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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1907
Page
5
Chicago January 3 Professor John B Watson of the Chicago university declares plans to extend experiments on a sixth sense to larger animals including monkeys and humans. He notes rats locate food without sight or hearing and cites tests with carrier pigeons and temperature changes supporting his claim of a sixth sense in animals.
Fire in a West Fifty third Street business block spread to adjacent tenements causing five alarms and a chaotic scene. Ten buildings including a silk mill and eight tenements were destroyed amid looting and collapsing walls. Police rescued a mother and six children as missing persons risk remained and casualties were feared.
In Louisville Judge Evans rules the federal act unconstitutional in the case of the administratrix of N. C. Brooks vs Southern Pacific. The suit sought damages after a Kansas accident that killed the plaintiff's husband, challenging the act as regulating intrastate and interstate commerce. The ruling sustains the railroad demurrer and cites the act creates liability only between masters and servants, not broader commerce regulation. Memphis judge McCall similarly holds the La Follette fellow-servants' act unconstitutional in a separate Illinois Central suit.
In Penver Colorado on January 3 6 000 miners in southern Colorado coal districts received a ten percent wage raise. The action affects workers in the region and reflects early 20th century labor adjustments.
A list of rail crashes and collisions across multiple dates and locations including Northwestern Canada Louisville Nashville lines Plymouth London Salisbury Camden Grantham Toledo and Atlantic City. Notable incidents feature switch engine impacts and bridge wrecks with several named towns and dates mentioned. President Samuel Spencer referenced along with various regional rail failures.
Grand Master John J. Hanrahan of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen issues a second ultimatum to E. H. Harriman of Southern Pacific warning of drastic strike extension unless arbitration is accepted and grievances resolved. The message accuses the company of injustice and urges restoring May 1 agreement terms.
The rail rate law enforces an anti-pass provision from midnight, allowing passes only for listed groups such as employees families physicians ministers and homeless individuals. In practice travelers face paying fares while passes remain restricted to specific roles and institutions under the law.
New York dated January 3 reports that E. H. Harriman is ill at Arden New York where his large American estate sits. Doctors say overexertion harmed his health while he remains connected with Union Pacific and Southern Pacific via long distance calls. Recovery is expected but may take time. experts foresee he will not return to his desk soon.
Boston mass January 3 James B Connolly author of sea tales left for Washington to join the United States navy at the urging of President Roosevelt who hopes an American writer can do for the navy what Rudyard Kipling did for Britain’s army.
Washington January 3 The Interstate Commerce Commission agreed to investigate the block systems on the Southern and Baltimore and Ohio railroads after recent disasters with loss of life. The first public hearing will be held Friday.
Benjamin Nico of Wilkes Barre attempted a reconciliation by pairing a fake photograph of himself with Minnie Baldés to secure a marriage license. He was married by an alderman while she believed it was a standard license step. The couple's parents drove him out and legal action followed. Alderman Donohue ordered destruction of the photos and the photographer to break the plate.
In Columbus on January 2 a baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt Mix at 77 Wisconsin Avenue. Neighbors celebrated and the West Park Avenue M E church learned of the new arrival through a Bible verse Isaiah 9 6. Reverend Marshall announced the reason for Mr. Mix missing services citing the same scripture.
Chicago plans a police training program featuring lectures by Police Attorney Comerford on the duties and ethics of policing. The piece mocks brutality with dark humor about a vapor bath attack on a speaker and the aim to curb police violence, citing trial-board criticisms and reforms.
The Rajah of Goa, a Celebes island chieftain long at odds with the Dutch, is found dead in a ravine after his group toppled over a precipice during retreat from a punitive expedition. The stronghold was located on Christmas day but abandoned by the fugitives.
London reports that an operative agreement abolishes private rebates to shippers across all UK railways. Any company found granting rebates to secure traffic faces heavy fines payable to the railway clearing house. Philadelphia notes Pennsylvania railroad officers weigh appealing to the Interstate Commerce Commission to set rules ensuring car shortages are addressed fairly, proposing a basis proportionate to each road's traffic share.
St Paul Minn Jan 2 Referring to Le Matin report the American prelate Archbishop Ireland defends the church stance on the separation of church and state and condemns the proposed associations of worship in France He says the pope and bishops rejected the plan and that French Catholics must unite to uphold justice and religion.
El Paso reports Red Foster, intoxicated or possibly in a seizure, fell about 300 feet on Mt Franklin. Mexican sheep herder Miguel Uriba found him at the foot of a precipice and police brought him to town. Foster declined medical aid and was returned to his home despite minor injuries.
Police uncover bombs in St. Petersburg and Moscow that show signs of poisoning. Cylinders with unusual thickness are said to contain gas or poison to explode with force. Experts say bombs and even letters are being treated to cause fatal blood poisoning.
General Hiram Scofield of Washington Iowa died in Seattle at his daughter’s home at age 77 from old age. A Civil War veteran, he served in the Union Army and led a colored regiment, earning promotion for gallant conduct at the war’s end. He resided in Washington since 1860s and built one of Iowa’s largest private libraries. He was renowned as a rare book collector with many volumes.
The article notes Nettleton of Gage County and Saunders of Opatin Wis named for top state roles in the Nebraska legislature. Norris Brown viewed as likely U S senator. clerks and chaplains chosen. session set to organize amid railroad and corporate lobbying pressure.
Rev. A. M. P. Abbott formerly of Elgin now at O'Neill files an $11000 damage claim after a Norfolk depot fire destroyed his trunk. He cites sermons lectures a family bible and a long family pedigree as the valuables lost. Railroad officials have not yet ruled on the claim.
Neligh Nebraska January 2 Mr and Mrs E A Keeler celebrate the birth of their fifteenth child a girl born Sunday aged four days weighing seventeen pounds and measuring twenty six inches long with an eighteen inch chest and twenty one inch shoulders the baby is reported healthy and growing daily.
St Louis bankers and business leaders host Congressman Richard Bartholdt at the St Louis Club. He urges issuing 2 to 3 percent bonds totaling 590 million dollars over ten years to complete great river projects, arguing the plan offers a permanent, investable benefit and should be drafted into law.
New York baker Myrok, deceived by a Hungarian swindler who claimed to be Kecskemety, agreed to pose as the criminal to secure a reward. They traveled to Europe, but the supposed felon vanished en route to the Budapest police office. Myrok later received a letter saying the man wanted to return home.
Chicago bakers and confectioners union considers creating a fund to offer cash bonuses of 100 dollars for one baby 200 dollars for twins and 500 dollars for triplets to encourage wives of union men to stay home and curb large families that could affect employment.
Northerners recount being lured to a North Carolina rail camp by false promises, bound to work under armed guards, jailed in a guardhouse, flogged and sent to a chain gang after a 77 hour jail stay. The Carolina Construction Co. and local officials faced grand jury action and fines.
New York stockholders of the Martha Washington hotel on Fast Twenty-ninth street voted to lease the property pending board approval. The meeting was described as a battle of tongues with sharp exchanges over management, pricing, and public spirit among boarders.
A heavy snowstorm blankets France Spain Switzerland Belgium and worsens conditions in England. Rail travel is hampered in western Europe while Cadiz reports a fierce Gibraltar snowstorm with ships seeking shelter and the Belgian steamer Jieid elberg lost with several crew drowned.
Two Italian cardinals died this morning in Rome from strokes of apoplexy. Cardinal Luigi Tripepi, prefect of indulgences and sacred relics, born 1836, elevated to cardinal in 1901. Cardinal Alice Cavagnis, born 1841, elevated in 1901.
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