Judge Recites Bomb Find in Haywood Trial
The Goddard bomb case unfolds as Justice Goddard testifies about discovering Orchard’s screw-eye and the rusted device. Bulkeley Wells recovered the box, a phial, and twisted wire, all sealed and later presented as evidence amid disputes over Miners Magazine editorials.
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General Wells
Judge
Haywood
Boise, Ida
Goddard
Harry Orchard
William PD
Miners’ Magazine
Western Federation of Miners
Luther M. Goddard
Orchard
Bulkeley Wells
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Justice Oddard
Enver
Borah
Senator Borah
Justice Goddard
Richardson
Darrow
Horace N. Hawkins
Thomas Hogan
Riley Harris
Roach
Denver
Chicago
Wood
Testimony Highlights Orchard San Francisco Residency
The landlady Mrs. Soward testifies Orchard lived in her San Francisco home during his operations against Fred Bradley and corroborates his timeline and locations. She describes finding lead wood shavings and a screw eye in the closet area and notes her ledger’s heavy suitcase implying his preparation. A Mutual Life Insurance agent in Denver supports Orchard’s claim of soliciting for the company before his trip to New York.
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John L. Stearns
Denver
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Orchard
Now City
Peay
Bose
Train wreck near Mitchell Indiana injures seventeen
A passenger train on the Ohio and Southwestern from St Louis was cut in two by falling rock in a tunnel near Mitchell Indiana. Seventeen people were injured four seriously. Separately a threatened telegrapher strike is off after an adjustment between workers and employers in New York.
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Louisville
the Evening Journal
Ohio and Southwestern
St. Louis
Mitchell
Ind
New York
Johnson on States Rights at Penn Graduation
Governor John Johnson of Minnesota urged strong adherence to state sovereignty in a Penn University commencement address. He warned against centralized federal power and praised preserving domestic matters within state control. He received the honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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Philadelphia
John Robinson
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Johnson
They Solved a Difficulty in a Logansport Romance
Missing their train, T S Brockman of Logansport Indiana and Edith McCandless also of Logansport wed in Danville Illinois. After arriving Sunday they sought a quick ceremony at the Wabash station and a local justice married them within the hour.
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Danville
T.S. Brockman
Logansport
Ind
Edith McCandless
Brockman
Wabash
McKinley Monument Trustees Meet in Canton
A McKinley Memorial association meeting in Canton completed plans for the mausoleum. Vice President Fairbanks and Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou attended as trustees. A citizens committee discussed the dedication set for September 30.
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Truestees
Canton
McKinley Memorial Association
Fairbanks
Secretary of the Treasury
Cortelyou
Wisconsin commencement diplomas awarded to five hundred graduates
At the University of Wisconsin commencement exercises five hundred graduates received diplomas marking the completion of their studies.
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University of Wisconsin
Hamburg American Line Faces Interstate Monopoly Probe
The Interstate Commerce Commission opens a major inquiry into the Hamburg American Packet Company and alleged pooling with North German Lloyd and other lines. Peter Wright & Sons accuse a foreign backed monopoly dictating routes and rates across U S ports, threatening exporters and interior cities.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hamburg-American Packet Company
Peter Wright & Sons
Philadelphia
Cosmopolitan Shipping Company
Cosmopolitan Lines
United States
Baltic
Atlantic
Hamburg
America
New York
Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company
Cosmopolitan Steamship Company
Emil L. Boas
Hamburg- American Line
Commission
Accused Corporation Backed by Germany
A brief reply to charges contends the Hamburg American Packet Company dominates east and west bound traffic between interior U S points and Hamburg, alleging monopoly power restraining competition.
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Germany
Hamburg American Packet Company
United States
Hamburg
Coonskin Jenks Vindicated By Missing Pickerel Tale
In Birmingham Michigan a 20 year old tale of a log pickerel was proven true when Deputy Game Warden G H Toms reeled in a monster carp mistaken for a log. Four workmen helped land the fish revealing a large scar on its side and confirming Jenks as truthful.
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Birmingham
Mich
Coonskin" Jenks
G. H. Toms
Coonskin
Jenks
Odd Whale Watch on Atlas Liner Virginia
The Atlas liner Virginia reported an odd experience after arriving from the West Indies. The ship followed a whale for seven hours before docking in New York on June 20.
