22 Mar 1907
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1907
Page
1
The 1907 flood devastated Pittsburg and surrounding areas with 36.6 feet crest, $50,000,000 in losses, and numerous deaths. Fire due to no water, looting, and multiple drownings followed as water service failed and bridges and rail lines collapsed.
A U S Circuit Court ruling in Chicago upheld the government contention in the Standard Oil trial that an alleged illegal shipment route existed between Whiting Indiana and St. Louis Missouri, facilitating the oil movement. The decision confirms the government’s claim of an improper transit path in the case.
Socialist members of the Reichstag charged the German government with interference in the electoral or legislative process during a session, asserting improper influence over proceedings and policy.
Keeler of the New York Americans gains a $200 raise bringing his salary to $6200. Lajole believes Rossman will deliver at first base for Detroit. Yale captain Gilmore Kinney is disqualified for low scholarship. Boston Nationals president Dovey plans new swell uniforms with four sets per player. The New York Americans have ten pitchers at Atlanta including Grimm Orth Hogg Clark 500 Doyle Brockett Hughes Keefe Barger Castleton. Beaumont quitting would leave Sam Leever as the sole Pittsburgh contingent from the 1900 consolidation with Louisville. Umpire Tom Connolly is not favorable to any grange rule and has limited authority over playing rules. George Winter resigns from the Boston American Club.
Guthrie Oklahoma The Constitutional Convention wraps up after 115 days drafting a constitution for the proposed state to be voted on August 6 in an election open to Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The document envisions primaries for state officers and US senators, a prohibition statute, a state railway commission, and protections on corporate stock and land.
President Roosevelt begins a series of conferences on railroad policy with B F Yoakum of Rock Island and other rail presidents. They seek federal franchise laws, tighter regulation, and measures to curb hostile state actions while preserving rail stability and financing.
Salvador forms alliance with Honduras in war against Nicaragua. About 2500 Salvadorean troops land at Amapala march toward Choluteca under General Jose Presa. Honduran leader Banlila heads toward Segovia with Nicaraguan volunteers as Trujillo port is captured by Nicaraguan naval forces.
Governor Stokes issues a proclamation revoking the charters of more than 1600 New Jersey corporations for unpaid 1905 06 franchise taxes. Many delinquents never conducted business since incorporation, with some lacking subscribers to $1000 stock.
Bradstreet's and Dun's Agencies report that stock market weakness did not curb commodity consumption or demand. Both say trade conditions are improving and that high prices largely do not affect demand while general business remains vigorous.
Moyer Haywood and Pettibone, guarded by four, were moved to Caldwell after a train stop near the Court House. All attorneys except Clarence Darrow attended as Judge Fremont Wood heard the remittitur from the United States Supreme Court and denied the motion to dismiss. The defense sought a change of venue and arguments continued after 2 p.m.
Goldfield shuts down with mines and stores closed and streets crowded with idle men and armed guards. Mine owners and merchants, backed by unions allied with the American Federation of Labor, initiate a general lockout to oppose the Industrial Workers of the World. Indefinite standstill follows ongoing labor troubles.
A German forester, Hermann Wilsdorf, killed five of his six children and wounded the sixth, then killed his wife and died by suicide. Police found signs the family planned to end their lives together, with a possible food-based method. The injured child was hospitalized.
Reports detail labor actions and union efforts across several regions. Workers in Kentucky and Ohio consider arbitration and strikes for eight hour days, while New York transit workers join a union. Texas farmers and national groups push bank systems, Queensland Kanakas form unions, Amiey France hosts eight hour day agitation, and Spokane retail clerks aim to organize women workers.
Two men, Arthur Preston Green and Charles Rohrer, charged with a London jewelry robbery valued at 25 000 to 30 000 dollars were arrested aboard the Hamburg American liner Amerika at Quarantine. The thefts include Tiffany's London and a Bond Street store. the loot was concealed on their persons and in their first cabin. Their pictures appear in the Rogues Gallery.
Fire at Helicon Hall in Englewood New Jersey destroys the home of Upton Sinclair's cooperative colonists. One man, Joseph Briggs, a Providence Rhode Island carpenter, dies in the blaze and five colonists are injured. Sinclair vows a new cooperative colony will rise to continue the utopian project.
Miss Mary Hixon twenty years old known as the belle of Rayville collapsed at midnight after skating four hours with her escort Roland Williams. A physician attributed the death to exertion on the heart following the prize for the most graceful couple awarded an hour earlier.
Winnipeg reports six thousand miles of railway contracts to finish in 1907 across the prairies for Canadian Pacific Canadian Northern Great Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific. A labor shortage stalls progress as penalties and bonuses govern the work and the Pacific line opens 160 new towns.
Governor Folk signed a law making bucket-shop operation a felony in Missouri. The penalty also applies to any telegraph or telephone company providing information to such shops. He signed an amendment to the pool-selling law to use telegraph and telephone devices for registering bets on horse races.
