Haywood Trial Charge Boosts Defense Stand in Steunenberg Case
Boise July 27 Judge Fremont Wood delivered a lengthy jury charge in the Haywood case outlining five possible verdicts and stressing careful consideration of accomplice testimony. He barred reliance on uncorroborated evidence and urged jurors to seek any independent proof and to find not guilty if no reasonable doubt remains. Senator Borah closed with a call to brave duty as the case moves toward verdict.
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Boise
Fremont | Wood
William Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Te Mirder
Frank Stevenberg
Idaho
Orelari
Haywood
Wood
Jude
Himling
Loment
Steve Adams
Colorado
Pinkerton
Stennenberg
Steunenberg
Coeur l
Staumenberg
Harry Orchard
Borah
Ike
United States
William E. Borah
Darrow
LIKE SALEM WRECK AT SALT CITY LINE LURCHES LIVES
Three killed and about a dozen injured in a railway wreck near Butler Pennsylvania on the Allegheny and Western line. A rail broke under an engine pulling a heavy train of Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Rail Road picnic workers from Dubois to New Castle. The crash occurred in a marshy meadow nine miles north of Butler. The fatalities were Fireman O. M. Bates Charles Neal of Dubois and Ralph Dawson of Dubois.
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Butler
Allegheny and Western
O. M. Bates
Charles Neal
Dubois
Ralph Dawson
Buifato, Rochester and
Pittsburg
New Castle
Vandalia man enters race for state secretary post
Springfield July 27. John H. Brown of Vandalia declares candidacy for secretary of state at the next Republican state convention. He is the third candidate joining Scott Cowan of Carroll County and incumbent James A. Rose.
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Springfield
John H. Brown
Vandalia
Mr. Brown
Scott Cowan
Carroll County
James A. Rose
Riots in Bialystok and Georgia powder debate spill into open letters
A A broad July dispatch details a Bialystok court sentencing rioters tied to anti Jewish attacks in 1906, while in Peoria an open letter from R S Waddell criticizes the powder used in the Georgia turret, citing spontaneous combustion and urging scrutiny. President Roosevelt responds to Admiral Brownson on the Georgia disaster and a separate equity case delays.
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Peoria
R. S. Waddell
Tthe Buckeye Powder Company
Battlership
Georgia
Roosejelt
Explosives Committee of
Great Britain
United States
Cons
Oyster Bay
Brownson
Roosevelt
Thomas
Controversy Over North Carolina 2-Cent Fare
Asheville July 27 Developments in the railroad rate law controversy unfold with warrants for President Finley of the Southern railway and City Ticket Agent Wilson. Finley is taken to federal court after habeas corpus proceedings, while Wilson faces a 30 day chain gang sentence for a law violation. Officials travel to Raleigh to seek a settlement as Judge Pritchard oversees releases and hearings.
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Asheville
Finley
Southern Railway
Wilson
Battery Park Hotel
Pritchard
United States
Iwo
Reynolds
Lake Toxaway
Southern
Raleigh
Koreans Driving the Japanese Out
Seoul July 27 guards line railways as troops and rioters scour Korea. In Kyong Son province Japanese dwellings are burned after attacks on police, with six injured as Koreans drive Japanese to their boats.
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Seoul
Korea
Kyong Son
Clash at The Hague Over Contraband Policy
British Lord Reay and General Porter clashed at The Hague over war contraband in a breezy exchange noted as signaling strained Anglo American relations. Reay cited a 1857 Marcy note arguing abolition of contraband, while Porter urged preferring Roosevelt era policy to outdated arguments.
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the Hague
Lord Reay
General Porter
Reay
United States
Marcy
Washon
Great Britain
Porter
Roosevelt
Matey
Workers vow to continue strike after steel firm refusal
Duluth Minnesota July 27 striking dock workers read a United States Steel refusal to bargain with the union. The men voted to stay out and fight the strike to the end. In Kewanee Illinois July 27 William Malaney, a county farmer, lies dying after ingesting poison found in a bottle his father admitted he had tampered with to catch a thief. His father was arrested.
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Duluth
Minn
Mveeney
Tris
Mayer Cullum
United States Steel Corportion
Kewanee
William Malaney
Here
Brownsville Riot Witnesses Promise New Evidence On Riot
Washington reports direct evidence Brownsville was not shot up by three infantry companies but by an organized band of desperate men. New witnesses, deported from Brownsville for safety, will testify before the senate military affairs committee. Marshall and Stewart of the Constitutional league arrange to reveal leaders and exonerate colored soldiers.
