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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1909
Page
2
Mohammed Ali, deposed shah of Persia, is ousted as Sultan Ahmed Mirena is proclaimed shah by the national assembly in Parliament Square Tehran. Azad Mulla is named regent as the former ruler seeks refuge at Zerzende under protection of Cossacks and Sepoys sent by Russian and British officials.
Mohammed Ali Mirza appoints regent while Agad Al Mulla leads Kajar family. Sipahdar becomes Tehran governor as revolting forces seize key sites. Plundering hits shops and a telegraph office. most of Tehran remains quiet as nationalists pause after days of street fighting.
Union Pacific workers encircle a 400 foot right of way claim with a fence on a tract valued at 20 000 dollars. Townspeople clash feared as armed crews enforce government grant rights dating back to 1868 amid disputed homestead priorities.
National Live Stock Exchange session elects W. A. Moody of St. Louis as president A. J. Stryker of Omaha as secretary and A. J. Dailey of St. Joseph as treasurer The next meeting will be in St. Louis July 17 year indicated remains unclear due to OCR.
Cleveland police chief says James Purvis engineer of the steamer Centurion acted in self defense when two sailors Richard Brown and William Woolf were shot and killed after an attack on Purvis.
A novice pilot lost control of a Curtiss aeroplane at Hempstead Plain Mineola during a New York Aeronautic Society demonstration. Alexander Williams, 42, was injured when the craft rose about thirty feet, veered right, and crashed. he was treated for a broken arm and other injuries, while the plane suffered major damage.
Dozen men wounded in clashes with state constabulary as detachment arrives to guard Standard Steel Car works in Landora. One striker likely fatally shot, over ten injured, fifteen leaders arrested as 2,600 workers strike and 100 Wheel company employees join. Plant operations continue at reduced capacity amid wage disputes.
In Miedylyed, Novgorod province, a soldier condemned to fifty lashes for stealing killed Captain Kavalevosky after pleading for release. He wounded two soldiers, then fatally stabbed himself, as the fogging punishment erupted into deadly violence.
In Laporte Indiana a telegram from Canada confirmed the death of Benjamin W Thompson of Carpio North Dakota and his brother in an electrical storm, ending a week of anxious delay for the planned marriage to Edna Fall. The bride’s trousseau was ready and all wedding plans were set before the tragedy.
A $10,000 currency package traveling from Chicago via Adams Express to Monmouth IL vanished from a Burlington train between Galesburg and Chicago last week. The National Bank of the Republic and the Second National Bank of Monmouth are involved in the consignment.
In a lengthy meeting the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers voted to strike against Youngstown Sheet and Tube after the company refused to sign the union wage seal.
Chester W. Campbell of Oneida president of the National Casket Co. was killed when his auto left the road about two miles from Canastota. His wife and two sisters in law were seriously injured in the same incident.
M. Pautham sets a new world aeroplane height record in France on July 19 surpassing Wilbur Wright with a merit altitude around 457 feet, breaking the previous 260 foot record.
Ten people drown when the Roxana capsized in a sudden squall off Lower New York Bay while taking Swedes from Brooklyn to Midland Beach. Two girls from Brooklyn aged fourteen and eleven perished among the dead. eleven survivors and Captain Samuelson were rescued by the tug Lamont after a chaotic struggle in rough seas. Beer had been served during the earlier leg of the trip.
A gasoline launch carrying a pleasure party capsized returning from a river outing off Coal Haven on the Ohio River. Five occupants drowned while four others were rescued by river men from a coal fleet moored at Coal Haven.
A Monon passenger train jumped the track while rounding a curve south of Manchester Indiana. Two men were killed N Burn engineer and L Austin fireman. Seven cars derailed. baggage car and engine turned over. Six passengers injured treated at a Crawfordsville hotel.
Don Carlos of Bourbon, pretender to the Spanish throne, died at Varese in Lombardy after a long illness. Reports say he suffered apoplexy with paralysis.
During a Balk game between Dead Wood and Lead teams at a crowded grandstand a bolt of lightning from a passing thunderstorm struck, killing Weston Fry and Thomas Harrison and injuring eight others. Panic was narrowly averted as the crowd scattered.
In Newton New Jersey on July 20 a four year old boy, son of Cecil Drake, died minutes after eating fifty nine quinine pills found in his father’s pocket. The incident occurred when the child ran with the pills into the yard before adults could intervene.
Reports from labor circles say four thousand men in New York split from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and formed the Independent International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
James T. Lloyd of Missouri was elected chairman at a meeting of the Democratic congressional campaign committee held in Washington on July 20.
A Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad wreck is reported near Trowbridge Ohio. Several injured, none killed.
Further earth shocks were felt in Analuion and nearby areas in Greece. No casualties reported as authorities assess damages and monitor aftershocks in the Athens region.
Washington July 16 The Republic and conference committee members Aldrich Burrows Penrose Hale Cullom Payne Dalzell McCall Boutell Calderhead Fordney near final deliberations on the tariff bill A report is expected this week and passage by both houses is anticipated Taft is expected to sign the measure after the president pressed Congress with a message calling for genuine downward tariff revision.
Police suspect strikebreakers in dynamite attack on the Marine hotel rear in East Toledo near the Toledo Furnace plant. The blast occurred at midnight with no injuries as the affected wing was unoccupied during the strike.
Spokane officials report nearly six thousand people waited Sunday to travel to Coeur d Alene Kalispell or Missoula to register for the opening. Registered totals include about 65 500 in Spokane 6 500 in Coeur d Alene 2 300 in Missoula and 1 600 in Kalispell with roughly 56 000 already registered.
Perry Simpson Elijah Slavin and George Stanley received life terms plus ten years for disobeying a federal injunction in a mining dispute. The murder of a federal deputy marshal in Stearns, Kentucky, precipitated the verdict handed by Judge Cochran in Richmond, Kentucky.
Ella Gingles was found not guilty of stealing lace from Miss Agnes Barrette after nearly seven hours of deliberation in Chicago. The defense claimed she was assaulted at the Wellington hotel and implicated in a plot to sell her in French Lick Springs, but the jury rejected those claims as unfounded.
Patrick Calhoun president of United Railroads faces a renewed trial in San Francisco for offering a bribe to a public official to obtain a privilege for his company. A panel of twenty-five prospective jurors was exhausted after half a day with no selection and adjournment to tomorrow. The proceedings differed only by the absence of several principals and District Attorney W H Langdon leading the case.
Four weeks ago, Assistant District Attorney Honey is expected to assume charge of the case when he returns from his trip to Alaska. The article notes the anticipated transfer of case handling to Honey upon his return.
Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis, dies at her Colorado Springs home after a six month illness.
In Cairo on July 20 Hays Gratty an Imals Central engineer was shot while driving from the Halfway House. The killer fled and remained unidentified.
An explosion at the Excelsior Powder company plant in Kansas City on July 20 killed workman John Cline and damaged one building.
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