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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1907
Page
2
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District Attorney Jerome openly defies Justice Fitzgerald by refusing to submit certain authorities. The Thaw case proceeds with Mrs Thaw on the stand, detailing Harry Thaw’s mental state after Evelyn Nesbit’s story, as the court debates lunacy proceedings and testimony planning continues.
A roundup of unrest and crime dominates the page. Dowie followers in Zion City force a joint funeral for both Voliva factions amid broader labor strikes and political moves. Reports include rail strikes, shipyard tie ups a murder case and a fire loss in East Chicago.
New York jurors near final deliberations as District Attorney Jerome pivots from lunacy to murder in the first degree. James Clinch Smith recounts Thaw's calm talk with Stanford White's brother on Madison Square Garden night, supporting a sane defendant theory.
Indictments allege board members Fred Immel and Fred Lied plus other officials and company executives took bribes tied to the East Broad street paving contract. Confessed statements mention $3,000 and $2,000 payments, with alleged kickbacks across multiple city figures and a resigned assistant engineer.
A National Tribune piece recalls the Forty sixth Iowa under Col. D B Henderson guarding fronts near Collierville Tennessee in 1864. A foraging party returns with a bright twelve year old enslaved boy named John Allen who joins company C as guide. He helps dodge a rooster raid as women threaten to whip the chicken thief. The tale ends with the chicken confiscation and courtly punishment proposed by Henderson.
A fierce explosion aboard the French battleship Jena at Toulon kills Capt. Adigard and Capt. Vertiez, with 70 to 80 bluejackets dead and hundreds injured. Rear Admiral Manceron and others suffer injuries as the after section is blown apart.
Federal grand jury returns indictments against F A Holbrook and nine church furniture makers plus nine school furniture firms claiming they control 80 percent of the national pew and school desk market. Two petitions seek injunctions to restrain further violations of the Sherman act.
Mrs. Russell Sage announces a ten million dollar endowment for the Sage Foundation to improve social and living conditions in the United States. The foundation is described in a bill introduced in the New York legislature.
The fourth annual convention of the American Road Makers' association convened Tuesday in Carnegie Music Hall Pittsburgh. Community leaders, engineers and officials gathered to discuss road policy and infrastructure plans for the region.
The retirement leaves Rear Admiral Sigsbee in active service as one of the last two high naval officers from the Spanish American War era, alongside Dewey and Evans.
Report notes nations expanding undersea fleets with England targeting 2 boats, France also 2, Russia at 29, and Japan extending its program. The brief hints at rapid naval buildup and balance shifting on submarine capabilities.
Rebecca P. Baird, heir to a Pennsylvania fortune and cousin to Senator Boies Penrose and Judge Edward Biddle, died in Carlisle after turning eighty two. As a Civil War era beauty she aided army hospital supply efforts and counted Fitzhugh Lee and Stonewall Jackson among her intimates in the 1850s. Her brother was Spencer F. Baird of the Smithsonian, and her extended network covered Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and New York social circles.
Madison Horn known as Uncle Matt, a Watrous New Mexico citizen, is believed to be the last surviving participant in the Seminole Indian war in Florida. His lineage includes a grandfather who served under Washington in the Revolution and a father who fought with Harrison in the War of 1812. Horn also joined bodies with General Price in the Mexican War.
A man with a small black vase is hailed from an upper story by a caller who insists he attend his wife. The fixer says he is not a doctor but fixes talking machines, and the caller asks him to stop the wife who has talked for five hours.
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