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Newspaper
Connersville Times
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
8
Archie L. Shepard presents Snug Harbor at The Auditorium Friday December 2 with Henry Hoertoy as Cap’n Dan Dawson. The play features life like characters and elaborate scenery including a rainy umbrella mix up. Ruth Chester leads a strong cast amid positive critical reception this season.
A stormy sea scene opens the program with a full company cast led by Miss Louie Hardburgh. Virginia Harned stars in a separate segment while Coury Horton touts the coast play "Snug Harbor" at the Auditorium with an ensemble including Grace St.Jabs and George Sumner. The engagement runs Saturday December 2 with matinee and evening shows.
David Warfield appears this week at The Auditorium in Sardou's The Love Letter. Connersville's new theatre management is praised for securing a distinguished actress whose star is high in the theatrical firmament.
Dee Hicks, 24, was freed at 11:25 p.m. after sixteen days trapped in a Bakersfield mine. Rescuers guided him through a small tunnel to the opening where doctors and Superintendent Cone met him with relief. Hicks, saved unharmed though exhausted, thanked the rescuers amid emotional scenes at the shaft.
Reported clues point to a burglar in a Reno area home who wore a discarded Twenty-fifth Infantry hat found at Captain Macklin’s porch. Investigators say a masked assailant shot Macklin after entering his residence amid a Brownsville riot context.
Washington December 28 President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation calling on the people to donate funds for famine relief of nations in distress. He says he will seek congressional authority to mobilize government vessels to transport food to the famine region and urges donations to the American National Red Cross in Washington to cover the expenditures.
A night of revelry at a Stavonic boarding house in South Columbus ends with a fatal stabbing related to a party celebrating the arrival tropetope of the wets. Peter Mine, Watts, and others are implicated as investigators hold individuals for questioning. The American Association for the Advancement of Science plans its annual meeting in New York this week. The American National Red Cross appeals for famine relief in China.
A eastbound Minneaplis St Paul and Saint Marie passenger train derailed into a yard engine at Enderlin N C. Ten people are dead six fatally injured and at least twenty five others badly hurt as crews rescue trapped passengers amid fires and chaotic conditions.
The Indiana Anti-Saloon League predicts a strong push for remonstrance laws in the coming session. G. Humphreys says party leaders fear backlash if they resist the temperance drive. Officials discuss Wind Giger bill and liquor confication powers, with debates over public depositories and penalties.
In St. Petersburg the death of Count Alexis Ienatieff is linked to a high profile assassination by a uniformed officer of the Imperial Guard. The killer, unnamed, acted for revolutionary extremists and fled after the shooting at a state function. security forces overpowered him as aides attempted to aid the fallen nobleman.
The final precinct tally gives Blackman sixteen votes more than Winn, tightening the race with about 120 contested votes awaiting court decision. Attorneys for Winn allege manipulation of the last precinct and will appeal if the result stands.
In Breathitt County Kentucky on Cane Creek a fight over whiskey at a country dance left Thomas Ga Jet dead from a body shot Walker Cole wounded in the arm requiring amputation and Hill Little shot in the back. The killings are tied to the Breathitt County feud troubles.
A passenger train struck a buggy carrying Mr and Mrs Reese Edwards and their daughter at a crossing in Youngstown Ohio. Mr Edwards was killed instantly and Mrs Edwards likely fatally injured while the daughter suffered minor injuries.
Washington reports the annual inspection of Indian schools by Miss Estelle Reel shows improved education among the Ta Tenda and other tribes. Teachers adopt better Indian specific methods, with cooking and home laundry added to the regular course. School gardens expand and more pupils gain employment using manual skills, predicting increasing self support each year.
Fire at the Frazer house in Bay City Michigan Saturday morning destroyed the oldest and largest hotel. No lives reported lost though the blaze caused more than 90 000 in damage. An adjoining clothing store suffered about 18 000 in losses with partial insurance coverage.
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