Steel Workers Strike Expands Across Cities
In New York 60000 iron and steel workers are ready to join a sympathetic strike. In Pittsburg President Shaffer orders a general strike as labor unrest spreads to Riverside Iron Works in Wheeling and the National Tube Works at Benwood, with plant dismantling and non union actions anticipated.
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PITTSBURG
Riverside Iron Works
Wheeling
W. Va
Shaffer
Riverside
National Tube Works
Benwood
Amalgamated Association
Telegrama
McKeesport
steel corporation
Enterprise Lodge
John W. Painter
J. K. Skelly
James F Kuhn
enterprise
Jacob Meyers
Demmiler
American Tin Plate Company
George Falkensteine
Dewees-Wood
Kiaskiminetas Valley
Samuel M. Cooper
Monesgen
Eawood
waas
Another small Boer victory
London dispatch from Lord Kitchener reports a Boer force rushing and capturing a block house near Brandfort Orange River Colony after August 7夜 fighting. Elliott has captured seventy prisoners and seized stock and wagons sent to a depot. No detail from the other front. A German veteran burial noted in Munster West Philadelphia with requiem mass for Baron von Kettler murdered at Pekin.
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Gazette
LONDON
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Brandfort
Orange River Colony
Elliott
piel
MUNSTER
West Phila
Baron on Kettler
Germany
Pekin
Explosion near British transport shocks New Orleans crew
A nighttime explosion damaged the Harrison steamer Mechanican moored at Stock landing as it prepared to carry mules to South Africa. Crew members fled to decks, two waterline plates were sprung, pumps fought flooding, and officials suspect an external bomb or torpedo though no explosives were found on board. No suspects named and no firm theory on who was responsible.
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NEW ORLEANS
Walter Dimmick Arrested in San Francisco Mint Case
Chief Wilkie of the secret service treasury department reports Walter Dimmick former chief clerk at the San Francisco Mint has been arrested on two charges. One accuses him of stealing 336,060 in gold from the U S Mint. The other alleges misappropriation of funds for supplies.
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Gazette
WASHINGTON
Chief Wilkie
secret service
treasury department
Walter Dimmick
San Francisco
George Hazen
Dimmick
United States mint
San Franciseco
Leach
Selby Smelter Robber Captured in San Francisco Heist
In a San Francisco report, Jack Winters admits the Selby Smelting Works gold theft of 130000 dollars has been recovered from the bay. Detectives, aided by Superintendent Ropp, traced the crime to a waterside hiding spot near the railroad wharf, with Winters guiding officers to the cache and aiding a four hour submerged search.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Selby
Jack Winters
Winters
Ropp
works
Ropp Winters
Crockett
low
Vallejo
Wintra
Hopp
smelier
fl lars
timnels
Dumont and His New Air Ship Balloon Project
Dumont advances his air ship project with a balloon under construction. Details describe the ongoing build and the inventor's effort to pioneer heavier than air travel, highlighting milestones and anticipated tests.
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DUMONT
Secretary Wilson tours corn belt in strong harvest tone
TRAER Iowa August 10 Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture finished his corn belt tour and rests on his farm. He says future weather will largely determine final corn yield with late corn aided by fall weather and adequate rainfall. Wheat and oats are praised as excellent and hay is abundant. western states will supply eastern need for potatoes. Forage is plentiful and no aid is needed. damage to the corn crop may drive management changes to avoid repetition of this year's losses.
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Gazette
TRAER
Iowa
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Associated Press
ici
No Decision In Southern Pacific Tax Case
The report states Judge Hawley adjourned the U S Circuit Court without a ruling in the Southern Pacific railroad tax case and is expected to issue a decision next Monday. The item notes multiple other dispatches about Europe and Panama, and includes a local ad and weather notes.
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Gazette
CARSON
Thomas FP. Hawley
United States Circuit Court
andas
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