Spring surprise in Haywood trial unsettles defense
Evidence shows Orchard denying conversations about Governor Steunenberg while defense presents rogues gallery photos and testimony from Mrs. Mary J. King in Cripple Creek. The trial unfolds with accusations, denials, and new alibis as jurors inspect pictures and hear defense witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Federation of Miners
Idaho
Orchard
Eliott
Steunenberg
D. C. Copley
Richardson
San Francisco
Fred Bradley
Bradley
Copley
Coeur d’Alene
Charles A. Sullivan
Cripple Creek
Sullivan
Fred Hough
Wallace
James Rainey
Lottie Day
Denver
Stounenberg
Mwood
Reard
Salt Lake City
Andy
Peter Christian-sen
Windiator Mine
Joe Scholtz
Schultz
Debates Begin Over Harry Orchard Bomb Report in Boise Trial
In San Francisco on June 25 depositions started to challenge Orchard’s Boise trial account of placing a bomb before F. W. Bradley’s door on Washington street near Leavenworth. W. N. Linforth, owner of the building and holder of a $10,000 gas-damage judgment, led the testimony. He said gas leaks were found later and gas melted prior to the explosion, with corroboration from Mrs. Richard and Mrs. Cumming who lived in a flat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Harry Orchard
Boise
F. W. Bradley
Washington Street
Leavenworth
W. N.linforth
Linforth
Richard
Cumming
Board Chooses Steam Power After Bid Review
The board discussed bids for engines and abandoned gas or oil power due to high costs. Steam engines will be adopted as the practical option within budget. gas and oil engines showed promise but were too expensive. If gas and oil engines prove feasible, the board may revisit the choice.
Construction bids and boiler proposals for public works
C. L. Ohis Construction Co Fort Wayne Pole bids range from 45 136.58 to 49 390.68 for electrical and underground work including transformers and public buildings connections. Sterling Consolidated Boiler Co Chicago submits two boiler proposals 14 592 and 15 025 with 2 680 extra for super heaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ricard Boiler and Engine Company
Toledo
Oldberger
St. Louis
M. Jones Company
Thompson Sons Mfg. Company
Beloit
American Deisel Engineering Company
New York
Western Electric Company
Chicago
Westinghouse Electrical Company
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Machine Company
Westinghouse
Fort Wayne Company
Electrical Steam and Engineering Works
McBride Electrical Co
St. Paul
C. L.ohis Construction Co
Fort Wayne
Pole
Sterling Consolidated Boiler Co
Bass Foundry cites discrimination in Fort Wayne bid rejection
The Bass Foundry and Machine Co. says it was discriminated against in city specs for a municipal electric light plant. It refused to bid, alleging the specifications excluded them as a standard equipment builder and asked the mayor and Board of Public Works to consider their explanation. The letter is signed by George T. Ladd, mechanical engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Board of Works
Hosey
Ford
F. S. Hunting
F. Bissell Company
Toledo
Sterling Consolidated Boiler Company
Chicago
Bass Works
Bass Foundry and Machine Works
Board of Public Works
Indiana
Ind
Bass Foundry & Machine Co
George T. Ladd
Death Sign Weighs on Italian Kidnap Case in New York
In Judge O’Sullivan’s court the Black Hand influence surfaces again as Rosina Martinese, wife of Pietro Pampineilla, faints and then refuses to confess. She is later removed to the Tombs after insisting she knows nothing and will say no more. Investigators seek Mimi San Filipo, alleged leader of the gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Black Hand Organization
Mimi San Fillipo
O’connor
Fillipo
Lieut. Petrosino
O’sullivan
Miraculous Escape After Lafayette Street Collapse
A building collapse on Lafayette Street killed none but injured many as residents fled in night clothes. Firefighters freed George Torchino after a wall fell and a wooden roof section shielded him. Torchino’s parents were later rescued alive, while Battalion Chief Galvin and another firefighter suffered injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette Street
George Torchino
Galvin
Torchino
Arkansas banker dead at 40 in Fort Smith
Fort Smith Arkansas June 26 R W Ab bott president of the American National bank of the city and a leading timber owner died today from heart failure at age 40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Smith
Ark
R. Abbott
American National Bank
Great strike averted as telegraphers reach settlement
New York reports an agreement between Western Union Telegraph Company and its operators after talks with labor commissioner Neill. Colonel Clowry sent a letter outlining the company stance, confirming no discrimination, maintained salaries, and a backup arbitration option. Union leaders accepted the letter as a concession except for the eight hour day and typing aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Neill
Western Union Telegraph Company
Colonel Clowry
Western Union
Clowry
Mr. Clowry
Mr. Neill
Telegraph Company
Interstate Commerce Commissioner of Labor
Western Unicon Telegraph
Lberty
R.c.clowry
Executive Council
Man Falls From Window at Boss Manufacturing Building
George Weber of 2218 John Street toppled from a second floor window at Boss Manufacturing on Wallace Street. He lost balance Monday afternoon, was found unconscious but not severely hurt, and was taken home for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Weber
John Street
Boss Manufacturing Company
Wallace Street
Bookmaker Ayers Killed By Interurban Car In Seattle
William M. Ayers of Portland a famed western bookmaker was killed by an interurban streetcar as he left the Seattle racetrack. He was 58 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
