Plans to Break Strike Affect Indiana Mills
The United States Steel plan aims to start mills in towns with weak unions and strong police protection while idle mills in harder areas are kept closed. The Carnegie group near the Monongahela river and McKeesport becomes the focal battleground as the company judges which plants to operate or abandon. Samuel Gompers met with President Shaffer as the strike looms.
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Indianapolis Journal
Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Amalgamated Association
Indiana
Steel Corporation
Carnegie Group
Monongahela River
National Tube Works
McKee
Test of Strength in Steel Strike Sparks Preparations
Pittsburg reports both sides mobilizing for a show of force as the general strike order nears effect. United States Steel reopens mills to demonstrate independence from unions while the Amalgamated Association seeks broader AFL support. Leaders predict mixed compliance and possible arbitration efforts.
Strikers Predict Mill Closures As Companies Push Mills
Strikers warned the Lindsay and McCutcheon establishment lacks manpower to run the started mill and expected a shutdown during the day. They planned openings at Lindsay and McCutcheon, Painter, and Chartiers plants in Carnegie. President Shaffer claimed only two men were at the works, urging against drawing workers from other mills and noting difficulty sourcing puddlers and raw material. He cited ads seeking skilled labor nationwide and questioned how the trust could staff mills while union mills are short of workers.
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Lindsay & McCutcheon
Itag
Lindsay & McCutcheon’s
Painter
Chartiers
Carnegie
The
Steel Corporation
Pittbury
Shaffer
Gibson
Union Mills
Sligo Mills
St. Louis
Birmingham
Ala
Amalgamated Journal
Lower Allegheny
Strikers Clash Near Natrona in Pittsburg Area
In Natrona last night a foreigner, unnamed, was shot by likely strikers while working in the copper extraction department at the Pensylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. He was struck in three places but not seriously hurt as shots fired from the hillback of the plant targeted new workers. Company guards have filled the struck furnacemen’s posts while strikers seek to scare the replacements with rocks and gunfire. Special officers are protecting the workers as strike leaders plan rallies for Saturday, including a major event at Cascade Park, New Castle, claiming about two thousand workers will attend.
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Pittsburg
Natrona
Pensylvania Salt Manufacturing Company
Feta
Cascade Park
New Castle
Winters
Selby Smelting Company
Ayn
Fortune of $2,000,000 for Pole with Ancestry Link
An American treasury fortune of more than two million dollars awaits a young Pole, Dembitzky, who must prove kinship to Baron Ludwig Napoleon Dembitzky, a Civil War soldier killed at the Wilderness. An attorney reports records show the original debt and a Bible found with the family tree may confirm the claim.
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New York
United States Treasury
Dembitzky
Ludwig Napoleon Dembitzky
Russia
Gage
Baron Dembitzky
Poland
Washington
Joseph Howics
United States
Warsaw
Ex-employee Arrested In Bank Robbery Case At Vallejo Junction
San Francisco reports Captain Seymour identifying John Winters as the suspect in the $230000 gold bullion robbery at Selby Smelting Works Vallejo Junction. Evidence includes a cap, cabin matchings, a pistol, chalk fragments, drilling gear, and a new gas pipe cutter. Guards patrol nights. reward raised to 500.
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San Francisco
Seymour
Selby
Vallejo Junction
John Winters
Winters
Maud
Quo Warranto Action Aims at U S Attorney General
Knights of Labor authorize the state and local courts to demand cause why the Sherman anti trust law has not been enforced against United States Steel. Monnett, Ohio Attorney General, has been hired by the Anti trust League to start action in Ohio courts. Anticipates swift move amid ongoing labor strike and widespread anti trust legislation. ANTHRACITE MINERS.
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Washington
Distret Assembly No
Knights of Labor
United States
United States Steel Corporation
Ohio
Texas
Amalgamated Association
Frank S. Monnett
American Anti-trust League
Leg Cut Off By A Shark On Annapolis Mission
Admiral Kempf forwards a dramatic report on Quartermaster M Kie of the gunboat Annapolis who lost a leg to a shark while swimming near Iloilo. The incident occurred during rifle practice leave. the surgeon amputated knee to hip. Kempff endorses duty status suggesting pension eligibility.
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Washington
Kempf
Navy Department
McKie
Annapolis
Iloilo
Rohrer
Melkie
Admiral Kempff
Airtship Disaster Near Eiffel Tower Shocks Paris Crowd
Santos Dumont survives a dramatic crash when his dirigible balloon is torn by gusts after rounding the Eiffel Tower. He hangs from a window bar for half an hour before rescue, with women clinging to him amid cheers. He vows to press on despite the peril.
