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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1901
Page
1
Amalgamated Association accused of violating contracts by calling out tin plate workers who had signed the scale. Final warning issued. Mills put in operation during the strike will be nonunion. Shaffer's group given last chance to return to positions.
In McKeesport a strike chaos unfolds with street clashes as nonunion workers head to mills. The American Tin Plate Company asserts no settlement talks and vows to keep plants nonunion with current workers retained. Amalgamated leaders warn of trust breaches and push for a broader national tube workers’ body while President Shaffer denies authority to Peace overtures.
In Beaumont Texas the Palestine Beaumont well remains a towering spray of petroleum. James Smith and John McDaniel drowned last night while Peter Gallagher and two others entered the gas oil stream to shut the well. Gallagher died, companions rescued. Diver F W Chase arrived, preparations to uncouple pipe to close the well proceed.
In Austin on August 27 oil magnates from Beaumont urged House members to block a proposed 2 percent tax on gross earnings. The oil chiefs argued the levy would harm development and that Beaumont fields may not be as enduring as claimed, suggesting delay until further progress.
In Beaumont on August 27 the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Rail road signed what may be the largest local fuel oil contract. The Santa Fe will purchase a minimum of 9,000,000 barrels of oil from a Beaumont fuel company over the next twelve months. The price is not disclosed.
Directors accept committee report on Phillips May corn deal sufficiency and dismiss Inman claim. Settlement set at 427 32 cents with most paid 48 cents and Inman receiving 41? cents, an overpayment of 47000 on 265000 bushels. Rumor of a new company forming to succeed the George H. Phillips Company before Sept 1.
In ELRA Alabama on August 27 George W McLeod a Black man wanted in Henry County on two charges was fatally wounded by a sheriff s posse. Sheriff Knight and two deputies with John Cole a Black man who had located McLeod went to arrest him. McLeod fled with a public safety item and a Winchester shooting at Cole who likely died. A large posse with bloodhounds tracked him to a mill pond where he stood in water up to his neck. As he raised his Winchester to fire at the posse several others fired at his head. The incident left McLeod dead and several others injured.
Louisville witnessed a grand Knights Templars march for the twenty-eighth triennial conclave with about 30 000 in full uniform and 200 000 spectators along a four mile route. Governor Durbin rode to cheers as flags, wires, and review stands framed the event. Eleven heat prostrations occurred, a stand collapsed injuring none seriously, and Col. Schley received enthusiastic shouts from the crowd.
Recorder Mayo announced a recess till 9 30 a m. tomorrow as visitors enjoyed fireworks river excursions and a horse-show program. Commanderies from Kentucky Chicago Pittsburg Wheeling New Hampshire and Denver held receptions while a Southern darky themed concert drew a large crowd. Col Will 8 Hays organized the program with grand officers and committees named for credentials, proceedings, charities and other duties.
Boston banks including National Exchange National Bank of Redemption First National National Bank of the Commonwealth National Bank of the Republic Merchants National Bank and Atlantic National face U S Circuit Court suits to recover pension checks fraudulently cashed after the Treasury drew on the subtreasury. The actions stem from W A Munson s conviction for false pension vouchers and forged endorsements, with losses totaling seven thousand dollars and up.
Munir Bey 10 will receive his passports as relations between the Republic and Turkey deteriorate after Constans left Constantinople. The sultan repented and begged the French ambassador to return to his post, but was told that promises had expired and action was required.
Washington officials fear the departure of M Constans signals the breakdown of the European concert that guaranteed Turkish integrity. Paris says the Sultan broke his word on indemnities, while Paris and Constantinople exchange demands reducing promise fulfillment. The move risks dissolving the concert and could force each power to press Turkey with large claims.
Tucson dispatch reports US inspector B F Jonsey died from an accidental gun discharge while investigating a poultry disturbance. He was in night dress on a stepladder when the shotgun fired. Jonsey, from Americus Georgia, leaves a widow and a daughter. A Nogales report notes William M Hoey, US customs collector, was arrested for alleged conspiracy to smuggle Chinese across the border. his hearing is set for Thursday.
