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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
6
Features from around the world report a New York Central freight wreck at Ninth Street and Park Avenue killing brake man Charles Mahoney and injuring two other train crew. An outward bound express barely avoided the wreckage as the engineer halted just in time on the blocked track.
Prof. Charles Freye, 64, long missing, returned to Chicago after 31 years and gave his wife $5,000 to keep silence. He has been arrested on bigamy and wife abandonment charges as another woman, Mrs. Clara Goddard of Ierley, S.D., claims to be his wife. The complaint says Freye married Goddard while his first wife lived and deserted her. He refused to explain his whereabouts to his daughter and wife, as the returning man pressed bills into his spouse’s hands.
After twenty three hours the jury in the Doss Galbraith case reported no verdict and was discharged. The panel stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction after twenty ballots. The trio of victims were seized from jail, hanged by the mob near the statue of Liberty, and burned in retaliation for an assault on a white woman. No Black residents appeared on the streets as the jury retired and the city stayed quiet thereafter.
Hoosier arrest disrupts Bedford area crime probe as Ernest Taukesly and Nel lie Rainey are taken into custody on abduction charges. Police hope Tankesty’s statements may reveal who killed teacher Sarah Schaefer over two years ago. Rainey vows not to testify, possibly risking her life.
Seven Cody family members in Dover township Ohio and two boarders were chloroformed by burglars who looted gold from an old trunk after ransacking the house. The attackers gave heavy doses of chloroform, leaving victims unconscious until morning, then they ate breakfast and fled.
Irregularities in the accounts of ex treasurer Dy. Robert I. Sheppard of Northwestern University Evanston and Garrett Biblics Institute Chicago involve an estimated sum of 72 000 to 200 000 dollars. The educator and his friends claim property has already been turned over and no one will lose a dollar.
The Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia fails for seven million dollars following the death of its president Frank S. Hipple, described as a death by his own action. Treavy loans secured the crash, affecting substantial sums for the Presbyterian church, the city, and the State.
Gov Harris of Ohio suffers severe ivy poisoning after a visit to maneuver grounds in Tuscarawas county. The ailment affects his whole body with intense itching but no pronounced eruption, a peculiar and widespread reaction he notes.
General von Wiarlarski, acting military governor of Warsaw, has been assassinated. Revolutionaries plan further strikes on Russian officials. The government contemplates a renewed dictatorship and pushes plans to grant land to peasants.
A cablegram from Kiel observatory reports a new comet found by Prof Kopff at Heidelberg university. The object was observable with a small telescope and announced by Prof Kreutz from Harvard College observatory.
Two federal grand juries in Chicago returned ten indictments containing 6,428 counts against the Standard Oil Company charged with receiving unlawful rebates from railroads.
The Charles A. Eddy, a Cleveland ore carrier bound for Cleveland from Ashland Wisconsin, caught fire off Fort Sanilac Lake Huron around 20 m. The City of Mackinac rescued passengers and crew, taking them to Detroit where all were accounted for. The Eddy and the pickle warehouse and plant at St. Paul were destroyed. Twenty one people, including the captain’s wife and two children, were saved. The Eddy was 2075 tons, 75 feet long, 40 feet beam, built in 1880, owned by Gilchrist Transportation Co. of Cleveland. The Maddie was destroyed.
The market across Chicago shows sustained strength in leading industries with firm costs and rising demand. Textile and staple goods sales rise as new accounts open, wholesale trade expands, and visiting merchants boost dry goods, clothing, footwear, and furniture. Industrial output climbs, iron and steel and cotton goods prices trend up, while cotton raw material prices continue to decline.
A historic Russian terror overview describes female nihilist leaders from 1870s to recent times. It recalls Mme Catherine Berschkovesky and Marie Spiridonova, detailing student emigrees, executions, brutal punishment, and Barbara Printz who killed herself after a failed plot in Odessa.
A midnight blaze in St Paul engulfed the Heinz plant warehouse of the Jleing Tickie Companys and damaged the large Heinz building, the American Can Company factory, and a three story tenement. Estimated losses reach 1500,000 with 500,000 from the can company. Thirty tenants were ordered out as walls collapsed and the tenement burned, personal effects ruined.
John Hart and Mrs. Flora Hughes were found dead at their Portsmouth home with bullet wounds. Jarrett O Tughes, the woman's husband, is jailed on murder charges, denying involvement despite eyewitness identifications after a man shot them beneath a street light on Third Street. The couple had been separated for some time.
A touring car with seven aboard was struck by a suburban trolley near Lakewood south of Providence. The chauffeur Oliver Ta Belle of New Bedford was killed instantly while owner Aimer Trazeau, a Fall River liquor inspector, was probably fatally injured.
Mrs. Ibert Foster, 35, mentally distressed by ill health, tried to end her life by leaping into a cistern with twelve feet of water in Weedford Indiana. Neighbors pulled her from the tank after she grabbed the pump stock and cried for help. she was unharmed.
Market figures show cattle hogs and sheep priced across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo with grains and butter for No 2 wheat corn oats rye and butter across regional markets. Plus railroad upgrades include Hinds Central plans new passenger equipment and Lackawanna telegrapher cuts and Western Pacific ambitious California tunnel and grade improvements.
An unknown man about 80 and poorly dressed entered a Grandaverte Kansas City pawnshop. After asking to see a revolver he loaded cartridges from his pocket, pointed the weapon at two employees, forced them into the street, and shot himself in the head. He died within minutes.
Three ships broken in the north gale on Lake Erie were wrecked while two more were driven ashore one aflame and another sunk. Life-savers and fellow crews toiled to save all imperiled sailors.
Japan enters a contract with Diamond Match Company to form a cross continental trust in match products. The agreement includes the English firm Bryum and May, creating a dominant pan continental agreement for the industry.
A large fire at Ashtabula harbor destroyed much of the harbor business east of the river. The blaze, traced to Iron works property owned by State Treasurer W S McKinnon, caused losses exceeding 65000 dollars. In a separate incident Herbert Gowland, 20, was fatally shot by Policeman David Boles during a raid on Pittsburgh’s Tenderloin district after being arrested for loitering.
Statistics from the Department of Agriculture place Illinois as the wealthiest state in the Union agriculturally. Iowa, Ohio, Missouri, and Indiana follow in that order in the ranking.
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