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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1906
Page
15
St. Petersburg reports a growing mutinous mood among the army as radical constitutionalists force a parliamentary session closure. The Sam enovsky regiment has reportedly held a meeting and vowed to wipe out stain on the unit signaling deep disaffection. Military authorities urge caution as mutiny rumors spread.
Report from parliament describes a tense session amid growing tensions over anti Jewish policies. An officer claimed executions and the suppression of radicals, while discussions touched on legal inequalities and calls to protect Jews amid violence.
A fragment notes that the subject was laid before a unanimous vote and sent to a committee of 33 with orders to report at the earliest possible time. The text shows procedural language and indicates swift action by the assembly.
Reports from St. Petersburg on June 21 describe agrarian unrest expanding in Tula Orel and Kursk provinces with landowners abandoning estates. Count Sherometieff’s Kursk property is said to be destroyed. M Kraszinsky, a Kiev landowner, imports six machine guns from England to fight the peasants.
The preliminary commission sent to Bialystok to investigate the Jewish massacre has returned with testimony for Parliament to demand immediate prosecution of police and military officers found guilty. The editors say mob attacks could have been halted by decisive police and troop action.
Marion Indiana June 21 Kokomo will entertain the State Sunday School association convention in June 1907 announced by officers and delegates. The opening sessions featured Bible study and department conferences with leaders from Indianapolis Columbus Winchester and Cincinnati. Rev Neil McPherson opened the convention and state anti-saloon head A Q Humphrey spoke. Officers elected included President W C Hall Vice President E W Fell Recorder Secretary J Guy Pierce and Treasurer W H Hivin with three year directors C S Dearborn Andrew Kramer and E Hi Hungerford.
Simple services at the Milford home of Ohio governor John M Pattison were attended by state officials and party associates before his body was laid to rest in a private grave. Rev Marion LeSourd led the Milford church service with Bishop Henry Spellmeyer delivering the sermon. Judge Judson Harmon spoke and the First Regiment Cincinnati led the funeral procession. The interment was private with only family and pastor present at the grave.
Fuhrman bron was listed as the lowest bidder on the contemplated county asylum improvements. Figures were submitted today and a decision on the award likely will be made Friday.
Censorship blocked AP from broadcasting findings on the Bialystok massacre, but reports show mobs looted and killed Jews and Christians as troops and police failed to stop the violence. Eyewitnesses describe arson, beheadings, torn bodies, and mothers losing children, with investigations attributing no clear planning to St. Petersburg authorities.
In Trondhjem on June 21 King Haakon welcomed Danish Prince Christian aboard the Danneborg and received American ambassador Charles N Graves with military attaches. Prince Henry of Prussia later arrived for the coronation festivities as Wm. J. Bryan attended the receptions.
John Phillips, who recently left McClure's as publisher, completed a purchase of American Magazine from Ellery Sedgwick and will take over July 1. Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, and others followed Phillips. Sedgwick retains no interest and changes to the magazine are expected.
The U S senate on June 21 adopted the lock type canal by a 31 to 30 vote. The decision marks a major victory for the president who has pressed for this Isthmian waterway plan. The house earlier passed the measure and the substitute mirrors the minority engineers’ proposal.
In Washington on June 21 the Senate began examining the sea level Panama canal bill with the aim of a final vote. Senator Cullom opposed the measure citing expense and impracticability and arguing the Spooner act grants authority for a lock canal. The Senate also approved the House bill authorizing St. Louis to build a bridge over the Mississippi.
The Interstate Commerce Commission heard testimony from G. S. Patterson of Pennsylvania about coal weights and Berwind-White settlements. John B. Thayer testified on Pennsylvania Railroad car supply, noting pre 1900 growth, 176 million tons by 1900, and 29 million tons in 1906. He described the suspension and reversal of Cassatt’s order ending private cars, citing burdens on workers and the public.
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A man held by several citizens at Soest's drug store on South Calhoun street Wednesday night after insulting a young woman and wandering into Dr. L P Drayer's home. He left before detention, saying he sought his wife at a hotel. Peter Phillips, a bootblack, was fined five dollars with costs and suspended sentence. Fred Baral was acquitted after a fight at the transfer corner. Both youths about seventeen.
Washington June 21 Representative William R Hearst urged the American Federation of Labor to have labor enter politics rather than strike He advised workers not to align with any party but to act as labor to elect candidates favorable to their aims and to seek concessions through national influence rather than force Hearst said no pledges or alliances have been made and his stance remains focused on labor benefits over partisan ties
Washington reports exports of meats and meat products from the United States for eleven months of fiscal year 1906 ended May totalled over 180 million dollars, the highest in history with a 9 percent rise from 1896. Great Britain purchases about 90 percent of bacon, ham, fresh beef and canned beef, while The Netherlands receives much of the oleo oil exports.
A short clipping notes W L Hill in Bowie Texas who rose from a 90 pound weight to over 180 pounds, described as a local wonder. The report highlights notable growth and potential offer or display of strength.
A 300 strong Pulajane band led by Caesario Pastor attacked Burauen on Leyte June 19. Five policemen were killed, five wounded and the force captured except the lieutenant. Pastor was killed. Tribunal records and deeds burned. town funds untouched. Constabulary pursued as Governor Veyra sought pardon evidence elsewhere.
A sequence of earthquakes rattled Northern Luzon with Manila feeling the strongest jolt at 8 p.m. yesterday. Severe shocks hit the Babuyan and Batanes areas and Formosa, but no damage was reported.
Geo A Sherman of Lisbon Red Mill Lawrence Co New York reports long kidney illness and ineffective treatments. After using Foley's Kidney Cure he improves rapidly. half a bottle relief and four bottles cured him, ending constant urination and brick dust waste. Dreier and Bro.
Justice Tancey joined Chin Bow, chop suey house proprietor, and Ossie M Spicer in matrimony marking his first ceremony of the kind in a long career. Bow, born in 1861 in China, had lived in the U S since age eleven and claimed a dead first wife. Spicer, 25, one of Bow's restaurant cooks, married after county attorney Ed Hoffman advised no legal obstacle to issuing a license.
A Leavenworth Indiana woman with female troubles catarrh of stomach and bowels was advised surgery but her husband delayed it to try Electric Bitters. The medicine cured her and is advertised as a guarantee for torpid liver kidney disease biliousness jaundice chills fever debility nervousness and blood poisoning at 50 cents at Dreier and Bro's drug store.
The body of a middle aged man, about 45, was recovered from the White River near Walnut Street in Indianapolis on June 21. Decomposed remains, likely in water a week or ten days, show no marks of violence. He wore a black shirt, blue overall jumpers, a sandy mustache, and had a watch on a string in a pocket. Identity is not established.
The fragmentary OCR notes an 18 case reference connected to stomach issues and stimulation without completion of context or full details. No identifiable names or events are clearly stated in the readable text.
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