Thaw Murder Trial Shifts With Lunacy Commission Move
New York report on March 21 describes District Attorney Jerome urging a lunacy commission for Harry Kendall Thaw after asserting Thaw cannot aid his counsel due to alleged insanity. Jerome cites state alienists and claims defense concealment of testimony as court considers delaying or stopping the trial.
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New York
Harry Kendall Thaw
Stanford White
Jerome Gao
Thaw
Jerome
Fitzgerald
Allen McLane Hamilton
Justice Fitzgerald
Lily
Supreme Court
Wartridge
O’reilly
Hartridge
Former Treasurer Faces Subornation Trial in Indiana
The Elkhart circuit court opened a case against Richard C. Barney of Elkhart on charges of subornation of perjury. He must explain the disappearance of about $150,000 believed to be missing from the American Mutual Insurance Society when it failed months ago in Goshen Indiana.
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American Mutual Insurance Society
Mere
Goshen
Ind
Richard C. Barney
Elkhart
Big Strike Looms In East Chicago Iron Works
In Hammond Indiana March 21 the Republic Iron and Steel plant and Interstate Iron and Steel may close indefinitely if no compromise is reached. Two thousand strikers demand 25 cents more per day from $1.76 daily wage after walking out Tuesday. A parade and increased police presence followed as Inland Steel workers consider joining, potentially bringing idle iron and steel workers to six thousand.
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Hammond
Ind
Chicago
Republic Iron and Steell Company
Interstate Iron and Steel Company
Inland Steal Company
Iron and Steel
Insane Question Echoes of a Bug Commission Reference
The remark centers on a quoted line “If Tm Insane, who is sane?” followed by a declaration of readiness for the “bug” commission. The wording hints at a conflict or satire involving a named figure and an official body.
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Bug’ Commission
TELEX-TYPE SUMMARY OF MULTIPLE EVENTS AND NOTES
Liberal scale realization weakens Chicago grain market. ARMEW A meeting set in Chicago. Missouri calls special session April 9. Dubois Pennsylvania mill explosion kills six and injures several. Millbury Massachusetts fire damages US Linen Co. property around $80,000. King Leopold and cabinet dispute Congo Free State. Chicago machinists referendum on May 1 wage scale. New Hampshire bans official free railroad passes. Honduran troops defeat by Nicaraguans reported. W H Pickering Lumber Leesville Louisiana loses $140,000 by fire. US proposes joint international opium traffic commission. Porto Rico governor sails to Washington to consult Roosevelt. Ohio and Mississippi river levels steady with lower Ohio falling at Louisville. Mrs Russell Sage donates $150,000 to Seaman's Friend Society sailors' home project. Caribbean interests not menaced by Nicaraguan fleet. In Paris, duel by Senator Arene and journalist Brisson ends with injuries. Dispute over insulting letter cited.
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American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association
Chicago
Folk
Missouri
Emporium
Dubois
United States Linen Company
Millbury
Mass
Leopold
Congo Free State
New Hampshire
W. H. Pickering Lumber Company
Leesville
Regis H. Post
Porto Rico
New York
Washington
Roosevelt
Ohio
Lower
Mississippi
Louisville
Russell Sage
American Seaman's Friend Society
Sailors’ Home and Institute
Caribbean
Guatemala
Honduras
G A R State Encampment Dates Shift to May Twenty Second
National Commander R B Brown will attend the Indiana G A R encampment in Fort Wayne now set to May 22 28 24 instead of May 21 22 23. Z F Taylor brakeman for Lake Shore died instantly after falling between cars at Lydick near South Bend at thirty five, leaving a widow and family.
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G. A
Indianapolis
R. B Brown
Indiana State
State Department
Fort Wayne
South Bend
Ind
Z. F. Taylor
Lake Shore
Ylkhart
Lydick
Aged Pioneer Tinley Jones Takes Own Life at Eighty
Brookville Indiana March 21 Tinley Jones a pioneer and respected citizen ended his life by cutting his throat after a winter-long illness. The eighty year old man had been in poor health all season.
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Brookville
Ind
Tinley Jones
Grand jury indicts 75 in San Francisco bribery cases
The San Francisco grand jury indicted seventy five defendants, sixty five against Abraham Ruef and ten against T V Halsey, former Pacific States Telephone official now in Manila. Indictments cover bribery tied to overhead trolley franchise, gas rate manipulation, Home Telephone franchise, and fights against rivals.
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San Francisco
Abraham Ruef
T. V. Halsey
Pacific States Telephone Company
Halsey
Manila
Feney
Ruef
United Railway Company
Home Telephone Company
Heney
Public Service
Board of Supervisors
Pacific States Telephones and Telegraph ‘Company
Inland waterways commission praised by western groups
Washington reports that Roosevelt received telegrams from commercial and waterway interests praising the inland waterways commission. They call its plan for improving inland routes the nation’s best transportation solution and claim it will end transport troubles. Santa Fe notes counterpoint on Manzano timber land deeds tied to prior administrations. Hagerman exonerated by interior department in a separate probe.
