Week of World News Recap: Disasters and Deaths
A week of global incidents includes the wreck of the steamer Alexander Nimmick with seven lives lost and eleven survivors. notable deaths such as Samuel Sloan at 90 in New York and J N C Shumway in Illinois. battles in Africa and politics, plus finance and crime reports from Chicago and beyond. Rail, oil, and railroad affairs surface with court actions on trusts and rate cases. maritime and mining disasters noted along with societal items including lynching, fires, and notable inheritances.
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Alexander Nimmick
Lake Superior
Samuel Sloan
Lackawanna Railroad
Garrison
The
Hudson
Drude
Sidi Brahim
Casablanca
Virginia
Princess Yolande
Genoa
William Bruce
Tromsoe
Backe
Elliot Bay
Seattle
Wash
Mose Dossett
Pritchard Station
Ala
Erie Railroad
Hornell
N. Y
Susquehanna Division
Marguerite Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Marquis Narbonne Lara
United States
S. H. Piles
Washington
Roosevelt
Bristol Bay
John Currier
Siam
Hamburg
Germany
Eddie Walsh
Kewanee
Ill
William E. Chandler
New Hampshire
New York
Texas
Europe
Nigeria
Laporte
Ind
Great Northerne
Rexford
Mont
Amalgamated
Notable Figures and Crises Roil Early 1907 Headlines
A wide-ranging roundup covers Hazleton securing Shakespearean rights in New York, Whitney reconciliation after a begging arrest, Bishop Zadox Rooker’s death in the Philippines, Yucatan fish dieoff from a submarine eruption, railroad escapes from an asylum, Roosevelt naming Noyes as circuit judge, Standard Oil ties to Corsicana and Rockefeller profits, New Jersey Republicans nominating Fort, Korea tensions with Seoul, Roosevelt’s Mississippi trip plan, railroad and legal actions in Pennsylvania, and a massive Standard Oil profit disclosure in New York.
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Jank Cone
St. Mary’s River
Fort Wayne
Ind
George W. Harris
Rowlandsville
Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
Lochren
St. Paul
Minnesota
Lillian White Grant
Chicago
Negaunee
Mich
Parkamite
Zion City
Lll
Gov. Deneen
Illinois
Cyrus H. Anderson
McLeansboro
Chester
Walter E. Singer
Wisconsin Railway Commission
la Crosse Gas & Electric Company
Frederick McLeod
Midlothian Club
Western Professional Golfers’ Association
Normandie Club
St. Louis
Peking
Wu Ting Fang
Washington
South Dakota Board of Railroad Commissioners
South Dakota
John Hustis
Wisconsin
Hustis Ford
Robert A. Pinkerton
Whiting
Council Chamber
James R. Lindsay
Henry S. Wygant
Thirteenth Infantry
San Francisco
Philippines
Bellingham
Everett
Wash
Circuit Court
Cass County
Missouri
Mme
Emma Calve
New York
Pannonia
Gibraltar
Col
William Goddard
Brown University
Rhode Island
Providence
Joseph Labriola
New Jersey
Cape May
N. J
John Buiglio
First National Bank of
Gary
Elkhart
H. L. Geiz
International Association of Railway Surgeons
Marshalltown
West Liberty
Navy
Metcalf
William Cramp & Sons
Bath Iron Works
New York Shipbuilding Company
New York Central Road
Utica
Mother Christian Science Church
Boston
Eddy
Great Northern Railroad
Wenatchee
The
Oil Trust
Standard
Standard of Indiana
Leopold
Congo
Hague
George C. Hazleton
Richard Mansfield
Charles A. Whitney
Lloyd
Vatican
Frederick Zadox Rooker
Jaro
Philippine Islands
Progreso
Mexico
Yucatan
W. P. King
Asylum For
Jacksonville
Ill
Bloomington
Chicago & Alton
Roosevelt
Walter C. Noyes
New London
H. C. Folger
C. M. Payne
Frank Kellogg
Corsicana Company
Standard Company
Republicans
Supreme Court
J. Franklin Fort
Seoul
Marquis Ito
Japan
Mississippi Valley
Louisiana
Canadian Pacific Railway
Grand Trunk
Canadian Northern
Lethbridge
Wheat
Allegheny
Elizabeth M. Holmes
White House
Brooklyn
Encarnacion
Henry Fischner
Johanna Hoffman
Joseph Harrison
North Carolina
Norfolk
Droga Seigel
Julius Hoffman
Col. Siegel
Hoffman
Miss Seigel
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna River & Western Railway Company
National Assembly
W. H. Adsell
Hongkong
Galveston
Chefoo
Ching Kiang
Yangtsekiang
Nanking
Mississippi
Grand
Jackson
State Railroad Commission
Capitol
Harrisburg
Capitol Investigation Commission
Standard Oil Company of
Harahan Explains Why Fish Was Deposed From Illinois Central
Chicago, Ill. J. T. Harahan, president of the Illinois Central, tells stockholders why Mr. Fish was not kept as president. He cites a letter by eight directors dated November 7, 1906, detailing why they would not reelect Fish and noting a $1,500,000 self loan secured by unmarketable collateral and conveyed real estate interests.
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Chicago
J. T. Harahan
Illinois Central Railroad
Fish
New York
Hamilton Fish
New State Rate Law Blocked by Federal Injunction
Judge Lochren of the U S district court issued a sweeping injunction blocking the state commodity rate law. The order enjoins defendants including the attorney general and shippers and extends to all persons, forbidding actions or demands relating to the act. Officials plan to challenge the injunction via habeas corpus and appeal to the U S Supreme Court, potentially delaying the case for years.
