Telegraphers strike across U S and Canada warned
The National Secretary Russell predicts a universal walkout within 24 hours affecting telegraph services nationwide. New York locals vote to pause action until week’s end while Chicago presses demands for higher wages and better conditions for press and broker operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Canada
Russell
Telegraphers’ Organization
New York
Associated Press
Small
Strange Work of Lightning in Huntsville Homes
In Huntsville Alabama a bolt struck the chimney of Roy Landers home and descended into the sitting room shocking his young daughter Elisie, tearing her clothes and leaving her unconscious. The bolt then jumped to J. W. Dell home where his little daughter was similarly left unconscious after fur and other items were demolished.
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Huntsville
Ala
J. W. Dell
Roy Landers
Mr. Landers
Elisie
Mr. Delph
Studies Own Insanity In Diary Of Missing Scholar
New York Special reports that Miss Alice G. Bennett, Helen Gould scholar bound for a post graduate course at New York University, disappeared Monday. A diary found among her effects shows fear of insanity from overstudy and a battle to resist study, ending in submission to the craving for work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alice G. Bennett
Helen Gould
New York University
Japan Might Beat United States In War Says Chicago Professor
Prof Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago argues Japan could whip the U S in a war and warns against sending the fleet into the Pacific. He says the white peril has a history, criticizes U S arrogance, and questions readiness and the dollar as a standard in Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frederick Starr
University of Chicago
Japan
United States
Pacific
All Soul's Church
Russia
Prof. Starr
England
Germany
France
Asia
Turkey
Pretty Dolly Dingle Refuses Mine on Her Joplin Land
Dolly Dingle, a 27 year old landowner in the Joplin lead and zinc district, owns 40 acres but will not permit mining. Surrounded by active mines earning thousands monthly, she asserts the ore was not placed for extraction and refuses all lease attempts to mine her tract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joplin
Dolly Dingle
Lead and Zinc District
Miss Dingle
Warshins Start for Japan
The armored cruisers Pennsylvania West Virginia Maryland and Colorado sail via Yokohama to join Admiral Evans fleet. Maryland grounded on leaving Cavite Harbor but refloated within a half hour uninjured.
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Manila
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Colorado
Yokohama
Evans
Cavite
Methodists to Build at Winona Lake
Following the Rome City assembly discontinuances, Methodists have bought land at Winona Lake and will construct a $50,000 church building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona
Rome
Prison for AACARTES Chief urges jail for moral effect
A Lenox dispatch reports Attorney General Bonaparte favors criminal prosecutions of individuals over broad corporate suits. He says sending a few prominent men to jail could yield a stronger moral impact than litigation against the Harriman railroad system, with the Justice Department seeking to prosecute responsible superiors where possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
the Times
Lenox
Mass
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman
Bonaparte
Washington
Department of Justice
Beveridge and Miss Eddy Wed in Berlin Embassy Ceremony
The marriage of Miss Katherine Eddy of Chicago sister of Spencer F. Eddy and Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana was celebrated in Berlin with civil and religious services. The civil rite occurred at noon in the registrar's office and the religious ceremony followed at the American embassy. Messages from Roosevelt Allison and many others flooded in as the couple left for Dresden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Katherine Eddy
Chicago
Spencer F. Eddy
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
Thomas C. Hall
Union Theological Seminary
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Beveridge
Champaign
Ill
Roosevelt
Allison
Jas. Whitcomb Riley
House
United States
Rushville Speaker Opposes Government Rail Ownership
Joseph G. Cannon, in his homecoming address, argued against government ownership of railroads. He cited Germany where state control raises transport costs, calling such ownership a history of failure. He asserted employment is strong and people are prosperous, dismissing theories of growing inequality.
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Rushville
Ind
Joseph G. Cannon
Germany
Connecticut Battleship Connecticut Sets Impressive Trials
The Connecticut, first of its class built for the government, completed fourteen measured runs over a mile course outside the harbor. A trial board praised its performance with an average speed of 18.73 knots among the best five runs and an uncorrected mile time of 19.01 knots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Connecticut
Swindled Pair in Castellamare Suicide Attempt
American engineer John Buckingham aged 60 and his wife, swindled out of a fortune, went to Castellamare to take poison. The wife died, Buckingham survived and is in an asylum. The incident was reported to the American consul in Naples by local police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Naples
John Buckingham
Castellamare
Married man Shows Profound Respect for Wife
A brief fragment notes a married man who expresses deep respect for his wife. The line hints at traditional values and personal harmony within a domestic relationship.
New Bronze Dress for Statue of Liberty Wardrobe
New York Special reports plans to spend sixty thousand dollars to outfit the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island with a new wardrobe and related improvements before next winter. A bronze dress costing eighteen hundred dollars will be made for the sole female resident of the island, while twenty two thousand four hundred dollars covers pedestal repairs. A spiral staircase and an elevator will be installed in her right arm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bedloe’s Island
Bombs Found in Russian Imperial Technical Schools
Police searched the imperial technical schools in Moscow and uncovered a central revolutionary laboratory for making bombs of a new pattern with large explosives. Regular shipments were sent to interior points. Authorities seized bombs and forbidden literature and arrested twenty students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Imperial Technical Schools
Central Revolutionary Laboratory
Milwaukee Man's Revolutionizer Battery Challenges Trust
Milwaukee inventor Frank C Curtis unveils a Battery Light and Power Company with 5 million capital to rival the Standard Oil era. J W Wagner acts as president, promising a durable, low cost cell suitable for homes and railroads, with a solution that remains liquid, travel friendly in crystal form, and operable to minus thirty degrees without freezing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee, Wis
Frank Curtis
Milwaukee
Battery Light and Power Company
Wisconsin
J. W. Wagner
Frank C. Curtis
J. J. Hill
Wagner
President Roosevelt Grants Pardon in Manslaughter Case
Washington Special reports President Roosevelt pardoned Nancy Miller who was convicted in Indian Territory six years ago for manslaughter in a dispute over a gosling. Miller, mother of several children, had served about six years of a ten year sentence and now is released.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Nancy Miller
Indian Territory
Alice Blake
Gosling
Ohio
Catfish Drowns Woman on River Side
In Valdosta Georgia Mrs Thomas Ryan dies while fishing on Little River. A 40 pound catfish struck the line and pulled her into the water where she was drowned as friends watched. The fish was later found on the line near her recovered body.
