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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
2
Across Meridian Mills and Philadelphia fires kill, injure, and destroy storage plants. Greensburg powder explosion harms workers. Bank, insurance and legal cases abound as officials pursue probes and remedies amid disasters and political shifts.
Frank Clark cashier at Bank of Brandeis & Sen van Omaha survives a triple shooting by a highwayman. Constable Joseph Sliis killed by Mrs Baker during a home visit on West Chicago Avenue. Joseph Walder, a Black man, fined $1,000 in St Louis for seizing two white girls. unable to pay, jailed. Constable Star slain in Chicago. Mrs Baker found with mask and tools. Secretary Shaw to deposit $10 million in depository banks for four months to ease monetary strain. A gin incident at Eleonora, Ba leaves a woman threatening to kill. ice price up from 30 to 40 cents per hundred pounds. John F. Wallace, ex Panamanian canal chief engineer, hired by Westinghouse at $65,000 yearly to aid electric railway projects.
A white mob of several thousand attacked Springfield Ohio's Negro quarter known as the Jungles. State troops and Dayton and Xenia militia quelled the riot after midnight. Six houses and a saloon were destroyed and numerous dives burned. no lives lost.
A Barbados dispatch reports Mont Pelee again active in Martinique, with fear of a repeat of 1902 disaster. Five hospital victims in Fort de France from falling rocks, smoke columns miles high and visible from great distances. St Pierre was lost in 1902, death toll 25,000, as lava and flames wrecked the town and harbor. Georgetown escaped severe damage on nearby St Vincent as Soufriere erupted, destroying plantations and small towns while lava flowed down the hillsides.
The report outlines Japan’s war costs with Russia at 1.17 billion yen with 990 million for the army and 180 million for the navy, amid broader signals ofBritish defense concerns, European political shifts, and unrest in China and Russia. It notes Venezuela seeking arbitration over French aid to revolutionists, and UK Liberal gains in Parliament. It also covers German Reichstag trade talks with the United States, Moroccan policing talks, and Russia's evolving constitutional reforms along with mutinies in Vladivostok and Baltic unrest.
The article describes Lyons, a Colorado town of about 800 people, facing planned drowning under a massive dam project. A 2,000 foot long top dam, 24 feet high, would back up billions of cubic feet of water, flooding streets, church, homes, and factory water and gas facilities, with a $5 million corporate capitalization driving the scheme. The St Vrain river outlet through a canyon would be sealed, leaving the valley submerged within four years unless halted.
San Francisco resident Miss J Loughborough aged 24 died while in Rome. The report notes her origin and age, reflecting obituary brief in a distant city press.
Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas of the canal commission reports January figures showing 22,000 on the roll and an average daily sickness of 503 with 74 deaths, including 26 from pneumonia. No quarantinable diseases are present on the isthmus.
Report from Winnipeg Manitoba states land agents have sold 20000 acres in the Canadian Northwest to New England settlers with about 15000 settlers expected from New York this spring. The movement explains many farms for sale in the Eastern States. Dr William F Brooks of Smith Observatory Geneva NY notes the new comet moving toward the southwest.
Consul-General Rodgers reports American mission stations at Nanchang in Jiangxi destroyed after riot. Fourteen missionaries escaped. Kingham family of English nationality, two adults and two children, killed. The gunboat El Cano at Nanking ordered to Kinkiang. Inland British missions later said safe. Raleigh’s Commander Fletcher confirms.
A vast Pacific seismic disaster leaves about 2000 dead in Colombia with 3000 feared dead as tsunamis swallow towns from Tumaco to coastlines northward. Reports recount entire settlements wiped out, ships finding hundreds of corpses, and mass panic across cities from Esmerakins to Pereira.
Disjointed observations link Panama Canal power struggles and labor tensions to a broader sense of political upheaval. References to Castallenes, Oldest Inhabitant, 1797 memories, and garbled phrases hint at unrest, economic shifts, and naval considerations shaping public discourse.
The Senate discussed the Hepburn railroad rate bill and statehood plans while the five civilized tribes affairs dominated discussion on Indian Territory lands. The House moved army appropriations and northern actions as lawmakers argued over railroad policy and tribal settlements, with executive sessions and private claims proceeding.
Desperate narrative recalls a severely undernourished woman who suffered vomiting and exhaustion until Williams Pink Pills were credited with restoring strength. The account notes rapid decline, a physician's pronouncement, and eventual improvement attributed to the remedy sold by the Dr Williams Medicine Co. in Schenectady, New York.
A tale recalls Dante Rossetti as a student who visits a London inn and laughs at a colossal painting. When asked its price, the owner quotes 3000 pounds and Rossetti offers three pounds, winning the work in a quick counterdeal.
In Le Figaro, Dr. Ox theorizes the bacillus of consumption originates from rye, wheat, and corn blades and uses the human lung as its adopted home. He argues rare atmospheres help consumptives not due to thin air but because rye, wheat, and corn are not grown there.
The piece describes how a remarkably perfect feminine hand gained fame through a photographer's portrait. After a request about the author of Push Postum and Grape Nuts ads, Mrs. Post allowed the picture to be used by the advertising department, which branded it as "A Helping Hand" and helped boost curiosity around the Post and Grape Nuts campaigns.
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