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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
2
The Ashton Gazette reports New York holiday diamond trade reaching record levels with imports totaling 40.5 million dollars this year. Diamond merchants say supplies are scarcer and prices higher, while experts estimate New York accounts for about 60 percent of global stone purchases.
A dynamite explosion at Miller's Station Indiana destroyed a magazine of powder at the Aetna Wonder Company works. The blast rattled buildings miles away in Crown Point, twenty miles south, with shattered windows and a felt shock likened to an earthquake. No injuries were reported. the cause remains unknown.
Violent speeches at a St. Petersburg gathering pledged to assassinate high officials. Count Witte was denounced as a traitor and revolutionaries demanded life for a life amid opposition to constitutional reforms.
Brooklyn meat merchants agree to shutter shops for an undetermined period citing prohibitively high prices for purchases making continued operation untenable. The move ends local butchery activity as market costs rise.
A San Francisco Chamber of Commerce special report on fire losses estimates 100 acres burned with 520 blocks and about 25 000 buildings. Value of buildings and contents destroyed around 350 million, with insurance to value near 70 percent and 5 percent uninsured. Insurance paid in the city will reach about 80 percent, higher than Chicago and Baltimore figures.
David Curtis, a 27 year old Newsboy described as half witted, confesses to killing Dona Gilman. He told County Detective McBride, Coroner Kline, Detective Coleman and Prosecuting Attorney Nevin in Dayton Ohio. He recounts waiting near the Cadillac restaurant after supper on Nov 20 and trailing the victim to the Fifth street car, then attacking on National and Groveland avenues.
Dr D Marsh former Ripon College biology head and now U S Department of Agriculture expert has identified the virulent poison in loco weed the cause of madness among grazing animals. He aims to find an antidote and a method to eradicate the weed in Colorado at Iugo.
A boiler blast at the P. J. Varney Shoe Company caused a four story blaze in West Lynn Massachusetts. The fire swept three other factories a railroad station and several dwellings injuring eleven. No fatalities expected and losses estimated at 450000 with six hospitalized.
Edward Laborde town marshal at Ruddock forty miles north of New Orleans saved many lives by halting a fifty mile per hour Illinois Central passenger train fifteen feet from disaster after a switch opened and a freight derailed. A second incident reports four children burned to death at a Westfield New Jersey home when left alone.
Secretary Shaw urges currency reform in his annual report proposing a $100,000,000 treasury fund to be deposited or withdrawn as needed with authority to contract national bank circulation. In other items an insane woman burned money and a prisoner case appears in the record.
California citizens and newspapers rally in protests against the President's stance on the Japanese question. Locals resent the threats implied in his message as public debate intensifies across the coast.
A Phoenix letter reports Apache tribesmen stoning a squaw to death on November 28 near Fort Apache after she was accused of witchcraft. The incident highlights tribal justice within the reservation.
A devastating blaze at the Chi Psi fraternity house on the Cornell campus in Ithana N Y killed four students and three volunteer firefighters. The mansion valued at $200000 burned from the kitchen basement up, trapping twenty seven residents on the upper floor. Heroism by McCutcheon and Sehmuck is noted, with several survivors injured from jumps and smoke. A rescue attempt turned fatal as walls collapsed and flames overwhelmed exits.
Judge Bose of Nome predicts Alaska will rival South Africa in gold output within years. Du Bose, Alaska authority, notes spending and copper field development focus. Surveys completed for a new rail line from Catala to Copper River, about 300 miles, expected to unlock a vast copper province.
A large Chicago fire struck three districts causing about 000,000 in losses and endangering lives. Fire apparatus collided with streetcars, a boy was swept into the river and drowned near Van Buren Street. Dozens of girls were rescued from a burning building at 85th and Morgan streets.
Robbers are believed to have murdered 22 year old Miss Sarah Wiley, an invalid, at her home near New Bedford Ohio and set the house ablaze to hide the crime. The woman’s body was found when the fire was extinguished. Wiley resided with her mother.
