Operators seek injunction to restrain miners gathering near mines
From Pittsburg August 7 report on the coal strike with strikers expanding camps near Horner Roberts Elizabeth mine Plum Creek and Sandy Creek. Deputies and potential US troops discussed to enforce an injunction. Union sympathy high. commisary built and provisions donated while clashes fearfully loom near Unity negro quarters.
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U. S
Marshala
United States
Pittsburg
Horner & Roberts
Elizabeth
Bundla
Plum Creek m
Plum Creek
Mcp
Sandy Creek
Negro Quarters of Unity
Specia
West Newton Sara
Troup
Riariok
Coal Hollow
Wrk
Borough Electric Light
Bers
Illurtek
Straalanecouty
West Neneeland
Washington Run
Fayette Ohy
Fayette Cly
Dare
Pelitn Creek
Tortlerick
Cmpany
Uniber Dtates
Allegheny County
Rothers Ty
Fat Doctor Accused After Massager Assault
Otto Meyer, weighing 400 pounds, sought weight loss from Dr. Carl Stucken who offered to charge by the pound. After a bath massaging session failed to reduce his weight, Mrs Meyer accused the doctor of assault. Stucken was jailed in default of $500 bail following the complaint filed with Justice Hub Schmidt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Stucken
Otto
Oto
Battle Over ABA Presidency Heats Up In Detroit
Detroit August 7 The American Bankers Association faces a heated contest for the presidency as plans to renominate New York’s Joseph Hendrix clash with Southern and Western interests backing Frank W Tracy of Springfield. A proposed constitutional amendment would shift nominating committee power from state delegations to the body itself amid fears of a split in the organization. The fellowship of top bankers, including Robert Lowry and James Brearh, weighs heavily as tensions mount ahead of the 1899 meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
American Bankers Association
Joseph ©. Hendrix
National Union Bank
New York
Robert 4. Lowry
Lowry Banking Company
Atlanta
Frank W. Trary
First National Bank of
Springfield
Steere
Association
Alvan Trowbridge
Robert J. Lorry
Joseph C. Hendrix
James R. Brearh
Joe B. Wilson
Washington
G. P. Grifith
Cinelmonti
Henry W. Yates
Omaha
Neb
Frank W. Tracy
Springeid
O. William
Pittsburg
Caliwell Hardy
Norfolk
D. V. Leigh
Trenton
N. J
J. Hollister
Grand Rapids
Mich
M.M. White
Cincinnati
George H. Arsne
Walker Hill
St. Louis
Philadelphia
W. H. Thomson
A. Anderson
St. Paul
Minn
T. J. Lathem
Memphis
Tenn
Cocker
Adrian
Murder Threat Looms After Assault on Newton Wood Farm
A murder may follow the assault on Newton C Wood a Hathorn farmer. Lewis Kopileki a discharged farm hand is jailed without bail awaiting Wood s critical injuries. Major Otis Pollock of the Twenty fourth Infantry is retired at age limit after a 36 year career starting in 192?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Newton C. Wood
Hathorn
Lewis Kopileki
Wood
Pollock
Washington
Otis Pollock
Twenty- Fourth Infantry
Alaska mining reports reveal mail trek costs and Klondike risks
From the Alaska Mining Record and Alaska Miner at Jun eau the latest dispatches describe the Corwin Hayes mail contract delivering to Circle City after forty five days. Ice and rough trails forced ice chopping for 120 miles. Food and dog stock ran low, flour priced at 50 a sack, dogs at 150 to 215. provisions scarce, many newcomers arrive with winter gear and money but risk starvation. The piece warns that Klondyke stores have yet to arrive and short rations may dominate the next ten months, implying possible suffering and death before relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circle City
Pelly
Mc. Day
Franklin
American Creek
Klondyke
Klondyke gold finds lure none but profits lure stays
G B Benton arrives in Seattle with over 1000 dollars in gold nuggets from ten days work on a Williams Creek placer claim in Swank district Kittitas county. He has mined since January and totals about 5000 dollars. A claim owner there has earned about 50000 dollars in six years. Betton sunk 193 feet to bed rock before discovery and states the Klondyke holds no attraction for him. New pacific steamers ordered for Seattle St Michaels run will carry 200 first class and 500 second class passengers.
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Seattle
Wash
G. B. Benton
Williams Creek
Swank
Kittitas County
Betton
NEW Pacific Steamers
C. H. Hamilton
North American Traneportation and Trading Company
Cramps
Philadelphia Shipbuilders
Pacific Coast
Seattle-St. Michaels
New Yorker Returns From Klondyke with $40,000 Claim
J D Clements, after three years of hardship trekking in Alaska, arrives in Sonota Falls New York with over $40,000 from El Dorado Creek claims. He prospected on Discovery No 80, earned $1,200 in four days, then expanded holdings by buying interests in two more claims and plans to return to the Klondyke next spring with companions.
