Mercy Extended for Coal Miners by Federal Judge
Federal Judge Jackson ordered the release of Thomas Hegeerty and six other Mine Workers from jail on contempt, with promise they would not violate the injunction again. The move came as W. Va. and Pa. reports describe ongoing court actions, threats of rearrest, and a broader labor crisis across the coal regions including remarks by Secretary Wilson and Senator Quay.
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Harleston
W. Va
John Richards
Keller
W. B. Wilson
The
Workers of America
Miners Union demands eight day wages scale start Oct
Knoxville reports the United Mine Workers district committee demands set a per cent average wage increase for an eight day period beginning October 1 and two pay days per month. New York notes domestic anthracite coal prices rose by one dollar per ton from yesterday across stove egg nut and broken sizes.
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Knoxville
Tenn
United Mine Workers America
New York
Amalgamated Meat Cutters Donate To Striking Miners
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of St Louis donated 98 to striking miners in the anthracite district today. The event occurred during a convention in Baerse Louis with officials from the union present.
Youth gang attacks Chelsea boy in Clay City
Chelsea, a twelve year old who lives with editor W. J. Ward, was beaten and nearly stabbed to death by a gang of youths. Doctors treated abdominal wounds from a knife said to have been supplied by a Marshall boy. Names of alleged assailants include Otis White Clint Foreman and others. White is said to have fled to Haute.
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Indianapolis Journal
Clay City
Ind
Chelsea
W. J. Ward
Curtis
Otis White
Clint Foreman
Guirl
Marshall
Drummond
White
Haute
Arkansas Sheriff Brought Evansville Robber to Indianapolis Journal
Evansville report says Thomas J. was arrested as a vagrant, then by Sheriff King of Clarksville moved to Indianapolis Journal. The incident was noted in Evansville on August 12 with details of the transfer and custody.
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Indianapolis Journal
Evansville, Ind
Thomas J
Sheriff King
Clarksville
Arkansas gang member kidnapped during Clarksville bank robbery
A gang member from Arkansas, tied to a bank robbery that killed the county sheriff at Clarksville, was abducted from Indiana this afternoon by King, who also took Charles Johnson and claimed Johnson faced the same papers. In Valparaiso, the Stoneburner home robbery animates locals as Sheriff La Count and a posse search the area, with fourteen suspects detained and Miss Hart recovering from a near-drowning incident in the bath tub.
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Ark
Clarksville
King
Charles Johnson
Clark
Johnson
Indianapolis Journal
Valparaiso
Inn
A. A. Stoneburner
la Count
Multiple railroad accidents hit Hammond region
In Hammond Indiana six fast trains incidents left two dead and four seriously injured. A railroad contractor John Cahill died after leaping from a non stopping Western Limited. Warren M Davis killed attempting to mount a through freight. Samuel Walker and Tom Williams jumped from a Lake Shore freight injuring Williams legs and Walker skull. John Mooth injured from an Erie flyer and John Stern fatally injured near Crown Point. Similar wrecks reported at Brazil and Lafayette with injuries to Mrs Jack Bray and a 8 year old boy, and the Rev Father Lucas sustaining head injuries. A Lake Erie train wreck near Boswell derailed 15 cars with material damage but no injuries.
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Indianapolis Journal
Hammond
Ind
John Cahill
Niles
Fast Western Limited
Mchigan Central
Cahills
Chicago
Warren M. Davis
Sterling, Ill
Samuel Walker
Tom Williams
Lake Shore
Williams
Walker
John Mooth
Lowell
Erie
John Stern
Crown Point
Laporte
Father Lucas
Catholic Hospital
Lafayette
Holy Family Hospital
Otis
Tragic freight train jump ends Charles Smith life
In Muncie Indiana Charles Smith twenty two dies after attempting to board a moving freight train at C H D station in Sidney Ohio. His right leg is severed and he bleeds to death. The body will be sent to Muncie for burial. In Winchester Indiana J M Browne falls from a high scaffold while frescoing a second floor court house, sustaining serious likely permanent injuries.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Charles Smith
Sidney, O
Poe
Winchester
J. M. Browne
Angel food cake recipe seals unusual marriage in Kokomo
In Kokomo Indiana on August 12 a marriage took place after a recipe for angel food cake drew the couple together. Miss Lida Beadle of Lockport Illinois had recipes published in a St. Louis paper and caught the eye of J W Richardson a wealthy local farmer. He invited her to visit Illinois and after showing a photo and recommendations they wed last night, having met only six hours before. Rev C W Choate officiated at the Congregational Church.
