Meeting Set for Coal Strike Commission Hearings
Washington October 26 The anthracite coal strike commission prepares for a two o'clock meeting to outline testimony procedures public sessions and witness attendance plans. Operators reps including Fort Reading Erie Fowler and Delaware & Hudson discuss hearings while avoiding public disclosure.
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Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Commission
Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio
Thee
George Fort Reading
E. B. Thomas
The
Erie
John B. Kerr
Fowler
Ontario & Western
David Wilcox
Delaware & Hudson
Alfred Walter
Lehigh ‘Alley
Mitchell to Appear Before Coal Strike Commission
President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers arrives in Washington with district President Fahey to testify before the anthracite coal strike commission today, marking a key moment in ongoing negotiations.
Mine Workers Leader Mitchell Receives Foreign Gift Medal
President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers left Wilkes-Barre for Washington to present his case to the anthracite strike commission. He received a gold badge and watch from Polish, Lithuanian, and Slavish members. District presidents Nicholls, Duffy and Fahey approved his remarks. A large crowd gathered at his headquarters as leaders spoke of unity and a return to work with a heavy coal output anticipated tomorrow.
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John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Washington
Mitchell
Nicholls
Duffy
Fahey
Board of Tration
J. M
United Mine Workers of America
Wahy
Snechet
Lehigh Valley
Married Under Guard in Pennsylvanian Town
In Benandoah, Pa on October 26 a nonunion man Joseph H Potowski and his fiancée Minnie Schmerter fled town to reach the Polish Catholic Church. They traveled under guard with ten soldiers from Company Captain Huff to avoid possible violence from striking miners and were married then by a local priest.
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Benandoah
Joseph Hpotoski
Minnie Schmerter
Huff
Rkiewt
Unions, Soldiers Guard Wedding During Mine Strike
In Scranton and New York the ore workers clash as nonunionists face threats, attempted assault, and escorted weddings. Soldiers guard the bride’s home amid union pressure while livery firms refuse service to a nonunion groom. The Oxford column shift sees crosscut confrontations ending at the mule barn. In New York, miners’ defense funds suspend further contributions as strike actions wind down.
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Shenandoah
John Wilson
Obert
Scranton
Oxford Collery
People’s Coal Company
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Company
Bellevue
New York
Daniel 8. Jacobs
Miners’ Defense Fund Committee
Central Federated Union
Holland
Eccentric
Firemen’s Union
International Association of Statonary Firemen
Deputies Cleared From Collieries Amid Strike Fears
SHAMOKIN PA Oct 2 Deputies who guarded area collieries during the strike were sent home with orders to be ready to return on notice. Authorities fear local strikes if nonunion workers do not resign their positions.
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Shamokin
Tragedy on Stage: Barber Fatally Shot During Apple Burst
In Cold Springs Harbor New York coroner inquest finds Charles Meinel of a medicine show company killed barber John Volkman aged eighteen on Thespian Hall stage. Meinel attempted shooting an apple at twenty feet the third shot struck Volkman in the forehead and he died within an hour. Meinel arrested on manslaughter charge. Volkman’s parents live in Germany.
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N. Y
John Volkman
Thespian Hall
Charles Meinel
Meinel
Volkman
Melnel
Germany
Sumner prep for new expedition against Bacolod ruler
Gen Sumner tours the Iligan to Lake Danao road plan and will move to Camp Vickers to organize an expedition against the sultan of Bacolod. Cholera spreads in Mindanao while Manila reports improved coastwise trade policy may ease interisland freight. Locusts depress agriculture and silver prices gloom the economy. General Bell oversees sale proceeds aiding Batangas Laguna Mindoro provinces.
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Sumner
Iligan
Lake Danao
Mindanao
Zamboanga
Vickers
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Lloilo
Panay
Roosevelt
Philippine Islands
Civil Commission
San Francisco
Philippines
Batangas
Laguna
Luzon
Mindoro
J. Franklin Bell
General Bell
Min
British Colonial Secretary Plans Probe of Burgher Colonies
The Colonial Secretary intends an official investigation into conditions in the Burgher colonies. The plan has royal approval and is supported by Premier Bal Four and the cabinet. London press warmly welcomes the decision as timely and sensible.
