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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
5
AP dispatches describe growing unrest across southern Russia with Kharkoff letters predicting a large scale revolt within a month. In Agovsky troops applaud a miners march, while in Bialystok the city quiets after deadly violence against Jews. Many Jews flee or lock doors with crosses as Christians raid quarters.
Associated Press dispatch from St. Petersburg describes the lifting of a news embargo and the first direct telegraph from Bialystok showing scenes of ruin and mass violence. The narrative details corpses, mutilations, and brutal raids amid a three cornered fight among soldiers mobs and rioters, with tolls including a teacher and a child among the dead.
Jumpbus Ohio reports the nationwide strike ended with 35000 workers ordered back to duty by June 19. Nonunion employees will compensate union workers as nonessential details are resolved.
Reports from St. Petersburg describe the Bialystok massacre of Jews and parliamentary investigation revelations that intensify unrest. Censorship, confiscated papers, and riots are noted along with fresh strikes, bread and meat price hikes, and military preparations across major cities.
In Tiflis on June 19 amid ongoing Armenian Martar tension and police patrols, a gang of fifteen armed brigands boarded a central city car, robbed passengers, and escaped without arrests as inter-race strife widens.
Dr Julian P Thomas and Charles Lee embarked from New York seeking a westward trip. They battled a fierce storm over New Jersey and New York, touched lightning charged surfaces, were stranded in a tree for two hours, and landed safely at South New Berlin, Chenango County, at 8 30 this morning.
A. I. L. Craig named general passenger traffic manager of the Great Northern to succeed T. F. Whitney who resigned. Craig, formerly assistant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific, will assume duties in St. Paul on June 19.
London June 19 the colonial marriage bill gained third reading in the house of lords. It provides for legalizing in the United Kingdom marriages with a deceased white's sister legally contracted anywhere in the British possessions.
A new cavern near Jerico in Tennessee rivals Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave in size with nine miles of passages. A river runs through it and the caverns hold relics and odd rock formations from ancient ages.
The Interstate Commerce Commission resumes an inquiry into railroad ownership of coal and oil stocks and properties. Joseph Boyer and Joseph Aiken, longtime clerks, threaten to testify again about graft and cash kickbacks, with Boyer claiming he kept six cents per ton from coal orders and was dismissed after refusing to name others.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Hitchcock seek Congress authority to stop disposal of coal and oil lands to shield the public from future coal strikes. Senator Spooner will introduce a joint resolution authorizing examination of public lands to identify coal oil or building materials and withdraw such lands from settlement.
The Missouri Supreme Court overruled a motion for a rehearing in the Aggie Myers murder case. Myers faces a June 29 hanging in Kansas City, with Governor Folk planning a Bloomingtion visit before returning to grant a respite to allow inquiry into the case and potential clemency. The ruling also applies to Frank Hottman, Myers’s condemned accomplice, who will receive a respite if the woman’s sentence is respited.
Washington June 19 The house committee on appropriations reported favorably on the Watson bill authorizing a yearly 50000 dollar appropriation to cover the president travel expenses and those guests invited by him.
King Haakon VII Queen Maud and Crown Prince sleep in historic Haakon the Good’s capital as Copenhagen’s Heimdal brings them to Trondsheim. A royal salute from Hekla greets the arrival while police guard ceremonies and public crowds fill streets under endless daylight.
In Red Wing Minnesota a clam fisher and his wife found a giant freshwater pearl opposite the city. The marble sized gem weighs 85 grains and glitters with extraordinary color. Its value is uncertain but worth speculation, with Bates offering 1000 to the closest estimate.
C W Martin farmer and wife with three children ages 7 5 and 3 drowned when their wagon fell off a bridge into the swollen Minnesota River near Bossco south of Sisseton. A search party found the 3 year old body ten rods from the scene. more remains still missing.
In Bay City Michigan on June 19 Dr William G Hare and Charles Delzell drowned when a six man party aboard a steam launch capsized during a fishing trip on Saginaw Bay. Local authorities investigated the accident and recovered the bodies.
Calumet Michigan June 19 Justice of the Peace Blythe of Mass City spent the night up a tree as a wolf pack surrounded him. He had been separated from his party while fishing and was found by a search party this morning.
Dispatch from Bialystok cites Noviost dispatch recounting 290 Jewish corpses many mutilated, six Christians killed, eight wounded. Riots flare near Zabludow and Goslani in Poland as Russia's constitutional democrats debate breaking with the government. Cronstadt unrest feared. bakers and butchers strike loom. Seventy buried in Bialystok and casualty totals rise.
Kansas City Mo June 20 The movement to save Mrs Agnes Myers from the gallows grows in force She has been sentenced to be executed at Liberty Mo June 29 for the murder of her husband Clarence This is the same date Frank Hottman her companion in crime is to be hanged at Kansas City unless a stay is granted A letter to Governor Folk urges commuting Myers sentence to life imprisonment A brother of Clarence Myers writes urging equal guilt and punishment if Hottman dies
Paris June 18 The supreme court has closed its secret review of war and foreign affairs files in the Dreyfus case and opened public sessions. A circulating rumor says a majority favor quashing the Rennes court martial judgment without further trial, with about twenty five of forty members suspected to back setting aside the verdict.
John M Pattison governor of Ohio died of Brights disease at his Milford home. He was born June 13 1847 served in the civil war and state legislature and congress. Lieutenant Governor Andrew L Harris acted as governor after Pattison's death and was sworn in at Eaton Ohio.
Freddy Muth, kidnapped from a West Philadelphia school, was recovered by Chief Donaghty and detectives at 426 North Sixty-second Street. Kidnapper John Joseph Kean, a 42 year old ex broker and real estate agent, attempted to flee and was shot at before surrendering. The boy showed signs of hunger and exposure but remained unharmed.
Fall River textile leaders report the Cotton Manufacturers' Association offers mill operatives a guaranteed profit sharing dividend of at least 5 percent in response to a request to restore the wage scale cut by 12 percent in 1904. The textile council orders unions to vote on the proposal at special meetings.
Little Alice Kyle a 12 year old girl from between Macksburg and Elba has admitted causing the Pennsylvan ia flyer wreck near Elba on Thursday night by wedging a rail bolt between rails to smash the train. Two passenger coaches overturned the engine tender and mail car were hurled down an embankment. She will not be arrested.
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