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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
1
Attorney for Harry K. Thaw continues presenting new testimony about his client's irrational acts and mental state before and after Stanford White's death. Witnesses describe Thaw's nervous behavior, unusual actions, and family history as groundwork for expert sanity testimony.
Dr F D Beauchamp who killed Charles Thomas on a Hobart train a year ago was shot and killed in Lawton Oklahoma today by two brothers, John Thomas of Lawton and William Thomas of Chico Texas, as he was boarding a train. The Beauchamp killing followed revelations of a liaison with Mrs Beauchamp.
Chicago dispatch reports humorist and playwright George Ade has withdrawn as a candidate for delegate from Indiana's Tenth district to the Republican National Convention. Ade cites lack of time for politics as the reason for his action.
Pranklinville N Y January 16 Bank cashier Ed Scott and bookkeeper R W Van Hosen of the Peoples National Bank were arrested today on four charges linked to the bank's failure and are held on four thousand dollar bail each.
Washington January 15 1908 forecast for Wyoming calls for partly cloudy conditions Thursday and Friday with a gradual rise in temperature. Local data show a 24 hour period ending 6 pm January 15 with a maximum of 43 degrees a minimum of 11 degrees and 0.16 inch precipitation.
Washington January 15 Attorneys for the government will soon ask a federal court in Chicago to set a trial date for the Burlington and Chicago & Eastern Illinois cases arising from the Standard Oil probe. The actions involve 2,000 counts in Burlington and 1,400 in the Chicago & Eastern Illinois case with potential fines up to 68 million dollars if convicted on all counts. Railroads allegedly gave rebates on oil shipments from Whiting Indiana to the Standard Oil company.
John Hughes owner and editor of Truth weekly in Salt Lake City died at age 51 from pneumonia after brief illness. native of Belfast Ireland Hughes had seventeen years in Salt Lake journalism and previously worked on the Omaha Bee.
Annapolis Md Jan 16 Senator William Pinckney Whyte was today elected United States senator to fill the late Senator Gorman's term. The selection comes as an unexpected development in Maryland politics with Whyte expected to serve the remainder of Gorman's term.
In Denver on January 15 Beatrice Gordon confesses to shooting William Shirey and plans to plead the unwritten law. She says the two shared a life of hardship and that the death was accidental during a struggle over a revolver. Discrepancies exist over weapon caliber and timing, with investigators placing the shooting earlier and noting Shirey’s gun and pillow arrangement. Gordon’s demeanor shifts from indifference to distress as she describes the alleged abuse.
The World telegraph reports Cortelyou offered Knickerbocker presidency after talks with J. P. Morgan. He dismisses the claim he resigned after a stormy cabinet session and says the reports are absolutely false. He says he has not left the treasury and denies quarreling with President Roosevelt.
In Rio de Janeiro on Jam 15 a clash erupted between a liberty party of U S sailors and Brazilians drawing knives and stones. About three hundred sailors and over a thousand locals fought. two sailors were stabbed, several injured. Marines guard the waterfront with local police as Admiral Evans remains laid up.
Carl Emil Christensen asks a court to restrain Bertha Larsen from interfering at his home. He states he has tried every known means to keep his mother-in-law away as he confesses his wife is over-sensitive and he seeks relief to end the meddling.
Bodies of Ira B. Stetson of Liverpool Ohio and Albert E. Donovan of New Rochelle New Jersey found beside Pennsylvania railroad tracks near New Brunswick. They are badly mutilated. Cause of death unknown, believed to be a fall from a train. Papers identify both as United States Army veterans.
An earthquake struck Gonaives, about sixty five miles northwest of Port au Prince, causing several houses to collapse and many damaged. Communications with the town are cut off and a tidal wave followed the quake with no reports of loss of life.
Pittsburg January 15. Ray Delany rushed into Miss Mary Alpaugh’s home in Browntown and shot Joseph Kane, a young man visiting the girl. Kane was seriously wounded. Delanysaid he was only joking and claimed the gun was not loaded.
Mrs Lee Jacobs wife of a business man and her two children were found dead in their St Louis home. Police investigate and coroners hold the bodies. Husband Lee J Jacobs in Laramie reacts with horror and questions the murder theory.
Warren faction supporters press for his name as president while Gov. Brooks leads opposition in the Wyoming delegation. Montana backs T. J Walsh and Douglas physician Dr. J. M. Wilson is urged by others. Delegates mingle at the Montana Club as resolutions attack public land policy and a three sheepmen delegation plans to press grazing land legislation in Washington.
Augusta Georgia January 15 James Ryder Randall poet and author of Maryland My Maryland died at his home after a long illness. He wrote the Civil War era poem that became a rallying cry for Maryland troops and national sentiment.
Washington January 15 The Senate passed a joint resolution reducing the U S war indemnity from China from 24 million to 11 million amid debate on the penal code bill. The committee revisions to the penal code lowered penalties for bribe taking by lawmakers and for sale of endorsements for offices.
New York January 14 two indictments returned by the grand jury charge that Wa B Montgomery vice president of the Hamilton Bank misused funds of the institution.
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