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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1901
Page
2
A tense labor stalemate grips Crescent Lexnige and surrounding mills as Amalgamated Association plans wide strike actions. Reports say Riverside, Plate, and Scottdale plants may ignite shutdowns while Monessen faces decisive recruitment battles and managers marshal crews to avert a split.
Milwaukee August 4 Superintendent George L Reis of Illinois Steel predicts President Shaffers plan to order a general strike would lead to the absolute annihilation of the Amalgamated Association and a second Homestead. He notes mills operate under fourteen year contracts and doubts a mass walkout will occur unless ordered. Four hundred work at the Bayview plant. no strike order yet, but anticipated.
Prominent labor figures and corporate heads in Birmingham believe the steel strike will not affect the district as no local mills are owned by the United States Steel Corporation. The Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad open mills operate with no sympathetic strike planned. In Youngstown, Milton Coombs of American Steel Hoop says no orders to start plaza operations have been issued and rumors of broader strike extension are unfounded.
Mrs Dick Chatham died at her Gainesville Georgia home this morning after hydrophobia following a mad dog bite days earlier Her daughter also bit by the same dog faced possible hydrophobia as doctors feared the same infection would take hold.
Forecast for Monday and Tuesday calls for fall in Ohio and Michigan with north winds then variable, warmer on Tuesday. Illinois and Indiana see fall Monday and Tuesday with warmer Tuesday, variable winds. Clear conditions in northeast region with low precipitation, temperatures around the mean for the period. Richard H. Sillivan, temporary weather server.
Shipping news lists arrivals and departures across routes. From New York on Aug 1 vessels include Cwlrte and Newmedie from Liver La Norman and Havre, Astoria from Glasgow. Ceenstown Aug 4 sails Um from Liverpool to New York. Movili E Aug 4 arrives Sardinias New York for Glasgow. Liverpool Aug 4 arrival Lake Superior from Montreal.
CORBIN PRAISES TAFT AND CHAFFEE CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNOR TAFT. Reports from Manila and Mindoro detail insurgent losses after a brief resistance at Cala puri Naujan and Pola. Adjutant General Corbin praises Taft and Chaffee as capable leaders guiding reforms. Grant backs humane pacification while urging patience.
In a concluded fire report from Danville a dispute over water rights arose after water leaving a motor was claimed to no longer belong to the company. Ring and his attorneys contend the purchaser may use the water freely. The case draws considerable interest and opinions are divided.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal Anderson Indiana August 4 Policeman James Hughes of the Anderson police force vanished after taking leave to visit Alexandria He left a wife and three children and has not responded to inquiries in Alexandria or Anderson Funeral services were held for John C Sachs Vandalia’s first engineer killed when his wagon fell near Terre Haute Authorities in Angola Fremont and Terre Haute report arson charges fines and incidents including John Adams and Samuel Large accused of taunting a co worker and a coroner’s note on Willliam Huhsman who shot himself after a broken engagement
KOKOMO Ind Aug 4 Former State Auditor J O Henderson and family arrived home from four years abroad in the oil country. The party toured the capitals of Europe and North Africa before visiting Kokomo relatives and resuming residence in Indianapolis. Samuel Marsh Sr dies of heart disease at eighty three in New Albany leaving several children. He once wealthier, later lost money in ventures and ran a large steamboat foundry. I Ettles Central Union Tel Co manager in Menville J Aug 40 arrested tonight for embezzling from the company. charge filed by traveling auditor W L McEilen.
Greenfield Inn August 4 The Hancock county fair opens Tuesday with better overall prospects than recent years though horticultural and agricultural displays may be smaller due to the early date. Increased purses promise fine racing led by Wiltranby the Blue Bull stallion with a 2.064% record. The schedule includes no fort y trot 130 purse 2:17 pace 30 purse 2:00 pace 300 and a half mile running race on a premier half mile track. A street fair and carnival will run Wednesday through Friday evenings with a fireworks display nightly. The Indianapolis and Greenfield electric railway will offer 35 cent round trip tickets from Indianapolis starting Tuesday.
