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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1907
Page
2
The Haywood murder trial advances as the state adduces letters and Miners' Magazine articles while the defense seeks acquittal. Across the world, incidents include drownings in Mississippi, riots in Narbonne, a London underground system completion, and a Denver grand jury filing land fraud indictments.
The headless body of Walter Lamana, a seven to eight year old Italian boy, was found in a swamp near New Orleans after a kidnapping for a $6000 ransom. A suspect Italian group confessed to the murder. Other items mention a fatal crash on the New York Central near Pittsfield, four dead. a Hartford passenger train collision. a Rock Island murder, all part of a string of deadly incidents.
Elizabeth Loving testified in the Virginia murder trial of Judge William G. Loving claiming a man gave her whisky that left her dizzy and drugged. She said the incident led to an assault on a lonely road and to her later recounting the story to her father, who then killed Theodore Estes.
In Denver Acting President Mahoney faces a bold accusation amid a convention orbiting the fate of the Western Federation of Miners and its IWW ties. Vincent St John charges Mahoney used force to seize IWW records, while Mahoney defends actions as protective and denies any theft, saying the IWW was largely disorganized.
Washington reports rising trouble due to President Zelaya’s Central American union idea. The cruiser Milwaukee is ordered from Mare Island to La Union El Salvador, with collier Saturn directed to follow. The Milwaukee and Yorktown will coal at La Union via Saturn while Yorktown is at Acajutla.
Charles R. Richardson of Pittsburg was found guilty in criminal court on Tuesday for conspiring with Harvey P. Bostaph Joseph Flaherty and J H Millholland to bribe councilmen to pass the Pittsburg and Tube City railroad franchise ordinance.
Seven people perished when a ramshackle downtown tenement housing Italian families collapsed early Tuesday. Six victims were members of one Italian family as rescue workers searched the wreckage.
Ten Colorado citizens were arrested on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government under coal and timber laws. Indicted figures include John B. McMillan Robert Forester Otis B. Spencer F W Keitel John A Porter Edgar Biggs John J McGinnity Charles D McPhee Alexander Sulenberger and Charles H Freeman. The cases involve coal and timber lands in Routt La Plata Archuleta and Pagosa counties. Bonds set at 5000 each.
Clarence Darrow, appearing in Boise, outlines William Haywood's defense to the murder charge in the Steunenberg case. He denies a great conspiracy, defends the federation as a labor group, and accuses Mine Owners and Pinkertons of orchestrating a frame to destroy the organization. Orchard is portrayed as unreliable, with multiple denials and anticipated proof from named witnesses.
About 600 riveters calkers and fitters walked out at the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes engineering works. They refuse to return until all Italian strike breakers hired during the recent settlement are dismissed.
In St Paul Minnesota Mrs Clara N Lemon and her son Clarence were killed by lightning Monday while preparing a wire clothes line. The tragedy occurred during routine laundry chores leaving the community in shock.
In a San Francisco Chronicle recount, Brick Morse narrates a dramatic final game against Stanford at Recreation Grounds. He describes a slugging comeback after mistimed pitches, a head impact, and the ball rebounding off a home plate seat to return to the plate for a controversial hit.
A southern youth entering a New York law firm faced a learning moment when he began an opinion with I am clearly of opinion. Carter advised that on a minor point one should seek the preponderance of the doubt, a quip recorded by Success.
A village joke escalates when Zeke Weatherby steals a circus snake egg and places it in Hiram Hardapple’s incubator. The hatchling grows fast, swallowing chickens and the incubator before a hired hand spears the serpent. The postmaster and windmill agent recount the farce as a serious ordeal.
A reflection on the middle classes as the hardest working segment of the nation with life presses heavy burdens on them, voiced through the Christian Commonwealth observation.
A quotation argues adornment is a natural instinct, and stifling it harms women to the detriment of character and society, noting vanity as a defining human impulse. It frames self-adornment as a natural impulse rather than mere vanity.
The 1907 market notes show flour dull but about steady, No 2 red wheat at 97 1/2 cents, No 2 corn at 63 8 cents, clipped white oats at 50 1/4 to 44 cents, hay steady, cattle trading halted. Veals 5 to 8 dollars, sheep 4 to 5 dollars for wethers, lambs 7 to 8 dollars, hogs 6.50 to 6.60 dollars for Yorkers.
Cleveland prices include flour Minnesota spring at 5.25 to 5.50 dollars per bushel, No 2 red wheat 93 cents, No 3 yellow corn 57 4 cents, No 3 white oats 47 1 2 cents, best creamery butter 25 cents, strictly fresh eggs 16 cents, York state cheese 14 1 4 cents, New potatoes 1.10 to 1.20, best hay 21.50, cattle values for choice steers 5.25 to 5.50, calves 6.50 to 7.00, best wethers 5.00 to 5.25, spring lambs 7.00 to 7.75, yorkers hogs 6.20. Toledo prices include cash wheat around 9 47 6, cash corn 54 cents, cash goats 44 3 4 cents, cash cloverseed 9.20.
East Buffalo markets on June 26 quote cattle with steer prices from 5.60 to 6.60 and veal calves 7.00 to 7.75 while sheep range from 5.50 to 7.75 and hogs at 6.35. Pittsburg on the same date lists cattle with choice steers 6.10 to 6.25 and fair cattle 5.00 to 5.30.
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