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Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Ind
Lida Beadle
Lockbridge
St. Louis
J. W. Richardson
Richardson
Illinois
Miss Beadle
C. W. Choate
Congregational Church
Ern
Lively family mixup in Morgantown boy detained in Nashville
Roscoe Karst eighteen-year-old son of a Morgantown merchant is in Nashville with officers reportedly en route to return him. His mother found him in a saloon where she smashed the bar mirror and glasses before taking him home. He allegedly drove the family from their house with a butcher knife, and his father then beat him. A boy across the street threw stones at the house and fled.
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Indianapolis Journal
Nashville
Ind
Roscoe Karst
Morgantown
Morgan County
Karst
Minister Confession Shocks Benwood Killings Revelations
Terrelle Indiana Aug. 12 The Tribune prints a report that Rev Charles Hill a Congregational minister has confessed to firing the shot that killed Widow Smith at a Benwood neighbor’s door fifteen years ago He claims the shot came from a distance and killed Mrs Smith Clay City Packing Company Begins Canning Tomatoes Aug 12 The plant covers 12000 square feet and will employ about seventy five workers at full capacity with own and contracted tomato fields Marion Indiana Aug 12 Grant County to establish free rural delivery bringing daily door to door mail for every farmer several hundred families to gain service
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
the Tribune
Charles Hill
Smith
Benwood
Hilll
Clay City
Clay City Packing Company
Davies County
Marion
Iind
Grant County
Suburban Post Office Service Shortfall Leads to Complaints
In Marion corporate units lacking service, residents complain as Postmaster Ferree fails to secure redress. A new carrier was added but used to relieve downtown routes, leaving suburban neighborhoods still unserved. Also in Indiana, Fairmount Fair Association opens its seventeen year meet with high prospects for exhibitors and crowds. Muncie plans city car fenders from Union Traction Company, introducing a new model to be adopted where required.
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Marion
Ferree
Indianapolis Journal
Fairmount
Ind
Fairmount Fair Association
Muncie
Union Traction Company
Old Settlers Reunion to Be Held Near Parker City
News briefs report Randolph and Delaware counties old settlers reunion set for Oak Grove near Parker City on Aug 30 with talks by state and national figures and potential appearance by Albert Beveridge. Milk dealers in Lafayette lose licenses after failing three tests. Madison approves Arm Bracket and Pin Co relocation with 2,000 bonus to hire 30 to 50 workers. Decatur: Charles Ecer man, who planned county infirmary destruction, arrested in Chattanooga and brought to jail.
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Indianapolis Journal
Parker City
Ind
Randolph
Delaware Counties
Oak Grove
Albert J. Beveridge
Lafayette
A. W. Bitting
Decatur
Charles Ecerman
Chattanooga
Bronga
Funeral notices from Pendleton to Kokomo town
Multiple Indiana town briefs report obituaries and deaths. Granville Clark, 73, wealthy farmer of Pendleton, dies after cancer. Eliza Eckhaus, 49, Lafayette merchant’s wife, dies afterlong illness. Sarah Crevist on, 82, Marion resident, dies at home. E. E. Rogers, 45, Tipton conductor’s wife, dies. Judge Ferdinand Bookwalter, Vermilion County official, dies of Bright's disease. Also noted are Beacon labor paper first issue in Marion, fire chief Willoughby resignation in Lafayette, jail suicide attempt in Winchester, soldier Frederick Thurber’s desertion arrest in Fortville, Lafayette fair turnout concerns, Otis Stanton appointed Lebanon High principal, Jacob Herbert’s cattle struck by lightning near Greensburg, Frank T. Reed to resign in Muncie, Peter Kingseed dies in Kokomo.
