Review of a Week's Global News Highlights
A sweeping weekly digest covers mayoral politics in San Francisco, graft inquiry intrigues, and calls for trial-judge changes. Strikes and streetcar violence flare in Evansville while mine owners and Western Union disputes draw attention. Global items include labor, law, and political controversies across the United States, Ireland, Canada, and Europe, with notable mentions of Edison on sleep and Kuroki visiting Grant's tomb.
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Schmitz
San Francisco
Rudolph Spreckels
Evansville
Ind
Haywood
Herbert Knox Smith
Standard Oil Company
Howard Gould
New York
Kuroki
Gen
Grant
Sherman M. Bell
Boise
London
Whitman
Chicago
Charles Hansen
Junius B. Darby
Helga Anderson-Waskow
New County
Foraker
Ohio
Brown
W. D. Haywood
Harry Orchard
Abraham Hummel
Ireland
United League
Dublin
Georgian Bay
Montreal
Great Lakes
Madison C. Peters
W. E. Corey
Mabelle Gilman
Thomas A. Edison
Austria
Oak Park, Sr
St. Joe
Mich
Orchard
Gov. Gooding
John Stapp
Williams
St. Louis
Missouri Supreme Court
George Ryan
Harry Vaughan
Edward Raymond
John Clay
Seats Give Way At Circus injuring 20 in Clay City
A section of seats collapsed during a Clay City Indiana circus causing about 250 spectators to fall. Roughly 20 were injured and five seriously as panic spread through the audience.
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Clay City
Ind
Charleston
Ossabaw Island
Savannah
Albert
J. W. Bass
Chattanooga
Tenn
Irving Talley
Atlanta
Talley
Grassmere
Lexington
Warfield
William Warfield
Foster Helm
Saxon
Pittsburg Steamship Company
Caribou Island
Lake Superior
Wayne McCoy
Davis
Fullerton
Mamie Ruff
Ruby Garner
Shoal Creek
Joplin
Montgomery
Ill
Lola Nance
John Nance
Taylor Phipps
Byron D. Davis
William Sharp
Oran K. Allen
Cullen Allen
City of
Mexico
la Acacia
Refugio Street
Guatemala
Marine Hospital Service
New Orleans
Puerto Barrios
United States
Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
E. H. Harriman
Haywood
Boise
Northwest
Illinois Senate
Joliet
Wilson
Chicago
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Pittsburg
Ashland
Wis
Odanah
Finch
Ont
McCann
N. D
St. Anthony
President
Pine Grove
Venango County
Senate
Brownsville
Washington
Reichstag
Germany
Western Association of Bottle Manufacturers
Glass Bottle Blowers’ Association of America
War Paint Central American Powers Arm For Frontline Move
Mexican troops move toward the Guatemalan frontier by rail amid unclear purpose. A Salvadoran crisis grows as President Figueroa faces revolts, while Nicaragua's Zelaya backs a Toledo-led push against Cabrera, with Honduras in political turmoil and uncertain regional support.
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Mexico City
War Department
San Salvador
Figueroa
Salvador
Guatemala
Estrada Cabrera
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Toledo
Managua
Cabrera
Honduras
Davila
Riots in Odessa after police chief and detectives killed
In Odessa Russia a bomb killed the police chief and two detectives as two attackers and a girl planted an infernal machine in the central police bureau. The Black Hundreds then rampaged targeting Jews with many injured while authorities remained passive.
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Odessa
Russia
Central Police Bureau
Tcherthoff
Presbyterians Approve Overtures on Church Government
At Columbus Ohio the Presbyterian General Assembly adopted the committee on administrative agencies report and referred four overtures to presbyteries for changes in church government and for establishing executive committees at presbytery synod and general assembly levels. If presbyteries approve, a plan for the general assembly executive committee will be reported to the next assembly.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
Columbus
Committee
General Assembly
Railroad Pleads Guilty to Rebating Charges
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. admitted two counts of rebate wrongdoing in U S court. Through its attorney the railroad pleaded guilty to granting rebates on Woolson Spice Co. shipments. A $10,000 fine was imposed on each count and paid totaling $20,000.
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New York
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co
United States
Woolson Spice Co
Toledo
Big Fines for Furniture Firms Defy Anti-Trust Rules
Chicago judge Landis fined five thousand dollars each to F A Holbrook American Seating Co and A H Andrews Co and five thousand to nine other furniture firms for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Defendants pleaded guilty.
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Chicago
Landis
F. A. Holbrook
American Seating Co
A. H. Andrews Co
A Strike of Quarrymen in Lemont Illinois
Chicago laborers at six Lemont quarries struck for higher wages. About one thousand workers participated in the action on Monday as negotiations with quarry owners continued.
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Chicago
Ill
Lemont, Ill
Five Die In Blast At Pittsburg Steel Furnace
An explosion at Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. Eliza furnace No 1 in Hazelwood killed five men and seriously burned four others. The victims included two American mill workers, E. B. Williard and John A. West, and three unknown foreigners. One foreign survivor escaped uninjured.
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Pittsburg
Eliza Furnace
Jones & Laughlin Steel Co
Hazelwood
E. B. Williard
John A. West
Williard
West
Lynching Fallout In Georgia After Attempted Assault
In Reidsville Georgia two Padgett family members were lynched and six others injured after a night assault on Mrs Laura Moore. Flem Padgett resisted, killing a white man Hare and wounding four others. A posse pursued Padgett leading to more deaths including the elder Padgett and two daughters.
