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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
6
The steamer W. T. Scovel exploded at Gold Dust landing seventeen miles south of Vicksburg Miss. while loading freight. About fifty aboard including crew and passengers. many Negro workers killed or missing as the craft was blown to atoms and sank rapidly.
Naples reports a crater collapse at Mount Vesuvius causing a heavy ash and sand shower lasting about twenty minutes. No detonations or earthquakes accompanied the event, yet the ash rain unsettled residents who prayed for mercy around Christmas time following Easter’s eruption. Calm soon returned.
Curtis Jett testified in his own defense at the Cynthiana Kentucky trial four years after the Jackson killing. He admitted firing six shots at Town Marshal Cockrill from the courthouse stairs after an exchange of gunfire two weeks earlier, saying it was life or death for him. He previously implicated Judge Hargis and Sheriff Ed Callahan.
For almost a week John Fish a farmer near Warrensburg Ohio has talked constantly unable to sleep and unable to pause his monologue despite it being coherent and without insanity. He grows emaciated and nears collapse as physicians fear death without treatment.
The five weeks old infant of Mr and Mrs Frank M Jones of Indianapolis Indiana died after the bed clothing wrapped around the child was ignited by heat from a heating stove. Mrs Jones left the chair momentarily and the clothing caught fire.
Josephus Yarger was acquitted by a Bluffton jury on arson charges after two barns burned on April 23 and investigators found coal oil in his house. An Italian passenger, John Ferrati, aged 46, went insane on an Erie train from Chicago to New York at Meadville and struck five people with a club before being subdued.
Governor Higgins of New York commuted Albert T. Patrick’s death sentence to life imprisonment. Patrick is now in Sing Sing’s death house, convicted of killing William Marsh Rice. A separate report notes a masked bandit in Leadville, Colorado fatally shooting Joe Dale, a Denver & Rio Grande ticket agent, and looting the cash drawer before escaping.
The Senate debated Reed Smoot seating and passed a fishing vessel regulation bill. House actions favored restoring old spelling, increasing salaries for the Vice President and cabinet, and approving the legislative appropriation. Multiple resolutions, deficit bills, and pension actions followed, with adjournment after quorum issues.
The Senate ratified a patent treaty with Guatemala. Representative Patterson resigns from Congress as Tennessee governor elect. Senator Teller introduces a New Mexico admission bill. Roosevelt renominates Ridgely for comptroller. Navy yard workers gain 10 percent wage rise Jan 1. Lacey proposes $12 Civil War veteran pension. Osborn declines Smithsonian secretary post. Louisiana and Texas back $4 million canal from Mississippi to Rio Grande. Paddock nominated for South Omaha postmaster. Nebraska united on Howe. Senate confirms McIlhenny as civil service commissioner and Durand discusses Congo with Root. Patrick appeal in New York death sentence dismissed by Supreme Court.
The narrator describes contacting the Admiralty and the Black Anchor Line to verify a Spezia built warship claimed by an American adventurer. A meeting with a sharp agency executive confirms a private scheme to seize and repurpose the vessel, with plans to christen it Calsis and sail to the Hudson River for a bold justice mission. Francis Paolo, an Italian berth broker, is hired as second officer aboard the yacht Celsis.
The narrator and crew sail from Plymouth on the Celsis York pursuing Captain Black and the nameless ship. New second mate Paolo displays seamanlike skill while suspicion grows about his loyalties. A dramatic night watch reveals a dreamlike warning and tension rises as a distant mighty weapon fires offshore.
In London on the final day before a Plymouth mail, Roderick and the narrator discover a hotel room ransacked. The thief overturned the plate and confiscated diaries, police letters, plans, and sketches, while key letters to New York police are missing. The hotel manager denies access by staff since yesterday’s Italian sailors.
Paolo and Roderick discuss the rumored nameless vessel and Captain Black while aboard at night. They speculate on tracking steamers and the chance of learning the man’s true story as they sail the Atlantic.
A Baltimore American item notes a banker and broker banter about a stenographer who reads novels at work. The exchange humorously contrasts stock quotations with melodramatic villains and heroes, suggesting history repeats itself in everyday office life.
A dialogue snippet features Hitte-Windig expected to deliver a strong campaign speech, Pitts predicting success due to talkativeness, Hitts replying with minimal content, and a tense moment as Wite alerts John to a burglar. Nusband reacts with comedic exclamations about an ice chunk in the fridge.
A fragmented cry from an angry patron directed at Walter references Tebrawar and a lobater, hinting at a scene of confrontation and confusion with unclear details.
A 10 year retrospective on the independent telephone movement explains how many new companies collapsed or faced ruin after a fragile start. It details promoters profits, over optimistic capitalization, high construction costs, poor depreciation handling, and the rise of merger schemes as a last effort to recover investments while warning investors about hidden promotion fees and risky rate policies.
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