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Paris
M. Dumont
Eiffel Tower
M. Santos Dumont
Santos Dumont
Parc de St. Cloud
St. Cloud
Henri Marceau
Aerostat
M. Deutch
Hiffel Tower
Boles de Boulogne
Saloon Keeper Faces Verdict Over Open Licensing
The defendant ran a saloon accused of operating wide open with witnesses admitting liquor purchases. Rev. Price bought alcohol to obtain evidence. The verdict reflects a fierce clash over open saloon policies.
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Rev. Price
Faith healing couple held in manslaughter case
Hamilton County officers swear warrants for Sylva and Leeta Bishop charged with manslaughter after their daughter Esther died from burns from a gasoline explosion. The bishop husband is jailed on bond default. Mrs. Bishop remains at Greenville and a constable proceeds to serve the warrant.
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Hamilton, CO
Smith
Sylva
Leeta Bishop
Esther
Bishop
Greenville
Lawson Threat Over Yacht Race Declares Old Metal Armada Threat
In Boston on August. If no yacht is found to race the Independence by September 3 owner Mr. Lawson will order her broker up as old metal. The chance to race the Constitution of Columbia failed when yacht managers refused to enter a regatta with a ninety foot class.
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Boston
Lawson
Columbia
Triggs Attacks Longfellow Holmes Poetry In Class
Chicago August 8 Oscar L Triggs University of Chicago professor compared Rockefeller with Shakespeare and called church hymns doggerel He also dismissed Longfellow as trivial and unworthy of consideration and made similar remarks about Oliver Wendell Holmes in a literature class
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Chicago
Oscar L. Triggs
University of Chicago
Rockefeller
Shakspeare
Longfellow
Triggs
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Meeting of United Mine Workers Boards in Hazleton
At Hazleton Pa on August 8 the executive boards of the United Mine Workers for three anthracite districts met with little result. A second session is planned for tomorrow to decide on actions such as gaining company consent for card committee inspections, unifying labor groups, reinstating recently struck firemen, and settling local grievances since the last strike.
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Hazleton
United Mine Workers
Strikes Hamper San Francisco Transport, labor unions grow
Debris of reports cites severe labor shortages at San Francisco’s port affecting ship repairs and transport. Lennox to be returned to owners with fittings intact. commerce tied up, yet supplies for troops to the Philippines and Alaska expected. Chicago janitors form The Janitors Protective Association with 159 members and a charter filing.
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Washington
War Department
Long
San Francisco
Lennox
Philippines
Alaska
Chicago
the Chronicle
Janitors’ Protective Association
FEARS OF SENOR PALMA A CUBA PRESIDENCY IN SEARCH OF SUPPORT
Senor Estrada Palma declares in a long letter that Cuba faces a split political scene with local affinities shaping parties and a presidency needing both houses, warning no honest patriot will run without broad backing. He urges unity to form a credible candidate and stable government. An American-led Cuban artillery corps of 150 white Cubans will be formed at Cabanas, trained by Lt. Dwight E. Aultman, for two years, with US Army oversight.
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Havana
Senor Estrada Palma
Senor Figueredo
Gomez
Cuba
United States
Congress
Senor Palma
Cabanas
Dwight E. Aultman
Second United States Artillery
Cannibal Island Massacre Reported by German Expedition
Brisbane dispatchs report a German punitive expedition landed near the massacre site on St Mathias Island killing eighty natives and capturing seventeen. Vancouver reports the Moana carried word of Crown Prince deportation on Gilbert Island with the prince defying the British commissioner and being banished for six months.
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Brisbane
Queensland
Dr. Mencken
St. Mathias
Cormoran
Vancouver
B. C
Moana
Sydney
Crown Prince
Gilbert Island
Oceanic collision sailors drown seven near Queenstown
The White Star liner Oceanic reported a fog collision with the Kinkora in the Irish channel. Seven of the Kinkora’s crew drowned, fourteen were saved aboard the Oceanic, while the Kinkora sank rapidly. A relief collection raised about £160.
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Queenstown
White Star Line
Oceanica
Cameron
Liverpool
New York
Trish Channel
Kinkora
Waterford
Ireland
Oceanic
Thuskar
White Star
George Collins
Waterford Steamship Company
Limerick
Ten Injured as Atlantic City Train Collision Near Confluence
A third section of a Baltimore & Ohio excursion train collided with the rear of the second near Confluence Pennsylvania eighty four miles east of Pittsburgh. Ten seriously injured and several more hurt as rear Pullman telescoped and debris spread. Officials cite misjudgment of signals as the cause. the injured were taken to hospital and most expected to recover.
