Harrowing Lighthouse Keeper Tale of Ice Prison and Death
Joe Berner, seven days aboard the Toledo harbor lighthouse, escaped with Captain Delos Hayden’s body after a perilous vigil beside the dying man. He faced treacherous ice, open water, and near drownings as he waited for a safe break to reach shore. Hayden died in arms amid the perilous vigil.
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Toledo
Toledo Harbor
Delos Hayden
Joe Berner
Hayden
Hernor
Berner
Fleet Movements Spar Over Suez and Australian Visit
Secretary Metcalf announced an invitation from Australia for the American battle fleet to visit, with Secretary Root’s reply indicating future movements after San Francisco. He declined to commit to a return via Suez but noted it is possible some ships could go by the Australian route.
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Washington
Metcalf
Root
San Francisco
Suez
Maryland sets world marks in target practice at Magdalena Bay
The Maryland achieved two world records at Magdalena bay with three men and six inch guns. In the three inch gun event the crew fired 18.65 shots per minute and achieved 14.65 hits per minute, a flawless 1,000 percent record. In the six inch gun contest the Maryland gunners led with an average 4.4 percent of a possible 10.76.
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San Francisco
Magdalena Bay
Maryland
Lilley Sets Grievances Against Electric Boat Methods
Representative Lilley of Connecticut demands a Navy Affairs inquiry into Electric Boat tactics to influence selection of submarines. He predicts eight or more substantial grounds for his charges and hopes for favorable committee reporting to the house.
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Wolatington
Lilley
Connecticut
Electric Boat Company
House Committee On Navil Affairs
Committee On Rules
House
Railroads to boost operator force under federal nine hour law
In Topeka on Friday the Rock Island and Santa Fe railroads announced plans to increase operator numbers to meet the new federal nine hour work law. Rock Island will raise staff in the southwestern district by fifty six pending approval from Chicago. Santa Fe officials in the eastern grand division also decided on an increase after a meeting last week.
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Topeka
Kans
Rock Island
Santa Fe
South Western
Ffty-Six
Chicago
Eastern Grand Division
Society Woman Asphyxiated in New York
Mrs. William Prowditt Burden nee Natha Kives, daughter of Mrs. O H P Belmont and a noted society figure in New York Newport and Washington, was found dead in her Fifth Avenue home. The coroner ruled death accidental from gas poisoning caused by a disconnected gas tube from a chandelier to a drop light, which released gas while she was propped in bed.
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New York
William Prowditt Burden
Natha Kives
O. H. P. Belmont
Newport
Washington
Fifth Avenue
Priest slain at altar in Denver church
Denver reports Father Leo Heinrichs was shot during early Mass at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church by Giuseppe Guarnaccio. The Italian anarchist, captured after a chase, declared no remorse and said he targeted priests as enemies of workers. Heinrichs was beloved by his parishioners.
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Heinrichs
Denver
Leo Heinrichs
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church
Curtis Streets
Guiseppe Guarnacelo
Man of God
Leo
Guarnaccio
Leopold Again In Hot Water Over Congo Annexation
Brussels reports that King Leopold retracted promises on Congo Free State governance and seeks control of a special fund plus 50 million dollars for projects. The government resists, threatening resignation and potential elections likely to yield a majority hostile to the king.
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Brussels
Belgium
Congo Free State
Leopold
T Lo
United States Declares Non-Interference in Manchurian Affairs
The state department stated on Saturday no official reports or protests have been received about Japanese commercial aggression in Manchuria and no action will be taken by the American government at this time or when the battleship fleet reaches its destination.
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Washington
State Department
Manchuria
Japan
Crime of Insane Woman in Denver
Bodies of Mrs Mary B Nixon aged 60 her daughter Mrs E N Canter aged 35 and the 12 year old son of the latter were found in their cottage. A cloth pressed over mouth and nose suggests death by chloroform or ether. Mrs Canter, reportedly mentally deranged, is thought to be the principal actor. The trio had been dead about a week before discovery by neighbors.
