27 May 1907
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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1907
Page
1
May reports from Swatow and Canton recount Sino unrest and a German mission attacked in Lien Chow. Troops mobilize toward the Mping district as violence escalates amid rumors of further strikes and reprisals.
Rock Island high school won a close dual track meet from Moline by three points after a disputed 220 hurdle finish. Angel of Rock Island and Hall of Moline finished neck and neck with the tape broken. protest sparked a rules review. Officials later confirmed the result while noting a needed rule update.
Jury charges six Frisco residents with conspiracy and bribery tied to falsified auctions and a large scale investment scheme. Prosecutors allege fourteen government officials and associated executives accepted payments totaling substantial sums in exchange for favorable treatment and policy manipulation.
Thirteen lives lost and 22 injured as tornadoes swept northern Texas on Saturday night. Wills Point suffered the worst damage with one woman and three children killed and seven seriously injured. Nineteen dwellings and many outbuildings were destroyed. Martin Mills 20 miles south saw destroyed mills and three unidentified dead, with a white man and his wife badly hurt. Emery, county seat of Rains county, reported severe damage to several cabins and many injured, mostly African American residents. A coroner noted possible drug influence in a death case and a related arrest occurred inside the same police district amid ongoing legal actions.
Cossette Keffie a Muscatine girl aged fourteen or fifteen leapt from the Muscatine High Bridge into the Mississippi River after a quarrel with her sweetheart. Her body was not recovered. She had recently threatened self harm and was living with family near the river.
The May 27 report from Boise notes juror LB Tourtellotte Wake is retained despite showing opposition to capital punishment. The defense and state appear to gamble on his views as the case seeks a supreme solution on the death penalty amid questions of juror disqualification and trial regularity.
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous personal names and scattered terms with unclear context. Key names appear as Livan Te Cowhew Mu Sullivan and M Menzel along with various unordered words and initials, but no coherent event or place emerges. The text does not yield a definite action, date, or organization to summarize into a clear news item.
Police believe a New York man killed a priest by drugging him and placing the victim alive in a trunk, causing suffocation. The crime appears tied to money, with the body found after an attempt to ship clues from Chicago. Autopsy notes indicate the priest was drugged and died from suffocation, with injuries not from the cause of death.
Chicago May 27 reports say frost affected wheat across several states lifting prices. September contracts rose to about 1 105. Heavy frost at times hit Kansas Nebraska and surrounding areas while early trading was not very active.
May 27 Hoston reports a 1 percent wage rise for 500 dollar operatives in Rhode Island land southeastern and western Massachusetts and other southern New England areas. A further 5 percent increase is anticipated next month in other districts. The cotton mills of New England employ over 200,000 workers.
In Harbor Beach Michigan a wooden steamer and a Bany barge carried ore from Escanaba to Late Erie. Dense fog at Port Austin forced crew rescue by life savers as heavy seas raged and a northwest wind prevailed. In London stock jobbers, May reports note the failure of Robert Bea & Co, copper share traders.
Lieutenant Governor James Dunsmuir and party, missing weeks on a bear hunt at Gardiner Inlet, were rescued by the steamer Queen City after their steamer Thistle burned in Queen Charlotte Sound following a bunker explosion caused by spontaneous combustion. The travelers arrived home safely yesterday.
Noted Omaha figure Pat Crowe, previously tried for kidnapping Eddie Cudahy and acquitted, is again in trouble, arrested as a common vagrant. The developing case places Crowe in custody amid ongoing scrutiny of his past criminal notoriety.
The Western roads will raise running times starting June 8 when Rock Island reads the timetable from Chicago. Time gains extend toward San?icee and Kansas City, with Chicago to Denver gaining about four and a half hours overall. St Louis to Denver sees a one hour shift after a tough compromise. Ohio to San Francisco, and other routes, remain under adjustment for safety and economy. A Rochester, N Y dateline notes the changes amid other items.
Funeral services for Theodore Tilton held at the American Church on Rue De Berri with under 30 attendees. He was laid to rest at Montparnasse Cemetery after a brief ceremony, and the body may not be transported to the United States.
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