Strikers Run Higher Toll as Mines Stay Largely Idle
Camps at Turtle and Plum creeks remain four weeks. New York and Cleveland Gas Coal mining but at low capacity. Strikers press for court action after injunction cases, hopes of peaceful end fading, leaders keep order, preparations continue to reopen Pittsburg area mines, including Pittsburg and Chicago Gas Coal on the Wheeling division with ten day vacancy notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Turtle
Plum Creeks
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
de Armitt
Cameron Miller
United Mine Workers
Mercer
Butler
St. Louis
Dolan
United Labor League
Coal Company
Chicago Gas Coal Company
Wheeling
Baltimore and Ohio
van Eman
Pensions and Postmasters Revised with New Names
Washington Aug 30 Pensions were granted to Theo Walker and Charles M Dawes in Iowa with widow Augusta A Bishop noted in Ottumwa and Alonzo M Bartlett in South Dakota with widow Estelle McVey in Buffalo Gap. Postmasters appointed in Iowa Albion Medford Yale with successors named and in Nebraska Peake Buffalo county Ludwig Mueller replacing W H Newell resigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iowa
Theo
Walker
Denison
Charles M. Dawes
Des Moines
Augusta A. Bishop
Ottumwa
South Dakota
Alonzo IT. Bartlett
Wessington Springs
Estelle McVey
Buffalo Gap
Albion
Marshall County
Belle Hobbs
P. M Mitchell
Medford
Warren
J. H. Summer
L. H. Brandt
Yale
Guthrie
M. J. Miller
C. Schmelz
Nebraska
Peake
Buffalo County
Ludwig Mueller
W. H. Newell
Horticulturist and Banker Leader: A B Keith Relates Shaw Bio
A B Keith of Butte Montana and former Leader staffer offers a biographical note on Mr Shaw. He recalls Keith once ran a Denison newspaper and a fruit agent proposed studying law. The agent later becomes the Republican candidate for governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
A. B. Keith
Butte
Mont
The
Leader
Shaw
Keith
Denison
Tie
Nicolas Chevalier d Assas Remembered in Night Reconnaissance
Bouillet notes Nicolas Chevalier d Assas a French captain of the Auvergne regiment born in Vigan Languedoc. During a night reconnaissance October 15 1760 at Klostercamp West Artia he encountered a stealthy enemy column advancing on the French army. He cried A moi Auvergne the enemy is here and was killed instantly.
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Bouillet
Nicolas
Chevalier d’Assas
Auvergne
Vigan
Languedoc
Klostercamp
Artia
D’assas
Encampment Ends as Buffalo Hosts GA R Rally
The Grand Army encampment at Buffalo closes with 1697 officers and committee heads departing by rail. Alfred Luter of Bidwell Wilkeson post is elected vice commander in chief, I B Allen of Connecticut as junior vice commander, and resignations noted for pensions and school text book reviews. Members include Mrs Woodley and Mother Regsom. council of administration names Judson Sheppard Illinois and others.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Grand Army
Women’s Citizens Committee
Commander In Chief
Adjutant General
Alfred Luter
Bidwell- Wilkeson Post
I. B. Allen
Connecticut
Walker
Indiana
Woodley
Association of Army Nurses
Pickler
House
Senate
Commissioner of Pensions
Congress
South
Council of Administration of
The
Judson Sheppard
Illinois
Robert W. Till
Iowa
Fred W. Scott
John Halahan
Nebraska
Nelson W. Viall
South Dakota
Boy Delights In Murder at Lancaster Reform Home
In Columbus a demented 11 year old, Willie Crago, faces removal to the Lancaster boys reform school for an attempted murder of his baby sister at his parents home. He boasted of killing his four year old brother in Tuscarawas county years earlier, describing the method with morbid detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, O
Jesse Pomeroy
Boys
Lancaster
Willie Crago
Tuscarawas County
Tuscara
Gold Vein Found While Digging Well Near Canton Illinois
A well on George Houston's farm near Allen along the Peoria and Pekin road yielded a yellow substance in soapstone and a vein of gold colored material over an inch wide and several feet long. News caused quick local excitement but no tests have confirmed gold.
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Canton
Peoria
Ill
Utica
Copperas Creek
George Houston
Allen
Peoria and
Pekin
Turkish Ambassadors News Hint at Bomb Plots
A telegram from the Turkish ambassador in Vienna suggests a number of people are moving toward Constantinople with the aim of setting off bomb explosions. The report notes concern over potential acts of violence and state reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantin
Vie
Constantinope
Operators Divided Over Proper Course In Pittsburg Conference
Pittsburg coal operators divided over reopening mines with imported workers. A split emerged amid internal fears and shifts toward northwest supply, while lake shippers emphasized readiness to start mines and hold for a week or ten days. A Cleveland-linked committee gains discretionary power. next meetings possible. Prices remained steady, tied to coal quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Lke
United Mine Workers of America
Monongahela House
Cleveland
Peasants Demand Redistribution of Uncultivated Lands
In Lazio, 700 villagers with families marched from Marine toward estates of Prince Colonna and Le fratocichie to seize and divide uncultivated holdings. Authorities intervened, dispersing the crowd as troops were sent to curb further disturbances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Lazio
Marine
Prince Colonna
le Fratocichie
Infuriated Woman's Revenge in Guttenburg
Mrs. Frida Richter, 30, wife of an aged husband, attacked rival grocer Mrs. Frieda Lang with a cowhide after a quarrel sparked by Lang's remarks about suitors and ice cream. Richter was bonded to appear before the Hudson county grand jury on assault charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frida Rieter
Hudson Avenue
Guttenburg
Hudson County Grand Jury
Frieda Lang
Heat plague lessons from 1896 women victims and cure claim
The text cites a heat wave death toll with many women in their thirties to fifties, detailing symptoms and urging Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy. It includes a testimonial from Mrs. Sallie Craig of Baker's Landing Pa describing weakness and recovery after using the medicine for uterine prolapse leucorrhea and related illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia
Pinkham
Sallie Craic
Baker's Landing
Allen's Foot-Ease Promises Quick Foot Comfort
An 19th century style advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder as curing painful swollen feet and corns with instant relief. It markets the product through druggists and mail orders, with a trial package and address in Le Roy New York. It also includes scattered, garbled snippets about typhoid rates, teething remedies, and other ad copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Friese
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
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William LB M
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Dorchester, Mass
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