Week’s News Recap: Disasters, Politics and Disputes
A long roundup details a deadly Southern Pacific wreck at Honda California killing 31 and injuring many as Shriners travel. other items include frosts devastating southwest fruit crops, political moves in Ohio and Kansas, a Newport jail raid, fires in Perry Iowa and a Kansas City university building loss, plus assorted murders, riots, strikes, and international incidents. The period also notes advances in tuberculosis study, legal actions, and notable deaths including Huysmans and Prince Alfonso.
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Southern Pacific
Honda
Cal
Reading
Buffalo
N. Y
Foraker
Newport
Senares
Velardena
Durango
Charles H. Hughes
Illinois
Excelsior Springs
Salvation Army of
Perry
European wheat outlook cites supply squeeze outside France
The European wheat market shows tight supply and rising prices driven by demand and stock shortages. Germany buys Australian and Argentine cargoes, plans 4,000,000 extra quarters by July, while damage to winter crops in Germany Romania Hungary and along the Danube cuts output.
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London
Eng
Germany
Russia
Roumania
Hungary
Danube
Europe
France
Liverpool
United States
Bucharest
Warsaw
Russian
Poland
Volga
South
Republican state central meeting cancelled amid party split
Columbus Ohio reports that the planned state central committee meeting and state leaders conference were cancelled after discussions with Gov Harris and Arthur I Vorys. The Taft and Foraker Dick factions remain divided, with potential open struggle and retirement of one side likely. Local Taft resolutions were adopted by the county Republican organization.
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Columbus
Republican State Central Committee
Walter F. Brown
Gov. Harris
Arthur I. Vorys
Taft
Foraker-Dick
Foraker
State Central Committee
Brown
Vorys
Important Postal Order Reduces Special Delivery Stamp Need
Washington reports that after July 1 no special delivery postage stamps will be required to ensure immediate delivery. Postmaster General Meyer ordered that letters or packages with ten cents of stamps bearing the words special delivery, in addition to regular postage, be treated as if they had a regulation special delivery stamp.
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Washington
D. C
Congress
Meyer
Two Men Electrocuted in Chicago Rail Rescue Try
In Chicago a laborer for the Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co. was killed last night when he fell across the third rail while attempting a rescue. His fellow worker Ara Mattha touched the live current and also died.
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Chicago
Ill
Frank Slevic
Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co
Ara Mattha
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds 9 MPH Speed Limit Law
Jefferson City Missouri The Missouri supreme court has sustained the state automobile law which limits speed to nine miles an hour.
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Missouri
Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
Dick calls off Ohio Republican conference to seek party harmony
Senator Dick announces indefinite postponement of the May 15 Columbus conference of state central and executive committees and Republican leaders. He says the gathering aimed to express sentiment and unite Ohio Republicans, not ratify deals or nominate candidates, and that failure to achieve unanimity ends the plan.
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Akron
Ohio
Republican State Executive Committee
Congress
Columbus
Midnight wedding seals union of Corey and Mabelle Gilman
William Ellis Corey of United States Steel and former actress Mabelle Gilman wed just after midnight at the Hotel Gotham Fifth Avenue. After the ceremony they sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm II to Hoboken and will honeymoon at Chateau Genis near Paris before returning to America around mid July.
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New York
William Ellis Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Mabelle Gilman
Hotel Gotham
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-fifth Street
Mrs. Corey
Paris
Chateau Genis
America
Mr. Corey
Hosiery Manufacturers Convene in Philadelphia
The National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers opens a weeklong convention in Philadelphia with about 300 artisans from across the country in attendance. Open sessions discuss a 15 percent price raise and reciprocity with Germany while Fred L. Simons notes manufacturers cannot fix prices, only values, to avoid disrepute at Washington.
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Philadelphia
National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers
Germany
Fred L. Simons
Washington
Steamer City of Cleveland Burned in Detroit
A magnificent new passenger steamer City of Cleveland built for the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. at Detroit Shipbuilding Co. was swept by fire Monday and is a total loss except for her hull while under construction for service between Detroit and Cleveland.
