Governor Hughes urges banking reform and anti gambling measures
Albany Jan 1 The annual message of Governor Hughes to the legislature emphasizes bank and trust company reform to prevent exploitation and protect deposits. It calls for stricter controls on loans and interbank dealings, liquidation of insolvent banks, and safeguards against unmarketable securities. It also urges suppression of race track gambling and improved care for emigrants.
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Casualties and Crime Mark Brooklyn New Year
New York police blotters report a brutal New Year in Brooklyn and Manhattan with numerous assaults, asphyxiations, a burglar slain during a break in on Mesrose Street, a man killed after a quarrel, a wife stabbed by Hattie Schubert, and Archibald P Mitchell dying by gas inhalation.
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New York
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Gan
Jacob Scherterback
Messrose Street
Frank Farese
Michael Schindle
Hattie Schubert
Archibald P. Mitchell
Wyoming Weather Forecast and Local Conditions
Forecast for Wyoming calls for fair weather Thursday and Friday with a chance of Friday in the extreme northwest. Local data show a 24 hour period ending 6 pm January 1 with a high of 38 and a low of 26 degrees and no precipitation. Wind peaked at 44 miles per hour from the west at 11 46 am.
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Washington
D. C
Wyoming
Palmer
Explosion at Edgar Thompson Iron Works Kills Two
An explosion in the converter at United States Steel Edgar Thompson plant North Braddock near Pittsburg kills Paul Kurisek and Stephen Diovah and injures thirteen, six Americans and seven others named Slava. Officials have not issued a cause, but veteran workers suggest molten metal contacting damp stee sheath may have sparked the blast.
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Pittsburg
Edgar Thompson
United States Steel Corporation
North Braddock
Here
Paul Kurisek
Stephen Diovah
Inventor Demonstrates Wireless Telephotography in Paris
Pascal Bertonneau unveiled a new telephotography device before the peatmaster general and several observers. The system can adapt to wireless or standard telegraph wires and transmitted the postmaster general’s image across a hill without wires. He claims the method ignores distance and could send photographs between New York and Paris.
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Paris
Pascal Bertonneau
Peatmaster General
New York
Moran and Attell Battle to Draw in San Francisco
In San Francisco on January 1 Abe Attell world champion and Moran of England fought twenty five fast rounds with both men showing cleverness and grit. Referee James J. Jeffries kept order as the bout ended in a draw amid a packed arena and near brawling exchanges.
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Forth
Abe Attell
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James J. Jeffries
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Two Robbers Attack Elderly Casper Resident
Special to The Leader Casper Wyoming January 1 Joseph Straka an aged resident is hospitalized in Douglas with a fractured skull and other wounds after two robbers battered his door with an iron bar and beat him as he fled toward the sheriff’s office. They searched for his wallet but fled after dropping the might-be pocketbook. A posse tracked them but no clue to their identities exists. Straka roomed with Mike Haupt near the round house on West First street and has a son Ludwick who cared for him.
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Wyo
Joseph Straka
Douglas
Straka
Mike Haupt
Round House
West First Street
Brame
Oklahoma
Ludwick
Fred Henderson
Kansas
Comstock to Testify for Defense in Thaw Trial
Anthony Comstock will testify for the defense as Thaw's trial resumes for the Stanford White killing. Subpoenas issued show letters between Thaw and Comstock suggesting the Pittsburg youth was mentally unbalanced before the shooting.
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New York
Anthony Comstock
Harry K. Thaw
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Thaw
Powers Case Goes to Jury in Kentucky Trial
Georgetown Ky Jan 1 Commonwealth Attorney Franklyn announced testimony in the Caleb Powers trial. The jury will begin deliberations tomorrow morning while Judge Morris adjourned court until then.
Land Commissioner Denies Starting Land Fraud Suits
Washington January 1 The commissioner of the general land office said his department had not initiated land fraud cases that were dismissed by Federal Judge Lewis in Denver The interior department may agree with the ruling that indictments cannot stand under the timber and stone act and the land office plans to bring sixty to eighty land law violations to grand jury attention in Colorado The land office emphasizes showings of good or bad faith at the application stage and notes a special independent officer is handling new cases Ballinger states the department had no role in the prosecutions
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Denver
Land Office
Department of Justice
Interior Department
Colorado
Grand Jury
Ballinger
Lewin
Spanish War Medals Ready for Officers and Enlisted Men
The quartermaster general’s office ships 6 500 Spanish war medals from the Philadelphia mint to supply all army personnel on January 11 1906. Officers pay 40 cents per medal. enlisted men receive them free under law. Distribution starts with Washington on duty by rank, then to others nationwide.
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Quartermaster General
United States Mint
Philadelphia
Washington
Encampment Smelter Poised for Record Output in 1908
Stormy weather slows coke fueling at the Pani Wyoming smelter in Encampment Wyoming but smelting continues when fuel is available. Copper output is expected to reach about 2 million dollars in 1908, up from 400 thousand last year after a fire halted operations for much of 1907.
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Exodus of Black residents ordered from town
In Hodge Winn Pariah Louisiana on January 1 a mob ordered all Black residents to leave before Sunday night. Hearing of an attempt by a Black man to enter a young girl’s bedroom sparked the expulsion. About forty five families totaling roughly 200 people left the town.
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Mok
Hodge
Winn Pariah
Sinaer
Car Strikers Attack Scabs in Indiana Riot
Five persons were injured and two streetcars damaged in a riot at Muncie Indiana after Indiana Union Traction attempted to run cars with strike breakers. The strike followed a wage-agreement dispute dating five years. The mayor asked for troops and the governor said a representative would be sent to assess the situation.
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Muncie
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Indiana Union Traction Company
Henrietta Crosman Bankrupt in New York
Actress Henrietta Crosman and her husband Maurice Campbell filed voluntary bankruptcy petitions in U S district court. Campbell lists assets of 29447 and liabilities 72558 while Crosman shows assets 3249 and debts 46889. They reportedly faced financial failure from a failed dramatization of Pilgrim's Progress and related ventures.
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New York
Henrietta Crosman
Henrietta Campbell
United States District Court
Miss Crosman
Maurice Campbell
Campbell
Japs Getting War Material At Chile Harbor
Report from San Francisco docks states Japanese agents arrived with officers carrying warnings and news of Japanese activity in Iquique Chile. They claim Tokyo seeks saltpetre stocks and large supplies of Yucca to manufacture a powder used as an explosive in the war with Russia.
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Iquilque
Chile
Russia
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