Mitchell Opposes Soft Coal Strike and Proposes Aid Plan
At Indianapolis July 18 President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers urges against a general strike by bituminous miners and backs an assessment plan to aid striking anthracite workers in the east. Delegates debate, anthracite caucus granted and no strike decision reached.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Mitchel
Ryan
Hitness
Gilday
Pennsylvania
Patrick Fitzpatrick
Ormore
John Fallon
William Manegan
Streator
Ill
John& DeSilva
Shamokin
Hitnots
Uilnois
Ohio
Iowa
Mitchell Opposes Bituminous Strike and Urges Support Funds
At the convention Mitchell argues against striking bituminous miners noting contracts must hold. He urges labor solidarity, warns against repudiating contracts, and proposes immediate funding and assessments to support the strike, including 50 000 dollars for districts 1 7 and 0 and weekly 12 per member levies.
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Mitchell
Lee
National Treasury
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Praised for Mothers
A testimonial from EB. K. Fricke of Petersburg, Illinois, credits Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription with aiding his wife through pregnancy. He reports a healthy baby weighing nine and a half pounds at birth and ongoing good health at six months. He urges others to use and refer the remedy. The ad offers a free Meg paper edition of Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser with stamps.
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EB. K. Fricke
Petersburg
Menard Co. Til
Chicago
Kalamazoo Doctor Marks Fifteenth Anniversary of Paralysis
Dr. Morris Gibbs, a Kalamazoo naturalist, marks 15 years since paralysis began. He reports from 327 local cases that 208 died or moved away, average paralytic life after stroke is 2 years 4 months, and younger patients under 40 often recover. Shaking palsy declines while locomotor ataxia rises. Gibbs, wheeled in a chair, remains cheerful and mentally sharp.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Morris Gibbs
Gibbs
Tle
New Kokomo Plant Opens Opposing Steel Trust
Kokomo Indiana July 18 the Kokomo Steel company started operations with a 1000 worker capacity on fifteen acres once county fair grounds. City donated land and citizens raised 15000 to locate a 1000000 plant funded by a 2000000 capital with A A Charles as president. The plant features advanced machinery for rods wire and nails and owns switch engines for its yards. It will set its own prices against the combine.
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Kokomo
Ind
Kokomo Steel Company
Steel Trust
A. A. Charles
Combine
Iowa State Bar Association to Meet Next Year
The Iowa State Bar association voted to convene in Des Moines next year. Elected officers include President M. Haines, Vice President Geo W Wakefield, Secretary Samuel S Wright, and Treasurer George F Henry. Uncle Sam subscribes 29 728 65 in Lansing Michigan. July 18. Governor Bliss receives war department apportionment notice.
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Dubuque
Iowa State Bar Association
Des Moines
Dpresident
M. Haines
Girlanell
Geo. W. Wakefield
Sioux City
Samuel S. Wright
Tipton
George F. Henry
Lansing, Mich
Bliss
Secretary of War
Local News Fragments Highlight Varied July Events
The report notes funding for National Guard support at twenty thousand seven hundred twenty eight dollars for the year starting July 1. In Mt. Vernon a test well reveal valuable coal with a five dollar per ton assay and a small coal vein raises land prices. Imlay City reports a boy injured when a family horse dragged him, but he will survive.
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Mt. Vernon, O
Logan Natural
Baltimore Club Change Prompts New American League Team
Andrew Freedman has bought a majority stake in the Baltimore American League club. Several players headed for the New York National League team include McGinnity Cronin Bresnahan and Seymour. Tan Johnson is in Baltimore to organize a new American League club there.
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Baltimore
Andrew Freedman
John Mahon
New York
New Yorks
McGinnity, Cronin
Bresnahan
Seymour
Tan Johnson
Clash over grade crossings pits Normal against railroad
Bloomington, July 18. Normal residents clash with Chicago and Alton railroad over grade crossings. The road offered 200 for two subway crossings but the council rejected it and demanded flagmen at seven crossings. The railroad threatens to whistle Normal as a stopless town, likely prompting court action.
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Bloomington
Uks
Normal
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Soldiers’ Orphans
All But One of the Bodies Recovered From Daly West Mine
Rescue crews recovered the bodies of Ray Jackman John Rekstrom Geo Richardson at 1200 feet and later Thos A Kelly T H ONeill John Carney and Charles McAlinden. John Burgy the powder monkey remains missing as gas cleared. Recoveries leave Daly West largely free of gases and exploration continues.
