Conservative union men push compromise end to steel strike
Pittsburg reaction from Aug 12 reports two distinct strikes within the Amalgamated Association. Conservatives push for settlement while fearing loss of organization if the fight continues. Debate centers on United States Steel Corporation hiring policies and demand for individual contracts. Shaffer urges lodges to fundraise and sway public opinion against trust limits on liberty. Dewes Wood plant removal is discussed as extension for National Tube Works.
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Indianapolis Journal
Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association
Shaffer
Amalgamated
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Corporation
Hoop Steel
Sheet Steel
Trust
Atte
Tube Works Extensions at Pittsburg Under Veil of Strategy
The threat to move the W Dewees Wood plant from McKeesport to a new site appears to be a strike tactic. Dismantling began after the announcement, aiming to pressure 31 000 to 40 000 towns to curb unions. Ground vacated by Wood would host an extension of the National Tube Works, both owned by the same company, amid a rebuilding and expansion plan under the Leving Law.
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Indianapolis Journal
Pittsburg
W. Dewees
McKeesport
National Tube Works
Elwood
Attorney General to Sue United States Steel Corp in State Trust Case
In Columbus on August 12 the attorney general said he will file suit against United States Steel under the Valentine trust law. The action proceeds regardless of any compliance steps by the company and no public plan of action will be released. The secretary of state notes the corporation has not yet complied with state regulations for foreign firms doing business locally.
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Columbus
Sheets
United States Steel Corporation
Valentine
Cent
United States Staal Corporation
Sentn Ae Corporation
Ohio
Secretary of State
United Steel Corporation
Standard OU Trust
Watson
Keesport
Wheeling
Chicago
Joliet
Bay View
Carnegie
Kiskiminetas Valley
Younngstown
Amalgamated
Straffer
American Federation of Labor
Shaffer
Davis
American Federation of
Shafe Fer
Steel Trust Suit Moves Forward In Trust Action Debate
A joint committee from the American Anti trust League and Knights of Labor district plans legal action against United States Steel Corporation. They seek Knox to file Sherman act proceedings with Ohio reports actions to be coordinated with attorneys general and potential mandamus if needed. A $100 contribution funds expenses.
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Washington
American Anti-trust League and
District Assembly No. 6
Knights of Labor
United States Steel Corporation
Frank
Monnett
Ohio
Pera
Knox
Steel Corporation
Anti-trust League
Murder Allegation Against Fellow Workers in Ohio Mill
Edward Grossman of Manchester Michigan was said to have died after a rigged mill crime. A dying Cincinnati patient Mechler claimed coworkers tied him with a rope and swung him from a beam, fracturing his skull, then placed him on railroad tracks. Detective from Cincinnati arrested Geo Stag near Franklin, presumed connected.
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Middletown
Edward Grossman
Manchester
Mich
Mechler
Cincinnati
Grossman
Franklin
Geo Stag
Beveridge Arrives in Peking for Two Day Stay
United States Senator Beveridge reaches Peking for a brief two day visit after extensive travel in Manchuria with the Russian commander in chief. E Burton Holmes accompanies the party. Beveridge crossed Siberia. Russians deny landing permission from Amur steamers on the Manchuria side.
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Peking
United States
Beveridge
Manchuria
E. Burton Holmes
Siberia
Amur
Oil boom hits Lawton as acres stake mineral claims
Lawton Oklahoma Territory August 12 Promoters and oil experts from Beaumont display bottles while oil districts spread across eleven miles north of Lawton. Locators have staked 2000 acres in one block near Otumwa, with companies claiming capital stock from a quarter million to a million dollars.
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Fort Sill
O. T
Lawton
Beaumont
Ottumwa, S
Sale of Town Lots in Oklahoma Crowds Anadarko
A condensed report from Washington shows five days of town lot sales in the newly ceded Oklahoma area. Anadarko led with 397 lots sold for $108.49, Lawton moved 279 lots for $61,970, and Hobart sold 274 lots for $42,180. Interior officials note an application for troop use to evict squatters near Lawton, while Woods’s homestead beside Lawton awaits action.
