Events of the Week Highlight Disputes, Deaths, and Accidents
Reports from various cities recount youths refusing to work, a plaster accident blinding a man, and the death of Nelson Morr in the city. Judge Buiter sentences Dr Benjamin Holbrook for robbing schools and stations. A fatal shooting in Dakota County follows a family dispute, and a Philadelphia officer is fatally shot but returns to report the incident before dying. An Omaha safety incident and a streetcar accident near North La Crosse are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhultz
William Larchwood
Winona
Mina
Nelson Morr
Gustavus
Swift
Michael Cudahy
Michael
Michael Brennan
Brennan
Dakota County
George Schuman
Philadelphia
Reading
South Doethlchem
Schuman
Tie
Valley
John & Js
Chicago Big Packers
Philip D. Armour
Hss
Han
Rai
Ing
Chive Iwo
Notable Miscellany From Eastern News Traditions
A wide mix of reports includes horseman Robert Tucker racing Saratoga fortunes for forty hours and winning $3,000. Dr Allan McLane Hamilton affirms Mrs Mary Baker Eddy’s sanity. A Lang’s docks boiler explosion kills engineer M Hopkins and six others. A Pa double murder attributed to the Black Hand shocks Coaldale. Other items cover Yale Society fire at Sachem house, a Philadelphia forgery arrest, tug Gerry sunk near Sparrows Point, and a Niagara Falls era legend of Blondin living in Connecticut. A Carnegie mill blast at Homestead claims workers dead or missing. State events include bar association debate, and several accidents, burns, and rescues at hospitals and streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Tucker
Saratoga
Allan McLane Hamilton
New York
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Patterson
Boston
Lang's
Hoboken
M. Hopkins
Sachem
Yale-Sheffield Senior Society
New Haven
Conn
Werman G. Staden
Edwin Starrington
West Cheshire
London
FE. W. Vanderbilt
Hamilton
Ton
Elihu Aootematics
Natural Sci College
Clin N.Y
America
Philadelphia
Carnegie Steel Company
Homestead
John Kramski
John Postow
Michael Salenkie
John Gross
Agnes Lake
Jersey
Coty
Relati
Juterborough Metropolitan Company
Traction Combination
Public-Service Commission
Athens
N. Y
Susquehanna Street
Bessie Park
Jeannette
Various Disparate News Nuggets From Around The Nation
A collage of early 20th century items includes a tobacco incident in Kentucky, projected U.S. population comparisons by Lord Strathcona, a fatality at a Maryland farm, a missing Brooklyn teacher found in a New Jersey lake, a tumult at a New York board meeting, mutiny concerns aboard a U S cruiser in Honolulu, a fire at a Western Union office in Kansas, a suicide linked to Osler theory in California, industrial accident injuries at Paterson, a timber camp explosion near Colorado Springs, a Colorado passenger scare from a dynamite prank, a bank embezzlement arrest in Kansas City tied to a 1906 Iowa collapse, and a fugitive cashier hiding in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uys
Henry Crouc
Tonville
Lord Strathcona
New York
Canada
United States
Hiayette Farm
Ingerstown
Agnes Maguire
Nolan
Western Union Telegraph Company
Arkansas City
Kan
Edward Hart Jewett
Manhattan Beach
Los Angeles
Cal
Osler
Colorado Springs
Cripple Creek
St. Peters Dome
Colo
W. A. Farren
M. D. W. Adams
Farmers’ Bank
Clearfield
Iowa
Kansas City
Taylor
Farren
Adams
Notable Chicago killing and series of rail incidents
In Chicago Charles IK Andrews of Elkhart kills Indaithel Blaine of Logansport in a Saratoga Hotel room and then dies by suicide. Reuben Wilson and John Robinson of Duluth are freed from captivity after being held for three hours on a rural road near city limits. A nitroglycerin blast at Sobrante near Berkeley injures several near a powder works. An attack at a Cleveland amusement resort injures the tamer and bystanders. A Toledo truck storage fire causes major damage to a building used by International Harvester. A derailed box car leads to a fatal and injurious wreck near Mt Laws. A Missouri Pacific runaway causes a derailment with five men on a hand car. A Denver and Rio Grande wreck near Fernleaf injures twenty, including Alice Coleman and D D Sturgis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles IK. Andrews
Elkhart
Ind
Indaithel Blaine
Logansport
Saratoga
Chicago
Reuben Wilson
John Robinson
Duluth
Minn
Dupont de Nemoures
Sobrante
Bay Shore
Berkeley
Cal
Cleveland
Akereton
Toledo
Hie
International Harvester Company
Ous
Ranaway
Web
Mt. Laws
Missouri Pacific Railway
Denver and Rio Grande
Fernleaf
Pueblo
Colo
Alice §. Coleman
A.a Arbor
Mich
D. D. Sturgis
G. O. Greiner
Evansville
Southern. Maddox Dies From Sailors Fight Injuries
