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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1906
Page
3
The April foreign commerce total reached 251 million dollars, with 107 million imports and 144 million exports, surpassing any previous April. For the fiscal year to April, imports stood at 1.022 billion and exports at 1.483 billion, with monthly records likely to exceed prior years.
National League standings fragment shows teams in New York St Louis Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh Horton Philadelphia Brooklyn and Detroit with partial scores and games listed against Philadelphia and others. The text is fragmentary, lacking clear context or final outcomes.
A massive flood in China sweeps away homes and ruins the Hai Nang lao region. The steamer Tenter brings new reports of inundated valleys and drowned people. In Psvington buildings burn as the water destroys much of the walled city. Anxious hopes rise over rice crops lost to the flood. In Hamilton Ohio a woman, Mrs Anon Stevens, 40, is shot at her door by a man believed to be her husband, dying instantly. A Canton bank case upholds penal provisions amid indictments of former bank officials. In Monestead Pennsylvania a fouryearold girl is killed by her brother who found an unfired revolver.
While playing cards around a table in Trenton New Jersey several Italians were badly injured by the explosion of a dynamite device placed under the table to steady it. Police investigated the blast and villagers described the scene as chaotic with debris scattered around the room. No further details on the device or the victims’ names were provided in the report.
The Presbyterian and Cumberland Presbyterian churches completed union by formal declarations in their general assemblies at Des Moines Iowa and Decatur Alabama. The move creates a merged denomination, reflecting broader church consolidation in the era.
Wade Allis, attorney general, begins campaign to remove Standard Oil from Oslo. He orders trust agreement abrogated and constituent companies disbanded, with exitual results expected soon.
Margaret Rhoads, aged 80, long served on the Springhouse and Sumneytown turnpike tollgate near North Wales PA. She began March 31 1855, after her husband died in 1862 she remained solo guardian of the gate, collecting the first toll ever paid and continuing over fifty years in service.
Congress fixed consular compensation under the reorganization act based on federal reports. Some consuls hid or failed to report official fees to keep offices unattractive to seekers, facing salary reductions after lump-salary reforms.
Alexander Berkman, who attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the 1892 Homestead strike, left the western penitentiary after thirteen years and the Allegheny workhouse. Officials met him at the prison gate and ordered him to depart, a demand he initially resisted before saying he would move to St. Louis later that day. He claimed no regret for the act and said he would seek a quiet, honest life.
Irwin Tucker president of the Sayings Bank of Newport News Va killed himself in his room as Chief Reynolds prepared to arrest him on a warrant charging a $10,000 default Senator Burton Held Guilty and faces six months jail a $2500 fine and debarment from office per Supreme Court ruling
Coroner Jeromi believes a man who died by his own hand at the Colonnade Hotel in Philadelphia is Prof. Enrich Muenter, the Harvard professor sought by Massachusetts authorities over suspicions that he poisoned his wife.
A temporary platform at a Dew Maines Presbyterian assembly collapsed crashing to the ground. Dozens of commissioners were injured, with five seriously hurt, but no lives were lost. Rescuers aided victims as authorities investigated the cause of the accident.
Indictments were voted again against thirteen officials of fee companies in Clave land. They face charges of forming a combination to control sales and demanding exorbitant prices.
A major blast used 11,000 cans of powder and 150 cases of dynamite to collapse a 70 foot high, 800 foot long hill for the Stevenson extension of the Southern railway. Meanwhile the torpedo boat turns turtle off Port Said, Egypt, with seven crew drowned.
A large fire destroyed Fairbanks Alaska town’s three story business section Tuesday at 4 pm. The Commercial Northern Company warehouses near the water front and Third Avenue were burned to ground threatening the town food supply. Estimated losses reach one million dollars with no casualties. Authorities expect rapid rebuilding by major interests despite heavy damage.
James Wheelore Walker, a young St Louis club man reputed millionaire, died at his country home near Clarksville Missouri from burns after a gasoline pumping engine explosion. He ignited while inspecting the engine. a negro servant threw him into a pond to extinguish flames. his bride of a year witnessed the event but was uninjured.
New York coach owners seek group settlements with Local 164 drivers on strike. Drivers decide against collective settlement, delaying or cancelling many funerals while undertakers handle hearses and large firms postpone events when possible.
