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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1901
Page
1
A long distance conference between President Barns and President Schwab may lead to resuming work this week. If the men return to work, Sharper's right to represent them may be recognized. The Amalgamated Association currently has no connection with the Steel Corporation.
Pittsburg August 31 The Window Glass Workers and United States Steel leaders held talks by long distance call over a possible end to the great strike next week. Shaffer Burns Schwab and union officials kept details secret while signaling a decisive move near term. If workers return and mills resume operations a new discussion between trust officials and Amalgamated leaders could follow.
Pittsburg August 31. Steel strikers claim a major victory by shutting down the open hearth department of the Duquesne steel works. Amalgamated workers say the entire plant will close if workers do not return Sunday night. Carnegie Steel denies a stoppage, calling the Friday night clash exaggerated and asserts only a few youths were escorted from the mill. It remains uncertain which side holds the line, as the Amalgamated claim to tie up the plant and the company says operations will resume. W. F. Porter from McKee's Rocks confirms delegates endorsed the strike if wage terms from the Milwaukee convention were not met.
Reports from various plants describe resumed work at some sites while Amalgamated claims additions are useless. After Labor Day expect moves from both sides. Coke region orders to bank ovens in Fayette county force 49 idle workers as plants shift to five days. Pay day in Wellsville distributed about $13,000 amid cautious nonunion behavior. Strikers in Monessen celebrate alleged liquor case results. others await injunctive actions against picketing in Canal Dover. Tin plate firm seeks federal injunction against Irondale strikers accusing Amalgamated of violence and conspiracy.
Secretary Bishop of the State Board of Arbitration spoke in Canal Dover as journalists were barred. He reportedly urged the striking workers to refrain from violence while they seek to dissolve the court injunction, with a petition prepared to remove the restraining order against picketing at the mills.
Eight to ten nonunion workers and a similar number of union men clashed near the Crescent mill in Cleveland this morning. Blows erupted and a nonunion man fired a revolver, injuring a bystander slightly. No arrests were reported.
Chief of Police from Knoxville arrives in Baltimore with Governor McMillin’s requisition for Robert Duncan a 50 year old bookkeeper wanted in July for embezzling 2500 dollars from the Southern Brass and Iron Company Duncan was arrested and sent to Knoxville after authorities traced him across state lines with his family fleeing the state in July and August
A Kenosha sourced report says John Alexander Dowie offered about 2 million dollars for the Winthrop Harbor and Dock Company holdings. The firm owns thousands of acres with two miles of lake frontage adjoining Dowie s Zion City. The land is largely held by the Winthrop Harbor property and is centered on the harbor area.
The Tremont House in Chicago closes after 68 years of operation at midnight. Northwestern University acquires the property from the Couch estate to convert it into a campus facility housing a pharmacy dentistry and law school as a branch of the Evanston parent institution. The sale price is not fully disclosed in the available text.
The Indianapolis Journal recounts Rev Z T Sweeney's interview on Abdul Hamid. Sweeney portrays the sultan as refined and cultured yet tyrannical, driven by bigoted religion and fear of assassination. He notes a harem, palace intrigues, and a dismissive view of insurrections, with contextual history of palace executions and old Turkic customs.
Constantinople Aug. 31 M Bapst counselor of the French embassy reports a tele gram from the Ottoman ambassador in Paris to Delcasse. It asks for resumption of diplomatic relations to reach a satisfactory settlement of the matters in dispute though offering vague assurances.
A Carnegie deal guarantees the transportation of 4,000,000 tons of iron and steel products yearly by the Wabash Railroad to Pittsburg. The arrangement, tied to a Wabash line into the city and aided by Wheeling and Lake Erie control, involves a bridge over the Monongahela and massive terminal construction. The plan would require 11 to 12 long daily trains and roughly 130,000 to 140,000 cars to move the volume.
The revenue cutter Rush returned to Sitka from Yakutat after quelling serious Indian troubles alarms among whites. Dr Miltroney vaccinated 189 Indians and Governor Brady gave two addresses urging lawful order. natives were ordered to stop polygamy and abstain from disorder.
Washington August 31 War Department announces postal authorities will feature a portrait of Gen H W Lawton, the military hero killed at San Mateo in the Philippines, on one of the new postage stamp issues.
Spurred by a runaway freight train derailed into a passenger train near Nyack Montana. Forty one victims cremated or perished as fire swept through the cars. Assistant general superintendent P L Downs and his son among the dead. Laborers from Duluth among the injured.
Advices from Great Northern in St Paul report 36 dead and 13 injured from the Essex Mont wreck. The dead include Superintendent P L Downs, whose body was badly charred and identified by a nearby article, and his son presumed incinerated. Several Scandinavian laborers remain unidentifiable. many were taken to Kalispell and later to hospitals there. The morgue in Kalispell identified the Downs boy by a watch bearing his name. Names of hospital patients listed: D M Cooler Peter Lachance Daniel Machan John N Rhodes August Rolff John Sealiard Louis Miller Arthur Platts Daniel Hope D T Olson Charles Gallagher John E Ericson. Death list now twenty one.
Philadelphia Aug 31 The death toll from the boiler explosion on the steamboat City of Trenton in the Delaware River has reached twenty one. Sixteen bodies have been identified and five await identification at the morgue. Eight bodies were recovered today near the disaster site. Nine persons remain missing and the five unidentified are likely among those.
Nora Dinsmore, 19, was found dead in the Maumee River at Toledo after disappearing from her West Main street home. She had worked at a Broadway dress shop with Ernest Thomas, the shop proprietor’s brother, and sent a rhymed farewell letter bidding friends goodbye. Her family, unaware of trouble, will bring the body back to Peru for burial. A morphine inquiry is noted as investigators search for motive.
Mrs. Sarah Smith fifty an ill health Cass county farmer's wife hanged herself with her apron strings from a tree in the orchard after stacking stovewood beneath the limb. Husband found her missing at dawn. death by own action. Local incident reported from Logansport Indiana dated Aug 31.
Mrs John Martin, 25, of Brownstown Ind, killed herself by taking carbolic acid and jumping into White River a mile north of town. The water three feet deep, she waded out and fell while returning to town. She mailed a farewell letter to her husband, urging him to be good to the children. She leaves three young children.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Kokomo Indiana reports Lucy Washington regarded as Indiana's oldest Black woman lies at the county poorhouse dying of voluntary starvation after five months there. She has attempted suicide by fall and starvation, refusing food and water for weeks. Once a servant in President Madison's household, she is said to be at least 112 years old.
In Valparaiso Indiana on August 1 a priest of the Catholic Church barred the Order of Foresters from attending the funeral of Ode Dalley, a Brother Forester, triggering ongoing dispute and public interest as authorities attempt to resolve the church lodge conflict.
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