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St. Paul
Minn
Lochren
United States Court
Bar
Zeppelin Airship Completes Four Hour Continental Voyage
Count Ferdinand Zeppelin piloted the airship named for him in a four hour and seventeen minute flight around Lake Constance. The craft, with a seven man crew and two assistants, reached speeds near 38 miles per hour and outpaced observer steamers on the lake.
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Constance
Grand Duchy of Baden
Ferdinand Zeppelin
Lake Constance
Count Zeppelin
Royal
Friedrichshafen
Alton Road Granted Immunity in Rebates Case
Judge Landis ruled the Chicago and Alton railway shall not be further prosecuted for its role in rebates tied to the Standard Oil Indiana case. The Attorney General argued immunity had been promised, but the judge refused to discharge the grand jury investigating the Alton railroad.
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Chicago
Ili
Landis
United States District Court
Chicago & Alton Railway
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Whiting
Ind
East St. Louis
Ill
Bonaparte
Sims
Morrison
Alton Road
Standard Oil Co
Alton Railroad
Laneis
French Forces Secure Pacification Pact with Moroccan Tribes
A Paris dispatch reports that after a Monday meeting at Gen Drude headquarters French naval and military chiefs announced three Moroccan tribes accepted peace terms. Hostilities cease, arms control enforced, hostages named, and indemnities set with Chaouia taxes for Casablanca harbor works.
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Paris
Philibert
Drude
France
Casablanca
Endorsed Taft by Lincoln Republicans at state meet
Lincoln Neb reporters note that on primary day the Republican convention drew large crowds and selected a business agenda while endorsing Secretary Taft for the presidential nomination. Democrats and Populists also held meetings, Prohibitionists skipped, Socialists sent one delegate who certified a platform and organization with the secretary of state.
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Lincoln
Neb
Taft
Strikers Attack Street Car Near Latrobe Pennsylvania
After cutting trolley wires strikers of the Westmoreland Street Railway Co disrupted traffic near Latrobe Pennsylvania. they attacked a car smashing windows and destroying seats forcing the crew to flee.
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Latrobe
Westmoreland Street Railway Co
Here
Archbold Denies Standard Oil Restructuring Plans
New York City reports Archbold, vice president of Standard Oil Co., denied a published claim that the firm planned a corporate reorganization. The government suit revealed Tidewater Pipe Co and Tidewater Oil Co control by Standard Oil, with Benson testifying 31 percent Tidewater stock and an 1883 agreement allocating oil business 88 to 11 percent.
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New York City
John D. Archpold
Standard Oil Co
H. H. Rogers
Tidewater Pipe Company of Pennsylvania
Benson
Tidewater Pipe Co
Tidewater Oil Co
Standard
Tidewater Company
Mund Strangles Three Children in Buffalo Home
Mrs Bertha Mund aged 38? years strangled her three children Christopher eight Helen two and Freda months at their Buffalo home on Tuesday.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Bertha Mund
Christopher
Helen
Freda
Newfoundland Gale Claims Many Lives and Vessels
Remote reports confirm 16 and possibly 24 deaths along the Newfoundland coast from Thursday's gale. Seventy five fishing vessels wrecked with extensive damage to wharves and gear.
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St. Johns
N. F
Newfoundland
Riot Ends in Latrobe After Foreigners Riot
One man was shot through the head and likely fatally wounded while a crowd of several hundred foreigners rioted at Radenville near Latrobe on Monday. A score of people were stabbed during the disturbance.
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Latrobe, Pg
Radenville
Here
Toad Alive 6000 Years Found in Cement Shaft
A miner sent a live toad from a Perth Australia shaft sealed in hard cement by explosives. Believed entombed centuries the creature revived after release and is now healthy. Geologists note similar finds in magnesium limestone 25 feet deep. The Hartlepool museum received the toad.
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Zoological Gardens
Perth
Australia
The
Hartlepool Museum
A Gracious Absence as London Hostess Trait
A narrator recalls the London hostess as warm at first then icy and absent. Mrs Marchbanks embodies a typical hostess who welcomes loudly then forgets guests and even herself. The observation summarizes a gracious presence as a contrasting absence.
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London
Putnam’s
Vegetables in the Klondike and Local Resources
Hotel keepers report the Yukon Klondike produced about 200 tons of vegetables and 400 tons of hay last year despite a short summer. Potatoes cabbage turnips carrots beets celery and more were grown along with coal timber copper and minerals. Abundant fish and game support local commerce.
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Klondike
Yukon Territory
Death of the Lawyer
A quip recalls a lawyer who died while pleading at the bar, carried out amid jokes about a barroom death.
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Bohemian Magazine
Persistent hawk pillages poultry near Bloomfield
A hawk, described as swift and persistent, has taken more than 100 chickens from Walter Wade’s premises in Bloomfield. Despite efforts to scare it away, the bird continues to swoop in, outpacing local small birds as it carries off its prey.
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Walter Wade
Bloomfield
Morse
Hartford Courant
Markets Report from New York Sept 25 190%
Flour quiet and firm. Wheat No 2 red at 1.06 and 1/2. Corn No 2 at .75. Oats clipped white 60 64 1/2. Hay steady. Cattle no trading. Veals 5.50 to 9.50. Sheep wethers 3.50 to 5.50, lambs 5.50 to 7.75. Hogs Yorkers 6.75 to 7.00.
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Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
East Buffalo
Grain and live stock prices from Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Pittsburg
Market notes list prices for flour wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs potatoes hay and cattle hogs and sheep across Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Pittsburg on September 25 with ranges for many grades and items. Prices include No 2 red wheat 1.00 per bu and cattle up to 6.60 per cwt in some regions.
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Harahan
Illinois Central
Zepplein
Trisesmen
Nebraska
Republican Convention
Ohioan
Archbold
Standard Oil
Toad
YHE Markets
Toledo
Pittsburg
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