Miners Strikes Spur Regional Tensions Across States
Reports from Belleville Duquoin Canonsburg and Fairmont describe strikers pressing disputes as unions seek to influence mines. About eight hundred miners may move toward Duquoin as guards and police intervene with mine closures and troop deployments. The United Mine Workers plan wider action into Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania to involve anthracite and bituminous districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
United Mine Workers’ Journal
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Seaboard
Will Strike August 15 Cloak Makers Strike Ordered
Local union No 1 of the United Brotherhood of Cloak Makers met to finalize plans for a citywide strike on August 15. The 12 000 cloak makers in New York are urged to walk out, protesting starvation wages cited by workers including Jacob Silverman who earned 1 55 for 63 hours. Operators who once earned 65 cents for jackets now receive 16 cents and cape workers 7 cents, down from 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Brotherhood of Cloak Makers
Jacob Silverman
Crockery Prices to Rise Under Tariff, New York Traders Say
Importers in New York gathered at the Crockery Board of Trade to vote for advancing earthenware prices due to the new tariff law. They cited shipments data from Liverpool showing only modest increases and declines in six months figures, arguing preemptive stockpiling could reduce future supply.
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New York
Tony
John Bdwards &O
Liverreal
England
Liverpool
United States
Transparent fish sighting hits New London bay
In Bay brook, New London on July 17 a new transparent fish has appeared in the area nets. Hundreds have been caught this week. Captain William Flint notes the Neh resembles a wapates fish from St. James river Florida, though such fish have not been seen this far north before.
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New London
Conn
Baybrook
William Flint
St. James River
Florida
Attempted murder and suicide pact shock New York boarder scene
In Phoenix New York July 27 Mrs Frank Horr 28 lay under arrest after brutal beating of a 10 year old boarder and attempted suicide by Paris green. She threatened to murder her four and five year old children and was saved from harming them by her husband returning home. Justice Crandall issued a warrant for her arrest as she pleads to walks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
N. Y
Frank Horr
Meeting of Coal Operators in Pittsburg Ends Turbulent
Ninety coal firms from the Pittsburg district attended the two session meeting on uniformity. Colonel W P Read presented a minority report and then bolted the convention. The group postponed changes, printed copies of the agreement for members, and adjourned to morning.
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Pittsburg
Ecoal
Westmoreland Field
W. FP. Read
Vierting
Stridler
Read
Littles
Cone Noh
Deiter
W. P. DeArmitt
Anderson
J. B. Zerbe
West Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Injured Riders: Evans Sisters Hurt Near Salineville
Annie Evans of Columbus and Edith Evans visiting Salineville were injured when Edith lost control of a bicycle and collided with a horse. Edith suffered a broken leg after the crash and Annie sustained injuries. Edith was unconscious for six hours after the fall.
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Salineville
Annie
Eaith Evans
Columbus
Edith
Bornetuck
Young Woman Murdered in Michigan Woods
Karl Morrison visited Alles Brooks at Great Western Friday and did not return. A woods search found Brooks’s body torn and mangled. Police suspect she was occulied and strangled by a ramp named Peter Bunce. A posse continues the search for the suspect.
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Crystal
Mich
Karl Morrison
Alles Brooks
Great Westerning
Dleath
Peter Bunce
Drowned Man Frederick Anderson in Sandusky River
A man named Frederick Anderson aged about years drowned while bathing in the Sandusky River near this city this afternoon. He suffered cramps as water currents pulled him under. Local residents failed to aid him as he sank.
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Sandusky
Tima
Frederick Anderson
Hani
Aia
Gathering of Labor Leaders in Wheeling Conference
A large labor leaders conference convened in Wheeling West Virginia with figures including Samuel Gompers M D Ratchford and Debs. The goal is to secure support for ending the coal strike and to plan actions such as a possible suspension of work in West Virginia and at DeArmitt coal mines. Sessions ran from afternoon into evening behind closed doors.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Heads of Labor Organizations of America
M. D. Ratchford
United Mine Workers
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Miners’ Organization
Samuel Gompers
New York
Columbus
United Mine Workers of America
J. R. Beverelan
Knights of Labor
Patrick Dolan
Pittsburg
Ratchferd
Pearse
Sovereign
Morrison
Alea
Federation
Wea
Sugeret
Ratchford
Cleveland and Pittsburg Coal Company
DeArmitt's
Pittsbore
Kia
West Virginia
Messrs
Mahon
Rea
Debs
Askew
DeArmitt
Virginia
Jersey Woman Naturalized First Female Federal Certificate
Hannah K. Lund, a Swedish native living in Plainfield, was granted naturalisation papers by Judge Kirkpatrick in the United States District Court. She plans missionary work in China, sails soon, and becomes the first woman naturalized in New Jersey’s Federal court.