William M. Ayers
Portland, Ore
West
Partial confession in child death case from West Chester
Irwin Lewis, Mary Nowlin's stepfather, admits to a partial confession to the district attorney. He contends the five year old girl died accidentally and he buried her remains in a yard pit under burlap and a tied cord, covered with barnyard refuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Chester
Subjects of the Czar Issue Strong Appeal to Continue Struggle
In St. Petersburg on June 25 139 deputies of the social revolutionist group and the Group of Toil issued manifestoes urging the people to press for land liberty and representation by force. They attack the emperor by name citing breach of faith and condemn the new election law as favoring landowners and merchants while disenfranchising peasants and workers. The texts declare parliament dissolved to serve aristocrats and call for organized struggle to win rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Social Revolutionists
Dumn
Agrarian Commission
Duma
Winter Palace
Siberia
Caucasus
Poland
Constitutional Democrats
Fort Wayne Birds Enter Inter-City Homing Flight
Fort Wayne pigeons joined flights from Springfield Missouri to Fort Wayne as 96 birds were released Sunday. The Ben Mariotte loft bird led at 1:44 PM, followed by Herbert Minser’s at 2:30, Dr John Schilling’s at 3, and another Mariotte bird at 8:40 PM. Only four birds arrived Monday amid teams from Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Columbus Detroit and Toledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Springfield
Ill
Chicago
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Columbus
Detroit
Toledo
Ben Mariotte
Herbert Minser
John “E¢Hilling
Mariotte
American Opticians Meet in Kansas City Convention Opens
The American Association of Opticians holds its annual session in Kansas City Missouri with over 300 delegates from across the United States attending the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Association ‘of Opticians
Tragic Lake Drowning in Bridgeton Deepens Mystery
Miss Mary Vennell died during a lake voyage with George Evans near Piney Point when their steel boat sank. Evans claimed he freed himself after she screamed, but she was found in four feet of water with bruises and facial cuts. Police pursue leads as bystanders watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeton
N. J
Mary Vennell
Sunset Lake
George Evans
Evans
Miss Vennell
Piney Point
Pittsburg Scandal Man Arrested After Bank Office Shooting
Major T Lemuel Harper secretary of the Americas Republican club and former steel mill official was held for court on felonious shooting with intent to kill after firing three times at Levi De Wolf in De Wolf s office in the Columbia bank building. Bail set at 2000. De Wolf testified Harper entered and fired. bullets lodged in ceiling and walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
T. Lemuel Harper
Americas Republican Club
American Steel Hoop Company
Levi de Wolf
de Wolf
Harper
Americas Club
Columbia Bank
Central Police Station
Ridgway
Department of Public Safety
Pittsbury
Americus Club
Major Harper
W. A. Magee
Broker Adams
DeWolf
Adams
Louis Miller
Central Police
Penn Avenue
McQuaid
Death's Summons Comes to Mrs Eliza Hartman
Mrs. Eliza Hartman 63, widow of Lem A Hartman, a Fort Wayne church and Sunday school figure, died at Lutheran hospital after a weeks long illness. Born Navarre Ohio May 10 1844 she moved to Fort Wayne in 1860 and taught in county schools. She long served Wayne Street M E church and Sunday school, organizing the Woman's Bible study over twenty five years ago and keeping a daily class record of more than five hundred names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Hartman
Lem A. Hartman
Fort Wayne
Lutheran Hospital
Hartman
Bright
Wayne Street
Philip Harter
Fo Wayne
Aboll Township
Lemuel R. Hartman
First National Bank
Fred S. Hartman
Milwaukee
Lee Hartman
New York
Harris Hartman
Frank Hartman
William Harter
Hicksville
Elizabeth Kesler
Robinson
Sarah Weever
Alfred Harter
H. C. Winch
M. E. Church
Improbable Beating Tale Clarified in City Court
Leon Wheeler told a highly improbable story of a brutal beating by Harvey Davis on Chicago Street. The tale failed to prove its claims under cross examination, and Wheeler was acquitted. Other court actions included Louis Waldschmidt fined five dollars and jailed thirty days for stealing trousers, and several men fined one dollar for intoxication. An agency from Bass foundry paid fines to take the men to work, while John Marquette was acquitted of assaulting Dygert Cole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Wheeler
Harvey Davis
Chicago
Wheeler
Davis
Louis Waldschmidt
Adam Neumeyer
Wayne Trace
Bunker Ward
Charles Orr
August Ruth
James Carlin
Charles Keeley
Ward
Orr
Ruth
Bass Foundry
John Marquette
Dygert Cole
Young Cole
Marquette
Cole
John Morris
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Haywood
Electrical and Steam Engineering Company
Joseph McWilliams Company
Louisville
Olds Construction Company
Fort Wayne Electric Works
General Electrical Equipment
Moellering Construction Company
Spy Run
B. Borkenstein
W. Nassenstein
Fort Wayre
H. Hilgemann
Alphonse Custem
Adams-Bagnall Company
Cleveland
Ryan Construction Company
Indianapolis
Candy Sale
Gunther
Arkansas
Phoenix Lodge
Fort Wayne Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Pythian
Washington Boulevard
J. W. Wilson
Robert Garmeyer
John Coapstick
Arma
Harry France
Preston Arnold
William P. Bidwell
Henry N. Bates
Charles Hearts
Frank Civits
Irwin Lewis
Czar
Fort Wayne Birds
Opticians
Grace Brown
New Jersey
Wert
Bea
Iest
Death
Tancey
Thomas Sweet
Julia Buker
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