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Reidsville
Laura Moore
Flem Padgett
Padgett
Hare
Indictments for Hegeman in Metro Life forgery perjury case
New York special grand jury investigating Metropolitan Life Insurance Co concluded its probe with ten indictments against company president John R. Hegeman. Seven allege forgery in the third degree and three allege perjury, all linked to year end transactions intended to cast the company in a favorable light ahead of the annual insurance report.
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Busse
Chicago Board of Education
William McClintock
Prairie Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Chicago
Morgan Park
John D. Rockefeller
James Carter
Brooklyn
Orrin W. Potter
Lake Shore Drive
Mary Yerkes-Mizner
Charles T. Yerkes
California
Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
Presbyterian General Assembly
Columbus
Ohio
Brown
Taft
Foraker
Frisco
Abe Ruef
Eddy
Equity
J. Edward Addicks
Bay State
Lodz
Potter Palmer
Servia
Paris
Roosevelt
Washington
Fine Knot
All Reformed Presbyterian Churches
United States
General Assembly
Yov. Hughes
New York
New Baptist Central Organization
Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Isaac Stephenson
Marinette
Frank A. Bretherton
Edgar Packing Company
Des Moines
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Col. C. J. Bronson
Lexington
Morehead & Co
Bronson
William F. Riley
Chicago & North-Western Road
Railroad Association of Special Agents and Police
Canada
Federal Grand Jury
Denver
R. E. Lewis
Sims M. Gillmore
Jonesville
S. C
James W. Gallaman
John Lewis Clark
Bushwick Avenue Congregational Church
William Ellis Corey
Mabelle Gilman
Corey
Independence
Kan
Cranesville
Amsterdam
N. Y
Schenectady
Mcohawa River
New York County
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
John R. Hegeman
State Insurance Department
Five Die As Steamer Naomi Burns On Lake Michigan
Grand Haven Michigan five lives were lost and 75 escaped when the steamer Naomi of the Crosby Transportation Co burned in the middle of Lake Michigan on a night trip from Grand Haven to Milwaukee. Four coal passers died trapped in the fore castle as rescued passengers from the Kerr and Kansas watched from the decks. J M Rhoades of Detroit also died after being badly burned in his berth and reaching Grand Rapids hospital. The Naomi burned to the water's edge.
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Grand Haven
Mich
Naomi
Crosby Transportation Co
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Kerr
Kansas
J. M. Rhoades
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Miners Dead in Dayton Coal Car Accident
Six white miners died and several were injured when loaded freight cars plunged into a train carrying them near Dayton, Tennessee, while returning from the mines of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company.
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Dayton, Tenn
Dayton Coal and Iron Co
Pat Crowe Cleared In Two Car Robbery Trial
In Council Bluffs Pat Crowe was acquitted by a district court jury Tuesday evening of holding up two street cars in the city two years ago and robbing their crews.
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Pat Crowe
Council Bluffs
District Court
The Easy Author Story Ends With Fine For Author
Patrolman Michael Mullane stops a ragged man on Third street. George Elliot proclaims a future best selling tale with a stone bound in a handkerchief while claiming a dangerous past and a planned publication. Judge Kyle fines the man $25.
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Michael Mullane
Third Street
Kansas City Times
Judge Kyle
George Elliot
Theosophus Jones
The First Coined Money Emerges in Ancient Civilizations
The article traces money to weighed metals then stamped pieces, noting Assyria and Babylonia first marking weight and value on coins. Greeks of Ionia conceived coinage in the seventh century BC, stamping city arms and seals to guarantee weight. The idea spread to Greek provinces and Italy, with Babylonia’s yellow gold shekels as early examples.
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Assyria
Babylonia
Iona
B. C
Italy
Forestry in Public Schools Seeks Student Interest in Trees
Massachusetts State Forester F. W. Rane asks all school superintendents to educate pupils in tree care. He offers seedlings and seeds of white pine white ash red spruce beech chestnut and oak at actual digging and express costs.
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Massachusetts
F. W. Rane
Smallest Wild Cat Celebes Anoa Stands Three Feet Four
Celebes island in the Malay Archipelago is home to the anoa the smallest wild cattle. It has buffalo like traits and a shoulder height of only three feet four inches highlighting its diminutive stature.
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Celebes
Malay Archipelago
Meeting a Deficit in Scorcher's City Home
A dialogue recalls Scorcher arranging a heavy mortgage on his city residence to secure immediate cash for automobile fines. The exchange suggests financial strain and urgent liquidity needs surrounding public penalties.
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Scorcher
Ober hofwagonfuehrer to lead Kaiser's chauffeur unit
In a witty exchange the speaker mocks the German court title for the Kaiser’s chief chauffeur. The other asks if the man faced punishment for speeding, highlighting the absurd hierarchy and authority framing.
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Germany
Markets Report From Several Cities May 22 1907
New York flour and grain prices show patent flour at 5.75, No 2 red wheat at 1.04 and corn at 63 cents. Cleveland lists spring patent flour at 5.30, red wheat at 1.01 and hogs at 6.70. Toledo cash wheat 1.00, corn 58 cents, oats 48 cents. East Buffalo cattle top 6.00, veal calves 7.75, hogs 6.85. Pittsburg quotes cattle tops 6.10 on choice steers.
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New York
Minnesota
Virginia
Cleveland
York State
Toledo
East Buffalo
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Georgia
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