02 May 1906
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Newspaper
Kendallville Daily Sun
Location
Kendallville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1906
Page
1
An advertisement promotes Bee’s Laxative Honey and Tar claiming harmless pine tar, derived from native forests, helps with bloating belching indigestion and colds by acting on the bowels. It markets as original and best for coughs croup whooping cough and bronchial ailments.
France leads trackless trolley experiments with systems in Fontainebleau and Paris expo roots showing success on a 4 mile to 9 mile per hour interurban route. Eberswalde failure cited as due to issues with German trial using French design. The piece notes road quality as key and cites tourism value and future American adoption. It also mentions a June wedding for King Alfonso and Princess Ena and wry notes on public figures and hazing cadets.
The order for four million Krag Jorgensen cartridges for soldiers in the Philippines shows the government readiness for possible emergencies to call troops to China.
Longshoremen marine workers and pilots walk off in Chicago and across lake ports to force recognition of the Lake Pilots Protective association. Dock managers prepare as cargo handling slows and up to 50,000 workers may be idled amid tense, spreading labor action.
Mount Carmel Pennsylvania May 2 peace was restored after a serious shooting affray. State police reinforced by Captain Page's company from Wilkes-Barre remain at the Saye colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company. Chief Burgess Pewman and townspeople patrol at night and warn against large gatherings as the Tinted Mine Workers organization pursues charges against the constabulary. Lieutenant Smith says the riot stemmed from mine workers and sympathizers who cursed stones and forced the troopers to fire to save their lives.
Paris on May Day saw no revolutions as predicted by inflammatory journals yet endured extreme violence. The labor dia
In New York on May 2 two protests opposed the arrest of Moyer Traywood Pettibone and St John tied to a plot against Idaho Governor Steunenberg. One rally at Grand Central Palace aligned socialist and union groups, another at Cooper Union backed by Socialist Labor party. Red flags appeared as Gregory Maxime spoke and resolutions condemned Idaho authorities as part of a capitalistic plot.
In Butte Montana on May 2 the Amalga United Copper North Butte and Butte Coalition Mining companies approve an eight hour workday for all employees with no change to the existing wage scale.
Baltimore May 2 Secretary of the Navy Charles J Bonaparte remains at home in restr icted illness after an attack of acute indigestion last Thursday in Atlantic City He is distinctly stronger tonight and in much less pain Dr Thomas H Brown authorized this update noting the condition is not dangerous Washington reports add that Tillman sought an inquiry into Mrs Minor Morris expulsion from executive offices and other Senate House actions touched on San Francisco relief and agricultural appropriations with a seed distribution amendment and food adulteration clauses being refined.
Arbor date May 2 reports Professor Israel C. Russell head of the University of Michigan geology department died of pneumonia at 54. He was widely known as a scientist and academic leader.
Baseball scores list by league and American Association with games in Cincinnati Brooklyn Boston St Louis Chicago Cleveland New York Philadelphia and Washington plus Columbus Minneapolis Louisville Toledo St Paul Indianapolis Kansas City with results and a noted rain delay in Toledo six innings.
Mrs Earl Lindsay confronted an intruder in her home after finding toes under the bed. She ordered surrender with a loaded shotgun and fired a warning shot and a pellet wound in the back as police arrived to take James Wilson into custody. Wilson is said to be wanted for burglary in several Indiana towns.
A large fire wiped out most of Weisburg Indiana, leaving twelve dwellings four stores one blacksmith shop ten hay barns a church and a warehouse destroyed. The Big Four rail station and two houses survived. Several residents lost thousands, with totals reaching over forty thousand dollars. The blaze likely started from a smoldering stump near a shed as residents dined.
Cyrus E. Davis of Bloomfield was nominated by Democrats of Indiana's Second district for Congress at a Washington event on May 2.
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