Canada Bill Sparks Duty Dispute at League Meeting
At a League of American Wheelmen meeting a Canadian government bill of 500 dollars was presented over unpaid duty. The league had allowed members to bring wheels into Canada duty free with registration. Some members failed to register, leading Canada to assume wheel sales occurred in Canada.
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Atlantic City
N. J
League of American Wheelmen
League
Canada
Repairs Planned for Cruiser Michigan After Erie Collision
Repairs on the cruiser Michigan, badly damaged in a collision at Erie Pennsylvania, will take about six weeks. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy bade farewell to the czar yesterday afternoon. The British naval review off Spithead is officially set for August 1. Syvert Lavald, a farmer east of Shelby Minnesota, was killed in the tornado. The Amalgamated Copper company directors declare a quarterly dividend of one half of one percent.
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Sarenen
John P. Reese
Iowa
United States
Michigan
Erie
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Spita
Syvert Lavald
Shelby
Miaun
Amalgamated Copper Company
Wisconsin Republicans nominate La Follette for governor
Madison dispatch reports the Wisconsin Republican state convention nominated Robert M. La Follette for governor and listed a full ticket including Joe O. Davidson for lieutenant governor Walter L. Houser for secretary of state John J. Kempf for state treasurer L M Sturdevant for attorney general Charles T. Cary for superintendent of public instruction John W Thomas for railroad commissioner and Zeus M Host for machinery. La Follette won the gubernatorial ballot while Kempf and Thomas secured their posts through factional votes.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Robert M. LaPollette
Joe O. Davidson
Soldier's Grove
Walter L. Houser
Mondovi
John J. Kempf
Milwaukee
L. M. Sturdevant
Nettleville
Mewcies
Robert M. Labotlette
John M. Whitehead
la Follette
Whitehead
John Kempf
Joseph G Bnd
Sheboygen
Wee
Whultl Kempt
John W Thomas
Chippewa
Jonas Swenholt
Cary
Smarvey
Not Born to Be Resuscitated After Long Submersion
Washington July 18 Superintendent Kimball of the life saving service received a report from Captain Ludlam of the Helereford life saving station at Angelesea N J of the remarkable resuscitation of Stanley Holmes a five year old boy after he had been under water twenty three minutes Captain Ludlam reported that July 5 during a squall in the harbor William B Holmes and his child were saved and revived by life saving crews
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Hereford
Kimball
Margaret Mace
Mary J Tlock
Latham
Washington
Cloneral Bragg
United States
Havana
State Department
Squiers
Wolk
Trege
Life Saving Service
Ludlam
Helereford
Angelesea
N. J
Stanley
Holmes
William B. Holmes
Markets and livestock prices and a fatal berry poisoning
Chicago market receipts and price ranges for cattle sheep and hogs with light and packing grades listed for brisk trading. East Buffalo and Milwaukee market notes follow with prices for beef and lamb. a Cadillac Michigan death from ptomaine poisoning after eating poisonous berries is reported.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N.Y
Dunning & Stevens
Mission Merchants
Mast Buffalo
Venus
Milwaukee
Northern
Pratt
Cadillac
Mich
Mich., July 17.—Whizale Elliott
National Confectioners Hold Eighteenth Annual Convention
Read as a compact news sketch. The National Confectioners association holds its eighteenth annual convention in Saratoga New York as global events unfold with river Rhone flooding causing anxiety and local civic plans emerge in Chicago for a country club golf course and athletic fields. Andrew Carnegie commits 100000 toward a Clark university bequest while A Palmer of New York proposes founding a university at Munele Indiana with 500000 endowment. A mob in Clayton Massachusetts burns a man alive amid an alleged attempted assault on a white girl. Karl Cardigan resigns as lord neutenancy of Ireland.
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Rhone
Switzerland
Chicago
Andrew Carnegie
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Clark
A. Palmer
New York
Munele
Ind
Clayton
Nevro
Karl Cardigan
Shooting at New York Foundling Asylum ends with nonfatal wounds
Henry J. King aged 80 invaded the New York Foundling Asylum offices and shot two Sisters of Charity, then wounded himself in the chest. He was jailed for examination. the sisters suffered nonfatal arm injuries. King, a long-time visitor, had a history of mental illness and prior attempted suicide. He sought access to the asylum’s records to identify his parents, but Justice O Gorman denied the request.
