May Get Carnegie Medal
Wallace Johnson, serving twelve years for manslaughter in Floyd County Georgia, was pardoned by Governor Hoke Smith for saving five lives by stopping a burning fuse attached to seventy five sticks of dynamite in a north Georgia mine. The pardon follows a prison commission recommendation praising his meritorious conduct and risking his own life to prevent a disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Wallace Johnson
Floyd County
Georgia
Hoke Smith
Johnson
North Georgia
Smallpox on the Transport Sherman Quarantined
Aboard the transport Sherman a Navy man returning home died of smallpox and was buried at sea after the ship reached Honolulu. Another enlisted man fell ill and, with men in different parts of the ship, the vessel is deemed infected. All 1,142 crew must be vaccinated and quarantined for fourteen days, and fumigation ordered under quarantine rules.
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Portland
Ore
Astoria
Sherman
Honolulu
Navy
Cruisers Tested Off California Coast
Rear Admiral Dayton reported Maryland and Weert Virginia conducted four hour full speed trials off the California coast. Maryland averaged 183.1 revolutions per minute and Weert Virginia 131.8. Speeds reached 22.25 and 22.1 knots with a slightly adverse current. Officials deem the machinery work as performing well after three years in commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Dayton
Maryland
California
Weert Virginia
Glever schemes to curb speeders with horn lasso
San Francisco police chief Boggy, longtime Ruef counsel, unveils a new plan to curb speeding. Mounted officers will carry a lasso on the saddle horn to slow speeders, dropping the suspect from the horse if needed. The draft, though described as a deterrent, mirrors previous taunting tactics and aims to enforce traffic discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Franciso
Cal
Boggy
Abe” Ruef
Patrick Again Loses Habeas Corpus Bid for Rice Murder
Albert T. Patrick, jailed in Sing Sing for the murder of Texan millionaire William Rice, saw his habeas corpus petition denied by Judge LaCombe in the U.S. circuit court. He had argued a conspiracy to rob the Rice estate and block enforcement of the will, seeking to overturn his death sentence now commuted to life imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sing
Wiliam Maria Rice
LaCombe
United States Circuit Court
Patrick
Democratic National Committee Hears Denver Plans in Chicago
Members of the Democratic National Committee met at the Sherman House Chicago to finalize Denver convention plans. Attendees included Thomas Taggart Norman Mack Urey Woodson John T McGraw John Dahlman John W Osborne and Roger Sullivan. The next sub committee session will occur in Denver around June 25. The hall will seat 15000 with opera chairs and 303 press seats on platforms to level with the main platform. Swivel chairs will be provided for newspaper representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Committee
Chicago
Democratic National Committee
Denver
Sherman House
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Norman W. Mack
New York
Urey Woodson
Kentucky
John T. McGraw
West Virginia
John Dahlman
Nebraska
John W. Osborne
Wyoming
Roger ©. Sullivan
Illinois
Omaha
Lower Lumber Rates Ordered by Interstate Commerce Commission
The ICC, in an opinion by Commissioner Lane, ruled the 12 cent lumber rate between specified points unreasonable. It directs a rate not exceeding 10 cents per 100 pounds to be applied, reversing a 2 cent increase enacted on February 2, 1903. The decision relates to J. W. Thompson Lumber Co and thirteen other complainants against Illinois Central, Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, and St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
Lane
J. W. Thompson Lumber Company
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
Commission
Florida militia captain charged with railway forgery
Washington D C John C Dalton described as a captain in the Florida state militia was arrested on a complaint by Southern railway officials. He allegedly forged a pass by inserting the name J B Smith and wife and obtained a blank pass. Dalton and his wife were detained at the police station after getting off a Southern train from Jacksonville. Officials also claim interstate commerce law violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
John C. Dalton
Florida
Southern Railway
Dalton
Jacksonville
J. B. Smith
Southern
Uncle Sam Loses 100000 in Missing Registered Mail Pouch
Postal officers in three cities acknowledge a missing registered mail pouch within the Kansas City post office area. Private sources say the pouch contained at least 50000 in currency and many money orders and valuables, with total losses possibly reaching 100000. The $50000 package was thought to be a Los Angeles bank shipment to a New York correspondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
New York
Cal
Kansas City
Postofice Department
Earnings of Shipping Trust shows 1907 earnings rise
The International Mercantile Company publishes its annual report for the year ending December 31 1907. Gross earnings reach 39,266,588 up 2,107,376 from the prior year. Net earnings total 7,024,040 down 979,988. Surplus after interest and taxes is 4,033,731 down 995,023, with 4,000,000 of that applied to depreciation of steamships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Mercantile Company
New York City
Chicago alderman proposes municipal Pasteur Institute for bite victims
A Chicago alderman proposes a city run Pasteur Institute to treat dog bite victims at cost or city expense. Funding would come from dog license fees totaling 61 500 dollars last year. Madrid reports wide Congo river disaster as Ville de Bruges las May sinks after tornado. Four of six European victims were eaten by cannibals and seventy African drownings noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasteur Institute
Chicago
Madrid
Spain
Africa
Congo
Ville de Bruges Las May
Louisiana Prohibition Debate Defeated in Assembly
The Louisiana house defeated the Doussan bill for state wide prohibition with a 58 to 47 vote, halting likely action in both chambers. The Shattuck high license bill passed 82 to 25, setting minimum local and state licenses and boosting yearly state revenue. The measure bans licenses for women, bars women and minors from saloons, forbids barmaids, and imposes strict location and conduct rules with penalties. The fight lacks the cross state crusade element seen elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Cotton Crop Outlook and Flood Devastation in Southern Plains
The Commercial Appeal reports mixed conditions across the cotton belt. Growth is rapid and stands are generally healthy in the east, while Oklahoma, western Arkansas and northern Texas face excessive floods destroying much of the crop and delaying replanting efforts. In southern Texas the crop is well advanced. Tennessee and parts of Mississippi and Alabama show grassy fields in many areas.