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Washington
Roosevelt
West
Inland Waterways Commission
Santa Fe
N. M
Manzano Mountains
Pennsylvania Development Company
Hagerman
Department of the Interior
Parker Indicted in Murder and Arson Case
Benjamin Parker was indicted and jailed in Mayfield Kentucky on charges of murder and arson related to the burning of his boarding house six weeks earlier. A charred body found among the debris identified as a stranger prompted the case.
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Mayfield
Benjamin Parker
Parker
Peasant Uprising Spreads Across Moldavia
A Bucharest dispatch reports the peasant uprising has spread over upper Moldavia. Peasants aim to drive out Jewish lessees of absentee landlords and seize lands rented from them, seeking control over the estates they depend on.
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Berlin
Bucharest
Moldavia
Man Punished for Coal Exchange Conspiracy in Omaha
Omaha March 21 S Howell president of the Omaha Coal Exchange was sentenced to pay 1100 fine and six months in county jail for conspiracy a restraint of trade. He and fifty others were indicted last fall for maintaining a trust to fix coal prices. The case has appeal to the supreme court. Cyrus Todd paroled Lebanon Indiana for murder of his wife in 1908 and returned to his father's house with tuberculosis.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
O'Rourke
Allen County
Charles W. Watkins
Huntington County
Charles Dunn
Alice Cothrell
Supreme Court
S. M. Hench
M. Morris
Henry Colerick
Dunn
Greenfield
Walter Fisk
Tiis
Chum
Joseph RE. Wood
Indiana Reformatory
Wood
Omaha
Neb
Howell
Omaha Coal Exchange
Judige Sutton
District Court
Coal Exchange
Cyrus Todd
Lebanon
Cyrun Todd
Suffragists Storm House of Commons in London Raid
London suffragists led by Lady Barberton staged a demonstration and raid on Parliament. Police, ready for the effort, detained about seventy participants but released them on bail. A Caxton Hall meeting had denounced the Dickinson bill before the protest resumed with further arrests.
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London
Caxton Hall
House of Commons
Lady Barbeton
Parliament
Indictments in Bridge Company Pooling Case
Freeport March 21 after nearly three weeks a grand jury returns indictments in a pooling scheme among a dozen bridge firms. Wealthy builder William H Shomas faces conspiracy to restrain competition charges. Bribery counts target Shons and his brother. Indicted firms include a Canton Iowa company and a Madison Wisconsin man. two road commissioners who oversaw a $12 400 contract to Shons are named.
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Freeport
William H. Shomas
Shons
Canton
Madison
Wis
Far North Letters Hint at Polar Expedition Start
Letters from Ernest Leffingwell and Winer Mikkelson report the Duchess of Bedford frozen about 200 miles off Point Barrow and say preparations to depart into unknown northern lands were nearly complete. Secretary Wilson cites twenty-nine railroad cases over livestock on cars beyond twenty-eight hours.
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Portland
Ore
Ernest Leffingwell
Winer Mikkelson
Alaska
H. A. Andree
Weather Bureau
Point Barrow
Canadian Mounted Poker
Leffingwell
Duchess of Bedford
Washington
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Department of Justice
Folk calls Missouri legislature into an extra session
Governor Folk issued a proclamation for an extra session to meet on April 9, 1907 at noon. The agenda includes regulating public utility rates, dram shop control and enforcement, recall of derelict officials, police systems for large cities, emergency action to suppress racetrack gambling, and any additional subjects brought by special message.
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Ture
Three in One Union Nears Completion in Chicago
In Chicago on March 21 the Congregationalists United Brethren and Methodist Protestants neared forming a single national church. A subcommittee polity report passed to the 63 member committee with minor details to be amended before adoption and ratification at the convention.
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Chicago
Congregationalists
United Brethren
Bold Theft of Mail Aboard French Liner Province
A mailbag valued at about 400000 dollars was stolen on the French liner La Province after leaving New York February 28 and reaching Havre March 6. French postal authorities handed the case to detectives. the theft occurred about two weeks ago.
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Paris
la’ Province
New York
Havre
Cartersville Exposes Brutal Assault and Baby Murder
In Cartersville Georgia March 20 Mrs James Tolbert wife of former Fairmont mayor was brutally assaulted and her two months old baby murdered by a negro. A suspect described as a negro has been located near Cartersville and authorities expect his capture soon.
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Georgia
Cartersville
James Tolbert
Tolbert
Fairmont
Judge Anderson's Ruling in Walsh Case
Judge Anderson in federal court orders John R. Walsh former Chicago National Bank president to appear April 3 and plead to 160 counts of misapplication of national bank funds in the indictment.
Workman Falls Seventeen Stories To Death In Chicago
Tony Caruso, a repairman on the Railway Exchange Building, lost his balance on a fire escape roof and plummeted seventeen stories to the pavement. His body was mangled beyond recognition.
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Chicago
Tony Caruso
Railway Exchange
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Adolphe Brisson
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M. Arene
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