Conference adjourns break in block coal meet ing due to a strike
Conference adjourns as block coal meeting breaks over strike. Operators refuse to resume talks until miners are ordered back to work.
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The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1902
Page
7
Brazil Miner Strike Halts Arbitration Session
In Brazil Indiana a joint session of block coal operators and miners broke up when William Zeller said miners at Zeller and McClelland No 1 mine struck after the superintendent declined to join the union and obtain a working card. Operators insisted the contract requires arbitration before any new agreement and refused to discuss signing for the coming year until the strike ends. The talks, slow and unresolved, may resume as miners stay in session and consider returning to work tomorrow.
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Indianapolis Journal
Brazil
Ind
William Zeller
Zeller & McClelland Coal Company
Zeller & McClelland
Zeller & MetClelland
Indiana miners and operators seek new wage scale plan
In Terre Haute Indiana today the Indiana operators and miners joint committee began a new approach to settle the wage scale contract after nearly three weeks of debate. Each side will draft a new scale and present it to the joint conference with some concessions expected. The Operators' State Association named officers for the coming year including President J Smith Talley and Vice President J C Kolsom. FP H Penna was named secretary treasurer. The executive committee will include twelve operators from subdistricts across the bituminous field.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
Operators’ State Association
J. Smith Talley
J. C. Kolsom
FP. H. Penna
United Mine Workers Convention Chooses Huntington for Next Meeting
Huntington, March. The annual United Mine Workers of America convention adjourns after a three day session. Huntington selected for next year’s gathering. Little information on work. belief remains that a strike in the two Virginias could be ordered by May 1 if operators do not concede the demands.
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Huntington
W. Va
United Mine Workers of America
Virginias
Terre Haute Traction Refuses Arbitration and Strife
Terre Haute Indiana report declares that City Council's arbitration proposal to street railway manager Clark was rejected. A boss electrician, Jacob Hess, sought magistrate aid to locate his wife who allegedly fled amid the strike. Councillors considered ten days for arbitration before charter-forfeiture action, and discussed freight traffic remuneration and regulation.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Clark
Street Railway
Jacob Hess
Councy
Elwood Tin Workers Meet Over Wage Scale
Grant Jacobs vice president for Fifth district of the Tin Workers International Protective Association and R B Katterbury board member travel to Pittsburg for an executive board meeting with the Kan tin Plate Company. They will discuss adjusting the wage scale for the coming year. The outlook for an amicable settlement appears bright. Striking workers awaiting a wage settlement are reportedly pleased with prospects.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elwood
Ind
Eleven Smallpox Outbreak Near Morris Kentucky Settlement
Eleven Kentuckians near Morris, three miles east of Batesville, Ind, are ill with smallpox in what authorities call an outbreak. A quarantine will be set if the settlement that saw prior cases is again visited by smallpox. In Fort Wayne, Ind, a twelve year old girl in Hoagland contracted smallpox, following a visit to Bion Peart Sweet. Another local case, Parker, twenty, a former county clerk’s daughter, was stricken in the city.
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Inmilanapolis Journal
Batesville
Ind
Morris
Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Hoagland
John E. McGirk
Bion Peart Sweet
Parker
Seine
Independent Strawboard Company to Join United Boxboard Trust
Rockport Indiana March 3 The Independent Strawboard Company will transfer its factory and business to the United Boxboard and Paper Company of New York. The present board of directors will meet on the tenth to consummate the transfer. H Wood manager was summoned to New York to confer with the combination officials on selling out. He learned the plant would have to go.
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Indianapolis
Rockport
Ind
Strawbeard Company
United Boxboard and Paper Company
New York
Trust
Aeeg
H. Wood
Strawboard Company
York
Window Glass Trust to Move Plant and Expand in Rockport
At a stockholders meeting the trust decided to sell out and relocate a book-board plant from Ohio to Rockport, aiming to triple factory size. The move is driven by Rockport’s central location and trade reach. In Muncie, Indiana, Federation Co operative Windowglass Company was incorporated with $600,000 capital, forming 6,009 shares, uniting 43 window glass plants and 873 pots capacity under general manager Leopold Jambourg.
