Protest Against Militarism at Jamestown Exposition
Ten Jamestown advisory board members protest militarism in the exposition ads. Barton Myers replies for the exposition, rejecting claims and stressing a peace congress emphasis with international participation and religious organizations invited to build structures for ongoing work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sorfolk
Boston
Exposition Company
Barton Myers
Wiys
United States
Miyers
Grover Cleveland
Cleven
Flower Held Without Bail In Swindle Case
Dr. R. Flower alias several names was arrested in Philadelphia on a New York warrant charging investors swindled with bogus gold mining stock. At a magistrate hearing he was held without bail awaiting requisition papers as Detective Sergeant McConville testified he jumped a $20,000 bail in New York.
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Philadelphia
R. @. Flower
New York
McConville
Flower
British appointees named to peace arbitration panel
London January 7 Viscount Selby and Sir Ernest Latow have been named permanent representatives of Great Britain to the Hague arbitration tribunal. They will not serve during the approaching peace conference.
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London
Viscount Selby
William Court
Gully
House of Commons
Ernest Latow
Peking
Great Britain
Hague Arbitration Tribunal
Murderer Henry White Sentenced in Ohio Case
Lebanon Ohio January 7 Henry White a colored man was found guilty of murdering Marshal George Basore of Franklin on December 30 and sentenced to die by electric chair on May 29 in the Franklin County court room The verdict ends a high profile killing that shocked the region and sets a capital punishment date for the defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
Henry White
George Basore
Franklin
Get
Three I Base Ball League Sets Meeting Date
Bloomington Illinois January 7 President Edward Holland calls seventh annual meeting of the Three I League for January 18 in Chicago with league officials and members invited to attend.
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Bloomington
Ill
Edward Holland
Chicago
Negro Troops Ordered to Philippines by Taft
Washington reports Secretary Taft with presidential approval issues orders sending all Negro troops to the Philippines for service. The move aims at equal foreign service distribution, with protests denied as absurd and claims of national prejudice rejected.
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Washington
United States Army
Philippines
Taft
Tate
Jail Delivery Baffled in Peoria Jail Break Plot
Sheriff Hines halted a bold escape at the county jail as Edward Clifford, a murder suspect, was nearly through an opening in the wall. Two other murder suspects and two hold-up men joined the plan. Prisoners dug into the attic and prepared a rope from bedclothes to descend. Twenty-one inmates were in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Hines
Edward Clifford
Evansville Enforces Sunday Closing in Historic Move
Evansville Indiana marks a historic shift as all saloons receive closing notices and Mayor John W. Boehne vows strict Sunday enforcement. Saloon men threaten retaliation by closing Sunday theaters and halting soda water and cigars sales.
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Evansville
Ind
John W. Boehne
Five Die After Laflin Rand Powder Explosion at Pleasant Prairie
An explosion at the Laflin Rand Powder plant in Pleasant Prairie Wis leaves five men dead and three others dying in Kenosha hospitals. Names include Ralph Alderson superintendent, Carl Andraievitch Tony Brobolsky and Nicolwitz Rolchewitz laborers. Several unidentified Russians among the dead.
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Kenosha
Wis
Laflin Rand Powder Company
Pleasant Prairie
Ralph Alderson
Corning
Carl Andraievitch
Tony Brobolsky
Nicolwitz Rolchewitz
Russia
Panama Ship Sighted and Reported All Right
A Mazatlan dispatch to the Associated Press from U S Consul Louis Kaiser says the City of Panama has sighted and will land in one hour. It had been reported in U S press as probably lost with 112 souls aboard.
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Panama
City of
Mexico
Associated Press
Mazatlan
United States
Louis Kaiser
Strike Is Settled in Southern Pacific Firemen
Houston reports an agreement reached and papers signed for the settlement of the Southern Pacific Firemen's strike.
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Ern
Pacific Firemen's Strike
Notable deaths and incidents span continents in brief
Leonard McLashan dies of typhoid fever in California hospital, once first to harness Niagara Falls power for manufacturing. Russian famine relief funds depleted with Stolypin seeking more. George, a Tazewell County clerk, found dead with throat slashed and robbed. Dynamite blast at Lowell shaft, Arizona Territory, injures three. In Warsaw, three terrorists executed and nine more condemned.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Leonard McLashan
Niagara Falls
California Hospital
Stolypin
KR. E. George
Tazewell County
Tazewell
Dean Shaft
Lowell
A. T
Warsaw
Poland
Bank bombing shocks Philadelphia in January tragedy
In Philadelphia the Fourth Street National Bank suffered a deadly bombing after a man demanded a $5,000 loan. Bank cashier W. Z. McLear was killed and several others injured as the interior was wrecked. A suspect, J. R. Steele of Garner Iowa, died in the blast. a single set of clues and a gap in identifying details remain.
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Philadelphia
Fourth Street National Bank
Steele
Garner
W. Z. McLear
William Crump
William Wright
Thomas B. Rutter
Lansdale
Frank Labold
A. F. Dominici
C. R. Horton
Julia Brady
Richard H. Rushton
Bank
Philadelphia Clearing House Association
Rushton
McLear
Rollo Steele Identified as Bomb Threwer Linked to Garner Iowa
The deceased man was identified as Rollo Steele formerly of Garner Iowa. Investigators traced the blast to him and noted he slept Friday night at the Grant House on the city outskirts. He registered there before the incident.
