21 Jul 1906
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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1906
Page
1
A robber entered the R. N. depot between eleven and twelve yesterday, rifling the till of about four dollars. Police pursue a lone male suspect and suspect an accomplice, with entry through a broken window and a steel brake key left behind.
General Rus Riv, former Cuban interior and treasury official, now special minister plenipotentiary and envoy, departs New York to visit capitals of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, and more. His mission: establish friendly relations where Cuba has no diplomatic presence. He will travel to many nations then proceed to Europe, aiming to begin in about one month.
Chicago July 21. The National Live Stock Exposition age today appointed a committee led by W. H Campton with T McPherson of Omaha and A L Keigler of St Louis to urge Secretary Wilson to replace the rule raising post mortem inspection with an ante mortem system.
President Roosevelt sent congratulations to the presidents of Guatemala Honduras and El Salvador on their joint agreement following negotiations linked to the Marblehead treaty. The dispatch underscores U S support for regional reconciliation and peaceful cooperation.
E J Mather an Ohio official of the Mexican railroad, en route home with his family to safety, asserts that war between the United States and Mexico is inevitable. He warns that Americans, Germans and English with property there face rising native hostility and growing hatred as governments fail to cope with the crisis, predicting conflict within two months.
Secretary Shaw announces a partial allotment of Panama canal bonds. All banks bidding above 105.00 will receive bonds. fifty banks named as government depositories. Fisk and Robinson of New York win bulk allocation.
Pittsburg on July 21 was shaken by a police panic after a telephone tip claimed Harte had shot himself. Investigators later confirmed Harte alive and well in the city attorney’s office, ending the scare.
Fire at Pacific Press Publishing Co. Mountain View destroys the best equipped Seventh day Adventist religious printing plant west of Chicago. The midnight blaze caused unknown casualties and the loss is estimated at 500000 dollars, with the structure already damaged by a recent earthquake.
In San Francisco on July 2 unions faced a clash as striking linemen and the United Railroads argued. An agreement was reached this morning and the carmen will act tonight, with a preliminary settlement conference set for noon.
Edward Frost a bank clerk in the national park link was arrested today in New York on charges of stealing one hundred fifty dollars.
Horace Wild described an ascent in an airship that skimmed the third rail of the elevated line. Ballast was thrown out and the craft rose just in time to avert catastrophe.
Will pull teeth for fun seems to be a mock headline in the article. The New Jersey Dental Society opens its thirty sixth annual convention at the Columbia Hotel near the auditorium with several hundred dentists attending and committees staging a full program of lectures, exhibitions, and demonstrations over the next three to four days. Dr J Duffield of Camden presides at the opening session and Dr Eugene Talbot of Chicago will give a lantern lecture on the Etiology and Pathology of Interdental Gingivitis.
Scripps News Assortation reports government officials notified of a Central American peace signed at sea aboard the Marblehead with a prisoner exchange and negotiation of political prisoners. In Woodstock Benjamin Warner, aged 101, is feted this afternoon with hundreds of friends. his Civil War son Capt. AG Warner died at Ashland. Also in St Louis George Yoman, overcome by heat, collapsed into the sea.
Pandemonium erupted in the Japanese quarter as T Gonta, newly arrived in LaGrande, terrorized residents with gunfire after demanding five dollars from Y Kato. A confrontation drew police, leading to Gonta’s arrest and a scene noting three dozen Japs anxious to speak.
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