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Washington, D. C
Brownsville
Texas
25Th Infantry
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Brown Fue
Senate
Tional League
N. B. Marshall
Washington
Constitutional League
Gilchrist Stewart
New York
Wimer
Foraker
Messrs
Marshall
Stewart
Harvard College
Government Coal Lands Vast Says Secretary Woodruff
Acting Secretary Woodruff states the government holds millions of acres of coal land. He notes surveys show over 60 million acres in western townships with workable coal, with more than 28 million acres examined this year. He warns a coal famine next winter could result from failure to mine, and cites government lands held at minimum prices from $10 to $75 per acre.
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Secy. Woodruff
Washington
Woodruff
Yester
Geological Survey
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Editor Guilty of Libel in Kankakee Case
Thomas B. Collins editor of the Evening Democrat was found guilty of criminal libel on a complaint by attorney W H Hunter. The articles were 23 words and implied possible disbarment talks without giving reasons. Penalty not yet imposed.
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Thomas B. Collins
Kankakee
Evening Democrat
W. HH. Hunter
Hunter
Low Express Tariff Stands in Nebraska
Federal Judge W H Munger in Omaha held that the Sibley law reducing express rates by 25 percent is constitutional and denied the express companies request for a temporary injunction against the Nebraska railway commission enforcing the measure.
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Omaha
Neb
W. H. Munger
Sibley
Nebraska Railway Commission
Negro implicates white saloonkeeper in Alabama murder
Calvin Coleman a negro was hanged in Montgomery for the murder of J. A. Ley, a white man, and on the scaffold confessed implicating W. N. Fisher, a prominent white saloonkeeper present at the hanging. Fisher denied hearing the confession but said he was examined by the grand jury last week.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Calvin Coleman
J. A. Ley
W. N. Fisher
Fisher
Senator Pettus To Follow Morgan
A Hot Springs telegram says United States Senator Edmund W Pettus of Alabama is dying after becoming unconscious at the breakfast table and remaining so since yesterday. Governor's wife Blanchard dies in Mineral Wells Texas. New Orleans reports her death on July 27.
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Hot Springs
N. C
United States
Edmund W. Pet
Tis
Alabama
New Orleans
Newtoe G& Blanchard
Louisiana
Mineral Wells
Texas
Iowan Arrested Admits Identity in Cal Forgery Case
Bakersfield California July 27 George MacKeown arrested on advice from Webster City Iowa admits in county jail he is the man named in the warrant He was manager and secretary of Northwestern Felt Shoe company He denies embezzling funds or setting fire to destroy the factory Webster City Iowa July 27 George MacKeown a society and clubman has eluded Pinkertons for four years It is charged that forged invoices hid a $15000 embezzlement and that he burned the store to conceal the crime
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Bakersfield
Cal
George MacKeown
Webster City
Iowa
Northwestern Felt Shoe Company
Pinkertons
Minnesota Supreme Court Awards Damages To Mail Clerks
In St Paul Minnesota the Supreme Court ruled railway mail clerks on duty are passengers on the road they serve. The decision in A L M Decker versus the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul road sustains a $1 verdict for damages after he caught a cold from a defective car door.
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Minnesota
Argentine Turmoil Sparks Brazilian Troop Deployment
A revolutionary movement erupts in a northern Argentine province near Brazil. The Brazilian government sends troops to the frontier to prevent a breach of neutrality and maintain border security.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Deere named to Illinois and Michigan canal board
Governor Deneen appointed Charles H. Deere of Moline to the Illinois and Michigan canal commission to succeed W. R. Newton of Kendall County, whose term has expired, continuing Springfield duties.
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Springfield
Deneen
Charles H. Deere
Moline
Ilinois and Michigan Canal Commission
W. R. Newton
Kendall County
New Salem Scout Cruiser Aims to Track Enemy
Hope of the Navy centers on a new scout cruiser Salem to locate and report enemy movements. Salem will reach 24 knots, boosting wartime efficiency. In Portsmouth, the battleship Bellerophon of the Dreadnought class was launched. Washington saw bids open for Bremerton dry dock, F McLellar & Co. lowest at 1,192,284.
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England
Quincey
Mass
Salem
Portsmouth
Bellerophone
Henry Battenburg
Washington
F. McLellar & Co., Incorporated
Seattle
Wash
Bremerton Naval Station
Puget Sound
Sever Relations Reported Between Venezuela and United States
The Venezuelan government replied to Secretary Root's second note on arbitration. The Foreign Office has handed the answer to American Minister Russell. Some quarters fear the reply may lead to severing diplomatic relations between Venezuela and the United States.
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Acas
Russell
Root
Venezuela
United States
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