Bomb plot details emerge in Steunenberg case
Testimony from Harry Orchard outlines multiple planned bombings tied to the Western Federation of Miners. He described bombs aimed at Judge Gabbert and Governor Steunenberg, payments from Pettibone and Haywood, trips across Colorado Idaho and Utah, and alleged plans to threaten other officials as part of broader conspiracies.
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Pettibone
Judge Gabbert
Balt Lake
Orchard
Sherman Bell
Colorado
Bell
Haywood
Pettone
Moyer
Denver
Gondara
Goddard
Meyer
Johnny Neville
Independence Depot
Steunenberg
Paterson
N. J
Gabbert
Peabody
Heywood
Caldwell
Art Bascom
McCarthy
Steve Adams
Jack Simpkins
Idaho
Steinenerg
California
Adams
Richardson
Canyon City
Mr. Pettibone
Salt Lake
Nampa
Commercial
Thomas Hogan
Pacific
Governor Steunenberg
Boise
Portland
Seattle
Spokane
Wardner
Simpkins
Wallace
Cunningham
Robinson, Miller & Rosenthal
Miller
Western Federation of Miners
Hogan
Simmons
Pacific Hotel Register
Saratoga
Saratoga Hotel
Mr. Hawley
Borah
George A. Pettibone
Union
Telluride
Steve’ Adama
Ed’ Minster
Fred’ Bradley
Tater Orchard
Pocatello
Mr. Richardson
Cheyenne, Wyo
Patrick Moran
Harry Orchard
Neville
Orchard testimony unlikely to surprise Western Federation leader
Denver report quotes C. E. Mehoney, acting president of the Western Federation of Miners, asserting that Harry Orchard’s accusations likely reflect crimes already committed by him, and that neither he nor the state can be sure to prove them.
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Orchard
Canada
Utica
James Kirwan
Western Federation of Miners
Haywood
Boise
Denver
Kirwan
Hewley
Harry Orchard
C. E. Mehoney
Horsley in Canada as Gambler with Noted Life of Crime
Telegraph report from Toronto details Alfred Horsley alias Harry Orchard, a Wooler cheese maker turned suspected criminal. The piece traces his early gambling penchant, a 1506 departure to Vancouver with a woman, a deserted Wooler wife, and his sister in Brighton. It notes a fatal fire, a firmer image as a hustler, and his family’s views.
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Canada
Orchard
Richardson
Mr. Richardson
Northumberland County
Ontario
New York State
Clara
Florence
Maggie
Mabel
Edith
Maggie Fraser
Brighton
Joseph
Wooler
Detroit
Utica
N. Y
the Tribune
Toronto
Ont
Alfred Horsley
Harry Orchard
Horsleysa
Four Corners
Horsley
Vancouver
Campbellford
Alleged Spy in Miners Ranks At Western Federation Event
Denver reports a sensational convention opening promised if Harry Riddell president of the Eureka Utah union and elected delegate appears. He is charged with two years as a spy for a well known detective agency and using his office to uncover secrets of the inner circle.
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Denver
Western Federation of Miners
Harry Riddell
Eureka
Utah
Riddell
Steunenberg Widow Hopes Orchard Path to Honest Life
Mrs. Steunenberg widow of Idaho's former governor says she hopes Harry Orchard will be given the chance to reform and lead a good honest life.
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Walla Walla, Wash
Football Man Arrested After Fight Outside Restaurant
John C. De Witt former Princeton football captain and hammer throw champion was arrested with two classmates after a fight with a cabman in front of Churchill's on 45th street and Broadway. He used the alias John Smith and was identified by a class gift bearing his name. The others, Frank I. Linden and John C. Scott, were also held.
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John C. de Witt
Princeton
Yale
West 47Th Street
Churchill's
45Th Street
Broadway
de Witt
John Smith
Frank I. Linden
Chicago
John C. Scott
Trenton
N. J
Scott
Hungry Ambulance Surgeons Protest Dining Room Rule
Bellevue ambulance surgeons and nearby ward doctors complain a rule by Dr T Armstrong forces them to skip breakfast if not in the dining room by 8 50. First call responders report missing meals after arriving at 8 55. A doctor told a late arriving medic that skipping breakfast is good practice, amid broader protests over food and repetition of chicken thrice daily.