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Washington
Interior Department
Oklahoma
Anadarko
Lawton
Hobart
Ryan
Kk. Woods
Battleship switch and intra American crisis report note
State Department authorizes the American charge d affaires at Caracas to act for Colombia if the Colombian minister withdraws, while gunboat and fleet movements signal growing tension on the Isthmus of Panama and Venezuelan border. The article discusses Consul Gudger aiding Chinese along the Isthmus and the battle fleet shift from Wisconsin to the Iowa for Pacific defense as events unfold.
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Washington
State Department
Caracas
Venezuela
Colombia
Russell
Panama
Gudger
Navy Department
Inwa
Pacific
Silas Casey
Lowa
San Francisco
Machias
Norfolk
Colon
Geran
Buena Ventura
Ronce
Sener Rico
New York
Bribe scheme ends in prison term and appeal stay
The defendant admitted accepting protection money from the disorderly house keeper and received a five and a half year sentence plus a $1000 fine. Bissert’s attorney gave notice of appeal and later secured a temporary stay in the case.
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Bissert
Jealous plasterer shoots wife and man at Druid Hill Park
Joseph J. Adams a 32 year old plasterer living at 99 Kent Street shot and killed his wife and Charles Houck 28 at the Cedar avenue entrance to Druid Hill Park Baltimore. He surrendered later to police and said jealousy led to the crime leaving four children.
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Baltimore
Joseph J. Adams
Kent Street
Charles Houck
Cedar Avenue
Druid Hill Park
Adams
Houck
Publication of alleged libel cannot be restrained by injunction
MEMPHIS Tenn Aug 12 Chancellor Heiskell ruled that press publication of alleged libelous material cannot be halted by injunction. Complainants sought to stop a local paper from issuing an edition containing statements claimed to affect their personal and professional standing. The decision rested on two grounds freedom of the press and right to trial by jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis. Tenn
Heiskell
Gold Recovered From San Francisco Smelter Heist
Divers working for a detective agency recovered four thousand dollars in gold from the hidden stash at the Selby Smelting Company site. Nearly twenty thousand dollars has been recovered, with a remaining amount of about forty thousand yet to be accounted for. Detective Morse attributes the crime to Winters, who is detained but not charged. A dispute over rewards and legal action may follow among Donaldson, Sheriff Veal, and competing agencies.
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San Francisco
Selby Smelting Company
Winters
Morse
Donaldson
Whiters
Selby
Veal
Contra Costa County
Donaldson and
Los Angeles
Texas
Admiral Mortimer Johnson named to Boston Navy Yard
The Navy Department selected Rear Admiral Mortimer L. Johnson to succeed Admiral Sampson at the Boston navy yard when he retires. The appointment is pending, with Sampson's health and timing unclear, and officials say the action bears no relation to the Schley court of inquiry.
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Washington
Navy Department
Mortimer L. Johnson
Port Royal Naval Station
Admiral Sampson
Boston Navy Yard
Department
Admiral Johnson
Yard
Schley Court of Inquiry
Sampson
Court of Inquiry
Lemly
Escape convict linked to gold theft suspect in Leavenworth
Leavenworth Kan August 12 John Winters, the man who stole 280000 in gold bars from the Selby smelting works near San Francisco, is thought to be an escaped convict from the Kansas State Penitentiary Records show John Winters escaped June 6 189 from the prison farm He was sent from Cloud County Kansas for burglary and had four weeks left to serve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Kan
John Winters
Selby
San Francisco
Kansas State Penitentiary
Cloud County
Kansas
Drowned In Galoup Rapids On Yacht Rhea
Ogdensburg New York reports three men Charles White James Whitney and Edgar Lane drowned when the private watch Rhea sank in the Galoup rapids today. Whitney owned the yacht with Lane and White as guests. Four ladies and Mr Raney escaped ashore at the lock head while the yacht sank into the cellar. Bodies not recovered. all residents of Prescott.
