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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
3
A convention adopts a resolution restoring miners to work for three years on the racite commission award. Miners who suspended work or were discharged while on strike are to be rehired. Mitchell's recommendation is embraced, yielding apparent surrender of many demands but strengthening the miners organization and its appeal to the public.
A failed revolutionary plot in Moscow ends with the death of Vice Admiral Doubasuoff and the governor general. Officials report multiple casualties as six assailants and a bystander are killed, with several injured and the carriage destroyed. Authorities list a string of attacks by a terrorist faction across Russia.
Ten days after their demands were turned down, miners offered two new wage proposals including a sliding scale raise and a 10 rent increase per total production, all rejected by operators who favored restoring the earlier arbitration framework and reopening the April 1 striker. Mitchell and Ale urged accepting terms to avoid a likely failed strike, while arbitration and conciliatory options had been rejected by the miners from the start.
A foreign scholar, Jan Maclaren of Liverpool, is named lecturer extraordinary at a Western Theological seminary next year. The New York Herald offers prizes to city schoolchildren for metric system exercises. Connecticut authorizes free textbooks via local option. 73 towns favor them, 44 oppose. Columbus Georgia teachers to observe Confederate memorial days and leaders’ birthdays for study. Supt. Jordan of Minneapolis opposes rifle target practice in public schools, citing peace education. Maxell’s New York Board of Education report critiques 1840 spelling tests and promotes arithmetic progress and self-government in higher grades.
The first session of the modern tsarist Duma opened in St Petersburg with pomp while security and surveillance were tightened. Soldiers, police, and secret agents surrounded the Winter Palace as hundreds of revolutionaries were jailed and streets crowded with troops to prevent any unrest. Emperor Nicholas II spoke from the throne urging reform while warning of threats to the regime.
United States Attorney in Indianapolis files action in federal court against corporations and individuals forming a price fixing drug cartel. The suit targets distributed pricing by manufacturers and wholesalers and alleges a nationwide conspiracy that fixes both wholesale and retail prices, harming competition and forcing blacklisting of noncompliant retailers. National Wholesale Druggists Association secretary Joseph B. Toms counters that charges against the trade are unfounded and historically unproven.
The return of Lalita Armour to Vienna hospital under Prof Lorenz colors a report on the 1908 bloodless surgery. Dr Shaffer, present with Lorenz, says three American operations show no standard outcome. Personal knowledge suggests Lorenz method not the sole criterion. Statistics indicate about 20 percent cure rate.
President Jorden of Stanfons untgar alty attributes the quake to a folding of the Starra Mfo rena ildunlain chain along a geologic fault. The fault underpins the peninsula of San Francisco and runs forty miles in a narrow valley base. He cites a surface crack along the entire valley length on April 48, causing the mountain to tilt north.
Chairman Shonts releases March progress on the canal project noting 240000 cubic yards moved with eleven steam shovels, main work still preparatory, excavation cost 6334 cents per cubic yard, reservoirs built for water supply, payrolls 22000 to 23000 with 17000 active workers, no yellow fever since December, two civil service commissioners plan a local examining board, Culebra cut tracks laid and ballasted with double tracking, editor Lindsay Denison travels Isthmus for detailed report in May issue with praise for honest effort and some graft noted but limited.
Dr Crapsey, rector of St Andrews Rochester, convicted by the psycholical ecclesiastical court at Batavia on charges linked to his book Religion for Politics and a December sermon. He questioned the virgin birth resurrection miracles and Trinity. Four to one verdict, judge Dupham abstained from final agreement.
Mount Holly resident George R. Young allegedly sought in St Louis for embezzlement is said to have committed a sulde. meanwhile, Bix bridge firms face default for failing to answer by May 1 in an ouster suit led by the Attorney General Bilis of Obie. Secretary Tafton in Torrington, Conn, endorses a canal lock project across Panama amid other items. Bearst service men seize lottery tickets and engraved plates in New York raid. A bill to curb plural voting is introduced in the Commons. An honest performance in New York Presbyterian building was barred for a dancer with bare feet.
The Amana Factory settlement west of Totya City is noted not for large production but for long lives of residents. In Homestead, one of the five settlements, 198 members total ages sum to 1,419 years. The youngest is 70, oldest 97, with many between 70 and 80. Gorge Helmel, 87, at Blomestand, still reads a needle with keen sight and works at the bench as before.
A severe thunderstorm halted tennis in Woodbine as high water formed. A section foreman and four workers were struck by lightning while riding a car one mile from town. Fred Ullmer was killed instantly. The foreman and another crew member sustained injuries and were treated after being brought to town. Ullmer leaves a wife.
A man, giving a false name and claim of being an officer, was arrested in Bancroft and held for grand jury action under $200 bonds. He is accused of impersonating an officer and attempted to obtain clothing by misrepresentation, with prior similar conduct reported months earlier.
A severe electrical storm near Colfax at about 1 AM killed livestock and damaged outbuildings. At DantePhaten’s farm near Valeria three horses died and a barn was damaged. A pastor near Mienarveyi was injured by a harrow accident, and a 15 mile walk to Rome was noted for a local resident. A Muscatine laborer was stabbed in a drunken row and died later. Lightning killed Fred Umer near Woodbine and shocked others as rain fell heavily.
The readable portions describe a disruptive incident at a school building causing astonishment among the faculty and students. The scene required swift repairs and several students faced disciplinary actions including suspension.
A heavy frost early morning hit the town with uncertain overall fruit and crop damage. Muscatine saw greater losses while the island reported about 50,000 tomato plants damaged. a gardener spent 700 on salvage efforts but failed to save his crop.
A 14 month old boy in Des Moines named Coy Nath and his American wife in Quincy have a baby who shifts color four times daily. At sunrise he is pink, by noon he is ginger, by afternoon he darkens, and at night he becomes alabaster white. The phenomenon is said to be due to atmospheric misture and curiosity surrounds this unusual child.
A hectic OCR fragment relays scattered Iowa items: a Yohemian farmer missing north of Iowa City believed drowned, Dubuque residents found starving aboard a houseboat along the St. Towle levee, Burlington deaths by apparent suicide and a hanging in a barn, a frost threatening fruit beds, Cornells Blasts anew planes, James Fagan dies at Holstein while butchering, Harvey Wright injured by a golf ball near Wave Jinks, a lightning strike damages Dan Phelan’s barn at Valeria, widespread saloon closures in Chickaway County, pupils at Sii ney report illness, Albert Fyestene dies at a tile factory, heart failure noted.
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