Strikers Raid Oak Hill Mines In West Virginia Clash
Miners attack DeArmitt workers at Oak Hill near Turtle Creek with thousands encamped around New York and Cleveland Gas Coal property. Sheriff’s deputies fire over shots as Debs and union leaders urge restraint and a mass meeting is planned in Wheeling led by Debs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Trenks
West Virginia
Oak Hill
Turtle Creek
Plum Creek
Sandy Creek
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
Willocks
Castonville
Finleyville
Wheeling
Oak FU
DeArmitts
de Armifti
Mince
de Armitt
Lowry
Eugene V. Debs
M. P. Carrick
The
Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators
M. J. Couishaw
Plumbers’ Union
L. R.thoras
National Pattern Makers
Tipple
Winchesters
Pennsylvania
Corey
Duquesne
Independent Republican ticket talk stirs in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia reports indicate no wide expansion of discussion on an independent Republican ticket against Senator Quay. Figures like John Wanamaker and Rudolph Blankenburg deny plans, while A Van Valkenburg notes seeds sown in Pittsburgh with focus on future campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Senator Quay
Pittsburg
John Wanamaker
Frank Willing Leach
Quay
Rudolph Blankenburg
Business Men
Lewmue
A. van Valkenburg
Aen
van Valkenburg
Dr. Swallow
York
Blair
Consular Appointments by the President
The president announced numerous consular postings across the United States. Appointees include Church Howe Nebraska at Pal omer Sicily. Luther W. Osborn Nebraska as consul general at Apia and Nukuolota. John N. Kuflin Tennessee at Asuncion Paraguay. A H Byington Connecticut at Naples Italy. Samuel M Taylor Ohio at Glasgow Scotland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Church Howe
Nebraska
Coney
Palomer
Sicily
Luther W. Osborn
Apia
Nukiulota
John N. Kuflin
Tennessee
Asuncion
Paraguay
A. H. Byington
Connecticut
Naples
Italy
Samuel M.taylor
Ome
Glascow
Scotland
Gustave C
Quebec
Wilburg
Glags
South Dakota
Kehl
Germany
George H. Jackson
Cagnac
France
Hugh Pitcairn
Pennsylvania
Hamburg
Ira H H. Myers
Indlihe
St. Johns
N. B
Benjamin Nusbaum
Munich
Bavaria
John N. McCann
Wisconsin
Dunfermline
Michael J. Burke
Milnois
Point Stanley
St. Thoms
Canada
Edward D. Winslow
Ilinois
Stockholm
Sweden
Henekiah A. Gudger
North Carolina
Panama
Colombia
James Johnston
New Jersey
Sheffield
Strange 1896 letter found in Havana tobacco package
An April 1896 letter was found inside a note paper in Havana leaf tobacco shipped to Philadelphia. The note mentions three American men captured in Blolel Pitney who cannot seek relief, claims discharge papers from 1865, and links to Germantown Philadelphia. The Beneca cargo arrived April 10 1896 and the letter was forwarded to the State Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
State Department
Wetterlein Brothers
Havana
Moro
Beneca
Vetterleli
Washington
War Vessels for Alaska Naval buildup amid Klondike rush
Secretary Long orders gunboat Wheeling commissioned at Mare Island by August 10 with early report aboard and a northward cruise to Sitka Alaska to relieve the Concord. Wheeling to stay in Alaskan waters through winter with Behring Sea patrols, while Pinta joins later. Behring Sea detachment plan may keep revenue cutters at Sitka. Navy officials cite lack of Army presence as reason for stronger naval force in Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Long
Wheeling
Mare Island Navy Yard
Sitka Alaska
Concord
China
San Francisco
Alaskan
Behring Sea Patrol
Revenue
Sitka
War Department
Alaska
Benham Found Guilty in Frat Murder Case
Batavia New Jersey July 20 jury returns guilty verdict in Benham murder case. The defendant Benham faced a poisoning charge over Florence Tout who died January 4. He allegedly sought to wed May Willard after eloping in 1892.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia
N. J
Benham
Laughlin
Howard C. Benham Tech
Florence Tout
Miss May Wilard
Woman Found in Spasms at Mackinac Island Claim
On Mackinac Island Michigan in July residents rushed to the house of Lizzle Lapine after her screams. She lay in a rigid state from spasms and it was thought she had taken poison though many suspect she attempted to end her life to win back her lover John Moore a laborer whose wife exposed the affair. Lapine an orphan had lived with Moore. medical staff used a stomach pump but could not locate poison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackinac Island
Mich
Lizzle Lapine
