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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
8
A 12 year old girl, daughter of a farmer between Bla and Liba in Ohio, confessed to wedging a rail between two tracks to derail a Pennsylvanian train. Officials call it a childish prank with no clear intent. Searches found odd papers and books but no decisive evidence.
The report notes labor shortages across states with unrest touching government and industry. Ohio Governor John McTaristan faces new opposition as senators debate policy while St Paul Firemen suffer injuries in a major blaze. Seven men die in a Chihuahua mine fire. Fire damages the Ryan Building in St. Paul with losses estimated at $500,000. Bank messenger arrest and harvester companies facing legal actions add to a backdrop of economic strain and social tension.
About fifty fruit growers joined the American Society of Equity in Chicago forming a department for fruit vegetables and dairy products. They plan branch headquarters nationwide to market products better and set fair prices. An eight member committee led by R J Thompson and H B Sherman will fine tune details and address high commissions paid to city agents.
Four meat packing companies were found guilty by a federal jury in Kansas City for accepting rebates from the Burlington railroad on shipments from Kansas City to New York for export. The consolidated trials focus on a rate of 23 cents per hundredweight for shipments to Germany, marking a pivotal rebaterelated case under the Interstate Commerce Act.
A man named Cole, living near Edhoma Oklahoma, abducted his 15 year old stepsister May Ward at gunpoint. Sheriff Campbell of Enid and Deputy Burwell pursued them. Cole opened fire and was mortally wounded. He died at 6 p.m. before confessing to killing a Canon bartender about a year earlier.
Grand jury failed to indict Standard Oil in Findlay Ohio prompting probate court actions against Boxeye Pipe Line and Manhattan Co alleging they are subsidiary Standard entities. Proceedings seek legal remedies or structure against these added parties in the same case.
An official summary of cholera in the Philippine Islands during the present epidemic covers August to April 21. It records 93,000? 093 cases and 3,114 deaths overall, with 10,? 2,802 deaths in provinces and 283 in Manila.
A naval officer facing charges over the grounding of the battleship Athode Island was found guilty on some counts at a court martial. The secretary Bonaparte reviewed the verdict as the court martial continued deliberations on remaining charges.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railways Company was found guilty by a jury in the United States District Court in Kansas City on four counts of granting concessions on packing shipments for export. The conviction carries a fine ranging from 1 to 20,000 dollars on each count. Armour Fire Loss 100,000 dollars damages the Armour building housing the ore department in South Omaha. One man died and losses are pegged at about 100 thousand dollars.
A large fire at dawn destroyed the Savannah docks of the Mepellants and Miners Transportation Company and the steamer Essex, with six to eight barges loaded with cotton and resin. Loss estimated at least 1 million dollars. Also: Minnesota Republicans nominate L L Cole for governor on the fourth ballot. Nelson backed for reelection amid a rising vote. Reports of Standard Oil graft involve rail rebates and a canceled rate contract with Pennsylvania. Kansas appeals for 25,000 harvest workers to save the wheat crop.
Circuit Court of Appeals in St Paul upholds Nebraska lower court ruling in favor of the Omaha Water Company against the City of Omaha over rate changes. The decision finds the rate contract immutable under state constitution. In a separate matter E M Fairfield and Stockman Heth defend against court order to produce company books, and are fined $50 each and costs. sanction upheld.
Miss Agnes Potreis a 16 year old domestic in the home of Moses Kaufmann a Sioux Falls millionaire brewer is dead. Mrs Kaufmann is charged with manslaughter amid claims she beat the girl due to an uncontrollable temper. The Kaufmanns are prominent Sioux Falls residents with the case drawing rumors of new developments in the death.
Large fire in the Bronx consumed the Wheelock and Stuyvesant piano plants and nearby stables. Loss valued around half a million dollars injured nearly twenty firemen, forcing residents to flee. Fire destroyed factories of Charles Rieger’s Sons and left a major economic impact on local industry.
The Senate adopted the conference report on a statehood bill admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as a single state. Arizona and New Mexico could join if a specific condition is met. A Minneapolis judge was seriously injured after a locomotive incident and a separate accident near a moving train caused a fall.
The measure to unite Oklahoma and Indian Territory as a single state and to authorize voting in Arizona and New Mexico received approval in both houses and was signed into law by the President.
