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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1906
Page
2
A reflective poem from Atlantic celebrates morning as a summons that stirs life, expands the soul, and inspires onward effort. It contrasts night’s dreamlike hush with dawn’s dew, fire, and vigor, urging courageous striving.
In a small railway town Kitty risks her life to warn of a flooded culvert during a fierce storm. She saves Larry Dugan by signaling the oncoming train as a crowd gathers. The scare ends with renewed love and a vow away from Rosie Martin.
An editorial envisions Chicago's first genuine city police reform. It calls for doubling patrolmen, adding eighty mounted officers, overhauling the detective bureau, and pensioning about 200 veteran officers. The plan mirrors Roosevelt era NY police oversight to curb loafing and boost efficiency.
In a talk, Charles M. Schwab praises the resourceful man who turns hardship into help. He recalls a mother and her son left to watch a suitor, the boy reporting he spent the visit playing blind man’s buff and being kept in the parlor the entire time.
Chicago plans a sweeping crime crackdown with 600 new officers immediately and another 600 within two months. Higher saloon licenses aim to reduce crime by weakening liquor networks, with projected revenues earmarked for police protection and rooftop patrols modeled after Roosevelt.
From the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico the Storm Wing brings heavy snow and rain. Illinois Michigan Indiana Wisconsin report record March snow and blizzards with fatalities in Colorado mines and widespread property damage. Cities list specific snow depths across states from Yellowstone to New York and Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
A Mississippi town, Brooklyn, was hit Monday night by a tornado that killed sixty people, injured many, and destroyed about $500,000 in property. The storm arrived with no warning beyond high winds lashing at ninety miles per hour. Homes collapsed like cardboard as residents slept, with debris and uprooted trees causing severe damage.
A heavy gale capsized one Japanese fishing boat with two missing near Iloilo. Prof James Rignall Wheeler named acting dean at Columbia University. A faint comet found by Prof Wopf of Heidelberg with location cabled to Harvard. Missouri railroad commission cuts oil rate to 9 cents. rails may ignore ruling. Belasco theater Portland sold to New York syndicate for 110000 to join western circuit. Philadelphia police break up anarchist gathering for Il Herr Most birthday. Weir and Whitelaw killed near Wake Granite quarry east of Raleigh connected to Wake Granite Co. Cornell president Schurman warns students at freshman banquet. Attorney General Moody brings anti trust suit in California against Otis Elevator and 27 others.
A powerful tornado demolished the town of Brooklyn leaving no houses standing. Citizens fled to safety as egraph poles and telegraph wires collapsed and lanterns and candles lit the darkened streets. Doctors and volunteers treated the injured while the dead were gathered in a single location.
Socialists rally nationwide to defend Western Federation of Miners officials jailed in Idaho on conspiracy charges tied to ex Gov Steunenberg murder. Jocats call labor unions to pledge aid, while Debs advocates guns if needed to halt executions.
The annual report of President Wood shows a surplus of 1,852,903 after paying preferred dividends. A new plant for yarn and worsted goods has begun operation at South Lawrence, Massachusetts, with plants now owned outright or by stock purchase and free of encumbrance.
Judge Umphrey ordered the government to search for and admit as evidence the names of about 2000 witnesses the Packers contended were turned over to the Department of Justice by Commissioner Garfield. District Attorney Morrison denied knowledge of such names.
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