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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1906
Page
6
The French army authorities adopt the airship pictured for the war department after eighty tests at Toul. The balloon demonstrated satisfactory dirigibility and is a modification of the Lebaudy motor idea.
A New York capitalists syndicate offers 100 million dollars to rebuild burned sections of San Francisco. Senator Newlands says the plan is to be presented to financiers in New York, with a bond and mortgage basis. The city finance committee plans to accept foreign aid, including a 200000 yen offer from Japan, as part of cosmopolitan relief efforts.
May 2 report says money brokers face a pay day crisis after the quake and fire. Audtitor Horton refuses substitutes for lost salary assignment documents. Sixty percent of city workers receive salaries via brokers, who use the system as a political prize and demand high commissions.
The banks resume business in small measure via the mint branch. Certified checks aid depositors, and commercial banks accommodate relief with limits. Dr. Devine and Red Cross plan new aid channels to distinguish workers from dependents. San Francisco relief funds rise. 2,000 men are at work building temporary structures.
The ad touts Native American roots and Blue Cohosh as cures for female ailments. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is promoted as alcohol free and especially helpful for working women and mothers. It stresses a permanent cure with a harmless ingredients list and urges use alongside Pleasant Pellets for constipation.
The report notes mushrooming temporary buildings among ruins and a shift of commerce into broader channels. The general committee records 8,797 tons of food supplies received since the earthquake day.
The Tenth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers stationed in San Francisco during the Spanish war sent a $10,000 donation to the relief committee. In a note the officers praised the kindness shown by San Francisco residents and described the gift as a token of appreciation for the city’s hospitality.
In San Francisco on May 2 the painting The Man With the Hoe by Miller was saved from a Crocker mansion fire on Nob Hill. Also saved were The Oaks by Rosseau and Dance of the Nymphs from the same collection.
Santa Rosa California May 2 the death toll and missing list rose to seventy seven with the latest body being Augusta S Rodgers a dressmaker killed when the Novelty Theater building collapsed.
Paul May 2 Mayor Robert A A Smith Democrat was re elected in the municipal election defeating Republican Louis G Hoffman by about 2500 votes. Otto Bremer and Louis Betz Democratic candidates for re election as city treasurer and comptroller won by similar margins. The mayor's win favored the open town policy against a lid on saloons with Hoffman seen as less clear on Sunday closing.
Rainstorms wash away all bridges on the Dry Fork railroad between Hendricks and Horton W Va a distance of thirty miles. The first international cotton conference is in session at Washington. May Day processions are banned in several German towns. Britain charters the Leylandine steamer Cestrian to move troops to Egypt. The block system on the Lake Shore line is completed between Ashtabula and Buffalo.
Nostalgic advertisement for Humphreys Homeopathic Specific No. 28 promising cure for nervous debility fatigue and prostration from overwork. Claims 40 years of use as the only successful remedy. Priced at 1 per vial or 3 for serious cases. Sold by druggists and mail order from Homoeopathic Medical Co. New York.
The Springfield dispatch notes John A. Locke, a fugitive prisoner, confessed to involvement with eighteen Tig Tour railroad workers in months of freight robberies across Illinois. Indictments issued in Cook County. In Robinson, banker Samuel Bennett was attacked by domestic Nora Plunkett with a razor, two gashes to the throat. she claims Bennetts guilt, but he denies it. Chicago reports Charles Connors arrested for raiding Bauman Jewelry with $9000 in gems, after eluding police via a roof air shaft.
In Carlinville Illinois a yearlong effort led by President Thomas W Lingle aims to raise fifty thousand dollars for Blackburn Colleges endowment. Citizens north pledges twenty thousand Verne four presbyteries pledge five thousand each and Minneapolis businessman J C Armstrong promises ten thousand to close the gap. In Chicago the Democratic judicial convention nominated William Pennimore Cooper for the state supreme court with Magruder failing to win renomination and William A Doyle seated for the circuit court if Magruder were not chosen.
C L Winters aged 28 son of a wealthy resident and former chief of police, was killed by the Big Four Knickerbocker train at Tana May 2 Bloomington Wh. May 2 John Hetterheimer cigarmaker of Chicago recently at 4723 Throop street was cut to pieces by wheels of a Big Pour passenger train at Danvers.
Dr. R. ON. Rickey a veteran Lake County physician residing at Gray's Lake attempted suicide last week but was saved by friends Drs. Palmer Clarke and Schaeffer who had been watching him. He died by his own hand on May 2 in Wauakegan UK after failing earlier self harm.
In southern Illinois the apple bloom will arrive about a month later than last year. Horticulturists expect a large crop as thousands of acres of orchards are sprayed and prepared for the upcoming blooming period. Local growers report prime conditions and careful orchard management.
May 2 reporting that several hundred engineers in district coal mines have walked off the job. Operators express serious concern as the work stoppage disrupts mining operations and may affect shipments.
The twenty ninth annual meeting of the order of Red Men of Illinois opens a three days session in Springfield. Local leaders gather for the three day event with delegates from councils statewide.
An advertisement extols a torpid liver and urges cleansing the system with DeWitt's Little Early Risers. The pills are recommended as reliable effective pleasant non gripe reform and sold by all druggists.
High grade square stock piano in first class condition with fine action and rich tone. Enquire at this office. apeh
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