Strike Declared by Anthracite Mine Workers Convention
Hazleton May 15 miners vote 461 for strike 949 against 1114 majority for strike. Delegates consider calling engineers firemen and pump runners out next day. Mitchell urges restraint while predicting a long, nationwide labor clash with mine owners and fears for union strength.
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Mitchell
Nicholls
Associated Press
Hazleton
United Mine Workers
Timors
Fuhy
Chartlein
Dempsey
American Federation of Labor
Deligates
Frem
Anxiety in Wilkes-Barre as miners vote to continue strike
Miners and laborers filled Wilkes-Barre and nearby towns awaiting Hazleton convention news. Tonight the underground workers voted to continue the strike, causing anxiety and expectation of long idleness. UMW leaders defend the stance, fearing internal dissension if demands waver. Operators expect a shorter disruption as hunger drives workers back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
Wilkes-Barre
Mitchell
W. HB. Wilson
United Mine Workers
Strike Leaves Businesses With Low Morale In Union Grip
Industry leaders express little fear of mine action since engineers and pump crews remain on standby. Foremen who could run plants are union members, creating a somber mood in business circles as the strike order weighs on operations.
Stripping Employees Strike at Cuyle Bros Mines
Hazleton May 16 Cuyle Bros stripping employees in Lehigh Valley Coal company quarries demanded higher wages from steam shovel owners. Engineers seek 125 per month, cranemen 60 to 60, firemen 45 to 50, and an eight hour day instead of ten. Company employing 400 men threatens to close if demands are met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
Cuyle Bros
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Coyle Bros
Shamokin Watches Hazleton Strike Action Standoff
News of Hazleton convention's vote for a strike provokes crowds in Shamokin. Miners expect a tie up if operators refuse concessions. Coal firms ready to run pumps with non union workers while current employees walk out.
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Shamokin
Hazleton
Coal and Iron Company Orders Mules Hoisted at Once
May 15 the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company issues orders to hoist all mules from its collieries. Pumpmen and other employees are prepared to quit work.
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Mahonoy City
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Ceremonies Honor King Alfonso Draw Wide Attendance
Exclusive dispatch from Madrid reports official ceremonies for King Alfonso began with auspicious weather. Dignitaries including the Duke of Connaught and princes from Prussia Denmark Greece and Siam arrived by royal train. A grand banquet followed and a bullfight event kicked off a series of festivities with more than 100 bulls to be slain. Free meals fed 3,000 poor and 50 000 pesetas were distributed with additional savings deposits planned for newborns on May 17.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Duke of Connaught
Albert
Prussia
Vladimir and
Christiin
Denmark
Nicholas
Greece
Monuce
Siam
Puerta del Sol
Circus Train Wreck Injures Six in Harrisburg Area
Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circus canvas and wagon train wrecked at Marysville six miles west of Harrisburg at 5 am. Six canvas men injured. three seriously with internal wounds. Injured include Columbus Davis of North Carolina Charles Berkley of Kentucky Harry Shearer of Missouri. others cut and bruised. Two cars wrecked, delaying the train. seriously injured transported to Harrisburg Hospital then three moved on to New York.
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Harrisburg
Forepaugh and
Sells Brothers
Marysville
New York
Columbus Davis
Martin County
North Carolina
Charles Berkley
Louisville
Harry Shearer
Springfield
Robert Clark
Altoona
Edward Bergin
James C. Bradshaw
Richmond
Shipping news brief with several early May sailings
A terse shipping update lists steamers Taine Havre Bremen and others sailing from various ports to New York and Liverpool, with arrivals including Kaiserin Maria Thervaia to New York and details on routes via Cherbourg Boulogne and Queenstown. Names and destinations echo a period maritime roster.
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Associated Press
New York
Taine
Havre
Bremen
Wherbourg
Queenstown
Dewanie
Liverpool
Museath
Hotterdamm
Potwlam
Boulogne Sur Mer
Jather Port
Lizard
la Bretagne
New Yorks
Mayre
Genoa
Kaiserin Maria Thervaia
Mont Pelee Still Active With Three Luminous Points Seen
London reports Mont Pelee remains rumbling with three luminous points on the lower slopes signaling potential calamity. Eyewitnesses describe St Pierre’s destruction by fire and mud, with the harbor area and telegraph office destroyed and many bodies found in the wreckage.
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St. Pierre
London
Fort-de-France
Times
Mont Pelee
London Times of Paris
M. de Blowitz
Vfort-De-France
Martinique
Malta
Guerlin
Nolsly
William Houlder
Birmingham
Joseph Chamberlain
United Kingdom
Assembly Meets as Presbyterian Church Chooses Moderator
The 114th general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States opened at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church New York with the creed revision on the agenda. Dr Henry Van Dyke was elected moderator after a second ballot, with Dr Moffatt and others receiving votes in earlier rounds.