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Rollo Steele
Garner
Grant House
Tenderloin
Perkins Says Not Guilty of Forgery Indictments
George W. Perkins ex vice president of New York Life Insurance replies under oath that he did not make or aid in making false entries in the company books related to stock transactions. The six indictments for forgery in the third degree were handed down against Perkins and Charles B. Fairchild a week prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Insurance Company
Coulis
New York Life Insurance Company
Perkins
Charles 8. Fairchild
Kalamazoo Woman To Wed James Sickman In London
Miss Katherine McDonald will travel with Kalamazoo friends to London to wed James Frank Sickman, a London based mechanical engineer whose home is in Holyoke Massachusetts. The wedding marks the culmination of a long romance as Sickman works abroad.
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Kalamazoo, Mich
Katherine McDonald
Kalamazoo
London
Marriage Promised After Wall Paper Mill Assignment
A supervisor travels to Bralttionroo in 1001 to oversee a large wallpaper mill project. He is later called to supervise a $6,000,000 Thames wallpaper mill in London. Miss McDonald promised to join him, and their London wedding will fulfill that promise.
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Miss McDonald
Thames
London
Mayor McClellan to Fight Albany Quo Warranto Move
Justice Fitts issued an order barring Attorney General Jackson from hearing the reargument on Willan Randolph Hearst's quo warranto bid to test Mayor McClellan's title. The Jan 12 hearing will proceed before Justice Fitts. the prior AG hearing was halted.
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Albany
N.Y
Supreme Court
Fitts
McClellan
New York City
Jackson
Willan Randolph Hearst
McClellin
Clellan
New York
Mayer
Creek memorial hall funded by Carnegie at Okmulgee
Andrew Carnegie gives 50000 dollars to build a Creek memorial hall in Okmulgee Indian Territory honoring the celebrated Creek Chief Esparhacker. Concurrent strike in Lodz Poland worsens distress and crime as it continues. The steamer Ponce is seven days overdue from Porto Rico to New York. The Persian shah’s condition shows slight improvement.
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Andrew Carnegie
Okmulgee
I. T
Esparhacker
Lodz
Russian Poland
Ponce
New York
Porto Rico
Markets Report Hogs and Cattle Prices Chicago January 7 1907
Chicago markets show hog receipts about 50000 with yesterday’s leftovers 1716 market weak light weights 86 20 to 86 37 mostly mixed packers 86 20 to 86 45 heavy shipping grades 86 10 to 86 45 rough 86 10 to 86 20 cattle around 33000 generally 10 lower sheep and lambs about 35000 down 10.
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Chicago
Wea
Cattle and Hog Market Report From Chicago Trade Desk
Chicago market report dated January 7 1907 shows receipts yesterday 13370 for shipments 4746 past week totals 146044 and 32230 shipments this week with estimated receipts today 50000 and tomorrow 0. Hog prices range from 66 to 86 with various packer and shipper categories. cattle receipts 33000 natives westerns and yearlings quoted 83 60 to 86 50 with beef and lambs listed. Market described as fairly active with declines noted in several classes and sheep slow.
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Texas
John A. Babcock Seeks Fair, Upright Deal In Exchange
John A. Babcock asserts he will deliver a square, honest deal and asks for fair treatment in a straightforward business proposition. He emphasizes reliability and mutual trust as the basis for the arrangement.
Second Fatal Mishap Rocks the Los Angeles Limited Train
A Pullman sleeper fire on the Los Angeles Limited between ComeBluffs and Missouri Valley killed Louis de Larto, 22, and injured three others. Passengers fled in nightwear as smoke filled the car. origin unknown, but a berth near a woman with a child is suspected.
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Come Bluffs
Louis de Larto
Washington
House Committee On Irrigation
O. FL. Johnson
Salt Lake City
Henry Cabrow
Pifiggins
Carbondale
Los Angeles
Lmited
Comeil Bluffs
Missouri Valley
Chicago
Overland Limited
Lbeule
Neb
de Lario
Loveland
Whole Family Asphyxiated in Burlington Vermont Home
A gas leak likely from a sewer pipe killed six in the Devine household in Burlington. George F H Devine, a grocery clerk, and his wife and four children, aged 5, 3, 2, and 5 months, were found dead when a brother forced entry. The house was not connected to the gas main, but odor near closets and sinks suggested main gas seepage via a sewer connection.
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Burlington, Vt
George FH. Devine
Winooskd
Devine
Txabell
Madeline
Verne J
Cecilia
Three Die in Fire at American Hotel
Three guests perished in a blaze that destroyed the American hotel in Delhi New Jersey on January 7. The victims were William Winter a druggist his wife Mrs Anna Winter and John O Conn on a tail or all suffocated while staying as permanent guests.
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Delhi
N. J
William Winter
Anna Winter
John O'Connon
Man testifies at coroner jury in Cambridge murder case
Kewanee Illinois January 7 Henry Anderson husband of a Cambridge woman murdered in her sleep testified before a coroner's jury for the first time since the shooting. He said a lamp was lit in the room and a shadow vanished through the door as he woke to the shot, then he followed but did not check on his wife.
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Kewanee
Henry Anderson
Cambridge
City of Cleveland Launched World’s Largest Sidewheel Steamer
The City of Cleveland, 444 feet long and 96 feet 66 inches wide, was launched at the Wyandotte yard for the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co. Mrs. A. A. Sechantz christened the ship which can carry over 5,000 day passengers and 1,500 sleepers with a 166 crew.
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Detroit
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company
Wasa
Wyandotte
Detroit Shipbuilding Company
City of
Cleveland
A. A. Sechantz
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