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Description: Summary of the News
Date: July 27 1901Newspaper published in: Washington, DC
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Summary of the News
President T. J. SHAFFER, of the Amalgamated Association [of Iron and Steel Workers], visited Wellsville, Ohio, in disguise as a tramp to learn the condition of the plant that the company is trying to work with non-union men. He does not think any injunction will be granted unless the men resort to violence.
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A shell fired from one of the battleships lying off Newport struck the City Hall of the town, making a hole in granite block and bursting after striking a tree. No one was injured, although a number of people were near the flying missile.
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Mr. DOTY, health officer of the port of New York, diagnosed the case of the stoker of the Hohenfels from Calcutta as a mild case of bubonic plague.
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Henry W. TAYLOR secured in Newport News, Va., a divorce from his wife, who had returned to her old home in Baltimore, refusing to live in Newport News.
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Mrs. William H. HOOVER, while asleep, walked through an open window of her home in Winchester, Va., and sustained injuries that will result in death.
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John McFADDEN, who planned a jail delivery in Camden, N.J., to escape serving in default of $1,000, must now serve 1,000 days for so doing.
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The grand jury in Newport News, Va., indicted Russell Van ARSDALE for the murder of his great uncle Robert KELLY.
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Several encounters occurred between striking ice wagon drivers and men who sought to take their places in Columbus, Ohio.
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Professor Edgar W. ABBOTT of Butler University, was drowned while bathing in Broad Ripple Creek, near Indianapolis.
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Thirty one of the contractors in New York, employing in the aggregate 5000 people, have granted the demands of the garment workers. Strikers and sympathizers wrecked a shop in New York because the employees would not join them.
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The Grand Lodge of Elks, in a session at Milwaukee, elected officers. Charles E. PICKETT had a walkover for grand exalted ruler, and Henry W. MEARS, of Baltimore, was elected grand treasurer after a spirited contest.
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All the brotherhoods on the Lackawanna and Western have taken up the fight of the telegraphers. They claim the company has been dismissing them because of their activity in the union.
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At Richmond in the Constitutional Convention, Mr. BLAIR introduced a resolution exempting the property of Confederate soldiers from taxation to the amount of $1,000.
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William H. HUNT, the present secretary of Porto Rico (sic), has been chosen to succeed Governor Charles H. ALLEN when that official retires.
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Lieutenant F. J. WHITE, auditor of West Virginia University, was married at Knoxville, Tenn., to Miss Marian Hite SMITH.
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Ex-Chief of Police HARWOOD has sued Mayor Alan A. AMOSS, of Newport News, for alleged defamation of character.
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At Simmons, W. Va., a boarding house keeper named HOWAKER shot and killed one of his boarders named FRENCH.
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Elmer E. BARNER was hanged at Harrisburg for the murder of Isaac MITLER in August 1900.
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The machinists who had been on strike at Wilkes-Barre applied for reinstatement in the shops of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and other mills. Many were taken back, but the places of others had been filled.
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The coroner’s jury in Winchester, Va., holds the Winchester Gas and Electric Light Company responsible for the death of Jacob HOUCK and Lewis PRICE, who were electrocuted by a live wire.