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Sonota Falls
N. Y
J. D. Clements
el Dorado
Honanza Creek
Making Big Money Owner Praises Alaska Mining Trade
ST LOUIS Mo August 7 Joseph Ladur of Phatneburg Mo owns the towneulp of Dawson City Alaska and says the claims and sawmill there will make him wealthy. He toured Alaska in 1851 with friends and claims to have earned about a dollar in the first mine he visited. He notes no major gold discoveries until August 34 and describes Bonanza district claims, staking rules, and the need to prove up gold within sixty days. Alexander McDonald, the largest claimant from Nova Scotia, is cited, with Ladue asserting trading stores and sawmills can yield similar profits, aided by wages he pays.
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Hawson City
ST. Louis
Joseph Ladur
Phatneburg
Dawson City
Alaska
Iidge
Dawson
Boranna Creek
Alatka
Bonanza
Erieral Courer
Inves Bate
Golit
Pegard
Alexander McDonalad
Claies
Nova Sovtia
Alaskan Letters Question Claim Values in Dawson Diggings
Fragmented letter claims from Alaska report rumors that Dawson City prospectors near the Klondike discuss vast claim wealth. The text is garbled but asserts prices up to 110 000 dollars, while noting such figures are rare.
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Alaska
Ted Searos
Dawson City
H. 1
Grand Rapids Mayor Divorced in Perry Okla
Henry Kountz mayor of Grand Rapids Mich was divorced today in Perry Oklahoma from wife Teresa Kountz They have ten children The court awarded Mrs Kountz twenty thousand dollars in alimony and a fine mansion in Grand Rapids The husband alleged his wife was insanely jealous and a burden to him
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Kountz
Grand Rapids
Mich
Perry, Ok
Henry Kountz
Teresa Kountz
Cupid's Way Wedding Switched In Hutchinson
In Hutchinson Kansas August 7 a planned wedding was halted when the groom A D Yoder learned his bride Miss Mattie Hutchinson rode with Jesse Cook. Cook then proposed to Hutchinson and the couple married at the same hour the Yoder nuptials were to occur.
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Topeka
Kan
Hutchinson Society
A. D. Yoder
Mattie Hutchinson
Jesse Cook
Yoder
Prosperity Strikes Marietta Chair Factory Back to Work at Cut Wages
Special to the Register from Marietta August 7 The Mari eta Chair factory will resume operations August 16 All employees earning over 1 20 per day face a ten percent wage cut affecting between two and three hundred workers. Crude oil dust control proves effective as May's Landing reports Chief Engineer J H Nichols finds spraying along tracks lays dust better than expected. Rail lines from Camden to Atlantic City saturated six feet each side. two applications may be needed. Pennsylvania system planned to adopt widespread sprinkling.
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Marietta
Marieta
May’s Landing
N. J
J. H. Nichols
West Jersey & Seashore Railroad
Camden
Atlantic City
Pennsylvania
Bicycle riding praised for health by Bremen consul article
A German summary prepared for the State Department by U S Consul Kennan at Bremen argues bicycle riding benefits temperament and certain diseases in moderation. The piece notes overall value to the average person and cites scientific observation by Dr Mendelasohn.
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Weahington
State Department
United States
Kennan
Bremen
Mendelasohn
Sausage maker Leutgert’s body destruction test
Chicago reports a potash dissolution test in the Luetgert murder case. The body was dissolved in two hours, leaving only bone splinters and a molasses like fluid. The demonstration aimed to prove how the corpse could be destroyed in the factory vats.
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Leutgert
Chicago
Adolph Luetgart
Luetgert
Heir to 75000 Bequest Named by Chicago Attorneys
Muskegon attorney Jerome E B Turner was notified by May Underwood of Chicago that he is heir to 75000 left by Seymour of Chicago. Turner recalls meeting Seymour during the World's Fair when Seymour was arrested on Clark Street. Turner then represented Seymour and won an acquittal. Seymour, a peddler with no natural heirs, visited Turner here a year later before dying.
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Muskegon
Mich
Jerome EB. Turner
May & Underwood
Chicago
Seymour
Kentwood Avenue
Turner
Eymour
Clark Street
Mr. Turner
Railroad Collision Kills Monon Engineer in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis at Market street crossing, Pennsylvania Express No. 10 and a Monon switch engine collided head on at 4:00 am. Monon engineer William Martin was killed instantly as both engines were wrecked. No passengers were harmed, but property damage and disruption were heavy.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Monon
Market Street
William Martin
Pennsylvania
Former Union Soldiers Form New National Org at Caldwell
Noble county ex soldiers met in Caldwell Ohio in a mass convention to form a county association of soldiers and their sons and daughters in perpetual succession. The body adopted a non partisan constitution pledging mutual support and elected Dr C P Cinons and Capt W L Mosley as officers with a five man executive committee to arrange next year’s convention. The national form was declared and Hon J T Piggott of Parkersburg along with Rev Hudson Mil ton McGinnis and Private Dalzell addressed the gathering.