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London
Floods and earthquakes reach several Italian regions
Reports from Rome and Catania describe floods in Calabria with drownings and heavy rains between Catania and Syracuse. A strong quake shook Rieti in Umbria on October 5 8, while peasant communities sought refuge on rooftops and signaled distress with pistols. In St Petersburg police arrested an accomplice in a plot against the Russian dowager empress.
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Calabria
Rieti
Umbria
Catania
Sicily
Syracuse
Bicoca
ST. Petersburg
Marie Dagmar
Russia
Copenhagen
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain to visit South Africa end of November
Brussels reports that General Botha and General Delarey will not visit America and will return to South Africa soon. London confirms Chamberlain plans a regional tour of the Cape Natal Orange River Colony and the Transvaal, with King Edward and Balfour approving. Milner is said to be consulted and Mrs Chamberlain may accompany him.
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Transvaal
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Mr. Chamberlain
Daily Telegraph
Canada
Australia
the Times
Mary Endicott
Salem
Mass
Austen
Geneal
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Brussels
the Standard
Botha
Delarey
United States
Charter Changes Promote Citys Ten Year Contracts and Bridge Control
Mayor Bookwalter and officials propose charter amendments to give Board of Public Works authority to contract for public utilities for up to ten years, and to place bridge construction and maintenance on the county. The plan also limits improvements on abutting property to once every ten years and strengthens city street repair oversight.
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Board of Public Works
Indianapolis Light and Power Company
Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Sun Vapor Light
Marion County
Washington Street
Last Coronation Ceremony At St Pauls Cathedral
London reports the final ceremonies marking King Edward VII's reign as he visits St Pauls with Queen Alexandra and the Prince of Wales. A rainy procession, crowds, diplomats including Mr Choate, and lavish uniforms framed the service before the royal party returned to Buckingham Palace amid cheers.
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Alexandra
Prince of Wales
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St. Paul's
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Great Britain
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Honorable Artillery Company
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Order of the Garter
Powder Explosion Blows Up 600 Kilograms Near Fairmont
Powder works eighteen miles from Fairmont, West Virginia, suffered about $30,000 in damage from a massive blast that blew up six hundred kilogs of powder. No injuries reported. Machinery ruined and iron fragments sprayed over miles. ground torn up to a depth of forty feet.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Beresford Arrives in Liverpool From New York
Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresford arrived in Liverpool aboard the Cunard steamer Umbria after visiting the United States where he studied American battleship construction and shipping matters. He praised US sentiment for Britain and urged closer ties between the two nations amid views on the mercantile marine combine and modernization.
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Lord Charles Beresford
New York
Cunard Line
United States
Lord Beresford
America
Great Britain
International Mercantile Marine Company
England
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dies Noted Reformer's Farewell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton a famed woman suffragist and author dies at home in New York City old age cited as cause. funeral planned for Wednesday interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. born 1815 in Johnstown she shaped the Seneca Falls movement and led the National Woman's Suffrage Association from 1865 to 1893.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
West Ninety-fourth Street
Johnstown
N. Y
Miss Cady
Simon Hosack
Union College
Seneca Falls
Stanton
Sainton’s Death Shocks Susan B. Anthony in Rochester
In Rochester on October 26, Susan B. Anthony mourned Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s death. Anthony recalled their early allied efforts for suffrage, praising Stanton as philosopher, writer, and bold campaigner. She cited their Kansas 1880 convention work and their New York efforts, sharing memories from June of this year.
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N. Y
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
New York
Miss Anthony
Stanton
Congress
Mrs. Stanton
Death of Alfred Ayres, Noted Writer and Elocutionist
New York reports the death today of Thomas Embley Ormun known as Alfred Ayres aged seventy seven after a stroke suffered on September 2. The author of The Verbal Iats The Orthoenist and Some Il Used Words was also prominent in elocution and acting.
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New York
Thomas Embley Ormun
Alfred Ayres
Mr. Ormun
Two Die as Scaffold Collapses on New York Chimney
A swinging scaffold collapsed on a tall chimney at the American Refining Company in Wheatsville, New York, killing two men and fatally injuring another. Emergency crews raced to the scene as investigators began accounting for workers.
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New York
Ithe
Departments to judge own buildings proposed
The proposal suggests each department become the judge of its own building projects and hold appropriations for direct expenditures. Currently departments requisition funds through the Board of Public Works, which oversees spending and building provision. The change would let each board direct improvements within its internal affairs.
