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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1907
Page
11
E W King of Bozeman won the Republican caucus nomination for speaker by 17 votes over J Bennett as legislature convenes. Mantle and Dixon supporters weigh the impact on senate results while Governor Toole's message is expected in the afternoon.
Council Bluffs Iowa January 6 one passenger killed and three injured when a Pullman sleeper aboard the Los Angeles limited No 8 caught fire while running toward Chicago. The dead is Louis Delario 22 of Laramie Wyoming clerk of the house committee on irrigation. Among the injured are O H Johnson Salt Lake City Henry Cabrow Salt Lake City and Mrs B X Higgins Carbondale Pa all with burns or exposure. The origin of the fire could not be determined though the car was filled with dense smoke and flames appeared to start near a berth possibly linked to a woman with an infant using an alcohol lamp to heat milk. The Redfield car was within a mile of Loveland Missouri Valley at the time. All personal effects were lost by passengers.
In Paris Jan 6 a question hangs over a potential marriage between W. E. Corey, president of United States Steel, and American singer Mabel Gilman. The couple are seen together with her mother in Paris, with possible plans to wed in England to avoid French formalities. Gilman’s sister Cordelia is married to Albert Thomas, and Thomas now works for US Steel in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburg January 6 reports on W E Corey and Mabel Gilman lack confirmation and the Corey family remains reticent. Albert Thomas, who wed Mabel Gilman's sister, now works at McKeesport in the United States Steel tube plant after taking a position from Mr Corey.
Philadelphia reports the found personal effects of the Fourth Street National Bank bomber. Police identify Rolla Steele of Garner Iowa as the suspect. He stayed at the Grant house before the blast and carried a grip refused by a porter. Evidence includes slow fuse tools clothing and marked items from Lynchburg and New York. Crump, bank bodyguard, survived after surgery to save eyesight though permanently impaired.
J R Steele, a known explosives experimenter and concrete foreman, is tracked as the Philadelphia Fourth Street National Bank bomber. He left Lynchburg Thursday morning with his wife Irene and their 10 year old son, while Irene says Steele was divorced before his second marriage. Acquaintances identify Steele as the suspect from descriptions in dispatches.
Seattle residents confront a Black man named A. W. Clay on Fifth avenue as he tries to tear earrings from Mrs. Rosy Bloom while holding a child. Police rescue him just before the crowd acts. Clay had just finished a 60 day term for vomrenau.
A city article notes upcoming plans by the mayor to restructure or modify police department operations. Details on timing, scope, and affected units are anticipated as officials outline the proposed reforms. The report frames the changes as part of a broader public safety initiative.
Mayor John MacGinniss returns from the East to confront charges and counter charges involving the police force. Acting Mayor Doull had sought an early council meeting to read the policemen’s reply. The mayor’s inaugural message calls for active, sober officers and strict discipline, with graft of any kind not tolerated and officers found soliciting unlawful tribute to be removed and prosecuted. About 49 of 59 uniformed men signed the council letter, six are on leave, leaving a core count.
Riverside Calif Jan 6 habeas corpus in superior court reveals W D Hickey of Palo Verde a livery stable keeper who also serves as justice of the peace constable and deputy sheriff He issued a warrant for a thief bound the prisoner over to the superior court and as deputy sheriff brought him to the county seat drawing a warrant for 87 50 expenses in transporting the prisoner.
Chicago, Jan 6. Three men died in a blaze that gutted the interior of Hill's paper warehouse on Roosevelt Street. As the fifth story roof collapsed, Campbell Siefert and Lennon, all inside, failed to exit despite orders to flee. Firefighters later confirmed three fatalities from the ruins.
An authority on mines familiar with the Sonora field reports that copper production in Sonora Mexico for 1906 totaled 179,000,000 pounds.
New York, Jan 6. Emma Goldman and two others were arrested as detectives broke up an anarchist meeting on the east side. Goldman spoke, Berkman exhorted to disobey, and both were held as accessories after being charged with inciting speeches. Goldman bail $2,000. Berkman and Coryell bail $2,000 each.
New York January 6. At E. H. Harriman's home physicians announce he is doing very well after an operation last week. He attended dinner today and needs absolute rest for about a week to ten days more.
In Goldfield Nevada on January 6 the embarrassment surrounding the L. M. Sullivan Trust Co. has tied several local brokers to limited sums. Unhonored drafts reportedly total 169000 dollars, raising questions of who should receive credit in the balance. L. M. Sullivan declines interview.
Emil Radley shot and killed Mrs. Martha Kruger, wife of bartender Herman Kruger, and her sister Elizabeth Kelly, 16, on Buchanan Street near Jefferson Square refugee camp tonight.
Houston Jan 6 The firemen strike on the Southern Pacific is ended. Firemen and engineers leaders reached a settlement tonight in a conference with Vice Grand Master Shea and Vice Grand Master Wills. The dispute centered on seniority dating from fireman vs engineer status and the company role in seniority.
Stephan Vassilevich Annikin, a leading peasant figure and founder of the Group of Tail, dies in Kiev province after a long illness. Born in 1864 he rose from peasant roots to teaching, endured revolutionary imprisonment and exile, and became a noted political voice in the peasants movement.
The 1906 fiscal year produced a record 1,166,353 immigrant and related arrivals, led by Italy Russia and Greece, with rejections rising to 12,432. The report warns of evasion schemes including Japanese laborers via Hawaii and coastwise routes, urges drastic measures, and calls for China stationing to oversee exempt certificates.
Frederick B. Martin, former Portland Pacific Biscuit salesman, shot and wounded wife, killed sister-in-law Emma Helms, then shot himself at the Ella boarding house. Martin blamed Helms for marital troubles after a recent discharge and return from California. Mrs. Martin suffers hysteria. families of both sides are prominent Oregon residents.
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