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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
1
A report from Tangier describes Arabs slaughtering Europeans in Casa Blanca amid a holy war. French and German ships escorted refugees as French cruisers are sent to Casa Blanca to protect citizens and evacuate Europeans.
Washington Aug 1 Lieut Col William F Tucker paymaster of the department of lakes with headquarters at Chicago will not be court martialed on a wife’s complaint. An inspector general report finds Tucker not guilty of any violation and closes the matter without action.
The Greater New York public service commission begins an inquiry into the Interborough Metropolitan merger linking Manhattan and the Bronx. Allegations include watered railroad stocks and grossly inadequate transit facilities affecting riders. August Belmont and Thomas F. Ryan control the merged system, with Theodore Shonts named president.
Former Ohio governor Myron T. Herrick was ordered by Auditor Wright to repay back taxes totaling 12 530 dollars after an audit found omitted stocks and bonds dating to 1901. The bill, including 420 900 dollars in additional taxes, was added to the duplicate Monday and promptly paid by Herrick after negotiations.
Chicago dealers urge higher milk prices claiming increased expenses as sole justification. Proposals include milk at 8 to 9 cents a quart and half pint of cream at 9 to 10 cents. Other brief items report imperial yachts Hohenzollern and Standart in Swinemunde, a Hong Kong hotel collapse, and Southern Pacific dividend rise to 1.25 percent.
A body of a little girl found in a east tenement cellar with throat marks suggests strangulation. Police link the case to Sophie Kohrer murder, believing a maniac targets women and children by the same method. Katie Dritsehler, daughter of a German waiter, identified as the victim, missing a week.
Duluth Aug 1 ore dock work starts with two men and more to follow amid fear of trouble. Reports say quiet at dawn across Hibbing and Eveleth districts though inflammatory speeches at Chisholm last night fueled fear. Petroila urged action and warned miners to strike if demands denied, advising readiness to defend halls with rifles. Governor promised personal inquiry.
Steph en Walsh, a New York police officer, was dismissed by Commissioner Bingham after being branded a coward. He faced jeers as he left the headquarters, the department shaken by the first such disgrace in thirty years. Walsh’s alleged lack of courage allowed a killer to escape and commit another murder.
In San Francisco on August 1 judge Coffee granted a temporary restraining order preventing the Schmitz appointed board from acting toward taking office. The suit concerns the board of supervisors appointed by Mayor Taylor and the 14 men named by ex mayor Schmitz.
A Burlington freight engine exploded near Breckenridge Missouri killing Milburn Hall brakeman Patrick Brewer and fireman, fatally injuring Samuel Roberts. In East Urbana Ohio an exploding boiler killed engineers Chamberlain Weisner and Brakeman Stewart. Crowds rushed from a bridge in Boston but no drownings.
In Northville Michigan the coroner debates the Pere Marquette wreck near Salem on July 20 where 31 people died and 100 were injured. Dean Perkins testifies he juggled multiple duties as operator at Salem including telegraphing mail selling tickets and lamp maintenance. The inquiry questions whether a more alert dispatcher could have prevented the wreck, but evidence shows no operator was present at Salem when the excursion passed.
Butte Montana August 1 George Tower 22 under arrest for complicity in the North Coast Limited hold up of May 7 and Engineer Crow murder confessed knowledge of the crime He implicated three men Joe Gordon G C Hastings and Dutch Gordon as the robbers claiming Gordon threatened to kill him if he betrayed them He said he hid in a local lodging house room serving as their headquarters and that his parents live in Galesburg Illinois.
In Washington Pa August 1 Susan Poyle, a wife, was revealed to be the female mine helper working with her husband Joel Poyle at Cecil mines. She had posed as a man for three years while aiding him, and was injured in a mine accident. Her husband Steve Poyle faced jail for employing female help in a mine.
New York dated Aug 1 reports efforts to press the American government to intervene against Korean domination. Princes Tjyong Gui Yi and Yi Sanz are named in the appeal seeking a stronger U S role in countering Jin influence in Korea.
Lodz Aug 1 a violent strike movement paralyzed the city. Troops faced strikers center town with 30 killed or wounded as unions call a general strike of 32 000 and socialists join the committee of amalgamated unions. Streetcars wrecked and barricades formed as cavalry drove off the fighters. Thaw selects Lit tleton for next Stanford White trial.
A banker is reported to have died after diving into a swimming pool. The incident occurred amid tense dispatches from Korea describing casualties in the disarmament of the Korean army, with 40 Koreans killed or wounded and minor Japanese casualties.
Edmund R. Watson of Philadelphia, president of the Northern National Bank and treasurer of the Henry Hess Brewing Co, was found dead in a pool at Columbia Park. He slipped while preparing to dive, struck his head on concrete, and died shortly after. coroner investigation noted.
Chippewa FallsWis August 1 Congressman Jenkins chair of the house committee warns that recent state trade actions resemble the Civil War era agitation. He urges calm, law obedience, and reliance on the Supreme Court to resolve the Carolina railroad dispute without weakening state or national powers.
Objections were filed by heirs to the John Warner estate in Clinton, Illinois, challenging United States Commissioner of Pensions Vespasian Warner as executor. Accusations include collusion and fraud in a sale of bank stock to Eleanor M. Magill, with $81,194 net, money allegedly not turned into the estate funds.
Ennadelpnia Virginia August 11 the new concrete dry dock at League Island Navy Yard one of the largest in the world was used yesterday when the battleship Kearsarge was placed in it for an official test. The basin cost about 1500000 dollars and took seven years to build it is 754 feet long 140 feet wide and 30 feet deep. Rostrand seriously ill Paris August 1 M Edmond Rostrand the famous dramatist of Cyrana Je Bergenne is reported seriously ill.
Jackson reports a heated contest between Congressman John Sharp Williams and Governor James K. Vardaman as Mississippi voters prepare to elect a senator. Williams campaigns statewide while Vardaman tours remote towns. Balloting occurs today amid strong party maneuvering and public debate over issues including race and the fifteenth amendment.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory Republicans met to adopt a platform and decide on running officials for the proposed Oklahoma state. The crowd applauded when Secretary of War Taft was announced and a Dixie song was halted with a protest that this was not a Dixie convention. A separate report from Spring Valley says Italian laborer Telfero Tini of Ladd was killed by an accidental shotgun discharge when a horse balked and threw him onto the weapon.
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