02 Mar 1907
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1907
Page
1
Industrial leader Morse applauds Cuba’s development and expresses optimism about ongoing progress. He notes growing opportunities for trade and investment as relations strengthen and the island expands its infrastructure and industry.
Charles W. Morse, age 11 Cuba, signals a major buildout including two turbine steamers linking New York with Havana and Cuban ports within a year. He also pledges a Havana hotel, new wharves, and faster transatlantic travel, aiming to make Cuba a tourist Mecca. Morse will visit Mexico en route back to New York.
Chicago March 1 Union Secret Service Chief John E Wilkie arrives to oversee the investigation into the Chicago subtreasury heist. He hints a single suspect is central with possible accomplices, while four men including A R Boel Henry Locke John M Rogers and Frank F Walsh are being questioned. Fitzgerald will be examined later.
Bennington I T March 1 The community was shocked to learn that the grave of Mrs Johnson Wooley a full blood Choctaw Indian buried about two years ago had been opened and probably robbed The crime occurred several days ago and the robbers may have taken valuables such as a watch earrings and finger rings from the body at burial
A Pittsburgh fire at the Fifth Ward school in Allegheny destroyed the three story building valued at 150000 dollars. One fireman was seriously injured and five others slightly hurt while battling the flames. The blaze, likely started by crossed electric wires, left about 1500 pupils without a school.
The Dutch mail steamer Koenigen Wilhelmina from Queensborough went ashore in fog on a dyke east of the harbor entrance. Passengers and mails were landed safely. In New York, Daniel Sulll received oxygen as his condition remained grave.
Bloomington Illinois March 1 Thomas Baldwin a wealthy former Colfax merchant shot and killed Charles Kennedy and his wife and Mrs Sim Eisman and daughter Cora. He had been under bond on a charge of assaulting Cora Eisman fourteen. Baldwin nearly faced lynching before surrendering to a deputy sheriff and being moved to Bloomington.
Ida Wallace reports a charge that penitentiary officers and detectives plotted to implicate Western Federation of Miners leaders in ex Governor Stunenberg's assassination. Steve Adams describes coercive interrogation by Detective McPartland to obtain false confessions and names of federation officers, with threats and bribes.
Baltimore and Ohio train No towed westbound wrecked near Indian Creek seven miles east of Connellsville Pa. The engineer Wylie Irwin of Pittsburgh died trapped under the engine as the wreckage burned. Fireman seriously hurt and baggage master express messenger conductor and six passengers seriously injured. About forty passengers suffered cuts or bruises.
New Orleans March 1 The crevasse near Jesuit's Bend has widened to 250 feet as about 100 feet of levee gave way. A large gang has worked a week to link the broken bank ends while a flood of water sweeps through the breach. Gretna opposite New Orleans remains protected by levees and expects no serious flooding.
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