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Trenton
N. d
United States District Court
Kirkpatrick
Hannah K. Lund
Plainfield
Sweden
Miss Lund
China
Stara and Stripes
New Jersey
Nixon
Empire State Rubber Company formed by merger of two firms
Stockholders of the North American and the Liberty Rubber companies of Betanket Long Island met in Jersey City and consolidated the two firms into the Empire State Rubber Company New Jersey capital 800000. The new enterprise will operate under the rubber trust and pay off old debts while expanding business on a larger scale.
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New York
North American
Liberty Rubber Companies
Betanket
Long Island
Jersey City
New Jersey
Empire State Rubber Company
The
Rubber Trust
Companion
Lcale
Reed seeks patents for new warship fuel system
F M Reed of Anderson Indiana and his attorney Judge Champman left for Washington to file patents and win government support for a fuel system for war vessels. Reed says the Indiana could be supplied with oil to power a world voyage.
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Anderson
Ind
F. M. Reed
Judge Ch'pman
Washington
Reed
Indiana
Death by self destruction after gambling loss in Shelbyville
Edward Nat forty, aged and married, arrived from Fairland yesterday. He drank heavily and lost all his money gambling. This morning he was found lying by the Big Four railroad tracks west of Shelbyville. It is believed he died by his own hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
Ind
Edward Nat
Fairland
Lynching Report Near Boott and Vail County Line
Word reached Little Rock today of a mob killing a horse thief and the probable fatal shooting of another man near the Boott and Vail county line, about sixty miles from a telegraph office. Both victims were white men named Crownover and Beach.
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Little Rock
Ark
Boott
Vail
Crownover
Beach
Woman 71 in Bloomington Takes Poison
Mrs Nancy Healer aged 71, a pioneer and prominent woman, attempted suicide by poison in Bloomington New Jersey. Authorities report she is seriously ill and may die.
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Bloomington
Nancy Healer
Wom
Polson
Accused of Embezzlement in Pana Bank Union Case
The secretary of the Citizens' Savings, Loan and Building association in Pana was arrested on a warrant from A. B. Erman, urging embezzlement. The complaint cites a total shortage of around 4,000 dollars. Weaver served as secretary eight years and allegedly misappropriated nearly 17,000, with 9,500 repaid via securities and bonds from friends and relatives.
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Pana
Tsaae Ny ‘Caver
Citizens’ Payings, Loan and Bullding Association of
A. B ‘Rman
Weaver
Louisiana Benefited by Dingley Tariff Says Sugar Planter
New Orleans July 22 Leon Godchaux the state’s largest sugar planter praised the Dingley tariff bill. He said protection for sugar lumber and rice will greatly benefit Louisiana labor and boost prosperity. Godchaux raises 15 000 000 to 20 000 000 pounds of sugar annually and received a government bounty of 100 000 in one year when bounties existed.
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New Orleans
Leon Godehaux
Louisiana
Tonlight
Godchaux
Secretaries consider Alaska military post near Klondike
Secretary of War weighs a plan to establish a Fort Alger post in Alaska with a company of infantry and Gatling gun brigade near the boundary about 250 miles northeast of Klondike. Congressional authorization uncertain as Attorney General opinion sought. Volunteer enlistments already flowing in, including Captain Abercrombie with sixty picked men.
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Washington
Alaska
Vaet
Run Post
Fort Alger
Boundary Line
Klondyke
Yukon River
Alger
W. S. Abercrombe
Second Infantry
Fort Harrison
Mont
His Own Funeral March Surprises Indiana Banker
Terre Haute July 2 H A Boudinet an Insurance agent was surprised when Prof Vhreinig of the Ringgold band said he had written a funeral march for Boudinot. He joked that he would not hear it himself yet wished a serenade at his funeral. At midnight neighbors heard the doleful tune and band members were welcomed for afters.
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Terre Haute
Ind
H. A. Boudinet
Vhreinig
Ringgold Band
Boudinot
Pacific Cable Project abandons Pacific cable plan
London reports a conference between Mr. Chamberlain and Colonial premiers ends with abandoning the Pacific cable scheme. The Standard notes dispatches already sent by AP and St James's Gazette calls the move a quiet return to the status quo, leaving matters as they were.
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London
The
Standard
Fighting in India reports tribal attack near Camp Malak
A Simla dispatch says tribesmen attacked Camp Malak last night in Chitral. Private Leonard Manley of the 45th Sikhs was killed, Private Taylor wounded, and Major Herbert with Lieutenant Watling of the engineers were seriously injured. Cavalry and guides are in pursuit as the enemy retreated this morning.