Polmon
John Moore
Lixsie
Moore
Lord Dufferin
Dhuleep Singh
Aden
Punjab
Husesia
Natu
Poona
Natus
Jailed on Ferris Wheel After Oil Pipe Breaks
Chicago report says thirty people were trapped in a car atop the Ferris wheel overnight when an oil pipe feeding the boiler broke. Women in particular grew hysterical as the car remained suspended for two hours. a 30 pound woman attempted to jump but four men restrained her. The pipe was repaired and the car lowered, releasing the trapped passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bridge Collapse Injures Farmer and Two Horses
Lancaster report states David T. Eshelman, a leading East Donegal farmer, rode a four horse wagon loaded with wheat over a Chickles creek bridge when it gave way. Eshelman sustained bruises but was not fatally hurt. two horses suffered serious injuries and the wagon and wheat remained in the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
David T. Eshelman
East Donegal Township
Chickles Creek
Isherman
Mrs Lease as Queen for Harvest Festival Crown
Topeka Kansas reports that Mrs Maury Lease the Populist orator has been selected as queen of the fall harvest festival. She will reign for a week and wear a crown valued at twenty dollars and four cents. A lecture tour is planned in Town with telegraphic invitation to accept the honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Maury
Captain Hatfield Escapes Mingo Jail in West Virginia
News reaches Huntington that Captain Hatfield a notorious outlaw held on two murder charges escaped Mingo jail this morning by carving a hole with a hatchet. A large reward is posted for his capture and return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Hatfield
Huntington
W. Va
Optlaw
Mingo
Lili
Industries to Restart in Sharon and Sharpsville Revival
Business revival in Sharon and Sharpsville expected within weeks as Booth Sharon Bleel Company resumes operations and furnaces restart in Sharonville. Officials estimate at least 1,000 previously idle workers will return to work after long layoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharon
Sharpsville
Booth Sharon Bleel Company
Sharonville
Polish Union Adopts New Constitution in Chicago
The Polish Roman Catholic Union of America meets in Chicago and adopts a new constitution. The group fixes survivor benefits: a widow receives $20 to $1,190 on her husband’s death and a widower receives $260 on his wife’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Overtures to Strikers in Phillipsburg Plant Walkout
Superintendent Thinby of the American Sheet Iron Company met with a committee of strikers in Phillipsburg New Jersey. He offered six months of work at a reduced wage. The workers have not yet decided. The strike began after an order for a car was given and the men quit months ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillipsburg
N. J
Thinby
American Sheet Iron Company
Carlie's Miraculous Escape From Mine Tragedy
Chamokin Pa July 2 John Cable a Mil Vale colliery leader was buried beneath tons of rock and coal but rescued two hours later He was badly cut bruised and injured internally with no bones broken and survived the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlie
Chamokin
John Cable
Mil Vale
Amicable Hawaii Settlement Hinted by The Figaro
Meadquarters Paria July 20 The Figaro reports an amicable settlement of the Hawaiian question with America yielding the most important points to the Japanese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadquarters
Paria
America
Fortune for a poor miner in Punxsutawney
James Thompson, a Pennsylvania miner, inherits a $25,000 cash plus 700 acres of oil land worth $100,000 from his late father John A. Thompson in Custer City. Thompson, who had limited means aside from a wartime pension, learns of the fortune as soft coal miners strike nearby. The windfall, coming amid a regional industry upswing, shifts his financial outlook from poverty to prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Thompson
Custer City
Jim
Turmoil After Three Murders Rocks Mobile City
Mobile Alabama reports three murders last night fueling lynch mood. Confederate veteran Thomas Jones, 63, was killed by Isaiah Davis after Jones confronted a break in Davis’s home. Davis was jailed as crowds milled outside. Another case, Willie Knight, known as the Pensacola Kid, killed a man and wounded Officer Tucker, with arrest pursued to Hurricane Bayou. Police rerouted a special train to bring Knight to jail as crowds threatened to storm the jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Thomas Jones
