Murder trials and world events in brief across nations
The Bessemer Herald reports on a wide array of early 20th century items. Murder trial of T Jenkins Hains opens in New York. mother of John W Gates dies in Texas. battleship fleet welcomed at Colombo. Taft leads Roosevelt in New York polls. a Chicago bomb damages the Coliseum storehouse. Japan plans to bar immigration per Walter Wellman. Knights of Pythias levies assessment. Holland seizes a Venezuelan vessel prompting Gomez defense decree. Judge McLurely upholds Illinois primary law despite indictments flaws. President Truman—sorry—talks Panamanian deal. Harriman not bound to ICC questions. Donald Grant Mitchell dies in New Haven. New Theater cornerstone laid. Taft calls for enforcement of Sherman act. Roosevelt denounces Panama canal reports as libel. Muldoon becomes Rockford bishop. Harvard’s Eliot warns of lawless era. Senate backs efforts to curb investigations into secret service. Taft urges thorough tariff revision. Castellane renounces $60,000 annual petition. Caracas rises against Castro. Castro lands in France. U S banking power noted. Roosevelt to prosecute editors for libel over Panama. warships sail toward Curacao. "White Death" letters traced to Chicago youth. Rivers and Harbors Congress adjourns. Hege man case may end insurance prosecutions. House votes for inquiry into secret service cut. Bas Obispo explosion kills many. Gridiron Club dinner. Venezuelan guard ship seized. Phelps Hoyt fatally injured in Chicago auto crash.
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T. Jenkins Hains
New York
John W. Gates
Texas
Colombo
Taft
Roosevelt
First Ward
Coliseum
Chicago
Walter Wellman
Washington
United States
Eliot
Harvard
America
United States Senate
House
Secret Service
Ohio Society
Count Boni de Castellane
Paris
Caracas
Castro
Roosevelt safari cost foiled by London traveler
A London traveler computes that President Roosevelt's Africa hunting expedition will cost 28050 dollars. The season ends with California fruit growers shipping 12917 cars of fruit out of the state. Rear Admiral Robly D. Evans declines a Los Angeles home gift. Mrs Elizabeth Johnson Mariani, daughter of Cleveland mayor Tom L Johnson, is granted a divorce in Cleveland court.
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London
Roosevelt
Africa
California
Robly D. Evans
Los Angeles
Elizabeth Johnson Mariani
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
President Roosevelt accuses Pulitzer of libel over Panama sale
Roosevelt asks the government to prosecute Pulitzer and the World for libel over claims about the Panama canal property. Pulitzer replies calling the president a reckless demagogue as the World vows to resist any criminal action and defend its reporting.
Death of Ik Marvel Donald Grant Mitchell
Writer Ik Marvel Donald Grant Mitchell died at his Edgewood New Haven home after a long illness. His sons Harold and Walter and daughters Mrs Walter Hart Mrs Mason Hoppin and the Mitchell girls were at his bedside. Mitchell authored Dream Life and Reveries of a Bachelor, famous works praised by readers nationwide.
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Donald Grant Mitchell
Ik Marvel
Edgewood
New Haven
Conn
Edward L. Ryerson
Chicago
Mr. Mitchell
Harold
New London
Walter
Newark
Walter Hart
Rye
N. Y
Mason Hoppin
Elizabeth
Bessie
Harriet Mitchell
Mitchell
New England
Congress Hints at Roosevelt Conflict Over Secret Service
A clash between President Roosevelt and Congress began Friday as the House formed a four member committee to consider objections to the message. Senatorial rebuke was planned while the House moved openly, with Representative Perkins introducing the resolution and noting some presidential expressions as unfortunate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Congress
Andrew Johnson
House
Senate
Four
Representative Perkins
New York
Perkins
Diverse Faith and Clergy Notes and Milestones
Churches field over 100 Passionist priests in the U S. At Fairfax Minnesota the Northern German M E conference passed a unanimous resolution opposing the view that all Germans oppose temperance laws. Canon Moynihan, likely the oldest priest, died in Chicago at 100. Senator William E. Qohandler reopens a new afterlife doctrine about souls to stars and new bodies in a future consciousness. The Civic Federation of Minneapolis vows ongoing war on saloon wealth. Global Protestants, Catholics, and Greek and Oriental churches total 180 million, 250 million, and 110 million adherents respectively. The Congregational church of Charlies City Iowa marked its 50th anniversary with old and distant member greetings.
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Jeremiah C. Moynihan
Chicago
William E. Qohandler
New Hampshire
Minneapolis
Brewing
Civic Federation
Mill City
Congregational Church
Charlies City
Iowa
Life terms for murderers: Missouri Supreme Court upholds
The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed life sentences for John Wooley and Robert Sassman in the state penitentiary. Wooley killed his 3 year old stepdaughter Pearl Smith. Sassman killed a traveling companion Carl Miller, taking his wagon and horses. the crime was uncovered years later by a female accomplice.
