Haywood Jury to Be Resumed in Steunenberg Case
Boise June 2 The Haywood murder trial jury selection resumes at 11 tomorrow, with 44 talesmen left from 61 summoned. Judge Wood aims to complete a panel quickly. defense and prosecution face stiff challenges and possible night sessions as opening statements on the Steunenberg killing begin. Orchard’s confession looms, but the state seeks corroboration and the defense plans to delay its opening. The trial could extend sixty days post-opening, after a month of attempted jury selection.
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Boise
Idaho
William D. Haywood
Brennenberg
Haywood
Fremont Wood
James H. Hawley
Moyer
Pettibone
Harry Orchard
Steunenberg
Western Federation of Miners
Stuenenberg
Isbor
Denver
Orchard
Tdsho
Mine Owners’ Association
E F. Richardson
Richards Son
Obituary notices from Washington area services June 1907
A string of death notices dated June 2 1907 across Washington and Alexandria list Ann Atkinson John Christman Eliza E Kelly Godfrey H Leonard John Speed McLain Cornelia Adams Osgood and John Schlotterbeck with funeral details, interment sites and private services. Several entries ask readers to copy or omit flowers and note future funeral arrangements.
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Atkinson
Louise
Ann Atkinson
Bethel Cemetery
Alexandria
Union Mission
Christman
John Christman
Davis Christman
Wachenheim
Germany
Sixth Street
Prospect Hit
Omaha
Kelly
Eliza E. Kelly
William F. Player
B Street
Glenwood Cemetery
Leonard
Godfrey H. Leonard
M. M. la Bille
Grant
Reyquiem
St. Patrick's Church
Anwers
McLain
St. Paul
Chicago
Schilotterbeck
John
Emma Schlotterbeck
Herrmann
Arminius Lodge
F. A. A. M. Lodge
Funeral Directors and Embalmers Listings in Washington
A dense listing of funeral directors and embalmers with multiple Washington DC firms. Entries include R F Harvey's Sons 1328 Fourteenth St, W R Speare 940 F Street NW, Adolph Schippert 20th St and Pa Ave, John Mitchells Son 720 11th St SE, and others with contact numbers and chapel notes. Generals include modern chapels, livery connections, day and night service, and various phone listings.
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R. F. Harvey
Fourteenth ST
Beton Dervine
W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Adolph J. Schippert
20Th St
H Street
Frank Geier’s Sons
Seventh ST
John R. Wright CO
Tenth St
William Lee
Pennsylvania
WM. H. Sardo & CO
George P. Zarhorst
East Capitol
Hindle & Bayliss
Sth
Thos. R. Nalley & Son
11Th Street
Aked Council Sermon Denounces Live By Stocks Alone
New York June 2 Rev C F Aked at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church urged not living by stocks and bonds alone while citing Catherine Preshkovskey as a model of courage. John D Rockefeller and John R Hegeman attended with Mrs Hegeman. Aked warned of present weakness and future strength, praising heroic sacrifice by a Russian girl who endured Siberian exile and labor.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Hegeman
Aked
Catherine Preshkovskey
Russia
Siberia
Hfe
Dr. Aked
Put Off Train Drowns On Nanticoke River Bridge
Julius Henry and his brother Frank were put off a southbound Pennsylvania train near Seaford due to missing tickets. Gale and darkness hindered the search as Julius fell into thirty feet of water and drowned. hundreds searched without success. Relatives plan proceedings against the railroad and condemnation of the conductor.
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Washington Post
Seaford
Del
Julius Henry
Frank
Pennsylvania
Long Bridge
Nanticoke River
John Layfield
Julius
Laurel
William P. Sheffield Dead A Rhode Island statesman dies
Newport Rhode Island June 2 William Paine Sheffield eighty seven former United States Senator and Representative in Congress and long time Rhode Island general assembly member died today at age eighty seven He served in Congress 1861 1868 and was United States Senator by appointment to fill a vacancy in 1836 1883.
