06 Aug 1907
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1907
Page
1
Tangier dispatch reports the French cruiser Galilee and the Spanish gunboat Du Chayla bombarding Casa Blanca and surrounding villages. Moors attacked the city. 150 killed in the town battery and villages. a Franco Spanish landing followed and guards were posted at foreign consulates.
Pitsburg Aug 6 Six persons were killed and eighteen injured in a wreck of the Titusville Express south bound on the Pennsylvania road ten miles from Kittanning Pa today.
A fast moving passenger train crashed on a curve after a detached freight car blocked the southbound track. Three cars derailed and wrecked as a delegation from the First M. E. Church of Kittanning rode along with Armstrong county visitors. The wife and son of Alonzo Hough were killed and three daughters injured. Hough fainted upon hearing the news.
Salt Lake City August 6 The resignation of Ezra Thompson as mayor of Salt Lake was sent to the city council last evening. He was elected in November 1905 by the American party. His retirement follows the resignation of Chief of Police Sheets and signals internal differences within the party. Thompson’s term would have expired January 1.
Dayton reports Abe Cohan also known as Abe Gordon died in hospital after being shot while walking with Anna Markowitse who was killed by assault. Cohan had been delirious since the attack and police statements from him are regarded as of little value.
A woman nurse Miss Adelaide Wildred fought off an attacker with a hat pin on Manhattan Avenue at 106th Street. Police pursued the suspect Pietro Daurio a peddler after a fusillade of shots in Central Park. Police hunt another man who attempted to assault a 13 year old girl in an office building.
George Fraser of Twin Falls entertains Ivy W Lee of New York aboard a HarrimanLines publicity tour car to Pocatello and Twin Falls. Fraser, misled by the visitor's gender, hallucinates a western romance. he later plans to counter with letters to regional papers and even Budweiser to cope with the humiliation.
Seismographs at the Marine observatory registered a heavy earthquake shock this morning about 2500 miles away, with Trieste reporting the event as it occurred.
Local Electrical Workers union members on strike with Bell Telephone claim Utah Independent will be blocked from Idaho field unless they hire Bell linemen. Montana exchanges halt as federation of labor backs actions and threatens broader walkouts.
Helena Montana August 5 twenty telephone operators walk out in solidarity with line men After the action several cities including Butte lose service The Rocky Mountain Bell company seeks a temporary injunction against the boycott with arguments before U S Judge Hunt held yesterday and continued to September 4.
Sunflower Nebraska reports James Simpson a wealthy Scotts Bluff rancher wrote to twelve young women at Wessington Springs South Dakota offering marriage and adoption of the orphan girl. The eldest bride candidate requires proof of sincerity, home, abstinence from tobacco and liquor, chastity, propriety, home evenings, restraint from flirtation and clubs, and church attendance.
A Rexburg field reports several tragedies including the death of eleven year old Stella Hatham from a rifle accident at Hibbard and the drowning of Ariel Young, a three year old, in an irrigating canal near Jesse Lloyd’s farm. Additional items note a shooting case against C W Edwards, two suspects in a store burglary at St Anthony, and deaths and funerals in Rexburg including William Morris Jr and a man named Fred Somers.
Henry F. Lynch of the US battleship Georgia is missing after reportedly toppling over the ship in the Hudson River. His father Daniel Lynch insists foul play may be involved and urges a government inquiry into the incident tied to the turret explosion investigation.
A special Pullman car with pretty girls from Utah Idaho and Wyoming will accompany No 15 the Yellowstone Limited through the Gate City tonight. Miss Josie Carey of Pocatello and Miss June Hull of Montpelier are Idaho contestants. The six day trip will be joined by friends and a band of bachelors eager to see the party.
The Twin Falls North Side Land and Water company plans a grand opening on October 1 for 150,000 acres at Jerome and Wendell Idaho after a September 30 town lot drawing supervised by R. M. McCollum. A stage line will run Shoshone to Jerome with a post office to open, and financing offers include 25 deposit and staged payments. Local lodging, banks, and rail connections are being prepared to accommodate about 5000 attendees.
Private advices from Cleveland dated Aug 6 say John D Rockefeller's wealth funded a cure for meningitis. Dr Simon Pleanor of the Rockefeller Institute in New York developed a serum that reportedly cures the disease, with three successful experimental cases. He will return from Europe soon to publish details through medical channels.
At the Auditorium tonight the Dandy Dixie minstrels headline a program of colored minstrelsy led by the Campbell Brothers and the Cotton Pickers band. The show features The Royal Palmetto or The Royal Palmetto aria and a big olio with eleven acts, concluding with the farce A Fowl Deed and the Dixie College Rangers number.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.