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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1907
Page
2
At Atlanta a national Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen session adopts a resolution attacking Speaker Cannon over labor policy and Cannon's bid for reelection. The note follows a week of varied labor, business, and crime items across the nation.
Yellow fever case found in Havana marking a second case this year. Uruguay Senate passes bill abolishing the death penalty in the army. Judge George Gray resigns from Mutual Life board. FE Sothern and Julia Marlowe to tour under Lee Shubert. West Wisconsin conference moves meeting from Ashland to La Crosse. Ammonia explosions at Armour plant in Chicago cause five deaths and twelve injuries, total twenty fatalities. General Luke Wright resigns as ambassador to Japan amid Japanese regret. James Hargis acquitted of murder in Lexington. London music hall owner rejects offer of weekly salary from Favelyn Thaw. Mrs. William McKinles paralytic. outlook poor. 25 to 2 per hour wage scale imposed by United Railroads in San Francisco. Harvey Niponsen dies from Akron collision injuries. United States Steel accused of producing imperfect rails. Louisville and Nashville and Big Four agree on Terre Haute coke rates. Terre Haute case before ICC settled. Scrugham to stand trial for conspiracy.
The opening sessions of the 119th Presbyterian General Assembly at Memorial Hall Columbus Ohio featured Rev Dr Ira Landrith delivering a sermon urging church union with the Southern Presbyterians. Rev William St Roberts of Philadelphia elected moderator by acclamation as delegates exceed 900 with thousands watching.
San Francisco Mayor Schmitz resigns real powers to a seven member committee of major city organizations amid a grand jury probe into a $200,000 United Railroads bribery fund. Abe Ruef testified he took $61,000 with $50,000 traced to Schmitz, while various officials received fixed sums. Separate notes report Norman Bowie’s capture, painter George B. Butler’s death, fatal ore mine accident in Riddlesburg, and Graham Paper warehouse fire damages.
A deliberate attempt to wreck Southern Pacific Coast Line Limited No. 20 near West Glendale caused a deadly train crash. At an Arroyo Seco trestle the south bound rails were sabotaged with removed fishplates and wires pulling rails outward. The train traveling 35 to 40 mph plunged six to sixteen feet, killing one and injuring twenty two.
In Reidsville Georgia a mob attacked a house seeking a colored suspect. Fire erupted killing one white man and several colored residents, including a 10 year old girl and a woman among others. Prisoners were seized and subjected to a chaotic escape attempt.
More than a hundred U S families have settled along Mexico's northern border over the last month, living on haciendas as new neighbors to Mexican families. The shift from colonization to individual farming proves successful with cotton promising high profits as Americans teach Mexican methods and adapt to local conditions.
Secretary Taft upholds current Panama canal wages and hours for steam shovel men and construction train crews. Engineers, cranesmen, and fremen see proposed increases. Taft notes benefits such as year round work, paid leave, lodging, and free medical care. He approves a 3 percent yearly raise for skilled workers and a new committee for final layoff decisions.
A Sydney dispatch reports a hurricane and tidal wave sweeping the Caroline Islands causing immense property damage and about 200 deaths. The islands are German possessions with around 500 coral islets in the Pacific. L oblique notes about regional demographics and trade appear. mentions copra exports. Francis Emory Warren, Wyoming senator designate, is described as a former Massachusetts private and prominent stock raiser.
A wacky collage notes Ellen Terry as a bride, jokes about May Day pageantry, and a mock survey of 1900s topics. It mentions ship weather, Central America assassins, French meat inspection by microscope, a Hoboken divorce case on doughnuts, Abe Ruef and San Francisco trials, urban growth, gardening as luxury, and Peary’s polar expedition lacking funds.
A Russian terror spree leaves fifteen workers dead at Kutiner's spinning mill in Lodz while Cossacks avenge comrades by firing on the factory area. Robberies in Warsi and Terrioki unfold as terrorists steal cash and clash with guards. Suspects tied to a doomed Tsar assassination plot are jailed and investigated.
Isaac Stephenson of Marinette won the Wisconsin Republican nomination for United States Senator on the first ballot Thursday night amid dramatic scenes. Assemblyman Goldsworthy pledged his vote to Hatten earlier, then switched to Stephenson as the room erupted in applause. Stephenson, a self-made man born into poverty, is reputedly the wealthiest Wisconsin resident and a liberal donor to colleges, Marinette, and churches.
A DVD collector jokes with a poet about art and time as the man with the bills wins the eleventh Portrait painter. The exchange ends with the poet’s servant-like hurry to produce the needed art, and the collector threatens an attachment writ next visit.
An assorted advertorial bundle promotes kidney cure claims for Toan's Kidney Pills by John oC Coleman of Swansboro Ga. It includes testimonials about backache relief from Dean's Kidney Pills and various health products from Garfield Tea Co. and Allen's Foot-Ease, with pricing and distributor notes.
The Atlantic section of the Council of Jewish Women leaves United Charities to operate independently. Cleveland plans to host the Catholic Total Abstinence Union national convention next August. Van Ogden Vogt resigns as general secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor to join the Presbyterian board of foreign missions. Dr. Francis E. Clark tours the West Indies and Latin America for the Endeavor movement. The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon resigns from Metropolitan Temple London due to ill health, succeeding his father in 1892. Westminster declines a memorial to Herbert Spencer as unorthodox. The federal government will staff four canal zone buildings as YMCA men’s clubs for Panama workers, with four more to be built. Dr. George B. Stokes will assist Dr. Edward M. Taylor in New England duties until health permits a full return.
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