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Wood
Ohio
Rockport
Uth
Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Federation Co-operative Windowglass Company
New Jersey
Federation
Leopold Jambourg
Fire damages Eaton plant and nearby shops in Indiana
In Muncie and Hartford City, Indiana, fires damaged multiple structures. The Western Flint Glass factory at Eaton suffered about 2000 dollars in damage, originating in the blacksmith shop and affecting the engine room, with the main plant saved. Nearby on South Walnut street, two small frame buildings housing a meat shop and a barber shop burned, with losses around 150 dollars per occupant and 500 dollars for the building owner. A separate fire at the Diamond Oil Company lease power house on the Godfrey reserve caused about 2500 dollars in loss when a hot tube burst. workers' clothes and money were also lost.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Western Flint Glass
Eaton
South Walnut Street
Charles Eckert
J. C. Lloyd
Insurance loss estimate in carriage and hardware firm fire
Muncie Indiana March 2 Insurance adjusters finish loss estimates for C S Wachtell Son Co carriage and hardware dealers store damaged recently. Total loss placed at 15000 dollars about half the amount of some estimates.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
C. S. Wachtell, Son & Co
Carriage and Hardware Dealers
Oil and coal finds near Goshen and Mayer’s seventh well
State Geologist Blatchley heads to Goshen to study coal and oil deposits found on Joseph Paulus farm two and a half miles west. A second lease draft follows a rejected first contract as a one foot coal seam and deeper vein are confirmed. In Hartford City a new producing oil well on Joseph B. Mayer’s lease boosts a string of profitable wells despite Mayer’s inexperience in the oil business.
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Indianapolis Journal
Goshen
Ind
Blatchley
Joseph Paulus
Chicago
Hartford City
Richard Heagany
Corporation
Joseph B. Mayer
Buffalo, N. Y
Mayer
Big South Side Window Glass Concern
Unity Oil strike near Barnesville yields 300 barrels daily
In Barnesville Ohio a Unity Oil Company gas shot southeast of town today, sending oil 50 feet above the derrick. The flow is about 300 barrels per day. Two wells drilled by the firm recently yielded only gas.
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Barnesville
Unity Oil Company
Pittsburg
Boundary quest by Kidder pair seeks Oklahoma line
Willard Kidder and an assistant, both government workers and Rose Polytechnic Institute graduates, study the Red River boundary of Oklahoma from St Louis and Childress Texas. They will time stars for ten nights to pinpoint the exact southwestern corner of the Territory.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Willard Kidder
Arthur Kidder
Rose Polytechnic Institute
St. Louis
Oklahoma
Texas
Red_river
Childress
Tex
Kidder
Red River
Sandefur murder case draws crowded Indiana courtroom
In Shelbyville, Indiana, Mrs Emma Sandefur and son Clarence stand trial for the December murder of George W Scott as jurors hear state and defense witnesses. George Sandefur testified about the wooding incident near the family home while Clarence claimed he was jailed since December 2 and did not see Scott that day.
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Indianapolis Journal
Shelbyville
Ind
Emma Sandefur
Clarence
George W. Scott
George W. Sandefur
Joe Cryxe
Joe
Sandefur
Scott
Clarence Sandefur
Joe Cryse
Cryse
Beott
Trial recount and shift of venue in Indiana murder case
The court adjourned during cross examination as a man described a confrontation with Scott on a wagon and gate near a woods. In Terre Haute on March 2 the Lee Phillips murder case, involving a miner who shot a saloon keeper at Grant on Christmas, was moved to Parke county due to claimed prejudice against a black defendant, citing a prior lynching as proof.
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Scott
Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Lee Phillips
Charles Markin
Grant
Parke County
Ward
Norman W. Jones Dies in Garrett Indias March pneumonia
Norman W. Jones of Auburn Ind died at his father in law Dr J F Thomson residence in Garrett after six days illness from pneumonia He was a DePauw alumnus 1890s and taught English in Kansas before entering business He helped organize the Model Gas Engine Co at Auburn and served as secretary Funeral at the Methodist Church in Garrett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Garrett
Ind
Norman W. Jones
Auburn
J. F. Thomson
Jones
de Pauw University
Indianapolis
de Pau
HURT VISITING KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS MEMBER IN CHICAGO ACCIDENT
George F. Walters of Lowell Indiana sixty, a visiting member to the Knights of Pythias Jubilee in Chicago, was badly injured by a street car on Wabash avenue. He fractured his leg in several places and is believed to be internally hurt. Walters was taken to St Luke's Hospital after slipping while boarding a street car near the Coliseum as he tried to return to the Great Northern Hotel.
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Chicago
George F. Walters
Lowell
Ind
Knights of Pythias
St. Luke's Hospital
Walters
Wabash Avenue
Great Northern
Death of Fulton County farmer killed by frightened horse
John Costello prominent Fulton county farmer and father of Desk Officer Richard Costello of Logansport died last night after a horse kicked him in the stable. The animal trampled him, crushing his skull. His wife, shocked by finding him, collapsed beside the prone body until a neighbor brought help.