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Board of Public Works
New Position forWu Tingfang Directs Trade Talks
Peking October 26 An edict announces Minister Wu Tingfang will replace Sheng as commissioner of the new commercial treaty negotiations. Sheng resigned to bury his father and fulfill filial duties. Sheng, once director of telegraphs and railroads, led Shanghai during the Boxer uprising and was disliked by foreigners as unscrupulous. Rumors said powers opposed Sheng holding the post of great importance to China's foreign trade.
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Peking
Wu Tingfang
Sheng
Shanghai
China
First Five Dollar U S Greenback No 1 of Series A
An aged five dollar greenback, No 1 of Series A, printed May 10, 1862, under congressional act, signed by L E Chittenden and F E Spinner. It has remained in the Milhouse family since 1864 when John Milhouse acquired it, heirloom of A D Milhouse of Carbondale S1.
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Carbondale
United States
Milhouse
John Milhouse
Governor Yates III Struck by Illness After Campaign Tour
Governor Yates returns to Springfield from a three day southern Illinois campaign tour and is confined at home with fever. Doctors report his temperature up to 103 and fear a prolonged illness.
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Springfield
Yates
Illinois
Demand for Higher Wages Hits Chicago Yardmen
Chicago yardmen in the 7 000 strong district demand a 5 cent an hour wage rise and await railroad replies by Friday. Leading figures P. H. Morrissey and W. G. Lee arrived to push the move, which follows a Kansas City drive by scale committee leaders for a general increase across Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors. The nationwide vote is ongoing, with three quarters counted and results due before November.
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P. H. Morrissey
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
W. G. Lee
Kansas City
Scale Committee On
Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen
Order of Railway Conductors
Trolley Car Accidents Injure Seven Near Chattanooga
Multiple trolley car crashes across Ohio and New York injure seven. In Chattanooga a Belt Railroad locomotive collided with an electric car, injuring seven including Dr. J. L. Eaton and Charles Harris. An East Liverpool street car downhill crash leaves John Wallace seriously hurt. Yonkers trolley collision with an automobile injures twenty two. no fatalities reported.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Belt Railroad
J. L. Eaton
Charles Harris
Ramsey
East Liverpool
Rock Springs
John Wallace
C. W. Rauch
New York
Yonkers
Greystone
Samuel J. Tilden
Cincinnati Registration Drops Ahead of Ohio Vote
Cincinnati reports 71 107 registered voters a drop of 5258 from last year's state election. Across Ohio registration totals decline raising expectation of a lighter turnout on November 4 with only a few closely contested congressional districts showing full registration.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Riverton postmaster kills man over missing watch
Newton Stowe, Riverton postmaster, killed Herbert McCammon after McCammon demanded return of a gold watch sent to Stowe's daughter. Stowe surrendered, saying he feared McCammon would kill Miss Stowe. Police offered no trace on an earlier Friday assault on Ida Weimer.
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Indianapolis Journal
Sullivan
Ind
Newton Stowe
Riverton
Herbert McCammon
McCammon
Stowe
Miss Stowe
Mr. Stowe
Bloomington
Ida Weimer
Washington man found guilty of second degree murder life sentence
Joseph Herbert known as the bloodhound was convicted of second degree murder in Washington Ind and sentenced to life in prison. The case followed a violent spree ending with the stamping death of Louis Cunningham during a Sunday carousal. Earlier threats and a prior shanty-boat murder conviction at Vincennes were noted.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Ind
Joseph Herbert
Herbert
Louis Cunningham
Cunningham
Vincennes
Campaign closings in Hamilton County and Rushville details
Hamilton County final week features Senator Foraker speech and a Landis Sherrick housewarming at Wild Opera House with Marion Club train arrival. Landis speeches draw large crowds. local results cited show Hamilton County leaning Republican with a 1,300 to 2,000 plurality estimate. In Rushville two political opponents for Congress race, Watson and Arbuckle, with Watson set to close speaking in Melodeon Hall Saturday.
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Indianapolis Journal
Noblesville
Ind
Hamilton County
J. B. Foraker
Congressman Landis
Dave” Sherrick
Wild Opera House
Senator Foraker
Landis
Boone Carroll
Clitnton
Fountain
Hamilton
Montgome
Tipton
Spidenagipesies
Steele
Howard
Rushville
Rush County
James E. Watson
James T. Arbuckle
Rushvile
Arbuckle
J. Watson
Melodeon Hall
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