Week in review reveals riots and accidents across cities
Riots erupt on New York East Side as landlords clash with tenants. clashes injure several and lead to five arrests. In Muncie troops quell mobs disrupting streetcars. Train collision at East Dubuque leaves two dead and one critically hurt. Multiple other incidents worldwide are noted, including murders, suicides, legal cases, and notable deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
New York
Muncie
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago, Great Western
East Dubuque
Jamaica
I. Leonard Brown
Grand . Rapids
Ludington
Mich
Easton
Frank Smith
Boise
Idaho
George A. Pettibone
Steunenberg
Charles H. Moyer
Bessie Turney
Nashville
South Bethany
Alois Kaiser
Oheb Shalom Temple
Baltimore
William Rhinelander
New York City
William C. Rhinelander
Albany
Roosevelt
Willard R. Brownston
Metcalf
P. B. ‘Morrison
Wisconsin
Eau Claire
Prince Helle de Sagan
Count Soni de Castellane
Criminal Court of
Paris
Iowa News Roundup From Sumner to Davenport
A long Iowa City era of incidents includes Henry Frank injuring a leg skating near Sumner, while Navy son George Wren dies in New York City after a fatal train incident. Other notes cover bank failure dividends, timber accidents, a large Fort Dodge bequest, fire losses, a shocking Davenport murder attempt, and wealth gifts to Morningside College and Fort Dodge church.
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Henry Frank
Great Western
Sumner
Daniel Wren
Webster City
Navy Department
George
Navy
New York City
Fred Gade
Iowa Falls
Illinois Central
Hamilton County
Stella Gifford
Frank Gifford
Waterloo
Roy Joslyn
Ed Joslyn
Rockwell City
Tad Stockdale
Lee Township
Nimrads
North
Hardin
Franklin
Stockdale
Unterkircher
Burlington
Officer & Pusey Bank
Officer & Pusey
West
Thomas Officer
W. H. M. Pusey
Temple Hill
Cascade
William Weilbacher
Louis Breitbach
Weilbacher
Germany
Breitbach
Isaac Garmoe
Fort Dodge
Iowa
First Methodist Church of
Morningside College
Sioux City
Mr. Garmoe
Garmoe
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northwestern
Oskaloosa
Omaha
South
Nakoéa
Pennsylvania
Cornelius Chesterman
Dyersville
Keata Public Sectorl
Henry Luken
Eldora
Clyde Robinson
Luken
Iowa City
Hummer Mercantile Company
Zager & Tucker
Adam
Unrath
Connecticut
Joseph Peach
W. B. Mahanna
Night Watch
Vinton
Mr. Mahanna
Reymond
Hazel
Mahanna
Grant Park
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Charles Gilbert Brockett
Davenport
Ruby Pischzak
St. Luke’s Hospital
Brockett
Fox, Hutchinson & Lake
Rock Island
Cedar County
Linn County
District Court of
Rev. C. Schulmerstrat
Clarence
Emma Harmel
John C. Cottrell
Plymouth County
Cottrell
A. W. Hough
Des Moines
Kingsley
F. S.gibson
A. W. Fields
M. F. Gates
A. J. Swanson
Turlington
Helen J. Gifford
Iowa State University Hospital
Wale Lowrey Gifford
Lfe
University Hospital
Supreme Court Rules Employers Liability Law Unconstitutional
The U S Supreme Court, in a five to four decision written by Justice White, holds the 1906 Employers Liability Act unconstitutional. The ruling, affirming Kentucky and Tennessee trial verdicts, limits federal power over interstate commerce and master servant relations in railroad cases involving two families, the Howards and the Brooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Justice White
Supreme Court of the United States
Theaw
W. L. Howard
Unois Central
Memphis
Morris ‘S. Brooks
Southern Pacific Railway
Nevada
Howard
United State Circuit Court
Western District
Tennessee
McCall i
Brooks
United States Circuit Court
Kentucky
Walter Evans
Supreme Court
Evans
McCall
Justice Brewer
Peckham
Congress
Justice Day
Moody
Harlan and
McKenna
Justice Holmes
Justces Harlan
Holmes
House Debates 160 Bills in Half Hour Opening Session
Washington January 7 160 bills and resolutions were introduced in the House during a half hour session. Proposals include delaying interstate fare rules and repealing the wood pulp duty while others seek to curb publications of divorce or court cases of immoral nature and fund depositor protection for failed national banks. Also measures limit presidential terms to six years and bar fraud knowledge from mail transmissions.