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Ogdensburg
N. Y
Charles White
James Whitney
Edgar Lane
Rhea
Whitney
Lane
White
Hugh Raney
McPherson
Raney
Prescott
Suit for 25000 Damages Filed Over Dennison Mills
A transcript filed in the U S Circuit Court in Cleveland details a suit for 25 000 dollars against American Sheet Steel Company by Morris Moody M Dunn and about a dozen Dennison Ohio residents. They say land and mills were given to the company, later sold, and the trust is dismantling the plant causing injury and damages.
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Cleveland
American Sheet Steel Company
Common Pleas Court
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
United States Circuit Court
Morris Moody
M. Dunn
Dennison
Phey
Drowned Scots Visitor among Bathing Party at Point Pleasant
Sterling Malach of Edinburgh drowned while bathing with friends at Point Pleasant New Jersey. The group laughed at life guards warnings about a strong current. Malach and Edward Cronan could not reach shore as others escaped. Malach was a known artist. Also at Lexington Virginia a mountain stream flood swept Assistant Postmaster John G Pole and his three young daughters to drown. Pole and one daughter survived.
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New York
Sterling Malach
Edinburgh
Scotland
Point Pleasant
N. J
Edward Childs Cronan
George Smith
University of Pennsylvania
Houghton
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
C. Cook
Mr. Mallach
Mr. Cronan
Lexington
John G. Pole
Two Islands Off Cuban Canat
A Paris dispatch reports Germany and possibly France seeking to acquire Cave Romano and Cayo Romano off Cuba to gain influence near the United States. The deals involve German syndicates led by Baron Adolf Oppenheim and Jesuits backed by France, with Ambassador Porter informing Washington.
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New York
Journal and Advertiser
Paris
Germany
France
Cave Romano
Cayo Cruz
Greater Antilles
Cuba
Prudencio Ebanez Y Vega
Baron Adolf Oppenheim
Cayo Romano
United States
Porter
State Department
Martinique
Blue Jackets in Haste At Nantucket
Afloat 1,500 marines and bluejackets from the North Atlantic squadron rushed ashore at Nantucket Mass after learning comrades needed reinforcements. They tumbled from hammocks and reached land in about fifty minutes, a maneuver praised by commanding officers as highly successful given the crew aboard ships were unaware of the plan.
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Nantucket
Mass
Hoata
Drownings Reported In Ontario and New York Tales
New Castle Ontario report: Easton Beacham manager of Park and Tilford New York and Charles and John Farncomb aged eight were drowned in Lake Ontario while swimming. Charlotte North Carolina: John Garrison and his nephew drowned in a millpond during a rescue attempt.
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New Castle
Ont
Easton Beacham
Park & Tilford
New York
Charles
John Farncomb
Cain Furnas
Lake Ontario
Charlotte
John Garrison
Garrison
New York Wardman Biscert Convicted in Recent Indictment
In New York on August 2, George Biscert the police wardman faced conviction recently on an indictment alleging he engaged in improper conduct. Authorities did not disclose further details, but the outcome marks a significant development in the police department scrutiny.
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New York
George
Biscert
Navy commends Peking legation guard under Hall
The acting secretary of the navy sent a letter of commendation to Capt. H. A. Hall for the heroism of the guards at Peking from July 21 to Aug. 17 during the siege. Previously Capt. Myers received a commendation. Hall was charged during the crisis but later exonerated by a court. The letter praises all guard members and notes specific commendations for Edward A. Walker, Martin Hunt, John Dahlgren, Emil Sjogreen, and Alexander Westermark.
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Washington
Hackett
H. A. Hall
Legation Guard
Peking
Department
Myers
Hall
Regation
Regation Guard
Edward A. Walker
Marine Corps
Martin Hunt
John ©. Dahlgren
Emil Sjogreen
Alexander Westermark
Legation
Ilegal Appointments and Treasury Replies
Washington Aug 12 The secretary of the treasury received the committee response from the Board of Trade and Transportation of New York to Wakeman Appraiser New York regarding charges against him for changes and appointments to his office. The matter was referred to the Civil Service Commission for Kemparste appointments of Examiners Groves McDonald Bretafelder Jerome and Michaels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Board of Trade and Transportation of
New York
Wakeman
Geestenevink
Kemparste
Groves
McDonald
Bretafelder
Jerome
Michaels
Government delays select staff as Civil Service row fuels friction
The commission ruled legal the appointment of several men who lacked Section 240 qualifications. Secretary Gage will order dismissals and direct baggage examinations to return transferred staff to their original posts. Also noted: France may face a wheat shortage requiring foreign imports of about 52,000,000 bushels next year.