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San Francisco
Mexico
Guatemala
Jose Lima
Salvador
Legation
New York
International Mercantile Marine Company
Orlando EB. Willcox
National Soldiers’ Home
Washington
Coburg
Ont
Aurora Wittebort
University
Kansas City
Edwardsville
Ill
Harry Cole
Butte
Cole
Michael Pendergast
Sterling
W. R. Fulton
Wichita
Kan
Fulton
Flemingsburg
W. J. Bryan
Penn-Wyoming Copper Company
Grand Encampment
Wyo
Strombeli
Abraham Hummel
Dodge-Morse
Master Builders’ Association of
Berlin
A. Krech
Graf Waldersee
Ocean
William Schellhas
Winona
Minn
Gibson
Songo
Santiago
Manacas
Santa Clara
Palatine Hill
Rome
George de Mare
Maud Witteborn
Bonaparte
John William January
Charles W. Anderson
Sidney C. Love
Chicago
W. H. Kemble
Clay Kemble
Philadelphia
Europe
Hardy Islands
South Sea
Vancouver
Manuka
Homewood
Flossmoor
Carrie Sigsworth
Allegheny
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Hamlin Avenue
Jones Station
Hamilton
Chesapeake & Ohio Flyer
Louisville
Lexington
John Hibben
Princeton
Princeton University
Montana
North Coast Limited
Welch’s Spur
Engineer Clow
St. Louis
Marseilles
San Jose Ignacio
Uruguay
George W. Burchell
National Board of Underwriters
May Floyd
Piqua
Ban Upling
Puerto Cortez
Honduras
Guatemala City
Thomas C. Platt
Drug Trust
Indianapolis
United States Circuit Court For
District of Indiana
United States
John B. Kealing
Croydon
England
Palmer
Robert Cheat
Josef D. Desal
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
George Worthington
Nebraska
Henry C. Potter
Charles F. Turner
Ottawa
Toronto
Joseph Turcott
Laplonte
Tommy Burns
Los Angeles
Jack” O’brien
Pacific Athletic Club
Jamaica
Kingston
Cleveland
Detroit, Mich
City of
Detroit Shipbuilding Co
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co
Detroit
Wheat breaks dollar mark in sensational Chicago trade
In Chicago on Monday wheat surged past the dollar benchmark in a sensational development for the Chicago Board of Trade. Prices climbed as traders watched a historic moment unfold, signaling strong demand and market volatility.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Guests Make the Hotel Thee Yesterday and Today
The Hotel World argues modern hotels evolved from colonial inns, noting travelers value sociability and customization today. It contrasts old tavern hospitality with today’s guest driven service, saying travel pace and tech shaped hotels to fit contemporary needs.
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Hotel World
Monument to Money Makers in London Profits Debated
The Pall Mall Gazette notes London’s famous monument yields city profits with a $500 surplus forecast for the year. Tolls bring in $2,700, booklet sales about $70, while costs include painting $500 gas and water $60 $250, wages $1,300 clothing $? and a $225 pension grant.
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London
Pope
Pall Mall Gazette
Changed Opinion Shown by Mrs. Van Snibbs About Guffeigh
A newspaper dialogue notes Mrs. Van Snibbs shifting from doubting Guffeigh’s intelligence to praising him as one of the brightest men she has met. An overheard remark at the Bingsons involves her attire reflecting a middle aged style versus gay fashion.
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van Snibbs
Guffeigh
Bingsons
Capitalization in Finance and Poetry
A witty remark by Mr. Comrox about a relation between finance and poetry, noting that much depends on capitalization and how things sound. The Washington Star quotes him linking financial writing and verse through careful phrasing.
Bulger Visit Prompted Short Exchange in Boston Court
A Boston exchange reveals a line of inquiry about Bulger’s remarks. The Boston girl confirms he spoke of the judge in an unkind way, describing the comment as an insult by calling the judge an epidermis.
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Bulger
Boston
Markets Report May 15 1907 Across Several Cities
Regional price snapshots for flour wheat corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes and cattle hogs and sheep in New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Pittsburg. Notable figures include Minnesota spring patent flour 4.75 5.25 and hogs Yorkers 7.00 7.10 in New York. cattle prime steers 5.80 6.00 and sheep prime wethers 6.10 6.20 in Pittsburgh.
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New York
Minnesota
Cleveland
York State
East Buffalo
Pittsburg
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W. M. P. Richards
Carlisle
Samuel Cook
Ruston
Cook
Joris Karl Huysmans
H. Corby Company
Belleville
Mattie Connally
Maysville
Ale
Frank Albright
Supreme Court of Kansas
Peter Everhardy
Leavenworth
Grand Jury
Youngstown
Mahoning County
Sherman
Millinois
Elias Hartz
Edward Kemers
William Quinn
Greenville
Miss
James R. Palmer
New York City
Henry Clay
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Western Union Telegraph Company
Pullman Company
Kansas Corporation
Baltimore
Susan BP. Anthony
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Fin
Frank Billings
H. Clay Pierce
Waters- Pierce Oil Company
Texas
Shriners At
St. Paul
William D. Haywood
Steunenberg
Boise
Idaho
Queen Victoria
Spain
Alfonso Pio Christias Eduardo
Chicago Metropolitan
Scotland
W. E. Corey
The
Steel Trust
Roosevelt
Bostonese
Toledo
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