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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
3
A collage of wry notes and quips on medicine money manners and markets. Mentions Mark Twain as a doctor of literature and a jab at an umbrella trust. Sharp asides on doctors prescribing cigarettes and a judge ruling an oyster not a wild animal.
William D. Haywood, defendant in the Steunenberg murder conspiracy trial, walks free after acquittal. Idaho Governor Gooding vows continued prosecution of Moyer Pettibone and others, bail sought for the two defendants, with reactions from Harry Orchard amid national attention.
A mosaic of colonial era reflections notes Virtue as one’s own company and mocks sociability. A Chicago girl’s bottle romance ends in marriage for a farm lad. Berne’s silver bell and a French republic haunting Berne are recalled. Secretary Root remains nearly inaccessible amid public and diplomatic bustle.
After twenty one hours the jury reached a verdict in the trial. The eight to four start, later deadlocked ten to two, gave way at dawn. The foreman delivered the white envelope to the judge. the verdict read amid congratulatory shouts from Haywood's attorneys and the courtroom.
A massive blaze swept seven blocks of Coney Island destroying Tiliou's Steeple Chase park and nearly twenty small hotels. Wind shifted seaward allowing firefighters to save Luna Park and Dreamland. Damage estimated at one million dollars. Three people were injured, including firefighter Gottfried Messerli who is gravely hurt.
In Bialystok Russia the district court sentenced Demyanovitch to eight years hard labor in the mines for his role as leader of the anti Jewish attacks during the June 1906 riots. Four other men received life terms. Witnesses testified Demyanovitch murdered several Jews and assisted in brutal killings at the railroad station where Jews sought refuge, with many wounded and mutilated.
The Semnovsky regiment mutinied during a Czar review at Krasnoye Selo, demanding retirement of Gen Reiman who had helped suppress Moscow's December 1905 uprising with Gen Min. Officials kept quiet amid unrest in the Preobrazhensky units. Four soldiers were arrested after searches and seized papers.
In St. Louis Avanza Amedea Mal Cunberzi Olindo and 11 other Italians say they were held as slaves for 22 months on a Robingonville Mississippi plantation. An interpreter reported an armed guard colony of 12 families on the site, with escape attempts met by gunfire. The case prompted U.S. District Attorney Blodgett to open an investigation into peonage.
In a Friday decision, Justice W H Munger denied a plea by Moling and others to halt a 25 percent cut in express rates. The Nebraska Railway Commission had been ordered to enforce the law, which was found constitutional, and the request for a temporary injunction against enforcement was denied.
The converted yacht Huntress, a Dz 82 ton displacement vessel, is prepared for Missouri naval service. It has been refitted for use by Missouri sailors and is now ready for deployment.
Gov. Johnson returned from the iron range country and Duluth saying conditions are quiet with no current need for state interference. He spoke with Sheriff Bates and parties involved noting workers are sober and orderly despite street parades. He could not predict the strike’s duration or outcome but urged that ships resume once ore can be shipped and mines reopen.
Thousands at the ninth day novena session in St Joseph church heard testimonies of healing. Mary Pierce of Delphi Ind claimed paralysis for four years but left church able to walk unaided. Daisy Lamond of Kankakee said she could read without glasses after 33 years of near blindness. George Neary from Lost Nation and Michael McCormick of Kinsman testified they walked for first time since infancy.
In Little Rock Arkansas, Mrs Anna Lowe enraged by her husband not praising her for saving money on store purchases poured a gallon of coal oil on her head and set it alight. The act occurred before her daughter and relatives who heard the screams, burning Mrs Lowe severely while her husband worked and conducted the family store.
The renowned convent at Oiseaux for aristocratic young women from France and abroad has been shut under a law banning secular instruction. The sisters protested but departed with their pupils after the closure.
Acting Secretary Woodruff states there is no real danger of coal famine in the west and northwest. Geological survey work shows over 60 million acres of land in townships west of South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas contain workable coal, with more than 28 million acres examined. Credits railroads and private holdings for coal deposits and urges a leasing law allowing greater company control beyond 640 acres.
Kansas City sisters Helena Ida and Lida Conley with Wyandotte Indians guard graves in Huron cemetery Kansas City Kansas threatening to shoot anyone who tries to move the bodies. Congress authorized sale of the cemetery and allocation of sale proceeds to remaining Wyandotte members after removing the bodies. The Conleys plan to stay on site day and night to protect their ancestors buried there, claiming royal lineage and pride in the graves of about a hundred ancestors.
A committee of citizens ordered the stars and stripes removed from Ottawa city hall amid a car-nival display. The reception committee favored removal to avoid trouble.
A man in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, gave the name Joe Blotwicky but is believed to be Michael Hydrick, sought for murder in Bellgire, Ohio. He was arrested there Wednesday.
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