James OMalley was convicted in Pittsburg of holding up and robbing two men in the east end district. He was sentenced to twenty years, the first conviction tied to recent arrests in a wave of holdups and robberies. Four killed in wreck on Maine Central near Annabessacook station after a collision of a special and a regular freight train.
A nude statue of a discus tower sparked chaos in Spokane high school halls as mothers protested. The W. I. P. U. declared war on the art piece and ultimately facilitated its removal to end the disturbance.
A Catholic cathedral for Cincinnati is proposed as a central structure costing over 14 000 dollars. The plan, outlined by the diocesan building committees, envisions a major fine building to be erected within the next few years.
An elderly couple Gale and Nancy Jane Wiseman from Cumberland Gap Tennessee eloped to Lexington Kentucky to wed, defying estrangement from their children. A separate Chicago shooting case involved Dr Benjamin F Harris during a law office visit, where Calvin Campbell allegedly shot Harris amid a domestic dispute over a home.
Private dispatches report sixty lives lost in Clifton Arizona after the Detroit dam burst. The flood swept through a camp destroying business blocks and the Arizona Copper Company smelting plant while tearing out miles of railroad tracks. Rescue efforts fear further deaths among saloons and small frame houses where residents sought shelter in Chase Creek canyon.
In Ashtabula Ohio John H Kejampaa a dock laborer went on a drunken rampage wounding five men at a confectionery store a street saloon and while driving a delivery wagon He fought Officer John Hummer before the officer fatally shot him Kejampaa lies dead at the morgue The victims include John Werlery Otto Mackey Matt Hakulinen and Oscar Kosching with wounds described as serious
A white man knocked Miss Zona Heckert unconscious with a wagon spoke at De Soto on the Santa Fe line, robbed the money drawer, and escaped. She had three head cuts and a broken arm. a bloody spoke was found nearby. She recovered consciousness and named the suspect, with partial details. The incident occurred Thursday night at the De Soto station.
Chicago firemen battled a stubborn blaze that nearly destroyed the large brick inbound freight house No. 8 of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway. The fire, worsened by moving freight and passenger trains, caused an estimated 300000 dollars in damage. Two men were injured.
A column of constabulary clashed with Pulajanes between La Paz and Terragona on Leyte Island. Four soldiers died and eight wounded, while about thirty Pulajanes were killed with many wounded and captured. The fighting followed a patrol encounter during December 5.
James Cornelius once a sewer contractor was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a Canton jury. He killed his wife by fracturing her skull with a window weight. Season’s Toll of Wrecks records one boat a day wrecked on the Great Jukes with total losses of 2,000,000 dollars and 400 accidents.
Senate and House conduct a long session centered on President Roosevelt's message with additional actions on the Twenty-fifth Infantry discharge resolutions, banking and anti-compulsory pilotage bills, and a game preserve creation in the Olympic Mountains. The day features personnel changes, appointments, and appropriation discussions, plus a push for pension bills and labor related measures.
The article notes a strong 1906 harvest in Western Canada with wheat at 90 million bushels, oats 76 million, and barley 17 million. It highlights free homesteads of 160 acres, rapid railway expansion, a strong common school system, and solid law and order as key draws for immigrants from Europe and the United States.
A pet stock dealer claims pure white animals lack a sense of smell and so frequently eat poisonous plants. He warns pure white pigs should not roam freely as they ingest toxic roots and berries and perish. He cites Africa's white rhino and white sheep as examples of similar issues.
A man named Bilsom asked for a job as coachman claiming former employment with the speaker. The interviewer confirms he has a good character if he has not lost it, noting he himself gave him one when he left.
A washwoman describes relief from stomach and bowel troubles by switching from starchy and greasy foods to Grape-Nuts. She details years of indigestion and pain, then two weeks to feel better and two months to become well, with continued use and praise for the cereal from Postum Co. Read The Road to Wellville and There’s a reason.
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