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London
Simla
Malak
Chitral
Leonard Manley
Harvest Woes Hit Local Farmers Amid Coal Shortage
Farmers face a vexing bottleneck as oat, rye, and wheat crops near harvest while no coal is available to run threshers. Bundles of oats and rye lie ready, but the lack of fuel halts processing, adding to regional difficulties.
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Juliet
Prida
Heeman Mies
Havia
Delegates Return from Yellowstone Park Trip
Delegates returning home from Mammoth Hot Springs Wyoming arrived at Yellowstone Park and viewed the area before taking a special train east. The first group of Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor delegates reached their destination after the tour.
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Mammoth
Bprings
Wyo
Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor
Yellowstone Park
East
Woman on the Nock Pile in Danville Sentenced
In Danville police court Magistrate Timmons jailed Maggie Sellers for thirty days on a disorderly conduct charge after a report of female unrest on the Nock Pile area.
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Danville
Mastetrate Timmons
Maggie Sellers
Senator Quay open to county voter testing of reelection
Senator Quay says counties may pass resolutions asking candidates for United States senator to register for public testing of support. He adds Philadelphia rules prevent such expressions, but elsewhere committees may test the question. He plans a Florida trip in September instead of Europe to prep for the next congressional session and reelection campaign.
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United States
Philadelphia
Quay
Penrose
Atlantic City
Quay Enid
Europe
Florida
Sesson
Congress
Mosquito Plague Suspected in Monmouth County Death
Report from Keyport claims a Swedish mother left her infant in a hammock near Union Bay shore while picking raspberries. The baby allegedly died after being stung by swarming mosquitoes. residents describe men and women waving jonquils to ward off bites along the road.
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New York
Monmouth County
N. 2
Raritan Bay Shore
Keyport
Bay Shore
Union
Page Weds Voter Hope As Louisville Clerk Race Heats Up
Louisville July 27 John H Page a Democratic clerk of the circuit court candidate will face Colonel Cain incumbent after a 51 vote nomination margin. His fiancée Miss Lillie Maloney works in the circuit clerk office and campaigned for him during the primary but says she will marry him only if he defeats the Republican candidate at the polls.
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Louisville
John H. Page
Page
Colonel Cain
Lillie Malone
United States Consul Munchmeyer Dies by Own Action
Washington reports United States Consul Otto Munchmeyer of San Salvador committed death by own action last night. Minister Maker cables that a vice consul will be appointed to take charge. Munchmeyer, appointed from West Virginia in 1895, had earlier served Acajutla and then San Salvador after his father’s death.
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Washington
United States
Maker
State Department
Otto Munchmeyer
San Salvador
Paker
Munchmeyer
West Virginia
Acajutla
Jenkins
Nebraska
Narrow escape for Queen Regent Chera and King Alfonso near Madrid
In Madrid on July 27, Queen Regent Chera and King Alfonso narrowly escaped a shooting. A youth, hunting nearby on the El Sebastian bouavy road, fired his weapon and missed, with the royals walking close to the path in the woods by the summer court.
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Madrid
Cherathon
Alfonso
EL Sebastian
Bouavy
Autonomist Leader Urges Iberian Union in Madrid Meeting
In a largely attended gathering in Leon, Senor Labra, a noted autonomist, lauded the Republican form of government as the sole path to true autonomy for Cuba and Porto Rico and to achieving Iberian union.
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Spain
Madrid
Leon
Senor Labra
Autonomis T
Cuba
Forto Rico
Two Men Drown While Camping Near Wabash Ind
Two men drowned while camping near Wabash Indiana. Thomas Renberger of Swayvree and William Butler of Wabash disappeared around ten o clock in the morning when they were swept away in the Missinesinewa river about twelve miles southeast of the city. Their bodies were recovered at Woeclock later that day.
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Wabash
Ind
Marning Thomas Renberger
Swayvree
William Butler
Minsinsinewa River
Here
Woeolock
Body recovered from river near Toronto with initials T W A
A badly decomposed body was recovered from the river at Toronto Ohio today. It is believed to be T W Anderson who was drowned off the ford. the initials T W A were found on his clothing.
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Toronto
T. W. Anderson
Edford
Insurgent Chief Surrenders in Havana Front
Major Juan Culune cas, an insurgent chief, with 19 cavalrymen, surrendered today at Lor Poloe in Maveana Province. Forty-one insurgents were killed in engagements yesterday.
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Havana
Juan Culunecas
Lor Poloe
Maveana
Benedicts Trophies: Four Live Rattlesnakes Enter Satchel
Mr. Benedict a New York jeweler camped at Twinlake Pa and captured four rattlesnakes without aid. He removed the fangs himself and carried the live snakes in a hand satchel aboard Erie train 98 at Port Jervis on the morning trip. The fad of collecting live rattlers with skin and buttons as trophies spreads among summer resort visitors in Pike Pa Sullivan NY counties.