Isaiah Davie
Jones
Davis
Wis
Jal
Bush
Willie Knight
Pensacola
Danaler
Knight
Joe Tucker
Hurricane Bayou
Louisville
Nashville
Trying Sacrifice Aged Husband Offers to Bear Penalty
An impoverished couple in New York faced hunger and crime as old Adam Cameron pleaded with Magistrate Poole to take his wife’s punishment. He claimed sole responsibility for the theft of bedclothes valued at 20 from Martha Stewart, urging release for his wife who was not to blame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yok
Adam Cameron
Sarah
Jefferson Market Court
Poole
Martha Stewart
Poison act ends bride's life in Terre Haute
Mrs Myrtle Sparks Fortune died from arsenic poisoning self administered after a quarrel over money. She used a chemical in developing photographs to provoke her mother, amid a family history including a stepfather's recent death and £20 life insurance. She told her husband before collapsing and medical staff treated her for hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
Myrtle Sparks Fortune
Bre
Widow of Lt Schwatka Seeks Klondike Immigration Cut
Mrs Schwatka, widow of arctic explorer Lt Schwatka, told reporters in Renton Harbor Mich July 24 that the government should halt immigrant influx to Alaska’s Klondike gold fields. She described passes littered with miners’ skeletons from cold heat malaria or starvation en route to the gold region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Renton
Harbor
Mich
Schwatka
Klondike
Nelda
Alaska
Golden Region
Fifty Miners Narrow Escape at Shamokin Mine
Fifty miners at the North Franklin mine in Shamokin Pennsylvania fled for their lives after an accumulation of water in the old Lock slope broke through into their workings. They descended to the bottom through three feet of water as two pumps were started, but the water continued to rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamokin
North Franklin
Rail and coal firms report June earnings decline in Philadelphia
Philadelphia reports June results for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway and a coal company. The railway shows net earnings of 1,359.82 loss versus prior period, while the coal company records receipts of 1,870,000.44 and expenses of 1,901,102 with a net loss of 41,850, contrasting with prior year profit of 64,400.40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Crawford Piock Shot During Wagon Ride Near Chuyeburg
A huckster, Crawford Piock, was shot in the head three times by a tramp while riding in a wagon with Black in a wooded area. The assailant fled after firing twice more and leaving Black unconscious. A posse hunts the mountain for the would‑be murderer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holidayeburg
Crawford Piock
Huckster
Chuyeburg
Colinty
Black
England's Troubles in the Chitral
Reported from Bombay and Simla describe a second native attack on Camp Malakand with thirteen British dead and thirty wounded, including Lieut Castello, amid ammunition shortages and Mad Mullah said to muster 40,000 tribesmen. Deportations and sedition charges shock Poona observers as Makaland troops fortify Kotal amid pending reinforcements.
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Castello
Mauliah
Bombay
Malakand
Mad Mullah
Val Bhan
Poona
Scidar Balwantrao Natu
Harapant Ramchunder Natu
Simla
Makaland
Kotal
Bepoya
Punjab Infantry
Climo
Dargal
Death at the Oakley Races Claims Dr McLean
Dr. B E McLean famed American turf figure dies at Oakley track after watching his filly Tabula win the Oakle stakes. He suffered a fatal heart attack minutes after the race as bids and disputes over Taluca conclude the card. McLean, about 50, leaves a widow and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Tabula
Mr. Mciean
Anish
Taluca
John Huffman
St. Louis
McLean
Mr. McLean
Wreck on the Big Four Near Herea Causes Heavy Damage
A wreck on the Big Four near Herea in the quarry yards involved a switch engine and a through freight. The engineer is believed crushed under wreckage and dead. A trainman suffered a skull fracture and may die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Herea
Contractor Disappears In Hollidaysburg Firm Faces Loss
Marion B. Hite, a Hollidaysburg contractor with works at Conemaugh and Clearfield, is reported missing. His partner W F Stewart alleges embezzlement of 2000 dollars, leaving employees unpaid and facing a month’s wages loss.
