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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1906
Page
1
A jumble of scattered items covers London smoke plans, English women studying law, a Boston court joke about Columbus, and musings on civilization. It weaves in Persian constitutional reforms, U S athletes, prison remnants, and odd anecdotes from Ireland to Tennessee.
The annual report from Commissioner Warner shows a net pension roll decrease of 13,470 for the year ending June 30, leaving 935,971 pensioners as of 1900. Death remains the major factor, with 43,300 names removed, while total pension expenditures reach 3.41 billion dollars, with Civil War pensions composing the bulk.
Secretary Root arrived in Washington aboard the naval vessel Sylph, accompanied by Mrs. Root and his children. He was greeted at the navy yard by Assistant Secretaries Adee and Wilson, chief clerk Denby, and private secretary Babcock. The Root family then went to their Sixteenth Street home. Adee has been acting secretary of state in Root and Bacon's absence. Root resumed duties at the State Department today.
Cronstadt reports a court martial sentence for the mutiny of last August. Nineteen sailors are condemned to death by shooting, with 429 others sentenced to disciplinary battalions and varying terms of confinement. M. Onioko, a peasant party leader, is sentenced to death with loss of civil rights. The judgment awaits confirmation.
Washington Atty Gen Moody orders suits against many railroads for violations of the Safety Appliance Law for failure to maintain equipment. The Delaware and Hudson leads with 51 violations cited.
The report states that approximately 2,590 officers are en route and will arrive in a few days. It also notes that 6,000 soldiers will reach Cuba within a week to ten days, creating a total force of at least 11,000 men, with a further 6,000 soldiers ready to follow as needed.
In Kansas City Bryan launches the Democratic campaign in an old Missin race as the Wegraskan takes the lead in early New Deal era politics.
Gov Folk introduces William J Bryan before a packed Convention Hall crowd of about 20 000. Bryan arrives late from Oklahoma and Indian Territory and delivers a vigorous speech praising democracy and criticizing Republicans. Gov Folk and Senator Stone urge unity and support for the Missouri ticket and for Champ Clark as future speaker.
Mia Heina, commissioned as a special officer, arrested sixteen men for climbing the fence and entering the Lafayette fair grounds without paying admission in Kewanee Illinois. The officer wore a policeman's star and none resisted as she escorted them to the association office. She was selected from many applicants.
A fatal shooting is reported as resulting from insults toward Mrs. Tudor by Marion Tudor. The deceased is described as about 36 years old. details on motive and location are limited in the fragment.
Crew of the Cy of Concord suffers three drownings in lake waters. A wife and two children were carried away from the scene and disappeared, presumed drowned, as rescuers searched the wreck site. Local authorities reported the tragedy as a ship disaster with fatalities among passengers and crew.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. employee was horsewhipped in Belleville public square at 1:10 PM by two women who accused him of improper attentions. He was chased up the street, confronted by the woman's husband with two whips, and beaten until his face bled as a crowd of 73 watched and applauded.
Olivia B. Strohm presents Lavender Creighton in this vignette of a frontier journey. Winslow escorts Lavender and Mrs Creighton from a fort to an Indian village for ponies and a guide, then toward New Madrid as a fragile spring thaw begins and danger mixes with hopeful romance. Lavender’s growing bond with Owatoga and Winslow’s inner conflict frame a tense, evolving tale aboard river travel toward the Mississippi frontier.
In Central City Kentucky seven year old William Haughian fatally shot his four year old playmate Roswell Malloy with a public safety item found in a stable. He then attempted to cut his own throat with a razor and sought a physician as blood stained his hands.
Amid unrest in Atlanta, a central supplier reports a flood of orders for pistols and rifles. Belknap Hardware Co. in Louisville notes a surge in demand as civic authorities strive to maintain order.
Winslow and companions endure a rough river voyage with rough passengers and a dangerous gamble scene. A planter loses all to Captain Finch in a card game and the octoroon slave’s fate hangs in the balance as Winslow contemplates a rescue. Tense power shifts amid sultry heat, gambling, and a threatening confrontation.
A fragmented reminiscence endorses Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as relief for prolonged female illness. The misspelled note blends pleas for help, family worry, and hope turned toward the tonic, mentioning names and places in a distressed, period voice.
An anecdote about Beckmann the bear loving an empty bottle and washing it in a bucket. The piece shifts to Audubon Society of Louisiana, noting 17 bird breeding islands in the gulf rented last year. Wardens funded by national Audubon committees reduced trespassing and egg theft, with 40,000 birds hatched on Breton and nearby federal islands, including common terns and laughing gulls.
In Kamalapuram India heavy rains battered a tank embankment. Attempts to shore the bank failed as scorpions burrowed from crevices and surrounding earthwork, forcing abandonment of the repair. Over three laborers were killed in the disaster reported from Shanghai.
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