Week's Events Review Highlights Trials and Disasters
William D. Haywood was found not guilty of murder in the Steunenberg case after a 21 hour jury deliberation. Other items include a socialist parade broken up in Hancock Michigan, major fires in Coney Island and Memphis, a fatal police shooting in Crisfield Maryland, and multiple political and criminal developments across the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam D. Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Frank Steunenberg
Gov. Gooding
Idaho
Moyer and Pettibone
Hancock
Mich
Branch Street
North St. Louis
Coney Island
United States
FE. W. Pettus
Alabama
Hot Springs
N. C
Joseph F. Johnston
Birmingham
Fred H. Magill
Bride
Magill
California
Clinton
Lucinda M. Morton
Oliver P Morton
Indiana
Indianapolis
Memphis, Tenn
New York
Haskell Institute
United States Indian Industrial School
Lawrence
Kan
Jas. E. Reed
Crisfield
John H. Daugherty
Daugherty
N. C. Brewer
Cleveland
J. J McAlester
American National Bank of South
McAlester
I. T
Antony Varicle
Seattle
Wash
Roediger
Social Revolutionists
Rock Island
Goodland
Waldo D. Parker
Holderness School For Boys
Plymouth
N. H
Roosevelt
Quentin
Moyer Granted 25000 Bail in Idaho Case
Charles H. Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners and co defendant with William D Haywood was ordered released on 25000 bail by Judge Wood in Boise Idaho He mayors commit to file the bond Monday night while Pettibone faced a speedy trial setup for Tuesday October 1 The bond arrangement involves the Butte federation deposit and a Boise First National Bank draft with a Boise bank officer as signer
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Boise
Idaho
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
William D. Haywood
Steunenberg
Wood
Haywood
Moyer
George A. Pettibone
Pettibone
Peter Breen
Butte, Mont
Butte
Breen
Butte Union
First National Bank of Boise
Boise Bank
Lawyer and Ex Mayor Forg er in Kenton Jails for Forgery
Ex mayor and prominent Republican lawyer Kenton Kenton O Thomas Black surrendered to the sheriff and admitted forging papers totaling 28000 dollars over nine years. He acted as agent for Dr F W Sapp of Columbus, executing many mortgages from 1899 to 1905. Forgeries are reported to be tied to these mortgage documents.
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Kenton
Thomas Black
Black
F. W. Sapp
Columbus
E&.d
Jealousy Tragedies Shock Two Oklahoma Towns
In Wapanucka Edgar Bal a railroad worker fatally shot his young wife and wounded his sister in law Miss Maggie Dobson then killed himself. In Tulsa J D Stackhouse restaurant owner killed his wife then died by suicide in a jealous outburst.
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Aeronauts Park
St. Petersburg
Hogland
Gulf of Finland
Ukiah
Cal
Judge A . Green
Toneki Kan
Battle Creek
Mich
Helen Bailey Trowbridge
People’s Stock Company
Chicago
Pittsburg
Levant Martogessian
New York
W. H. Munger
Omaha
Sibley
Missouri
Nicholas
Krasnoye- Selo
Seminovsky
Reiman
Min
Moscow
Shrine of St. Anne
Kankakee
St. Joseph’s Church
Gertrude F. Atherton
Katherine Glover
Poultney Bigelow
Malden
N. Y
Richard H. Halsey
Oshkosh
Wis
Geogebie Lake
Jack the Ripper
Berlin
Census Bureau
Oiseaux
France
Interior
Woodruff
Geological Survey
Supreme Court of Guatemala
Cabrera
Henry Baumeyer
Evansville
Ind
Great Lakes
Put-in-Bay
Perry
William J. Bryan
E. B. Stillman
Storm Lake
Cleveland
J. Tom Johnson
Central Viaduct
Augusta
Birmingham
Ala
Jose Antonio Ostes
Cornell University
John D O'Shea
Boston
the Elks
Lattie M.evans
Lillian Cora Rand
Burlington
Hiram Higgins
William R. Higgins
Newton A. Berry
Covington
Frank Cousins
Salem
Mass
Finance Department
Boston Post Office
Post Office
Henry C. Jones
Nashville, Tenn
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
St. Louis
Ardmore
I. T
Wapanucka
Fire at Christie Street Tenement Kills Eighteen
A blaze in a tenement on Christie Street killed eighteen residents and left at least fifteen seriously injured. All occupants were Italians. Early reports blamed a basement grocery bomb, but police found no evidence of incendiary or bomb causes.
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New York
Christie Street
Oldfield Sets Two New Records At Fargo Fair
Barney Oldfield opened the Fargo interstate fair by breaking two world automobile records on a half mile track. He completed the first mile of a three mile race in 1 15 144 and the three miles in 8 54.
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Fargo
N. D
Barney Oldfield
Dynamite Explosion at Union Station Injures Men
A quantity of dynamite in a miner's trunk blew up at Union station on Monday, blasting the trunk during handling and causing serious injuries to two men while lightly wounding six others and triggering a panic.
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St. Louls
Union Station
Woman Relieved by Dean's Kidney Pills After Painful Years
Mrs Clyde Pixley of Bridge Street Beldon Michigan describes five years of bladder inflammation and kidney pain. She suffered bearing down pains backaches headaches dizziness faintness and bloodlike kidney secretions. After one week on Dean's Kidney Pills she felt much better and became well, with ongoing relief thereafter. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
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Clyde Pixley
Bridge St
Beldini
Mich
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Chinese Jews and their historic Kaifungfu colony
American interest in China since the Boxer rebellion has touched the Chinese Jews who settled at Kaifungfu during the Han dynasty. The Kaifungfu colony is noted by travelers from Marco Polo to Jesuit missionaries. Alfred K. Glover reports in Overland Monthly May issue that the Chinese Jews are nearly extinct but their records and tablets are preserved.
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China
Kaifungfu
Marco Polo
Alfred K. Glover
Overland Monthly
New Sportsman Bottle Uses Vacuum Insulation
A clever bottle for fishermen features double walls with a vacuum between them. The sealed space removes air, claiming liquids stay hot up to 48 hours in extreme cold and cool drinks stay fresh for weeks in hot summers.
Pittsburg Millionaire Loiters at Pearly Gates
A Pittsburg millionaire is seen lingering outside the pearly gates. A shade asks him to hurry, he waits for another man to get ahead. The other man is a San Francisco grafter, making the Pittsburg figure seem innocent by comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
San Francisco
Grape-Nuts Promoted for Digestive Health and Easy Feeding
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as a fully cooked cereal that prevents indigestible mush in the stomach. It cites medical authority on cereal digestion, notes the product’s nitrogenous and starch balance, and claims suitability for children and nursing babies. Made at Beldzo Street Dolton.
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Jen
Beldzo Street
Dolton
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Philadelphia
Helena
Ida
Lida Conley
Huron Cemetery
Kansas City
Hawse
Columbia
Ark
Otter Lake
W.S. Hemingway
Mont Tennes
St. Elizabeth
Jamaica
Chester B. Runyan
Windsor Trust Company
Missouri Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Missouri Pacific
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Mitchell-Black Hills
Los Angeles
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Arnold Crouse
Muncie
Speer
Lima
Andrew Mason
New York Assay Office
Director Roberts
Mint
Hibbing
Minn
Kerisova
Hungary
Pittsburg and
Conneaut
O. Trunk Line
Ohio
Illinois
J. T. Killebrew
Mobile
Havana
Cuba
Cleveland & Southwestern
Elyria
Federation
Butte Local Union
Forger
Kenton, O
Oldfield
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