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Denver
Mra
Mary B. Nixon
Mra. E. N. Canter
Mach
Mre. Canter
Abe
Nighbors
Rear End Collision Kills Rose Clancey and Injures Fifteen in Cambridge
In Cambridge a rear end crash between interurban cars killed Rose Clancey and injured fifteen others. Motorman Robert Allison, Conductor McQuilen, and Catherine Clancey, sister of Rose, were among the injured. The Interurban car had just curved onto a short trestle when the rear car struck the forward car after a crash between the two trains.
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Cambridge
Rose Clancy
Robert Allison
McQuilen
Catherine Clancey
Rose Clancey
Blood May Yet Flow in Streets of Lisbon
Lisbon tightens order amid critical government crisis. Soldiers kept in barracks as authorities fear unrest from Wheatley protests and reactionary plots. A prominent anti-reaction figure is exiled to the Azores while plans consider delaying April elections and recalling dissolved parliament. Zaire gunboat sent to Setubal.
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Lisbon
Perjury Recanted in Bohemian Fortune Teller Murder Case
Eighteen year old Jerry M. V. Veral says his testimony against Herman Bilik, sentenced to be hanged March 20, was perjury taught by a police official and an assistant state's attorney. He claims two relatives fled and that vital testimony was false under oath. The supreme court affirmed the judgment. governor may grant a pardon.
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Chicago
Jerry M. V. Veral
Herman Bilik
Veral
Billik
Supreme Court
Deneen
Spy Ensign Alimo Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
Toulon France Charles B Alimo an ensign in the French navy was found guilty by a court martial of attempting to sell naval secrets to a foreign power. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in a fortress and to degradation from his rank. The court declared he had abstracted state security documents and communicated them abroad but did not actually dispose of the papers.
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Toulon
France
Charles B. Alimo
Ullmo
Woman accuses husband of murder and surrenders him in hotel
In Los Angeles at the Hotel Catalina Mia EB Frazier denounced her husband as a murderer and turned him over to police. She claimed Frazier killed someone in Indianapolis four years earlier. Detectives cuffed him and placed him in jail. no further details about the crime were obtained.
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Los Angeles
Catalina
Mia
Frazier
Indianapolis
Black Hand Threat to Blow Up Powder Magazine
A letter signed Black Hand sent to Commander Hraunsrueter at the U S naval magazine on Iona Island threatens blasting three million pounds of smokeless powder unless married men discharged by January 1 1908 are rehired.
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New York
Hraunsrueter
United States Naval
Iona Island
Blood Poisoning Linked to Licking Stamps in Norfolk
Miss Myra Silvervale of Norfolk Connecticut, a former Norfolk post office assistant, suffers a painful tongue disease believed to have been caused by contact with postage stamps. Doctors at the Norfolk hospital are at a loss to explain the condition but think stamping materials caused poisoning.
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New York
Myra Silvervale
Norfolk
Conn
All for Love of an Actress Ends in Suicide Attempt
Frederick J. Brin nier of Kingston New York presented as son of William frionier a former partner of Al ton B Parker of New York and shot himself in a Philadelphia hotel Sunday He arrived a week earlier and registered at a hotel favored by theatrical people He said he followed an actress who left with her company Brinnier is in critical condition.
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Philadelphia
Frederick J. Brinnier
William Frionier
Alton B. Parker
New York
Kingston
N. Y
Brinnier
Brinley
Blizzard Strikes Central West Stalling Traffic Across Regions
A major blizzard paralyzed Chicago surface and suburban lines and blocked downtown traffic. Waukegan harbor wreckage of the Anspach killed two crewmen with six others saved. Milwaukee, Des Moines, Omaha, Detroit, Topeka and Jewell County report heavy snow, high winds, and travel disruptions across multiple states.