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Bellevue
T. Armstrong
Woman Says She Tried to End Her Life in Vacant Flat
Mrs Elba W Destal, 25, wife of Swedish importer Frank Destal of 1 Ogden Ave Highbridge, attempted suicide by shooting herself in a vacant flat after feeding her children. She lies in critical condition at Fordham Hospital with a bullet in her head and may die.
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Elba W. Destal
Frank Destal
Ogden Avenue
Highbridge
Fordham Hospital
Woman Accuses Swensen of Plot to Kill Her Parents
Henrietta Hulsebusch 16 of Brooklyn says sweetheart William Swensen clerk at 699 Grand Street gave her oxalic acid to poison her parents coffee and threatened to kill her if she refused. Swensen denies the charges. magistrate O Reilly holds him on 1000 dollars bail for Monday hearing.
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William Swensen
Grand Street
Henrietta Hulsebusch
Troutman Street
Brooklyn
Swensen
O'Reilly
Cass Gilbert Plans Accepted for Central Library
The jury accepted Cass Gilbert's plans for the new Central Library to be built at 13th and Olive streets in St. Louis. The project costs 1.2 million dollars with Andrew Carnegie contributing 1 million. The board of directors ratified the jury's finding.
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St. Louis
Cass Gilbert
New York
Central Library
13Th and
Olive Streets
Andrew Carnegie
New York Central Plans Major Railroad Deal
The New York Central pursues a large deal with New Haven interests. Aimed at uniting 2062 miles of rail and 1400 miles of trolley properties, the plan envisions Boston & Maine under New Haven management and a broad New Haven New York Central community of interest. Vermont Central may join, and Delaware & Hudson plus NY Ontario & Western could bring new Vanderbilt financing as the deal progresses.
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New Haven
Marine Department
Boston & Maine
New York
New Haven & Hartford
New York Central
New England
Vermont Central
Delaware & Hudson
New York, Ontario & Western
Vanderbilt
New York Public Hearings on City Bills at City Hall
A long notice lists multiple acts passed by the Legislature affecting New York City finances probation officers and docks. Public hearings are scheduled at City Hall on June 11 1907 at 11 a.m. published by Mayor George B. McClellan.
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Assembly
Greater New York
City Hall
City of
New York
George B. McLellan
George B. M'Clellan
Hag ‘Neen
Manhattan
Young Women's Hebrew Association
City OF New York
Saint Paul's
Bronx
New York City
Board OF Estimate and Apportionment
NW York
Comptroller
Senate
Pocks and Ferries
Henry Head
Department OF Docks and Ferries
Jane
Pelham Avenue
Pelham FE
N W York and Harlem Railroad
Marine Intelligence Miniature Almanac
Sun and moon times listed with high water marks for Sandy Hook Gov Island and Hell Gate include sunrise at 5 Sun sets at 7 27. Moon rises 2 51 and moon age 27. High water times shown for both morning and evening tides.
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A.M
Sandy Hook
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Maritime Route Timetable Fragment from Pacific Cable Notes
Fragmentary OCR shows a list of ship routes and departure times between Hawaii, Japan, Corea, China, Philippines, New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti, and other Pacific ports. Entries reference via San Francisco and Vancouver and include vessels such as DONC, Sierra, Coptic ret state anata ae, Aorangi, Mariposa, and U 5 transport with dates in June and July.
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Japan
Corea
China
Philippine
Isands
Tacoma
Hawaii
Philip Kas Islands
San Francisco
Sierra
Philippine Islands
Shipping News From Harbor Report Full of Transatlantic Arrivals
A dense listing details numerous steamers and routes arriving or sailing from ports including Savannah New Orleans Havana San Juan Santo Domingo and Liverpool. Vessels named City of Memphis Antilles Caprivi Windber Majestic Camaguey Orinoco New York Delware Alleghany Francesca Delaware etc with passenger cargo and mail movements, quarantine departures and bar entries.
