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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1906
Page
7
A Dallas man questioned why he would notify police, claiming the force could not track an elephant in fresh snow. Ex-President Hover of Rock Island cites a $1,200,000 cost for a new Dallas passenger depot. Bucklen's Arnica Salve is praised as a universal healer with a Springfield testimonial.
An old timer notes that dark nights during Christmas week presage a favorable coming year for crops. He cites experience and decades of observing weather patterns and planting cycles.
In St. Petersburg on January 3 the Molva (Ruse) denounces the government for boasting of crushing the revolution. It questions how the regime can claim victory while unrest spreads in the Baltic provinces, Don direction, Ural, Poland, and agrarian areas. It notes revolts commuting, strikes, and destroyed dispatches, warning that only troops, court, and bureaucracy back the government. The Ivanovo district workers threaten peasants to annihilate striking railroad men if lines do not reopen by January 7.
A Fort Worth venture with 50000 capital stock is organized to publish another evening paper. Louis J. Wortham, a well known local figure, will serve as manager.
Moscow reports indicate 648 killed and 1016 wounded, with 174 additional deaths among the injured in hospitals. Troops suffered nine fatalities and 51 wounded, police ten dead and fifteen wounded, including children among the victims. final toll expected near 2,500.
A detachment of dragoons in Riga was attacked by 800 workmen armed with revolvers and swords. Eleven dragoons were killed and fourteen wounded. In St. Petersburg the station master at Orloff was hanged for refusing to send a train. Warsaw reports all factory employees quit work.
Judge Thomas H. Paynter of the Kentucky court of appeals won the Democratic nomination for U S senator on the first ballot in joint caucus, with 59 votes to Blackburn 34 and others. The outcome gives Democrats control of the legislature and election certainty. Paynter, born in Lewis County in 1861, previously served three terms in Congress.
Son of James W. Wadsworth of the Thirty fourth District and son in law of the late John Hay was nominated by the Republican assembly caucus for speaker of the assembly. He received 75 of the 104 votes.
Jan 3 report from Wills Point Texas says a new $20 000 school building is now in use. A separate dispatch from Rochester Minnesota dated Jan 4 describes a grisly farmhouse murder suicide at Clarence A Barnum's residence with Barnum and three family members killed by an axe and a shotgun found nearby.
New York life insurers abolish rebating and appoint Grover Cleveland referee to settle questions arising. He will earn 12000 dollars annually, shared by Equitable Life, Mutual Life, and New York Life. Officers to back him, agents rebating will be dismissed, and cooperation sought from other firms.
Thousands of workers in New York City book and job printing houses walk out as the eight hour day becomes a battle. Non union arrivals pour in to fill posts while local unions report progress and mixed responses among Typothetae members. Across Cleveland Des Moines Philadelphia and New York unions escalate wage and hours protests.
Will McMaster, manager of Raymond Dickson's ranch fourteen miles below Wharton, was ambushed while returning home. He was struck on the back by a bullet, rode a mile to J. C. Payne's farm for aid, and medical help was secured.
In Beaumont on January 3 a federal court answer admits insolvency in the M Hecht bankruptcy case. A schedule of assets and liabilities shows total liabilities of 78,617 dollars and assets of 85,970 dollars. Judge Broughton is assigned as referee in bankruptcy.
Mrs Nancy Jones died from severe burns after falling against a stove in her Sherman sitting room while alone. The coroner cites heart trouble as a possible contributing factor.
Miss Maud Wheless aged fifteen daughter of Mrs Carrie Wheless proprietor of the Hull Emporium in the Driskill hotel swallowed carbolic acid and was saved by prompt use of a stomach pump.
On January 3 in Lawton Rev A H Murphey Rush Springs LT fought with W Delawler and P A Dilly on the thoroughfare. Murphey, here to testify in a case against Chief R McKinley for running a saloon without license, was injured before officers arrived. All three were arrested and bond was set.
The Supreme Court extended oral argument time for the Emigrant Cherokee claimants from four to six hours with an extra half hour at Mrs Belva Lockwoods request. Counsel had sought sixteen hours to present the case on the lability of expense in removing Eastern Cherokees to Indian Territory.
Guthrie readers learn Ruby Sharp eight years old daughter of John Sharp a local teamster was fatally burned while attempting to start a kitchen stove with kerosene in a January 3 report.
A Jetter from the Gowhead engineers Reuben Spencer and Samuel Redmond dated October 15, 1905 reports half rations for the crews of the vendela after ice entrapment near Hercédhel Island. The message arrived in San Francisco on January 3.
Paris telegram reports Commander Lucien Young of the Bennington found guilty on part of the specifications for negligence of duty over the San Diego explosion. He is sentenced to receive a letter of reprimand. A second item notes New York money market activity with call loans ending near 60 percent.
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