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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
3
The Elgin Echo notes a Navy Department plan to build the largest dry dock in the world at Bremerton Puget Sound. The naval appropriation act provides 1 250 000 for a dock that can be lengthened for longer vessels and will be 37 feet deep, enabling docking of any vessel built in the future.
A dynamite blast at Berkeley Rock Company quarry at Broadway and Second in Oakland injures stock intendant Toffman and demolishes the engine room and hoisting platform. Company president Joseph Rosenberg calls it a deliberate plot with no suspect yet identified.
At a Denver event the Elks report 27,597 new members, bringing total to 294,808 on July 10. The grand secretary Fred C. Robinson notes strong finances and extensive relief work during the year as public exercises opened at Cabot Opera House after a Monday night procession.
Atlanta minister Mr Peacock contends salvation costs vary by city. He says in Chicago and Philadelphia it costs about $1 per conversion, while Atlanta costs 25 cents. He explains higher minister salaries in large cities raise church running costs, with pastors earning $2,500 to $8,000 and some churches employing five or six assistants.
A sequence of fifty two earthquakes from Sunday morning to Tuesday morning wrecked So Gorro New Mexico. The courthouse lies in ruins and most adobe houses collapsed or cracked, causing panic and mass evacuation among inhabitants.
Peace commissioners of Guatemala El Salvador and Honduras along with two American ministers are in session aboard the cruiser Marblehead off San Jose Guatemala. They are expected to sign a treaty in a short time.
The Sewer Pips Trade Association known as the sewer pipe trust agrees to quit business to avoid a federal grand jury investigation at Jamestown New York.
A doctor involved in a police inquiry notes a full plant cleansing as the sole remedy for the dirty condition observed at a site in Wellington, Kansas. The remarks were linked to Dr J B Crumbine, noted for his work with the late heart board, who had led the investigation.
The jury in Beattyville Kentucky acquitted Tory Franks Prodie rs and others in a long, bitter frame up of the murder of J B Marcum. The case tied to the Callahan Hargis focus, with lingering bitterness over alleged corrupt election plots and prior ambush killing in Jackson County. Damages of $8000 were previously awarded in a suit against Hargis by Mrs. Marcum.
Cal Gorgas and his team report that perfect sanitation makes West Indian laborers on the Panama Canal unusually prone to pneumonia and lung ailments. They are not adapted to plentiful fresh air and clean quarters, having long lived in crowded huts with limited ventilation. Poor tong capacity and nourishment, not laziness, are blamed for low output, while wages show stark disparity with white workers from Spain and Cuba who earn twice as much and perform more than twice the work.
A riot in the French Chamber of Deputies erupted over the law restoring Alfred Dreyfus to the army. After leader Sarrant clashed with Pugilesi-Conti, a duel left Sarrant with a deep chest wound. The session was suspended, and Sarrant suffered a serious, non fatal lung-penetrating injury.
The June 1906 exports of provisions excluding live cattle hogs and sheep totaled 15 365 275 at principal US ports up from 13 553 614 in June 1905. For the 12 months ending June 1906 the value reached 191 056 535 versus 152 580 670 in 1905. Canned beef exports in June were 2 077 079 pounds compared with 6 310 503 last year.
National bankers in New York condemn the Treasury's plan to float the new Panama bonds. They argue Secretary Show is inadvertently aiding a clique of speculative interests and playing into their hands.
After forty years Confederate soldiers under Gen. John Y. Morgan begin receiving pay from the federal government for bounty or claims due, compensation delayed since their surrender. The move signals a long-delayed settlement of benefits for veterans of Morgan's command.
The Agricultural Bureau of Montana extends its crop report to cover a wider range of crops including alfalfa hemp broom corn kafir corn sorghum bluegrass millet sugar beets and many fruits and vegetables. The latest issue notes nationwide uneven crops with Minnesota leading hemp and California high sugar beet yields while apples and peaches show declines.
Three Italians were killed and a score injured when dynamite exploded at O Loughlin Bros stone quarry near Bellwood Illinois during a deliberate attempt to kill shed occupants. The dynamite storehouse was looted at night and moved to the shed where the blast destroyed the structure. Several victims died or were dying, with fears of more deaths as residents reported a bloody scene and a body hanging in a tree.
