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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1908
Page
2
Partial readable text shows a May date for a convention, with votes on whether to proceed and support of Mayor Tom. It mentions auditorium meetings, a platform, a state ticket, and delegates-at-large to the convention. Melville area references appear with Goodele Parks noted in the session context.
Rain hindered the search for bodies at the New Avalon hotel in Fort Wayne Indiana. Eleven names were listed as missing with none recovered since morning. Auburn attorney Frank C Baxter was identified among the dead. two bodies were claimed by friends. E M Matthews of Fort Wayne and other locals were reported hospitalized or unaccounted for as efforts continued.
The Idaho state board of pardons meets today to decide the fate of Harry Orchard alias Harry Horsely who awaits possible execution for the murder of former Governor Steinenberg after the dynamite bombing. Judge Wood who sentenced him has urged clemency citing help to the state in the failed prosecution. Orchard's lawyers pressed for mercy, while officials and supporters weigh commutation.
May 6. Governor announces he will file pardon applications for Cryep and James Howard amid ongoing debate over their alleged complicity in the Goebel assassination. Rumors persist and supporters question why clemency has not yet been granted while petitions flood in from three Americas.
Senate debate over the Brownsville affray lasts more than four hours as Senator Bulkeley defends the Twenty-fifth regiment and criticizes outsiders. House overrules committee on sundry civil appropriations, adding 260000 to the bill including funds for gauging streams heating structural materials and coal testing. Senate also passes a resolution to appropriate 250000 to aid cyclone victims in Alabama Georgia Mississippi and Louisiana.
A writ of habeas corpus leads to Harry K Thaw staying in Dutchess County Jail pending a sanity hearing due next Monday. Nyolyn Nesbit Thaw may testify for her husband. In Philadelphia delegates seek authoritative interpretation of the open pulpit canon amid resignations at St. Elizabeth’s. Fire bosses in Pittsburg form a union with United Mine Workers to push for uniform conditions and higher pay. The Chinese boycott of Japan prompts two Canton youths to take their own lives over Japanese imports. Grover Cleveland improves steadily in Lakewood. Charles C Clapp reports a cave in Mexico with about 200 skeletal remains of tall men, likely an ancient race.
A heavily garbled OCR recap of Chicago Board of Trade quotes and market items dated September. It references the Southern Railway, Pressed Steel Car, Republic Iron, and Wabash lines among others, with scattered numbers and percentages. The readable fragments hint at closing quotations and market items from 1029 and 35 percent, but the text is incomplete and lacks coherent narrative.
Fragmented standings show New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and others in the race. Tomorrow’s schedule features Cleveland at Chicago, New York at Boston, Philadelphia at Washington, with multiple clubs vying for position in the standings.
Lisbon May 5 government completes inquiry into February assassination of King Carlos and crown prince. Conspiracy implicated many officials, no prosecutions planned. King Manuel to grant general amnesty at oath of office, but only for offences up to that point. Debts to crown treasury may be canceled due to royal finances. Also reports on racial demographics in US, a fatal elevator decapitation in New York, and mixed weather and market notes from Chicago and regional agricultural markets.
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