Multiple reports describe reforms and upheavals including business method changes in England, deportations of Kanaka workers from the islands, investigations into Pennsylvania’s Capitol costs, and state-level efforts to regulate railroad charges. International incidents feature assassinations in Sofia and strikes in Persia, while a Russian revolutionary is arrested in St. Petersburg. The Union Pacte cancels a $1.2 million Omaha office project.
Secretary Taft enforces eight hour policy on government contracts while President Roosevelt orders exclusion of Japanese workers and dismisses suits against the San Francisco School Board. He opens about 28 million acres of land, Corleyou offers to redeem 25 million in four percent bonds, currency retirement is postponed, and a Newport torpedo factory plan is completed. The Isthmian Canal Commission may have five of seven members in the canal zone after reorganization. Mary Manning, widow of Mississippi congressman, dies in Washington. First Assistant Postmaster Hitchcock adds alerts for New York Post Office. In Cuba, growing unrest and a Cuban protectorate debate surface amid cane harvest forecasts and sugar production hopes.
The Memphis Charter bill passed the House in Nashville Tennessee to abolish Memphis city government and empower Governor Patterson to appoint new officials. It has also passed the Senate.
Fire swept the Confluente sugar plantation at Guantanamo Cuba causing damage estimated above 400000 dollars. The plant owners president is Senor Lenin and the mayor of Madrid is involved in the case.
Mrs Featherston Osler died at her home in Toronto in her 101st year. She was the mother of Professor Willam Ogler of Oxford who advocated chloroforming Veterans over sixty.
A large section of the ceiling and walls collapsed during a Duma meeting in St Petersburg causing an indefinite postponement of the sessions. The incident halted proceedings and raised safety concerns about the hall’s structure.
President Roosevelt joins a riflemen group while Trucadale condemns railroads hostility. Senator Clark’s term ended after mining work at $1.25 daily. Former Senator Spooner named counsel to James J. TI dinanelak interests with Joshua Pion in Panama. Cortel you leans toward business over stock interests. Henry van Dyke resigns Princeton chair to Wilson. Redfield Proctor regarded as a strong Senate voice.
Eighteen people are known dead in a fire at the Warwick Pottery plant in Wheeling’s flood district, many victims children. An explosion preceded the blaze and panic led to drownings as workers and Syrians leaped from windows. rescue boats saved about a hundred. Debris and wreckage cover the city as relief efforts begin and damages are projected well over three million dollars in Wheeling alone.
Testimony before a legislative committee on high food costs in Pittsburg shows prices about ten percent higher than across the United States and thirty five percent higher than in many cities. J A Lord of the Chamber of Commerce cites rising costs and promises more evidence. Dennis Hayes and W H Williams deny a dealer cartel but blame demurrage charges and terminal limits for price increases.
San Salvador reports General Barahona of Honduras defeated 3000 troops commanded by General Dionisio Gutierrez at Maleras Izrga and Sabana Larga. Generals Gutierrez Badadares and Gamero were killed. Barahona and Lopez pursue the remaining forces as eight miles of front saw heavy casualties and prisoners are claimed.
Frank C. Marrin alias Judge Franklin Stone faced post office led investigations for two years and a Storey Cotton Company fraud in Philadelphia. He was freed on bail yet arrested by Philadelphia detectives for forging an $80 000 check at a Brooklyn bank.
Two Black men Pulnt Williams and Henry Gardner were taken from the jail in Monroe Louisiana by a mob and lynched after confessing to shooting and robbing two foreigners Gardner also confessed to entering the room of Miss Jegster Hpus.
The report notes decisive recent Nicaraguan victories and expresses belief that peace with Honduras will follow.
Feminine Notes report Sarah Bernhardt named professor of declamation at the Paris Conservatory. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote and sold her first story at fifteen for 17 dollars. Dr John F Gaucher offers Indian scholarships for four girls to attend Woman's College Baltimore. The Blane Bentton named chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The Duchess Consuelo Vanderbilt Marlborough plans a U.S. visit after separation from the Duke. John A Logan offers to donate wartime trophies and memorials to Minnesota.
Mrs. Mary Beegle a New Jersey law student urged abolishing underground dungeons in the state prison. She described inmates and attendants mistreatment and demanded reform after visiting the facility with Mrs. Florence Maynrick. Governor Stokes spoke in Paterson urging a dam project to secure municipal water and curb flood damage in Passaic River Valley.
One hundred fifty guests attended the Morris Guards twentieth anniversary banquet at the Hotel Lorraine Atlantic City. Governor Stokes and several legislators were guests of honor. Postmaster Harry Bacherach presided the after dinner speakers included Lt Col Lewie T Bryant Congressman John J Gadner Judge F E A Higbee Captain Walter B Edge Mayor Franklin P Stoy Judge Allen B Endicott Governor Stokes and Senators Colby and Minch.
Experienced railroad men told the committee the public would be safer with a single engineer in the locomotive cab. They warned that two engineers would cause division of responsibility and slow decisions, increasing wreck risk on quick calls.