Mr and Mrs Nicholas Newborough attend a grand reception in London hosted by King Edward VII. The event highlights social ties between the Longworth family and the royal circle during the monarch’s reign.
A 13 year old boy, Charles Muth, was abducted from his school in Philadelphia after a false report of his mother’s illness. A note and a delivery letter hinted at his fate, while police doubt the ransom note. A man about 45 accompanied the boy to a street car, and the last sighting placed them near the home area.
Captain Bridgett of the Xuncion reports the 1902 Pacific Ships Co schooner Argus, carrying 750000 feet of lumber, burned and hull and bow destroyed thirty five miles off Destruction Island. He fears the crew was lost in an explosion with lashings untouched.
Lieut Bolton of the Seventeenth Infantry and Benjamin Christian, a discharged soldier, were killed on a beach east of Davao Mindanao by a Mungalayyan and his brothers. The attackers, described as guides for Americans, have not been captured. Bolton had sheltered Christian at the Mungalayan’s house before they set out toward Malita.
Mrs H H Patterson wife of Bankers Trust Co of Kansas City president died instantly when a large car carrying her husband daughter and a driver collided with two trolley cars at Fifth and Harrison. The gasoline tank exploded but other occupants escaped serious injury.
The Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburg completed the first steel passenger coach. It is one of three specially designed and built for the Southern Railway and closely resembles ordinary wooden coaches in general appearance.
William Maloy faced a murder charge in Kansas City Criminal Court. He was acquitted by a jury after the prosecutor rejected a plea to admit second degree murder and seek a fifty year penitentiary sentence.
A terrible blast aboard the British steamer Haverford of the International Navigation Company at Liverpool killed nine men and injured about forty. Investigators suspect an internal machine caused the explosion, though a barrel of naphtha may have detonated.
Insurance firms may split over settlement of San Francisco losses with strong companies planning to drop weaker rivals facing bankruptcy. The move would end cross‑subsidization and leave weaker insurers to seek new solvency measures.
A youth in a self built airship circled the Washington Monument and the Capitol dome in Washington in a 20 mile flight demonstrating his craft. The youth, Lasheed Sete, awaits further testing as observers noted the notable achievement amid restricted airspace. In Peru Indiana a burglar choked to death a woman named Frizareseh after an attack. Mrs Tresch revived enough to tell the story but Bor could not identify the attacker.
report says Russian troops on the verge of mutiny refuse to suppress peasant uprisings and warn they may join the government if the douma's agrarian plan is rejected. Clubman Richard Tilghman dies after poisoning mistaken for medicine in Philadelphia.
Nine men killed and several injured on the British steamer Wa verford of the International Navigation Company after a terrific explosion at Huskisson Dock, Liverpool. Firefighters battled a fierce blaze as crew and stevedores suffered extensive interior damage from naphtha cargo and ruptured holds.
A Senate committee report on Oklahoma and Indian Territory statehood advances with three hours of debate led by Senator Beveridge. Senator Money opposes, calling union an outrage. statehood hinges on both territories approving the enabling act and constitutional conventions. If approved, Oklahoma will join as the forty sixth state with five representatives and two senators, Guthrie serving as capital until 1913. Arizona and New Mexico pursue separate statehood paths with possible joint statehood if both territories approve.
House agriculture committee backed a substitute provisions for mandatory meat inspection with government funding. It requires healthful labels and a foreign commerce certificate for each product. The 9 to 7 vote split over who pays, with several Republicans and Democrats opposing placing costs on packers.
A Kansas City jury found the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company guilty of violating the Elkins law by granting rebates to the Armour Swift Cudahy and Nelson Morris packing firms. The company faces up to 50 000 total fines with sentencing deferred.
An address by the National Liquor Dealers Association condemns temperance work and calls intoxication a crime. It urges lawful obedience and promotes visits to bars with families, arguing against prohibition rhetoric and criticizing temperance societies.
Industrial activity shows gains in coal mining and manufacturing demand. Prices for raw materials rise while food product buying increases. Bank clearings reach 223 million, freight and export data show year over year gains. Wheat and corn exports decline from peak last year, with mixed railway earnings and money flow easing.
Prices listed for hogs cattle and sheep in Chicago Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. Levels show primes and ends across meats grains and produce with ranges for wheat corn oats rye butter and eggs. Notable figures include hogs 0.65 to 1.00 per pound and corn 24 to 52 cents per bushel.
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