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Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Auto Run S Wild Drowning Tragedy In New York City
Four members of a pleasure party of six drowned after an automobile sped along West Fifty sixth street, plunged from an open pier into the North River, and overturned. Victims include Adeline Berdon, 19. Rose Coleman, 23. John Coleman, 27. Virginia Knight, 8. Chauffeur John Bauer swam to safety after being carried into the river. John Nolan leaped free near the dock end as the car neared shore. Bauer was arrested by police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Fifty-sixth Street
North River
Adeline Berdon
Rose Coleman
John Coleman
Virginia Knight
John Bauer
John Nolan
Bauer
Shots at Editor Costly in New Orleans Case
In New Orleans, Iowa, former Police Inspector Edward Whitaker received three months in parish prison and a $100 fine for murderous assault. While inspector, he stormed a newspaper building with detectives and fired two shots at editor Joseph Leque in retaliation for editorials. He resigned soon after the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Edward
Whitaker
Joseph Jleque
Pardons for Powers and Howard end long case
Governors clemency frees Caleb Powers and James Howard who planned and carried out the 1900 plot that killed Senator William Goebel. Powers and Howard, imprisoned for over eight years, depart to Knox County and Louisville with families awaiting them. Governor Willson studied transcripts from four Powers trials and one Howard trial before signing. Crowds react with emotion as the pardons spread nationwide.
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Lexington
Caleb Powers
James Howard
Willam Goebel
Willson
Powers
Georgetown
Howard
Frankfort
Knox County
Louisville
Washington
Wrenkfort
Barbourville
America
Norfolk Florida Torpedo Test Aboard Monitor Florida
A naval torpedo test off Sewall's Point Hampton Roads left the monitor Florida heavily flooded yet afloat. Lieutenant John W. Babcock directed the Morris as a torpedo exploded against the Florida side sending a 50 foot water column skyward. The vessel was towed to Norfolk navy yard for dry dock and inspection to assess damage while an official party dispersed after the dramatic demonstration.
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Norfolk
Florida
Sewall’s Point
Hampton Roads
John W. Babcock
Morris
Norfolk Navy Yard
Charles T. Baldwin
AIDING REVOLUTIONISTS WITH CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
Treasury agents in New York hunt individuals who aided Cuban revolutionaries by shipping 10 000 rounds of ammunition seized by secret service men on the Ward liner Seguranca before it sailed for Santiago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Treasury Department
New York
Santiago
Secret Service
Death of the famed pianist known as Blind Tom
The renowned Black pianist Blind Tom, famed from coast to coast for his musical gifts, died in Hoboken and was buried from the widow Eliza Lerch’s home. He had been enslaved by General James Bethume in Georgia where he first heard a piano and began playing, reportedly dying while playing his beloved Down on the Suwanee River.
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Tom
Hoboken
New York City
Blind Tom
Atlantic
Pacific
Eliza B. Lerch
James Hethume
Georgia
Bethume
Suwanes River
Flood Disaste r Hits Northeastern Louisiana Tenants Seek Shelter
In northeastern Louisiana’s Black River region about 2300 people have lost homes or sheltering inside them as floodwaters rise for weeks. Many occupy second stories or camp on rooflines while improvised drift-wood rafts carry stock and cattle. Swamp fever and privation worsen conditions for white and colored families, with critical shortages of food. Red River levees near Moncla broke in two places, 800 feet wide at the widest, sending floodwater toward the Mississippi River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Black River
Louisiana
Jonesville
Marksville
Red River
Moncla
Mississippi River
Midgets Eloped From Baldwin Miss to Marry Lou Nabors
Richmond to Marietta marriage joins James Burnett Bristol smallest Odd Fellow in America and federal worker with Lou Nabors said to be the souths smallest midget. They eloped after eluding the girl’s bitterly opposed mother. The couple formed an acquaintance from a picture and romance, Burnett part of a trio with even smaller brother and sister.
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Richmond
James Burnett
Bristol
America
Baldwin
Miss
Lou Nabors
South
Marietta
Burnett
No Cut in Salaries in Philippine Appropriation
After extended talks the insular commission and the Philippine assembly agree on a general appropriation bill totaling 16,800,000 pesos. The assembly concedes 1,500,000 pesos. salaries are not cut and bureau consolidations are not adopted. Personnel remain unchanged from last year.
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Manila
P. 1
Insular Commission
Philippine Assembly
Commission
Assembly
Federal camp destroyed by severe storm winds
A powerful wind and rain storm wrecked the federal camp at New York City Pine Plains stretching seven miles. Three thousand tents were blown down, mess shelters leveled, and over a hundred horses stampeded and escaped from their corrals.
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New York City
Pine Plains
National Guardsmen
Prepared for Trouble Marines Ready for Panama Cruise
Secretary Metcalf ordered three battalions of marines on instant readiness for a Panama cruise. Each battalion numbers 411 men, bringing the total marine force to 1,713 with 280 on duty now in the canal zone and more en route. The three battalions will be drawn from Boston New York Philadelphia Norfolk and Washington, with transports to await a call.
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Washington
D. C
Metcalf
Panama
Canal Zone
Philadelphia
Tacoma
Boston
New York
Norfolk
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Pardon Board
Lasso
San Francisco
Uncle Sam
Earnings OF Shipping Trust
Prohibition
Powers and
William Goebel
United States
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