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New York
Tenry P King
King
Founding Asylum
Melanchelia
Japhet
Veylim
Thie City
Dalthmere
Supreme Court
Justice O'Gorman
Jane Co McCryeal
Alice
Henry J. King
Justce O'Gorman
SatisFACTORY progress in canal talks and other notices
Washington discusses the Panama Canal with Secretary Hay as ministers from Nicaragua and Costa Rica seek route decisions. Other items include John Mahin’s fiftieth Journal anniversary in Muscatine Iowa, the death of Rev Williams Choka in Nebraska, and various regional notices from Omaha to Joliet with typhoon losses and a Richmond streetcar strike.
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Liew
Mitchelins
Fort Scott
Kan
Charles Sturmes
Master Plumbers’ Association of
Kansas
Sturms
Army of the Philippines
Council Bluffs
National Society of the Army of the Philippines
Mattoon, Ills
Lows State Bar Association
Uncle Sam
Aichigan
National Guard
Coek
Obie
Imlay City
Bruce Matthews
Clit
Whistling Point
St. Louis
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Boston
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Cleveland
Association
Columbus
Western
Denver
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Peoria
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Kingstown
Minnie Herror
May Robinson
Miss Murphy
Alexandria
Scott McGregory
McGregory
Grayville
Allen
C. W. Staley
Bauger
LaFollette
Slate
HL News
Alec Lande Thomas
LaPollette
Alea
George FB. Bryant
State Central Committee
Hill
Oyster Bay
The
N. Y
David B. Hill
William P. Sheehan
Sheehan
David BE. Hill
St. Paul, Minn
Charles J. Feyhern
Fond du Lac
Wis
Rudolph Seifert
Austro-Hungary
Boone
Feyhern
Seifert
Muncie
Ted
Astern
Indiana Normal University
Christian Church of North America
Palmer University
Francis A. Palmer
T. M. Mc. Whinney
Dayton
de John Latehaw
Defiance
Manila
Gutierrez Brothers
Viewville
J. C. Gilmore
Yorktown
Baler
Principe
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Bragg
Pyttma
Danville
Ihe
Grand Lodge of Colored Knights of Pythias
Edward Green
Keokuk, To
Iowa Telephone Company
Etete Ergeaniner
Les Moines
Crisfield
1B. J. Robinson & Co
Hopewell
Auli Chetera
Municpal Health Board of
Chicago Grain and Produce
Milwaukee Grain
Chieaa
Board of Trade Tod
National Confectioners’ Association
Saratoga, N.Y
Seawgh UE
Colombia
Cromwell
Panama Canal Company
Hay
Parke
Remier
Knox
Ruesell
Panama Canal
Bogota
Congress
Ceres
Calvo
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Muscatine
John Mahin
Muscatine Journal
Journal
Noblesville
Cree
Mark Twain
Orion Clemens
John Lee Mahin
Mahin Advertising Agency
Omabsa
Hees
Keokuk
Chas
P. Dadant
Hamilton
Ills
Ile
France
Shearwater
Marinduque
New Bank of
Joliet
Citizens’ National Bank
Tracey
Oregon
John Andersen
Owensboro
Richmond
Feehan
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Kew
Ba M. Krew
Citizens National Bank
Abhington,owa
P. J. Hanley
Coneawe
Federal
Washington County
Schuyler W. Livingston
Wageiaron
Towa
A. Dewry
Attorney-at-Law
Fricke
Temple Building
Alberson
Marsh W. Bailey
Pior
Ory Hal Perindton
W. HM. Butterfield
Lence
Crail's
Ashington
Eicher , Wilson
L. E. Latta
Joseph Pollard Jr. CO
Atty. A. Tl
New Orrin
S. W
Opera House
BANKS
Washington National Bank
W. KR. Jerrney
J.T. Appenson
Aanderaom
Capital
Henry Knecht
Washington Nat Bank
Casey
Taejon No
A “4 Cine Co
Oly
Baet
West Dewedeormed
Ace
Tre Ware
Waehlogten
Hranch
Columbus Junction
Pact West Pointe
Pullman
VY. RocaRe
Harttites
Oolam Fect
Sam Vass
Dallyercept
Iowa Central
Mason City Mall
Paul
Abd East
Peorta
Peorta Mall
Marshall OU & N_W
Omaba
Terremour Gime
Manaeer
Up & AD
Marshalltown
LS. Crane
G. Pat.a. Beia
V. A. Palmer
AG. Bag
Ieee
T. J. Dempsey Billiard Parlors
W. E. Lawhead
Tame Block
Burlington
Charley
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