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Holldaysburg
Marion B. Hite
Hollidaysburg
Conemaugh
Clearfield
W. F. Stewart
Hite
Li Hung Chang's Opponent Reported Dead
London July 20. The Times Pekin correspondent states Li Hung Tewo grand councilor and Taungu Yamen member is dead. He was a strong anti foreign policy advocate and the chief opponent of Li Hung Chang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Li Hong Chang
London
Times
Pekin
Li Hung Tewo
Taungu Yamen
Li Hung Chang
Clarke resigns as Scotland Soldiers Orphans School head
Col Clarke resigns as superintendent of the Soldiers Orphans Industrial School at Scotland effective September 1 with leave from August 10. Col J Frank Magee of Wrightsville named to succeed, while officials state reports of trouble were magnified and Clarke leaves with goodwill from the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Harrieburg
J, MV
Clarke
Solidiers’ Orphans
J. Frank Magee
Wrightsville
Gobin
Skinner
Beotlaind
Marke
Meeting of the Faithful
State Democratic Chairman Garman was expected to meet York's Chauncey Atack Clearfield's James Kerr and Bedford's H J E Kerr in Morrisburg to arrange an August meeting of the Democratic Society executive committee and a convention in Reading to ratify nominations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garman
Morrisburg
Chauncey F. Atack
York
James Kerr
Clearfield
H. J E. Kerr
Bedford
Democratic State Committee
State Democratic Society
Reading
President McKinley in Plattsburg at Hotel Champlain
President McKinley and Mrs McKinney occupy the hotel annex suites on the second floor with luxury furnishings. Visitors include Gen Peck and Gen Henry with offerings for the party. Plans include a Burlington cavalry review and a Plattsburg reception, plus possible steamer trip and August state encampment visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plattsburgh
Mgpinney
Hotel Champlain Annex
Mounntain
McKinney
Gunes Peck
Vermont
Guy V. Henry
Fort Ethan Allen
Legrande B. Cannon
Burlington
Peck
McKinley
Alger
Rosea
Porter
General Peck
Mr. Cannon
Fort
Ethan Allen
Cannon
United States Infantry
Plattshore Post
Isle la Motte
Senator Proctor
Vermont Hkome and Forestry Commission
National Guard
Chester
Lake 8Unapee
Bar Harbor
Washington
Hotel Champlain
Hobart
Boston man claims 60 207 miles paid fare trip
J. W. Clark of Boston traveled from Bronson Michigan starting July 9, 1896 to cover 60 000 miles in a year. He arrived two days early and produced sworn receipts showing payment for 60 207 miles, not begging or beating his way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronson
Mich
J. W. Clark
Boston
Mass
Man Dies After Yellow Jacket Sting Incident
Middletown news reports Harry Van DeWater died after a July 2 reaction to a wasp sting while chopping wood. He reportedly had a weak constitution and heart condition, with jaw locked and milk and medicine given in an attempt to aid him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Harry van DeWater
van Dewater
Central American Republic declares U. S. minister persona non grata
Managua July 4 The diet of the Greater Republic of Central American has declared Captain W. L. Merry of San Francisco persona non grata. He was recently appointed United States minister to Costa Rica Nicaragua and Salvador.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merry
Managua
Nicaragua
Greater Republic of Central American
W. L. Merry
San Francisco
United States
Costa Rica
Salvador
Telegraph Keen Veto and Cuba Message Stir National Affairs
Governor Hastings veto action signals political shift as Cuba message prompts renewed debates. England faces Mannkaland troubles while miners receive less encouraging news amid labor and economic tensions across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastings
England
Hastings Disapproves Most Expense Bills for Legislators
Governor Hastings vetoes items for sleeping berths, parlor and dining car charges, carriage hire, mileage, and personal expenses in committees. He forbids mileage to lawmakers, cites constitutional limits, and disapproves most investigative committee expenses while approving a few bills including counsel fees and large contest costs. He plans to rest at Bellefonte as Mee Cormick departs to Williamsport.
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Harrisburg
Hastings
Legislative
Oleo
Hosack
Pittsburg
Critchfield
Somerset
Duquesne
James Francis Burke
Pittabure
Shiffer-Leh
Northampton County
Saunders-Roberts
Philadelphia
Wyatt
House
McKinley
Heller-Laubach
University of Pennsylvania
Tie
People's Bill
Fish and Game Warden
Roberts
Bellefonte
Mee Cormick
Williamsport
Bimon Electric
Jefferson Merdueal College
Lancashire battalion ordered to prepare for Crete duty
A Malta dispatch reports the first Lancashire battalion has been ordered into readiness for duty in Crete. The note indicates growing Allied operations in the Mediterranean theater and signals impending deployment for service in the Crete region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crete
London
Malta
Weather forecast for regions in the middle states and New England
The middle state will be fair and warmer with morning light rain on the upper coast and fresh to light westerly winds. New England sees cloudy to partly cloudy skies with slightly warmer temperatures and coastal rain, winds from the north and west. In Buffaloing sections expect fair to partly cloudy weather with light southwest and south winds and a high near 80, followed by possible thunderstorms in western districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Herald
New York
Middle State
New England
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Poputy
Sherif
Debs
Ful. J. DB. Corey
McGovern
Jim McManus
Tom Hayes
Ted
Andrew Savage
Allison
J. A. Mellvaine
John Brown
Business Men's League
Annie Ludia
Mrs. Lease
E. F. McLean
Hilled
A Treainman
Col. Clarke
Meeting OF the Faithful
Plattsburg
Hall Beores
Bernstein
Wright
Glateral Institute
Traction Company
Scrantonian
West Ride
Ciy Bubuiban
Lackawanna County
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