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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1907
Page
6
Idaho headlines report frost and fruit losses in Payette valley, a boy injured during a McCammon ball game, a fatal self-inflicted gunshot by Charlen Ward of Almo, and assaults in Wallace. Other items note hospital opening in Pocatello, town fires at Idaho Fully, and a raft drowning near Mopcon. Community events include Fourth of July planning and state fair prep.
Salt Lake City witnesses a two day street car strike after workers won a wage increase. Motormen and conductors gain 25 cents per hour for first year then 20 cents, while barn men receive a 10 percent rise. Company agrees to non discrimination for active participants and two year term. Sympathizers attack cars with eggs and abuse. an officer is mobbed while ensuring order as police intervene.
Vienna dispatches say Montenegro faces a grave political crisis with a military government proclaimed. Premier Tomanovics tendered his resignation which Prince Nicholas accepted. Armed bands march on Cettinje and street fighting occurs near Podigretea leaving several dead or wounded.
An anarchist identified as Drussela and eight daggers with a loaded revolver were found in a church where Prince Albert of Belgium was visiting. Three other men confessed to being French anarchists and were arrested nearby. Authorities believe the four planned to assassinate the prince. Albert, nephew of King Leopold, had recently been named heir to the Congo State and sworn in as a senator.
Judge Sanborn of the St Paul court wrote the opinion for the United States Court of Appeals Western District of Missouri affirming district court judgments against Armour Packing Swift Morris and Cudahy Packing for accepting 12 cent per hundred pound concessions on through bills from Kansas City to Christiana and other foreign points. Judge Hook and Judge Adams concur. These are the first of the rebate cases and will guide further action until the Supreme Court reviews the decision.
John Shire confesses to killing Morris Chaplin, a Denver auctioneer, in 1906 after claiming he was haunted by thoughts of the murder for a year. He says Chaplin waved a roll of bills during cards, targeted him for robbery, and fled into Chaplin’s home where Chaplin’s daughter alarmed her father as a stool rose to strike. The killer, now in jail, says a mob of union men pursues him and the sound of Chaplin’s body falling still haunts him.
Commander Robert Peary warns that about $60,000 is needed to finance the summer dash to the north pole. He expresses deep concern over possible abandonment, but remains confident funds will arrive. He recalls the long effort and says securing money now would let him concentrate on expedition details.
The U S Supreme Court held that the North Carolina Corporation Commission can compel an Atlantic Coast Railroad to adjust its schedule to connect with another line at Selma, ruling the order concerns regulation not rates and does not amount to taking property without due process.
Washington Postmaster General and Mayor approve a detailed adjustment of rural free delivery carriers pay. The new schedule, effective July 1, raises compensation 9 to 25 percent based on miles traveled, with anticipated rural service costs for the next fiscal year around 25 million dollars.
Three herders Grover Cornett Peter Swanson and Al Swanson were attacked by seven masked men near White Water Colorado while driving a large Frisco Utah sheep herd. Peter Swanson was mortally wounded. the others were bound and left on the prairie as cattlemen and sheep owners pursue a search for the assailants.
Edward Collier a Kenosha chauffeur was found guilty of second degree manslaughter for striking William Dreyer with his car on July 23. He was sentenced to pay a $1,000 fine plus costs and to six months in the county jail.
Mrs. Lauren Holden 40 shot and killed her husband Lee Holden diviner and oils dealer at 97 Tabor Avenue then wounded her 15 year old son Louis Williams and killed herself. The family known in Providence. Husband and son died, wife died by self-inflicted gunshot. The mind of the wife thought unbalanced by nervous trouble. Married about five years.
In Guitersville Alan Bob Watts a young white man was hanged in the yard after a struggle with a knife. He resisted authorities until overcome by ammonia and force, coughing and moaning. Watts killed Perd Winkles a Confederate veteran to steal $80 pension money.
Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur arrives with staff from San Francisco to welcome General Kuroki the famed Japanese soldier. MacArthur will join Kuroki to meet the president's envoy and travel to Jamestown where Jig will be the nation’s guest.
Lexington jury after twenty four hours of deliberation reports a mistrial in the case of Bil Britton charged with the assassination of Town Marshal Jas A Cockrill. Jury stood for acquittal and four for conviction. trial over two weeks. Senator Hargis and Judge Hargis among those charged in the feud case.
In Lahore British India marks of unrest among Hindoo students have prompted the district authorities to arm volunteers with rifles and cartridges. Riots in Lahore and the Panjab, plus attacks on Europeans, have led the government to consider forceful suppression if needed. The Mohammedan population has largely backed the authorities, and enlistment in volunteers has surged, drawing five supreme court judges and other high officials into private ranks.
The boiler of a freight engine drawing a caboose exploded near O'Fallon Missouri injuring and killing crew aboard the engine and caboose. Engineer Paul Lynch Fireman Frank Appleby and Brakeman George Brown, all of Moberly, Mo., were killed. Conductor Dessert, badly hurt, ran a quarter mile to flag a passenger train from Kansas City and saved it before collapsing. He is believed to die.
Count Witte, former premier, spoke in the council of Empire urging liberal backing for changes to statutes on expert aid to committees in the Douma. He criticized the Empire council as ineffective and urged active participation or risk being seen as a useless state mechanism. The Liberal press welcomed his stance.
Former Oregon congressman and former General Land Office commissioner Binger Hermann was acquitted of destroying public records after twelve weeks of trial and twenty one hours of jury deliberation. He thanked each juror and his counsel.
A mysterious illness is reported spreading through mining camps in Durango Mexico with many fatal cases. News mentions the deaths of Antonio Alvader Garcia and Alfonso Brassari noted as prominent mine operators of Torreon.
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