The Thaw Trial Proceeds Amid Insanity Defense
The Thaw defense wrapped its case arguing manic depressive insanity as the cause of Stanford White’s death by Harry Thaw. The trial paused due to European witnesses delayed by Atlantic storms. Justice Dowling limited each side to three experts. Comstock described Thaw letters and Thaw's mother testified to insanity in the family.
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Stanford White
Pittsburg
Europe
Dowling
Harry Thaw
Tombs Prison
Anthony Comstock
Thaw
Wedding of Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt and Count Szechenyi
Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, wed Count Laszlo Szechenyi at the Fifth Avenue home in New York. The ceremony joins a socialite family with Hungarian nobility in a high society event.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Laszlo Szechenyi
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Hussars
Fifth Avenue
New York
John C. Hubinger
Iowa
Keokuk
Nevada
Assembly
St. Petersburg
Helsingfors
Finland
Russia
Viborg
Grand Duchy of Finland
John L. Dickson
First Nacional Bank of
Fulda
Minn
Senate
Senator Hopkins
House
James McKinney
Illinois
Currency Commission
American Bankers’ Association
Ilinois Bankers’ Association
Medorem Crawford
Coast Artillery Corps
Francis T. Freeland
Denver
Col
Colonnade
Philadelphia
James L. Kurkhaller
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
Galesburg
Morris K. Jessup
American Museum of Natural History
Brick Presbyterian
A. C. Frost
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad
Frank R. O'Neill
Pulitzer Publishing Company
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
J. B
GRAFT DISCLOSED INQUIRY INTO RHOADES THEATER DEATHS
Opening inquest in Boyertown Pennsylvania reveals graft hints and negligence admissions after the January 13 disaster at Rhoades opera house where 169 people died. Testimony shows blocked main exit and narrow stairway while operator Fisher says calcium light handling was learned just days earlier. Owner Dr. Thomas A. Rhoades asserts state inspector approved the building after fire escape contracts. Further defects are noted as the inquiry continues.
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Order of the Legion of Honor
Eugene Meyer
New York
Act of Congress
Supreme Court
Grocers’ Association
Washington
Frank
Meyer
Argentina
Congress
Alcorta
William Rohde
Neidenfels
Orient
India
Earl of Yarmouth
Thaw
Alice Thaw
National Bank of North America of New York
National Bank
Charles W. Hanna
American Torpedo Boat Flotilla
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Ayres
Mary G. Baker Eddy
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Pleasant View
Concord
N. H
Chestnut Hill
Brookline
Mass
Christian Science Denomination
Mine Owners’ Association of Goldfield
Nev
Bergen Hill
Pennsylvania Tunnel
Homestead
N. J
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Herrin
Ill
Showing Ichijo
Japan
Philippines
Father Maria Bernado
Addis Adeba
Menelik
Mary Frances Reiley
Abraham Lincoln
Sioux City
Ila
Burlington
Mount Pleasant
Maurice Crow
F. M. Davenport
Charles Miller
Cascade
Grand Army of the Republic
James Rusk Lincoln
Ames
Harold Smith
Marshalltown
Young Smith
Savery
Des Moines
S. B. Chapman
Iowa Central
Smith
Nicholson
John C. Hubinger
Iowa
Keokuk
Hubinger
Mississippi Valley Telephone Company
Minneapolis
Electric Light
County Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Society
Mason City
J. H. Brown
Rockwell
D. McArthur
Frank Paul
J. E. Treston
Lucas County
First National Bank of
E. Ridgely
Mitchell
Fish Bros. Manufacturing Company
Clinton
Price
City
James Keefe
Albert Kranz
Will Bitner
Harry Sheppard
Charles Garlock
Bitner
Steppard
Charles F. Curtis
John Sinclair
Cedar Rapids Packing House
T. M. Sinclair & Co
New York City
Sinclair
Iowa City
H. E. Kirsher
Boyertown
Sesson
Rhoades Opera House
Harry Fisher
Wee
Thomas A. Rhoades
Dunne
Steel Trust earnings show large quarter despite market flurry
New York reports United States Steel Corp for quarter ending December 31 1907 reveals net earnings of 32 553 995. Full year 1907 earnings total 160 984 477 the highest in company history with 4 624 533 tons unfilled orders at year end. Dividends declared remain unchanged at 0 5 percent for common and 0 75 percent for preferred.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Illinois Representative Attacks Heiress Marriages Abroad
In Congress Representative Mo Gavin criticizes American heiresses marrying European nobles. He denounces dowry marriages as snobbery and vice, calling for a tax on dowries and titled husbands while noting frequent bargain days in New York. The remarks occur during general debate on the state of the union.
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Washington, D. C
Mo Gavin
Illinois
New York
McGavin
Sabbath
House
Supreme court upholds Bronson primary law in Ohio
The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed Franklin and Allen counties common pleas rulings that the Bronson primary election law is valid. The decision provides no published grounds. It sets the Feb 11 state primaries as regular. Allen county Prosecutor Welty said he will appeal to the state courts to prepare an entry in the case.
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Mason City
Sheffield
Des Moines
Twin Cities
Rock Island
Iowa Falls
Forest Dry
Germania
Princton
Iowa & Illinois
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Henry Hendrickson
Hendrickson
Clinton
Marshalltown
Centerville
Clark
Bud Overton
Haywod County
Tenn
Wiley Coleman
Overton
William Bell
James Overton
Tennessee
Frank E. Furry
The
Alden Times
Furry
Hardin County
Alden
Oliver W. Kulp
Davenport
Frank E. Wetherell
Nicholas Pickard
Conroe
Tex
William Pickard
Wapello
William Leets
Grand View
Pickard
Texas
Mansfield
Sherman Leets
Oklahoma
P. K. Dahl
Fort Dodge
Dora Bowen
Wright
Dahl
Floyd Bowen
Eagle Grove
Mary Reily
Iowa
Illinois
Sioux City
Mary Sullivan
Quincy
Abraham Likeela
Columbus
Supreme Court
Common Pleas Court
Franklin and Allen Counties
Bronson
Welty
Allen County
Supreme Court of the United States
Fire devastates Chicago business district with $1.2 million loss
A major blaze in Chicago causes over 1 million dollars in damage. The building at 144 Wabash Avenue housing Alfred Peats & Co. wallpaper dealers is destroyed, with adjacent structures on Michigan Avenue and nearby firms also gutted. The interior of each building is burned out.
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New Orleans
United States
George L. Thomas
New York City
L. B. Taggart
United States District Court
Kansas City
Smith McPherson
Thomas
Taggart
Central
Pontiac
Madison
Jean Jumeau
Dessalines
Gonaives
Minnesota Board of Pardons
Merton
Munn
Bemidji
August Franklin
Calabria
Italy
Portugal
Franco
Chicago
Loop
Deer River
Minn
Free Methodist Seminary
Wessington Springs
Lydia Bradley
Peoria
Ill
Bradley Polytechnic Institute
University of Chicago
Wabash Avenue
Alfred Peats & Co
Wall Paper
John A. Colby & Rniture
Michigan Avenue
Lage Bros. & Co
Theodore A . Co
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Duchess of Manchester
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England
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Wis
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Kan
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Kewanee
Charles Bradley
St. Mary’s Seminary
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