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House
Washington, D. C
Foster
Wiinels
Wallace
Arkansas
Clark
Florida
Hinshaw
Nebraska
Granger
Rhode Island
Smith
Missouri
Sims
Tennessee
Work of Black Hand Society In Omaha Murder
A body found in an East Omaha pasture is believed to be Giuseppe Fiaorenza. The victim, from New York, was shot with a shotgun and found with his pockets rifled. Police suspect the Black Hand society after threats he described before leaving New York six months earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hand Society
Omaha
Neb
Guiseppe Fiaorenza
Fiaorenza
New York
Black Hundred Society
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Imperatrice
Ushant
Tokyo
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Huddersfield
Belgium
C. M. Lane
Franklin M. Lane
San Francisco
Caleb Powery
Georgetown
William Goebel
Montandon
Collinsville
George Steger
Mary Ramsey Wood
Hillsboro
Ore
Augusta Fahrm
A. E. Johnson Steamship Agency
Minneapolis
William J. Dailey
Wiliam N. Byers
Rocky Mountain News
Denver
Mr. Dailey
Tiffin
First National Bank
Kansas City
Charles D. Williams
Episcopal Diocese of
Michigan
Detroit
Irving H. Wheatly
Galestown
George W. Eckert
Allentown
Countess of Yarmouth
Harry K. Thaw
London
Earl of Yarmouth
Russellville
Edward McGrath
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ‘Railway
Stowell Station
Milwaukee
Passaic River Flats
New Jersey
Theodore S. Whitmore
Brooklyn
Lansing
Wiest
Harden-Von Moltke
Berlin
Die Zukunft
Charles Carroll Marsh
Warsaw
Ill
Marsh
J. B. Foraker
Nannie G. Hoagland
George Hoagland
St. Joseph
Daughters of Liberty
Waverly Hall
Byron Williamson
Standard Oil Company
Findlay
Horace Boles
el Paso
Tex
New Orleans
Jeremiah O'Meara
Helen Naughton
Stamford
Conn
O'Meara
H. L. Storrs
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Thomas C. Chamberlain
University of Chicago
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Clarence Sturgeon
Louisville
Ind
Indiana Union Traction Company
John Bartham
Fort Gay
W. Va
Samuel Kinser
Street Railway Company
Gov. Hanly
Indiana
Colonial Arms
Massachusetts
Duma
St. Petersburg
John Browl
G. F. Fisher
Roy Signor
Hastings
White House
Franco
Portugal
Edward Hanlon
Toronto
Ont
Nicholas Senn
Central West
Lamar Jackson
United States’ Military Academy
West Point
Charles D. Carter
Oklahoma
State Bank of
Rockyford
Col
Friends of
Taft
Foraker
Ohio State Committee
Ohio
Givernaud Bros
Los Angeles
Cal
Pritchard
Richmond
Seabord Air Line Railway
Charles Becker
Belleville
Allison J. Wailer
Supreme Council of the Ancient Order of Scottish Rite Masons
Southern
Washington
John D. Rockefeller
Count Boni de Castellane
Prince Helie de Sagan
Ulrich Augustus Ho
Phillip F. Kramer
Portland
Isthmian Canal
George Middleton
Western Vaudeville Association
Cella & Oppenheim
Louisvile
St. Louis
J. Anne’s
Terre Haute
James G. Stowe
South Africa
Roy Howard
Martha Pieray
J. E. Pillsbury
Navigation Bureau
Charles Figone
Louis Figone
Antonio Figone
J. W. Belknap
H. A. Kemp
Charles H. Tidy
Greenville
Owen Moran
England
Abe Attell
America
Marshal Murdock
Wichita Eagle
Victor Murdock
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company
Iowa News
Law
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