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Asociated Press
New York
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
United States
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
David Gregg
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn
William B. Jennings
First Presbyterian Church of
Detroit
Mich
Samuel A. Martin
Chambersburg
Minton
California
Assembly
Henry C. Minton
William Henry Roberts
Henry van Dyke
Princeton University
General Assembly of the
van Dyke
Kerr
Holmes
Moffatt
Duffield
Robert R. Booth
Pr. Moffatt
Dr. Holmes
Comprehensive relief plans adopted for Martinique survivors
President Roosevelt's special committee and the citizen's relief body adopt plans to aid Martinique disaster survivors. Contributions to the Martinique and Vincent Bellot Fund will be collected citywide, with cash donations deposited at Drexel & Company. Special collections occur Sunday, May 25 in all Philadelphia churches.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Thoosevelt
Martinique
Vincent Bellot Fund
Drexel & Company
Company seeks injunction over Sternbergh strike
The American Iron and Steel Company filed for an injunction against labor leaders directing the strike at the Sternbergh plant. About 1,200 workers quit work, and the case is set for argument next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amwrican Iron and Filed Company
Sternbergh
Smuatter
Whitelaw Reid Dines with Associated Press Directors
Whitelaw Reid, special ambassador to the coronation of King Edward, was the guest at a dinner hosted by the directors of the Associated Press. The event occurred tonight at the Lotow club in New York, May 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Dress
New York
Whitelaw Reid
Edward
Associated Pros
Lotow Club
Funeral of General Collis in Gettysburg
General C. H. T. Collis was buried with military honors in the national cemetery after a Philadelphia arrival. The catafalque was drawn by black horses and veterans from the 114th Pennsylvania stood with delegations from Philadelphia and New York. Rev. W. R. N. Ashimeade officiated as a volley by the Sons of Veterans and local post was present amid crowds of citizens and visitors.
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Gettysburg
C. H.T. Collis
Philadelphia
National Cemetery
Catafalque
One Hundred and Fourteenth
Pennsylvania
New York
W. R. N. Ashimeade
Episcopal Church
Golley
Sons of Veterans of Gettysburg
Stephen Carey Dies Suddenly in Tobyhanna Garden
Stephen Carey a longtime Tobyhanna resident collapsed and died in his garden around 6 40 p m the afternoon of May 11. Doctors suspect heart failure and the inquest is not yet announced. Funeral arrangements are not set but may occur on Saturday.
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Tobyhanna
Tobylanna
Stephen Carey
Miners Granted Injunction Against Strikers at Connell Coal
Judge J. D. Shuler of the county court issued a preliminary injunction restraining striking miners at Connell Coal company Lite Station Pa from interfering with non union workers. The order aims to curb blockading and intimidation since the strike began to halt production.
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Pittsburg
J. D. Shuler
Connell Coal Company
Lite Station
Ptrice
Claiiyhe Otyikens
Debatable Bail Jumpers Captured in Canada
Exclusive wire reports that Colonel John F. Gaynor and Captain W. D. Greene, who fled from Savannah in March after forfeiting a $40,000 bail, were arrested by U S secret service and Montreal detectives. They were hurried to a tug bound for Montreal, preventing counsel contact, as a government plan aims to force trial in Georgia for conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Quebec
John F. Gaynor
W. D. Greene
Savannah
Canada
United States Secret Service
Carpenter
Toying
Georgia
United States
Montreal
Wilkie
Greene
Gaynor
Washington
Messrs
Gaynor and
Department of Justice
Sale of the Record at Public Auction in Philadelphia
United States district court sold 10 000 shares of the Philadelphia Record Publishing Co. Par value 100 each. William S. Stenger bought 8,050 shares for 2,800,000 and 470,000 of bonds for 564,000. Stenger said he acted alone and that ownership change will not alter the paper’s policy. Competitors included Wesley M. Oler and Adolph S. Ochs. 150 additional shares sold to Stenger for 220 a share.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
United States District Court For
Fastern
Pennsylvania
James M. Beck
Philadelphia Record Publishing Company
William 8. Stenger
Stenger
The
Commonwealth
Pattison
Ihe
Reegaal
Willam M. Singerly
Ballot Reform Groups Named To Draft Law
Exclusive AP report from Harrisburg statesWilliam T Creasy as Democratic state chairman appointed Dalia Sanders John G Green Willan J Beewnan John Willing and James A Stranahan to work with committees from the Pennsylvania Ballot Reform Association Pennsylvania Civil Service Association and the Municipal League to prepare a personal registration act and a new primary election law to present to the next legislature.