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Valdosta
Thomas Ryan
Nine Engineers Drown In Pregel River Accident
In Koenigsburg Prussia a boat carrying 17 engineers of the army engineers corps turned over on the Pregel river. Nine men drowned while eight survived reaching the shore. The vessel was being towed by a steamer at the time of the accident.
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Koenigsburg
Prussia
Pregel
Engineers Corps
Army
Fat cattle fetch record price at South Omaha sale
Fat cattle in South Omaha Nebraska rose to seven dollars and thirty cents a hundredweight for 1500 pound corn fed steers last week a level not seen since 1902 and marking a five year high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Omaha
Neb
Commission Named to Study State Pensions
Governor Guild has appointed a commission to investigate the plan for state pensions for persons over 65, created under a Legislature passed act this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Biblical parchments uncover vast medieval texts in Egypt
European archaeologists race to possess ancient Egyptian parchment manuscripts found near Edfu. The collection includes ninth to eleventh century Cyril and Christ sayings, Greek papyri, Coptic gospel fragments, and a Nubian life of St Menos. Discovery links St Mercury of the Mount at Edfu to the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Egypt
Hdfa
Upper
M. de Rustaffaell
England
Christ
National Gallery
Paris
Berlin
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Cosmas and
Damien
St. Pisenthios
St. Cyril
Jerusalem
St. Menos
St. Mercury of
Mount
Edfu
St. Mercurios
Flames Follow Firebug in Boulder Colorado Depot Disaster
A fire at the Colorado and Southern Freight Depot in Boulder caused the building and freight to burn and a powder house with 1000 pounds of dynamite to explode. The blast injured about 100 people, killed two volunteers Lafayre and Wilson, and damaged dozens of shops as fires spread through the city.
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Boulder
Col
Colorado & Southern
Roy Lafavre
Ike QO. Wilson
Jack Livingstone
Denver
Edward Cook
Alexander Spa
Ell
Erbie Miller
Ramsey
Lafayre
Wilson
Lafavre
Peacemaker as Slayer Ends in Tragic Killing
Edward Mulvaney, a young man, fatally struck Robert Sealander, his prospective father in law, a contractor, after a quarrel with Sealander and Mulvaney’s son in New York Special. The incident ends a failed peacekeeping effort by the young man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward Mulvaney
Robert Sealander
Mr. Sealander
Woman Chauffeur Hits Mrs Pruden in Evansville
Mrs Martha Pruden aged fifty six was struck by an automobile driven by Miss Cora Begley in Evansville and badly injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Pruden
Cora Begley
Evansville
Quake Brings Terror and Floods Strike Japan
Reported upheavals and floods in central Japan cause heavy loss of life and extensive property damage. Islands in Izu suffer fatalities while towns along Aki and Hiroshima provinces flood. Kobe and Osaka area endure typhoon impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
Japan
Koschizim
Izu
Takigawa
Will Bring Railroads to Time in Alabama
Governor Comer signals intent to press railroads to match Southern rates. In a Saturday interview he warns that any violation of state criminal laws by individuals or trusts is a crime and says he would urge the Legislature to revise statutes to ensure full enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
G. J. Small
Oakland
Col
Stewart
Carles P. Neill
Montgomery
Ala
Comer
Southern
Jamestown Show Complete at Last
Jamestown tercentennial exposition declared practically complete by Director General James M. Barr. He asks for national support as minor details are finished within 10 days. Barr says project is complete except for small finishing work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
James M. Barr
Barr
Political figure George Wallace Delamater dies by suicide in bank office
George Wallace Delamater former state senator and former Republican gubernatorial candidate shot himself in his Diamond National Bank building office on Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh. His political and financial prospects had faded and his only son died a month earlier, leaving him deeply melancholy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
George Wallace Delamater
Pennsylvania
Diamond National Bank
Fifth Avenue
Delamater
United States Steel to Invest 45 Million in Gary Plant
Gary, Indiana will be the steel capital of the world as United States Steel Corporation directors approve a further 45 million dollar appropriation. The funds will expand and broaden the steel plant complex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Gary
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
Substitute Candy for Highballs
Philadelphia Special reports Dr. A. C. Abbott, chief of the bureau of health, believes appetite for candy and alcohol are similar and that fostering a candy taste could fortify people against craving rum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
A. C. Abbott
Bureau of Health
Chicago Growth in 1907 Directory Population Rise
The 1907 Chicago directory reports a population of 2,367,000, up from 2,300,500 in 1906. The growth rate is described as normal and healthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Des Moines Barber Found Suffering Long insanity
Des Moines residents learned a West Side barber, J. A. Warren, had suffered months of insanity after an insanity commission determined he was mentally unfit. The case drew attention to the barbershop and local welfare concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
J. A. Warren
West Side
King of Siam’s Jewelry Expenditure Revealed
Report notes extravagant purchases by the King of Siam including a thimble covered with diamonds and other gems valued at 75000 dollars. Text mentions a treasury or container hidden within Bangkok walls and large collections in his private chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Siam
Bankok
Ana Ie
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