Thomas F. Maddox chief master at arms of the battleship Maine died in Fort Monroe hospital from stab wounds after a sailors' fight at Phoebus Virginia in which Garrett Walsh was killed. Suit filed in Fifty third district Austin Texas to oust International Harvester from Texas for alleged anti trust violations and to collect 1109150 dollars. Twenty one per cent of them seriously injured as a result of a train derailment near Red Hill Virginia nine miles south of Charlottesville. Gov Comer of Alabama pledges 14 cent passenger fares and state freight rates despite possible legislative actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Maddox
Maine
Fort Monroe
Phoebus
Garrett Walsh
Austin
Texas
International Harvester Company of America
Southern Railway
Red Hill
Charlottesville
Government to start weekly deposits to ease crop season funds
Secretary Cortelyou will begin weekly deposits of government funds to relieve market strain during the crop moving season. A compromise between the President and congressional leaders calls for an army pay raise without increasing force size. The plan, approved by the President, will be introduced in the Senate by Senator Pick and in the House by Representative Capron next session to enact the agreed terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cortelyou
Congress
Senate
Senator Pick
Ohio
House
Capron
Rhode Island
Coxey army to demand public ownership of utilities
The Coxey movement plans a peaceful protest for municipal and state ownership of public utilities with a well funded, first class rail journey. The Chicago and Alton railroad transfer to Clover Leaf control shifts power among major interests and spurs government complaints. Panama Canal funding woes trigger massive layoffs on the new Panama line while municipal engineers face further cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coxey Army
Coxey
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Edward Stanley
I. VW
Harriman
Rock Island
Panama Canal
Panama
Department of Municipal Engineering
Union Urges Government Takeover of Telegraph Lines
President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers Union calls for U S and Canadian control of Western Union and Postal Telegraph networks. Aimed at government ownership, the drive seeks a $2,000,000 fund for strike support and lobbying, with Congress to investigate company conduct and a postal telegraph bill under consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
United States
Canada
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Washington
Neill
Samuel Smith
Michigan
Post Office Department
Smith
Nelson Morris Dies Pioneer Chicago Packer and Millionaire
Nelson Morris a pioneer Chicago packer and multimillionaire died Tuesday after a heart and kidney ailment. Born January 7 1840 in the Black Forest Germany he came to America as a youth walking from New York to Chicago to work in stockyards. He rose from humble beginnings to build a leading packing empire supplying beef to the army and exporting cattle to Europe with contracts in France England and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pruises Way
Nelson Morris
Philip D. Armour
Gustavus ¥. Swift
Michael Cudahy
Pioneers
Mgr. Morris
Bor
Black Forest
Germany
Switzerland
Unite the Black Fore
Carl Schurz
Young Morris
Philadelphia
New York
Lakeville
Conn
Buffalo
Morris
Howeve
Army of the West
Europe
France
England
Birth Rate Restriction Discussed by Prof. Ross
Professor Edward A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin argues in two lectures that birth rate restriction is mainly minor or self limiting at the bottom. He challenges President Roosevelt’s public stance on birth control as a movement and offers a cautious sociological view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. Ross
University of Wisconsin
Troosevelt
Mixed global woes and policy clashes in distant capitals
Reports describe France and Brazil tensions over arbitration at The Hague, a catastrophic fire in Sakodate Japan destroying most of the city, and political shifts in Britain, with Lords approving marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Additional items mention a Washington to Baltimore rail line cost, and public debates on press freedom and state paternalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz
HW. P
Japan
Provident Zelaya
Nicaragua
New York
Alfonso
Souny
Margaret Baker
Nocaragin
Gon
Caf
France
SSG
Grevy
Ixenest
Stahl
Angeur
Heinrich Nager
Switzerland
Stuttgart
Quelch
London Justice
Germany
Language of Seagulls Found by Watson at Dry Tortugas
University of Chicago professor John B. Watson reports seagulls on the Dry Tortugas Islands show a structured language. He lived in a bungalow on the islands to study them and believes they form family groups with built nests and even political behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Watson