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Caldwell
Ohio
Sons and Daughters
Register
Noble County
County Association of Soldiers
Opera House
C. P. Cinons
W. L. Mosley
National Society
J. T. Piggott
Parkersburg
Hudson Milton McGinnis
Dalzell
Missing 17 year old girl in Defiance mystery
Miss Bessie Mansfield aged 17 daughter of George Mansfield has vanished from Defiance Ohio. She reportedly left Monday night from a second floor room using a sheet as a rope to lower herself from a window. Police seek several young men who have shown interest. fate of the girl remains unclear.
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Bessie Mansfield
George “Mansfield
George W. Watkins
Old Van Rensselaer mansion sold to Peter Kurzenacker
The panorama house of the old Van Rensselaer estate near Albany, dating to 1642 and famed in colonial times, was sold to Peter Kurzenacker for 4200 dollars. The historic structure sits on Hudson heights opposite Albany and may be used as an icehouse or residence. Related transfer involved the Van Schalck estate with J W S Van Schalck of New York as heir.
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Albany
van Rens
Rensselaerite
van Schalck
J. W. 8. van Schalck
New York
United States
Two Accidents Reported in Point Pleasant Barn
Special to the Register. Point Pleasant West Virginia Anguet 7. While unloading a dray at a barn two men were injured. Lacr Diackimehly fell from the drag onto a pitchfork piercing his abdomen and causing very serious injuries. Mad. Fister of Fintrock was crushed between a post and a traction engine attached to a threshing machine and suffered serious injuries.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Anguet
Fister
Fintrock
Bolne
AUS
Disaster at Bulgarian cartridge factory kills many
A major blast at Rugtchuk factory on the Danube near Varna yesterday killed forty six workers and injured many more. Sixty of the wounded are not expected to live. Prince Ferdinand visited the hospital and provided funds to families of the victims.
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Prince Ferdinand
Sofia
Bulgaria
Rugtchuk
Danube
Varna
Call It A Paris A London View Of The Silver Devoye Mission
The Westminister Gazette criticizes Sir Michael Hicks Beach for delaying the British reply to the US and French invitation for a bimetallism conference. It calls the envoy mission a farce and predicts October as the final deadline, with Indian and British governments likely to concur.
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London Agers
Devoye
London
Westminester Gazette
Michael Hlehks-Beach
Exchequar
United States Monetary Commission
United State
France
Scull Named as New York Passenger Agent and Assistants
Charles Scull to head the New York passenger office with a $15000 yearly salary and chief clerks advancing to key roles under him. The Baltimore and Ohio officer Beall is praised as highly efficient, while Charles Bannett of the C&O and other Pittsburgh figures are noted for forthcoming appointments and influence in railroad passenger operations.
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Scull
Charles Ogle Sent
Somerset
John Scull
Pittsburg Gazette
Steubenville
Charles Scull
Kiannele
Pennsylvania
Weat
Beall
Baltimore & Ohio Road
Baltimore & Ohio
D. B. Martin
Sells
New York
Pittaburg
Canada
Aw Lstant
Charles W. Bannett
Ons & Western
Mr. Bassett
Pittsburg
Pardon sought for Alfred Packer amid 1873 killings
Alfred Packer, convicted of killing five companions in the 1873 mountain tragedy and eating their flesh, seeks a pardon claiming four were killed by a fifth who then attacked him with a hatchet. Case unfolds as pleas for mercy surface from Denver.
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Alfred Parker
Denver
Colo
Alfred Packer
Beating Her Record The Etruria’s Transatlantic Run
The Etruria arrived from Queenstown beating her best record and making the voyage in five days 21 hours 10 minutes. Departed Dnant’s Rock at 8 17 a m August tet and reached Sandy Hook lightship at 1 32 a m. This 13 year old service ship logged daily runs and a total distance of 2786 knots with an average about 20 knots per hour.
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Atlantic
New York
Etraria
Queenstown
Dannt's Rock
Queenstown Harbor
Bandy Hook
Sandy Hook
Bukey Named Distributing Agent at Engraving Bureau
General Van H Bukey of Parkersburg has been appointed to a 2700 dollar post as distributing agent for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The civil service position was filled after Bukey, a veteran, agreed to resume his former job as cashier of the Collector of Internal Revenue in West Virginia, vacated by the resignation of Morgan, father-in-law of Claude Johnson, chief of the bureau.
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Revier
Washington
van H. Bukey
Parkersburg
Senate
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Civil Service
Bukey
Oljler
Harrison
Revene
West Virginia
Morgan
Bureau
Claude Johnson
Kentucky
Treasury decision on miners entering Huntines Columbiary
A Treasury telegram dated August 7 from Seattle confirms a city query. Miners may land their effects and proceed to Huntines Columbiary under customs supervision without pay, without providing additional details.
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Treasury
Seattle
Wash
Eity
Treasury Department
Huntines Columbiary
Bicycle tax law void ruling by Judge Taley
Judge Taley to decide the city bicycle tax ordinance void. The measure would levy a yearly fee on bicycle owners and other vehicles, triggering an injunction and sparking strong opposition.
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Taley
Ba Ely
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