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Pendleton
Ind
Granville Clark
Union County
West Virginia
Abraham Eckhaus
Germany
Marion
Sarah Creviston
Daniel Creviston
van Buren
Union Chapel
Tipton
E. E. Rogers
Anderson
Danville
Ferdinand Bookwalter
Vermillon County Circuit Court
Bright
The
Beacon
Central Trades Council
W. A. Engle
Trades Council
Martin Brubaker
Cleveland
Lapayette
W. H. Willoughby
Fire
Common Council
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Independent Order of Foresters
Winchester
Willam Lanning
Overman
Fortville
Frederick Thurber
United States Army
Columbus
Terre Haute
Lebanon
Otis G. Stanton
Irvington
Henry H. Lane
Lane
Greensburg
Jacob Herbert
Muncie
Frank T. Reed
Kokomo
Peter Kingseed
Doctor Wilson Letter From Ohio Defends Nicaragua Expedition
In a Columbus letter Dr. Russell Wilson of Norwalk rejects death sentence claims by the Nicaraguan government. He says he joined the colored regular army as major surgeon and served aboard the gunboat General Pinson with a landings attempt at Bluefields thwarted by wind and forts. He insists the mission was not a filibustering trip but directed by the regular army.
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Columbus, O
Russell Wison
Norwalk
Colombia
Nicaragua
General Pinson
May Declare a Strike Over Bad Faith in Labor Talks
Chicago Federation of Labor officers pressed Union Traction and City Railway employees to honor agreements and submit grievances to arbitration. Workers outlined a plan for a general strike next Tuesday. conservatives vow to oppose. Meanwhile, locomotive engineers and firemen reached a nine hour day at a Manhattan Elevated conference in New York. A United Powder and High Explosive Workers of America convention opened in Wilkesbarre. In Edmore North Dakota a shooting at a blind pig left Carl Okelson wounded. deputy sheriff shot the assailant. A Quivira Historical Society monument for Coronado’s expedition was unveiled near Junction City Kansas by Captain Robert Henderson’s farm.
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Chicago Federation of Labor
Union Traction Company
City Railway Company
Chicago City Railway
Union Traction
New York
Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers
Youngson and Wilson
Manhattan
United Powder and High Explosive Workers of America
Wilkesbarre
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
New Jersey
Delaware
Edmore
N. D
Carl Okelson
Walsh County
Frank Pelke
Pelke
Okelson
George Hanson
Johnson
Hanson
Wood Workers Enjoined In Piqua Strike
Piqua Ohio August 12 In a petition by Snyder and Son Bent Wood Company officers and members of the Amalgamated Wood Workers Association were enjoined from interfering with the employer or its officers and from threatening or intimidating workers. A temporary restraining order was issued and the case will be heard October 1. The injunction follows a three week old wood workers strike. Chicago August 12 Businessmen plan to curb teamsters interference with strikes by unions. The Associated Teaming Interests was formed after disturbances tied to packing house drivers and freight handlers caused about eight million dollars in losses.
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Piqua, O
Snyder & Son Bent Wood Company
Amalgamated Wood Workers’ Association
Chicago
Telegraphic Brevities Highlight Immigrant Death and Robberies
Immigrant Wong Yen hanged in Toledo jail after arrest for illegal entry. Highland Falls post office burglars blew safe with dynamite stealing stamps, currency, rings, bracelet, and records. Lewin A. Wood expelled from Chicago Board of Trade for fictitious trades tied to grain clearance lapses. Over 360 attend YMCA conference at Silver Bay Lake George with speakers listed. American Philatelic Association elects Holland, Smith, Doeblin, Annon as officers at Springfield. One dead and another dying from suspected gas in Jersey City hotel room. Mexican Mazatlan holdup nets 4000 dollars. Mariano Gorillo shot while attempting to whip horses.