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Pittsburg
Aug
Confluence
Hannon
P. J. Collins
Youngstown
H. Davis
New Castle
J. F. Lewis
A. G. Shaw
Helen Lemont
Dora Hartzell
New Gentle
J. BE. Stillwagon
Connellaville
Water Works
Connellsville
D. E. Maroney
Death on Train Aims for Claremont Route Ends in Chicago
John Foley, a Harvard graduate employed in coast survey work, died in Chicago after a three week bout with quick consumption. He boarded a train to die at home from Boston with Claremont, Ia., as the intended destination, but became too ill and died en route to hospital.
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Chicago
Boston
Claremont
John Foley
Harvard
Jealous Woman Shoots In Denver Candy Store
Mrs. Philip Hitchcock wife of a prominent railroad man shot and seriously wounded James W Roberts and his wife in a candy store on Sixteenth street Jealousy was the motive James Roberts was shot in the forehead and the woman in the face both were taken to a hospital where doctors expect recovery
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Denver
Philip Hitchcock
James W. Roberts
Sixteenth Street
Wes
Ealousy
Kruger’s Mental Condition Alarmed, Specialist Sent
A Rotterdam dispatch reports growing concern over Mr. Kruger’s mental state. A nervous diseases specialist has been telegraphed from Berlin to advise.
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London
Rotterdam
Kruger
Bernin
Lord Kitchener Reports Captures and Surrenders in Pretoria Dispatch
Lord Kitchener reports that three of twenty five men from Steinacker's Horse were captured near the Sabari area. He also notes the surrender at Warm Baths of Commandant Devilliers, second in command to Beyers.
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London
Aus
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Steinacker
Sabar Aioe
Ers
Kitchener
Devilliers
Beyers
Clergyman Found Guilty of Malicious Prosecution
A Fort Scott jury found Rev. Price, presiding elder of the Methodist Church in the district, guilty of malicious prosecution in a liquor case. The defendant was acquitted, and costs were reassessed against the clergyman.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Rev. Price
Methodist Church
Train Collision Injures Four In Greenview Illinois
In a crash today near Greenview Illinois a Chicago and Alton freight train collision injured four men. Fireman Burne of Columbia lost both legs, painter James W Wilson of Wellsville broke his left leg, Conley the Bloomington engineer dislocated a shoulder and suffered a head wound.
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Springfield
Chicago & Alton Freight Trann
Greenview
W. IL
Burne
Columbia
Ill
James W. Wilson
Alton
John Wellsville
Conley
Bloomington
Unusual oil fire hits Hartford City gas well and hogs farm blaze
In Hartford City a gas well on the McEldowney farm caught fire destroying derrick and drilling gear. Fire spread from a barn at Charles Lott’s to other barns and a new Methodist church costing 6000, threatening the village of Galveston. Fire departments aided by a chemical engine contained the blaze with limited insurance coverage. Separate farm fire near Shelbyville burned a barn and residence with a 2500 loss.
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
Charles Lott
Galveston
Minerva Fickle
New Methodist Church
Kokomo
Cliisens
Hartford City
McEldowney
Here
Gee
Cox & Alysworth
Comepany
Shelbyville
Thomas B. Adams
Fire damages Edward Steinwedel shop and home at Seymour
In Seymour Indiana a carpenter shop and wareroom owned by Edward Steinwedel and his residence adjoining were destroyed by fire last night. Loss estimated around 3 000 dollars with insurance coverage. No injuries reported. Firefighters battled the blaze through the night.
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Indianapolis Journal
Seymour, Ind
Edward Steinwedel
Shelby Roodle Cases Reach Bartholomew Court
Shelby county Indiana sheriff Luther filed transcripts in four Indiana cases against Adam A. Girton and William Amos tied to James Cherry and county commissioners. Indictments accuse presenting fraudulent claims and improper allowances linked to a stationery contract with Shelby Democrat. The Bartholomew Circuit Court will hear the cases in September. John T Johnson was fined for selling a watermelon near West Baden's veterans reunion, testing a new law protecting soldiers' reunions.
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Indianagotis Journal
Columbus
Ind
Theoedore Luther
Shelby County
Indiana
State of Indiana
Adam A. Girton
William Amos
James Cherry
George Tray
Michigan City
Bartholomew Circuit Court
Amos
J. Marsh Wilson
Grand Jury
Shelby Democrat
George M. Ray
Indianapolis Journal
Paoli
John T. Johnson
West Baden
Lake County Monte Carlo Noticed After Widespread Letters
Special to the Indianapollo Journal Crown Point Indiana August letters bearing Indianapolis paste marks reached Lake County and northern Indiana. The Monte Carlo of the West has drawn little local attention despite a storm of unsigned letters denouncing authorities for failings in stopping it. The area along Lake Michigan near Whiting has been known for months for this activity.
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Indianapollo Journal
Crown Point
Ind
Long Beach
Lake Michigan
Whiting
Lake County
Indianapolis
Indiana
Monte Carlo
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