New York syndicate, using a trust company, offers to buy Southern State bonds at half value. Officials and former treasurers in Tennessee and other states dispute the move as an attack on Southern credit, noting funds and redemption potential exist, and many bonds from pre 1880s era remain outstanding or abroad.
A political figure asserts unwavering resolve to secure victory, stating a preferred path of triumph and declaring confidence in winning while opposing any other option. The brief remark underscores a combative stance and commitment to outcome.
Vice President David Reese says the Amalgamated Association refused Morgan’s terms to avoid declaring nonunion the hoop mills while protecting organized workers. He notes Shaffer’s claimed agreement, unity on the board, and the offer to keep Wellsville McKeesport Saltsburg and Old Meadow mills nonunion at the Lincoln Hotel conference, while rejecting broader concessions.
In Ter re Haute Indiana on August 4 the Second Christian Church announced it will stay open during the hot weather inviting coatless men and hatless women to attend.
Chicago records report Cromwell and Avilla banks failing under H W Leach. Leach vanished to Kendallville after promising a return, deposits rise as farmers fear losses. Cromwell Bank cashier says Leach’s link is nominal. Avilla Bank liabilities near 30000 with bankruptcy likely. Leach, 27, once Chicago resident, built a large carriage business before its collapse.
Indiana riders plus entrants from Chicago Milwaukee and Indianapolis contested Terre Haute events. H Rhoads of Indianapolis won the two mile handicap with forty three entries while Willis Covall was disqualified in the one mile open for alleged insult. Results note Fred Noble won the one mile novice with 2 29 and A Rhoads claimed the two mile handicap time 4 42 while Seimene Ebber of Milwaukee won the scratch race for riders under nine.
Recap of local items from Muncie and surrounding towns. Rev W C Taylor preached in Muncie union services. An accident left Charles Durbin with a leg amputated after being run over by a streetcar. Labor Day plans donate gate proceeds to the Free Kindergarten School fund. In Browntown police raided a saloon, arresting thirteen people including the proprietor and bartender. Four denominations hold weekly union services at Courthouse Park. Drought halves local corn yield. AncolA Miss Myrtie Hanbaugh and seven year old niece Opha Brown were struck by a Lake Shore locomotive. Opha suffered a broken leg. Frank W Woods buys Goss stock in Woods Goss Lumber Co. in Martinsville. Wabash county corn outlook grim with no rain in over a month. General Samuel Watson cited for doorkeeper position in Washington. Rev Dr Joseph Jenckes spoke on educational work in Honduras.
Cleveland August 4 Everett Moore syndicate which controls electric railways in this and adjacent states plans to establish its own packing and freight carrying system. The new venture will be controlled by the syndicate and is expected to rival existing line companies within its area.
President Shaffer and officers of the Amalgamated Association traveled to Washington to seek AFL backing for the steel strike. They held talks with General Secretary Frank Morrison, who declined to commit on AFL support and outlined a conference to discuss the best methods to secure aid.
Archbishop Keane, former rector of the Catholic University, arrived in New York on the steamship Celtic after receiving his new dignity in Rome in April. He went to the Fifth Avenue hotel where he met his old companions, and planed to visit Ireland before proceeding to Chicago.
Morrison voiced confidence in the steel workers victory and that the Federation of Labor would provide aid. He declined to specify whether strike extensions or financial assistance would be issued. The AFL general council members are near Washington, with a probable meeting planned. President Gompers expected back soon.
Estimates from Pittsburg on August 4 place potential losses from the steel strike at 493,000 daily wages lost, 180,000 in net earnings, and 5,000 tons of daily production halted. The figures reflect the nationwide impact of the United States Steel Corporation dispute, threatening paralysis of building and other industries dependent on steel.
In 1892 Henry Clay Frick sets a new wage scale for Carnegie iron mills notably Homestead Pa. The Amalgamated Association rejects it. After lockout and sympathy strikes, Pinkerton guard clashes cause deaths and injuries. National Guard mobilizes for three months. strike ends November 1% with mills still running. Costs exceed $2,000,000. union weakened though later resurges.