Two street cars carrying G A R veterans collided near the State Soldiers Home two miles from Lafayette Indiana. Motorman Charles Roudebush suffered crushed legs and is not expected to survive. All passengers were injured, one fatally, and both cars were wrecked. Missouri Supreme Court upholds death sentences for Frank Hottman and Aggie Myers for wife murder. Blottman and Mrs Myers set June 29 for execution after plotting to remove Clarence Myers so they could marry.
In San Francisco summer vacation schools opened in Golden Gate Park with seventeen militia tents aiding littl refugees. The school began with 600 pupils and is expected to reach about 1,600 soon. In Berkeley a fire rite exhibition ended in burns as Priest Pithin Apibanuis and his wife attempted barefoot walks over red hot stones. their clothing caught fire.
Commissioner Garfield indicates more oil industry findings will be sent to the President in possibly multiple reports. Eleven military prisoners escaped from Fort Oglethorpe amid a guardhouse breakout blamed on surrounding sentries. A government report on Chicago stockyards sanitary conditions will be sent to Congress with a presidential message. Senator Beveridge backs a radical meat inspection bill. A Brooklyn father intervenes to restrain a mob after a fatal car accident involving his son. The Senate approves the amended rate regulation bill by 71 to 3 after a long fight.
A verdict of death by own action was returned in the case of Charles Spier of New York, connected with T1.11 Roxare of Standard Oil, who was reported killed by a burglar. Fire damage is $350,000 as Ogden Utah suffers half a block of business houses on Washington Avenue burned leading to a loss near $350,000.
United States plans rushed deployment of 600 Marines to Santo Domingo aboard the cruiser Columbia from Philadelphia. Washington officials justify armed interference to protect customs houses as unrest grows. Marines aboard Columbia include seventy five veterans, forming a guard for the battleship Texas, with more marines and another warship reportedly en route. The objective and timing remain unclear amid reports of possible conflict with the Dominican government or rebels.
The United States and Mexico sign a Rio Grande water treaty brokered by Secretary Root and Ambassador Cassius in Engel, New Mexico. It acknowledges Mexican rights to a share of river waters while the U S bears dam and canal costs. Impounded waters will irrigate about 200,000 acres of otherwise arid land.
A distressed John Devinney planned to end his life in a stable at Buttermilk Hollow near Duquesne Pennsylvania. He wrapped a rope around his neck and prepared to jump when his horse Old Bill kicked and knocked him from the stable ceiling. Devinney was hurt but is expected to recover while Old Bill saved him.
Governor Pardee of California refuses to honor extradition papers for R. L. Mitchell, accused of swindling Pennsylvanians out of $100000 by selling stock in a worthless gold mine. A detective reports Pardee will no longer act as collecting agent for East Coast victims. Also noted are a fatal fall from a hotel elevator shaft, Dowie faction victory in a District Court, a lost torpedo valued at about $10000, and a woman’s suicide by carbolic acid after her father’s death.
Forest fires sweeping across counties into Michigan and Wisconsin leave four people dead and many towns wiped out or badly damaged. Millions of dollars in standing timber destroyed as the flames ravage the region. Russian Reda Kill U. 8 Ofeial. W. O. Stuart, American vice consul at Batoum, Russia, assassinated Sunday night. assassins, believed to be revolutionist agents, escaped.
The United States Senate passed the railroad rate bill at 4:50 p.m. by a 50 to 24 vote with Republican Aldrich absent. Senators Parker, Morgan, and Pettus swung the measure, while Tillman praised Theodore Roosevelt and lamented missed aims. Democratic leaders warned of wounds and bitterness, noting the act’s removal of the phrase Ints Judgment from the Interstate Commerce Commission clause and its constitutional implications.
Blaze driven by gale scorches upper Michigan and Wisconsin from Menominee to Houghton. About twenty towns and several lumber camps obliterated, with $1 million plus in direct damage and Ottawa fires reported. rescue trains carry fleeing citizens as forests burn. In a separate note, New York board of education bans pupil and teacher fundraising for superintendent gifts and restricts book canvassing in schools.
The report notes favorable conditions for distribution and output, with labor troubles easing and demand rising for farm implements, machinery, and building materials. Wholesale and export activity strengthens, with Western shipments up and retail trade improving amid warmer weather and rising mercantile collections.
Chicago to New York markets show cattle bids near four to five dollars, hogs mostly four to six dollars, and sheep around two to five dollars. Wheat No 2 ranges from mid 80s to high 90s in cents, corn No 2 about 40 to 60 cents, rye and oats mixed. Regional notes include Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Buffalo with varied prices and commodity grades, reflecting a broad midwestern price landscape.
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