Governor Stokes, advised by the Navy Department, will visit Jamestown for the exposition opening on April 26. He plans to present a $10,000 silver service to the battleship New Jersey, as the state celebrates the ship's naming and the April opening of the New Jersey building. He will be joined by his full military and personal staff.
Charles T. Vail postmaster Joseph Hummell mail farrier and Ellen Gillen were arrested on suspicion of setting fire to the Cornwall store in West Portal February 24 after an investigation by Justice Opdyke. It emerged Wall, who ran a store in the burned building, held a $3000 insurance policy on his stock.
Geo Bisand a negro constable was arrested on extortion charges after allegedly demanding four dollars from a poor woman and threatening arrest. Police see links to a broader conspiracy of negroes in petty county offices. Justice of the Peace W G Roberts faces indictments for illegal practices amid new allegations. The Rev George R Middleton of Atlantic Highlands was exonerated by the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference in a related conspiracy case involving Caleb Butterworth of Camden.
George D. Ditton of Lanoka receives a fetters patent for an unsinkable, self-righting lifeboat that may be powered by motor or fuel and could revolutionize lifeboat service.
Farmers struggle as severe weather disrupts early field work. Woodbury Postmaster Frantz Pedrick takes charge after receiving his commission. The Midville Council blocks rebuilding of the burned opera house block. Gloucester County Democrats appoint Carpenter and Dilkes as leaders. Egg prices fall to 23 25 cents a dozen at Millville with expectations to drop to 20 cents. County objections cite drilling engines in the PRR freight yard affecting the Mount Holly colored school location.
An ax embedded seven feet underground at a Belfast Maine site was found in good shape. Inscription partly legible shows it was made in Louisville Kentucky in 1833.
The article notes a miniature typewriter made in America fourteen years ago, measuring four inches by three inches and weighing four and a half ounces. It highlights the device as the smallest typewriter produced to date.
Indicted political boss Abe Ruef faced possible immunity as he offered to confess amid disclosures totaling about 1 million dollars. Railroads and telephone firms paid large sums for franchises while two Supervisors and figures tied to Mayor Schmitz disclosed payments. Key deals included United Railroads overhead trolley rights and prize fight permit privileges in 1906.
Capitol in vestigating committee resumes inquiry into capitol costs. Testimony shows John H. Sanderson & Co. of Philadelphia received 90,748.40 for rostrums in Senate and House rooms. Sub contractors paid 2060, with Sanderson profits on woodwork in fourteen rooms totaling 126,645.60. Murray Gibson claims bid savings of over 606,000 could have been realized if his bid had been accepted.
Albany N Y Attorney General Jackson charges a graft tied to a 103 million canal project. He demands the New York Ontario and Western Rail Road refund 117 161 to the state for a bridge altered by canal work in Oneida County. He says the railroad must bear the bridge rebuilding cost at its own expense.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich died at his Mount Vernon street home in Boston aged seventy after a recent operation at Homoco Pathic Hospital. His condition had shown slow improvement in the past two weeks before suddenly worsening and he passed away around 6 o clock.
Representative Mann of Illinois publicly charges Governor Doc J. Crawford of South Dakota with a premeditated plan to defraud the government of public lands and to evade punishment through political influence, presenting Interior Department affidavits in support.
Walter Winans Coker's Rosador captured the gold medal for hackneys at the London show. George Bonhag of the Irish American Club is currently unbeatable at two and three miles. Water Pearl, a top three year old, died at Sheepshead Bay after a thirty six hour illness. Esterville Mass adds three motor boat fleet buildings designed by a New York architect, with one entry possibly in the Bermuda race.
Western state legislatures show heavy rail reform activity with 712 bills in ten states and 45 in Congress. Anti pass measures appear in every state while bills address fire escapes on passenger cars safety devices and prizes totaling up to 20000 dollars for wreck prevention devices with four lesser prizes.
The West and South are calling for funds earlier than usual while demand exceeds typical start of season. This indicates expanded planting operations to meet expected higher yields, assuming normal weather.
More persons seek to buy horses than at any time in twenty years signaling a red hot market. Local breeders report rising inquiries and sales prospects as demand outpaces supply.
Every road in the country has plans for improvements. They would require an outlay of 1.1 billion dollars per year for five years to bring the transportation area up to business demand.
Unay offers hay for feeding across the country at 15 to 17 dollars per ton while corn on the farm is about 84 cents per pound.
A Chicago grain authority predicts wheat may rise to 1.25 dollars a bushel in the current market. He describes himself as conservative yet confident in the upside potential for wheat prices.
Weather aided harvest pushes West cotton output higher by at least 200000 bales, with picking occurring earlier than typical. Officials note unusually mild conditions allowed additional field work and greater collection this season.
Wheat prospects are uncertain in Germany and France as both nations face unclear crop outcomes. The global outlook hinges on whether these key producers can harvest sufficient stocks to meet demand.
The article notes corn as the cheapest feed for farmers and hints at cheaper prices for stock feed. It states saddle horses of the highest class are in strong demand, signaling a buyer market for premium mounts.
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