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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1906
Page
7
In Norwalk on January 5 Lafayette Royce died by hanging in his jail cell. He used a twisted sheet tied to an iron grate to end his life, authorities report.
Reports from St. Petersburg describe continuing fighting in the Moscow revolt and strikes halting the Novorossiysk Rostov railway. Armaments seized include English made automatic guns. Notices tell of armed locals in Trans-Caucasia and a bomb attack in Radom injuring the police chief and killing his wife. Emperor Nicholas allocates relief funds.
A markets page lists corrected prices for various commodities including beans, tobacco leaves, honey, potatoes, chickens, cabbage, onions, and buckwheat. The document cites corrections by Snyder and BUMEEE and Hanley & Co for grain and other items.
The listing shows prices per dozen for eggs and per pound for several vegetables and meats. Items include chicken, ham, potatoes, cabbage, and onions with varying prices recorded in the local market.
Market report lists cattle, hogs, sheep and calves prices by major cities including Chicago East Buffalo Cleveland Pittsburg Cincinnati New York and Toledo. Prices cover steers cows bulls calves hogs lambs and bulk meats with bids and ranges for each locale.
At the Bronx Zoo a society formed to save the dwindling bison urges government and private aid to create one or more reservations. President Roosevelt was named honorary president as officers plan congressionally backed action to protect and breed the remaining herds across New Hampshire Montana Texas and other western states.
The London Chronicle reports the zoological garden in London received its first humming bird and the second ever brought to England alive. It was shipped from Venezuela by Captain Palm and is fed with beef extract. The bird is dark green with a blue chest.
Minnie Maddern Fiske addressing the Harvard Ethical Society argues against star-powered plays as destructive to dramatic art. She urges diversified roles, natural sequences, and ensemble harmony, citing Ibsen and Sardou to illustrate how actors must study a character from childhood to reveal the final act. The talk praises pathological drama as a modern stimulant.
Sm opinion from Judge John E Richardson of the federal circuit declares Tennessee's Rice-Ligomer betting on horses act unconstitutional in the Erichson et al case. Indicted defendants sought to test the law, arguing multiple subjects and foreign content. The case moves toward the supreme court after a requisition.
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