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Wong Yen
United States
Toledo
Highland Falls
N. Y
Lewin A. Wood
Edwards, Wood & Co
St. Paul
Chicago Board of Trade
Milwaukee House
Young Men's Christian Association
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Lake George
H. 5. Smith
Winona
Washington State
Pittsburg
Carlsbad
Mazatlan
Mexico
Tucson
A. T
Mariano Gorillo
Two Policemen Killed in Chicago Revolver Fight
Chicago officers Timothy Devine and Charles Pennell were killed in a dawn gun battle with a suspected gang near Jackson Boulevard and Ashland Avenue. Pennell raised the alarm after a hundred foot stagger to a patrol box. six suspects were detained as investigators chase a wounded head injury clue tied to druggist George Pulford near Ada and Randolph streets.
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Chicago
Timothy Devine
Charles T. Pennell
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Pennell
Jackson Boulevard
Ashland Avenue
West Side
George Pulford
Ada
Randolph
Pulford
Divine
Ogden Avenue
Randolph Street
Plans for General Smith's protest against wartime order
Portsmouth attorney James Bannon, brother-in-law of Gen. Jacob H. Smith, says the general will stay in Portsmouth about a month to draft a report for the War Department detailing Philippine campaign conditions, alleged atrocities, and the order’s justification. He will consult army friends before taking action, and attend a Washington reunion starting Sept. 15 to map his plan. Roosevelt’s sentence on the court martial is noted as a misreading.
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Columbus
State Journal
Portsmouth
James Bannon
Jacob H. Smith
Philippines
Smith
Roosevelt
Remembering a Gentle Country Storekeeper in Detroit Echoes
A prosperous elderly hardware man reflects on old time business manners and recalls a Virginia country storekeeper named Clement N who greeted a young boy with courtesy, helped him mount, and inspired the naming of his first colt Clement N. The tale contrasts past gentility with modern hustling in business.
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Detroit Free Press
Virginia
Clement N
Soo City Struggles in Rough Lake, Reaches Chicago
The Graham & Morton steamer Soo City, with 20 passengers aboard, rode a five hour ordeal as a propeller shaft broke and the vessel rode the trough of heavy seas. A tow finally brought it to Chicago six hours late.
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Chicago
Soo City
Graham & Morton Line
Fire destroys Urey block and several Princeton businesses
In Princeton Kentucky a fire gutted the Urey block, opera house, Terry Frayser drugstore, A Cash Bros dry goods, Henry Butler store, Cumberland telephone exchange and Postal Telegraph. Loss about 100000, partly insured. Dr W B Terry died of injuries from an explosion at the drug store. In Memphis, Armour Packing plant fire caused about 11540 loss, uninsured. Origin unknown.
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Princeton
Urey
Terry & Frayser’s
A. Cash & Bros
Henry & Butler
Cumberland Telephone Exchange
Postal Telegraph Office
W. B. Terry
Terry & Frayser
Terry
Memphis
Tenn
Armour Packing Company
Clinton and McCall Streets
Souvenir coins planned for Louisiana Purchase Exposition
President Francis of the exposition receives a Treasury letter announcing two distinct souvenir coins. The plan calls for 20 percent gold dollars with half bearing Thomas Jefferson and half William McKinley. Production will take at least six months, with certificates on request for the first fifty or one hundred coins.
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St, Louis
Francis
the Treasury
Shaw
Thomas Jefferson
William McKinley
California Primary Elections in San Francisco Aug 12
Primary elections were held across most California counties to select delegates to Republican and Democratic state and congressional conventions. A factional fight boosted GOP turnout while Democratic interest lagged. Returns indicate the Texplar publican aioe tickets were generally successful and many delegates favored Governor H. T. Gage’s renomination.
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San Francisco
Texplar Publican
Aioe
H. T. Gage
Indiana Auditor Certifies 1902 Insurance Company Assets
The statement lists cash on hand and by agents, stocks and bonds, lien notes, loans on bonds and real estate, debts secured, premiums, and other securities. The auditor confirms the copy is correct as of June 10, 1802 and that the original is on file, signed and sealed August 1902 by W. H. Hart, Auditor of State.
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Zee
State of Indiana
Office of Auditor of States
State
Angus H. Hart
Indiana
W. H. Hart
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