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E Commission
Gage
Civil Service Commission
Wakeman
Pirate's Gold Found in Spanish Specie Near Portersville
Meridian Mississippi reports the discovery of 32 dollars mostly in Spanish gold specie buried in a chest about five miles from Portersville along the Mobile and Ohio railroad on a night last Friday. Four men with a burial chart carried out the search over time. The area is linked to the Copeland gang and a larger sum, over nine thousand dollars, is believed buried in Sucurneche swamp and has been sought for years.
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Meridian
Miss
Portersville
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Copeland Ganas
Sucurneche Swamp
Watchmen Overpowered in Allenhurst Rail Safe Robbery
In Allenhurst New Jersey six masked burglars robbed the Atlantic Coast Electric Railway Company safe of $2. The two watchmen guarding the office were bound with wire and gagged after the intruders held revolvers to their heads and threatened to kill if an alarm was raised.
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New York
Atlantic Coast Electric Railway Company
Allenhurst
N. J
Chinese Customs Dues Protocol Agreed By Envoys
A cable from Mr. Rockhill reports a final protocol draft agreeing a 5 percent ad valorem tariff with rice cereals and flour admitted free. Flour free of duty boosts Pacific coast wheat and flour exports, while rice remains free due to China’s drought and famine needs. Berlin reports Count Von Waldersee praising German actions in China and the Kaiser backing open trade routes for German industry.
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Washington
State Department
Rockhill
Peking
Pacific Coast
China
Atlantic
Horn
Pacifice
Siam
Berlin
Count von Waldersee
Hanover
William
Germany
Bad Man Killed in Street Duel at State Line
Jim Medte was killed by Jim Glendenning, a miner, after a dispute over revolver skills at the border town. Glendenning was jailed following the shooting, while Hedges, known as a “bad man,” had a twenty year history of lethal street encounters and had previously fought Glendenning in a later confrontation.
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State Line
Tiakh
Jim Medteev
Jim Itennenning
Hedges
Glendenning
Glendennning
Craw
Unclear OCR List of Steel Works and Plant Closures
Fragmentary OCR notes name several plants including National Tube Works McKeesport Steel Works Monongahela Steel Works Riverside Iron and Tube Works and Benwood. The text references strike edicts and likely plant closures across New Castle Mingo Junction Bellaire and nearby sites. No clear date or outcome is stated.
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New Castle
Mingo Junction
Wo ‘Total Bellaire
Mingo Furnac Total
Bgivaes Bod
Ebreena Stock Science
National Taire Company
Softon Rolling Mill
National Rolling Mill
Monongahela Steel Works
Monongahela Furnace
Elba Iron Works
Republic Iron Works
Riverside Iron and Tube Works
National Tube Works
McKeesport Steel Works
Benwood
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Bury Unionis
Amalgamated Association Presi
Dent
National
Movement
Usder the V Lenting Law
The
Steel Trust
Indiana
Tor
the Woods
C. T
J. R. Woods
Richards
Secretary of the Interior
Woods
MR. Russell
COLOM
BIA
Isthmian Republic
Consul Gudger
Wisconsin
the Isles
Hampton Roads
Brooken Navy Yard
Saint Helena
Lancaster
Javier Jurequito
New York Herald
Caracao
MLD
San Francisco Bay
Selby Smelter
Congress
Revenue Bureau
Yerkes
Internal Revenue Bureau
Edger Lane
Sheet Steel Company
Hee
Islands
Cuban
Millpond
Ilegal
Skinner
Marseilles
National Capital Notes
Wilkie
Secret Service
Somerset
Harvey Hemmingway
Keyser
First National Bank of
Treasury Department
Treasury
J. H. Brigham
Department of Agriculture
Specie
Unearthed
Electric Railway Company
Waldersee
Kaiser
Dent Shapfer
Bers
Federna
Labor
Sha@er
National Steel Company
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