The United States Steel Corporation, the largest and wealthiest combine, reports $500 million in bonds and over ten thousand million dollars in stock. Its capital surpasses major railroads and it employs more people than those lines combined. Major components include Federal Steel, Carnegie Steel, National Tube, National Steel, and others with directors such as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry H. Rogers.
Prominent steel executives were missing in New York on August 4 with no plans disclosed. Observers expect decisive action in the ongoing spending battle, while no information was obtainable from the absent leaders.
Pittsburg August 4 C M Schwab president of United States Steel Corporation remains at Loretto Pennsylvania for a brief vacation. He plans a quiet retreat away from duties and public attention while enjoying the countryside.
Dr W W Watkins is killed while riding in Moscow Idaho. Merchant George Creighton is wounded and Deputy Sheriff Cool is shot as William Steffan, believed to be insane, opens fire. Steffan’s siege ends when he is killed by a rifle volley as he tries to threaten those surrounding his house.
MILWAUKEE Wis Aug 4 There was a double tie in the men s whist contest as E G Comstock and W H Carpenter of Milwaukee and G W Leehn and W J Walker of Chicago finished with sixteen and a half tricks each at tourney end The final count showed they were tied also on tricks with 54 5 apiece Ten teams entered and the rare double tie drew attention from local observers
Lady Sholte Douglas and her infant son Bruce Francis Douglas arrived in New York aboard the steamship Astoria from Glasgow. She plans to visit Philadelphia friends before traveling to Oakland California to see her mother and expects her husband to join her in California.
Ten people were poisoned by ice cream at the home of Mrs. W. R. Bunkiey in Leesburg Georgia. W. R. Bunkiey died today and Mrs Bunkiey and the daughter are critically ill. The other guests and family members are recovering.
Correspondent reports in South Russia describe famine in Elizabethgrad, Kherson province, with destitution, hunger typhus, and many starving families. Investigation finds minimal rationing, seed delivery, and governance reluctant to admit severity as crop failures loom in Samara, Saratov, and others.
Knoxville Traction Company suspends service to avoid idle thousands, churches and parks empty as workers stay home. A tentative settlement proposal offers rehiring without recognizing the union, with preference to married men and future employees allowed to join the union, pending vote at 10 o'clock.
Guards circle homes of anti resistance leaders in Tampa as rumors of arson swirl for two days. Closed cigar factories are guarded and precautions rise while authorities expect a crisis this week with no violence reported yet.
San Francisco August 4 Directors of the Employers' Association meet tomorrow to decide whether the local trouble ends or expands to other unions and coast cities. Union leaders threaten extreme measures if no concessions are made. Mo Aug 4 An effort to form a Building Material Trades Council aims to include all workers in structural material manufacture and to ensure only union made material for the world fair buildings.
Macon Ga Aug 4 News reached here that ex Congressmen James H Blount who served twenty years in Congress and was sent to Hawaii by President Cleveland as commissioner paramount during the island revolution has suffered a stroke and is in a gestical condition at his country home near ere
Rain visited St Louis today marking the first measurable shower in a month, totaling about three tenths of an inch. The brief storm cooled the air and offered relief from the dry spell as forecasters noted a modest temperature drop.
Obituaries note the death of George KB. Caine a leading contractor at his home from apoplexy born in Newburg Ohio in 1 had long service with the Waterford Railroad culminating as general roadmaster Twelve years ago he was superintendent of construction of Merchants bridge in Louisville Kentucky J Will iam Claggett a Spokane lawyer aged sixty three a fusion figure and former U S senate candidate in Idaho Charles H Hayden painter noted for landscapes and animal studies died in Belmont on his forty fifth birthday Louisville news reports a new asphalt company forming in Warren Edmondson and Hart counties Kentucky planning to erect an asphalt grinding mill at cost
Rev A H Harvant of Central Christian Church attended the Dowie meeting in Cincinnati and was briefly ordered to sit then expelled from the hall after he pressed questions.
At the Simons camp here a man named Brenman was fatally injured while at supper. Harry Evers was arrested and Jack Mahan escaped. Berlin reports a rumored succession involving Alcacre Lorraine and Prince Von Mebentotie, with Count Van Waidersee as the likely successor.
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