Gov Folk addressed Missouri retailers in Jefferson City urging mail order merchants to advertise in town papers. He praised cities and rural growth, called for merchants to support local papers, and warned against ignoring hometown advertising to boost wealth, population, and prosperity.
Lucy Lloyd, who killed her sister to prevent insanity, starved herself to death in a Lincoln asylum two weeks after the tragedy. The sisters lived alone on a farm near Nebraska City. Lucy admitted she strangled her sister and cried for forgiveness, but was ruled insane and refused food.
A shortage of 58000 in the U S treasury in the accounts of late Major Ansel Bartlett, chief sixbursing officer, was disclosed. He handled millions of government funds and was regarded as trustworthy until his death. A surety company from Baltimore has been called to cover the shortage. The Socialist Inter parliamentary committees met in London, expelling reporters as foreign delegates feared exposure.
A report notes 2000 Guatemalans killed or captured as Salvadorean forces sack a Guatemalan regiment near Platanar. Another Guatemalan army is defeated across Honduras while Guatemala and El Salvador accept Roosevelt’s peace plan.
A Cincinnati grand jury indicts thirty nine laundrymen on charges including price fixing and restraint of trade under the Laundry Exchange. Eighteen face additional counts alleging a labor union cover to evade anti trust provisions. Indictments follow a recent collar and cuff price increase prompting grand jury action.
Workmen uncover the remains of skeletons during construction at the old Provose prison site in St James’ Park, Philadelphia. Historians link the discovery to a former prison used for captured American soldiers under Captain Cumberland, with a suggestion that those buried there died in imprisonment.
Grand jury indicts American Ice Company Chapin-Sacka Ice Company and four individuals for forming a price fixing trust. They allegedly controlled about 75 percent of Washington’s ice market and set minimum wholesale and retail prices amid a looming summer shortage. Citizens protest noted as Wyidenca indicated collusion. Indictments returned.
Samuel Gutten a 20 year old from Coney Island drowned after taunted by companions and plunging into Gravesend bay. Miss Bessie Silver, devoted to Gutten, chased him and nearly drowned rescuing him before being revived hours later. In Atlantic City a rising tide swept Bettie Davis eight months old from a perambulator and a rescuer saved the child after a high wave carried carriage seaward.
Coroners jury finds the Salisbury wreck caused by the train driver's speed violations. The disaster killed many Americans. Lady Curzon dies suddenly at her London home. A man named M B Sams of Richmond Ky commits suicide after believing he killed a servant with a hatchet. Gen Kozloff, Russian commander, assassinated in Peterhof park by an extremist.
Dispatches report heavy Guatemalan losses after battles at Platanay as Salvadoran forces claim victory. The two nations consider US mediation for a peace conference and possible arbitration, with hostage talks and indemnity still under discussion. President Regalado of Salvador killed in action. President Roosevelt's influence helps steer discussions toward accommodation with Guatemala.
Secretary of State Elihu Root plans a three month, 10 000 mile voyage visiting nearly all South American republics by water. He will travel aboard a new US Navy cruiser with family aboard and attend capitals, aiming to improve hemispheric ties, a goal echoed by past efforts of Blaine and others.
The United States Xpress Company led by Senator Pratt of New York pledges doubled dividends next period after years of 6 percent payouts since 1901. Wells, Fargo & Co. announces a 2 percent rate increase and a semiannual payment on July 10. The company remains earning above 10 percent with a $20,000,000 surplus. An Agricultural Department bulletin reports 28 bird species feeding on the cotton weevil, including quail, nighthawk, pheasant, and meadowlark, with winter feeding rising as weevils gain plant protection.
A Chicago market summary notes improved activity in manufacturing construction and transportation with crop prospects boosting trade. Grain totals at the port show 5,478,084 bushels moved, receipts down 30.9 percent, shipments down 65.9 percent versus last year, while lumber and livestock values rise though wheat and ribs soften. New York reports strong crop prospects and building activity, with potential export expansion despite late warnings of low wheat moves.
The bulletin lists cattle hogs sheep and grain quotes from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and other markets. Prices for cattle range 3.01 to 6.50 per hundredweight and hogs 2.50 to 7.25 with grain bids for wheat corn oats rye and other staples noted alongside regional figures.
Andrew Carnegie gave 11708 dollars for a Cedarville College library building. The Order of Railway Selegenpters filed for an injunction in Louisville to stop the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from firing employees who join the order.
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