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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
6
A Cavite province force led by Gov. Juan Schaick will move next week to capture Montalon and his outlaw band south of Taal volcano. Officials say escape is unlikely this time. The plan follows the bandits’ persistent activities in the region.
An assorted, damaged clipping recounts a series of events including political ultimatums about Egypt and Turkey, a horse poisoning case in Greater New York, a fatal train collision near Greely Kansas, and a Toledo rescue of a child from a street crash, with scattered names and locales.
State constabulary fired into a crowd of several thousand idle mine workers at Mount Carmel Pennsylvania injuring about twenty men with three believed to die. The clash followed an attack on non union men amid a broader wave of labor strikes across Chicago and the Great Lakes region affecting vessel mates longshoremen iron workers and construction trades.
A bureau of labor bulletin titled Course of Wholesale Prices for 1890 to 1905 shows U.S. wholesale prices across all commodities reached their highest level in 1905. The report cites 15.9 percent above the 1890–1899 average, with farm products 58.6 percent higher than 1896 and other groups showing substantial increases. December 1905 prices were 56 percent above December 1904.
A miscellany notes Hegedus the violinist to give fifty concerts starting next November, King Edward’s long reign, King Sosowath of Cambodia visiting Paris with a large retinue of dancers, John Simmond of Henley on Thames performing duties as postman, Norway’s new sovereign addressed as Mr King, Sir Edward Elgar solo festival in Covent Garden, a charcoal burner made a duke after guiding wealth, Lord Avebury first England to be photographed, Daguerre patent visit, Tweedmouth as china collector, Henry Allerge writes on geometry and Pegasus, and Prince of Wales’ son holds the world’s largest postal card collection with 10,000 cards.
President Roosevelt transmits James R Garfield Bureau of Corporations findings on oil industry freight rates. The report shows Standard Oil enjoyed secret and open rate advantages, costing independents and the public, with calls to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rates and curb monopolies.
In 1904 the Standard Oil Company saved about three quarters of a million dollars through secret rates uncovered by the bureau of corporations. The disclosures show rebates and hidden tariffs that advantaged Standard Oil while disadvantaging independents across many regions and lines of trade.
President Roosevelt’s recommendations to Congress draw on the Garfield oil report urging free oil for arts and manufactures, government land fees, railroad mergers for protection, strong Interstate Commerce Commission oversight, and immediate effect of decisions. The Garfield report notes widespread secret and open rebates to Standard Oil, totaling $750,000 annually in discriminatory tariffs.
H H Rogers and John Archbold of Standard Oil defend the company against claims of unlawful practices. They say the President overstates railroad shipping concerns and disputes over investigation while asserting the company supplied the facts.
The Senate set next Friday to begin voting on amendments to the railroad rate bill after Monday discussions. Senator Clark of Arkansas spoke against the measure and Mr Tillman pressed for May 9 as the vote date on the bill as a whole. The House passed an emergency $170,000 Mare Island navy yard and San Francisco post office appropriation and continued debate on agricultural subsidies and seed distribution.
Amid favorable weather the week sees strong commercial progress and rapid food and commodity supplies. Rail traffic carries heavy grain and fuel tonnage while construction and wholesale trade expand. Grain totals at port reach 7,487,084 bushels with prices firming across oats, hogs, and other staples. bank clearings rise 2.8 percent from 1905.
The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Salteratee for the post of assistant treasurer of the United States at San Francisco Cass Edwin Holmes Jr a former Agriculture Department statistician indicted for conspiracy in the cotton leak cases pleaded not guilty The Supreme Court called its docket of original cases for the first time in twenty nine years Sir Mortimer Dorand British ambassador was at the captor thanking inquiries about Congress methods Lodge denies Philippine tariff bill amendments to the Hansa bill and opposition rumors
A dense list of regional market quotes shows Chicago and other cities posting prices for cattle hogs sheep and various grains. Notable figures include Chicago hogs 4.00 to 6.52 per unit and wheat No 2 around 87 to 90 cents, corn 46 to 52 cents, oats 80 to 88 cents, rye 63 to 68 cents, and butter 20 to 21 cents per pound.
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