Grievances Of Coal Miners At Altoona Convention
A Pennsylvania miners convention at Altoona issues an address detailing grievances. It cites a state committee finding over 100,000 miners facing poverty from false weights and foreign labor, and calls for action against wage cuts and undue mine development. It mentions organizers A R Folgklund and J BR Palsley and names officers including John T Cline and George Nicholson.
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Altoona
Miners’ Convention
A. R. Folgklund
Cambria
J. BR. Palsley
Clearfield County
Boss Track-Layer Beaten in Unjont ey Fight
James Wilson, track layer at the Perch Coke works near here, lies unconscious in Todd's livery stable after a beating by youths. Suspects John Kerr Frederick Miller and Slugger Hanan are under arrest awaiting Wilson's condition, with Wilson described as critical.
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Tnlontown
James Wilson
Perch Coke Works
Todd
John Kerr
Frederick Miller
Hanan
Wilson
Milford Man Attempts Suicide After Murder Charge
Milford Pennsylvania June 18 Paul Herman Schultz who on June 13 was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing his wife attempted to commit suicide this morning by strangulation. A bed quilt strip was torn and wrapped around his neck but night watchman Terwillicer found him and Dr. Wenner revived him after a half hour of effort. Schultz had written a farewell letter denying the murder and says he will starve himself to death before the day of execution.
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Milford
Paul Herman Schultz
Rehults
Terwillicer
Iife
Wenner
Schultz
International Metal Workers Convenes Sets Penalty and Wages
In Erie on June 18 the International convention of metal pollehere and brass workers set a $2 penalty for members buying non union products and established a 30 cent hourly minimum under the eight hour system. A public ball was held for members that evening.
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Erie
International Convention of Metal Pollehere and Brass Workers
Quarantine Placed in Altoona Fifth Ward Over Diphtheria Outbreak
The board of health quarantines part of Altoona's Fifth ward due to a diphtheria outbreak. A compromised sewer, dug up for repairs, is blamed for spreading the disease, and officers are posted to restrict entry to residents only.
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Altoona
Board of Health
Local business district shaken by rising fatalities
Amid a tense scene in the business area several deaths have occurred as authorities investigate. Witnesses report increasing danger as the situation unfolds.
Farmer Joseph Painter Fatally Injured in Wagon Accident
Hutler June 18. Joseph Painter a well known farmer of Buffalo township, aged 65, was thrown from a wagon as his horses ran away. He struck a stone in the fall, his breast crushed and he was severely injured, perhaps fatally.
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Hutler
Joseph Painter
Buffalo Township
Promenade Tragedy As 15 Year Old Hit by Train
Naomi Loy, 15, was struck at the Bedford street crossing in Cumbeland Md while walking. She suffered a severed foot and serious head injuries. her condition is described as serious.
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Cumbeland
Naomi Loy
Bedford Street
Delaware County Rolls Ban on Beer Delivery to Courthouse
The Delaware county commissioners ordered a strict halt to beer deliveries to the courthouse and all departments, effective immediately, to stop any such service within the county government buildings.
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Delaware County
Court House
BASE BALL UNIFORM CONTEST LISTING
Amateur teams from Lackawanna and neighboring areas submit uniforms for a local contest. Entries include Sliders iquawexet wa Woes West Side Brownes and Old Forge Dodgers among others with numbers and street addresses listed for club locations and team names such as Mayfield Pine Brook Crescents and South Side Grays.
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Iquawexet
West Side
Brownes
Lackawinnas
South Slide Club
Pine Brook Crescents
Mayfield
Ceee
Taylor Grayd
North End Stars
Seese
Toy Nimes
Tycoons
Manskeadeeb
Ciled
Old Forge Dodgers
South Side Grays
Green Ridge Actives
South Side
Local amateur league notes and upcoming games
The Tribune lists many city baseball matchups and club notes. Teams like Crescents Defenders Tycoons and Walnut Street Stars prepare for June games, with schedules on James Poys grounds. Reports include Young Juniors win 25 to 7, Rosettes vs Starlights and lineups for several clubs and managers.
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Walnut St. Rosch
Csss Od
BO Crescents
Crescents
Defenders
Mayflowers
Tycoons
Coxiles
Walnut Street Stars
Tribune
Tribune Linotypers
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Burt Harrington
Will Hughes
Dave Wil- Hama
Dan Reese
Louis Davis
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Will Robertson
Howard Davis
J. H. Rose
Wihull Blughes
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H. Enstein
L. Burke
Petersburg
Rosettes
C. ‘Wagner
E. Buenzli
Lackawannes
Central City
Bull Head
Dunmore
Lackayannae
Olyphant Athletics
Comets
Cow Hill
J. Hahn
Hahn
Edisons
Baltimore Orioles
John Thomas
South Side
Starlights
P. Graf
C. Schench
P. Hahn
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Burke
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Jessup
Edward O'Hare
Short Sion
Thomas Payton
James Tighe
Thomas Thornton
Charles Colson
Thomas Galden
Thomas Regan
Michael O'Neil
John McDonald
Joseph Holleran
Meetuns
Wanted: Agents and canvassers across towns
Classified ads seek agents for stock subscriptions and sales roles. Offers include wages of four to five dollars daily or large commissions. Firms named include Clifton Soap and Manufactur ing, Jorber in Heston and Edward C. Fish in Chicago.
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Aleon Nan
Denier
Clifton Soap and Manufacturig Company
Clineinnatl, O
Edward C. Fish
Threats in Twinsburg End With Town Chase
A man threatened to burn Twinsburg last night and fled the town. This morning he forced entry into Mrs. A Wilson's home with a crowbar and attacked her, but neighbors overpowered him. He was taken to the county jail.
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Twinsburg
A. Wilson
Soley kills son then kills himself in Philadelphia
Robert B. Soley 33 fatally shot his two year old son Herbert and then shot himself. The couple had been living apart since February and the child resided with the wife's parents on North Fifth Street. Friction from separation believed to have prompted the tragedy. the crime occurred while a family member was briefly away.
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Philadelphia
Robert B. Soley
Herbert
Soley
North Fitth Street
Boley
Death of Mrs Horace Greeley in Liberia
Reading, June 14 reports the death of Mrs Horace Greeley wife of Rev Horace Greeley missionary and nephew of the famed New York editor. She was a native of Reading and four years old.
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Reading
Liberia
Africa
Horace Greeley
New York
Reid Becomes Look Agent in Akron Province
Akron dispatch notes C B Reid a Look agency man from Areola Michigan arrived in Akron to assume duties triggering local interest and industry chatter.
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Akron, C
C. B. Reid
Areola Mich
Death of a Veteran Journalist in Reading June 18
Charion W. Guenth er died in Reading at age 72 after a career as editor and publisher of the Free Press in Pittsburgh Eagle in Pottsville and later the Sun of New York in Heading. He came to America after the German revolution and had recently retired with his wife.
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Charion W. Guenther
America
Free Press
Pittsburg
Eagle
Pottevil
Sun of
Old Norks
Wfe
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