Rev Samuel G Bettes a temperance lecturer from Morgantown W Va was mobbed by about 50 men and boys at 9 pm while speaking before the courthouse. The crowd hurled sticks stones and eggs and seized him before police rescued him and kept him in the city jail for safety.
Abilene Kan Aug 27 Grant Gillette the cattle king who fled to Mexico over two years ago owing cattlemen is believed to have carried more than a million dollars back to the United States in disguise. Ben Cooper once of Abilene, who knew Gillette, says Gillette handed him a message at Anadarko during a land rush to be sent to Woodbine. Cooper recognized him, but Gillette slipped away and could not be traced. Gillette was thought to be in Chihuahua Mex in cattle business.
In Corning New York on August 27 Mrs Nella Poor and her two Chicago sons were found in the woods after an escape from an Erie train incident. They had been living outdoors for days, suffer exposure, and are cared for by W H Chamberlain a Kanana resident and relative. Mrs Poor lodges a delusion that a price is placed on her head.
A Southern Railway passenger train struck a washout ten miles from Danville Virginia injuring several people none seriously. Among the injured were Congressman Peter J Otey of Lynchburg and Hon A B Davis member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention. Survivors were able to return home after treatment.
Lord Kitchener reports a Kimberley to Griquatown convoy attacked near Rooikopje. Captain Humby’s Seventy-fourth Imperial Yeomanry escort suffers nine killed and twenty-three wounded before driving off the attack. Convoy brought in. Rawlinson pursued eight raiders after a forty minute gallop east of Edenburg.
A letter describes martial law at the Cape and arrests by military tribunals. Merriman blasts the suspension of Parliament, misuse of public funds, and gag orders as Britain presses a South African policy. Lord Milner arrives at Cape Town with a pledge of steadfast support. A Times editorial urges a hard, frequent strike to end the war, warning proclamations alone fail without force.
St Petersburg dispatch confirms Emperor Nicholas and Emperor William plan a meeting at Dantzig on September 10. The Czar and Czarina will sail from St Petersburg aboard the Standart Aug 29, escorted by the Svetlana, to Fredensborg to confer with King Edward about Transvaal and potential mediation. Montelimar report: M Loubet cites future Czar visit as proof of Russia France union aiding peace.
Paris secret police surveil anarchists as Czar visit nears. Hugo Spandoni, arrested after a Bourse du Travail meeting on vagabondage grounds, released due to subsistence means but expelled to London. Chief Goron notes heightened scrutiny of anarchist groups and recent Dunkirk arrivals are under close watch. Sea arrivals are now meticulously questioned.
Reports from Victoria note heavy typhoon damage in the China seas prior to Empress of China arrival. Several large liners and ships like the Finance Minister Witte were sunk or wrecked. floods from the Yangtse and embankment breaks devastate villages and millions of acres of rice. Disputes and killings among converts near Kiang-Si are cited.
Aug 27 in Fort Smith Arkansas a mob gathered around the county jail to seize Louis Smith accused of assaulting Lucy Watson. The girl’s father and Chief of Police John Fuller intervened saving Smith from lynching. Sheriff Marrel moved Smith to Little Rock. mob dispersed but belief persists he remains jailed.
Executive committee invited to approve a peace plan agreed by the Civic Federation and Amalgamated Association. Labor leaders like Samuel Gompers see potential to end the strike. Amalgamated Chief Sargent urges no retreat. Pittsburgh dispatch notes Shaffer seeking mail approval. New York officials report no overtures and no proposals received.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor returned to Washington after visits to New York and Pittsburgh with the American Civic Federation advisory board. He backs moral support for the Amalgamated Association and says further aid may come, but expects careful action rather than public discussion. He claims the steel workers cause is strong and a settlement honorable to all should be possible without harming capitalization, with the National Civic Federation directing efforts.
New York Aus Frank P Gare gent grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and a member of the Industrial Commission of the National Civic Federation, conferred with Secretary Easley about the steel workers strike. He returns to Peoria tomorrow. In an interview to the Times he said the strike concerns all unions, and though the railway brotherhoods support strikers financially they cannot strike due to agreements with railroad companies. He warned that a failure by the steel strike could empower railroad companies to take aggressive measures against unions.
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