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Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
John Wooley
Robert Sassman
State
Wooley
Pearl Smith
Sassman
Carl Miller
Dutch Take Venezuelan Vessel as Prize in Caribbean Seizure
The Dutch battleship Jacob van Heemskerk arrived at Willemstad towing the Venezuelan coastguard ship 23 de Mayo as a prize. The Dutch flag flew atop the captured ship with Venezuelan colors beside it. Capture occurred off Cumana on the Gulf of Caraco. The Venezuelan crew were sent ashore and the prize crew took control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob van Heemskerk
Willemstad
Netherlands
Cumana
Gulf of Carasco
Night Riders on Trial in Union City Murder Case
Eight men from the Reelfoot Lake night rider faction go on trial for murder in Union City Tennessee for the death of Capt. Quinton Rankin a Trenton attorney. Judge Joseph E Jones presides with J S Caldwell as prosecutor and Rice A Pierce leading defense. Indicted defendants include Garrett Johnson Sam Applewhite Roy Ransom Bud Morris Fred Pinken Arthur Clear Tid Barton and Bob Huffman.
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Night Riders
Reelfoot Lake
Union City
Tenn
Quinton Rankin
Trenton
Joseph E. Jones
J. S. Caldwell
Rice A. Pierce and Associates
DROP PROFESSORS AT AGE OF 65
The University of Minnesota board of regents set contracts to expire when faculty reach 65. The rule, to take effect next year, will require all current faculty aged 5 years or older to leave by the end of the present college year. At least six professors have reached 65, sparking outrage in faculty circles.
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University of Minnesota
Board of Regents
Jealous Husband Shoots Wife Then Kills Self
In Deep Water Missouri 53 year old real estate dealer James M Pigg fatally shot his wife after a jealousy fit. He then locked a room and shot himself in the breast. He is believed to survive.
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James M. Pigg
Agde
Deep Water
Pigg
Earl of Granard Engaged to Miss Beatrice Mills
Official notice announces the engagement between Bernard Arthur Forbes the eighth Earl of Granard and Miss Beatrice Mills daughter of Ogden Mills of New York. Forbes serves as lord in waiting to the King and Master of the Horse.
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Earl of Granard
Beatrice Mills
Ogden Mills
New York
Bernard Arthur Forbes
Fire Destroys Iowa Town in Paton Blaze
A night fire levelled Paton Iowa destroying eleven buildings with no protection in place. Losses reached twenty five thousand dollars and no injuries are reported.
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Iowa
Paton
Roosevelt submits report on Brownsville shooting by troops
President Roosevelt sent a Senate message with the War Department investigation findings on the Browns ville raid of August 13, 1906. The report pins responsibility on negro soldiers, identifies leaders, and shows all involved were discharged. The president urges restoration for nonparticipating members who reveal the truth, and includes documents detailing the murders of white residents.
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Roosevelt
Senate
War Department
Brownsville
Texas
Free Transmission Costs of Franked Mail Revealed
The Post Office Department reports that during the year ending June 3, 1908, government costs for free franked mail totaled 12,544,047 dollars for departmental and congressional material. Including second class matter handling, $57,000,000 in uncompensated service for newspaper and periodical publishers is added.
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Postofice Department
Postal Service
Quips on power and politics from an old press page
A collage of sharp sayings on empire, industry, and society. Leaders like Rockefeller and the German Emperor appear as targets of satire while social themes recur from marriages to banking and crime. A 12 year old author from Indiana adds a youth note to the mixture.
Congress Convenes Face Heated Debates and Brownsville Focus
The Senate and House opened with shuffled tactics and brisk debate on boundary disputes among Colorado Oklahoma and New Mexico and on measures protecting aliens and settling employer employee disputes. The Brownsville affair dominated debate with Foraker proposing a three officer commission to review reinlistment of veterans. The House passed a 50 cent gas measure for Washington and moved toward abolishing bucket shops. The Panama canal message drew laughter in the Senate while insurgent hopes for rule changes faded. The week closed with resolutions on war department investigations and presidential conduct under scrutiny.
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Senate
Colorado
Oklahoma
New Mexico
House
United States
Brownsville
Senator Foraker
Twenty-fifth Regiment
Foraker
Warner
War Department
District of Columbia
Washington
Panama Canal
Secretary of War
Warren
Postal Savings Bank
Carter
Depew
Gardner
Massachusetts
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Secretary of State
House of Commons
Bloodhounds to join Washington police force suburbs
Interesting news items report that bloodhounds will be added to the Washington police force for work in the suburbs. A fire nearly destroyed the plant of F. Blumenthal & Co. in Elsmere Delaware. Sixty five families in Centralia Pennsylvania were left homeless by a three block blaze. Mrs Lillian H Doty who recently obtained divorce at Sioux Falls killed herself in a Brooklyn hotel.
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Washington
Elsmere
Del
F. Blumenthal & Co
Centralia
Lillian H. Doty
Sioux Falls
Brooklyn
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Sk Marvel
New
National Civic Federation
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Panama Canal Purchase
P. J. Muldoon
Rockford, Il
France
Panama Canal Building
Curacao
Venezuela
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Hegeman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
House of Representatives
Bas Obispo
Gridiron Club
Alix
Puerto Cabello
Gelderland
Phelps B. Hoyt
Joseph Pulitzer
Indianapolis
the News
Delavan Smith
World
Pulitzer
Panama
Donald G. Mitchell
the Opera
Jinge
House Names Committee
M. E
Fairfax, Minn
Ranskin
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Dewan
Japan
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