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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1906
Page
1
A Marion Ohio woman dreamed her nephew Roscoe Hogendobler drowned at Elkhart Indiana. Three hours later a telegram reported his body recovered from a stream where he had been drowned Saturday night. The item ties in with Elkhart enumerations and California disaster coverage in the same issue.
R W Shellenberger of Millersburg, lake shore agent, tried to take his own life Saturday morning. He was treated at Clark Hospital where he recovered from morphine effects but now lies dangerously ill with pneumonia, worsened by his overall condition.
The board of health reports for April twenty four deaths at a rate of 13.33. Causes include two tuberculosis deaths one cerebro spinal meningitis and the rest from non contagious diseases. Measles count nine teen cases and scarlet fever two. Three dairies were disinfected with more to follow amid notable sickness.
The upcoming 1905 Indiana manufacturing census reveals consolidation reduced plant counts by eighty four since 1900 while total capital invested rose 42.3 percent from 219.5 million to 312.1 million. Indianapolis led in value of products with 82.2 million, Terre Haute and Evansville followed, with urban districts accounting for about three fifths of all output.
In tropical East Indian forests the tailor bird threads a leaf with plant fiber using its long bill as a needle. It sews a dead leaf to a slender branch to conceal its nest from monkeys and snakes, leaving predators unable to approach the protected site.
A curious note defines a sycophant as a watcher at Attica’s frontiers who ensured figs were not prought or carried out without proper duty payment, framing the term as a watchdog of trade compliance.
Paris quieted after dawn skirmishes as 600 strikers clashed with 20 bicycle police near the labor exchange. One striker was killed and 80,000 workers were on strike with 375 arrests by noon. Rioting continued in the Belleville market while authorities expelled numerous anarchists and delegates gathered at labor headquarters. May Day unrest spread with similar scenes in other cities and ongoing debates over labor scales and pay.
Washington May 1 The Taggart campaign has subdued factional fights in this district as candidates for nomination decide not to wage a local battle. A statewide convention fight remains likely. A heated letter from ex Mayor Holtzman of Indianapolis accuses brewery interests and gaming factions of corrupting Indiana politics and urges clean leadership for future victory.
Washington reports war department fears the San Francisco disaster will force extensive changes or abandonment of this year’s maneuvers at large posts including Fort Benjamin Harrison. Difficulty stems from tents being diverted from reserves and posts to San Francisco.
Military maneuvers at Fort Benjamin Harrison will involve troops from Kentucky Ohio Michigan Wisconsin Illinois and Indiana with an overland march starting July 15 revisions to a later date to be set and a planned schedule to be released. The program aims to avoid curtailment unless necessary and focuses on temporary homeless habitats nearby.
The president appointed Charles Carter and William Nichols to be postmasters at Converse Indiana and Lowell Indiana respectively. Separate brief items note further appeals from San Francisco citizens needing funds and the death of Mrs Marguerite Debs in Terre Haute aged seventy nine, along with Nicholas Longworth and wife’s first visit home for a Cincinnati music festival.
Neighborhood notes describe a push by the municipal league for strict liquor laws, Sunday closures, and the purge of gambling and drug stores from saloon districts. Alderman Frank Jordan vows to quit the business amid radical threats to halt trains and docks. The item also covers teen runaway Ruth Mahoney from Michigan City, alleged involvement with a teacher, and other local misdeeds including arrests and a dog tax dispute in Fairmount.
The moisture of the eye acts as a solvent. People with foreign material in the eye often wake to find it dissolved by tears. This natural cleansing process explains why some eye irritations improve by morning.
The palolo, a sea worm from the Samoan Islands, is captured by natives and baked like sweet potatoes, making it a remarkable local food product.
The German diet traditionally includes six meals a day starting with breakfast then a second and third breakfast, followed by dinner after a noonday nap, vesper and an early supper, often with a later substantial meal after returning home.
The tiger lily is viewed as an emblem of gayety and levity. In parts of India it is held with superstitious awe similar to reverence for the animal it is named after.
General Greely projects food lasting fifteen days for the city after the earthquake while Mayor Schmitz warns of limited supplies. Oakland relief distribution to be military directed. new building laws awaited and plans for streets and boulevards to reconstruct San Francisco.
The great fire devastated San Francisco leaving hundreds of physicians destitute as their libraries instruments diplomas and practices vanished. Dentists suffered too while schools many buildings were wiped out delaying the academic year. Shipping rebounds and transit reforms follow as blasters raze solid walls near Van Ness and Post stre ets.
Washington May 1 The following additional list of dead and seriously injured has been received at the war department detailing new casualties. The update adds seventeen more names to the official casualty roll, underscoring ongoing losses from the conflict.
A May 1 tornado in Furnas county Nebraska damaged multiple homes and farm buildings near Oxford. Several residents were injured including Bertha Hartman critical, Annie Hartman bruised, Rosa Drews with arm broken, and Fred Drews bruised. The storm destroyed John Reynolds’ home and others in Morningview Buffalo districts. Senate and House in Brief Washington notes rail rate bill voting set for May 4, plus San Francisco relief funding and other agricultural bill discussions.
Baseball scores from Chicago May 1 show results in multiple leagues. Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh 3 to 0, Brooklyn defeated Philadelphia 6 to 2, New York beat Boston 9 to 5, Philadelphia topped Washington 6 to 3, Cleveland won 4 to 3 over St. Louis, Chicago 2 and Detroit 1 in ten innings, Louisville beat Milwaukee 8 to 0, Toledo 8 over St Paul 2, Columbus 4 over Minneapolis 2, Indianapolis 2 over Kansas City in twelve innings with darkness duration noted.
In Wales a local belief holds that anyone who kills a wren will suffer a broken bone before year’s end. The superstition reflects age old folk magic linked to the bird, common in regional lore.
Coltsfoot leaves, well dried, were smoked in Britain prior to the introduction of tobacco.
Longshoremen and marine transport workers in Cleveland and Buffalo obeyed President Weese’s strike order at midnight ending dock work. Similar incidents reported at Sandusky and Chicago amid conflicts with the Pilots' association over mates’ union membership. Several mates left vessels. six boats in Chicago were affected as pilots who were not members quit to join the action.
Three cars carrying armed deputies arrived at the Farwick mines of the Allegheny Coal Company at Cheswick to guard the first day of operation since April 1. The mine, employing about 325 workers, faced a strike for the 1903 pay scale and concessions. Natives who left the union will return to work, while foreign workers remain unsettled as deputies man road approaches and around the property. The company said it would pay the 1903 scale to all workers except cutters and loaders.
Paris deploys cavalry and infantry to outskirts by 4 30 am and completes dispositions by 6 45 am with no unrest in central districts. A Lens dispatch notes repeated dynamite explosions since midnight with damage not yet reported. Lieutenant Tisserand de Lange drew crowds by pledging no civil conflict and was arrested for court martial after speaking in favor of socialists.
Milwaukee May 1 Henry G Goll ex assistant cashier of First National Bank was denied bail pending argument for a new trial before U S District Judges Quarles next Saturday He was convicted on nineteen counts of misapplication of funds and false entries in the bank s books Milton was plain in his eating with bread and cheese or a chop and a glass of milk
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