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Port Jervis
Pike
Sullivan
N. Y
Benedict
Benedict Brothers
New York City
Twinlake
Erie
Metropolis
Father Held After Infant Death Starvation Charge
In Teland City Philip McLee is held to await the coroner’s jury after being charged with starving his 8 month old infant to death. His wife found 450 dollars hidden by him. Earlier she was refused ten cents for milk and bread and then treated to a lavish meal by the man.
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Long Teland City
L.T
Philip Mclee
Murderous Lovers and Tragedy In Two States
In Springfield Illinois James Mingle, a horse trader, killed Mary Briscoe and her infant with a hatchet then was arrested after blood was found on his clothes. Ann Arbor Michigan Nathan James shot Martha Miner then killed himself after a lovers quarrel at Charles Gadds’s home.
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Springfeld
James Mingle
Mary Briscoew
Mingle
Ann Arbor
Mich
Nathan James
Martha Miner
James
Charles Gadds
Miss Miner
Ten Year Old Hero Saves Drowning Boy in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn Go wanus Bay a 7 year old, Herman Keeler, fell into the water. Ten year old Eddie Dobson heard screams, dived after him, reached Herman, brought him ashore with the jacket, while both boys were exhausted. Fireworks honored Eddie later at his home.
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New York
Herman Keeler
Gowanus Bay
Brooklyn
Edldie Dobson
Herman
Eddie Wee
Eddie
Werman
Rave Hille
Littl
Wedding Eve Ordeal Delays Ceremony After Suicide Attempt
Carrie Ka heck of North Carolina Avenue was to wed Joseph Pherin of East Islip yesterday but the ceremony was postponed after she attempted suicide on Saturday. She left home that morning and went to a wood near the house where she was found with severed arteries in both wrists and is too weak to speak.
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Hay Shore
Carrie Kaheck
North Carolina Avenue
Joseph Pherin
East Islip
Yonkers Factory Blaze Destroys Several Silk and Hat Mills
A major fire in Yonkers New York destroyed two large factory buildings occupied by William Reed & Co Rowland brothers and Pass Brothers silk makers and Yonkers Silk company. Employed workers including many women escaped via fire escapes with loss of clothing but no fatal casualties reported. Losses range from 10 000 to 500 000 with insurance expected to nearly cover the damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Yonkers
N. Y
William Reed & Co
Rowland Brothers
Pass Brothers
Silk Manufacturers
Yonkers‘ Silk Company
Labor and politics dominate Scranton area news
A collage of items covers labor activity in the nation and region, statements by Senator Quay, and local government actions. Reports include Wheeling labor gatherings, a governor’s veto on municipal acts, curricular talks, and Scranton political notes with county updates.
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Alaska
Sraspie
Wheeling
Senator Quay
Scranton
Ble
Polly
Lacul
Ill
T Lacal
M. A. Moetlinley
Teachers’ Institute
Lacksawanna County
Klondike rush fuels San Francisco travel boom
Reports from San Francisco and Chicago detail a surge of interest in Alaska and the Klondike with plans to sail by September. Captain Herriman proposes a sixty man expedition using a sailing vessel and a ton of provisions per person at 225 dollars each. The Alaska Commercial Company claims all remaining tickets for the Excelsior voyage are sold and urges delaying until next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Klondike
Klondike Transportation Company
Herriman
Herriman & Mills
Ita
Frank Moss
Great Falls
Mont
Forty Mule Post
F. G. Bowker
Forty Mile Post
Coldest July Day Recorded in New York
New York reports the coldest July day on record with a minimum of sixty at 3 and 4 AM. The previous closest reading was 1 AM when the temperature reached oil, marking an unusual weather anomaly for midsummer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Church levies tobacco tax on Albertsville Methodists
Stewards of the Methodist church at Albertsville Alabama levy an annual tax of zero dollars on each member who chews tobacco due to insufficient church revenues. The plan is said to work admirably.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ata
Methodist Church
Albertsville
Ala
Weather Forecast For New York and Coast
The Herald forecasts partly cloudy conditions in the Middle States with warmer weather and variable winds. Rain is expected on and near the seaboard, with clearing on the western districts. Coasts may see rain north of Cape May and in New England with easterly winds and warmer temperatures.
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MW Herald
New York
the Herald
Cape May
New England
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Marissa
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Boone
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Watson
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Hites
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Cate
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Hitness Building Association
Secretary of War
Pacific Cable Project
India
Babe
John Page
Ulim
MR. Benedict
Mis Satchel
Mix
Dr. Swallow
Hastings
Fin Minere Stolke
Altoona
Chicago
Eli Gage
Secretary of the Treasury
Gage
North American Trading Company
Dawson
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