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Harrisburg
William T. Creasy
Tor Day
Dalia Sanders
John G. Green
Philadelphia
Willan J. Beewnan
Pintshure
John & Willing
Erie
James A. Stranahan
Pennsylvania Ballot Reform Association
Pennsylvania Civil Seevice Association
Municipal League
Cldea
Commonwealth
German Baptist Convention elects leaders at Harrisburg meeting
Exclusive wire from The Associated Press reports at the German Baptist convention in Harrisburg on May 15 J Miller of Mount Morris Illinois was elected moderator. L T Holisinger of Vermont Indiana was chosen reading clerk along with Lb H Kibby Fort Wayne Indiana as writing clerk and Wilbur Stoner Bulwar Indiana as design writing clerk.
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Preas
Harrisburg
Hitler FE
J. Miller
Mount Morris
German Baptist Convention
Poxtang Park
L. T. Holisinger
Virmont
Ind
Lb. H. Kbby
Fort Wayne
Inn
Wilbur Stoner
Bulwar
Deisiank
Corporations Chartered in May by State Department
Charters issued to West Nove and Grocery Company Greensburg with capital 10000 The George E Meyer Company of Pittsburgh City capital 1000 and The Valley Canning Company Town Line Laserog County capital 15000.
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Associated Press
Marriborg
State Department
Westnove and Grocery Company
Greensburg
George E. Meyer Company
Gheny City
Theee Valley Canning Company
Town Line
Laserog County
Philippine outrage debate stirs House as Vandiver speaks
In Washington on May 15 the House heard heated debate over Philippine alleged cruelties. Vandiver recited incidents while Hepburn Grow and others defended American soldiers. In the Senate McLaurin attacked the administration and blamed the Republicans for Manila policy as the union station and fortifications bills passed.
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Mr. Vandiver
Hepburn
Grow
McLaurin
Republican Party
Manila
Preas
Washington
House
Senate
Vandiver
Missouri
Wheeler
Kentucky
Iowa
Pennsylvania
Him
Connecticut
W. A. Smith
Michigan
Lessler
New York
Mississippi
Philippines
Islands
Knights of Malta appoints deputies at Williamsport session
The Knights of Malta Grand Commandery completed its annual session in Williamsport Pa with the per capita tax set at forty cents payable semi annually. Grand Commander Jackson announced deputy grand commanders for many towns including Philadelphia Chester Reading Bethlehem Scranton Allentown and York.
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Williamsport
Associated Prem
Grand Commandery
Knights of Malta
Jackson
Philadelphiia
W. M. Galliger
George Harvey
T. M. Dubois
G. D.groom
Chester
George W. Green
Media
Thomas D. Younus
Montgomery —Tower
Lanustroth
Hucka J
V. Ommerman
South Bothledon
Josiah Wilt
Easton
Thomas C. Bright
Ruth
Ruth—Prink L. Fatzinger, Bangor— Elmer M. Apple. Stroudsburg
Nanticoke
John Curtis
Lackawanna
Teorke Hoffman
W. Vought
Abram Cochrill
Fred BH
Willer
Reading
Harry Veinard
Lebanon
Khmer G
Udner
Pottaville
David 1
Lewis
Mt. Cirmel
William
Thomas
Berwick
Norman DP
Peters
Bloomaburg
W. Clark Richeard
Sunbury
T. E. Stottler
M. Hess
John Balm
Palmerton
Amon
Krood
Milton
D B
Frick
Reynoldsville
W. J. Weaver
Haatinga
McAlarney
Victim Dies in Sheraden Explosion Toll Tops Twenty One
Pittsburg May 15 Albert H Maertig aged 12 died at the hospital today marking the twenty first death from the Sheraden explosion of Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Albert H. Maertig
Hoapital
Weather Record for May 15 at TLighient CeMhpPErAl
Local weather data for May 15 reports the highest and lowest temperatures, relative humidity, and precipitation amounts. The record notes specific measurements in a historical period with missing or distorted spellings.
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Tlighient
Weather Forecast for Friday and Saturday in Pennsylvania
Washington reports a forecast noting partly cloudy conditions in eastern Pennsylvania on Friday with showers possible at night and variable conditions on Saturday.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
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Associate Press
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Kingston
Island of St. Vincent
B. W
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British West Islands
Coplea
Charles Emory Smith
McMichael
Dr. van Dyke
Mr. Reid
General Collis
Sgrantoy Tribune
Associated Prom
Gaynor and Greene
Associated Pres
W. 8. Stenger
Altair
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