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New York
Atlas
Virginia
West Indies
Whales Trail Virginia Off Cape Delaware Coast
Captain Felix Zack reports a school of twenty five finback whales sighted thirty miles off the Cape of the Delaware. The group, eighty to forty feet long, trailed the Virginia from 11 am Monday to 4 am Tuesday, then moved east along the Long Island coast toward Sandy Hook.
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Felix Zack
Virginia
Cape of the Delaware
Vrainia
Sandy Hook
Long Island
Nurse Florence Brown Ends Life in Monica Mrs Nursing Patient
Miss Florence Brown a trained nurse and College Hospital Training School graduate in Peoria committed suicide at Monica where she was caring for a patient. Her act was attributed to fear of an operation deemed necessary by herself and her physicians.
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Peoria, Til
Florence Brown
College Hospital
Monica
Base Ball Rowdyism Fined in Columbus Lobby Incident
Milwaukee June 20 President J P D O'Brien of the American Association of Base Ball Clubs fined Milwaukee manager Jack Doyle fifty dollars for disorderly conduct and indecent threatening language toward the president in the lobby of the Neal House in Columbus Ohio on June 16.
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Milwaukee
J. P D. O'Brien
American Association of
Mayor Schmitz Defies Transfer of Power
In San Francisco on June 20 Mayor Schmitz vows to resist any transfer of control to Acting Mayor Gallagher. His attorneys claim all Schmitz appointees will refuse to resign when asked, maintaining current offices despite the call for turnover.
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San Francisco
Schmitz
Gallagher
Market Report Chicago Hogs Cattle Lambs June 20 1907
Opening hog market shows steady to firm demand with mixed packers at 6.05 to 6.24 per cwt and heavy ships 6.27. Cattle receipts about 6500 with beef good, cows and heifers 1.75 to 5.35, Texas steers 4.50 to 5.85, stockers 2.90 to 5.15, Westerns 4.50 to 5.20. Lambs and sheep show shade lower to steady with Western lambs 5.75 to 7.50 and native sheep steady. Overall market appears steady to strong for cattle and steady to slow for hogs and lambs.
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Texas
Chicago
John A. Babcock With Chicago Ill
John A Babcock is in Chicago Illinois and promises a square deal. The note urges timely requests and assures fair treatment.
Keystone Rascality in Capitol Furnishings Probe
Harrisburg testimony alleges overcharging for metallic furniture under a Pennsylvania Construction contract worth 2 million dollars. An expert claims safes and vaults were easily drillable and worth far less than paid, with commissions and unapproved payments cited as part of a broader accountability inquiry.
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Harrisburg
Charles D. Montague
New York
Capitol Investigation Commission
Pennsylvania Construction Company
Board of Grounds and Buildings
Montague
Capitol
Huston
Pennsylvania
No Germans for the South
Berlin reports the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American lines decline to back Southern Immigration Congress action to develop New Orleans as an immigration station. An agent cites that southern employers must treat whites properly, or emigration to the region will not be encouraged. Australians and Germans who went south have complained of treatment and moved north or returned.
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Berlin
Lloyd and
Hamburg-Amercan Steamship Lines
Southwestern Immigration Congress
New Orleans
Folk Sees Optimism In 2 Cent Fare Plan
Governor Folk of Missouri expressed support for Attorney General Hadley's stance on the 2-cent fare controversy. He believes the plan will be tested fairly and that railroads will find it not unjust after a thorough trial.
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Folk
Kansas City
Missouri
Hadley
Beloit College Seeks 1 Million Endowment Boost
Beloit Wisconsin June 20 At the commencement exercises it was announced the college still lacked 1 000 000 to complete the endowment for the 1 000 000 goal and Dr D K Pearson pledged 25 000 if Beloit citizens and alumni would raise a matching amount.
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Beloit
Wis
D. K. Pearson
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Wells
Colorado
M’partland
McParland
Frisco
H. H. Rogers
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Rogers
Standard Ol Company
Fairhaven
Mass
Interstate Board
Omaha
Minneapolis
Duluth
Cleveland
Europe
Huns
Rotterdam
Leith
Copenhagen
Lloyd
North Atlantic Seaboard
School of the Big Water Manuals
Grain Market
John A. Babcock
North American Commission Company
Chicago, Ill
State Capitol
T. Stewart Peary
State Treasury
Harris
Mathues
George C. Kelm
Department of Public Grounds and Buildings
Fund For Beloit College
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