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Chicago
Waukegan
Eix
Neta
Lake Michigan
Oliver Rubler
Milwaukee
Wis
Des Moines
Towa
Omaha
Neb
Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Topeka
Kans
Kanvas
Jewell
Stoesse! Accepts Blame for Port Arthur Surrender
In St Petersburg the trial of Lieutenant General Stoesse ends with the accused taking full blame for Port Arthur's surrender. He asks for the death sentence if the court finds the surrender a crime, delivering his final remarks in a firm voice.
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St. Petersburg
Stoesse
Port Arthur
Pennsylvania Woman Dies Trying to Save Grandchild
In York Pennsylvania a fire at the home of Isaac Herrington agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad caused two deaths. Mrs Herrington reentered the burning house to rescue a grandchild who slept inside and both perished from smoke inhalation. The fire started when Herrington briefly left to fetch water.
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York
Tweeday
Isaac Herrington
Pennsylvanian Railroad
Herrington
Prosecute Land Grant Railroads In Oregon Washington
A Senate joint resolution seeks to authorize the attorney general to prosecute land grant railroads in Oregon and Washington for noncompliance with grant terms. It urges selling land in tracts not exceeding 160 acres at a price not over 2.50 per acre. The measure, from the judiciary committee via Senator Fulton, was placed on the calendar for immediate consideration.
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Washington
Congress
Oregon
Senate
Committee On Judiciary
Genator Fulton
Borah Bill Fails to Bar Law Fees in Federal Actions
The senate rejected Senator Borahs amendment to the code bill banning senators and congressmen from taking fees as attorneys in any case involving U S interests. No record vote was taken. A small group including Burkett Brown Dixon Bourne LaFollette Clark Bacon Stevenson and Richardson supported Borah. Borah plans another bill on the same aim.
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Washington
Senate
Borah
United States
Burkett
Brown
Dixon
Bourne
LaFollette
Clark
Arkansas
Bacon
Stevenson
Richardson
Governor Johnson Rise to National Prominence Highlighted
A country editor profile describes John A. Johnson of Minnesota as an self-made Democrat whose ascent followed early poverty and work. The piece credits Henry Watterson for boosting his national profile and notes Johnson’s rise from editor to state senator and then governor with a large 1906 plurality, portraying him as tall with blue eyes and a imposing, if not eloquent, speaking style.
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Chicago
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Johnson
United States
Bryan
White House
Gov. Johnson
Henry Watterson
Roosevelt
Col. Watterson
Alleghanies
Ohio
St. Peter, Minn
John
St. Peter
Cleveland
Politico
State Senate
Senate
Republican National
R. ©. Dunn
Parker
Dunn
Johnsoo
Gov
Ironwork craft blooms at Thornham village shop
About 13 years ago Mrs. Ames Lyde started an evening ironwork class in Thornham England with help from Elsum and a London teacher. The first royal order came from Sandringham for a lamp, produced in a single forge shop. The Thornham works gained royal and noble orders, with lamps and casements for Balmoral York Cottage and Sandringham, and garden grills praised as framed garden views.
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London
Ames
Lyde
Elsum
Ames Lyte
Home Arts
Thornham
England
Sandringham
Queen Victoria
Princess of Wales
Duchess of York
Balmoral
York Cottage
Princess Charles of
Denmark
Dighton Probyn
Park House
Garden Walla
Dose of His Own Medicine on Navy Anecdote
A humorous naval anecdote recounts a ship doctor forcing heavy doses of nauseating liquid on a patient, causing crew disdain. The tale ends with a sailor falling overboard during rough seas and a captain asking the cause, answered with a witty remark about the doctor. The source is a quarrel between humor and maritime life from the New York Press.
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New York
Iriahman's Rise and a Post Office Mixup
A Penny Pictorial tale recounts a new clerk misplacing stamps on a London and a foreign letter. The manager notes the error, but the clerk corrects it within a minute by changing the addresses at the post office.
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Saya
London
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