University of Chicago
Tortugas
Florida
Andrew Carnegie
Prof. Watson
Board Vavors Octupus and Oregon Bank Closes
The Naval Submarine Board at Newport reports the Octopus superior to boats tested and equal to the post now owned or contracted by the United States. It suggests a larger similar boat could be a superior naval weapon. The Oregon Trust and Savings Bank of Portland closes with deposits of 3.2 million and liabilities of 190 thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board
Free Public Employment Agencies Grow in Fifteen States
The Massachusetts Labor Bulletin summarized in American Industries reports fifteen states operate free public employment agencies. California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin are listed. Eleven states run eight city offices, while five states have eight municipal offices, justified by competing with private agencies, aiding the unemployed, and matching laborers with employers to cut unemployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Labor Bulletin
California
Connecticut
Illinois
Kansas
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Ohio
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Newborn Girl for Governor Hughes Family in Albany
A girl baby was born to Gov and Mrs Charles B Hughes in Albany recently, their fourth child. The note mentions William W Prosser of St. Louis visiting and dying in Laporte. Three Japanese acrobats were arrested in Russia with plans for fortifications and secret military documents. A London Chronicle report claims a British shipbuilding firm won a contract for battleships cruisers and gunboats. Nelson Morris of Chicago has leased 750000 acres of grazing land in Standing Rock reservation South Dakota, amid Northwest cattle wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Hughes
Albany
William W. Prosser
St. Louis
Clover Leaf Vate
Yeladied
Laporte
Tives
Russia
London Chronicle
Nelson Morris
Chicago Packer
Standing Rock
Bouth Davis
Northwest
Chicago business analysis notes steady demand and cautious outlook
Dun's Review reports continued bank payment volume and low defaults amid heavy speculation in securities and grain. Demand holds in reading industries, with no recession in production. Currency shipments to crops strain deposits. discount rate reaches yearly high while reserves stay solid. Western buyers surge for fall and winter goods. dry goods and clothing sales compare well with last year. Bank clearings up 13.6 percent. Chicago district failures total 14, down from prior weeks. $291 123,655 exceeded week in 1906 by.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Iowa
Chicago
Dun
New York Buyers' Excursions Boost Trade but Caution Reigns
New York reports stronger house trade due to buyers' excursions in leading primary markets. Dry goods clothing and shoes orders rise while merchants aim to pace expansion amid tighter money. Week ending Aug. 22 saw 153 business failures, with Canadian failures at 19. year-ago comparisons noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet
Midwestern Commodity Prices Across Cities
A dense rundown of grain and livestock prices from Chicago to Toledo. Cattle, hogs, sheep, wheat, corn and oats show wide ranges with regional quotes. Notable figures include Chicago hogs $4.00 to $6.40, Detroit cattle $4.00 to $6.25, Milwaukee wheat $0.99 to $1.05, New York cattle $4.00 to $6.65, and Toledo wheat No 2 mixed Sic to 38c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ste
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Ste. Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
Brief News Items From The Era
A party of Russian Jews en route to America was ambushed. twenty five people were killed. The text notes George Washington and Oyster Bay, with unclear context. Prof BH advocates deaf education. a mute from Frederick Maryland joins Knights of Pythias Lodge 20 after learning sign language. A note on coal supply estimates projects 4000 years at 1905 consumption, or 190 years if growth continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Theo Dare
Oyster Bay
George Washington
Prof
Roosevelt
Chiyten Wyland
Rederick, Md
Knights of Pythias
Lodge 20
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the Kingman Star
Hudler
GMAN
Indiana
Teague
National
Chiesga
York
Posten
Janitis
Phildelphia
le York
Detroit
Winston Phildelphis
American Association
Lgs
Columbus
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Louise
Law
L. Todd
Omaha
Denver Gl
Publo Ie Bros
Des Moines
ST Sioux City
Lincoln
Western
Baltimore
Henry Clay
Cave
S. FP. B. Morse
Johnson
Brown
Ross
Prof. Ross
Oregon Trust and Savings Bank
Portland
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