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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1906
Page
2
The annual report of John G. Brady, Governor of Alaska, appeals to American women to migrate to Alaska to wed and help build homes in the west. He notes many single women stay briefly before marriage and urges more couples to settle, emphasizing family and childrearing opportunities in the territory.
A landslide at the end of Rockland street in Haverstraw New York carried eight houses into brick excavations dropping them about 100 feet. About 16 people are believed dead. Fire followed the collapse as the clay bank cut water mains and hydrants left firefighters without water to fight the blaze.
E. C. Wilson, a founder of Wilson Bros shirt manufacturers of Chicago, was found dead eight miles east of Colorado Springs with a revolver nearby. The body lay in a lonely prairie spot, the circumstances under investigation as a possible self-inflicted or homicide case.
Reports indicate Mr. Wilson’s watch and money are missing and his high priced thoroughbred horse was shot in the neck. Authorities weigh murder as a possibility while relatives in Chicago question whether illness or self-harm caused death.
Mrs Lena Able age 27 was found dead in her home cellar in Pittsburg badly burned beside a broken oil lamp. Initial belief was lamp exploded. two neck wounds suggest knife attack. Police and coroner pursue theory of assault and arson to conceal murder. Husband Andrew J Able arrested on murder charge.
Cornelius Duffy of Hazelton Pennsylvania spent eighteen years seeking his mother after a child separation. News reached him that his mother had been found, but he had died a few months earlier. He had used friends and newspaper ads to continue the search.
The Grand Trunk Railway contracted Westinghouse to install electric equipment in the Sarnia tunnel under the St. Clair River. It will be the first use of alternating current in a tunnel.
Three men blew open the Jefferson Bank safe causing a loud alarm that echoed through the town. They fled after a flurry of gunfire, leaving no money behind. Battleships mishap reports note two of four vessels grounded in New York harbor. a third struck a stranded ship while Hlivo reportedly escaped. Midshipman Stephen Decatur Jr is acquitted by the Annapolis court martial on hazing charges.
The text outlines a New York assessment tied to 1906 figures with Timilie Grigsby, a protege of Charles Yerkes, facing a 500000 assessment. It mentions personal crisis influences, a figure named Menia, and references to Dr. St W Steger and others in a melodramatic context involving mental strain and fatal actions.
After four intense months a New York legislative committee wrapped up an inquiry into life insurance firms both domestic and foreign. The probe, sparked by the Equitable case, exposed graft and extravagant practices, prompting calls for stronger laws and supervision. The panel’s work is seen as paving real reforms and elevating public regard for business ethics.
One hundred Seattle passengers aboard the Great Northern steamship Dakota on December 16 to Japan and China unknowingly missed Christmas Day as the ship crossed the 180th meridian and shifted to Tuesday. The day-line voyage creates an extra Christmas Day, a head tax of sorts paid by travelers. The article also notes the 180th meridian’s irregular Pacific path and briefly mentions Horatio Ray Miller’s London death, wage hikes for Cleveland railway workers, and a Buffalo bank asset sale.
During a squadron passage under Rear-Admiral Robley Evans the Kentucky and Kearsarge ran aground and the Kentucky was fouled and damaged by the battleship Alabama while maneuvering through the main ship channel.
The lead vessel run-on grounded amid ebb tide and west wind. Kentucky and Kearsarge went aground to avoid collision while Alabama struck Kentucky’s starboard quarter causing rail damage. Both Kentucky and Kearsarge freed themselves. Admiral Davis cited wind tide and narrow channel as causes and declined to say Kentucky’s level of disablement.
Gov. Pattison, a Democrat, was inaugurated in Columbus as Ohio’s governor amid unusual ceremony. He reviewed the parade from a glass cage on the stand, due to health and security limits, drawing a large statewide crowd. Police in Yarrington, Conn., fatally shot a suspect during a separate incident as violence flared. Chief Hall, wounded, is expected to recover. Faulkner urges wage concessions to help Amalgamated Window Glass Workers face machine-made competition.
President Roosevelt sends to Congress the annual reports of the Panama canal commission and the Panama Railroad Company with War Department transmittal. He praises the isthmus work as rapid and thorough and says canal completion may come sooner and under budget. He debunks accusations of robbery and immorality and warns against cutting salaries, praising the commission’s zeal and efficiency.
The plan of Miss Busch and Lieut. Scharrer to marry collapses after failing to obtain a license. Miss Busch is sent home by her father Adolph Busch from the Belleville trip. Rumors of a pistol display and a million dollar dowry surface but are not confirmed. Scharrer remains a Stuttgart suitor amid family firm limits.
Stock broker B B Mitchell of San Francisco shuts doors with liabilities of 100000. Mrs D Stuart Null of Wellsboro Pa is killed in a runaway. her husband and Emma Mathers gravely injured. Miss Goldberg 22 is fatally burned at Thomasville Ga. About 150 workers at A B Kirselbaum Co Philadelphia strike for eight hours. The Louisville Board of Public Safety enforces theater aisle rules. Walter Florer of Gray Storse Conn dies in Denver of brain tuberculosis. Carmelita bone site sale in Pasadena to L V Harkness Standard Oil magnate for 180000. Charles W Hecker Chicago and John Kelly Memphis murdered and robbed near St Joseph La by Asa Bee.
Secretary Taft reports to Congress on the Isthmian Canal Commission and Panama Railroad Company. He cites two issues: bond issuance and its repurchase, and a Markel contract for feeding laborers. He urges prior authority for bond actions and notes a $105 premium on repurchased bonds. The Panama Railroad shows improved earnings, with 18.77 percent rise over the prior ten months.
A young man buys shoes after the salesman assures comfort once broken in. A week later he returns with a limp, claiming the footwear still hurts. The punchline reveals he cannot get his feet broken in rather than the shoes.
Mrs. Sarah E. Rowe, aged fifty seven, declares she feels like a new being after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. She says rheumatism and kidney trouble subsided, calling the remedy a life changer and worth many times its price. The report appears in a humorous Harper's Weekly vignette about rural life.
An old advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward and endorsements from druggists. The piece shifts to a humorous anecdote about English guests misreading bath preparations and leaving abruptly after a social misstep, as recounted by the San Francisco Chronicle.
The sporting editor of the Philadelphia Press responds to a subscriber asking how to remove ink stains from white flannel. He bluntly says savagely that a pair of scissors is the best tool to cut away the stained area, offering a pragmatic if brutal solution.
A Washington Star excerpt quotes a reformer’s difficulties and a senator’s remark on public praise hurting usefulness. The piece contrasts pessimistic views with quips about troubles arriving in bunches versus singly, reflecting opinion columns from The Star and Detroit Free Press.
A Michigan farmer's wife recalls falling ill in 1902 with fatigue and nervous weakness feared to lead to consumption. She stops medicines and coffee, adopts Grape-Nuts with sugar and cream, and within six weeks gains weight, gains strength, sleeps well, and resumes full housework for a family of six. The ad promotes Postum Co. and the book The Road to Wellville as reasons for improvement.
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