Condensed weekly roundup spans wars, politics and disasters
A broad survey notes the army bill keeps a $1,000,000 militia item, while the Indian school at Carlisle is under review. Reports cover tidal devastation in the Dutch East Indies, political upheavals in Russia and the United States, major fires and industrial accidents, and security debates in Congress plus international tensions and notable deaths.
Miscellaneous News Highlights From the Era
A steamship Ponce towed to Bermud as with a broken shaft. all aboard safe. A Kentucky murder case yields a confession implicating Hargis and Callahan. Illinois Central row over charges. Gov Deneen moves to sue. Walter Bogle Jr. dies from a gunshot, family suspects accident. Large fire at Lancaster tobacco warehouse causes around 1 million in losses. Charles Curtis named US senator by Republican caucus. Acetylene gas explosion at a Wilmington card party kills two, injures many. Riverdale principal Gibson drowns while rescuing a skating teen. Hamburg court mandates North German Fire Insurance cover SF quake losses. Tennessee legislature backs Roosevelt on Brownsville negro soldiers. Cuba sees first yellow fever absence since August. Roosevelt receives note about Legion of Honor for Prof. Trander Mathews. Fourteen Texas senators seek probe of Valley and Davidson. Minneapolis mills idle for lack of cars. Kentucky racing board upheld as constitutional. Robbery at Banfield bank. thief fled with a sum. Ohio governor orders investigation into Cleveland hospital cruelty expose. Riot deaths and clashes reported at Nogales.
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Ponce
New York
Bermudas
John Smith
B. D. Cox
Kentucky
Hargis
Callahan
Cox
Harahan
Illinois Central
Deneen
Walter 8. Bogle, Jr
Crescent Coal Company
Chicago
S. R. Moss & Co
Lancaster
Charles Curtis
United States
Henson
Woodman's Hall
Wilmington
Elbert W. Gibson
Riverdale
Mich
Harry Valance
North German Fire Insurance Company
Hamburg
San Francisco
Tennessee
Roosevelt
Brownsville
Tex
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinna Ti
Atate
Banfield
Clevetate
Harris
Ohio
Two Negroes Kill Man and Wife In Oklahoma Territory
Two hundred Black residents flee Chickasha toward Womack to protect a gang of Negroes accused in the murder of a white man and his wife at a tent. Neighbors interrupt with a deadly potential race war as bands of armed whites pursue the fugitives.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Chickasha
I. T
Womack
Indian Territory
Train wreck at Barney New Mexico claims five lives
Rock Island passenger No 30 crashed into an open switch at Barney New Mexico 190 miles north of El Paso. Five killed eight injured. Victims include engineer B Ackley and fireman C J Redfield both of Carrizozo. Unidentified passenger and a Mexican laborer among the dead. Eight hurt none fatally. Wreck followed January 2 Volland Kansas collision with No 29 that killed 32 and injured over 80.
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el Paso
Tex
Rock Island
Chicago
Barney
N. M
B. Ackley
Carrizozo
C. J. Redfield
Volland
Kan
Wedding Cake Tragedy Sparks On Bridge Fatal Shooting
On the Forty third street bridge in Pittsburg two men and 16 foreigners witness a cake being dashed from a bride to be's companion. Frank Fabisz is mortally wounded and dying at West Penn hospital after a pistol shot. The accused shooter is disputed by witnesses and the suspect’s wife.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Forty-third Street
Frank Fabisz
West Penn Hospital
John Nowiesell
Fabisz
Nowicsell
Burglary Ends in Shootings at Mamaroneck Home
Patrick Connolly the 60 year old highway commissioner of Mamaroneck and his son in law Clarence Hilleck were shot by two burglars trying to break into their Palmer Avenue residence. Connolly was critically wounded with a lung injury while Hilleck was grazed by a bullet but expected to recover. The attackers then fled toward Larchmont as Westchester County police search for them.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
Jan
Patrick Connolly
Clarence Hilleck
Palmer Avenue
Connoly
Connolly
Larchmont
Westchester County
Dead Man on Ohloan Identified as Urbana Man
The body found along the Wabash railroad tracks Friday night near Detroit has been identified as John Nylan of Urbana. Authorities report the identification by initials and fragments of location, with Urbana connected to the deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
John Nylan
Urbana
Humanity and Its Duties in Education From Emile
An excerpt from Rousseau via Emile argues education shapes the social self. It frames the child as the race’s future, duty as debt to humanity, society, and state. It stresses lifelong study of relations from childhood to adulthood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Emile
Still Useful Though Editor Looks to New Role
The Hughesopolis Gazette editor frets over Muraik catching gibbering paresis. His assistant suggests keeping him on staff by assigning him to write the answers-to-queries column, easing the worry while keeping him employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughesopolis Gazoot
Muraik
Wealthy Hindu Prodigal Worker Plans Indian Labor Reform
Gashavant G. Pandit a rich high caste Hindu and Baroda gaekwar protege is found working as a common laborer in an Roscoe North Dakota acid factory. He says industrial conditions in India are deplorable and intends to help revolutionize them upon return.
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Gashavant G. Pandit
Gaekwar
Baroda
Roscoe
Teaching the Catechism in St. Albans Sanity
An enterprising superintendent of a St. Albans Sunday school began catechism at the end. After questions on holy communion and confirmation, he asked what precedes baptism. A lively urchin replied, A baby, sir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Albans
Bowman testimonial praises Peruna cure in forty eight hours
Chas. W. Bowman of Lanham Maryland a 1st Lieutenant and adjutant of the 4th M S M Cav Vols writes endorsing Peruna. He says he cured a severe cold in forty eight hours and uses it as prevention and recommends it to friends. He notes his family uses it for similar ailments and asks readers to request the free Peruna Almanac for 1907 from their druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. W. Bowman
M. S. M. Cav
Lanham, Md
Peruna
Cavern Dwellers Across Africa and Beyond
The piece describes widespread cave living from Africa to Abyssinia and German East Africa. It notes cave homes along the Strait of Gibraltar and Tebessa Algeria, cave monasteries in Goba, Abyssinia, and vast chambers near Tanga inhabited by millions of bats, including a five foot wingspan specimen.
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Africa
Strait of Gibraltar
Tebessa
Algeria
Djourf
Wadi Hallail
Galite
Matmata
Medennie
Tunisia
Goba
Abyssinia
Tanga
German East Africa
First Twinge of Relief From Rheumatism Prompts Portland Feat
In Portland Sonia Co of Michigan reports Frank Little a notable citizen cured of a five year rheumatism ordeal by Dr Williams Pink Pills. He recounts severe pains numb limbs sleepless nights heart angst and stomach inflammation before finding relief after starting the pills as a friend’s recommendation in Portland.
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Frank Little
Portland
Sonia Co
Mich
Williams
Pink Pilla
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Court of Appeals
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Great Harriman Railway
Albert A. Chittenden
Maria Novack
Thomas Novack
Broadway
Thirty-second
Thirty-third Street
John J1. Graham
Graham & Morton Transportation Company
Lake Michigan
St. Joseph
Beatrice Kobbe
W. A. Kobbe
Raymond D. Little
All Angels’ Protestant Episcopal Church
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Folk
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Muzaffar-Ed-Din
Shah
Persia
Teheran
Michigan Stove Works
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Knute Nelson
Joseph M. Dixon
United States Senate
Clark
Helena
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Lee Mantle
Hhull
Wade
London Aero Club
James Gordon Bennett
George D. McClellan
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H. A. Mudge
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