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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1906
Page
6
Washington December 3 The Fifty ninth congress opens with a focus on passing appropriation bills and minimal general legislation. Vice President Fairbanks in the Senate and Speaker Cannon in the House preside as members greet old friends and await the president's messages expected tomorrow.
The article notes Congress will struggle to pass fourteen large supply measures totaling about one billion dollars, with time condensed into two months. The ship subsidy bill faces tighter scrutiny, while debates focus on tariffs, inheritance tax, currency reform, income tax, trusts, and the Reed Smoot case, amid Democratic attention and uncertain outcomes.
Acting on interstate commerce commission reports Attorney General Moody orders suits against several railways including Ann Arbor Chicago and Northwestern Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Duluth South Shore and Atlantic Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Pere Marquette and Wabash to recover penalties for failing to keep safety appliances in proper condition. The commission will also probe car shortages with Commissioner Lane directing a northwest focus and seeking grain-shipping data from farmers to explain reduced freight offers while prices rise in Minneapolis and Chicago.
The bureau of the mine and the geological survey report on mining metals in Washington state. They discuss developments in gold and silver production and related geological assessments.
They report total U S production at 376 220 200 in gold and 157 339 962 in silver. The United States contributes 88 180 700 in gold while Africa produces 113 829 100 and Australia 85 926 500.
The annual report of Commissioner Yerkes totals internal revenue receipts at 249 102 788 for the past five years, an increase of 14 914 702 over the prior year. Liquors and tobacco led the budget, while collection costs stood at 1.90 percent, down from 2.01 percent.
Chicago December report shows all young, assistant to Czar Shea, reveal graft links connected to a 18 month labor strike. He names a $1500 division among Shea and four leaders, with Shea receiving $300. Funds led to a strike against Montgomery Ward. Beneficiaries repaid $20 to garment workers’ agent Robert Noren as an honorarium.
Michael J. Kelley, longtime American Association player and former Minneapolis manager, is barred from all association activities for knowledge of filing false affidavits in a bribery case tied to a July Minneapolis game against Columbus. Umpire Clarence E. Owens was exonerated. Secretary L. A. Lydiard of Minneapolis was also expelled.
Washington December 3 All that is mortal of Samuel Spencer late president of the Southern railway was laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery awaiting final disposition. Funeral obsequies at St John’s church drew rail officials financiers and public figures from across the country. Notables included Vice President Fairbanks Justice White Senator Foraker Governor Swanson Senator Martin Senator Kean Secretary Hitchcock and J Pierpont Morgan with RE Harriman among other leaders. The Southern Railway company later assembled 379 employees to join the procession to St John’s Church.
At 2 p.m. Chopin’s funeral march led a citywide rail halt as 7,500 miles of lines paused to honor President Spencer. Bishop Satterlee presided at St Johns with Rev Toland Cotton Smith. flowers flooded Massachusetts Avenue, from Mrs. Roosevelt and others, to be shared with hospitals per Mrs. Spencer’s directive amid a display of rail executives and colored porters as pallbearers.
The last Baltimore and Ohio train No. 10 traveling from Cleveland to New York ran into an open switch at Guffey coal mine about fifteen miles east of Pittsburg. Engineer Harry Sheppard and fireman Charles Denny were killed. Baggage master I. Farmer was seriously injured.
One man died and two were seriously injured when struck by a Milwaukee Road passenger train near Merrill Park. The deceased is Cory Decker. Injured are Joseph Treck and Anton Pete.
Advertising copy touts Vinol as a pleasant tonic that contains tonic iron and cod liver oil elements without oil or bad taste. Promises it builds up delicate children and helps feeble old people with a money back guarantee if no benefit is seen.
The C M and St Paul offers one way second class colonists tickets to western and southwestern points at half fare. Tickets priced at $2.00 will be available the first and third Tuesdays in November December January February and March.
Digestive discomfort from fermentation and dyspepsia prompts a claim that Dr Caldwell’s Laxative Syrup Pepsin protects the system. The advertisement urges readers to take one or two doses and notes sale by druggists for 50 cents with a money back guarantee if it fails.
Local notice announces a sale of tritamed hats with Prices rising from SCcts as Summers approaches. The brief item notes a key price increase and lists the sale as a notable commerce event in the community.
The Supreme Court of New York State returned a verdict in favor of Dr. R V Pierce in a $200000 damages suit against Ladies Home Journal editors for publishing an unwarranted attack on his Favorite Prescription. The article claimed alcohol and harmful ingredients, which were proved false, while the retraction appeared in inconspicuous type.
Spencer's death prompts dozens of tele grams full of sorrow from prominent figures. Ambassadors in Paris, President Cassatt, ex-President Stuyvesant Fish, Robert YT Lincoln, George J. Gould, boards of trade, mayors, and other leading persons convey condolences.
Lynchburg Virginia December 8 telegraph operator G J Mattox in charge at Ikkangoon on the Southern railway says he is not to blame for the wreck that killed President Spencer and seven others. He asserts officials’ missing-person claim is unfounded and he was at his boarding place most of the time. He cites station communications and says No 83 cleared for No 27 was not given a clear track until Sawyer's operator authorized it.
Chicago postoffice shifts mail transfer from wagons to tunnel routes linking the general post office with the Polk street station and major rail terminals. Registered mail remains wagon carried for now, with future plans to move all mail through tunnels. The piece ends with a quip about an artist.
Shurtleff appears unopposed for a second term as speaker after an informal farmers of Republican members at the Grand Pacific hotel pledging unanimous support. Reeve will likely be re elected chief clerk and Bert McGann expected to retain reading clerk post amid no opposition for Mrs Millie Jackson as house postmistress.
Macomb and Western Hingis Normal school funds are held by Chandler banks closed due to total deposits of 15 000 in Tazlon and Clochester with Macomb city adding 1500. Trustees meet to plan voucher payments while no receiver or bankruptcy action is pursued pending asset reviews. Depositors expect Chandler to honor creditors. In Marion two killed and several injured when a Coal Belt electric rail car collided with a locomotive after an open switch near Donahue towns.
The Tinois civil service commission re-elected W. BR. Moulton of Chicago as president. Secretary Joseph C. Mason of Chicago remains in that post, appointed for an infinite period. Each member, accompanied by an examiner and stenographer, left to conduct examinations in various cities across the state.
Burghirs looted the local post office securing about $300 in cash and $300 in stamps. The robbery was discovered by the postmaster when he opened the office. the dial was hammered off and the safe destroyed with nitroglycerine. No suspects identified.
Stephen Campbell, a wealthy landowner in Arcola, was run over and killed by an Illinois Central passenger train. Mell Morgan, who was with him, was seriously injured in the incident.
Attorney Samuel P Wheeler died of heart disease after a long illness at age 67. He formerly served as a trustee of the Southern Uliness Normal in Springfield TL.
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