Brief global notes on Haywood trial and world events
Trials in Boise involve witness testimony on the Vindicator mine explosion and alleged conspiracy. Clarence Darrow defends Haywood while other cases span rail, crime, fires, and world conflicts. notable items include grain gambling ruling, Carnegie endowment offer, Hongkong theater fire, and volcanic regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William D. Haywood
Boise
Harry Orchard
Vindicator
Haywood
Idaho
William F. Davis
Orchard
Porah
Frank Steunenberg
Hercules
K. C. Sterling
Independence
Steunenberg
Great Hercules
Subpoena Clash With Rockefeller Triggers Personal Appearance
In Chicago Judge Landis warned John S Miller that Rockefeller must appear in person for a subpoena against Standard Oil. Ohio sued Standard Oil for anti trust violations. the jury failed to reach a verdict and was discharged. Other items include Mrs Mary Baker Eddy competency study, French deputies backing to enforce law respect, and several arrests and awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas B. Evans
University of Cincinnati
Robert Simpson
Omaha Gantry Club
Hinsdale
Fort Dodge
Chicago Board of Trade
Augustana College
Illinois
Andrew Carnegie
Baraga
Mich
Nester Estate Company
Birmingham
Ala
Chalifoux
Russia
Elmore F. Elliott
New York
C. Clark
Ohio
Columbus
J. E. Fulton
Sam Parker
Huntsville
Tenn
Monk Gibson
A. J. Conditt
Edna
Tex
Landis
Federal Court
Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
William D. Rockefeller
W. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
Yale
Harvard
Grant County
Walter Swinburne Hancock
London
Morenci
Aziz
3Utte
Mont
John S. Miller
Oil Trust
Great Combine
Edgar Aldrich
Littleton
N. H
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Robert N. Chamberlain
Supreme Court
French
Chamber of Deputies
Clemenceau
John J. Mooney
Waverly
Minn
Lewin A. Wood
George W. Wood
Bruce D. Tuttie
Martin P. Quigley
St. Paul
United States
Wisconsin Assembly
Senate
W. F. Bechtel
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Minneapolis, Minn
Pollack
St. Louis
Eumeric
Honolulu
Madeiras
Territorial Immigration Board
The
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union Ad
Nally
Postal Telegraph Company
John Hall
New Zealand
Welling
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charles Arms
Clarksville, Tenn
Edgar E. George
Parsons, Pa
Minneapolis banker a embezzlement suspect and more
A string of brief items includes J A Barnes a former president of Minnesota Title Insurance and Trust accused of embezzling 13000. Other notes mention a Copenhagen reward for returning 15000 in valuables. political resignations and awards. regatta results. fires in Jamestown expo area. tornado tolls. and various accidents and legal developments.
United States Steel Plans Gas Fueled Plants To Save Costs
United States Steel Corporation will replace coal with gas across its plants. The Edgar Thomson experiment at Braddocks shows gas engines blowing furnaces, with Gary Indiana set to add 20 engines costing about 3 million dollars. The program includes vast gas piping and purification systems to power rail mills and reduce coal use by millions of dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Edgar Thomson
Corporation
Braddocks
Steel Corporation
Gary
Ind
Francis Murphy Dead Temperance Leader Remembered
Francis Murphy, noted temperance lecturer, died after a long illness in Los Angeles. He rose to prominence in Pittsburg in 1876 leading a blue ribbon campaign that drew thousands to the Murphy pledge. Library Hall hosted fifteen meetings before funds of 15000 dollars were raised from prominent supporters for expansion nationwide.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Francis Murphy
Pittsburg
Library Hall
Murphy
United States
Ohio License Tax Rejected as Unconstitutional
Columbus headlines show Secretary of State Thompson rejecting offers to pay a state license tax from touring automobilists. The 1906 opinion by Attorney General Ellis states the automobile license law is unconstitutional for lack of uniform operation, depriving municipalities of street-use regulation, and due to indefiniteness and uncertainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Thompson
Ohio
Ellis
Mineral Wells Fire Threatens City Landmarks
A Sunday night blaze in Mineral Wells Texas endangered the town with about 10 000 visitors nearby. The fire began in a skating rink not yet opened and spread to the sanitarium four story brick building housing patients all of whom were moved out with no loss of life. The bath house Lithia pavilion and part of the Wann hotel burned and about 30 small frame structures were destroyed. Loss pegged at 100000 dollars.
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Mineral Wells
Tex
South
Mineral Wells Sanitarium
Mineral Wells Bath House
Lithia Pavilion
Wann
Not Guilty in Loving Murder Trial Verdict
A Nelson county jury acquits ex Judge William G. Loving after 45 minutes deliberation in Houston Virginia. Loving faced murder charges for shooting Theodore Estes son of Sheriff M K Estes following a buggy ride with Elizabeth Loving who testified she was assaulted by the judge.
