14 Jun 1906
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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
1
Fire swept through Peebles Adams County destroying fourteen buildings including the Douglas hotel Norfolk and Western depot and Peebles Leader office. Loss exceeds $15 000 with little insurance. Relief train aided control.
London observers noted the Dorchester House dinner and reception hosted by Ambassador and Mrs Reid for Representative and Mrs Nicholas Longworth. King Edward attended with great interest in President Roosevelt’s daughter, signaling esteem for the United States and the president. Park Lane crowds watched distinguished guests arrive, including cabinet ministers and leading political and diplomatic figures.
New York wire reports District Attorney Jerome will resume grand jury investigations into life insurance firms after his vacation, starting with Mutual Life and then proceeding to New York Life Equitable and other companies. He emphasizes investigations will take months.
Philadelphia dispatch notes seven cent per ton allowances for Berwind-White Coal on Harsimus pier, yielding about $17,000 monthly, with railroad crews handling ships and monthly settlements totaling $704. It also covers Western Meat Packers guilty pleas for accepting rebates and other related trials and remarks.
John Alexander Dowie, founder of Zion City, testified in a U S circuit court case over Zion City ownership, facing Voliva and revealing his life history while frail from illness. Kentucky court upholds 1904 education ban on co education for races with Berea College involved, white and colored schools must be 25 miles apart. case moves to U S Supreme Court. Delaware legislature elects Col Henry A Dupont U S senator for the term starting March 3, 1905, with near unanimous support aside from one abstention.
In Cynthiana Kentucky dated June 13 it is reported Curtis Jett’s confession implicates Judge James Hargis Elbert Hargis and Ed Callahan as being in a shed from which Cox was shot by assassins concealed inside. He does not name the shooter.
The man admits killing Marcum and Cockrill and accuses Moses Feltner of naming Judge James Hargis H. L. Callahan B. F. French and Elbert Hargis as the murder instigators, claiming Feltner's statements are true in every detail.
Mrs. William Ellis Corey filed for absolute divorce in Reno on June 13 citing desertion since May 1905 and asking custody of their minor son. Corey, represented by Pittsburg and Nevada counsel, may contest as negotiations advance toward his consent and settlement of an independent fortune. Eleven men mangled in Roanoke explosion at Bear-Wallace camp. two killed, two die later, two in critical condition, another injury in a later incident. names not released.
Washington June 13 The house committee on agriculture advanced the Beveridge meat inspection amendment with changes limiting its scope to the continental United States and delaying fee decisions. Debates centered on packer costs of inspection and opposition to associates with the public report on Chicago packing houses. The session also covered railroad rate reform and statehood legislation. A Philadelphia boy, Charles F. Muth, was abducted after being turned over by a messenger boy, prompting alarm and an ongoing investigation.
A collage of brief items reports a missing child in a city search, consuls examining Chicago stockyards, Sodus village fire losses over 100000, National Editorial association meeting in Indianapolis, Josephine Terranova paroled, a mining fatality near Corning Ohio with injuries, a youth Acids death in Columbus, and a son despondent over medical funds.
Detroit loses 5 runs to 4 at home as Philadelphia edges them 5 4. Chicago stacks a 9 1 victory over Washington in a doubleheader, while St Louis beats Easton 7 2. Cleveland hosts New York in a tight 5 4 game. NAL and AA divisions show varied results with multiple batteries listed and standings given for Chicago, Washington, St Louis, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati. Weather note ends with a quip about a climate change joke and a doctor’s advice.
Promoters backed by Ohio capitalists and Colorado Springs residents seek 50,000 to import actual cliff dwellings from southwestern Utah to a canyon behind the Hiawatha gardens near Manitou. Structures will be moved stone by stone, numbered, and reassembled as authentic ruins not restorations, on private land outside Indian reservation.
The article explains ancient Roman naming: praenomen a personal identifier, nomen indicating gens, and cognomen as family surname. An agnomen could denote notable deeds. Female names followed gentile endings with Major and Minor or numbered forms, illustrating how Roman women were named.
Launch Wrecked, Eureka, Cal., June 18 reports the gasoline schooner Corinthian, bound from Eureka to San Francisco, struck a huge wave crossing Humboldt bar and was totally wrecked. Andrew Cary, UC Berkeley student, and Ole Carson, a sailor, drowned. remaining crew swam ashore.
A tornado hit Tufton Ga destroying over fifty houses injuring two people and damaging the Presbyterian church with estimated losses around 30000. In Cape Charles Virginia a Black man William Lee is jailed under guard after being suspected in an assault near Kingston Maryland.
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