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
John Costello
Fulton County
Richard Costello
Interurban Railway Contract Awards in Indiana
Co New Enterprises reports C L Briggs of Cleveland won the contract to build the Eaton power house and other structures and substations in Muncie Hartford City Bluffton and Fort Wayne for the Muncie Hartford City and Fort Wayne Interurban Railway. Indiana Bridge Company of Muncie won the bridge and material work. Estimated road cost is about one million dollars. Elwood sees ground break for a new telephone plant by independent combine with franchise approval earlier. Plant to be operational within six months.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
C. L. Briggs
Cleveland
Eaton
Hartford City
Bluffton
Fort Wayne
Ft Wayne
Indiana Bridge Company
Elwood
New Telephone Company
Wabash Pioneer Henry Wensel Ends His Life
Henry Wensel, 76, a pioneer resident of Wabash Indiana, killed himself today after suffering from grief over the recent death of a family member. He bought carbolic acid at a local drug store and took the entire quantity at home, where his daughter found him dying. He was born in Germany and had lived in Wabash since 1880s. He leaves a widow and two daughters. In Moore’s Hill Indiana, young women’s gym class played a basketball match with final score 7 to 5 in favor of the first team.
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Indianapolis Journal
Bedford
Ind
John Johnson, Jr
Bedford Daily Democrat
Johnson
Green Hill Tree
Indianapolis
Wabash
Henry Wensel
Wensel
Fred Hipskind
Falls-avenue
Mr. Wensel
Germany
Moore's Hill
Eva Jackson
Local college team ready to meet any state opponent next season
In New Albany the team plans to accept a challenge from any college in the state next season while continuing gym work. The Philannekean Society will host a banquet on March 2 to celebrate funds raised for the chapter house to be started by July 1. Commencement in June should see $1 on hand. the project is valued at 83.00 and foundation work will be provided, though final building plans remain undecided.
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New Albany
Philaneikean Society
Carnegie offers New Albany a library gift to anchor a city fund
New Albany Indiana March Carnegie plans to donate thirty five thousand dollars for a free public library with the city to raise three thousand six hundred dollars annually for maintenance. After two years of outreach the offer appears likely to be accepted by the City Council, while existing taxes raise two thousand five hundred yearly for the current library. In Terre Haute Judge Stimson ordered the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad to answer questions about locomotive equipment tied to a fire at Ellsworth Vigo county owned by American Strawboard Company, with damages sought at one hundred thousand dollars.
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Indianapolis Journal
New Albany
Ind
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Terre Haute
Stimson
Superior Court
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company
American Strawboard Company
Ellsworth
Vigo County
Local youths vandalize high school grounds in green paint
The High School juniors won a debate and, in elation, smeared their class initials and figures on the building. Faculty identified the culprits and ordered the partially painted exterior repaired at their expense as the city inspects a gas line on Eighth Street after a recent blast.
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Natural
Eighth Street
Blatchley
Leach
Crawfordsville
Lew Wallace
Noble
Frank Funk
Guard
Robert Hays
P. Funk, Jr
Terre Haute
Mabel Bence
Terre Haute Electric Company
Bluffton
Studabaker, Sale & Co
Elwood
Carl Stoner
Earl Askren
Ralph Mossman
Elbert Kidwell
Jesse Armfield
National Guard
Bourbon
Dallas Milford
Philippines
United States Infantry
Masbato Island
Manila
Dublin
Jesse C. Stevens
Walter King
Daniel Kantner
Frank Hatfel
Logansport
Milton M. Spears
Johnston
Detroit
Detroit National Bank
Citizens’ Bank of
Baltimore
Muncie lodges inspected. grand officers dine after banquet
Grand Master Brownback of Pendleton and Deputy Grand Master Thompson of Anderson inspected Muncie Lodge No. 433 and Delaware Lodge No. 1, F and A M, on Thursday night. A banquet for over one hundred Masons followed at Delaware Lodge quarters. In Shelbyville, Edward Maple, 18, was crushed by a jack while setting a hay press, leaving him unconscious. In Whitestown Boone county reports an ongoing mumps outbreak disrupting schools.
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Wanatah
Muncie
Brownback
Pendleton
Thompson
Anderson
Muncie Lodge
Delaware Lodge
A. M
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Shelbyville
Edward Maple
Willis Maple
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Whitestown
Boone County
Grievances of Miners Push Eight Hour Day Demand
Shamokin Pa March 20 delegates at the Shamokin convention of districts 1 7 and 9 United Mine Workers adopt resolutions on grievances. Key actions include an eight hour day demand for all anthracite collieries and recognition of mine committees in dispute settlements.