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Newport
KR. L
William Paine Sheffield
United States Senate
Rhode Island
Congress
General Assembly
Sheffield
United States
Henry B. Anthony
ST Ee
Cornerstone Laid for New Cathedral in St Paul
The cornerstone of the Fourth Cathedral of St Paul was laid with Archbishop Ireland among many bishops and 20,000 in a religious parade. The project costs over 1.9 million dollars with a 3 million overall estimate, and masonry features a granite foundation from Rockville and a renaissance style die. Pope Pius XII’s blessing and a Roosevelt message were read, and civic leaders addressed the crowd after a national guard artillery salute.
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Ireland
Roosevelt
St. Paul
Minn
Quigley
Chicago
Keane
Dubuque
Glennon
St. Louis
Christie
Oregon City
Winona
St. Cloud
Duluth
Sioux Falls
Lead
Marble
Capitol
Rockville
St. Peters
Bramante
Michael Angelo
Emmanuel L. Masqueray
New York
McGorrick
Bath
Fair City
Holy Father
Cardinal Merry del Val
St Paul
Theodore Roosevelt
R. A. Smith
Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
United States
Clapp
National Guard
Birth of a son to American ambassador Griscom in Rome
Rome June 2 Mrs Griscom wife of Lloyd C Griscom the American ambassador to Italy today gave birth to a son. The child will be baptized in the American church. This is the first birth of a child to an American ambassador to Italy in Rome. Signor Tittoni and the diplomatic corps offered congratulations. King Victor Emmanuel sent felicitations and reportedly exclaimed that ambassadors are blessed only with grandsons.
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Rome
Chinese Student Joe Tong Lee Competing for NYU Honors
A Chinese student, Joe Tong Lee, is among the final competitors for the highest honors in English composition and oratory at New York University this year. The Washington Special from New York dated June 2 reports Lee's status as a leading participant in the contest for top honors.
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New York ‘University
New York
Joe Tong Lee
Bea
New York University
Duel code duel ends with air shots in Georgia line
San Francisco June report describes Patrick Calvin a California railroad millionaire indicted on fourteen counts bribery. The last duel, fought south of the Mason Dixon line under the code, involved Calhoun and Williamson president of a Georgia railroad. Five chambers fired. Williamson fired no shots, then fired five into the air. Calhoun appeared to have the upper hand but was spared as Williamson emptied bullets skyward. The scene was witnessed by seconds and a physician aboard railroad tracks with steam engines nearby for escape options.
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San Francisco
Patrick Calvin
Masco
Dixon
Calhoun
Williamson
Georgia
Georgia Line
Tennessee
Alabama
Carria
Itv
Will
Willi
Wiliameson
Minister Charges Bigamy In New York Man Arrest
Louis Albert of 104 West Ninety sixth Street was arrested in New York on a bigamy charge after a warrant from Rev Lincoln A Moore. The first wife Irma Albert is in Atlantic City. Albert allegedly married again in this city under the name Albert Fair. Moore said the second wife is a well known city resident traveling with her mother.
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New York
Washington Post
Louis Albert
West Ninety-sixth Street
Albert
Lincoln A. Moore
Riverside Baptist Church
Mr. Moore
Philadelphia
Irma Albert
Atlantic City
Moore
Albert Fair
Ohio Socialist Condemns Roosevelt and Taft at State Convention
The Ohio Socialist party at its closing state convention session in Columbus adopts resolutions offering sympathy to Moyer Haywood and Pettibone of the Western Federation of Miners tied to Gov. Steunenberg’s Idaho assassination case. They denounce President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft for their actions and remarks. Harry Wells, son of Wellston’s founder, attended among delegates. The party plans to reform its platform and discharged its committee after presenting its report.
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Ohio
Roosevelt
Idaho
Columbus
Socialist Party of Ohio
Moyer, Haywood
Harry Wells
Wellston
Foraker
Salute to Garebaeds Italian and American War Ships
A fragmented caption salutes Italian and American war ships in a historic naval display, highlighting wartime cooperation and national pride amid a ceremonial harbor scene.