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Judge Loving
Houston
Miss Loving
Russia
Emperor
Stolypin
St. Petersburg
Lloyd Baxter Company
Parkersburg
W. Va
Montpelier, C
Caroline Islands
Elizabeth Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Arlington Heights
Mass
Pittsburg & Connellsville Railroad
B. & O. Corporation
Pennsylvania
Harry E. Ricker
Metropolitan Opera House of
St. Paul, Minn
Anglesey
England
Austria
Irving T. Bush
Bush Terminal Company
New York
Cornelia A. Miller
Joliet
Charles Fish
Harry Vaughan
Edward Raymond
George Ryan
Jefferson City
John Clay
New York City
Elizabeth Loving
Theodore Estes
Estes
Andrew Feine
Milwaukee
Elsie Volkmann
China
Canton
Hongkong
William G. Loving
Nelson
M. K. Estes
Nelson County
Loving
Young Estes
Cax Ridge
Government Finances Show Record Year 1907 Receipts
Washington reports official figures for the fiscal year 1907 ending June 29. Total receipts reached 665,306,134, the highest yet, with customs at 333,230,126 and internal revenue at 270,309,388. Expenditures totaled 578,360,592, leaving a surplus of 86,945,542. Working balance exceeds 83,000,000 with 171,000,000 on call in national banks.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Philippine
Revealed Unions Secrets In Pinkerton Trial
Morris Friedman, ex Pinkerton stenographer, testified at W. D. Haywood trial in Boise detailing secret agent reports on unions in Cripple Creek Victor Globeville Colorado City Trinidad and Denver. The papers showed surveillance of the Western Federation of Miners and United Mine Workers during 1903 04.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
Morris Friedman
Pinkerton
Denver
Colorado City
Trinidad
Western Federation of Miners
United Mine Workers of America
Colorado
Federation
Friedman
Clarence Darrow
Pinkerton Agency
Pinkertons
Borah
Secret Service
Miners Union Adopts Socialist Preamble for New Party
Denver convention of the Western Federation of Miners approves a socialist preamble to the federation constitution and plans a Chicago convention to organize an industrial and political party aiming to nominate a national ticket. The federation leaders expect the Brewery Workers union to form the nucleus of the new organization.
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Denver
Col
Western Federation of Miners
Chicago
Federation of Miners
Brewery Workers’ Union
Treasury begins issue of small notes and new gold certificates
The treasury department started carrying into effect a law authorizing the secretary of the treasury to issue all required small bills. A new $10 gold certificate replaces large gold certificates while small silver certificates are issued in large quantities and a new $5 note replaces the silver certificates of the same value.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
New York Central Runs All Trains by Electric Locomotives
At Grand Central New York last night every incoming and outgoing train was drawn by electric locomotives marking the first total electric operation. The electric system was to be in operation by law on July 1 1908.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Grand Central Station
Wages Hiked for Chicago Street Car Workers
About 7,968 workers on Chicago streetcar lines and four elevated railroads received a 7 to 10 percent wage increase on Monday. The raise affects nearly all employed on the city's street transit system.
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Chicago
Ill
End of an Era as Ashford Clark Hotel Falls to Ruins
The old Clark hotel at Ashford, once a famed Connecticut tavern along the Boston and Hartford turnpike, stands dismantled with roof sagging. Once run by Dyer Clark from 1804, it passed to Henry Hall in 1897 and has since decayed, its last guest departed after hosting stage drivers and even Washington on a Sunday visit.
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Connecticut
Clark
Ashford
Dyer Clark
Hartford
Nehemiah Howe
A Clark
Henry F. Hall
New England
Millionaire Croquet Fiend John W Gates In Portrait Pose
The New York Press describes John W Gates as a croquet devotee, pictured on his country lawn with a croquet mallet ready to stroke. He wears a Panama hat and white shoes, showing intense concentration while playing, despite rivals like Rockefeller and Carnegie favoring golf. Mrs Guthrie of Pittsburg is praised for promoting croquet among matrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Gates
Panama
Gates
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
George W. Guthrie
Pittsburg
New York Press
Two France Dinner Delivers Jest from Tilton to Marston
The New York Tribune recalls Theodore Tilton in Paris who received Philip Marston’s plea to test the two France dinner at the Pal is Royale. Tilton’s reply urged not to demand a too frank critique of that two France dinner.
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Theodore Tilton
Paris
Philip Marston
Mr. Tilton
Palais Royale
France
T. T
N. Y. Tribune
Scribe Deflects Uncertainty With Imagined Character
A youthful scribe confesses that using dialect lets him place blame for grammar and punctuation uncertainties on an imaginary character. The Washington Star quotes the exchange as a witty remark on writing.
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Washington Star
Dining Again Promptly In Royal Magazine
A witty exchange from Royal Magazine features Stiggins asking a friend for another dinner and the Hungry Guest replying that the meal will be at once. The light humor centers on the social prompt to dine soon.
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Stiggins
Markets in Several Cities July 2 1907
New York and other cities report grain and livestock prices. Prices include flour patents wheat corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes hay cattle veal sheep and hogs with ranges across Minneapolis Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
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New York
Minnesota
Cleveland
York State
East Buffalo
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J. A. Barnes
Minneapolis
Minnesota Title, Insurance and Trust Impany
George Hamfeldt
Copenhagen
Denmark
Hamfeildt
Orestes Ferrara
Hague
Cornell
Syracuse
Wisconsin
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Indian Territory
Small
Mackay
Postal Company
D. Leet Oliver
Sheffield Scientific School
Oyster Bay
Richard Croker
Orby
Campbell-Bannerman
House of Lords
House of Commons
Tola
Charlotte County
Virginia
Andrew Bauer
Simpson, Crawford & Co
Albert Woltemade
Alton
Anheuser- Busch Brewing Association
Billings
Thyra
Frederick
Adelbert
Kaiser
Sioux City
Missouri Railways
Hadley
United States Supreme Court
Erivan Square
Tiflis
San Francisco
W. F. Frear
Hawaii
Islands
John Chandler
Quincy
East St. Louis
Granite City
Central America
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Henry Harmes
Kankakee
Samuel Hill
Joan Hilhure
Conderay Lake
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Manhattan
Bronx Boroughs
N. Y
Charles R. Richardson
Harvey P. Bostaph
Joseph Flaherty
J. H. Milholland
Pittsburg & Tube City
W. R. Abbott
American National Bank
Fort Smith
Ark
J. Wilbur Chapman
Warsaw
Clark Hotel
Ashford, Conn
Toledo
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