled at 14 50 after opening 14 25, with half dollar strides pushing price higher. In other items Sir Thomas Lipton is rumored to be Jong and Lord Roberts plans a South Africa departure. a boiler explosion near Waelder Texas killed three Wilson children and injured others including one Wikfield child and Elvira Cunningham. Henry McMickeo suffered a two bone arm fracture.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Thomas Lipton
Wight
Visit to Pekin by Li Hung Chang Draws Attention
Li Hung Chang left Tien Tein Saturday for Pekin after a visit there had been postponed indefinitely, signaling renewed attention on his Chinese capital journey.
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Pekin
Li Hung Chang
Tien Tein
Forty Five Indicted in Akron Riot Case
Akron special grand jury returned sixty six true bills indicting forty five men for the August twenty second riot. Among those named were Councilman George Brodt and A. A. Halted, both prominent citizens. City officials were censured for allowing the mob to assemble and for not dispersing it earlier.
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Akron
George Brodt
Troops Reinforce Northern Luzon in Insurgent Campaign
Manila dispatch reports four cavalry regiments and two infantry companies reinforcing General Young in north Luzon. Insurgents led by exiled priest and renegade generals Lino and Villanueva coordinate in mountain districts amid scouting and skirmishing. The commission begins revising tariffs and aims to improve American advantages after the army board’s findings.
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Manila
Young
Luzon
Insurgenta
Tolio
Lino
Villaneuve
Beason
Abra
Iliocos
Army Board
Bent to Stamp Out Trouble on Marine Hugues Island
Cable from General McArthur in Manila reports Firt Infantry sent to Marinduque under General Hare with twelve companies to quell insurrection. Captain Shields and fifty-one men of the Twenty ninth Volunteer Infantry were killed or captured by insurgents. Philippine revenue data for seven months in 1900 show gains over 1899 across customs, internal revenue, and postal receipts.
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Marine Hugues Island
War Department
McArthur
Manila
Marinduque
Sumner
Hare
Island
Anderson
Shields
Twenty Ninth Volunteer Infantry
Philippines
Uniqne Strike in Kentucky Wins Union Recognition
In Baskett near Owensboro Kentucky striking miners gain recognition for their union and wage cuts. Former mine owner T C Binkler had not recognized the union but paid wagons about five cents above the union schedule. The union is recognized and the Pittsburg scale signed. This may be the first strike for lower wages.
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Baskett
Owensboro
T. C. Binkler
Pittsburg
Minister Takes to Own Life in Jasper Tenn
Rev B J Pirtle Cumberland Presbyterian minister killed himself in the Presbyterian church by hanging from a bell cord in Jasper Tennessee. Despondency from lack of work cited as cause.
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B. J. Pirtle
Cumberland Presbyterian
Jasper, Tenn
Floods in Mexico Raze Towns and Kill Drown Victims
Telegraphic dispatches from Tampico report the Panuco and Tames rivers at historic highs flooding the valleys above Tampico. The Tames near Chilu Station is over fifty miles wide sweeping away hundreds of homes. Many deaths from drowning are feared as all southern tributaries escape their banks and devastate villages and cropland in San Louis Potosi.
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Tampico Mexico
Panuco
Tames
Gulf
Chilu
Mexican Central Railroad
San Louis Potoai
Duel to Death on Moving Train in Illinois
On a Chicago and Alton passenger train speeding toward Chicago a duel ended with Burke of St. Louis severely injured after a struggle on top of the coach. The unknown assailant was shoved off and left badly crushed. In other dispatches Lord Roberts reports rising prisoner numbers and Boer losses after engagements near Bulfenstein with London Irish forces suffering as well.
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Chicago & Alton
William Burke
St. Louis
Chicago
East St. Jonis
Burke
Atagonist
Dock Smith
James Battles
Blount County
Attalla
Scrous
Smith
Deep Water Effort Organized for Apalachicola
Citizens from Columbus Apalachicola and Eufaula form the Columbus and Apalachicola Foreign Commerce Association moving to secure deep water at Apalachicola Florida A prospectus is prepared by Mayor L H Chappell of Columbus and signed by bankers lumbermen steamboat firms and merchants from the Chattahoochee valley.
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Columbus
Apalachicola
Yufanis
Fla
L. H. Chappell
Eufaula
Columbus and Apalachicola
Boxers and Germans clash as Pekin forces burn villages
A Shanghai dispatch says 2 000 Boxers attacked two German battalions near Kau Ku Men outside Pekin with 400 Boxer and five German losses. Germans reportedly burn Boxer villages around Pekin.
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Shanghai
Kau Ku Men
Pekin
Exodus of Servants Draws Texas Cotton Field Boom
Leaving towns for cotton work, hundreds of men and women head to Texas fields as high wages lure labor away. The shortage forces several hotels to close and Georgetown lodging houses to suspend business temporarily.
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Texas
Georgetown
Tex
Crime plague in Opelika with multiple brutal incidents
Report outlines a murder on a track near Opelika passenger depot with Morris Hill slain by gunshot. A Black defendant William Nelma is jailed as a suspected killer. Separately Charles Barnes, another White man, was assaulted by Black men near a factory. he survived after a train severed an arm. Additional items note Confederate rosters drives, Altoona coal mine activity, a morphine overdose death in Avondale Park, and various local obituaries and civic notes.
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Central of Georgia Railway
Opelika
Morris Hill
William Nelma
Charles Barnes
Western Railroad
Avondale Park
Birmingham
W. C. Leggett
Alabama Great Southern Freight Office
J. Brooat Barbour
Thomaeville
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Treniron
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Talladega
Talladega County
J. H. Johnson
Daughters of the Confederacy
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W. T. Underwood
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Claude E. Sawyer
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Ironaton
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Martin C. Folkrvetor
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Stowa AL Law
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Mirmingham
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C. D. Comstock
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