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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1906
Page
3
The Courrières mine explosion near Calais killed many, with 25,000 at the shafts as rescue efforts failed after fifteen hours. France declares shock and President Fallières sends officials, while reports detail raging fires, collapsed galleries, and entombed workers in a mounting tragedy.
Chief engineer of the department of Pas-de-Calais reports engineers, after four days of battling a fire, shut outlets. Leon suspects fissures formed to permit gas escape and ignition. On Saturday 1,705 miners descended into pits 2, 8 and 4. an explosion hurled cages, killed a miner near the mouth, and a horse was blown into the air. The mine office roof blew off and flames erupted from the pit mouth, preventing entry and trapping others inside.
Kansas citizens plan a soldiers monument near the State House to honor Civil War veterans. Capt P H Coney leads the drive, aiming to fund the shaft by popular subscription. Each living soldier descendant in Kansas may contribute $2. only dollar subscriptions accepted. There may be over half a million descendants statewide.
Leather scarcity tightens boot and shoe factory production as the busy season nears. Prices have surged to levels that force contracts to be filled at substantial losses, impacting the English leather trade and manufacturing.
A Detroit to Windsor tunnel project moves forward as bids are invited to build a roughly mile and a half under the Detroit River. The Michigan Central Railroad's engineers direct the effort through the Detroit Rives Tanner Company with expected costs around eight million dollars.
Immense mob violence erupts in the city quarter known as the Jungle after Davis is mortally shot. Buildings housing Black residents are burned or razed, others looted. The mob terrorizes Black men and women while authorities rely on outside militia to restore order and make arrests.
The piece mocks hearings on a railway rate bill, rails at the Mormon oath of vengeance, and ridicules Town Topic legal fuss plus Rockefeller tainted money at Chicago university. It critiques a messy mix of reform talk, finance, and notable Wall Street figures.
The Senate on Friday evening approved a statehood measure removing Arizona and New Mexico joint statehood, admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as a single state. Votes showed strong party lines with Democrats largely opposing the joint feature and Republicans split. The bill heads to the House, where insurgents seek to push amendments without delaying further. Statehood fights remain heated as debates fill galleries and voter participation is high.
The Supreme Court upheld joint tariffs by railroads in a five year old case brought by the California citrus growers against Southern Pacific and Atchison. The ruling bars the Interstate Commerce Commission from ordering routing of shipments and concludes the routing plan did not constitute illegal pooling and ended rebating by reducing active competition.
Speaker Cannon denounced federal legislation for state problems at the Philadelphia Union League Club. He argued states can remedy evils within their borders and criticized Gov. Dawson of West Virginia and Senator Tillman for seeking federal help. He said states are sovereign and should exercise their rights rather than rely on Congress. He noted 1,500 bills in Congress and warned it would take ten years to pass them all.
Endowment of 125000 dollars to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art announced, linked to George A. Hearn. Notes mention remarriage of Jal Harbison and a divorced wife at Youngstown Ohio, with unclear references to related parties and locations.
The piece reports on the International Congress of Inventiora in Rochester led by George F. Gallagher, large North American grain and coal production figures, growth in labor unions led by Samuel Gompers, and financials from the Iron Molders’ Union. It cites open shop debates in Cincinnati, Southern rail expansion, a Seattle waiter’s windfall from tide lands, and fears over Japanese and Chinese immigration impacting workers and bankers in California and beyond.
Susan B Anthony died peacefully in Rochester at 86 after a long life of activism for women’s rights. Her death followed a brief illness of heart failure induced by pneumonia and marked the end of a career beginning with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and extending to the Berlin International suffrage conference.
The March issue of Charities and the Commons exposes dire District of Columbia conditions. Noted figures urge Congress to establish compulsory schooling, a juvenile court, housing laws, and playgrounds, citing 2000 children under 15 at work in 1900 and slum conditions rivaling Chicago and New York. The movement seeks cooperation with existing agencies, not just critique.
Frederick A. Burnham, his brother George Burnham Jr., and George D. Eldridge, all executives of the Mutual Resorts Tiees Company, were indicted by a New York grand jury. The indictments allege forgery, embezzlement of about $1,500 to $1,800, and entries in company books to conceal thefts, marking the first result of a city investigation led by the District Attorney.
Telegraphic briefs report William J. O Connell a Middletown sporting man shot by a private detective during a raid on his craps game and fatally wounded David Teivnysoi a wealthy farmer near Yrinkfort Kan who was killed in his home as his wife slept. a Carnegie front in New York faces a real estate dispute over adjoining properties.
The Supreme Court dismissed the case against United States Senator Clark of Montana seeking to cancel patents to 11,000 acres of public domain. The ruling closes the challenge that alleged the patents were fraudulently obtained.
After long delays the Supreme Court rejects Missouri’s bid for a perpetual injunction to stop Chicago from discharging sewage into a canal feeding the Mississippi. The decision ends the state’s effort to halt the waste flow and settle the dispute over cross state water use.
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