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United Mine Workers of America
Committee On
Mine Workers’ Union
Delaware & Hudson Railway Company
Plymouth
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company
Woodward, Avondale and Pettibone
State Bureau of Mines and Minting
Thomas Barrett
James Mullahay
Mitchell
Scale Committee
Pittsburg Street railway workers avert planned strike
In Pittsburg on March 20 an employee threat to strike at midnight for reinstatement of discharged men and regular meal times was blocked after the District Assembly No 3 K of L met and rejected the motion. In Passaic police report half of the mill workers plan a strike for higher wages starting April 1 with labor leaders from Pennsylvania coal regions directing plans involving about 7 000 people.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg Street Railway Company
K. of L
Passaic
N. J
Pennsylvania
Eccentric Boston Woman Dead After Fall From Third Floor
Mrs. Julia B. French a wealthy and famous litigant was found dead in Back Bay. Medical examiner says death accidental after she fell from the third floor onto an elevator canopy. The 70 year old lived alone and had filed more lawsuits than any other public figure, often hiring new lawyers for each case.
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Julia B. French
Back Bay
Draper
French
Benjamin French
Treacherous South Seas Recruiters Report Fatal Attack
February saw island natives gather on the coast as labor recruiters return with stories of treachery. The steamer Aorangi arrived from Australia Suavla and Honolulu with tales, and a ketch named Venture faced attacks in Cahill straits. In the clash two crewmen were killed by native spears as Mr. George McCabe is mentioned.
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B. C
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Aorangi
Australia
Suavla
Honolulu
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Rain Water Maker Sample from Jap Rose James S. Kirk Co
Trade card ads offer Jap Rose James S. Kirk & Company rain water maker that softens hard water. A sample is requested for ten cents, promising potential relief for households facing mineral buildup and scaling.
Recruiting officer killed on Malayeta beach in sailor clash
The labor vessel Rhoderick Dhu saw the recruiting officer slain by hidden islanders. A Danish barkentine Pack with 10 recruits ran aground and crew were saved by the Meteor. The Prosperity wrecked near Stradbroke Island with two deaths. Noumea sees tribal war with killings and reported cannibalism. Pylades claims Ocean island annexation for phosphates under British protection.
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Memorial Attire at Capitol Funeral Draws Comment
Washington Post reports on the Capitol memorial services honoring the late President. Most official women wore somber dress, while some foreign diplomats and American attendees displayed more colorful attire. Mrs. Roosevelt followed decorum in a black cloak. Men mostly wore black, contrasting with past funeral fashion.
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Capitol
Diplomatic Corps
United States
Up-to-Date Business Maxims from George Ade
March Century compiles Ade’s witty notes on social behavior and frugal living. He warns young earners against unnecessary fashion, urges selective almsgiving, despairs of rapid society entry, and champions concise telegraphs over long letters, claiming stature comes from prudent restraint and brisk communication.
Danish West Indians Pleased Over Separate Government
March 2 dispatches from the United States indicate that separate government will be provided, at least provisionally, to the Danish West Indies. The news aligns with the islands peoples long held wish for self government, a status not enjoyed by Porto Ricans before U S control of Porto Rico.
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Thomas
Burglar Jim Anderson Held on Ohio Postoffice Burglary Links
Columbus authorities arrest burglar Jim Anderson in Johnstown Pennsylvania on charges tied to recent central and southern Ohio postoffice robberies. A post office inspector travels to Johnstown to return him to Columbus for further proceedings alongside associate Frank Carpenter jailed at Carberville.
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Jim" Anderson
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Frank Carpenter
Carberville
Ohio
Anderson
Dressmakers Organize National Dressmakers Association
Two hundred dressmakers from Chicago and surrounding States met to form the National Dressmakers Association for mutual protection and trade advancement. They adopted a constitution and by-laws, set initiation fee at two dollars and annual dues at one dollar, and will apply for a charter at once.
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Chicago
National Dressmakers’ Association For Mutual Protection and Trade Advancement
Contractor Elias F Gobel Dies At Home In Chicago
Elias F. Gobel a nationally known contractor died at his Chicago home on March 9 his death announced by family friends. Gobel built numerous structures across the country and was active in national construction circles. He is survived by relatives and will be mourned by the industry.
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Elias F. Gobel
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