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Montere Eee
Ward Calabri
Gibraltar
Germanta
Naples
Fabre Regina
Seville
Gans
damb-Aro Arconia
Rotterdam
Californie
Havre
Rio Grand Galston
Allory el
Brunswick
Ryndam Rotterlam
Ceeie Holand-Am
Gunther
Bahia
Sloman
Maracaibo
Caracas
Red D
Financice O
Colon
Panama
Finland
Ose
Antwerp
Red Star Minnet Aha
Ondon
Antic Trane
Kan City
Annah
Savannah
Mall
Ada
Campeche
Vaderland
Red Star
Philadel Tiia Curacao
Red I
San Juan
Ponce
Korona
Trinidad
Quebec
Havana
Havan Ward
Altal
Jamaica
Hamb
Citta di
Pring Joachim
City
Memphis
Lewis
Ocean Si Co
Moise
Antilles
Kemble
New Orleans
Southern Pacific Company
Caprivi
Nor
Hartung
Matanzas
J H Winchester & Co
Windber
Dow
Humacao
New York
Porto Rico
Majestic
Hayes
Liverpool
Queenstown
White Star Line
Camaguey
Johnson
Tampico
Julfs
Philip Ruprecht
Alleghany
Ger
Meisner
Montego Bay
Kingston
Carthagena
Santa Marta &l
Inagua
Hamburg—American
Francesca
Trieste
Nantucket
Delaware
Philadelphia
Clyde Ss Co
Mdae
Highlands
Rydna
Fitzpatrick
Sandy Hook
Windworth
Hamilton
Boaz
Newport News
Norfolk
Old Dominion Steamship Company
Paloma
O'Neill
Catbarien
W D Munson
Rac
Anglo Australian
Shields
Harber &O
Bar
la Savoie
Main
Kremen
Antonio Lopez
Cadiz
Genoa
Moskva
Tus
Libau
Stapleton
Altonia
Bluecher
Hamburg
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Arcundon de Larrinaga
la Plata
Buenos Ayres
Ruslan Prince
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Canon City
Nelson
B. C
Hattie Simpson
Pilot Bay
Little
Hercules
Ed” Boyce
Boyce
Burke
Philippines
Honolulu
Hawley
MRS
Cadman
France
Sixth Avenue
Maiden Lane
Frank H. Graf
F & Andirons
Fendera
Avesas
Tribune Almanac
Frice
Ormal College OF
Park Avenue
Sixty-eighth Street
Board OF Education
State Department OF Education
Joseph A. Gillet
Marine Intelligence
Transpacific
South
Brazil
Shipping News
Port of
Suez
St George
Shanghai
la Lorraine
Carpathia
Piraeus
Massilia
Ital
Bremen
Brandenburg
Valparaiso
Amasis
Chipana Bro
Horremantle
Hirasama
Moville
Astoria
Glasgow
Hong Kong
Verona
Algiers
Aden
Singapore
Bbremen
St Vincent
Gowanburn
Melbourne
Sydney
Ete Rouen
Orifamme
Louisburg
la Campine
New Vs . Menominee
London
Walton Hall
Colombo
Deutschlana
Swart
Calcutta
Ane Sen Er Soi
Postenavre
M— Vence
St Thomas
Adriatic
Southampton
Cedric
Queens
Tropic
St Michaels
Calabria
Garric
ATRE
Mats Wed
Collier Stout
Hudson
Abeles
44Th St
Bway
EN Berdock
Montgomery & “Stone
ED Mire
Savoy Man
34Th St. and Mear
Anan i Geo
Daisy Jame
Emma Cart
Ade
Golden City
Galing
Poadwar
39Th St. 1646
Res Herald
Sia Wests
Eddie Foy
Brant
Mats. Wed
Hime
Nazimova
Comtesse Coquette
Wallach
Blaney
Lincoln
Cecil Spooner
Belasco
Rose
Hammerstein
West End
AN den Berg
Bohemian
Faust
Alhambra
Z. Wm. Courtleigh Co
Th. Plane. Phiends
Vera Michelini
Ernest Hogan
Rankin & Davenport
Joe Maxwell & Co
Guyer & Crispi
Kaltenborn St. Nicholas Garden
West
Academy OF Music
Sothern
Marlowe
Madison SQ. Garden
Coney Island
Dreamland
Luna Park
Eden Muses
Brooklyn Jockey Club
New York Arsenal
Governors Island
John E. Greer
Jest Point
U. S. Military Academy
Newport
FR. I
New Bedford
Fairhaven
Mass
J. H. Willard
RS Cpreme Court
Second Judicial District
Lewisboro
Poundridge
Bedford
Westchester County
Francis Larkin
Charles Brandt
John J. Brown
County of
Westchester
White Pisia
Supreme Court of
State of
Ninth Judicial District
Court House
White Plains
Pefere Ae
William B. Ellison
Hall of Records
Centre
Chambers Streets
Borough of
Cit
East 32Th St
Mra Bright
West 40Th St
Flatbush
Lt 70Th St
Amsterdam
King
Nyiroan
Friedrich der Grosse
New
Ree Dever
Brow Head
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