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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1907
Page
7
In Milwaukee on June 27 a dozen kosher butchers tried to raise meat prices triggering street clashes. Two mass meetings led to a boycott and intimidation of buyers in the Seventh and Violet streets area. Rioters have been arrested as market men claim wholesalers first raised prices.
Rev. Henry Marsh Warren, longtime hotel chaplain who operated a day and night marriage service, has been discharged as the hotel chaplaincy ends. The Hotel Men's Association executive committee says the position is no longer needed. Warren plans to tour the world with his wife’s fortune and pursue shipboard missions to aid distressed women.
Major T Lemul Harper secretary of the Americas Republican club and ex superintendent of the American Steel Hoop company was arrested in Pittsburg on charges of felonious shooting with intent to kill After a dispute with Levi DeWolf a broker Harper allegedly entered his office fired three times DeWolf escaped unharmed Bail was set at 2000 dollars Both men are well known locally.
Montgomery June 27 A negro preacher John Beeman asks jailer to let him die on the gallows for his brother David Beeman who is to be executed July 26 The preacher says his sacrifice may lead to conversion and both seek heaven as sympathy grows and a petition circulates urging gubernatorial clemency.
Jesse Lewisohn of the United Metals Selling company underwent gallstone surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital performed by Dr. Howard Lilienthal. A number of stones were removed. Lewisohn, son of the late Leonard Lewisohn, faced the operation after delaying to await Lillian Russell's arrival.
Ernest Black of Quincy Ind. was oiling river pile machinery when a tonnaged iron weight was released directly above his head. His head was mashed flat and torn from his body in the accident at Louisville on June 27.
Pittsburg on June 27 reports anger over Judge Willard McEwan’s ruling on a divorce case connected to Pittsburg affairs. Prominent local figures including J B Corey of U S Steel defend the judge while theater actresses and city elites attract blame. Local minister Edward Young calls for caution as reactions run from praise to satire.
Paris June 27 the official Franco Spanish understanding is published. Each government resolves to preserve its insular and maritime holdings in the Mediterranean and Atlantic and to consult the other if the status quo is threatened, forming a military convention for mutual guarantee of their possessions.
Victoria report notes refugees fleeing to Hongkong from south China districts amid a revolutionary movement. The steamer Empress of Japan left Hongkong after arrival yesterday. Rebels promise war notes at double face value and claim an army modeled on European methods. French rifles and machine guns smuggled via Amoy and Ganton underlie the arms. Rebel forces advance from towns toward Swatow and Canton as Pekin officials resist a French Canton expedition.
Official reports from the Pacific Steam Navigation Company say only one passenger aboard the Santiago survived a heavy squall fifty miles north of Corral. The wreck, with a crew of ninety including twelve English officers, left no others alive.
In East St Louis, 19 year old Mrs Jane Marjorie Lampert files for divorce from Joseph Lampert in city court. She seeks custody of their 1 year old child from the first marriage amid a history of two prior marriages and recent domestic disputes. Her first husband died before a previous divorce could be granted.
A cigar shaped airship sails from Staten Island across Brooklyn and the East River, circled above high office buildings, lands at Battery Park, then resumes northward over Manhattan's skyline as thousands watch.
New York June 27 seven persons were killed when a ramshackle tenement collapsed in the downtown Italian quarter. Six members of an Italian family perished and three other relatives were seriously injured but expected to recover.
Indiana Supreme Court upholds state power to regulate liquor traffic overturning a Hamilton county ruling. The lower court had deemed saloons evil per se and no license could be issued, but the high court reverses and affirms licensing authority.
Flandreau June 22 jury found Mrs Emma Kaufmann guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for causing the death of 16 year old Agnes Polpeis. The verdict shocked her family and supporters amid tense courtroom scenes and heated arguments from both sides about mob violence and justice.
Proceedings show Mrs. Kaufmann faces sentencing on October 21 after a potential new trial motion. Judge Smith will hear the request on October 10 in Yankton with bond set at 24,000. she remains free until ruling. The trial concluded with closing arguments by George Egan for the state and a dramatic, crowded courtroom scene.
Paris reports censorship limits brief wires from wine growers riots. In Narbonne three killed and about 100 wounded as troops fired into the mob, including many women. A king of Siam banquet is canceled and a new attempt to burn the Narbonne sub prefecture is noted.
Milwaukee authorities report Prank J. Walter, clerk of the municipal and district courts, was discovered short 20000 dollars in his financial records. The date is June 22 and the location is Milwaukee Wisconsin. The incident involves a clerical shortage affecting court funds.
CHICAGO defendant William D Haywood will testify in Boise Idaho to deny charges that he murdered former Governor Frank Steunenberg The defense led by Clarence Darrow aims to discredit Harry Orchard and argue that the Western Federation of Miners acted for wage and safety goals with no conspiracy to kill. Darrow details drafts payments and Pettibone Orchard ties while signaling Mulitple witnesses to follow over seven to eight days of testimony.
In Hauteville a 12 year old girl is killed by a distraught young tradesman as she prays at a roadside church. The assailant, described as of weak intellect, chased her then struck with a chair before being captured and confined to a lunatic asylum.
Amanda Delaplaine the cook was discharged by Mrs. Benjamin Walters, a trigger in a family crisis that ended with Benjamin Walters’s suicide. Delaplaine recalls Walters begging her to stay and ignore Mrs Walters, then she left after overhearing the quarrel.
A long narrative traces the life of a mixed heritage settler who fled to Kansas then Indian Territory, learned rail and levee work, became a contractor, built railways across the Far West, and fathered four children. His wife managed finances and defended their home with a revolver.
Tulsa Oklahoma June 26 beauty contest as Fourth of July feature at Collinsville eighteen miles north of Tulsa has fifty contestants aged fifteen to twenty five. Paint and powder forbidden judges are bachelors. First prize seventy five dollars second prize forty dollars third prize unspecified. Contestants distributed among ten towns with Tulsa receiving fifteen representatives.
Judge Melmewens heard two divorce cases in Chicago where A. O. Gressing, a traveling salesman, sued his wife. The wife was alleged to be in company of a Pittsburg millionaire, prompting a decree based on a customary evidentiary approach.
Chicago dispatch describes Cash Allen of Griffith Indiana attempting to start a fire by dropping a match into a 40000 gallon kerosene tank atop Mt Pelee like eruption. After a distant yawn he called for fire engines while Griffith residents used plows to dig furrows around the blaze and stop the flames.
Washington June 26 Emery Poster editorial staff member of the New York World died last night suddenly of acute kidney trouble. He was the son of Mrs J Wien Poster and had lived many years in Iowa.
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