Signs Stir Pittsburg as Garish Art Board Draws Ire
A large 140 foot long signboard opposite the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg features travesties of masterpieces and other humorous panels provoking trustee distress and neighborhood wrath. Residents seek a city ordinance to curb such advertising to protect residential areas.
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Pittsburg
Jac Corrientes Ig
Pitteburg
Carnegie Institute
Walla
Andrew Iy
Institute
Carnegie
Prenchman
Spirits Made Baby Brown In Spiritualist Marriage
New York June 3 Mrs Annie Layman a white woman thirty years old appeared before Magistrate Goheitman in the Yorkville Police Court today claiming she wed through a spiritualist medium named Manna Mysteria with Julius Caesar guiding the ceremony The child born two weeks earlier at Bellevue Hospital reportedly bears a brown tint attributed to spirits The case recounts visits to Mme Payne 215 West Thirty fourth Street and scenes at Chimney Corner Hall The woman recalls fright from a knife fight between two Negro women and says her late husband a German Jew abandoned her Magistrate Whitman sent her to probation officer Alice Smith who will contact Mme Payne about returning to work
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Washington Post
New York
Annie Layman
Gohitman
Yorkville Poaice
S ‘Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Bellevue Hospital
George Layman
Newark
Mme. Payne
Whitman
Alice Smith
Smith
Roof Garden Plan At Philadelphia Church Sparks $12000 Gift
Rev Charles R McClellan of Fairhill Baptist Church proposes a roof garden vaudeville venue to draw crowds to gospel services. Parishioners in Kensington approve with a $12,000 pledge to fund the project, aiming to offer theaterlike entertainment and even free lunches to attract mill workers and others away from saloons and theaters.
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Philadelphia
Charles R. McClellan
Fairhill Baptist Church
Fairhill
Kensington
Ita Cong Regation
McClellan
Keith's
Matricide Suspect Bertha Bell Captured After Escape
Bertha Bell, identified as a matricide fugitive who escaped Dizmont Insane Asylum eight months ago, was arrested after purportedly boarding the Bremen sailing from Pittsburgh to Europe. Authorities report she will be returned and confined again in the asylum. British and German authorities were notified of the escape and pursuit.
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Washington Post
Pittabirg
Bertha Belletein
Dizmont
Bremen
Berthe
Abe
Blithers Returns Aboard Hull After Missing Expedition
Blithers the navy mascot dog climbs ladders and returns to the torpedo boat destroyer Hull after disappearing Friday afternoon. He had been missing as crews and police searched unsuccessfully. On board, his silver collar is gone and one eye shows wear, suggesting battle activity. He will sail in the Hull for the New York to Norfolk torpedo boat race beginning Thursday. In Clinton South Carolina, John McMorris, colored, is shot dead in a home invasion by an unidentified intruder.
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Washington Post
New York
Blithera
Norfolk
Washington
Pete
White House
Clinton
8. C
John McMorris
Rhett Crawford
Crawford
John Boyd
McMorris
Boyd
Laurens County
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Schlotterbeck
Mary Pad
Anert
Geo. C. Shaffer
14Th
Bresta
Gude
Thweat
Et. mc
Rich
William P. Sheffield
Senate
Gomez Palacio
Mexico
To- Eaton
To-Ealon Wine CO
New Cathedral
Griscom Home
Son
Mason and Dixon Line
Halstead
Spetial
Washington Foot
New
Marshal
Halstéal
Taft
War
Billboard
Couneil
Beitiah
Bertha
Beilstein
F St. Cor
W. B. Moses & Sons
Saueton
the Union Savings Bank
TPN Darin Exchange Bank
Post Business Office
The
Dog
Torpedo Flotilla
Santa Fe
Colorado
Grand Canyon
California
Santa Fe Sumner
Gov. & Rscents
Broadway
Newark City
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